… Ukraine’s peace negotiators met with the US delegation today, which was led by Sec of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. After multiple recent revelations about Witkoff being owned by Putin, he looked pretty uncomfortable facing the Ukrainians he has worked so hard to sell out.
$300 billion of Russian assets held in Europe. Fuck trump, witkoff and kushner, Europe stop navel gazing and spend Russian money to buy weapons that the Ukraine will put to good use.
I don’t know that Orban can stop anything other than Ukraine’s bid for NATO membership. But I do wonder why the EU Commission isn’t moving faster to re-arm Ukraine.
In the quiet rooms in Brussels, London, Berlin, Paris and Ottawa, the conversation has flipped from:
“How do we manage Trump?”
to:
“What do we do when Trump sells us out?”
And the answer they’ve started gaming out is absolutely wild:
A European‑led military Plan B that keeps Ukraine armed and defended even if Washington ghosts the whole alliance.
And in the absolute worst‑case, a one‑shot economic “nuclear option”: using their trillions in U.S. government debt to shake the foundations of the American financial system if Trump tries to legitimise Russian aggression and carve up Ukraine for cash.
Of course the EU is planning for strategies w/out Trmp. He’s been abundantly clear where. His loyalties lie- and it’s not with Ukraine. Also: the US is financially compromised. Apparently a significant amount of US Treasuries owned by Canada? Japan? Others? If sold, could be devastating?
My reaction to this weekend's b.s.: I'm really glad I decided to wait until this a.m. to read Ron's post...i don't think I would have been able to sleep!
Truly, this regime becomes more sinister and corrupt every f'n day:
Witkoff & Kushner selling out Ukraine with a Russian billionaire, aided & abetted by Rubio.
Trump pardoning a convicted high level drug trafficker AND a scumbag convicted of swinging 1,000s of people out of the life savings.
Hegseth blowing boats up like its a video game with real life victims.
The Silicon Valley tech investor who is also advising on AI & crypto policy.
The WH ballroom growing in size & cost, without any permitting or planning or bidding.
The level of corruption and self dealing is sickening & enraging.
I am going to call my Congress reps and tell them to just quit, as they apparently have neither the balls or the brains to do their jobs.
Ann Telnaes did a cartoon depicting just that. If you do not know her work she is a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist. She quit the WaPo after they nixed her cartoon showing Bezos Zuckerberg etc bowing down to Trump. You can find her OpenWindows page on Substack.
… CEO Jamie Dimon told CNN why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom: “We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with govts here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.”
And yet Dimon was lawless and reckless in hiding and enabling the evil deeds of Jeffrey Epstein. Why weren't you worried about how THAT was perceived, Jamie? I already know the answer: you thought all the rich perverts who profited and participated would be immune from prosecution.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! Hold people like Dimon accountable, and for god's sake, fire him from any position at an FDIC insured bank for the rest of his life. And stop asking him for advice on ANYTHING. He's a crook and a fraud.
These people are not going anywhere anytime soon. They can’t wait to invite 1350 people from all of their international cronies to the next inauguration in the monstrosity called the ballroom. So, John Thune is too afraid to
defect. It’s positively medieval. And, now, they have thrown in murder into the mix.
Do not underestimate the power of the people; we have the numbers and Mamdani showed everyone what a strong coalition of those numbers, candid conversations with voters, and relentless hard work campaigning can do.
Yeah, same as the kegster that likes beer on the SCOTUS now advocating racial profiling as the basis for deportation. Another unqualified fascist dimwit, John, wreaking havoc on our nation!
The seditious six SCOTUS judges: John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Viney Barrett. The manipulation and plot behind their position needs to change.
Yes, Jenell, the real seditious six! What a curse! That's a great idea for the next protest sign to go with the one I have now "Supreme Court Betrays America." Thank you!
Putin, Witkoff, and all of Free Chicken’s administration are the worst human beings. They are EXACTLY what Hitler falsely accused the Jews of: selling out anyone or thing for personal enrichment. They are traitors not only to the Constitution, but humanity. They should be treated as such.
