“RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE ZERO FEAR OF NATO WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM,” #Trump continued. “EVERYONE IS LUCKY THAT I REBUILT OUR MILITARY IN MY FIRST TERM, AND CONTINUE TO DO SO. We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us. The only Nation that China and Russia fear and respect is the DJT REBUILT U.S.A.”

#delusional #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #US #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #NATO #InternationalLaw

On #Greenland, however, conflicting signals from Washington, have only heightened the anxiety.
Secy of #State #MarcoRubio on Monday told lawmakers in a closed briefing that Trump’s goal is to #buy Greenland from #Denmark, playing down #military action. But on Tuesday, White House press secy Karoline Leavitt said #Trump & his team are “discussing a range of options” & that “utilizing the #US military is always an option at the commander in chief’s disposal.”
#MafiaState #geopolitics #Europe #NATO

A day later Speaker of the #House #MikeJohnson downplayed the likelihood of force.

“The #US always has #military options for everything,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “I think with #Greenland it’s very clear that we are working through diplomatic channels.”

#Europe had been riding out #Trump’s shocks, betting there would be limits. To many, those bets now look much riskier.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

#NATO has survived clashing #allies before. Greece & Turkey, notably, have been in a standoff since Turkish forces occupied northern Cyprus in 1974. But, as Rahman noted, the #US, NATO’s wealthiest & most powerful member, was instrumental in mediating that rift.
“Now it is causing it,” he said. “NATO can’t survive a forceful #annexation. The #alliance would be meaningless even if it continues to exist on paper.”

#Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #Greenland #Europe #NewWorldOrder #InternationalLaw

Tensions over Greenland’s status were already escalating even before the #Venezuela raid.

…After the Caracas operation, the rhetoric grew edgier &—following #Trump’s effective takeover of a sovereign neighbor—far more believable.

White House deputy chief of staff #StephenMiller said Tuesday that the “formal position” of the #US is that #Greenland should be American, for national security reasons, &, that essentially, it was Trump’s for the taking.

#MafiaState #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law

“Nobody’s going to fight the #UnitedStates militarily over the future of Greenland,” #StephenMiller said.

Miller’s wife posted an image of the American flag superimposed on a map of #Greenland with the caption “SOON.”

“It’s clear that some people in & adjacent to the administration felt empowered by the success of the operation,” said Heather Hurlburt, an associate fellow in the Americas Program at Chatham House, the London-based think tank.

#Trump #MafiaState #geopolitics #NATO #law

Hurlburt cited a retired #US general who viewed the #Trump White House move in #Venezuela & its fixation on #Greenland as reminiscent of teenagers playing the geostrategic board game Risk.

“Once you start down the road of the #MonroeDoctrine or the #DonroeDoctrine, or whatever we’re saying now, you look at a map of the #WesternHemisphere, & there is Greenland,” she said.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

Whether its gaming or grasping, European leaders face unpalatable choices. One is to stick with the unified hard line that emerged in recent days, making clear that any move on #Greenland could trigger a response by European #allies — not against #Russia or #China but, unthinkably, against the #UnitedStates.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Invoking the #NATO treaties collective defense clause, known as #Article5, under which an attack on one member is regarded as an attack on all, requires the #unanimity of all 32 #allies. The #US, of course, would reject any plea for help by #Denmark — effectively neutering the #treaty.

“Article 5 did not anticipate that the invading country would be a member of NATO,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) told reporters asking about bill in #Congress to prohibit #Trump for acting in #Greenland.

#law

#Military experts say #Denmark & #Greenland would stand no chance against American #military might. In reality that is nonstarter in every way; political analysts across the board agree with #StephenMiller that no one will go to #war over Greenland. #Europe is too dependent on the #US militarily & economically to risk a true break.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #WarPowers #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

But the mere prospect of such conflict only highlights how much more difficult it is now for #US #allies to toe the line with #Trump. That, too, could lead to a drastic deterioration of the transatlantic #alliance if not its end, analysts say.

“Many European countries are still seeking to ride both a European and an American horse,” Rahman said. “That may become impossible.”

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #InternationalLaw

Another option would be to make a deal on #Greenland — a sale or lease, with expanded access to #mineral rights, & #US role in #security. In the event of a crisis, “the rest of #Europe will lean on #Denmark to make some kind of arrangement with the #US,” Rahman said.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

A #LouisianaPurchase style transaction may be the least likely. Danish #law recognizes Greenlanders as a people with the right to decide their own future, meaning Copenhagen cannot barter the island away even if it wanted to. Any change in #sovereignty would first require #Greenland to choose #independence — a separate #legal, electoral process — before it could negotiate anything with Washington.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

Some European ofcls are arguing quietly that the pushback coming from #Europe capitals may be counterproductive. A flat “no” never sits well with #Trump, they point out, & his most hard-line supporters delight in turning up the volume whenever the White House is challenged.

