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Cake day: October 29th, 2023

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  • Escalate by descalating. Pressure israel by sending them $9 Billion extra in weapons.

    The most insane thing is that everyone is used to Bidens lies by now. If this was Kim Jong Un saying it 2 years ago we’d call him and everyone supporting him insane. Yet here we are in upside-down world. Glorious emperor Biden will say and do as he pleases. And everyone just goes “haha silly old Biden again, well, we can’t do anything about it because he’s the emperor nobody say anything bad about him!”.










  • NYT always does a decent job at writing articles 6 years after they are done spreading the propaganda.

    Why the Discredited Dossier Does Not Undercut the Russia Investigation

    It was a series of memos about purported Trump-Russia links written by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, during the 2016 campaign.

    It cited unnamed sources who claimed there was a “well-developed conspiracy of coordination” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and that Russia had a blackmail tape of Mr. Trump with prostitutes. In addition to giving his memos to his client, Mr. Steele gave some to the F.B.I. and reporters. Buzzfeed published 35 pages in January 2017.

    Many things that were not immediately apparent about the dossier have since become clearer. It grew out of a political opposition research effort to dig up information about Mr. Trump funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party. Their law firm, Perkins Coie, contracted with a research firm called Fusion GPS, which subcontracted research about Trump business dealings in Russia to Mr. Steele. Mr. Steele in turn hired Igor Danchenko, the recently indicted researcher, to canvass for information from people he knew, including in Europe and Russia.

    Was the dossier a reliable source of information?

    No. It has become clear over time that its sourcing was thin and sketchy.

    No corroborating evidence has emerged in intervening years to support many of the specific claims in the dossier, and government investigators determined that one key allegation — that Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, had met with Russian officials in Prague during the campaign — was false

    When the F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Danchenko in 2017, he told the bureau that he thought the tenor of the dossier was more conclusive than was justified; for example, Mr. Danchenko portrayed the blackmail tape story as rumors and speculation that he was not able to confirm. He also said a key source had called him without identifying himself, and that he had guessed at the source’s identity. The indictment accuses Mr. Danchenko of lying about that call and of concealing that a Democratic Party-linked public relations executive was his source for a claim about Trump campaign office politics.