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Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

mdemone posted:

and if you're sitting in the 6th floor window of the book depository, you take the shot when JFK is traveling slowly toward you on Houston St, not after the turn when you have to deal with a tree and an angle.

I don't disagree but there's also a million reasons he or whoever took the shot from there might not have done it.

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Shear Modulus posted:

yeah the main thread of jfk's brief presidency was him pissing off the intelligence services and the generals to no end by not invading cuba and firing dulles and making motions to begin a vietnam drawdown. they had much more of a motive to kill him than any of the other proposed conspirators like castro or the mob on their own or the soviets
ending the oil depletion allowance* would've also pissed off the texas oilmen, and pissed them off doubly by siccing the IRS and FCC after right-wing radio they funded. and oil is a strategic resource which the intelligence agencies would be tied in with.

*a major government subsidy that allows producers to recoup their initial capital investments over time

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

ending the oil depletion allowance would've also pissed off the texas oilmen, and pissed them off doubly by siccing the IRS and FCC after right-wing radio they funded. and oil is a strategic resource which the intelligence agencies would be tied in with.

Outside of his core constituencies JFK scared a lot of people and really there are a lot of groups that wanted him dead. It's what makes trying to figure out who did nearly impossible once you start digging.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
yeah. the assassination also reminds me of huey long who was trying to tax standard oil to pay for his programs. and then his dudes were getting into shootouts with reactionary "square deal associations" made up of standard oil employees. and then in the weeks before his death was shouting "standard oil is trying to kill me!" and then he's assassinated.

Source4Leko
Jul 25, 2007


Dinosaur Gum
I also don't think it is a matter of contention at all that the Secret Service wasn't trying very hard to protect Kennedy.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Danger posted:

yes. I think we are just talking past one another as I was poorly making a meta point I guess. I’m saying that people who reduce the video to that argument seemingly ignore it’s not specifically Cruz’s position but the position of all US politicians.

ah. yea

Angrymantium
Jul 19, 2007
Resistant to everything

inconsequential posted:

Has anyone read any Peter Dale Scott? I just read Dallas '63 and it's pretty interesting that apart from all the JFK stuff, there was pretty clearly sketchy stuff going on with Oswald's military records across numerous branches, theoretically as part of a "barium meal" to seek out internal leaks. Then there was the notion that pretty much everybody from JFK through Carter were failed presidencies for possibly contrived reasons. Then you hit Reagan and everything since has been Deep State copacetic, except maybe Trump, depending on where you fall there.

"As we shall see, the political careers of all five presidents--Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter---were cut off in ways that were unusual. The first, Kennedy, was assassinated. Another, Nixon, was forced to resign. None of the three others was able to enjoy a second term."

I think the guy that bought Resorts International was definitely part of the Deep State series of presidents, if you want to call it that. The Russiagate/Pizzagate/Qanon narratives all happening simultaneously with Trump in office hardened divisions between the electorate and allowed for every side of the conversation to be controlled for virtually every corner of the political sphere.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Angrymantium posted:

I think the guy that bought Resorts International was definitely part of the Deep State series of presidents, if you want to call it that. The Russiagate/Pizzagate/Qanon narratives all happening simultaneously with Trump in office hardened divisions between the electorate and allowed for every side of the conversation to be controlled for virtually every corner of the political sphere.

a sphere doesnt have any corners though

OutOfPrint
Apr 9, 2009

Fun Shoe

Angrymantium posted:

I think the guy that bought Resorts International was definitely part of the Deep State series of presidents, if you want to call it that. The Russiagate/Pizzagate/Qanon narratives all happening simultaneously with Trump in office hardened divisions between the electorate and allowed for every side of the conversation to be controlled for virtually every corner of the political sphere.

Trump also did a fantastic job making anyone who mentions a shadow government, black book projects, or elite pedophiles look like a MAGA dumbass who can be safely ignored. The actual power in this country probably couldn't be happier at that result.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Shear Modulus posted:

a sphere doesnt have any corners though

just like the Oval Office.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Shear Modulus posted:

a sphere doesnt have any corners though

Keeps you safe from the Hounds of Tindalos.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
it's the 25th anniversary of TWA 800 so they're destroying the fuselage as a celebration

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twa-flight-800-trans-world-airlines-b1885890.html?amp

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Angrymantium posted:

I think the guy that bought Resorts International was definitely part of the Deep State series of presidents, if you want to call it that. The Russiagate/Pizzagate/Qanon narratives all happening simultaneously with Trump in office hardened divisions between the electorate and allowed for every side of the conversation to be controlled for virtually every corner of the political sphere.

