Warning: this episode contains strong language.
In his first week as president-elect, Donald J. Trump moved at breakneck speed to fill out his cabinet with a set of loyalists who were both conventional and deeply unconventional, the U.S. Senate chose a leader who could complicate Trump’s agenda, and President Joe Biden welcomed Trump back to the White House.
Times Journalists Michael Barbaro, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, sat down to make sense of it all.
Guest:
• Julie Hirschfeld Davis (https://www.nytimes.com/by/julie-hirschfeld-davis) , who covers politics for The New York Times.
• Peter Baker (https://www.nytimes.com/by/peter-baker) , the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times.
• Maggie Haberman (https://www.nytimes.com/by/maggie-haberman) , a senior political correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Matt Gaetz is Mr. Trump’s pick for attorney general (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general.html) .
• John Thune is set to become the next Senate majority leader (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/john-tune-senate-republican-leader.html) .
• Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump’s brief public display of civility (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/trump-biden-white-house.html) was followed by a two-hour meeting behind closed doors.
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Perversion and incompetence aren’t disqualifiers for key Trump appointments.
They’re PREREQUISITES.
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HOW DID KAMALA HARRIS GET 12 MILLION LESS VOTES THAN JOE BIDEN GOT IN 2020?
Putin’s self-announced “NEW WORLD ORDER” is already here.
I believe that he and his cabal of global billionaire high-tech oligarchs (American oligarchs included) and their cyber-minions have conspired to steal the election for Donald Trump.
Putin to steal this election, or if he was once again just a grateful recipient of Putin’s generosity, as Trump claimed when Putin undeniably invested millions into helping him win the 2016 election, which is not in dispute.
In fact, Putin has already publicly claimed that he won the election for Trump, along with mocking Melania’s nude photos on Russian primetime State TV (including full-frontal).
We must find out if Donald Trump or any of his billionaire doners like Elon Musk conspired with Vladimir
Putin is making sure that Trump and the entire planet understand exactly who is “the master” and who is “the servant”.
At this point, the existence of that long-rumored “Moscow Hotel Pee Sex Video” seems more and more likely every day.
Does anyone still believe that Donald Trump is not at least “compromised” by Vladimir Putin, or worse yet a Russian asset?
We also already know that Putin and other enemy regimes that wish to destroy our democracy (Trumps buddies) have been advancing their CYBER WARFARE capabilities by leaps and bounds in recent years (think CROWDSTRIKE).
Imagine how much more effective they would be with “insider information” from HIGH-TECH oligarchs like Elon Musk and his Silicon Valley high-tech billionaire buddies who bankrolled Trump with more than half of a billion dollars, which is more than all the money that Trump has grifted off of his misguided and misinformed followers, while the rest of us average citizens are still limited to $3,300 donations to any one candidate per calendar year thanks to the Activist Extremist Supreme Court Justices who gave us the outrageous “Citizens United” ruling which paved the way for billionaires to buy and steal elections.
Unfortunately, the oligarchical media has successfully kept this hidden from the MAGA half of the American Public.
As a result, we are on the brink of losing our democracy.
If we don’t root out the truth now it may be too late after Putin and his American puppets succeed in implementing their sinister Project 2025, which I fear is the American component to Putin’s fascist New World Order.
Thankfully, the growing number of “crazy left-wing conspiracy theorists” that the oligarchical media is quickly trying to silence have already successfully forced Trump’s incoming CIA Director Kash Patel to dismiss the glaring “How did Kamala Harris get 12 million less votes than Joe Biden got in 2020” discrepancy as nothing more than more proof that Joe Biden actually did steal the 2020 election. Really?
So, if Joe Biden used domestic CYBER WARFARE to steal the 2020 election than why didn’t it occur to him to use this same technology to steal the 2024 election for Kamala Harris?
Do we really believe that Putin and his army of high-tech cyber warriors lack the technology to interfere with electronic voting machines when we already know that college students and ordinary citizens have been able to hack into them without a trace?
