Garry, I respect your desire to hear all viewpoints. That is democracy. All that said, the Mueller Report and the Senate Report prove with 100% certainty that Trump willingly accepted illegal help from Putin in 2016 and then credibly obstructed justice numerous times to hide what he did. These are facts, and they will be facts regardless of what happens from now until the end of time. When MAGA tries to confuse Americans about the Steele dossier blah blah, which wasn't the reason for the investigation in the first place, and lie about what actually happened in 2016 and 2017 simply because MAGA doesn't like the fact that Trump's victory and first presidency will forever be tainted by Russia's intervention and Trump's participation in that effort, you don't have to accept those MAGA opinions and lies as legitimate positions or facts. In fact, accepting them as such is destroying democracy, the very thing you are trying to save. Be careful giving an inch when MAGA wants to take a mile. The whole world now knows just how destructive Trumpism has been to America. Yet MAGA, even in numerous places on this board, insists Obama is the problem and all the investigations of Trump are illegit. There is no discussion worth having on those points.
Open borders communism is far more dangerous than orange man. The Mueller investigation was staged on false pretenses, which hampered Trump's first term. Biden's autopen administration pushed censorship and tried to set up a ministry of truth through the disinformation government board. That is far worse than a rich comedian's show getting cancelled. Substack is full of writers who spend their entire lives criticizing Trump, none of them have been censored and many are making massive incomes spewing their hysteria.
What?! Substack writers are "making massive incomes" spewing their hysteria?! Are you speaking from experience, because all I see in your comment is hysteria and hard-pushing your own sub stack writing. How much are YOU making that way?! FO!
You’re so full of shit that it literally comes out of your ears. Trump and his MAGA fascist death cult are the biggest threat to American democracy since the Confederacy during the American Civil War of the 1860s. And the clown pundits on Fox are paid a lot more than writers on Substack.
Trump is a deep state swamp creature who is covering up for pedos and attempting, out of desperation, to divert attention from it by making outrageous accusations about Obama and Adam Schiff. He promised to be completely transparent during his 2024 reelection campaign for President and release the Epstein files.
In refusing to do so, he lied to his most fervent supporters. Democrats and everyone else who care about the truth and the victims of pedos must not rest until all of the Epstein files are released and the full extent of Trump’s coverup is exposed.
Yep. While ICE gets a budget bigger than the FBI & DEA to witch-hunt imaginary foreign threats, the one threat that's capable of sinking America is within its borders. A threat that killed more Americans between 1861-65 in the name of "states rights" than all the subsequent wars it was involved in combined.
Really? Then why do buy into the agitprop of Trump and his MAGA fascist mullahs? It leads me to think that you have been indoctrinated into his death cult. That is not real freedom.
If the real Yuri Bezmenov was still alive today, wouldn't he have recognised Trump as a KGB/FSB-grade plant or otherwise a "useful idiot"? Then again, after the Cold War ended, his fellow dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn became an anti-NATO Putin shill in his dotage.
Yes, and I'd say AI has benefited them in coming across as less obviously BOT-ish than before. Their tactics have become more insidious. What they lose in numbers, they try to make up in sounding a tad less stupid...yet still not intelligent in most respects.
I am torn between your insights and the MAGAs that have been making comments. The problem is that they are in denial about Trump’s actual lawlessness. He was convicted after a fair trial and they believe that it was politically motivated. These are frustrations that I have with the cult. I understand you are welcoming them but it’s like talking into the void.
The USA might not yet be an authoritarian regime. However certainly the people are being groomed to accept it and its "banality" of evil. Normalization and the "not really 'there' yet" analyses lead the public to "go along for now" and not to rise up against the F47 regime's corruption of morals, ethics, and norms in all areas.
