#michael flynn

[reality-detective]

I don't know what Flynn knows or what he has planned, but he issued a final warning to those attempting to torpedo Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr. 🤔

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Kayla Gogarty and Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested that his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom he pardoned at the end of his first term, will be involved in his potential second administration, telling Flynn at a May 2023 event: “We’re going to bring you back.”  During an October 14 social media discussion that included QAnon figures, Ben Moore — a QAnon influencer known online as “Sun Tzu” — predicted that Flynn would be appointed as a “special adviser” to Trump during a potential second Trump administration, and Flynn would lead a “special advisory board” that “brings child traffickers to justice.”

Flynn and his group, America’s Future, have been increasingly tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Several QAnon figures and conspiracy theorists have served as advisory board members for the group, including Moore. [...] During the October 14 discussion, held on X (formerly Twitter), Moore specifically floated himself and other America’s Future members for Trump's “special advisory board” — including QAnon-affiliated figures Brian Gamble and Liz Crokin, conspiracy theorist Lara Logan, and election denier Ivan Raiklin.

QAnon influencer Ben Moore (aka Sun Tzu) hinted that Michael Flynn will be a part of a 2nd Trump Administration, along with other far-right conspiracy theorists such as Liz Crokin and Lara Logan.

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ a sample ballot somebody created for Nevada. 😆

Funny, but we need to take third party stand-ins for Trump seriously.

We should remind people that 1848 was the last year that a non-Democrat or non-Republican was elected president. That's not going to change in 2024. And as Rachel Maddow said on election night in 2016: "If you vote for somebody who can’t win for president, it means that you don’t care who wins for president."

When one of the two major candidates is preaching hate and violence, we really do need to care who wins for president.

In particular I'm no fan of the so called Green Party. Their candidate in 2000, Ralph Nader, ran with the intention of helping elect George W. Bush. It was part of the old and discredited Leninist theory of "heightening the contradictions". In plain English, that means making life miserable for the masses in the hope that they will turn to your party.

And Bush gave us two wars, two rounds of tax breaks for the filthy rich, and two recessions – including the Great Recession. Bush also ignored warnings of an impending attack by al-Qaeda. He appointed Chief Justice John Roberts and the odious Associate Justice Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court. Of course, people did not turn to the Green Party for bringing this string of horrors to the country. If anything, Ralph Nader is somewhat like the Gavrilo Princip of the 21st century.

Jill Stein is in some ways worse than Nader. She had been cultivated by the Kremlin to help elect Trump in 2016 and is attempting to do a repeat in 2024.

Seriously, she was a political nobody in 2015 when she was invited to sit at Putin's table at the anniversary of Russia's propaganda outlet RT in Moscow. Also at that table, sitting next to Putin, was Trump conspiracy nut Michael Flynn.

Guess Who Came to Dinner With Flynn and Putin

People on the left who express support for Jull Stein are helping to elect Trump. If the votes which Stein got in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in 2016 had instead gone to Hillary Clinton, Trump would not have been elected. (look up the results in those states!)

So if you notice any delusional folks pushing Jill Stein this year, be sure to give them a heavy dose of reality about the consequences of their actions. People who are helping to put Trump back in the Oval Office are no progressives – regardless of what they call themselves.

[generallemarc]

Michael Flynn and Jill Stein having lunch with Vladimir Putin a year after he conquered Crimea

This is at a celebration event for the 10-year anniversary of the founding of Russia Today, which ought to be called Pravda 2.0. The fact that Flynn went on to unironically believe in QAnon(no, that's not something the left made up, he's sold merch related to it and been on podcasts that push it) and that Stein went on to simp for Maduro in Venezuela and Castro in Cuba doesn't really that surprising anymore, at least not to me. Here they are almost a decade ago, cozying up to the man who'd just conquered the Crimean peninsula and provoked the Donbas Conflict. The third Western politician there, Willy Wimmer, is a former member of the German Bundestag with a long history of denouncing NATO whenever it decided to do its job. And no, he's not a member of Die Linke or AfD, he was a Christian Democrat. Why they let him stay in the party when the party itself was so committed to the alliance I'll never know.

So, Green Party voters, lemme ask-are you alright with voting for a candidate so accepting of dictators? And to anyone familiar with Emir Kusturica and/or his work, the hell is a film director doing here?

[shotofchinaco]

[nodynasty4us]

From the June 22, 2024 article:

The instructions did not come from “Never Trumpers” hoping to stop the party from nominating a felon when delegates gather in Milwaukee next month. They instead came from avowed “America First” believers hatching a challenge from the far right — a plot to release the delegates from their pledge to support Trump, according to people present and briefed on the meeting, slides from the presentation and private messages obtained by The Washington Post.

...

