People need to understand how conservative extremists, racists, 4chan, “intellectual dark web” new Joe Rogan fans, “men’s rights” and 👌 “just asking questions” 👌 Republican influencers use these tactics on Reddit

Lots of screenshots of 4chan instructions for this:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/AreTheStraightsOK/comments/lz7nv3/the_super_straight_movement_is_part_of_literal/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/m24hx0/ualtimely_finds_4chan_pol_instructing_on_how/gqhmgdu/?context=3
• https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84

“The left will recognize our dogwhistling but centrists won’t believe them” 4chan screenshots:

• https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84

Conservatives brag about brigading local subreddits to “control the narrative” about liberal cities and “blue states” and every local subreddit shares the abuse they get:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/pmcoxy/uinconvenientnews_explains_with_examples_how/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/pmdp2m/ysk_how_right_wing_trolls_brigade_and_infiltrate/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/om5xda/when_did_this_become_a_crime_subreddit/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/pbi4mp/shouldnt_rbayarea_join_the_subs_calling_for/

Every local subreddit explaining the abuse and tactics on a thread 3 years ago:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/7jkybf/t_d_user_suggests_infiltrating_minnesota/dr7m56j/

Reddit Admins just posted that COVID deniers have been brigading regional subreddits

• https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/pg290q/reddit_admins_just_posted_that_covid_deniers_have/

Anti-mask posts suddenly dropped this week in r/bayarea when mods removed outside conservative accounts brigading r/bayarea:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/p8hnzl/automatically_removing_comments_from_new_users_in/

Local mods only banning people who call out the abuse but not banning the actual abusers:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/pbi4mp/shouldnt_rbayarea_join_the_subs_calling_for/

A lot of the local subreddit mods’ accounts show they live in Texas and when they get called out they claim some sort of ancestry to the local subreddit (New York City, Bay Area, Portland, wherever) ￣\＿(ツ)＿/￣

• “Texas-based hate group source of 80% of all U.S. racist propaganda tracked in 2020” https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/p5gs14/after_gop_takes_down_2020_page_touting_trumps/h95wbct/

One Texas conservative alone in r/sanfrancisco was like 10 different accounts with all having a history of identical conservative talking points (some with comments about living in Texas) and sometimes pretending to be annoying woke strawman “S J W” in local subreddits so that his own alts can reply with black crime talking points

One “Californian” who posted about every local crime story, even every whale death, also posted about how he lives in Vegas, grew up in Texas, and has proudly never been to California ￣\＿(ツ)＿/￣ https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2147236-starter-packs

“As a black man” accounts like “The Atheist Arab” posting as many race-baiting videos as they can concern trolling pretending to care about Asian victims:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMeme/comments/nztt4t/they_really_like_getting_angry_at_their/h1teq3c/?context=1

“red pill” adults cosplaying as “based” teenagers “hiding their power level” in r PoliticalCompassMemes and edgy “fellow youths amirite” meme subreddits like r dankmemes:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/o4kfej/reddit_admins_warn_moderators_of/h2idtk5/?context=3

“as a cool LGBTQ, I’m sick of pro-LGBTQ things like you are”

• These are the most upvoted post on unpopularopinions monthly:

There is no reason to be proud to be gay. : unpopularopinion
15.6k votes, 2.7k comments.

I’m Bisexual and I hate the LGBT community : unpopularopinion

Im not proud to be gay. : unpopularopinion

I’m gay, and i support straight pride. : unpopularopinion

Unpopular opinion: it’s okay to call things gay : unpopularopinion

I don’t like the LGBT movement : unpopularopinion

That’s assuming it’s in good faith and just upvoted by a majority of Reddit who aren’t LGBT or black ￣\＿(ツ)＿/￣

brigade and mass report so the auto-mod deletes comments. They organize on Discord. They do this to subs to make it seem like the mods are on a power trip. They make sure to leave up comments where people are talking about the deletions.

Ahh so the ‘free speech’ crowd is making sure no one else can be heard as usual…

They also pretend to be annoying woke strawman “S J W” in local subreddits:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/obes1i/my_phone_was_snatched_out_of_my_hand_on_market/h3nnvrb/

Pretending to be annoying woke leftist mods:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/oiwayh/biden_to_end_90_billion_worth_of_tax_breaks_for/h4y8snv/

More of their tactics on Reddit:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/oi4cmn/transphobic_trolls_have_been_harrassing_trans/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/o2t2us/uthisthatgreypoupon_does_the_math_for_how_much/h28dvn5/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/dogswithjobs/comments/ac7zfr/police_dog_do_a_kith/ed643u0/)
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/c2yxi7/rfrenworld_has_been_banned_discuss/erngc2r/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/bbyhxz/what_is_going_on_with_this_clown_world_thing/ekmjya5/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/ll1z9v/professor_quits_after_being_accused_of_posing_as/gnnmrzo/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/n1abz9/uinconvenientnews_lays_out_examples_of_how_when/gwdno8g/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/i3bbh3/narcissism_machiavellianism_psychopathy_and_a/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/lq3rq7/this_sub_is_rapidly_shifting_into_a_hate_subreddit/goeqxij/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/93vk0d/user_posts_in_legal_advice_about_his_daughters/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/lrmez9/user_compiles_album_of_hundreds_of_examples_of/gomzv4f/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/meifou/an_apparently_popular_opinion_posted_to/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/n9u5tn/christian_user_is_mad_over_a_22_year_old_strategy/gxpsgku/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/n9u5tn/christian_user_is_mad_over_a_22_year_old_strategy/gxq3p4s/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/n2o2fb/user_lists_astroturfed_accounts_in_rconspiracy_is/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/f85g4b/unfolding_drama_in_rlibertarian/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/n2bfdk/rconservative_has_a_meltdown_over_facebook/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mvnp8n/rpoliticalcompassmemes_has_a_colourful_party/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/m8m16j/zack_snyder_denounces_antiasian_violence/grifo8u/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/mhbldh/bungie_that_company_that_makes_that_game/gsyp8t1/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/m6r45r/rnews_reacts_to_young_white_male_neckbeard/gr7fzhi/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/8rr7pz/is_a_legaladvice_mod_an_mra_bestoflegaladvice/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/dsqsqx/cop_mods_of_rlegaladvice_lock_and_remove_entire/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/lsbwto/would_you_be_a_nazi_if_you_grew_up_in_nazi/goqa35e/?context=3
• https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/m1c1xi/rbertstrips_user_makes_a_meme_about_28_of_their/gqcs328/?context=3