I don't know much about your background but I know you were a successful chess player so you likely have a high IQ. So its really disingenuous the arguments you put forward because I know you are smart enough to realize the context and objectiveness you omit. Did you get upset when CBS cancelled James Corden, he too hosted a late show that consistently lost money. Did Cobert offer to cut his pay to stay at CBS so all his employees could keep their jobs? My guess is ...NO. He knows he is on a sinking ship and his audience demographics are not valuable to advertisers. You must have been living in a complete info blackout the last 8 years if you think Obama did not play a role in the targeting of a sitting- and later an ex-President. The double standard is not lost on anyone except for a select few rabid liberals; most liberals are just silent and hope the news cycle plays out quickly. You and a few others actually try to defend the Obama admin which is a really poor decision (I would think your superior analytical skill would recognize this). When you take these unreasoned views, I question all your other views and published writings (about Russia and other topics) which is really sad but its inevitable because once a person loses their credibility it tarnishes everything one touches. I implore you to more critically think about the issues you publish and take a 360 view on such topics. Swap out 'Trump' for 'Biden" or 'Obama" or 'Clinton' and see how your story sounds then. I truly believe you will get more readers by sharing insightful analysis rather than trying to divide us and raise our blood pressure. The MSM has tried that and their audience numbers confirm we are not interested in that anymore. Which brings us back to Colbert. His nightly division has run its course, and people are exhausted with that form of entertainment. Don't blame the views and don't blame CBS. The real question is why did CBS wait so long to pull the plug? Were they a tool for the Democratic party?
Is this really what you think? Try switching out “if Obama did any of the illegal and immoral things that trump has done “ you would have been screaming in the streets. Yet you watch as our Constitution is shredded and we as a country have been put on the human rights watch list for the treatment of our people by this regime. Check yourself
Try reading the constitution again. Not activist judges' interpretations but the actual document. You should also read source documents not just read NYT headlines or MSNBC BS, go to the source and you will see its not what you are being sold.
What a pile of trumputinbot BS! You CANNOT compare (or swap) Trump with any of the other presidents you mention, simply because they are human with at least some degree of morals, decency and shame. Trump on the other hand is a shameless sociopath, serial and pathological liar, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, serial adulterer, convicted fraudster and conman, serial bankrupted "businessman" and laundromat for Russian oligarch dirty money, and now likely a pedophile on top of a convicted pedophile friend! That person has no redeeming quality to speak of. So GFYS and keep FYS till you join the convicted pedophile whose friends you are defending.
You say: “You can try to wave away the criminal charges against Trump as “made up” but they are not. Nor was the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.”
Evidence of Russian interference was fabricated by the Steele dossier, paid for by the Hilary campaign to weaponise fears of Russian interference.
Even Trump conceded Mueller’s 2019 finding that the evidence of Russian interference was not made up. To the contrary there were findings of “multiple, systematic efforts [by Russia] to interfere in our election.” What was not found was evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign (even though there was some smoke, they couldn’t find any fire).
The only evidence that the Russians were in any was successful was fabricated in the Steele Dossier by Hilary Clinton, to undermine American Democracy because she didn’t like the result.
Gary says that the evidence wasn’t made up, and it plainly was.
Honestly, you people are living in an alternative reality. The Mueller Report showed NO collusion between Trump and Russia and Trump has always called it a hoax. The Durham Report and the latest set of documents released by the DNI Tulsi Gabbard prove that it was a hoax perpetrated by democrats and intelligence agencies at the behest of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
As the six right-wing politicians on the Supreme Court continue to rule in favor of Trump, will there be a last straw?
Everyone is blind to the cause of the disaster known as "President Trump." There is no impartial tribunal to try cases against the members of the bench and the bar. They are the judges in their own cases. No one else has this privilege, because it is a violation of the Constitution. And who decides what violates the Constitution, even in their own cases?