Same shizit. Different day. Pardoning rich drug traffickers and fraudsters while murdering poorer ALLEGED traffickers ... who God only knows, may have been fisherman working on a boat to earn a living. How long will this go on that we have to hear this sad stuff? Accountability process needs to be sped up! Transparency needs to be demanded! And alll the while, the Epstein files just get pushed under the rug. 😡 Thank you, Ron, for another stellar bulletin and for giving up another Sunday for us. You are appreciated!!!
So you murder a few suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers without a shred of evidence and then pardon a convicted drug trafficker who brought huge amounts of cocaine into the US. What a disgusting shit show this current corrupt administration is.
OMG - I’m going to have nightmares and cold sweats for at least a week after all that!
But who’s going to stop this international criminal cabal that’s taken over the White House and our country? The constitution and the rule of law are absolutely meaningless unless/until someone actually holds them accountable! So is this what SCOTUS had in mind?
“… I could see Lea as a future Trump Secretary of State. Or DHS Secretary. Maybe FBI Director.”
And at the very least, or perhaps more importantly, Lea will likely be spending significantly more time at the Oval Office as douchebag Donny’s new lap warmer.
Washington Post story about a woman in Chicago who voted for Trump. She also helps Venezuelan and other migrants with everything from food and diapers to moving a family to her parents’ Michigan home for safety, to getting those to the airport who choose to leave the US. She thought Trump was only going to go after criminals, not hard-working people looking for a better life. Guess what? You voted for the party of face-eating leopards and now you see they’re eating the faces of anybody who’s in the way of white Christian Nationalism. Oh, and she didn’t like Biden’s policies toward Israel. What? The 350-pound bombs won’t kill as fast as the 500-pound bombs?
Since Trump‘s ballroom isn’t going to be built to code, my dream is that it is completed in time for him to host a giant party and for the entire thing to come crashing down on these motherfuckers when YMCA starts blasting.
$300 billion of Russian assets held in Europe. Fuck trump, witkoff and kushner, Europe stop navel gazing and spend Russian money to buy weapons that the Ukraine will put to good use.
NOW!!!
Looks interesting, too bad there’s a paywall 😞
They do like to talk.
All talk, no action must end
Their hands are tied by Orban, apparently.
I don’t know that Orban can stop anything other than Ukraine’s bid for NATO membership. But I do wonder why the EU Commission isn’t moving faster to re-arm Ukraine.
Yeah I thought the EU was going to use the frozen assets to buy weapons for Ukraine.
Thought that was underway? Explains several of the larger, more targeted strikes?
Actually, the EU has been bypassing Orban. But apparently now Belgium is resisting giving the frozen Russian funds to Ukraine! WTF?!?
Perhaps they will find some additional motivation now that the masks have dropped
From Dean Blundell, is it fact or fiction?
In the quiet rooms in Brussels, London, Berlin, Paris and Ottawa, the conversation has flipped from:
“How do we manage Trump?”
to:
“What do we do when Trump sells us out?”
And the answer they’ve started gaming out is absolutely wild:
A European‑led military Plan B that keeps Ukraine armed and defended even if Washington ghosts the whole alliance.
And in the absolute worst‑case, a one‑shot economic “nuclear option”: using their trillions in U.S. government debt to shake the foundations of the American financial system if Trump tries to legitimise Russian aggression and carve up Ukraine for cash.
No, this isn’t Marvel fan‑fic.
Of course the EU is planning for strategies w/out Trmp. He’s been abundantly clear where. His loyalties lie- and it’s not with Ukraine. Also: the US is financially compromised. Apparently a significant amount of US Treasuries owned by Canada? Japan? Others? If sold, could be devastating?
I get why this takes time to decide, but the sooner they get on with it....
Heard it straight from Timothy Snyder.
Ron, again, ❤️ thanks to you for doing this day after day.