https://twitter.com/contrapoints/status/896823834338263041

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2. After the call went out on 4chan, a network of new Twitter accounts run by white supremacists pretending to be Jews popped up. Often, they masquerade as Orthodox Jews, Israelis and/or Jewish leftists. They all follow each other and promote anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content. pic.twitter.com/rA2cFBm8jW

— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 19, 2019

Fake Twitter accounts are impersonating Jews to promote anti-Semitism

https://i.redd.it/k4rsav2ov1pz.jpg

Extensive examples of conservative influencer Andy Ngo’s "tendency to lie and make things up when it suits his narrative" in replies to u/Globalist_Nationlist’s OutOfTheLoop answer about Mumford and Sons’ tweet from bestof

White Nationalists on 4chan start a fake social media campaign to smear #Antifa as promoting the targeting of white women for violence pic.twitter.com/xIsHzDWg4O

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 24, 2017

https://twitter.com/koshersemite/status/1264420239736897543

https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trolling-false-symbols/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/4-key-takeaways-from-the-monster-milo-yiannopoulos-leak.html

>We need to keep the oil companies happy

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/m1dt10/city_of_austin_will_defy_texas_governor_and_keep/gqewflh/

>You Could Get Prison Time for Protesting a Pipeline in Texas—Even If It’s on Your Land

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bst8fl/you_could_get_prison_time_for_protesting_a/

>Fossil Fuel Exec Brags of ‘Hitting the Jackpot’ as Natural Gas Prices Surge Amid Deadly Crisis in Texas

https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/lo5f4r/fossil_fuel_exec_brags_of_hitting_the_jackpot_as/

>Leaked Audio Shows Oil Lobbyist Bragging About Success in Criminalizing Pipeline Protests

https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/ct71mw/leaked_audio_shows_oil_lobbyist_bragging_about/

>Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-electric-bills-were-28-billion-higher-under-deregulation-11614162780

>Abbott Appointees Gutted Enforcement of Texas Power Grid Rules

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Muzzled-and-eviscerated-Critics-say-Abbott-15982421.php

>Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Blames Constituents for Giant Electric Bills: “Read the Fine Print”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/dan-patrick-texas-electricity-bills

>Former Texas Governor Rick Perry says that Texans find massive power outages preferable to having more federal government interference in the state’s energy grid.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-would-rather-be-without-power-for-days-than-have-more-fed-oversight

>Texas spent more time fighting LGBTQ civil rights than fixing their power grid. How’d that work out?

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/lma8jj/texas_spent_more_time_fighting_lgbtq_civil_rights/

>A Texas-size failure, followed by a familiar Texas response: Blame California

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/m87bg4/a_texassize_failure_followed_by_a_familiar_texas/

>could cost Texas more money than any disaster in state history

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ls5dt7/winter_storm_could_cost_texas_more_money_than_any/

>Why on earth would right-wing people with connections to the fossil fuel industry lie about ‘frozen wind turbines’ in Texas?

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/opinion/texas-frozen-wind-turbines-john-cornyn-b1803193.html

>How Much the Oil Industry Paid Texas Republicans Lying About Wind Energy

https://earther.gizmodo.com/how-much-the-oil-and-gas-industry-paid-texas-republican-1846288505

>”Texas shows that when you cannot govern, you lie. A lot.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/17/texas-shows-that-when-you-cannot-govern-you-lie-lot/

Texas Republicans *during the power grid failures* focused on:

* Texas regulations to require the national anthem at sports games: https://twitter.com/LSTrip44/status/1361396222028881924

* Fake news trying to blame renewable energy: ”Viral Image Claiming to Show a Helicopter De-Icing Texas Wind Turbines Is From Winter 2014 in Sweden” https://twitter.com/klimatbevakaren/status/1361748269605519360

* Right propaganda accounts pushing the narrative: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1361662183935930370 https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1361411079989956608 https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1361377490925682690 https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1361359742422106115 https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1361351943139057667

Texas’ state leaders and representatives making fun of other states for smaller problems than Texas has:

* https://twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1361693012225650688

* https://twitter.com/_mariocarrillo_/status/1361500392522211328

* https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1303364789603889154

[“Here’s the vote for Hurricane Sandy aid. 179 of the 180 no votes were Republicans… at least 20 Texas Republicans.”](https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/901871687532208128) while [U.S. House approves billions more for Harvey relief, measure now heads to Senate](https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/21/us-house-approves-billions-more-harvey-relief-measure-now-heads-senate/) (this made Texas #1 in receiving federal aid dollars at the time of the Hurricane Sandy aid vote that they voted no against)

Higher taxes in Texas than California:

>Bold is the winner (meaning lowest tax rate)

|Income Bracket|Texas Tax Rate|California Tax Rate|
|:-|:-|:-|
|0-20%|13%|**10.5%**|
|20-40%|10.9%|**9.4%**|
|40-60%|9.7%|**8.3%**|
|60-80%|**8.6%** |9.0% |
|80-95%|**7.4%**|9.4%|
|95-99%|**5.4%**|9.9%|
|99-100%|**3.1%**|12.4%|

