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Careful, your tinfoil hat is a bit creased.

DrNosferatu 2y ago
Noticing patterns is "tinfoil hat" territory while ignoring oddly specific and contemporary strategic infrastructure leaks is just "rational thinking." I'll try to be more reasonable and assume it's pure coincidence that incompetence consistently aligns with foreign interests. Much more plausible.
EasyMark 2y ago
All you have to do is look at how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket, either out of stupidity or is an actual asset that they have компромат on
- IAmGraydon 2y ago
  I would agree something has to be going on that we're not aware of. He went to Russia in 1987 on business, met with some shady characters, came back and immediately placed a $100,000 ad in the NY Times that points fingers at other countries "taking advantage" of the US to promote the idea of US isolationism. He was not political before that trip, and since then it's been his life mission to separate us from our alliances. Now he's parroting lies directly from Putin's mouth gaslighting the world about who invaded who. He's certainly done a good job of keeping whatever it is secret, but it's pretty easy to see what's going on from his actions. Either he's been directly compromised or Russia's running a very effective influence campaign to basically brainwash certain people of influence without their direct knowledge. BTW the ad is in this article for anyone who's interested: https://archive.is/ATuqH https://archive.is/ATuqH
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket Ukraine has been my pet war for the last few years. I have to disagree. Trump doesn’t particularly care what happens to Ukraine. He needs the dollars we’re sending to Europe to finance his tax cut and trade war. I’m less convinced Trump is acting at Putin’s direction than that he’s looking for the nearest guy to offload the problem onto.
  - ben_w 2y ago
    I would be more willing to believe that if not for the first-order result of the current administration's aims being a 6% GDP loss from kicking out illegal immigrants and another 6% loss from what Musk says he's aiming for with DOGE, plus another 1% GDP loss from the tariffs. That said, I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the political fallout of those cuts. That plus Musk's habit of making maximal promises and delivering "merely" impressive results, means I think DOGE will actually cut a lot less than $2T — I don't see how even "just" $200bn would be anything less than a major geopolitical shift felt well outside the US, that breaks something so hard that Trump will want a fall-guy. Same for the illegal immigrants: kicking them out may be a vote winner, but they're too important, so I expect perhaps 10% of them to actually be removed. But that still produces a 2.2% GDP contraction. Ukraine aid won't come close to covering that.
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    - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the political fallout of those cuts Yes. But Musk is also a useful distraction. Cabinet confirmed and deficit blown out while the DOGE bros take the cannon fire. Round two will be drawing out their inevitable days in court.
DrNosferatu 2y ago
Really? US Senate Committee: “is Trump is a Russian asset”? https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s [via Forbes]

Noticing patterns is "tinfoil hat" territory while ignoring oddly specific and contemporary strategic infrastructure leaks is just "rational thinking." I'll try to be more reasonable and assume it's pure coincidence that incompetence consistently aligns with foreign interests. Much more plausible.

EasyMark 2y ago

All you have to do is look at how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket, either out of stupidity or is an actual asset that they have компромат on

IAmGraydon 2y ago
I would agree something has to be going on that we're not aware of. He went to Russia in 1987 on business, met with some shady characters, came back and immediately placed a $100,000 ad in the NY Times that points fingers at other countries "taking advantage" of the US to promote the idea of US isolationism. He was not political before that trip, and since then it's been his life mission to separate us from our alliances. Now he's parroting lies directly from Putin's mouth gaslighting the world about who invaded who. He's certainly done a good job of keeping whatever it is secret, but it's pretty easy to see what's going on from his actions. Either he's been directly compromised or Russia's running a very effective influence campaign to basically brainwash certain people of influence without their direct knowledge. BTW the ad is in this article for anyone who's interested: https://archive.is/ATuqH https://archive.is/ATuqH
JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket Ukraine has been my pet war for the last few years. I have to disagree. Trump doesn’t particularly care what happens to Ukraine. He needs the dollars we’re sending to Europe to finance his tax cut and trade war. I’m less convinced Trump is acting at Putin’s direction than that he’s looking for the nearest guy to offload the problem onto.
- ben_w 2y ago
  I would be more willing to believe that if not for the first-order result of the current administration's aims being a 6% GDP loss from kicking out illegal immigrants and another 6% loss from what Musk says he's aiming for with DOGE, plus another 1% GDP loss from the tariffs. That said, I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the political fallout of those cuts. That plus Musk's habit of making maximal promises and delivering "merely" impressive results, means I think DOGE will actually cut a lot less than $2T — I don't see how even "just" $200bn would be anything less than a major geopolitical shift felt well outside the US, that breaks something so hard that Trump will want a fall-guy. Same for the illegal immigrants: kicking them out may be a vote winner, but they're too important, so I expect perhaps 10% of them to actually be removed. But that still produces a 2.2% GDP contraction. Ukraine aid won't come close to covering that.
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  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the political fallout of those cuts Yes. But Musk is also a useful distraction. Cabinet confirmed and deficit blown out while the DOGE bros take the cannon fire. Round two will be drawing out their inevitable days in court.

DrNosferatu 2y ago

Really? US Senate Committee: “is Trump is a Russian asset”? https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s https://youtu.be/ibfVfAETlmA?t=16s [via Forbes]