My reaction to this weekends BS? 😳🤬🤮
My reaction to this weekend's b.s.: I'm really glad I decided to wait until this a.m. to read Ron's post...i don't think I would have been able to sleep!
Truly, this regime becomes more sinister and corrupt every f'n day:
Witkoff & Kushner selling out Ukraine with a Russian billionaire, aided & abetted by Rubio.
Trump pardoning a convicted high level drug trafficker AND a scumbag convicted of swinging 1,000s of people out of the life savings.
Hegseth blowing boats up like its a video game with real life victims.
The Silicon Valley tech investor who is also advising on AI & crypto policy.
The WH ballroom growing in size & cost, without any permitting or planning or bidding.
The level of corruption and self dealing is sickening & enraging.
I am going to call my Congress reps and tell them to just quit, as they apparently have neither the balls or the brains to do their jobs.
Yes, Gadget, this is consistently outstanding work from Ron F.
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War Crimes
As has been pointed out, we’re not at war. It’s flat out murder.
Agree
A DUI hire, no doubt.
😂
@mikehammer2
https://ojaiohana.substack.com/p/essay-debunking-official-wh-fake?r=5chxge
Ann Telnaes penned a cartoon illustrating this.
Ann Telnaes did a cartoon depicting just that. If you do not know her work she is a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist. She quit the WaPo after they nixed her cartoon showing Bezos Zuckerberg etc bowing down to Trump. You can find her OpenWindows page on Substack.
… CEO Jamie Dimon told CNN why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom: “We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with govts here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.”
And yet Dimon was lawless and reckless in hiding and enabling the evil deeds of Jeffrey Epstein. Why weren't you worried about how THAT was perceived, Jamie? I already know the answer: you thought all the rich perverts who profited and participated would be immune from prosecution.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!! Hold people like Dimon accountable, and for god's sake, fire him from any position at an FDIC insured bank for the rest of his life. And stop asking him for advice on ANYTHING. He's a crook and a fraud.
These people are not going anywhere anytime soon. They can’t wait to invite 1350 people from all of their international cronies to the next inauguration in the monstrosity called the ballroom. So, John Thune is too afraid to
defect. It’s positively medieval. And, now, they have thrown in murder into the mix.
Do not underestimate the power of the people; we have the numbers and Mamdani showed everyone what a strong coalition of those numbers, candid conversations with voters, and relentless hard work campaigning can do.
Trump cancelled the jobs report.
Trump cancelled the inflation report.
Now, Trump is cancelling the GDP report.
EVERYTHING THEY DO IS INTENTIONAL, WITH PURPOSE
TURNING US INTO RUSSIA
Read that many of the top managers of departments left after they fired the director
Correct. Don’t forget their control of mainstream media and their stronghold over other platforms.
Agreed, for at least a decade or more
"We care about perception."
These people make me sick.
Gee, if only the spineless republinazis in the Senate hadn't voted to confirm an alcoholic war criminal as SecDef. If only someone had warned them. 🤣
Yeah, same as the kegster that likes beer on the SCOTUS now advocating racial profiling as the basis for deportation. Another unqualified fascist dimwit, John, wreaking havoc on our nation!
The seditious six SCOTUS judges: John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Viney Barrett. The manipulation and plot behind their position needs to change.
Yes, Jenell, the real seditious six! What a curse! That's a great idea for the next protest sign to go with the one I have now "Supreme Court Betrays America." Thank you!
These criminals want money. What they fail to realize, once they have destroyed their customers, that money ceases to mean a thing.
Why is Jared Kushner involved these talks all the sudden? What is his current position in the administration?
Grifter-in-law
Smashing, Paula!
I understand that the Ukrainian delegation in D.C. was appalled to see Kushner at the table.
Secretary of Make Money for the Trumps
He's been under the table, in the hallways, slinking around the back of the room, the entire time. I asked quite awhile ago. What's up with Kushner?
He has no position other than to represent the Trump family at the table.