Source: https://itep.org/whopays/

More sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/lw5ddf/ujuzoltami_explains_how_the_effective_tax_rate/

Libertarian paradise ￣\＿(ツ)＿/￣

>Gov. Abbott, Texas leaders urge prosecutors to keep enforcing pot laws

http://www.fox4news.com/news/texas/gov-abbott-texas-leaders-urge-prosecutors-to-keep-enforcing-pot-laws

>This is how efficiently Republicans have gerrymandered Texas congressional districts

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/This-is-how-badly-Republicans-have-gerrymandered-6246509.php#photo-7107656

>Crystal Mason Thought She Had The Right to Vote. Texas Sentenced Her to Five Years in Prison for Trying.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/crystal-mason-thought-she-had-right-vote-texas

>Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

https://www.thenation.com/article/texass-voter-registration-laws-are-straight-out-of-the-jim-crow-playbook/

>The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. The share of college students casting ballots doubled from 2014 to 2018. But in Texas and elsewhere, Republicans are erecting roadblocks to the polls.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/voting-college-suppression.html

>Financial Times: The Republicans are elevating voter suppression to an art form

>The senator also cracked: “There’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult, and I think that’s a great idea.”

>The Republicans have lost the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections. 1,000 polling places have since closed across the country, with many of them in southern black communities.

https://www.ft.com/content/d613cf8e-ec09-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0

>Texas Refuses to Use Voting Machines With a Paper Trail

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26856467/texas-voting-machines-paper-trail-states/

>New Texas history textbooks will teach high schoolers that slavery wasn’t all bad

https://splinternews.com/new-texas-history-textbooks-will-teach-high-schoolers-t-1793850439

>Texas textbook “The Atlantic slave trade brought millions of workers”

https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-texas-textbook-calls-slaves-immigrants-20151005-story.html

>Proposed Texas textbooks are inaccurate, biased and politicized, new report finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/12/proposed-texas-textbooks-are-inaccurate-biased-and-politicized-new-report-finds/

>There were other doozies, too, such as one proposal to remove Thomas Jefferson from the Enlightenment curriculum

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/12/proposed-texas-textbooks-are-inaccurate-biased-and-politicized-new-report-finds/

>Texas Governor May Have Emboldened Russian Disinformation Efforts

>Greg Abbott’s response to the “Jade Helm” conspiracy theory may have encouraged Russian actors to expand their “fake news” strategy in 2016

>“there was an exercise in Texas called Jade Helm 15 that Russian bots and the American alt-right media convinced most, many Texans was an Obama plan to round up political dissidents. At that point, I think they made the decision ‘We’re going to play in the electoral process.”

>The conspiracy theory reached peak hysteria during that same month, when Abbott ordered the Texas State Guard to “monitor” the USASOC training exercise, a move which some criticized as legitimizing a baseless and potentially harmful set of rumors:

>“I’ve ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor Jade Helm 15 to safeguard Texans’ constitutional rights, private property & civil liberties” — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 28, 2015

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/03/jade-helm-russia-abbott-hayden/

>[“Guns and gays… That could always get you a couple of dozen likes.”](https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-trolls-schooled-house-cards-185648522.html)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

>[Conservatives amplified Russian trolls 30 times more than liberals… **users in Texas** and Tennessee were particularly susceptible](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/24/17047880/conservatives-amplified-russian-trolls-more-often-than-liberals)

>Texas-based hate group source of 80% of all U.S. racist propaganda tracked in 2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/m7zk8w/texasbased_hate_group_source_of_80_of_all_us/

>Texas Man Arrested for Weed Died After Officers Pepper-Sprayed Him and Put Him in a Spit Hood

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgq7yb/texas-man-arrested-for-weed-died-after-officers-pepper-sprayed-him-and-put-him-in-a-spit-hood)

>Texas Cop Kills 2 People, Allowed to Resign, Joins New Dept, Shoots Man on 2nd Day

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-found-not-guilty-deadly-shootings-joins-new-department/

>Texas officer wins appeal of dismissal over feces sandwich

https://apnews.com/c76f863d591b436cb1b22f4e35718ebe

>Texas officer sexually abuses 14 year old girl, receives no sex offender status

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-HISD-officer-admits-to-fondling-middle-11170371.php

>Texas-based hate group source of 80% of all U.S. racist propaganda tracked in 2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/m7zk8w/texasbased_hate_group_source_of_80_of_all_us/

Baldknobber123 wrote on Reddit…

I always find looking at the economic condition of millennials (those under 40) vs baby boomers at that age useful.

The overall economic growth rate for first 15 years in the workforce for millenials is the worst on record, going back to 1792. Millennials in the US have had the worst GDP growth per capita of any generation, and about half that of boomers and Gen X. “When boomers were roughly the same age as millennials are now, they owned about 21% of America’s wealth, compared to millennials’ 3% share today, according to recent Fed data.”

This combined with various changes since the 70s that have significantly reduced labor power, and thus helped reduced the amount of income going to the working class. So, not only is overall growth lower, but in 1980 the working class was seeing the most income growth, while now the richest see the largest growth by far. Hence average hourly wages being lower now (inflation adjusted) than in 1973. Not even getting into some other issues: multiple financial crises, education costs, healthcare, housing costs, increased levels of job competition due in part to a global workforce (general capital mobility), financialization, union busting, increased educational competition (even since 2001 colleges like Stanford have seen their acceptance rates drop from ~15-20% to ~5%), mass incarceration, all the general problems with wealth and income inequality (such as power dynamics and opportunity differences), etc.

