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Bill de Blasio is proof you can have a black spouse, and black children and still say stupid white ****
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A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit
After a year of criticism by health experts, mockery from comedians and blistering critiques from political rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is standing unabashedly tall among the nation's governors on the front lines of the coronavirus fight.www.cnn.com
his covid response was/is **** but the gop base eats it up. everyday its looking more and more like DeSantis is going to be the GOP nomination in 2024 if trump doesn't run again.
Good afternoon USA,
The last thing we need is a Floridian running the country.
Best,
A Floridian
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Quick Google search: Diamond Ott?
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got the supreme american flag hoodie in the stockx cart as we speak
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If you really want to show appreciation, throw a pair of UNC 3s in size 11.5 in da cart too, b.
got the supreme american flag hoodie in the stockx cart as we speak
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sending you our seconds
not even euros will take them
it's overblown. the vaccine is fine.
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Money. Aside from the ******** , If you want fitness he’s your guy. If you want to die in combat, he’s also your guy. Not following a warehouse supply guy into a war zone.
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How my country gonna vaccinate Osh before they vaccinate me?
I'm about to claim asylum at the canadian border, US tryna kill me
I'm about to claim asylum at the canadian border, US tryna kill me
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A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.
Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trump’s administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.
The report debunks conspiracy theories, promoted by Trump and his lawyers, that hackers in other countries robbed him of victory. “We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to interfere in the 2020 US elections by altering any technical aspect of the voting process,” including “ballot casting, vote tabulation, or reporting results,” says the document. A separate analysis released by the Department of Justice reaches the same conclusion. The IC report adds that evidence of such operations, if they existed, would have shown up in U.S. surveillance or in “post-election audits of electronic results and paper backups.” The report implicitly mocks insinuations from Trump’s lawyers that former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, somehow rigged Trump’s defeat. “We have no information,” it notes drily, that “current or former Venezuelan regimes were involved in attempts to compromise US election infrastructure.”
During the campaign, Trump, his national security appointees, and his allies in Congress insisted that China was meddling in the election to help Joe Biden. They even claimed that China’s interference was more dangerous than Russia’s. The report shreds that fiction. China “did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election,” says the assessment. It finds no attempt by China to “provide funding to any candidates or parties,” and it challenges the Republican spin that China feared Trump because he was too tough. It argues, to the contrary, that Beijing saw Trump as a weaker adversary because he “would alienate US partners,” whereas Biden “would pose a greater challenge over the long run because he would be more successful in mobilizing a global alliance against China.”
As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 election, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”
Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.
One section of the report zeroes in on two Russian agents, Andriy Derkach and Konstantin Kilimnik, along with their associates. It says they met with and passed materials to people linked to the Trump administration to advocate for government investigations. Derkach peddled audio recordings that were edited to make Biden look corrupt, and he “worked to initiate legal proceedings in Ukraine and the US related to these allegations.” The report doesn’t name the Americans who collaborated with the Russian agents, but it’s easy to identify them from news reports. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, met with Derkach twice. Donald Trump Jr. promoted Derkach’s tapes. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, gave Kilimnik inside information on the campaign. Trump, in a 2019 phone call, pressed Ukraine’s president to open an investigation of Biden, as Derkach proposed. And congressional Republicans, led by Reps. Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes, parroted a Russian-planted narrative “to falsely blame Ukraine for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.”
Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the election, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in ballots, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of voter fraud.” Trump peddled the same fears. After the election, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the election results,” Trump duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as Trump did.
The IC assessment doesn’t address what Trump knew about the Russian influence campaign. But according to former officials who spoke last fall to the Washington Post and the New York Times, he was directly warned. In a December 2019 conversation, then–national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Trump that Giuliani had been “worked by Russian assets in Ukraine.” Trump shrugged and went on promoting the allegations Giuliani was feeding him. That makes Trump more than a Russian asset. It makes him, in technical terms, an agent of a foreign power.
A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.
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Quick reminder that Russia hacked the DNC and the RNC, and the general public still doesn't know what they have on the RNC.
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72? That's all?
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Hate crimes are often times a byproduct of neoliberal capitalism albeit in an indirect way. Basically, capital has reasserted its power over the working class in core/OECD countries. Capital has spent four decades squeezing the gains made by workers during the mid 20th century. This massive clawback of wages, benefits, job security and unionization has caused the lives of workers to become shorter, poorer and far more unstable.
Capital needs a scapegoat and it will vary based on the country’s history, the exact nature the time extraction from workers, and the comings and going’s of the moment.
While America’s ruling class always has a steady drum beat that demonizes black and indigenous people (in including anti immigrant and anti Latino rhetoric here since the xiding and controlling the peasantry of the global south is an extension of westward expansion and native genocide), the ruling class sometimes scapegoats whole countries. Right now that country is China.
Everything is in place for that to be the case. The American Empire is in early decline and China is taking advantage of it. This change does really harm American workers but capital and it’s hegemonic media is manufacturing consent for a new Cold War. Moreover, COVID has been used by American oligarchs to steal even more wealth and power and to further plunder from the American worker. By blaming China for COVID, it displaced worker anger over accelerated poverty and precarity.
The oligarchs aren’t looking to get Asian Americans killed but telling millions of people that China is the cause of their falling standard of living and presenting it in a racialized way, especially in a country with so much private gun ownership and with white supremacy being a strong force in millions of people’s politics, these crimes are inevitable.
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I would have thought there would be more. The rest are probably looking out for their self interests.
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Yasss Auntie!