The exact purpose of the maneuver was not clear — and left some delegates puzzled and alarmed. People familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, said perhaps the intent was to block an undesirable running mate. Most of the dozen GOP officials or activists interviewed by The Post even ventured that the aim may have been to substitute former national security adviser Michael Flynn for Trump if the former president is sentenced to prison time. Among some on the far right, suspicions have intensified that the former president has surrounded himself with too many advisers beholden to the “deep state.”

...

“Suspending of the rules would then allow an open forum to consider alternate candidates to Trump,” one person involved in the state’s delegate drama said.

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[perseuspixl]

TrumpCrimeKlan

Republicans and media are losing their minds over Hunter’s pardon for a minor tax-related conviction, but had not much to say when Trump pardoned the following well-known convicted cronies of his in addition to many other lesser known ones.

Not to mention the entire criminal law including supreme court miserably failing to do its job over Trump’s own criminal cases.

Paul Manafort - Trump’s former campaign chairman, convicted of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.

Roger Stone - Longtime advisor to Trump, convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction of a congressional investigation.

Michael Flynn - Trump’s first National Security Advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador.

Steve Bannon - Former White House Chief Strategist, charged with fraud in connection to a fundraising campaign, We Build the Wall.

George Papadopoulos - Former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the Russia investigation.

Alex van der Zwaan - Lawyer connected to Manafort’s work in Ukraine, pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators.

Charles Kushner - Jared Kushner’s father, convicted of tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign contributions.

Elliott Broidy - A major Trump fundraiser, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate foreign lobbying laws.

Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins - Two Republican Congressmen and early Trump supporters, both convicted on corruption-related charges.

[spookytuesdaypod]

spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

spookies, we’ll ALWAYS know the joys of i know what you did last 🤘 SUMMER 🤘, but it’s time to put this theme event on ice — especially since the third movie moves to a little ski town in the off-season. not the final film in a trilogy so much as a bonus flick in the franchise, i’ll always know what you did last summer (2006) isn’t afraid to shake things up. and by that we mean, leave behind pretty much any familiar name or face outside of the infamous fisherman outfit. if you’re wondering what this slasher’s boogeyman is doing all the way out in colorado, you’re not alone, but you’ll need to see it to believe it. and if you don’t believe it, well, we’re sharing our theories on the newest episode of spooky tuesday.

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[stuffromymind]

Public Service Notice For You Who Have a Trump Cultist In Your Life.

The next time your MAGAt friend or relative starts talking about, "The Biden Crime Family", or how, "Trump is the only honest one in Washington!", or, "Only Donald Trump can drain the swamp and SAVE 'MURIKA!" ?

Show them this LOVELY Fact-Slap from Robert Reich, and the list of Conald's fellow criminals below, and then,

Most Importantly:

M-a-k-e them explain their Fux Noise addict response to the reality of Conald Trump and his cabal.

If they won't answer?

"I guess you're as scared to testify about the facts like Conald was at his fraud case in New York, huh?

Bonus Fact Slaps:

Follow up with this list of criminals in Trump's administration and orbit and have them explain each of these, (Don't forget to point out that "Law & Order" Conald pardoned many of them who therefore, by definition, have admitted their guilt.)

Trump has MANY of "The Best" people including a pedophile.

[deepdarkspaceblog]

'Fallen Angels' is a wonderful tonic against the unrelenting negativity so prevalent in the world today. A story of hope that will charm the reader. #sf #scifi #books #bookreview

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Gertz at MMFA:

Six months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, an unhinged MAGA media is infested with calls for the arrest of former President Barack Obama — and one prominent right-wing commentator is even floating legal consequences for journalists who debunk their twisted rationale. On July 18, amid a Trump administration effort to stave off a MAGA revolt over its handling of disclosures related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents she claimed proved the existence of “a treasonous conspiracy” by the Obama administration following the 2016 election against Trump, claiming she had asked the Justice Department to investigate further. The president piled on in remarks to the press on July 22, claiming that “we caught Barack Hussein Obama” and accusing him of “treason.”

This argument is based on either malice or stupidity. Gabbard is conflating the findings of a December 2016 document showing that the intelligence community did not assess that the Russian government had hacked election systems and changed vote totals to benefit Trump with those of a January 2017 assessment that the Russian government had sought to influence the campaign to benefit Trump by, among other things, hacking Democratic email servers and releasing the contents.  Based on that faulty premise, Gabbard accused Obama and his advisers of subverting the intelligence community for political aims. But the December 2016 assessment is consistent with what the Obama administration was saying publicly at the time, while the findings of the January 2017 assessment were reiterated in Trump administration reports by the Justice Department as well as a Senate committee helmed at the time by current Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Indeed, that committee reviewed the January 2017 intelligence community analysis and concluded it was an “impressive accomplishment” that “reflects proper analytic tradecraft” and “provides a proper representation of the intelligence” and that the analysts who produced it faced “no politically motivated pressure.”

