"Kevin Downing, a Washington attorney who represented Paul Manafort, initially represented both Parnas and Fruman after their arrests for campaign finance-related charges. According to Bondy, he told the two men that Manafort sent them greetings and was glad to hear he was representing them."
Tulsi was endorsed by David Duke. That kind of gave the game away. Bernie’s endorsements are worth as much.
"Kevin Downing, a Washington attorney who represented Paul Manafort, initially represented both Parnas and Fruman after their arrests for campaign finance-related charges. According to Bondy, he told the two men that Manafort sent them greetings and was glad to hear he was representing them."
I wrote about how the debate over Democrats engaging influencers like Hasan Piker is missing the point. The question is not whether to talk to these people, but how to do so in a way that makes the audience smarter—one that scrutinizes not just the influencer’s opinions, but their facts. Gift link:
The sign on the Moscow Triumphal Gates in St. Petersburg, erected in 1838, celebrates "the exploits in Persia" and the eternal "pacification of Poland."
The coalition that defeated Pinochet in Chile was pretty broad: "each member party had its own color depicted in the rainbow: orange for the Humanists, green for the Social Democrats and ecologists, red for the Socialists, blue for the Christian Democrats, yellow for the Democrats".
"The international clique is at home everywhere and nowhere—persons now living in Berlin, tomorrow in Prague, and the day after in Paris or London, without roots anywhere, have egged on one nation against another." At that point, someone in the crowd recognizes the innuendo and shouts the word.
"We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that - can you understand what Hitler meant to us." youtu.be/xGfHkdR3tXs
Vladimir Surkov, Putin's chief adviser, discusses the strategy of preserving the dictatorship in Russia by planting chaos abroad: "Social entropy is very toxic. It is not recommended to work with it in our home conditions. It should be taken somewhere far away for disposal on foreign territory."
We are bound by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, crying out from their graves for us to reach common ground. We are bound by shared blood and shared sacrifices. We are much too intelligent, much too bound by our Judeo-Christian heritage, much too victimized by racism, sexism, militarism, and anti-Semitism, much too threatened as historical scapegoats to go on divided one from another. We must turn from finger pointing to clasped hands. We must share our burdens and our joys with each other once again. We must turn to each other and not on each other and choose higher ground.
Another difference: Jesse Jackson made some amends. "We are bound by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, crying out from their graves for us to reach common ground. We are bound by shared blood and shared sacrifices..." www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jes...
I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain’t looking for nothing in anyone’s eyes
Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
youtu.be/RZgBhyU4IvQ
A thread of existentialism connects Dylan’s "Not Dark Yet" with Cohen’s "You Want It Darker"
Mr. Carlson told Mr. Trump in that phone call that he believed that if he chose a “neocon” as his V.P. — an abbreviation for Republicans who favor using U.S. power to implant democracy abroad — then the U.S. intelligence agencies would have every incentive to assassinate Mr. Trump in order to get their preferred president.
Two days after the alleged assassination attempt, Trump announced his choice of JD Vance, the most pro-Putin among all VP candidates. Tucker Carlson pushed him to do it. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/u...
1924 DNC platform: "We pledge ourselves to maintain our established position in favor of the exclusion of Asiatic immigration." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/19... Sure, Mayor Mamdani, let’s make the Democratic Party great again.
President Truman felt that just to do what Roosevelt had done was not enough. The president had to be bold. He had to take strong positions. If he conducted the normal, ordinary campaign, he would lose." To Clifford, watching the 1988 campaign, Dukakis appeared utterly lacking in Truman's willingness to take risks. "Dukakis' mistake is that he hasn't had a theme," he observed. "I don't know what he stands for." Clifford -- who was never consulted by the Dukakis campaign -- would have had the Massachusetts governor tell a compelling story of the Reagan administration's deceit and corruption, pointing to what Clifford believes must always be the Democratic theme: "Government exists for the benefit of the overwhelming majority of the people, not for the privileged. The basic contest is still there. It's always been there. It goes on this year . . . It goes back to one's basic concept of our form of government and what our country stands for. I think it is so natural."
Clark Clifford, JFK’s advisor and Truman’s campaign architect, offered an insightful critique of the Dukakis campaign that remains relevant today. wapo.st/4cund7K
1924 DNC platform: "We pledge ourselves to maintain our established position in favor of the exclusion of Asiatic immigration." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/19... Sure, Mayor Mamdani, let’s make the Democratic Party great again.