Here are just three of the direct consequences of such impunity: the rulings in Bush v. Gore; Citizens United; Trump v. United States. This lawlessness is destroying our country. Unless we bring the members of the bench and the bar under the control of the law, we are finished.
you are right, but in America, its different, we are not, an autocracy, Trump is as you say, 'acting out' as a dictator wanna be and getting results from weak entities', but he is acting as if he were a king, 'ACT IF' is the key word. it won't last, not in the US. I think.
How is CBS “independent media”? They are the definition of corporate regime media and they always have been. They serve only to defend American centers of power. Come on man, this was one of the original “Big 3” networks!
Everyone is reading and quoting their own the only correct version of the political bible. Trying to bring a common sense to a political debate in today's America is a beautiful utopia, but good try, Gary, thank you.
I haven't yet seen the thinking that all those charges against Trump set a precedent. That former Presidents can now be charged. Anyways, rather than argue point by point, I'll say this: your article is poorly written. It reads like a high school journalist just learning the ropes. It regurgitates the usual talking points without much in the way of actual thinking. The greatest sin? You present only one side of the argument. Bias. Much more valuable would have been presenting both sides and actually thinking.
Do you earnestly believe that what Trump is doing when it comes to investigating Comey and Brennan is not partisan? Partisan
That the Obama arrest video isn’t inappropriate? Inappropriate
Or do you believe that the threat from the far-left is so great that the ends justify the means? I would love to hear what people think of as "far-left" - politicians who are examples of this, and what the threats are.
Garry, I respect your desire to hear all viewpoints. That is democracy. All that said, the Mueller Report and the Senate Report prove with 100% certainty that Trump willingly accepted illegal help from Putin in 2016 and then credibly obstructed justice numerous times to hide what he did. These are facts, and they will be facts regardless of what happens from now until the end of time. When MAGA tries to confuse Americans about the Steele dossier blah blah, which wasn't the reason for the investigation in the first place, and lie about what actually happened in 2016 and 2017 simply because MAGA doesn't like the fact that Trump's victory and first presidency will forever be tainted by Russia's intervention and Trump's participation in that effort, you don't have to accept those MAGA opinions and lies as legitimate positions or facts. In fact, accepting them as such is destroying democracy, the very thing you are trying to save. Be careful giving an inch when MAGA wants to take a mile. The whole world now knows just how destructive Trumpism has been to America. Yet MAGA, even in numerous places on this board, insists Obama is the problem and all the investigations of Trump are illegit. There is no discussion worth having on those points.
And not just America. Just like a COVID herd immunity eugenicist, Trump has thought out loud of wilfully spreading the political contagion.
Open borders communism is far more dangerous than orange man. The Mueller investigation was staged on false pretenses, which hampered Trump's first term. Biden's autopen administration pushed censorship and tried to set up a ministry of truth through the disinformation government board. That is far worse than a rich comedian's show getting cancelled. Substack is full of writers who spend their entire lives criticizing Trump, none of them have been censored and many are making massive incomes spewing their hysteria.
Respect for responding to your critics. You are a smart man, but check your biases. Your friend Vindman is a subversion agent: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/alexander-vindman-cringeman-cringestack-kgb
What?! Substack writers are "making massive incomes" spewing their hysteria?! Are you speaking from experience, because all I see in your comment is hysteria and hard-pushing your own sub stack writing. How much are YOU making that way?! FO!
If yuri is making more than a dime, he is making too much!
You’re so full of shit that it literally comes out of your ears. Trump and his MAGA fascist death cult are the biggest threat to American democracy since the Confederacy during the American Civil War of the 1860s. And the clown pundits on Fox are paid a lot more than writers on Substack.
Trump is a deep state swamp creature who is covering up for pedos and attempting, out of desperation, to divert attention from it by making outrageous accusations about Obama and Adam Schiff. He promised to be completely transparent during his 2024 reelection campaign for President and release the Epstein files.
In refusing to do so, he lied to his most fervent supporters. Democrats and everyone else who care about the truth and the victims of pedos must not rest until all of the Epstein files are released and the full extent of Trump’s coverup is exposed.