From 2017:

The recession sliced nearly 40 percent off the typical household’s net worth, and even after the recent rebound, median net worth remains more than 30 percent below its 2007 level.

Younger, less-educated and lower-income workers have experienced relatively strong income gains in recent years, but remain far short of their prerecession level in both income and wealth. Only for the richest 10 percent of Americans does net worth surpass the 2007 level.

From 2018:

Data from the Federal Reserve show that over the last decade and a half, the proportion of family income from wages has dropped from nearly 70 percent to just under 61 percent. It’s an extraordinary shift, driven largely by the investment profits of the very wealthy. In short, the people who possess tradable assets, especially stocks, have enjoyed a recovery that Americans dependent on savings or income from their weekly paycheck have yet to see. Ten years after the financial crisis, getting ahead by going to work every day seems quaint, akin to using the phone book to find a number or renting a video at Blockbuster.

A decade after this debacle, the typical middle-class family’s net worth is still more than $40,000 below where it was in 2007, according to the Federal Reserve. The damage done to the middle-class psyche is impossible to price, of course, but no one doubts that it was vast.

A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found that while all birth cohorts lost wealth during the Great Recession, Americans born in the 1980s were at the “greatest risk for becoming a lost generation for wealth accumulation.”

In 2016, net worth among white middle-income families was 19 percent below 2007 levels, adjusted for inflation. But among blacks, it was down 40 percent, and Hispanics saw a drop of 46 percent.

In a new report, Data for Progress found that a staggering 52 percent of people under the age of 45 have lost a job, been put on leave, or had their hours reduced due to the pandemic, compared with 26 percent of people over the age of 45. Nearly half said that the cash payments the federal government is sending to lower- and middle-income individuals would cover just a week or two of expenses, compared with a third of older adults. This means skipped meals, scuppered start-ups, and lost homes. It means Great Depression–type precarity for prime-age workers in the richest country on earth.

Studies have shown that young workers entering the labor force in a recession—as millions of Millennials did—absorb large initial earnings losses that take years and years to fade. Every 1-percentage-point bump in the unemployment rate costs new graduates 7 percent of their earnings at the start of their careers, and 2 percent of their earnings nearly two decades later. The effects are particularly acute for workers with less educational attainment; those who are least advantaged to begin with are consigned to permanently lower wages.

A major Pew study found that Millennials with a college degree and a full-time job were earning by 2018 roughly what Gen Xers were earning in 2001. But Millennials who did not finish their post-secondary education or never went to college were poorer than their counterparts in Generation X or the Baby Boom generation.

The cost of higher education grew by 7 percent per year through the 1980s, 1990s, and much of the 2000s, far faster than the overall rate of inflation, leaving Millennial borrowers with an average of $33,000 in debt. Worse: The return on that investment has proved dubious, particularly for black Millennials. The college wage premium has eroded, and for black students the college wealth premium has disappeared entirely.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/millennials-are-new-lost-generation/609832/

Some more data, such as the source for economic growth by generation and how younger people did not recover nearly as well from the financial crises, can be found here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/27/millennial-recession-covid/

Of course – this is not limited to millennials. Inequality has risen across the board, and the working conditions in the United States are rampant with insecurity. The working class struggles in every age group. Our overall physical, educational, and financial health are severely lacking. Millennials, due to how insecure their situation is (as seen above), do provide a great example of how the lower income groups and least powerful worker groups face the brunt of economic catastrophe while the rich gain.

A good intro book to check out on some of the political causes of inequality in the US, such as major tax cuts and corporate lobbying, is Winner Take All Politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner-Take-All_Politics

Additionally, a great intro book on labor history in the US is From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: https://thenewpress.com/books/from-folks-who-brought-you-weekend

CaptainNoBoat13h

Conservatives, FFS. I already know the answer to this but: Where is your dignity?