We have all heard Joe Rogan’s account of how Elon Musk had a device that confirmed to him that Donald Trump had already won the election four hours before it was revealed to us.
So, if Elon Musk already has the capacity to access voting machine data, does he also have the capacity to change the data as well?
After all, just because American systems didn’t “detect” anything in the immediate hours after the election does not mean that nothing happened.
It just means that their initial search did not detect anything, and can not detect anything more without a much deeper investigation, which in that moment could not be justified due to a lack of evidence.
However, that was before Joe Rogan’s story about Elon Musk’s magic election device, and after Elon’s personal satellites fell from the sky, thus potentially destroying the only real physical evidence in existence.
Has the government questioned Jo Rogan about this encounter and the device Elon Musk was showing off at the election watch party that confirmed Trump’s win four hours earlier than the media?
Especially when, according to Jo Rogan, Musk was so confident in his magic handheld time machine that he didn’t bother to stick around and skipped out early, before the returns ever confirmed that Elon’s magic device was right.
After all, he is the richest man in the world with access to America’s most advanced systems who also has his own private “Big-Tech” Empire which, “with inside information”, could easily be made to build a firewall that would be impenetrable to our own defensive technologies.
Consider also that his net worth grew 60 billion dollars overnight because of the Trump Win.
Did his magic device also predict his record windfall?
Consider also that Donald Trump and his daughter-in-law and RNC usurper Lara Trump inexplicably decided not to waste money on establishing real field offices for phone banking and door knocking, but instead inexplicably decided to put the entire “get-out-vote” responsibilities directly into the hands of Elon Musk.
Or should I say into the device that was in Elon Musk’s hand?
Even more inexplicable was their decision to hold rallies in non-battleground states where he still had a large enough fanbase to guarantee him a big turn-out, instead of campaigning in battleground states where his dwindling popularity was evidenced by embarrassingly small crowd sizes.
Was this just to maintain the charade of still being as popular as he was in 2016?
Was he just pretending to be campaigning because he knew that the fix was in?
And how many times over the past year did we hear perplexing statements such as “You don’t have to vote, I got plenty of votes”, and “we got all the votes we need”?
And why didn’t he see the need to campaign against Kamala Harris until party leaders began pushing him as they panicked in response to Kamala’s giant crowd sizes and rapidly growing popularity?
Are we really to believe that his dwindling crowd sizes in battleground states suddenly sprang into action in record numbers on election day even though these same voters had little or no interest in attending their great leader’s rally when he came to town?
This also begins to explain the multitude of bold-face-lies about thousands of adoring fans clamoring to get in to fill the sea of empty seats at his lackluster rallies, despite clear evidence that this was not true.
It also begins to explain his bizarre hand-waving to invisible crowds as if he was Julius Caesar reincarnated (like a true “wanna-be-dictator”).
We also already know that Putin’s was behind the election day bomb-threats at over 60 crucial blue precincts that Kamala needed to excel in to offset the wave of Joe Rogan’s misinformed man-groupies and FOX SPORTS NET jocks who watch sports 24/7 and thus easily lured into FOX NEWS and right-wing media, X, etc.
Do we really believe that phoning in bomb-threats was the full extent of Putin’s plans to steal this election for Trump?
It is also obvious to me that Putin’s plan to initiate his New World Order was long in planning and tailormade for Joe Biden.
With Joe Biden’s dwindling popularity last year no one would ever have suspected foul play had he remained in the race and lost to Donald Trump with the same numbers.
However, that was before Kamala Harris entered the race and lit a fire across America.
Kamala Harris instantly became the biggest threat to Putin’s diabolical plot and there was no way that he and his cabal of international billionaire oligarchs were going to wait another four years for their planned offensive to crush Ukraine once and for all with the help of his American puppets and 10, 000 North Korean Troops who are just waiting for his signal to unofficially begin World War III.
Full of surprises? Is anyone really surprised by Trump’s cabinet picks?