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#8 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-03 09:07 PM
#7 Why do you care?

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer ... - Effeteposer "cares" because it's his job - he is a directly paid low-level "script chatbot" troll for Putin's Internet Research Agency (founded by Evgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner PMC).

Effeteposer has been running the same stupid Russian script for years now, with very slight variations, depending on how things were going in Ukraine. Initially it was to justify Russian invasion and promoting "Ukraine Nazis" and "everything wrong with the world is USA+NATO fault" and equating "both sides" pablum... basically - "Russians / Putin are well-intentioned but stupid fools that are trying to save the world from Nazis, like the great Soviet Union did in WW2, but fell for evil cunning USA and NATO trap in Ukraine because they justifiably feel threatened by NATO's expansion..." yada, yada, yada.

That no longer working, since 2024 the trolls were instructed to "mute" Russia and their efforts have been directed towards Israel-USA relations, so pretty much to turn any thread into bashing Israel, Jews ("ZioNazis"), Netanyahu, AIPAC, etc. and "mute" the words Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, Hoothies replacing them with "Palestinians," "people of Gaza," "Muslims," etc., while and emphasizing the usual "grievances" and agitprop KGB used against Israel since 1950s.

Anything to separate US allies from the US, though Trump is doing much more real damage on his own, but they are serving the same masters. There are now much better-skilled trolls than Effeteposer on this site alone, no doubt because many of his "ideas" have been well accepted here.

spyscape.com - Inside Russia's Notorious 'Internet Research Agency' Troll Factory -

www.npr.org - Meet The Activist Who Uncovered The Russian Troll Factory Named In The Mueller Probe

More recently, they "unofficially" became part of wider Russian Matryoshka network's disinformation campaign of "flooding the zone with s**t":
www.sgdsn.gouv.fr - Matryoshka Network - Operation Overload - A pro-Russian campaign targeting media and fact-checking community (PDF, 16 pg)
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#17 | Posted by madbomber at 2026-06-04 03:46 PM
Donny is out of his element. That's not a decision he is capable of making.

He is entirely in his element of a lifetime of making decisions he is incapable and unfit to make... and blaming everyone else for consequences.

www.latimes.com - Trump is stuck between two realities. Neither serves the American people - Jonah Goldberg, LAT / Dispatch, 2026-06-02

|------- ... In the contest of wills, Trump blinked.

The Iranian regime's tolerance for punishment proved - so far - to be greater than Trump's and that of our gulf allies. Militarily we could finish the job, but that would require ground troops and much greater economic turmoil. In a conflict Trump launched unilaterally without the prior support of Congress, NATO or the American people, Trump doesn't have the political capital for that.

But that's only half the problem. Trump wants the war over, but he doesn't want to pay - militarily, economically, politically - what that would cost. So he wants to make a deal that ends it. But there is no deal available that wouldn't come at an equally undesirable cost. Any deal that looks like what President Obama struck with the Iranians would be too embarrassing to bear. But the Iranians are convinced that they can get just such a deal, and they're willing to drag things out as long as it takes.

The result: Trump's in a box of his own making. He thinks he can talk his way out by simply asserting a reality that doesn't exist. When the financial markets get nervous, he announces a breakthrough that is, at best, a possibility. When the Iranians agree to a deal that looks similar to one Obama might negotiate, Trump goes back to his threats.

It can't go on forever. But I'm sure it'll last until long after this column is forgotten.
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What will be the next distraction from the previous distraction? Cuba ? 250th aka "celebration of Don"? FIFA World Cup? Next rerun episode of Presidential Apprentice picking fights with Greenland, Canada, Mexico, India...?

Meanwhile, Trump continues his full retreat from the "Western front" : www.politico.com - Pentagon likely to cancel missile deal with Germany over fears of Russia - 2026-06-04

|------- The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America's biggest allies. ... -------|

"De-escalation / de-escalate" were the often-repeated words of Biden administration officials.
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The rescheduled event will be held in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Washington, D.C.

5 Things To Know About Washington, D.C.'s First Waldorf Astoria Hotel (2022)
stories.forbestravelguide.com

... The Old Post Office in Washington, D.C. has been a landmark since debuting in 1899. Topped with its iconic clock tower and perfectly perched between the White House and the Capitol, the building served as the country's General Post Office until 1914. Still owned by the federal government, the building underwent many transformations before opening as a Trump-branded hotel in 2016.

After a much-publicized legal battle, the hotel underwent a few key changes and recently opened as the Hilton-branded Waldorf Astoria Washington DC. ...



JT on, "Real Men":

www.youtube.com

yt short less than a min

Trump mistook photo of rape accuser E. Jean Carroll for ex-wife during deposition

thehill.com

The fat orange pedo can't even tell his rape victims apart from his wives.

Heliumrat on this thread- We have to take this poor woman's accusations seriously and jail and immediately execute the (brown and Muslim) perpetrators of this heinous crime!!!!
Heliumrat on
that other thread- E. Jean Carroll didn't get raped! she's a loon and a liar and a fraud who most likely ASKED for (white and Christian) TRUMP to rape her!!!!

This article is from the Noticer.

How election candidates are boosting The Noticer, a news site promoting neo-Nazi ideologies

Heliumrat, DR's own Thomas Sewell adherent, scouring noted Neo-Nazi websites for articles on the big bad brown people? SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!!


Thanks a bunch Bibi, Miriam, AIPAC, mega-oligarchs, and Dummkopf Trumpf!

US Debt Clock: Irrational Islamophobia Has Bankrupted the US Economically and Morally

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