• Southerners: Trump is a NY, coastal elite trust fund baby. Remember – the people you hate? He is pretty good at mocking Southern accents and wouldn’t be caught dead in the presence of 99% of you.
• Alpha males: He tweets more than an angsty 12-year-old, once two hundred times in one day. He can’t fire anyone face-to-face. He is incredibly thin-skinned – he can’t handle any criticism. He’s always a victim, whining incessantly every waking moment of his life. He can’t walk down a ramp or drink a bottle of water, has never worked a hard day in his life, is afraid of germs, and thinks “exercise depletes your life battery.” I bet Greta Thunberg could beat him in a fist fight.
• 2A supporters: Does Trump give one. single. shit. about guns? Is there any evidence of him caring about guns or gun rights that wasn’t in a political context? He threatened to take away guns without due process.. He keeps flip-flopping on stances and seems confused, probably because he can’t relate to his supporters at all on the issue.
• The ultra-rich – When you take away the fact that he’s catering to the rich with tax cuts and deregulation, you’re reminded that the rich in NY hated Trump before he ran for office. He did not have a good reputation among the elite whatsoever before politics. He’s cheated his whole life to get where he’s at. He inherited $400 million in fraudulent money from his family. And even lost more money than any American for a decade. He’s bankrupted countless businesses and his entire career is built on shitty branding with his name.
• Military: 5-time draft dodger. Shit on a Gold Star Family. Ridiculed veterans with PTSD. On a sitting Senator who was a decorated war hero and spent 6 years in a POW camp: “I like people who don’t get caught.” Avoids war memorials because it’s raining. Has incessantly requested extravagant war parades, with seemingly no other goal but to boost his image. Shamed the National Security Council on live television. Provoked the resignation of Mattis, who has now called Trump a “threat to the Constitution.” Calls dead soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
• Christians: Trump IS the seven deadly sins. Seriously – read them again. The dude can’t name a single bible verse. He doesn’t go to church and just lazily repeats empty platitudes about God like a used-car salesman. Can anyone seriously say with a straight face that they would be surprised if Donald Trump paid for an abortion? I wouldn’t bat an eye.
• Women: “Women, you have to treat them like shit.” “Grab ’em by the pussy.” “When you’re famous, they let you do anything.” He is a vicious sexual predator. 26 sexual assault claims (literally a new one today). Many with ample corroborating evidence, as well as DNA evidence by Jean. He cheated on all of his wives, including his third wife with a porn star while she was raising their newborn son.
• Dog-lovers/pet-lovers: Read through this list until you get to Trump for a good chuckle.
• Qanon pedo conspiracy idiots: Trump bragged about barging into teenage locker rooms as they are undressing, is close friends with Epstein and Ghislaine and thinks highly of them, and is accused of raping a 13-year old.
• “Patriots”: This guy bragged about himself on 9/11 and the Saudis are basically his homies.
• People who want the “swamp drained” and corruption out of politics: Trump has hired arsonists to the fire department in every aspect of government. DeVos, Mnuchin, Ross, Pruitt, Zinke, Bernhardt, Perry, Barr, etc. It’s like the all-star cast of corruption. Completely unqualified billionaire friends with huge conflicts of interest that seek to enrich themselves. He has the biggest turnover of any President by humongous margins, and then after firing them, whines about people he hired every time.
• “Law and order party.” The man has committed at least 10 felonies. Committed two felony finance violations, committed 5 felony OOJ charges, including trying to fire the person investigating him. Twice. Committed numerous instances of witness intimidation. Soliciting a foreign national, etc, etc. We haven’t even seen his finances, which would not surprise me at all to include money laundering, tax/bank fraud, tax evasion. After promising to release his tax returns in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, and claiming they were “under audit” for 3 years, he has now blocked and appealed them all the way to the Supreme Court.. Nothing to see there, right?
• Republicans – Ted Cruz in 2016: “Donald, you’re a sniveling coward” “Consistently disgraceful” “Nominating Donald Trump would be a train wreck” “Big government liberal”
  Lindsey Graham: “kook,” “crazy” and “unfit for office.” My favorite: “If we elect Donald Trump, we will get destroyed. And we will deserve it.”
  McCain was basically his arch-nemesis.
  The last two living Republican presidents, George Bush and George Sr., publicly opposed his presidency.
  Here’s a gigantic list of Republicans who opposed his presidency

…Is all it takes in this country to get 42% support an anti-abortion stance and an R next to your name? Is Fox News and hyper-partisanship really this powerful?

For the life of me, I can’t think of someone further from the people that support him.

How embarrassing it is to have been conned so hard. If only they knew.

The Trump/Barr problem is worse than you think – once you realize they have deliberately conspired to create an environment where children can be abducted from parents and trafficked with impunity – many to Russian financial backers of Barr, Trump and other prominent Republicans.

Ever wonder just why so many Russian Oligarchs are so willing to provide Trump and other Republicans so much money?

And the cover provided by Republican’s deliberately botched response to the Pandemic has worked amazingly well.

Thousands of Immigrant Children Said They Were Sexually Abused in U.S. Detention Centers, Report Says

Barr has ties to convicted child-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that goes back even farther than Trump’s by at least a decade. His father, Donald Barr – while Headmaster at Dalton – hired Epstein in 1974 as a teacher notwithstanding his complete lack of qualifications. Barr also published a science fiction book where the dominant theme was teen sex slavery.

William Barr continued his association with Jeffrey Epstein and his law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Barr, represented the child trafficker and pedophile

Wake Up Call: Kirkland Lawyers Facing Glare in Epstein Sex Trafficking Case

Donald Barr was a pedophile. Epstein was a child trafficker and pedophile. Bill Barr is a pedophile. Trump is a pedophile and unrepentant rapist. They are all part of a large international network of child abusers and traffickers.

And Republican persistence in obstructing oversight of ICE has made it easy to disappear kids into the system – to be distributed to GOP pedophiles and their financial backers at home and abroad. Fish in a barrel. No records of the kids. Parents have no rights, no recourse, and no access to legal help in America.

The GOP is lousy with child rapists and sex abusers – all with unfettered access to kids in ICE custody.

GOP Sex And Child-Sex Abuse List

This is a horror like the concentration camps in Nazi Germany – where most German citizens either did not know or refused to believe it was happening right under their noses. Thousands of kids have been deliberately ‘lost’. Trump, Barr and ICE have been running the world’s largest child-trafficking ring in history for the last four years.

• 1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE.
• A looming question about family separations: where are the girls?
• U.S. Loses Track of Another 1,500 Migrant Children, Investigators Find

Trump, Barr, and many other members of the GOP are implicated in child sex crimes by evidence provided by Maxwell. I’m looking for a headline any day now where she has contracted a ‘mysterious illness’.

QAnon’s recent firehose of virtue-signaling anti-CP propaganda on Facebook is an attempt to dilute the revelation of decades of trafficking of children to Trump and his associates – including his AG and personal fixer Bill Barr.

It isn’t hard to put the pieces together. Its all widely documented and out in the open – like the smoke coming from the chimneys at Treblinka. And where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And in the case of the conspiracy by Republicans to traffic children taken at the border, its a raging inferno.

Again:

• Attorney General William Barr’s dad, Donald Barr, hired Epstein as a teacher in 1973 – even though Epstein had zero experience or qualifications.
• Epstein engaged in unsavory conduct at Dalton – and it was noticed. For Donald Barr, this wasn’t a bug – it was a feature.
• Donald Barr wrote and published a book of teen-rape fan-fiction. that’s hundreds of hours of sitting down in a chair, fantasizing about raping kids, writing it into a story, and publishing it.
• The Barr family has had a relationship with Epstein for 47 years.
• Current AG Bill Barr grew up with Epstein. Likely introduced him to Trump.
• Thousands of kids harvested at the border have been “lost”
• Thousands of kids in ICE custody have been raped by ICE personnel

Attorney General William Barr, and his father, were and are pedophiles who were supplied kids by Epstein for decades. More recently – children taken from parents by ICE and BORTAC at the border who have been ‘disappeared’ into the system are being trafficked to powerful people in America and abroad.