“This administration, when provoked, doubles down,” said a European diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity….

#MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #Congress #InternationalLaw

Marcie Jones quotes an illiterate tweet (redundant to put "illiterate" before "tweet" in his case, I know) in which the man dispensed medical advice about vaccines to parents of small children. Then she responds:

"Do not take medical advice from someone unable to spell 'HEPATITAS,' mkay?"

#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #hepatitis #illiteracy #CDC #medicine #science #research

https://www.wonkette.com/p/secretary-whale-juice-directing-cdc

The Melian Dialogue, Trump, and the Persistent Fantasy of Fair Play 👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/06/the-melian-dialogue-trump-and-the-persistent-fantasy-of-fair-play/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#politics #philosophy #realism #fairness #trump #commentary #foreignaffairs #power #journalism #history #potus #enforcement #equality #usa #norms #convenience #hume #venezuela #law #morality #ethics

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Greek Art

“Gamblers, trying to collect their payout from #Polymarket, left baffled as they learn that the US operation carried out in Venezuela does not meet Polymarket's definition of an invasion”.

(and just in case you’re wondering, #Polymarket is a #crypto thing, unlike #Kalshi which lets you gamble in real money)

#Venezuela #Maduro #Trump #Uspol #predictionMarkets #predictionMarket #gambling

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By Brett Arends (MarketWatch) -- If this isn't an invasion, what is? Donald Trump Jr.'s private investment company bought a stake in Polymarket last year, and he joined the company's advisory board. Who says the U.S. government didn't just invade Venezuela to capture its president and first lady? A global betting market with close ties to the Trump family, that's who. Customers of Polymarket are crying foul after the world's biggest prediction market has refused to pay out on bets that the U.S. would "invade" Venezuela, claiming that the events over the weekend don't count. "Then what the f- would be an invasion?" asked one anonymous client in a post on the Polymarket website, calling the company "Polyscam.” "Polymarket has descended into sheer arbitrariness," said another. "Words are redefined at will, detached from any recognized meaning, and facts are simply ignored. That a military incursion, the kidnapping of a head of state, and the takeover of a country are not classified as an invasion is plainly absurd." "You wanna be f-ing kidding me," wrote another. "So it's not an invasion because they did it quickly and not many people died?" asked another. (The New York Times, citing a Venezuelan official, has reported a death toll of 80 in the raid.) The comments section turned to heavy sarcasm, with several gamblers asking

#Trump cannot slash #NIH #research #funding, court rules

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled Trump's admin cannot carry out steep cuts to federal #grant funding provided by the National Institutes of #Health to #universities engaged in #scientific & #medical research.

#law #judiciary #science #medicine #idiocracy #BrainDrain
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-cannot-slash-nih-research-funding-court-rules-2026-01-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

#Hitler ➡️ #Germany
vs
#Trump ➡️ #US / #USPol

" I keep thinking about how Germans viewed the people who didn't stop Hitler getting into power when they could have... "

- Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou

Post from: https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/115843842997571036

#Dictators #Autocrats #America etc

the tool i built to categorize, attribute, describe, and color highlight the various emails, text msgs, and other digital flotsam in the november epstein document dump is now an open source #python package.

i'm particularly pleased to have claimed the "epstein-files" package name on #pypi.

- text messages site: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
- all emails/other files site: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/all_emails_epstein_files_nov_2025.html
- author attributions for redacted counterparties: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/file_metadata_epstein_files_nov_2025.json
- code on github: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/epstein_text_messages
- PyPi package: https://pypi.org/project/epstein-files/

#Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #trump #uspol #pip #opensource #EpsteinFiles #dataengineering

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screenshot of text messages with steve bannon

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screenshot of email of epstein and Joi Ito discussing Epstein's large amount of funding for bitcoin development team

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screenshot of previews and descriptions for the non-email/text documents

So here's my question: What are the European leaders who're currently dodging calling out Trump for his clear lawlessness in Venezuela, going to do when Danish citizens get murdered by US forces in Greenland? More appeasement? More ducking and covering?

#Trump #Greenland #EU

"I’m sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed, but some of them need to go to prison.”