Members of the right-wing media ecosystem, with few exceptions, do not care about these facts, and they are using incredibly demagogic language to rile up their audiences as they call for political retribution.  Benny Johnson is floating a “military tribunal” for Obama; Mike Davis says the former president should “lawyer up”; Charlie Kirk wants “perp walks”; Liz Wheeler is demanding that the charges be not “perjury” but “treason”; Jesse Watters is asking a U.S. senator whether Obama should “go to prison.” They have apparently learned nothing from overpromising on Epstein only for the Trump administration to under-deliver when the facts couldn’t match the MAGA narrative.

Indeed, according to Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist and a Fox contributor, even typing the preceding paragraphs casting doubt on the validity of Gabbard’s argument should expose me to legal exposure. In a July 22 thread, she described Gabbard’s “revelations” as “the biggest scandal in our history” and condemned media outlets for “ignoring” and “downplaying” it.

“Every time the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times, Margaret Brennan, The Atlantic, etc., lie and say this story is not a big deal, they are perpetuating their seditious conspiracy,” she added. “Creative minds should think about what legal exposure they have for their role in this.” Hemingway went on to describe those outlets and journalists as “co-conspirators” in the alleged plot. She did not identify the legal consequences she believes they should face. Nor is it clear what this legal argument would mean for conservatives like her Fox colleague Andrew McCarthy or Eli Lake, who criticized Gabbard’s conclusions, or the right-wing outlets which published their assessments, Rich Lowry’s National Review and Bari Weiss’ The Free Press.

[...] Trump’s diverse right-wing coalition and the fractured media ecosystem he unified during his campaign may be breaking apart over his handling of the Epstein case. But he seems to recognize that one thing that brings them together is their shared hatred of Democrats like Obama and the free press, and he’s been acting accordingly. And that means that just an eighth of the way through his second presidency, we’re already in very dangerous territory.

MAGA media cheerleaders turn their sights on to their foes such as Barack Obama to deflect from reporting on Donald Trump’s plain as day ties to pedo Jeffrey Epstein.

[kickmag]

Media Questions Of The Week

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Why was Jaguar Wright presented with the Defender of Freedom Award by General Michael Flynn at Mar-A-Lago? 

[tomorrowusa]

Trump minions.

A reminder that Jill Stein already has a record of serving as a useful idiot for Trump. She and Trump's future National Security Adviser (and still QAnon fanatic) Michael Flynn were in Moscow in 2015 for an anniversary celebration for RT – Russia's international propaganda channel. You don't sit at Putin's table just because he enjoys your delightful dinner conversation.

Trump himself is a useful idiot for Vladimir Putin. Hapless third party losers are useful idiots for a useful idiot. SAD!

[mylionheart2]

ACTIVE MEASURES

Although find it hilarious that GOP senators voted against Rick Scott for senate majority leader in a secret ballot... Just a reminder that John Thune who was just elected republican senate majority leader was one of the 8 republican senators who spent the 4th of July in Moscow in 2018. All roads lead to Putin.

*Trump did NOT endorse Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader. 🤔🧐

[scottguy]

Flynn admitted, under oath in a deposition, that he never saw any credible proof of voter fraud.

You know Flynn always knew that and just didn't care. He just wanted his racist, fascist, democracy hating pal, Trump, to stay in power illegally.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Michael Flynn: 'Gates of Hell' will be unleashed on Trump's enemies when he takes office

(Hyung Jin Sean Moon and Kook Jin Justin Moon provided a platform for Michael Flynn at the 2024 Rod of Iron Freedom Festival.)

by Matthew Chapman October 14, 2024 8:59PM ET

Former President Donald Trump's one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is ramping up his apocalyptic rhetoric to a new and dangerous extreme, Ja'han Jones wrote for MSNBC's "ReidOut Blog."

Flynn, who was fired from Trump's administration and took a plea deal for lying to federal investigators about his ties to Russia before being pardoned by Trump, has since descended into extreme conspiracy theory circles, in particular forming close ties to the QAnon movement, which believes Trump must save America from Satanic child sex trafficking cannibals. He has previously suggested the U.S. should undergo a military coup like that in Myanmar.

His latest rhetoric suggests he hasn't backed down from that position at all, Jones wrote.

Flynn recently spoke at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival, sponsored by a radical schismatic sect of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, which worships the AR-15 as a holy instrument ordained by God. And when an attendee in the crowd asked him about the possibility of military tribunals and executions of Trump's enemies, Flynn promised a lot more than that if the former president secures victory.

“I think a lot of people actually think like you do, and I think that that’s your right and our privilege. … There’s a way to get after this, but we have to win first,” said Flynn. "I’m about winning. We have to win. And these people are already up to no good. So, we gotta win first. We win, and then, 'Katy, bar the door.' OK? Believe me: The gates of hell — my hell — will be unleashed."

All of this, Jones concluded ominously, comes as "Trump is now openly floating the idea of deploying the military against his critics if he’s elected. It’s easy to imagine Flynn being part of that violent plan."