And when a State Prosecutor in Florida, Alex Acosta, later Trump’s Labor Secretary, let Epstein off scott-free after being convicted for child sex crimes.

And recently there was a hit on the family of a Federal Judge who was presiding over Epstein’s case – and the gunman was also conveniently ‘found dead’.

• Gunman Shoots Son, Husband of Federal Judge Esther Salas Presiding Over Epstein Case

This goes far beyond Trump. At the top of our Federal Government is a ring of men who have been pedophiles and child-traffickers for decades – all connected by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell. They have been engaged in conspiracy to murder witnesses in custody and Federal judges involved with the case. They have continuously obstructed justice and any investigations into crimes committed by the Trump Administration.

They are pure evil.

Sources

• The ‘Epstein-Barr’ Problem of New York City’s Dalton School
• Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale is a space opera novel by Donald Barr
• [Acosta to Resign as Labor Secretary Over Jeffrey Epstein Plea Deal]
  (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/us/politics/acosta-resigns-trump.html)
• Barr Won’t Recuse Himself From New Case Against Jeffrey Epstein
• Ghislaine Maxwell fails to obtain delay in unsealing documents
• Ghislaine Maxwell Complains About Conditions in Brooklyn Jail
• QAnon Followers Are Hijacking the #SaveTheChildren Movement
• QAnon uses anti-human-trafficking hashtags, campaign to promote conspiracy theories
• The Trump campaign relies on a huge network of QAnon accounts to spread conspiracy theories and disinformation, data shows

Only once in the New Testament did Jesus advocate for putting someone to death and it was those who would abuse children:

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
(Matthew 18:6)

• “Let’s be honest that Pelosi’s haircut-” loudly everywhere but from the same accounts on Reddit silence about Trump doing so much worse
• “I hate Trump as much as the next guy but can we not be exposed to politics” because of these conservative talking points that support Trump
• “I suddenly care about Asians whenever black people are mentioned”
• “I suddenly don’t care about environmental issues, corporate corruption, civil rights and I’m voting for Trump/Republicans now even though I was a liberal/communist Democrat” because of a single controversy like a Disney movie or Joe Rogan moving to Texas, but also these conservative talking points that show I never actually supported Democrats
• “Both sides-” r/enlightenedcentrism
• “Cancel culture!” and “butthurt triggered snowflakes!” but actually just projecting their butthurt “culture war” tactics like silencing Kaepernick (and also “big government,” “wasteful spending,” “election fraud,” “save the children” and child abuse mostly by Republicans)
• “Don’t politicize this tragedy” when it makes conservatives look bad especially if it’s about guns or police, but upvote and politicize this minority/woman doing a bad thing and relate it to needing guns somehow
• “Facts don’t care about your feelings” but rage at gun violence facts or a Netflix LGBT character and ignore facts and science because of their conservative feelings
• “cRiMe StAtS,” “look at this video of a minority behaving badly,” “men’s rights,” and “women rape men” stories but try to censor and “cancel” science that violates their narrative like actual crime statistics (immigrants commit less crime than white Americans, immigrants pay more in taxes than they receive in government benefits), racism statistics (black and white Americans use cannabis at similar levels but black Americans are 800% more likely to get punished for it), American gun statistics, misogyny statistics, rape statistics, “men commit 75% of all violent crime despite making up 49% of the population, make up 90% of the prison population, etc etc.” police bias facts https://np.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gu04j3/nypd_cop_pulls_down_peaceful_protestors_mask_to/fsgebto/
• “unpopular opinions” by r/AsABlackMan with “as a black man, injustices and abuse in America shouldn’t be discussed as much,” “I’m black and it’s okay to hate blacks”, “as a China man, dogwhistling racism about China is okay,” “AS A FEMALE,” “cancel Netflix because it has liberal content,” “I’m a minority and even I’ve had enough of r/politics” with 10,000 upvotes from white men
• “Whatever you do don’t read r/politics”
• r news downvoting actual top news and upvoting Fox News stories like a local crime story in a blue state preferably California and preferably involving a mugshot of a black person, a bad minority made all minority look bad, someone in a red state won the lottery at a Chick-fil-a and saluted a veteran, gun fantasies of someone using a gun in one of their dream burglar scenarios and not all the shootings of family members and suicides in America, even though r news bans “political” news, but Fox News stories with an agenda are not “political”
• r mapporn, r dataisbeautiful, r vexillology, r whatisthisthing with constant Nazi Germany content and as much anti-California narrative as possible (“even though our red state moves to California and makes it expensive, the real injustice is Californians moving to our state and voting for California things!” like marijuana legalization or good environmental policies that help the economy)
• “mAiNsTrEaM nEwS mEdIa can’t be trusted so don’t bother reading this article! I’m a persecuted victim and conveniently excluding Republican majorities and Fox News even though it’s the most watched TV news and Ben Shapiro is the most shared on Facebook and Joe Rogan in podcasts“
• “This post’s news website is cancer amirite! Let’s talk about that instead of the issue presented!”
• “Actually this police abuse was justified because if you actually read the article you’d know the victim had a weapon” except the police later admit there was no weapon
• “If you actually watch the 4 hour video- but don’t watch the videos before it that actually confirm the Covington MAGA are racist misogynists“
• Concern trolling “it’s okay to be white,” “blue lives matter,” “all lives matter” except babies of immigrants, police who could use better training, Mediterranean Europeans if they’re too dark
• Racist terms don’t bother them, so the real injustice is not being able to use racist taunts
• Context and history/injustices don’t matter, especially when discussing American history or African development
• Anti-racism and racism are equally bad
• Feminism and misogyny are equally bad
• Democrats and Republicans are equally bad

Steve Bannon bragging about these tactics:

the power of what he called “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and they could be radicalized in a kind of populist, nationalist way

http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-white-gamers-seinfeld-joshua-green-donald-trump-devils-bargain-sarah-palin-world-warcraft-gamergate-2017-7

Bannon: “You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/07/18/steve-bannon-learned-harness-troll-army-world-warcraft/489713001/

r/Gamingcirclejerk captures them doing their thing.