~ Thomas Massie

I have zero regard for Massie, but about this (he was warning the GOP Senate members before they voted), he's correct.

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat
/17

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poliitcs-bulletin-253-111825

"The MAGA elite isn’t just splintering; it is realizing it won the election but lost the president.

Trump, surrounded by foreign dignitaries and yes men, constantly obsesses over his new ballroom paid for by Big Tech as the populist army that put him there is left outside, holding the bill for a 50-year mortgage."

~ Jeff Nesbit

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat
/16

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/signs-of-a-potential-maga-divorce

"Epstein and Trump and the wriggling, oily likes of Steve Bannon are part of a deeper rot in the soul of this nation. Money is at the heart of it."

#Trump #Epstein #SteveBannon #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #EconomicElites #coverup #racism #misogyny #immigrants
/15

"He personally insults, berates, demeans and abuses female reporters on a daily basis. As bad as he was in the past, it has only gotten much worse this year. I compiled these clips just from Trump’s interactions with female reporters during the last few months. Several of these were in the last few days.

Meanwhile, not a single female Republican member of congress has stepped up to call any of this out. None of the men have either for that matter."

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/19-clips-of-trump-demeaning-female #Trump #press

"They have also taken their money and donated it to a political party that has the single aim of undermining our democratic system and denying ordinary citizens the right to vote because of the color of their skin or their ethnicity or even their gender. And far, far too many of them are bent in their determination to control the lives of women."

#Trump #Epstein #SteveBannon #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #EconomicElites #coverup #racism #misogyny #immigrants
/14

"This is hard to say, but the problems we have in this country are deeper than the organized sexual abuse of minors. We know that some of these masters of the universe have indeed been involved with the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and taken part in sexual abuse of minors."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Epstein #SteveBannon #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #EconomicElites #coverup #racism #misogyny #immigrants
/13

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/as-my-stomach-turns

"Under Trump, the only normative rule is to gain as much power and money as possible. Power and wealth are honored, even if the honoree has greenlit a brutal murder.

The only exception appears to be pedophilia. Or trying to cover up a friendship with a pedophile, for which an earnest expression of contrition may be sufficient to get back on the honor track."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #EconomicElites
/12

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/honor-and-shame-in-the-era-of-trump

"Thanks to near-total immunity granted by Chief Justice John Roberts and his Supreme Court’s supermajority as well as sycophants in high places cheering on his excesses, we can expect Trump will keep acting with abandon, no matter how outrageous."

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
/11

"As Trump’s federal agents criminally assault people on our streets while wearing masks to hide their identity, the unhinged and utterly unprincipled Trump has no mask—no need to pretend that he’s bound by law or basic human decency."

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/10

"If I thought for a split second that Trump’s involvement with sex trafficker and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein—and his continuing indifferent denials—represented about as bad as it could get, his easy dismissal of murder yesterday is a reminder that there is still worse to come."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/9

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-trump-excuses-murder-and

"We went into this election with our eyes wide open and yet a plurality of voters decided that Trump was the person they wanted leading this nation. Yesterday, more than any other day, the bill for that decision finally came due."

The two things to which Roginsky is referring is Trump's colossal defeat in yesterday's vote, and his disgraceful cozying up to the Saudis.

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/8

"Two things happened yesterday that have brought immense shame on the United States — not because the American people agree with our president on what he did but because they voted in free and fair elections to send someone to the White House whom they should have known would behave this way."

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/7

"Yesterday marked the most disgraceful day in Donald Trump’s second term — supplanting even February 28th, when Trump and JD Vance turned what should have been a diplomatic meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into a public brow-beating session."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/6

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-most-shameful-day-in-trumps-presidency

"A near-unanimous vote to release the Epstein files marks a stunning failure for Trump — and a turning point in his presidency."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat
/5

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/what-trumps-massive-epstein-defeat

"We always knew that President 'Piggy' despised women and admired tyrants, seeing nothing wrong with hacking up your critics with a bone saw. But even a few months ago I think he would have been self-controlled enough to be less obvious about it.

I don’t know how this ends, but all of a sudden a rapid implosion looks possible."

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/4

"The Epstein affair is coming to a head even as the public loses all faith in his economic policy, and the whole structure of fear on which his regime rests appears to be evaporating.

He also seems to be unraveling personally."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat #Saudis
/3

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade

"Trump and his enablers can read polling data. Seventy-five percent (75%) of Americans support the release of all Epstein files. (An additional 13% support releasing some of the files.) It is rare for 88% of the American public to mostly agree on anything."