Yep. While ICE gets a budget bigger than the FBI & DEA to witch-hunt imaginary foreign threats, the one threat that's capable of sinking America is within its borders. A threat that killed more Americans between 1861-65 in the name of "states rights" than all the subsequent wars it was involved in combined.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jul/11/jon-favreau/ICE-FBI-bill-Donald-Trump-largest
Another #MAGAmoron speaks up
Well said, Kumara. I sometimes worry that the U.S. is headed down that path again.
This is one of the reasons I’m a paid subscriber to your Stack, Yuri—so I don’t have to read stuff like this!
Know the truth and the truth will set you free.
Good to know.
I’m free, baby!
Really? Then why do buy into the agitprop of Trump and his MAGA fascist mullahs? It leads me to think that you have been indoctrinated into his death cult. That is not real freedom.
You’re adorable!
Then listen to me.
If the real Yuri Bezmenov was still alive today, wouldn't he have recognised Trump as a KGB/FSB-grade plant or otherwise a "useful idiot"? Then again, after the Cold War ended, his fellow dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn became an anti-NATO Putin shill in his dotage.
Seems your comment section is full of putinbots, Gary. Don't expect any "reasoning" from them.
Yes, and I'd say AI has benefited them in coming across as less obviously BOT-ish than before. Their tactics have become more insidious. What they lose in numbers, they try to make up in sounding a tad less stupid...yet still not intelligent in most respects.
I am torn between your insights and the MAGAs that have been making comments. The problem is that they are in denial about Trump’s actual lawlessness. He was convicted after a fair trial and they believe that it was politically motivated. These are frustrations that I have with the cult. I understand you are welcoming them but it’s like talking into the void.
The USA might not yet be an authoritarian regime. However certainly the people are being groomed to accept it and its "banality" of evil. Normalization and the "not really 'there' yet" analyses lead the public to "go along for now" and not to rise up against the F47 regime's corruption of morals, ethics, and norms in all areas.
I don't know much about your background but I know you were a successful chess player so you likely have a high IQ. So its really disingenuous the arguments you put forward because I know you are smart enough to realize the context and objectiveness you omit. Did you get upset when CBS cancelled James Corden, he too hosted a late show that consistently lost money. Did Cobert offer to cut his pay to stay at CBS so all his employees could keep their jobs? My guess is ...NO. He knows he is on a sinking ship and his audience demographics are not valuable to advertisers. You must have been living in a complete info blackout the last 8 years if you think Obama did not play a role in the targeting of a sitting- and later an ex-President. The double standard is not lost on anyone except for a select few rabid liberals; most liberals are just silent and hope the news cycle plays out quickly. You and a few others actually try to defend the Obama admin which is a really poor decision (I would think your superior analytical skill would recognize this). When you take these unreasoned views, I question all your other views and published writings (about Russia and other topics) which is really sad but its inevitable because once a person loses their credibility it tarnishes everything one touches. I implore you to more critically think about the issues you publish and take a 360 view on such topics. Swap out 'Trump' for 'Biden" or 'Obama" or 'Clinton' and see how your story sounds then. I truly believe you will get more readers by sharing insightful analysis rather than trying to divide us and raise our blood pressure. The MSM has tried that and their audience numbers confirm we are not interested in that anymore. Which brings us back to Colbert. His nightly division has run its course, and people are exhausted with that form of entertainment. Don't blame the views and don't blame CBS. The real question is why did CBS wait so long to pull the plug? Were they a tool for the Democratic party?
Is this really what you think? Try switching out “if Obama did any of the illegal and immoral things that trump has done “ you would have been screaming in the streets. Yet you watch as our Constitution is shredded and we as a country have been put on the human rights watch list for the treatment of our people by this regime. Check yourself
Try reading the constitution again. Not activist judges' interpretations but the actual document. You should also read source documents not just read NYT headlines or MSNBC BS, go to the source and you will see its not what you are being sold.