These tactics have been successful for a while:

John Ehrlichman, who partnered with Fox News cofounder Roger Ailes since 1968 on the Republican “Southern Strategy” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

[We] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

“He was the premier guy in the business,” says former Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins. “He was our Michelangelo.”

Ailes repackaged Richard Nixon for television in 1968, papered over Ronald Reagan’s budding Alzheimer’s in 1984, shamelessly stoked racial fears to elect George H.W. Bush in 1988, and waged a secret campaign on behalf of Big Tobacco to derail health care reform in 1993.

Hillarycare was to have been funded, in part, by a $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes. To block the proposal, Big Tobacco paid Ailes to produce ads highlighting “real people affected by taxes.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525

Adam McKay:

Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.

Lyndon Johnson in 1960 calling out their tactics:

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1988/11/13/what-a-real-president-was-like/d483c1be-d0da-43b7-bde6-04e10106ff6c/

Screenshots of how they coordinate their bad faith arguing to “control the narrative”:

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2. After the call went out on 4chan, a network of new Twitter accounts run by white supremacists pretending to be Jews popped up. Often, they masquerade as Orthodox Jews, Israelis and/or Jewish leftists. They all follow each other and promote anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content. pic.twitter.com/rA2cFBm8jW

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 19, 2019

Fake Twitter accounts are impersonating Jews to promote anti-Semitism

PSA: 4chan is planning an attack on the LGBTQ+ community during pride month. They plan on spamming homophobic and transphobic propaganda on all social media sites constantly, in an effort to turn people into raging homophobes and transphobes. Be careful. pic.twitter.com/Krr0m40cot

— samantha/שֵׁײנָא✡️🏳️‍🌈🏴🚩 (@koshersemite) May 24, 2020

White Nationalists on 4chan start a fake social media campaign to smear #Antifa as promoting the targeting of white women for violence pic.twitter.com/xIsHzDWg4O

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 24, 2017

Nazi strategy: "Leftists will recognize dog whistles and know we're crypto, but normies won't listen to them." pic.twitter.com/YSkLp1J95C

— Natalie Wynn (@ContraPoints) August 13, 2017

https://i.redd.it/k4rsav2ov1pz.jpg

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5txz03/michael_flynn_resigns_trumps_national_security/ddpyyb6/?context=1

https://np.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/7jkybf/t_d_user_suggests_infiltrating_minnesota/dr7m56j/

https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/the-rhetoric-tricks-traps-and-tactics-of-white-nationalism-b0bca3caeb84

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/4-key-takeaways-from-the-monster-milo-yiannopoulos-leak.html

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trolling-false-symbols/

Everybody works for somebody; we all know who Donald works for now. There is no benefit for him in this behavior because it doesn’t help his base or his donors, so he must owe Putin big time for something else. He’s been funded by Russian money since 1984:

Trump was over a billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out.

► Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump’s real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.

► In 1984, David Bogatin — a convicted Russian mobster and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992)

► Felix Sater is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of NY real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen–Trump’s former “fixer” attorney. Cohen’s family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother’s in-laws. Felix Sater’s father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years.

► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management.

► In July 2008, the height of the housing bust, Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. Again, this was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value.

► Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years. Many of them owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties. They were running operations out of Trump’s crown jewel.

► From Craig Unger’s AMA: “Early on, a source told me that all this was tied to Semion Mogilevich, the powerful Russian mobster. I had never even heard of him, but I immediately went to a database that listed the owners of all properties in NY state and looked up all the Trump properties. Every time I found a Russian sounding name, I would Google, and add Mogilevich. When you do investigative reporting, you anticipate drilling a number of dry holes, but almost everyone I googled turned out to be a Russian mobster. Again and again. If you know New York you don’t expect Trump Tower to be a high crime neighborhood, but there were far too many Russian mobsters in Trump properties for it to be a coincidence.”

► So many Russians bought Trump apartments at his developments in Florida that the area became known as Little Moscow. The developers of two of his hotels were Russians with significant links to the Russian mob. The late leader of that mob in the United States, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, was living at Trump Tower

► According to a Bloomberg investigation (3/16/2017) into Trump World Tower, “a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states.”

► In 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. They operated card games, illegal gambling websites, and a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.

► The Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. that is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing.

► Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive. Now he’s deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties tot he Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob.

► A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP–often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnel got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Unger’s book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money.

► At the Cityscape USA’s Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying “…And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”

► Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”

► Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump’s Deutsche bank loans.

Trump now gleefully takes cues from Putin:

► At the end of 2018, Putin and his allies started making a strong push for a resolution that would justify their country’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and reverse an 1989 vote backed by Mikhail Gorbachev that condemned it. The Putinists’ goal was to pass the resolution by Feb. There is no one on this side of the Atlantic who thinks the USSR was justified in invading Afghanistan. And out of nowhere, on January 2nd, Trump came out strongly supporting Russia’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

► Trump went against American intelligence on North Korean missiles. He told the FBI he didn’t believe their intelligence because Putin told him otherwise. “I don’t care, I believe Putin”

► Trump met in secret with Putin the G20 summit in November 2018, without note takers. 19 days later, he announced a withdrawal from Syria. As a note, Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed.

