I have thought for a long time, now, that there is *something* behind all this hysterical enslavement to Donald Trump.
I mean, if you or any rational person was inclined to become a spineless acolyte to ANY past or present politician, would it be Donald Trump? In what universe? A cowardly bully, an Eastern elitist, a sissy-boy who has never actually been in a physical confrontation, though he has said things that would certainly provoke one, because he cowers behind armies of feral attorneys and launches social media and legal attacks designed to ruin his enemies, of which there are THOUSANDS. This is the tough guy that legions of Good Ol’ Joe middle American men fixate on as a role model? Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Audie Murphy, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, okay, we get all those. But THIS guy, the absolute antithesis of what “tough guy” has traditionally meant?
Not likely.
I suspect Putin.
It would not be any kind of stretch or at all implausible to think that a man who ran the Soviet KGB, casually had enemies (or rivals, occasionally friends) killed, mined relentlessly for dirt on American and other countries’ leaders, and blackmailed people by the barrelful his entire career could amass dossiers on US politicians? Would it be a real stetch to think that he would use their pasts to coerce them into supporting Useful Idiot, Trump, on whom you KNOW he has mountains of dirt on and, in practical terms, has owned for decades?
Is anyone really under the impression that Trump – who has never been any good at hiding his crimes and plots and exhibits a brazen disregard for any inconvenient facts about his actions and words – did ANYTHING, down to and including eating lunch every day while in Moscow, that Putin didn’t get a report about? I have ZERO doubts that Putin has those “pee-pee tapes” and has let Trump know he has ’em. Putin’s oft-stated goal has been to destabilize America and that is certainly what Trump has worked relentlessly at since the day he took office. He is Putin’s property and has acted like it and I do not know WHY, for the love of God(!), the Biden DOJ is not actively investigating that relationship…or are they?
I believe this is true – all of it. Trump was compromised long before he ran for the president. He did, in fact, express several times, when asked about running for office, how the presidency would limit what he could do in terms of what he cares about most: making money. It is, to me, sorta glaringly obvious that something or someone pushed him into running and that someone managed to overcome Trump’s massive ego and his relentless drive to pile up dollars. I don’t believe Trump ever really wanted to hold that job and ran mainly to flex his “muscles” and elevate his profile. In terms of his name recognition, running was just as good as winning. We have numerous reports from people who were with him on election day, all saying that he expected to lose and was stunned and upset when it became obvious he would “win”.
The best proof of Putin as the Puppet Master is to google “trump and putin” images and look at how thoroughly miserable Trump looks in photos of the two. Even when he’s smiling, he looks like he’s trying to pass a kidney stone. How is it that a man whose ENTIRE adult life has been about convincing people that he is the Alpha Male in every room suddenly becomes an ass-kissing sycophant to a Russian leader – a man whom, it is at least arguable, was several rungs down the ladder from him in riches, fame, and profile – at very least raising questions about Trump’s own loyalties and how much influence Putin has on his decisions.
“Where there is smoke, there’s fire”; oldest truism in the book and the smoke wafting off the Trump “presidency” is as vast as the forest fire plume that blankets the West Coast every summer.
I think that the main reason we all lurch to a halt at the threshold of accepting that Donald Trump is an agent of a foreign government is simply because the thought is so heinous and so offensive to our image of ourselves as the “leaders of the Free World” that the idea of a US president being compromised to this degree scares us down to our DNA. If we let go of the belief that we are the world’s superpower, incorruptible, fundamentally Good, and just plain too powerful to seriously mess with, what do we have left? If some malevolent murderer like Vladimir Putin is able to grasp and control our very leaders, the terra firma beneath our bedrock America suddenly becomes quicksand and threatens to swallow us all. And the ONLY real way to start rooting out such incursions is to let that best disinfectant, sunlight, into the situation and see what slithers out.
We NEED these questions answered. SOON.
ADDENDUM, October 28, 2025
Now that we are ten months along in the SECOND Trump, uh, “presidency”, there will obviously be no FBI or CIA-driven investigation into the buried connections between Trump and Putin/oligarchs and/or spies within the Russian hierarchy. As much energy as the Trump, uh, “administration” has expended in trying to make all of us forget the name “Epstein” and Trump’s badly-concealed predilection for very young girls, his own intelligence services are not at all likely to run an end-around on the Boss and root out all his Russian handlers.
I have no platform at all for petitioning governments of our (mostly former) allies but, given that this unhinged man-child with zero impulse control and the worlds touchiest ego has his greasy little fingers within arm’s length of the nuclear football, it would absolutely be in all their best interests to pool their resources and dig up dirt enough to defang BOTH Trump and Putin, who also has a nuclear arsenal and sees no need for impulse control at all, when there are plenty of windows to toss adversaries out of. Unleashing the individual destructive capabilities of either nation would be enough to plunge all of humanity into an unimnaginably deadly world-wide conflict. Unleashing both would bring about literal Armageddon.
I am by NO means of the opinion that I am the first person to think about ANY of this. PROBABLY world leaders are already deep into strategies for stopping Trump. But even here in the US, it would certainly behoove some of our billionaire class who are NOT beholding to the Orange Menace to commission their own covert investigation. After all, if Putin can use dirt to rein in Trump, so can we.
We are right on the very precipice of having to make drastic changes in our home country. It has become obvious that the Trump criminals are actively plotting to cancel all future elections, probably by means of using their ICE invasions of major cities as provocation for violence where none really exists (they’re brewing a shitload of beer in PDX, for a city that is a burned-out war zone) and invoke the Insurrection Act to give Cheeto “constitutional” latitude to sieze even more power. As an altervative to civil war – which WILL likely be the end result of Trump’s shenanigans, as we, the sane MAJORITY of America, will never even remotely knuckle under to a pile of human waste like Donadl J. Trump and his Legion of Turds – SECESSION looks a lot more appealing and is arguably an idea whose time has simply come, even without the Trumpists. America has become SO hideously complex and truth so hard to come by that breaking it up into three or four other countries makes a lot of sense.
Whatever it is that come of all this, it has to come FAST. If you think that we have either a) time to proceed slowly, or b) hope of a reconciliation, you are simply not paying attention.
SWB
The Pour Fool 
Who does the bully become weak and subservient to? The more powerful, meaner, crueler bully.
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