President Truman felt that just to do what Roosevelt had done was not enough. The president had to be bold. He had to take strong positions. If he conducted the normal, ordinary campaign, he would lose." To Clifford, watching the 1988 campaign, Dukakis appeared utterly lacking in Truman's willingness to take risks. "Dukakis' mistake is that he hasn't had a theme," he observed. "I don't know what he stands for." Clifford -- who was never consulted by the Dukakis campaign -- would have had the Massachusetts governor tell a compelling story of the Reagan administration's deceit and corruption, pointing to what Clifford believes must always be the Democratic theme: "Government exists for the benefit of the overwhelming majority of the people, not for the privileged. The basic contest is still there. It's always been there. It goes on this year . . . It goes back to one's basic concept of our form of government and what our country stands for. I think it is so natural."
Clark Clifford, JFK’s advisor and Truman’s campaign architect, offered an insightful critique of the Dukakis campaign that remains relevant today. wapo.st/4cund7K
Welch presented good arguments. Willis Carto, who left the JBS after the split over antisemitism, was later sued by Buckley for libel, with mixed success. www.nytimes.com/1985/10/26/u...
Folks have asked about Buckley's use of the term "Judeo-Masonic." The US right has long debated whether "the radical left conspiracy" is ackshually just "the jews" or whether it's "more complicated than that" and includes the Bavarian illuminati. Yes, it's this stupid.
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"In 1988," Mr. Atwater said, "fighting Dukakis, I said that I 'would strip the bark off the little bastard' and 'make Willie Horton his running mate.' I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not." https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/us/gravely-ill-atwater-offers-apology.html
Atwater loved blues music and wasn’t personally racist, but he had a job to do. Winning the election wasn’t just about Bush; it was also about protecting Reagan’s legacy, which otherwise would have been damaged by the Iran-Contra scandal.
Sounds better in the original Russian. "Many Russians… accept the charge of ritual murder as part of a vicious conspiracy theory: …the Romanovs’ murder was the product of a Judeo-Masonic plot to sacrifice the czar’s family in a religious ritual intended to symbolize a murder of the Russian people."
Nothing Dukakis said or did during the 1988 campaign compares with the Willie Horton ad, which even Roger Stone found distasteful.
The fate of Jewish workers in all countries is linked not to the fate of the State of Israel, but to the fate of progress, to the fate of socialism. Soviet Jews are now, together with all Soviet people, rebuilding their socialist homeland. They are not looking to the Middle East; they are looking to the future. And I believe that the workers of the State of Israel, far removed from the mysticism of the Zionists, seeking justice, are now looking north—to the Soviet Union, which is marching ahead of humanity toward a better future. Ilya Ehrenburg On the document there is a note: “Comrade Stalin agrees.” Soviet-Israeli Relations: A Collection of Documents. Vol. I: 1941-1953. Moscow: International Relations, 2000.
After Golda Meir visited Moscow in September 1948, Stalin had Ilya Ehrenburg, his pet Jewish writer, write an article in Pravda denouncing any thoughts of immigration. Polina Zhemchuzhina, Molotov’s wife, who made small talk with Golda Meir in Yiddish, was arrested for treason and sent to prison.
Blaming Soros while taking dirty money from Firtash…
TOENSING: The whistle-blower sprinkles throughout his documents footnotes referring to a publication with the initials "OCCRP." One guess, Sean, who funds OOCRP? George Soros…
DIGENOVA: Soros' dirty money is all over this story from day one.
Interesting photo of Joe Rogan & RFK Jr with Trump in the Oval Office today by Allison Robbert...
The Soviet version of Jewish autonomy, as an alternative to Zionism, was a fucking joke. "The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928…according to the 2021 Russian census, there were only 837 ethnic Jews left in the JAO (0.6%)."
Antisemitism as the red-brown glue has been attempted elsewhere. At the 1992 congress of the National Salvation Front in Russia, the line "Zionophile television will pay dearly!" was met with a standing ovation. Igor Shafarevich, the nation’s best-known antisemite, was the keynote speaker.
Notes made by Lev Parnas during his meeting with Dmitry Firtash in Vienna included replacing Firtash’s lawyer from Lanny Davis to Joe/Victoria.
Notes made by Lev Parnas during his meeting with Dmitry Firtash in Vienna included replacing Firtash’s lawyer from Lanny Davis to Joe/Victoria.
Somebody else also admires Jules Winnfield. “My favorite part (of Pulp Fiction) is when Sam has his gun out in the diner and he tells the guy to tell his girlfriend to shut up. Tell that bitch to be cool. Say: Bitch be cool. I love those lines.” (TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, 2005)
Antisemitism as the red-brown glue has been attempted elsewhere. At the 1992 congress of the National Salvation Front in Russia, the line "Zionophile television will pay dearly!" was met with a standing ovation. Igor Shafarevich, the nation’s best-known antisemite, was the keynote speaker.