Nowadays we remember Nixon primarily for Watergate and the impeachment and resignation, and the Ford pardon. The rest of his career is a footnote, even though there's plenty there, the man was not idle during his career in politics. Similarly, I believe that DT will be remembered primarily for this interregnum between Nov. 3 and the inauguration. Of course I could be wrong, but that's how it looks from here.
Also, when the entire dirty story makes it into the social consciousness, this moment may well be remembered in context of DT's being owned by Putin. Putin is p.o.'ed at the USA, going back to Hillary being SecState and perhaps earlier. Now he is livid because of Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act, and the precedent that set for targeting and international state-actor-level criminals like himself. He managed to co-opt Trump, probably with money but perhaps also with kompromat, compromising blackmail material, of course that's the KGB's bread-and-butter. Putin owns Trump, think Helsinki conference and secret conversations even while Trump is President and all the rest of the myriad ways Trump has indicated that he works for Putin. That's why the intelligence community was aghast 4 years ago when Trump beat Hillary, they knew a mobster and Putin stooge had just been elected President. To summarize, Putin has been working diligently to attack the U.S., and it's possible, but not certain, that Trump's complicity in that effort, Trump's diligent efforts to support Putin, may one day be widely seen.
“The Russian campaign’s goal was never to push out a coherent, pro-Trump message, but instead to subvert America’s democratic institutions and sow distrust. President Donald Trump was just a means to that end.”
Donald Trump, NYC mobster, Putin stooge, and all-around dirtbag probably going back to his grandfather's roots in Kallstadt Germany, which at the time was part of Bavaria, the state in Germany where Hitler came to power on the back of the Bavarian independence movement (Independent State of Bavaria), among other social conditions
\ like the Great Depression.
Full disclosure, my father is born and raised in Munich before emigrating to the U.S. in the 1950s, nearly all my relatives are German, my paternal grandmother was likely one of the adoring crowd of Hitler fans (he was Germany's FDR, gone bad), so I am sensitized to the glaring, glaring similarities DT has to Hitler, who rose to power in Munich during my father's childhood, he had a front-row seat for the entire show.
Well, it is finally happening. During the 2016 Republican primary, I didn't think this guy had a snowball's chance in hell of being nominated. Election time, I was convinced Hillary would win. Then I thought his election victory was something of a fluke, and I didn't think DT would make it through his first year in office. Against all my expectations, he made it through 4 years. Holy cow. Future registered sex offender, multifaceted intricate business tax and financial fraudster including corruption à la Emoluments, paid Putin stooge executing Putin's wishes, according to Greg Olear NY mobster, and all around creep and dirtbag. President of the United States. Most corrupt President in U.S. history, most people even non-Republicans and non-Fox watchers don't know the half of it.
You know there's trouble if the Washington Post is calling you a pariah:
Hello, I am new here. TCinLA referred me here from Heather Cox Richardson's Substack site. Before I subscribed here, I did a search on Lucian and read his wiki page. I follow events in the Jefferson clan history, and I have tremendous respect for the decision to invite the Hemings family into the fold. That decision, and Lucian's decision to fight the church attendance requirement at West Point, persuaded me to subscribe. And of course the first article I see is the Kaepernick article. My wife and I live in northern California, big SF Giants fans (going back to the 60s, my mother used to listen on the radio), but we also follow 49ers football so of course we have been watching the entire saga of Kaepernick since he joined the Niners and before he began his taking-a-knee action.
Hi Roland! I subscribed based on TC’s recommendation, also. Did similar research/reading prior to subscribing. I think there are more of us here - it’s amazing how like minds find each other on the ethernet. Makes me understand the other side a little better. Except they’re “the bad guys”, right? Interesting.
Hi Karen! My dad is one of them. Plenty in common with DT, but vital differences as well. I have had a lifetime of being forced to deal with the other side. Good to see you here! Hello also to Lucian's long-time subscribers, I have a friend at work named John Harris who would say, "I know you are all good people!"
In the due course of time, here’s what this guy’s legacy will be:
He’s the man who incited the US Capitol riot and then got impeached, again, during the last week of his presidency.
Everything else will be a footnote.
