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I like this theory tbh

lol at this becoming the best trump thread suddenly

He disregards, or outright refuses, their work. He excludes them, undermines them, can't close his big fat mouth. For better or worse he's been working to replace the world order that gives them a purpose—strategic alliances and clear enemies in a state-based hegemony—with an intn'l network of personal business connections. They hate him.

he's just negging them

so not gonna happen

He disregards, or outright refuses, their work.

from the beginning, he seemed to know they were against his presidency. and why is that? just because they leaked the steele dossier? he seemed, right away, to know what that *meant*: he saw it as a first shot against him, but also seemed to know that they could never go against him for real. it was the casual way in which he dismissed the "deep state," before even taking office, that just seemed off to me and demanded an explanation.

i think he was familiar with this crowd and their tricks and knew that they too -- when it was convenient -- partook in the "international network of personal business connections." of all the different parts of the US empire, it was the intelligence community that he saw as the most hypocritical of all.

if trump was really as much of an outsider as he seemed, he would have seemed adrift when he got to washington, unsure of who his allies and enemies were. but he wasn't--he jumped right into it, antagonizing comey and all these other people.

my theory isn't that he is working hand in glove with the intelligence community today. it's more like, they have had a mutually beneficial business relationship for years, but one that is strained. and one outcome of it is that he feels he has leverage over them. it never made sense that he didn't try to fire mueller. the entire thing felt like a game of chicken, and then it was mueller at the end who blinked, basically.

Mueller’d FBI

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i know he was fbi, but trump banked on the fact that he wouldn't blow up the cia's spot by uncovering the money laundering scheme. after the patriot act, don't the two agencies work together often anyway?

I think you’re reading logic and intentionality into Trump’s actions when there is no evidence of logic or intentionality ever driving him before.

I think you’re reading logic and intentionality into Trump’s actions when there is no evidence of logic or intentionality ever driving him before.

that's what the cia bet when they tapped him as an asset--the desperate "billionaire" who would do anything to keep up his lifestyle at a time when he was completely underwater.

in any case, i don't think my theory requires trump to be logical and cunning. he just needs to be someone who was at one point desperate and willing to get his hands dirty. and also someone who would have already been knowledgeable about the connections between organized crime and US intelligence--you know, able to move between those worlds. and this very much was trump. his mentor was roy cohn.

Trump was a game show host.

true. alex trebek and regis philbin also declared net incomes in the negative hundreds of millions every year for decades. it's a game show thing.

there is *something there* which is why we were all riveted by the russia investigation. but for some reason mueller stopped short at uncovering what that was.

this is just my theory as to why that is. four years into his disastrous presidency, there is still a whole lot we just don't know about him, and it's hard for me to think that isn't in some way intentional.

in any case, i don't think my theory requires trump to be logical and cunning. he just needs to be someone who was at one point desperate and willing to get his hands dirty. and also someone who would have already been knowledgeable about the connections between organized crime and US intelligence--you know, able to move between those worlds. and this very much was trump. his mentor was roy cohn.

maybe. but i don't understand why an investigation into whether trump was compromised by russia didn't include a look into who he owes money to. it seems like more than an oversight. there were some things about trump that mueller didn't want america to know about for whatever reason.

that's what the cia bet when they tapped him as an asset--the desperate "billionaire" who would do anything to keep up his lifestyle at a time when he was completely underwater.

yeah, but i just think that would have been exposed by now.

that's the crux of this. for some reason, US authorities can't touch him, even when he is quite blatantly involved in crimes.

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Actually treeship if you were to tell me to wear foil I’d wear it after these last bunch of posts

i confess i'm a sucker for "cia did it" conspiracies because like 75 percent of the time there's *something* to them

that's the crux of this. for some reason, US authorities can't touch him, even when he is quite blatantly involved in crimes.

wtf is that? xpost

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you put my heart in moootion

Anti-semitic pish.

yeah, i stopped watching that segment when i saw where it was going.

i think, look--occam's razor says boring, maryland is right and he has gotten away with everything because the government never prosecutes white collar crime. i'm 90% sure something like this is the real answer.

but there will always be a part of me that wonders how it got this far. the people he has been dicking over, decade after decade, are also very rich and powerful. and no matter what, the money keeps coming in for him.

It's not a subtle thumbnail.

yeah, i mean, i think that is something for the mods to remove honestly. we don't need it here.

Yeah, that was a few steps beyond "controversial." Deleted.

Yeah, that was a few steps beyond "controversial." Deleted.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.0Icm7aafJPjCan5_GaCKlQHaD4%26pid%3DApi&f=1

OK, right, frankly, fuck this.

She said: “She’s everywoman and clothes would have restricted her. Statues in historic costume look like they belong to history because of their clothes.

“It’s crucial that she is ‘now’.

“The whole sculpture is called ‘for Mary Wollstonecraft’ and that’s crucially important. It’s not an idea ‘of’ Mary Wollstonecraft naked… the sculpture is for now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/insulting-to-her-mary-wollstonecraft-sculpture-sparks-backlash

this is a terrible statue and maggie hambling's defence is rambling incoherent garbage.

wow that's crazy!

It could be a statue for like, anything.

And by removing personality and clothes it removes the whole social world that MW moved in/against which conflict is the whole point idgi

the infantile doll at the top:

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d6e7a108000d52ca2ab3935e3ceefabd36c592c6/0_1367_3712_2227/master/3712.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=d330ed89cc635f93cdbb73cca232dcb9

and the whole lump:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/154FD/production/_115339278_motg_01_ioanamarinescu.jpg

Oh wow

I thought the top bit was the main bit

Fuck

bad monument for a cool historical figure

"Any passing teenage boy is not going to think, oh, that’s an icon of feminist education. They are going to think – tits!"

Can't not do this in a Coogan voice.

Smoking should be restricted to specific places even outdoors.

Like, I shouldn't have to breath in the smoke just because three smokers want to walk side by side down the street, blowing smoke back behind them.

feel like an unusual amount of time and effort went into the pubes

that's a polite way of putting it

The writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: “Imagine if there was a statue of a hot young naked guy ‘in tribute’ to eg Churchill. It would look mad. This, also, looks mad.”

This would be much better than any existing monument to Churchill.

Hot Lincoln statue in LA to thread.