I think The Powers That Be are done with Krasnov. He has served his purpose.

[Botany]

All of this stuff about Trump has been known for years. The stories of underage women, studio 54 w/
the cocaine and sex parties, Epstein, walking in on teen beauty contestants when they were naked,
saying his own daughter was a hot piece of ass, his connections to organized crime, to having call
girls working @ his casinos, and so on are old news. Why now? They got their tax breaks, regulations
have been gutted, and benefits to the rich and fossil fuel industries and so it is good bye Donny time.
He has served his purpose.

And the T.P.T.B./tech- crypto boys now have a shiny new judicial & electoral system to keep them
in power and money too.

[Turbineguy]

1. Could be.

Afterall, you don't want too much trump and a giant bankruptcy.

[yardwork]

2. Enter Vance.

[Botany]

4. And crypto currency will become the new coin of the realm.

He is Peter Theil’s poodle.

[Joinfortmill]

25. Literally, I think.

[OldBaldy1701E]

34. It won't stop with that, though.

Vance is the puppet of some very radical right wing conservatives who are rich and who want us to go back to being little more than a serfdom.

And he will do whatever they want him to.

Then, there is his own racism and ignorance. He will be completely on board with full-on 'safety patrols' and whatever else he needs to assure his owners that he is solely in their camp and will never aid anyone but them, as well as keeping the rabble in line to keep on making the rich richer.

I am more concerned about him than the orange gibbon, to be honest.

[ChazInAz]

35. Time for a modern "Cross of Gold" speech!

[OLDMDDEM]

3. That makes sense. Thank you.

[Botany]

10. Although I have been wrong before

@ one time I liked and was a fan of Joe Paterno, Woody Allen, and Bill Cosby.

[OLDMDDEM]

11. Interesting. So was I.

[PatrickforB]

26. I always disliked Woody Allen. n/t

[rampartd]

5. there may be a few atrocities they still want to blame on trump

the crypto heist seems like the big one pending.

[Botany]

16. Shutting down NOAA's Climate Observatory on Mauna Loa in Hawaii is the goal of the Fossil Fuel Industries

and Trump is 100% on board with that. That observatory has been the gold standard for climate
data for 70 years and the facts don’t lie. CO 2 is building up end of story.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before...

[travelingthrulife]

7. Yup. They just wanted his signature on that Big Bad Bill. He has become a liability.

They should just have him visit Vlad.

[WiVoter]

8. Agree, But ....

Human nature seems to be the more a person gets the more they want. They can never get enough, they are never satisfied.

[LastDemocratInSC]

17. That's why his niece titled her first book as "Too Much and Never Enough".

[WiVoter]

22. Yup

[MineralMan]

9. One can hope.

I'm one who does. I'm not confident in that hope, though. I've been disappointed too often already.

[awesomerwb1]

12. We'll see. I have serious doubts

I was on twitter last night reading the comments and trump still has very strong support. You wouldn't believe the amount of tweets against musk (from magas with "Christian" in their profiles) because he said something about the Epstein files. What a horrible horrible bunch.

[usonian]

13. Revenge of the Tech Bros

Unless I'm mistaken, Vance is aligned with the Tech Bros who gave Trump a second term.

Yes, One of them got pretty butt-hurt after spending bigly. I believe that Vance was always the poster boy for the fascist branch of Silicon Valley.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220008207

Hoping for some CT's that will neuter JD.

Spiro Agnew style. What comes next, nobody knows.

Cue the auctioneer.

[Peacetrain]

14. I think you may have found the answer!!

[oregonjen]

15. I agree. Posted that a couple of times here

He’s an old ill narcissistic bumbling fool. Way past his usefulness. Why on earth would they release ANY sort of health info other than he is the most healthiest person alive bologna they usually say?

[Botany]

18. "They" can no longer hide his cognitive dissembling.

Canada’s P.M. had to stop his presser because Trump was so out of it and was
speaking complete gibberish.

And I think his usefulness to T.P.T.B. vs his downside are not worth it anymore.

[AllaN01Bear]

27. and yet we had to get rid of biden beccause of the socalled same stuff and we got trump.

[EverHopeful]

19. Been seeing him as the Trojan Horse for some time

Although I really thought they'd gotten far more "Idiot" and far less "Useful" than they'd planned on. Clearly I was wrong.

[Arazi]

20. Did Murdoch seek out incriminating evidence or did Ghislaine Maxwell proffer it up?

She wants a pardon. Is she reminding Traitor that she has evidence on him?

The Murdochs and Maxwells are publishing rivals. They definitely know each other. Did ole Rupert hunt them down looking for something to use?

I wonder who reached out first

[Johonny]

21. I think we can assume, they dont want Lara

Or Don Jr. taking over the family business. They thought he was gone 4 years ago, but they didn't drive the stake through his heart. I don't believe they have the guts to do it now either.

[lostnfound]

23. I agree. And they will run a little fake commission on the topic, contain the spread of truth, and move on. Nt

[orangecrush]

24. My take as well.

[Martin Eden]

28. Are you suggesting Krasnov won't finish his term?

If the orange felon loses a big chunk of his maga support, will he be removed by 25A, or impeachment?

Stroke out on his own, or fall out the proverbial window?

[Ocelot II]

29. Maybe so, but I don't think they'll be able to get rid of him very easily using the 25th Amendment.

That requires the agreement of the VP, who'd be happy to comply, but also of a majority of the Cabinet. Would a majority of Trump's flunkies want to dump Trump if they knew Vance was likely to replace them with his own flunkies?

[Wicked Blue]

30. And they have all our personal data

for their nefarious purposes

[johnnyfins]

31. We'll see.

I was expecting more than a birthday book. I think Ghislaine was definitely the one who pointed the WSJ to this little(big) piece of evidence.

Since slobby cant keep his mouth shut, expect some rage posting at some point.

[GoodRaisin]

32. Yeah, they've gotten what they wanted and Krasnov is threatening to become an

economic/foreign policy disaster. This is an ideal time for them to throw Krasnov under the bus and install Vance. I never thought there was much chance they would keep Krasnov the full 4 years.

[Botany]

37. Krasnov is gonna declare of having he's having health issues, step down, and walk away a billionaire.

@ least that is how I see it happening.

[gfarber]

33. Powers That Be

Cheeto Benito, his purpose now spent,
With scandals, long-known, heaven-sent.
Tax breaks in his wake,
No more purpose to make,
By "Powers That Be" he was rent.

That old Donny, his uses all done,
With dirt everyone knew, bar none.
Tax cuts in the bag,
Now he's just a used rag,
By the Powers That Be, he's outrun.

[lame54]

36. No personality Vance can't hold them together