► Trump refused to enforce sanctions legally codified into law – and in some cases reversed standing sanctions on Russian companies.

► He has denounced his own intelligence agencies in a press conference with Putin on election meddling – and publicly endorsed Putin’s version of events.

► Trump pulled out of the INF treaty with no explanation, which allows Putin to create long-range hypersonic missiles that threaten Europe with impunity. The US already has all the weaponry that the INF would ban the development of, so this offers us literally nothing, while allowing Russia to develop powerful new weapons to challenge our allies.

► Demanded Russia get invited back into G7

► Pushed the CIA to give American intelligence to the Kremlin.

► Withdrew from the Open Skies treaty

► Received intelligence in 2019 that Russia was paying bounties for dead American soldiers, and hasn’t done anything about it by the time of this writing.

► Announced troop withdrawal from Germany (America’s missile defense from Russia and forward operating base against Russian aggression)

► And of course, Trump continues to threaten to pull out of NATO, a move so catastrophically stupid, so inconceivably cosmically myopic, I truly can’t express the profundity of the idiocy. Suffice to say, pulling out of NATO would be like the only guy in a prison yard with a shotgun just throwing it over the fence for absolutely no reason, suddenly giving the people with crude homemade shivs complete power.

It’s not the only time he’s disrespected them:

• ⁠In May 2020, the White House ended National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits

• ⁠The Trump admin seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. Kushner distributes these masks to private entities for a fee, who then sells the masks to the government

• ⁠Trump fired the captain of the USS
Theodore Roosevelt after he warned superiors that COVID19 was spreading among his crew. The virus subsequently spread amongst the crew.

• ⁠After Iran’s retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as “headaches”

• ⁠On July 20, 2017, in room 2E924 of the Pentagon, Trump told a room full of Generals, “You’re a bunch of dopes and babies”

• ⁠Pardoned multiple war criminals, which stomped on long standing military values, discipline, and command. Trump has no military experience (May&Nov, 2019)

• ⁠Trump mocked Lt. Col. Vindman for his rank and uniform. He threatened said purple heart officer, resulting in the Army providing him protection

• ⁠Trump’s Chief of Staff worked—in secret—to deny comprehensive health coverage to Vietnam Vets who suffered from Agent Orange.

• ⁠There is a facility in Tijuana for US veterans that Trump deported. Wounded war vet, Sen Duckworth (D) marked Veterans Day 2019 by visiting this facility

• ⁠Russia took control of the main U.S. military facility in Syria abandoned on Trump’s orders. Russia now owns the airstrip we built

• ⁠On Oct 7, 2019, Trump abruptly withdrew support from America’s allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey’s president (Erdogan). Turkey subsequently bombed US Special Forces.

• ⁠Trump sent thousands of American troops to defend the oil assets of the country that perpetrated 9/11

• ⁠In Sept 2019, he made an Air Force cargo crew, flying from the U.S. to Kuwait stop in Scotland (where there’s no U.S. base) to refuel at a commercial airport (where it costs more), so they could stay overnight at a Trump property (which isn’t close to the airport). Trump’s golf courses are losing money, so he’s forcing the military to pay for 5-star nights there.

• ⁠In Sept, 2019, Pentagon pulled funds for military schools, military housing funds, and daycare to pay for Trump’s border wall.

• ⁠In Aug, 2019, emails revealed that three of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago pals, who are now running Veterans Affairs, are rampant with meddling. “They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump’s approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. Emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio’s meddling.”

• ⁠Veterans graves will be “dug up” for the border wall, after Trump instructed aides to seize private property. Trump told officials he would pardon them if they break the law by illegally seizing property

• ⁠Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)

• ⁠On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall

• ⁠On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuted war criminals

• ⁠Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)

• ⁠Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019)

• ⁠Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)

• ⁠In June, 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence for a better “aesthetic appearance”

• ⁠Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)

• ⁠Trump started his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)

• ⁠Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019)

• ⁠On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain

• ⁠Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship’s name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)

• ⁠Trump purged 200,000 vets’ healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)

• ⁠Trump deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)

• ⁠On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn’t thank him for his funeral

• ⁠Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party’s funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise

• ⁠He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019)

• ⁠He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)

• ⁠He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)

• ⁠When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances,” Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019)

• ⁠He called a retired general a ‘dog’ with a ‘big, dumb mouth’ (Jan 1, 2019)

• ⁠He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)

• ⁠He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)

• ⁠He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)

• ⁠Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018). He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn’t going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama’s. It wasn’t.

• ⁠He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays

• ⁠He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018)

• ⁠He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he’s most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)

• ⁠He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)

• ⁠He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)

• ⁠While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn’t attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain — other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)

• ⁠He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)

• ⁠He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)

• ⁠Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018)

• ⁠Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)

• ⁠Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)

• ⁠He forgot a fallen soldier’s name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)

• ⁠He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn’t have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)

• ⁠He blocked a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)

• ⁠He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)

• ⁠He deported veterans (2017-present)

• ⁠He said he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)

• ⁠On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren’t strong (note: yes, he said it’s ‘because they aren’t strong.’ He didn’t say it’s ‘because they’re weak.’ This distinction is important because of Snopes)

• ⁠Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)

• ⁠Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents) etc. (2016-present)

• ⁠Trump sent funds raised from a Jan 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)

• ⁠Trump said he has “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military” because he went to a military-style academy (2015 biography)

• ⁠Trump said he doesn’t consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015)

• ⁠Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)

• ⁠For a decade, Trump sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. 1991

• ⁠Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.

• ⁠No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations, and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service