Nowadays we remember Nixon primarily for Watergate and the impeachment and resignation, and the Ford pardon. The rest of his career is a footnote, even though there's plenty there, the man was not idle during his career in politics. Similarly, I believe that DT will be remembered primarily for this interregnum between Nov. 3 and the inauguration. Of course I could be wrong, but that's how it looks from here.
Also, when the entire dirty story makes it into the social consciousness, this moment may well be remembered in context of DT's being owned by Putin. Putin is p.o.'ed at the USA, going back to Hillary being SecState and perhaps earlier. Now he is livid because of Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act, and the precedent that set for targeting and international state-actor-level criminals like himself. He managed to co-opt Trump, probably with money but perhaps also with kompromat, compromising blackmail material, of course that's the KGB's bread-and-butter. Putin owns Trump, think Helsinki conference and secret conversations even while Trump is President and all the rest of the myriad ways Trump has indicated that he works for Putin. That's why the intelligence community was aghast 4 years ago when Trump beat Hillary, they knew a mobster and Putin stooge had just been elected President. To summarize, Putin has been working diligently to attack the U.S., and it's possible, but not certain, that Trump's complicity in that effort, Trump's diligent efforts to support Putin, may one day be widely seen.
“The Russian campaign’s goal was never to push out a coherent, pro-Trump message, but instead to subvert America’s democratic institutions and sow distrust. President Donald Trump was just a means to that end.”
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-putin-s-disinformation-campaign-claims-stunning-victory-with-capitol-hill-coup-1.9432690
Donnie Deutsch summed up Trump...loathsome lizard.
Donald Trump, NYC mobster, Putin stooge, and all-around dirtbag probably going back to his grandfather's roots in Kallstadt Germany, which at the time was part of Bavaria, the state in Germany where Hitler came to power on the back of the Bavarian independence movement (Independent State of Bavaria), among other social conditions
\ like the Great Depression.
Full disclosure, my father is born and raised in Munich before emigrating to the U.S. in the 1950s, nearly all my relatives are German, my paternal grandmother was likely one of the adoring crowd of Hitler fans (he was Germany's FDR, gone bad), so I am sensitized to the glaring, glaring similarities DT has to Hitler, who rose to power in Munich during my father's childhood, he had a front-row seat for the entire show.
Well, it is finally happening. During the 2016 Republican primary, I didn't think this guy had a snowball's chance in hell of being nominated. Election time, I was convinced Hillary would win. Then I thought his election victory was something of a fluke, and I didn't think DT would make it through his first year in office. Against all my expectations, he made it through 4 years. Holy cow. Future registered sex offender, multifaceted intricate business tax and financial fraudster including corruption à la Emoluments, paid Putin stooge executing Putin's wishes, according to Greg Olear NY mobster, and all around creep and dirtbag. President of the United States. Most corrupt President in U.S. history, most people even non-Republicans and non-Fox watchers don't know the half of it.
You know there's trouble if the Washington Post is calling you a pariah:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pariah-siege/2021/01/13/5fd2d69e-55bb-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
Hello, I am new here. TCinLA referred me here from Heather Cox Richardson's Substack site. Before I subscribed here, I did a search on Lucian and read his wiki page. I follow events in the Jefferson clan history, and I have tremendous respect for the decision to invite the Hemings family into the fold. That decision, and Lucian's decision to fight the church attendance requirement at West Point, persuaded me to subscribe. And of course the first article I see is the Kaepernick article. My wife and I live in northern California, big SF Giants fans (going back to the 60s, my mother used to listen on the radio), but we also follow 49ers football so of course we have been watching the entire saga of Kaepernick since he joined the Niners and before he began his taking-a-knee action.
Hi Roland! I subscribed based on TC’s recommendation, also. Did similar research/reading prior to subscribing. I think there are more of us here - it’s amazing how like minds find each other on the ethernet. Makes me understand the other side a little better. Except they’re “the bad guys”, right? Interesting.
Hi Karen! My dad is one of them. Plenty in common with DT, but vital differences as well. I have had a lifetime of being forced to deal with the other side. Good to see you here! Hello also to Lucian's long-time subscribers, I have a friend at work named John Harris who would say, "I know you are all good people!"