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat
/2

"On Tuesday, in quick succession:

The House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427 to 1; and

Hours later, the Senate passed the Act 100 to 0. ...

There is only one explanation for the rapid-fire developments on Tuesday relating to the Epstein files:"

~ Rpbert B/ Hubbell

#Trump #Epstein #coverup #pedophiles #MAGA #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #food #prices #MaskedThugs #defeat
/1

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/427-to-1-and-100-to-0

@randahl this is why a "peace plan" for #Ukraine has been made by #russia and #USA without consulting #Ukraine as #trumpery #trump don't care about #laws and #justice

"t was a forewarning of what we’re seeing now: his refusal to acknowledge the affordability crisis. ...

Economic indicators show that prices have risen this year. But Trump keeps insisting that they’re falling."

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #economy #prices #jobs #immigration #deportations #coverup #EconomicElites #lies #affordability
/6

"Millions of people who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 are learning a hard lesson: A man who refuses to face facts in his own life is also unlikely to face facts about the lives of others. These voters are discovering that Trump’s denial of the election results in 2020 wasn’t a one-off."

~ Will Saletan

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #economy #prices #jobs #immigration #deportations #coverup #EconomicElites #lies #affordability
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-tells-voters-dont-believe-your-lying-wallets

Kuo enumerates four promises to MAGA Trump has broken:

“America First”

Bringing down costs on Day One

Immigration and mass deportations

Releasing the Epstein files

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #MAGA #economy #prices #jobs #immigration #deportations #coverup #EconomicElites
/4

"MAGA is coming apart at the seams. The general election earlier this month, with blowouts of Republican candidates across the country, signaled an existential threat to their party come next year’s midterms.

But rather than course correct, the White House went into denial mode: There’s no inflation, the economy is in a 'Golden Age,' the polls on Trump are wrong, and there’s nothing to see in the Epstein files."

~ Jay Kuo

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #MAGA
/3

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/maga-unraveling-trump-coalition

"The vote is a humiliation for Trump, who personally pledged to release the Epstein files before abruptly changing course and leading a desperate, months-long campaign to try to torpedo any prospect of transparency. Even within the confines of the cultish Trump administration, there was an acute level of self-awareness about how much of a knock this vote has been to the president’s iron-fisted control over his party."

~ Zeteo

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #coverup
/2

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-epstein-files-house-vote-breaking

"The House of Representatives voted Tuesday afternoon to advance a resolution requiring the the Justice Department to release any and all documents belonging to its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious human trafficker, sexual abuser, and pedophile who committed suicide in 2019. It passed near unanimously by a vote of 427-1. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) was the sole 'no' vote."

~ Joe Perticone

#Epstein #Trump #Republicans #coverup
/1

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/in-major-rebuke-to-trump-house-passes-jeffrey-epstein-files-resolution

Ω🪬Ω
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: I Made Epstein's Texts Great Again (And You Should Read Them)

I converted the text message logs in the recently released 20,000 pages of Epstein effluence to a more friendly format, deanonymized them, and read them. You should too.

Almost 50% of the text messages released by congressional Republicans are Epstein texting back and forth with his best friend Steve Bannon, which I must admit was pretty surprising.

Over the course of the texts Epstein describes himself as a member of the Republican party ("on the same team") and apparently one who was #MAGA enough to be besties with Bannon).

Bannon and Epstein do things like tell jokes, talk about their friends in the chinese mafia (#MilesGuo), tease each other about girlfriends, and plot to overthrow democracy and install fascism with #cryptocurrency,

No, really. Just read the texts. It's all there

* My thoughts: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/i-made-epsteins-text-messages-great
* The texts: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/

p.s. I suspect the house Repuhblicans released so many of Bannon's texts to discredit him (mission accomplished).
[dons tinfoil hat] Maybe for criticizing #Israel so much.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #uspol #uspolitics #SteveBannon #Bannon #Trump #Maga #Israel #Mossad

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Screenshot of substack link

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
#trump #mbs #politics

In the end, #Trump did not want to lose.

Trump denounced calls for the release of the #EpsteinFiles as a Democratic hoax. He dispatched aides to warn #Republicans that backing it would be seen as a “hostile act.” He placed personal calls to those who dared to do so, & even dispatched his AG & FBI dir to meet with one in the White House #SituationRoom in efforts to get her to flip.

None of it worked.

#House #DOJ #law #criminal #Epstein #rape #SexTrafficking #CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/trump-epstein-republicans-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share