god_from_celegans
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god_from_celegans
18hr ago
This counts news about food recalls, not food recalls that are not reported in the news. Actual recalls are not going up.
god_from_celegans
17d ago
Here's a great comment
https://www.themotte.org/post/930/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/201239?context=8#context
It is by now common knowledge that Russian intelligence very nearly took over Deutsche Bank without anyone in the German government even knowing (or caring), and while pressuring the German financial regulator into pursuing a criminal investigation into the Financial Times' journalists trying to figure out why it didn't make sense.
What is less commonly understood (and in part only now being revealed) is what a combination of hilarious disaster and glorious victory the Russian intelligence operation in question was. Having stumbled onto Jan Marsalek, the co-founder of Wirecard
god_from_celegans
21d ago
it's not clear why this is happening
It seems clear to me. We need people to work. Naturally, they don't want to work. We arrange the economy so they are in position where they have to work. This is called economic growth and full employment.
It couched in language of, "pursue full employment", "worker shortage", "keep the median wage down", "increase the labour force".
He has announced the Pomeo and Haley won't be joining this time. https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1855399528909701537
I'm say this is the Deep state category, good to have it confirmed that they will not be joining.
With all the category listed, remove the ones he no longer needs and keep the ones he still needs for executing or passing bills.
Of course he will need his guy to get elected again in 4 years to make sure he doesn't get put in jail or his business or legacy destroyed.
god_from_celegans
25d ago
He has very old interviews where he talks about loyalty and punishing disloyalty. It seems very important to him, and it always has been.
To answer my own question: not so easily, but they have a plan https://goodauthority.org/news/why-the-president-cant-just-fire-bureaucrats/
Project 2025 actually has a well thought out section on the levels Trump has https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-03.pdf
god_from_celegans
26d ago
Can't Trump just utter his old catchphrase "you're fired" ?
god_from_celegans
26d ago
What if political partisanship and DEI is banned, at risk of being fired and losing all funding or special legal status. It worked somewhat for De Santis with Disney and with the Supreme Court with Universities. This could work in a few ways: DEI for political views, or maybe making journalists be sued for lying, or maybe you can have courts audit internal chats of journalists.
Most organisations would bend the knee if funding/firing is at stake (and it should be). It should also apply to all grant, university, NGO, contracts, etc.
god_from_celegans
26d ago
he did this in 2017, remember? -
Indeed but it was in 2020, so he delayed by N days
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-09-28/pdf/2020-21534.pdf
god_from_celegans
27d ago
All I know is she could destroy me in combat or debate. That is enough.
god_from_celegans
27d ago
They get paid to drag it on, meh
god_from_celegans
27d ago
ChatGPTBox will summarize yt videos
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
I suppose that may be true. Or he could be situationally brave. Or he never planned to keep his campaign promises.
You are right, there are many other interpretations.
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
Well, one of his major campaign promises was to release the JRK files. But he unapologetically broke his promise because a deep state person said no.
His motto used to be "you are fired" and he was elected to fire people (drain the swamp), and given executive power to do it. It was literally a memo or tweet away. He should have fired at least one government employee every day via twitter but did not.
These just don't sound like someone who is very courageous?
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
Yeah, past performance is a better predictor than present promises
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
The Epstein stuff (having an organised operation creating and collecting blackmail, and kept under wraps) seems to support this.
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
This seems coherent. Politicians often tell people what they want to hear and make excuses for changing their mind. His excuse is "men in suits showed me a secret", which is convenient, not disprovable, and would suit conspiracy theorists.
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
Tzeentch
Agree on this part :p
It's mostly raw YouTube machine generated unfortunately, with few edits, and a couple of jokes :p
True his autobiography is likely lots of lies/spin. But it also sounds like a politician the CIA can hardly rein in, who is desperate for attention. Some of it is backed up by court documents, although this is spotty, and some of it second hand.
A side note, Pompeo is not the only politician who seems to be influenced by the CIA. Mike Johnson, The Speaker of the House went from one of the biggest opponent of the CIA one year ago to the [biggest proponent because "they took him to a room and showed him something"](source: https://rumble.com/v4siucc-system-update-263.html#)
What kind of world model fits all these facts? It seems like a barely incompetent CIA, is cheaply buying and influencing politicians on both sides, including the outsider candidate: Trump.
P.S. a previous popular Motte Thread What did you learn from leaked documents?
Does anyone have the whole story on Mike Pompeo? This is what I've gathered so far:
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He's threatening me. He's in my car. I'll never with my dog sitting next to him, I'll never forget this. And I said, are you really saying that to reveal that the US government had a role in the murder of a democratically elected president, to say that out loud, that's the crime? Mike Pompeo was plotting to murder Julian Assange, who's never even been charged with a crime in the United States as CIA director. That's illegal. You're not allowed. Federal employees are not allowed to just kill people they don't like. Okay.
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on the all in pod Trump heavily implies that Mike Pompeo told him not to fulfil his campaign promise of releasing the JFK files, because "we are not ready"
Chamath: I'm sorry I have to ask I have to ask one question sir, when you got elected in 20 in the 2016 election you said the first thing or one of the things you wanted to do was release the JFK file, and then you said later "I saw it and I just I wasn't really ready to do it" and then I saw a clip where you changed your mind and you said "I think we're ready to see this file" and I'm just curious what's in it
Trump: I actually did do it, uh, I released a lot, as you know, but when it came to the whole thing, I was hit by some people that worked for me, that are great people, that you would respect, and they asked me not to do it, and I'm saying "why, tell me why" and they said "sir I think it needs a little more time" and I released a lot but I said if they feel so strongly, I respect the people, and would would have done that again, but this time I'm just going to do it
Jason: RFK says the CIA killed his his um uncle do you believe that
Trump: well this wasn't CIA that asked me but I think CIA was probably behind it [editor: clarification, by "behind it" they mean the guy who told Trump "we are not ready" - probobly Pompeo , this is not Trump admitting the CIA killed JFK] but they didn't, they would have preferred that I not release the rest of it, so we we did give quite a bit, uh, it's going to be done early on a lot of people people want to see that and whatever it may say I won't say, I sort I have an idea, but uh whatever it is it'll be very interesting for people to see and we're going to have to learn from it
Jason: promise US you'll come back again Mr
Trump: you know there are other things we're going to release too, we're going to release
Jason: really like what what else do you got
Trump: we'll talk to you about it off camera [editor: it's a rolodex of dick picks of world leaders from epsteins island ]
Jason: aliens?
Trump: by the way I generally speaking, and there are reasons not to release certain things obviously, but I generly you know it's transparency and I think it's important that we release that, and there are other things too ,there are other things that you know about, but people more than anything else they want the JFK files we're going to release that immediately
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it is now a matter of public record that under pompeo's explicit Direction the CIA Drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues subjecting us to theft hacking attacks and the planting of false information my wife and my infant son were also targeted a CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six month-old son's nappy
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Pompeo not shutting door on joining a second Trump administration
So what's up with this guy? Is there other facts I've missed. Is he just Trump's handler? Why is he spilling secrets in this autobiography?
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
Yeah it's obvious this is one of Trumps "red lines", and he struggles with the truth vs his boss
god_from_celegans
1mo ago
That seems like a silly thing to do. Politicians usually say what polls well, not what they will do.
It's in no ones interest to move to a worse revenue model in a field where almost noone pays anyway
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