Speaking of Huntsville… (& Greenbelt MD, very close to where I live)
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apologies if this ends up me owing someone a coke, but, trump may now be addressed as (agent) Krasnov (the ~40 year ‘sleeper’ cell)
Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump
ONE OF US
Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.
Isabel van Brugen
Freelance Writer
Updated Feb. 21 2025 11:45AM EST Published Feb. 21 2025 10:00AM EST
A former Soviet intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.”Alnur Mussayev, 71, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, made the explosive claim in a Facebook post on Thursday. He claimed that he served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for counter-intelligence support within the economy. One of its key objectives, he claimed, was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.” …
the history piquant-ancy about this is that General Krasnov was/is seen as a traitor to the Soviets – so the code name essentially means “traitor”, how apt. $@#$!
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Do these people even have meetings to get on the same page?
Hegseth issued a memo telling the defense department to cut their budget by 8% per year while trump endorses the house budget that raises defense spending by 100 billion.
Maybe they should all sit down together and actually have a meeting.
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A non paywalled article on the topic
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So he IS a manchurian candidate!
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Except there was nothing to brainwash.
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Dammit people, stop excusing these shit bags. It wasn’t an apparent Nazi salute, it was a Nazi salute. If I drove home this evening at 140 and ran over three people along the way, it wouldn’t be reported as “apparent” reckless driving.
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Um… okay, and how are people who are employed by someone else meant to do that? Like I guess small companies can do that, and larger companies who aren’t on board with this nazi shit can do it, but how is the average worker, who has their taxes taken out of their paycheck, meant to “not pay their taxes”?
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Don’t most jobs allow a worker to adjust how much is taken out?
True though, that’s a moot point for taxes on 2024 income.
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You mean withholding? Sure, but that doesn’t change that something is coming out, even if it’s only soc sec, medicare, medicaid, etc…
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Huh, never thought of those as “taxes,” but I suppose they can be seen that way.
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It is, I’d argue, since it’s not going into a kind of savings account for you, but rather is paying out to the current folks using these benefits (like my mom and her husband, who is currently fighting cancer), and if they get their way on gutting the social safety net (as meager as it is), we’ll be forced to KEEP paying it, and not get any benefit. It’ll probably go straight to Elon’s companies.
Maybe I’m missing something about her argument, but not filing our taxes would likely not do much, other than deny us our refunds. And most of us don’t really have a way to not pay our taxes, since they go through our employer (most of whom will not go this route).
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The democrat who held up a picture of musk and called him a dick got a letter from the DOJ.
They pardoned violent felons for threatening public officials with actual weapons, how seriously do they take threats?
Dear Rep. Garcia:
As United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, I receive requests for information and clarification. I take these requests seriously and act on them with letters like this one you are receiving.
At this time, I respectfully request that you clarify your comments from February 12, 2025. During a live interview with CNN, when asked how Democrats can stop Elon Musk, you spoke clearly: “What the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy.”
This sounds to some like a threat to Mr. Musk - an appointed representative of President Donald Trump who you call a “dick” - and government staff who work for him. Their concerns have led to this inquiry.
We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation with my letter of inquiry after request. Thank you in advance for your assistance. Please respond by February 24, 2025. Should you have further questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to call my office or schedule a time to meet in person.
All the best.
Sincerely,
Edward R. Martin, Jr.
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An interesting/entertaining take from Lewis Black about how the current regime is bringing corporate enshittification and corruption to government agencies:
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He couldn’t pretend he was doing the “throwing my heart out” gesture because it is well known that he has no heart
Even French Nazis admit it was one!
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FYI & FWIW: The person who does sniggle.net has been doing this for years (since the Second Gulf War)… in his case, it means living very frugally (he has/had a pet; no spouse; no dependents; no car; rents his home) & working as a contractor (1099? instead of a W-2), which makes him responsible for filing his own SocSec & Medicare, which he doesn’t.
A lot of what he had to write was extremely interesting (e.g., now I know a lot more about Thoreau & Tolstoy). He also writes as a self-described anarcho-capitalist, so (I’ve inferred) it wasn’t all about the pacifism. I looked in at his blog not long ago for the first time in a while &, although he’s still doing the tax resistance, he feels the other stuff he does (like volunteering locally) is more important.
I think (based a lot on reading the guy’s blog) there are Mennonites & Quakers (for example) who perform tax resistance one way or another, & presumably some or many of them are W-2 employees…
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Oh, did you mean that “provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month”? As the Daily Beast described it. Although to be fair, they also described what Musk did as a “VERY controversial salute.” Who knows why it was “controversial” - total mystery, really, but I guess people should avoid doing things that look like what Musk did, for some reason.
(So many words to avoid saying “Nazi salute”!)
French (and other European) Nazis right now:
Totally shredding that fig leaf of pretense that they’re not Nazi Nazis.
This strikes me as a deliberate strategy. Given that the president has direct control over the military (which is why Trump always uses them, at great expense, to do things without getting funding, e.g. deporting immigrants on military flights), cutting military program expenses while increase the DOD budget seems like it could be intended to be a Trumpian strategy to create a huge slush fund he can use as he likes. Which seems so utterly ridiculous that it’s probably a point in favor of it being true.
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Meh, the AfD would be fine with it. They have also been snubbed by the French Nazis for being too nazi and they associated with Musk after his nazi salute
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