Just the same way he was relevant in the first Apprentice: Presidency Edition part one. In it to get rich and grift.
And to further connections for HIMSELF?
Same as he was/is in Gaza. They’re all real estate and business deals, not peace deals.
Current (and former) position in the Admin: Ivanka's Toy Boy.
Kushner’s involvement is way more corrupt than anything they blamed Biden and Hunter for doing.
He is good at grifting and probably wants some for himself.
Bottom feeder extraordinaire, Jae.
THANK YOU! This is what I keep thinking! This is SO Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday & Qusay!!!!!!!!
Mullin having blind trust in Trump is the best evidence of what a moron he is.
Mullin isn't the brightest bulb in the MAGA lamp.
OKLAHOMA! Where the wind keeps sweeping out the brains! 🎶🎼🎤
Good one ...Madam 👍
Makes me think he’s been hit over the head with a pipe a few times too many.
Putin, Witkoff, and all of Free Chicken’s administration are the worst human beings. They are EXACTLY what Hitler falsely accused the Jews of: selling out anyone or thing for personal enrichment. They are traitors not only to the Constitution, but humanity. They should be treated as such.
The corruption is epic.
Same shizit. Different day. Pardoning rich drug traffickers and fraudsters while murdering poorer ALLEGED traffickers ... who God only knows, may have been fisherman working on a boat to earn a living. How long will this go on that we have to hear this sad stuff? Accountability process needs to be sped up! Transparency needs to be demanded! And alll the while, the Epstein files just get pushed under the rug. 😡 Thank you, Ron, for another stellar bulletin and for giving up another Sunday for us. You are appreciated!!!
💙💯💥❤️ 💙💯💥❤️ 💙💯💥❤️
I'll be curious to see if Kegseth bombs another boat now that he's being investigated.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
So you murder a few suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers without a shred of evidence and then pardon a convicted drug trafficker who brought huge amounts of cocaine into the US. What a disgusting shit show this current corrupt administration is.
What a disgusting, disgraceful, dishonest, greedy, evil regime. America deserves better!!!
Thank you Ron for the update.
Absofrigginlutely. My initial response -
OMG - I’m going to have nightmares and cold sweats for at least a week after all that!
But who’s going to stop this international criminal cabal that’s taken over the White House and our country? The constitution and the rule of law are absolutely meaningless unless/until someone actually holds them accountable! So is this what SCOTUS had in mind?
“… I could see Lea as a future Trump Secretary of State. Or DHS Secretary. Maybe FBI Director.”
And at the very least, or perhaps more importantly, Lea will likely be spending significantly more time at the Oval Office as douchebag Donny’s new lap warmer.
Well, part of America deserves better. The other part got what they voted for.
Washington Post story about a woman in Chicago who voted for Trump. She also helps Venezuelan and other migrants with everything from food and diapers to moving a family to her parents’ Michigan home for safety, to getting those to the airport who choose to leave the US. She thought Trump was only going to go after criminals, not hard-working people looking for a better life. Guess what? You voted for the party of face-eating leopards and now you see they’re eating the faces of anybody who’s in the way of white Christian Nationalism. Oh, and she didn’t like Biden’s policies toward Israel. What? The 350-pound bombs won’t kill as fast as the 500-pound bombs?
Sons of bitches!! 🤬🤬🤬
Yeah, sunny effing beaches at Palm Beach.
Since Trump‘s ballroom isn’t going to be built to code, my dream is that it is completed in time for him to host a giant party and for the entire thing to come crashing down on these motherfuckers when YMCA starts blasting.
Love it!
Where’s the person referred to in “Smoke on the Water” as “some stupid with a flare gun?”
Mmmm, that's a titillating vision, drbush! So let it be written, so let it be done!
Markwayne Mullin probably didn’t believe reports that the “patriot” Timothy McVeigh blew up the OKC federal building.
If trump told him so that dim wit would believe anything
You know, with a name like “Markwayne” he should be in hiding.