What a pile of trumputinbot BS! You CANNOT compare (or swap) Trump with any of the other presidents you mention, simply because they are human with at least some degree of morals, decency and shame. Trump on the other hand is a shameless sociopath, serial and pathological liar, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, serial adulterer, convicted fraudster and conman, serial bankrupted "businessman" and laundromat for Russian oligarch dirty money, and now likely a pedophile on top of a convicted pedophile friend! That person has no redeeming quality to speak of. So GFYS and keep FYS till you join the convicted pedophile whose friends you are defending.
You say: “You can try to wave away the criminal charges against Trump as “made up” but they are not. Nor was the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.”
Evidence of Russian interference was fabricated by the Steele dossier, paid for by the Hilary campaign to weaponise fears of Russian interference.
You are now a shill for paid manipulators.
Even Trump conceded Mueller’s 2019 finding that the evidence of Russian interference was not made up. To the contrary there were findings of “multiple, systematic efforts [by Russia] to interfere in our election.” What was not found was evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign (even though there was some smoke, they couldn’t find any fire).
Sure.
The Russians tried to influence but failed.
The only evidence that the Russians were in any was successful was fabricated in the Steele Dossier by Hilary Clinton, to undermine American Democracy because she didn’t like the result.
Gary says that the evidence wasn’t made up, and it plainly was.
Honestly, you people are living in an alternative reality. The Mueller Report showed NO collusion between Trump and Russia and Trump has always called it a hoax. The Durham Report and the latest set of documents released by the DNI Tulsi Gabbard prove that it was a hoax perpetrated by democrats and intelligence agencies at the behest of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
As the six right-wing politicians on the Supreme Court continue to rule in favor of Trump, will there be a last straw?
Everyone is blind to the cause of the disaster known as "President Trump." There is no impartial tribunal to try cases against the members of the bench and the bar. They are the judges in their own cases. No one else has this privilege, because it is a violation of the Constitution. And who decides what violates the Constitution, even in their own cases?
Here are just three of the direct consequences of such impunity: the rulings in Bush v. Gore; Citizens United; Trump v. United States. This lawlessness is destroying our country. Unless we bring the members of the bench and the bar under the control of the law, we are finished.
you are right, but in America, its different, we are not, an autocracy, Trump is as you say, 'acting out' as a dictator wanna be and getting results from weak entities', but he is acting as if he were a king, 'ACT IF' is the key word. it won't last, not in the US. I think.
So I guess you have some MAGA readers, for now. It's good you're being nice to them.
How is CBS “independent media”? They are the definition of corporate regime media and they always have been. They serve only to defend American centers of power. Come on man, this was one of the original “Big 3” networks!
Did you mention stephen Colbert’s 3 primetime Emmy awards?
The Emmys, like the Oscars, are a trade show.
Colbert is the innocent victim of a power mad dictator?
Your TDS is showing.
Goodbye.
Everyone is reading and quoting their own the only correct version of the political bible. Trying to bring a common sense to a political debate in today's America is a beautiful utopia, but good try, Gary, thank you.
I haven't yet seen the thinking that all those charges against Trump set a precedent. That former Presidents can now be charged. Anyways, rather than argue point by point, I'll say this: your article is poorly written. It reads like a high school journalist just learning the ropes. It regurgitates the usual talking points without much in the way of actual thinking. The greatest sin? You present only one side of the argument. Bias. Much more valuable would have been presenting both sides and actually thinking.
But no, that will not happen.
Do you earnestly believe that what Trump is doing when it comes to investigating Comey and Brennan is not partisan? Partisan
That the Obama arrest video isn’t inappropriate? Inappropriate
Or do you believe that the threat from the far-left is so great that the ends justify the means? I would love to hear what people think of as "far-left" - politicians who are examples of this, and what the threats are.