FBI raids Mar-a-Lago
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Look, I don't really think the idea of "oh, Trump can't win, they aren't scared of him, he's a shill, he won't do anything" is clearly not the case here.
I really don't think Trump is going to do pretty much anything but get vengeance for shit like this. Really. Trump is not the type of guy who seems like he will just turn the other cheek.
You don't pull this shit unless they are deathly afraid of him getting back into power. They obviously hate him and are willing to at least break the law to stop him, but there has to be a reason. Trump could be easily bought off, but they didn't and they keep digging their own hole here.
I'm starting to think that when Trump wins in 2024, before he can fire 50,000 federal employees, we're going to look at DC basically evacuating with all of our money. I think it might turn into a ghost town.
It doesn't really matter. They could have raided his house for a box of cookies. You don't raid President's homes, even ones that are unpopular or disgraced. They are pretty well protected politically. I don't necessarily agree, but that's the way it is. It's a warning shot at Trump's head. "Next time, we won't miss."
Hell, think of the FoxCatcher murder. A well connected millionaire straight up killed a man in cold blood, in public, in his house. The police didn't go in until he surrendered himself, and simply went in to gather crime scene evidence. Rich & connected people don't get treated like others. This is them treating him as bad as they would treat a Jan. 6'er.
They would have to be pretty blind to think that there's not going to be blowback politically, even by establishment Republicans, or MAGA adjacent people like Ted Cruz. They kind of have to respond to this because there's no reason that they wouldn't be next. After all, Cruz has been accused of attempting to assassinate AOC by co-ordinating the Jan 6 'attacks on the Capitol', and was wearing far-right iconography on his boots.
It's 1,000 times worse than when they raided Project Veritas at the behest of the New York Times, and even then you had journalistic and legal organizations coming out and saying, "uhhh... we want O'Keefe dead as much as you do, but this makes us look shady as shit."
If it were a "he can't do shit", it would be really stupid.
If anything, I would think it would be so malicious that they are hoping it would cause right-wing violence.
I agree with that. I mean what are the odds really that they find evidence of a heretofore unknown Trump crime by searching his office? At this point. After investigating him since he was running for President. They are fucking with him, and they are fishing. It seems unlikely they find anything, but from their perspective the raid itself is useful propaganda so may as well do it. It costs them just their reputation, which is nonexistent at this point. I mean I guess they score points with TDS morons.
Since when does the National Archives need the FBI to get some fucking documents? Would a phone call or email not have worked?
I hate the anti Christ
Clearly the solution is to sic the FBI on him.
He could have been at the start, I suspect, by now, however, I expect Trump's taking this as a personal attack - which it is - and will come out swinging.
The only reason I can think of for being this brazen is already knowing Trump simply will not be allowed to win.
I mean, I'm sure the FBI thinks that ... but I'm sure Clinton thought that in 2016, too.
Regards DC and your money ... look at what they're doing with the dollar. It's already in progress, mate.
I think Trump won in 16 because they failed to rig it enough and he completely shook their faith in the system they had so carefully constructed. It would certainly explain why they went absolutely nuts.
That makes sense. Polling for 16 was very bad. Anyone who is interested in politics should look up how polling actually works and how they fucked up the 16 election. If they're intentionally rigging for a close election, they are probably using those numbers that come out, and they were bogus that time.
Incidentally, numbers from the 20 election will be used to skew raw data for 24. So cheating back then will actually impact how polls look for 24. At least the official ones. Insiders may have access to raw data in order to apply their own formulae if they're looking for how much to cheat.
That's the other half of it. If the entire press weren't the toadies of the DP before his election, they sure as shit became that after they were proven to be 100% wrong in their unanimous cheerleading for Clinton and their dismissal of Trump's chances of winning.
These fucks were so sure of their king-making power they went apeshit after they were proven to be ineffectual.
Trump was the best thing ever to happen to our perception of the press by revealing how it sucks up to power. "Fake News" indeed.
Now nobody trusts them as far as anyone can throw that fatass bald guy from CNN.
I maintain that Trump could have been turned into Borris Johnson if he had stayed in. Honestly, "losing" the 2020 election may have done him better than winning it. He wouldn't have avoided a recession, Afghanistan would probably still have been a shit-show, Barr, Fauci, and Milley would all still be there getting in front of any attempt to change anything. Hell, Kushner would still be there.
All they would have had to do in 2016 was placate his ego like the Saudis did when he did his offical tour. If they had just been magnanimous in 2020, they'd probably have quite a cucked or undermined Trump. Now he's going to be coming back on a war-path.
I know, that's actually my point. I don't agree that this is "end of empire", but I do think that basically the Kleptocracy has kind of decided that this is probably the end-game in the US. They are draining the treasury like Uday Hussein did because I actually think they know this chaos and lack of leadership on their part means their loss may be inevitable, even if it's not by Trump's hand.
I'm gonna keep buying metals because I really don't think that there's going to be any real money in the American economy outside of it by 2024, but I think that if the Kleptocrats are all cleared out, we might actually make a swift recovery.
Billionaires do the buying off of politicians, not the other way around.
The trump shill shit is a propaganda campaign imo.
So is the "only DeSantis would win" crowd.
I get the distinct feeling there are a fair few number of people who are subversives attempting to pander, but are really trying to steer forums like ours in specific directions, either by impersonating the alt-right, or impersonating MAGA, while either legitimizing neo-liberal narratives, or advocating neo-liberal stereotypes.
Yep.
Even if I wasn’t suspicious that DeSantis is secretly stinky, I want Trump because thats who we fucking elected already.
It’s so cucked to just throw in the towel and give up on our elected president because it got stolen.
I'd be more tolerant of the argument if it were solely based on age. But the reality is Trump has a ton of momentum and it's because of the voter fraud issue, and his incumbency, and people remember how it was better when he was in.
The biggest danger to DeSantis is strategic. If he got distracted and greedy and tried to run against Trump in the primary, he would weaken the political infrastructure of Florida (which he's still trying to secure by clearing out the AG, fixing the Boward County BoE, and solidifying his political capital) by leaving it to someone even less experienced than him. If he lost, the damage could cost him his career and then Florida.
It's really the worst possible decision.