For the uninitiated: Resorts International was a CIA front holding company that bought up hog island and renamed it “Paradise Island” and plopped down a hotel/casino. It was (probably still is) used to load/unload drug smuggling planes and generally launch anti-Cuban activities.

After he bought it, he went from being a billionaire that no bank would touch with a 10-foot pole to a billionaire that no bank not called “Deutschebank” would touch with a 10-foot pole. Some some strange reason, other banks actually want their loans repaid while Deutschebank doesn’t seem to mind repeatedly throwing money at the guy, I guess it’s easier than setting it on fire.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/jakeadelstein/status/1416313068053741570?s=19

This person is cousins with Joi Ito, who took money from Jeffrey Epstein while director of the MIT Media Lab

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

just like the Oval Office.

nowhere to hide. lmao

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

It might be notable that the Deep State struggles prior to Reagan seemed to center around fights over the strategy the US should pursue as the global hegemon, especially its orientation towards socialist and nationalist formerly colonized countries. The strategy the was finally settled on as Reagan became president was that any country that was socialist or had an independent foreign policy (besides China pre-1991), was an explicit enemy of the US.

The struggles that seem to have broken out under Trump, and were even starting under Obama wrt to the Iran deal, is how US imperialism should adapt as its global influence declines relative to other countries, specifically China.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
the guardian has a big headline section up on "the pegasus project" from nso group. idk if there's anything new in there

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King
the link is broken wtf!!!

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
hah! red bubble nuked it, that's funny

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King

smarxist posted:

hah! red bubble nuked it, that's funny
anything with "Cuba" in it probably gets nuked for State Department Reasons

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Qba 👁️

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

TenementFunster posted:

anything with "Cuba" in it probably gets nuked for State Department Reasons

:hmmyes:

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013


👀

nut
Jul 30, 2019

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King
oh god

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:
a bunch of epstein/maxwell/clinton documents look like they've been dropped on 4chan. I've got no idea what this means but:

quote:

I’ve categorized them into three folders, the first Maxwell + Clinton Transcripts that include an unpublished memoir by Virginia Roberts that mentions Bill Clinton behaving “immodestly” with two girls on Epstein’s Island as well as three additional transcripts which indicate that that these were girls were children. The second is Additional Charges + Arrest. This includes the original charges Epstein faced in Palm Beach as well a Santa Monica Police report that never made the news. The third is Financial + Civil which contains many gems such as a letter in which Les Wexner gives Jeffrey Epstein the power of attorney, a document detailing the dealings Epstein had with the Lt Governor of the Virgin Islands and the almost unheard of 1953 Trust Lawsuit.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




gimme the trust lawsuit

Armadillo Tank
Mar 26, 2010

https://mobile.twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1416983414465605635

Description of the haiti president getting shot.

Lost the link to the article talking about how 2 of them assassins had us military training.

There wasn't much talk about this in the thread. Did he just generally suck enough that the corruption interfered with US corruption so he got killed?

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Horizon Burning posted:

a bunch of epstein/maxwell/clinton documents look like they've been dropped on 4chan. I've got no idea what this means but:

uhhh link?

Armadillo Tank
Mar 26, 2010

smarxist posted:

uhhh link?

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:

smarxist posted:

uhhh link?

better link below

Horizon Burning has issued a correction as of 15:43 on Jul 19, 2021

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

smarxist posted:

uhhh link?

here’s a Reddit link so you don’t have to go to 4chan

https://reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/on84id/new_epsteinmaxwellwexner_documents_just_leaked/

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Armadillo Tank posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1416983414465605635

Description of the haiti president getting shot.

Lost the link to the article talking about how 2 of them assassins had us military training.

There wasn't much talk about this in the thread. Did he just generally suck enough that the corruption interfered with US corruption so he got killed?

I think the consensus was that the US probably didn't do it but looked the other way when some other right wing group decided to :commissar: him. Apparently he wasn't all that popular and refused to step down after the last elections and had outlived his usefulness.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




the thing about the us training heaps of mercenaries in columbia for decades is that they can be hired for money

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
the fifth coup is free

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

it's called a coup-on

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's called a coup-on

nut
Jul 30, 2019

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's called a coup-on

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's called a coup-on

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hseroK divaD
Jun 3, 2011

Creepy Richard will keep leering at you NON-STOP!

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's called a coup-on

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