The eerie quiet of the transition…was it unity theater, or the Kremlin’s oldest weapon?👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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So… cowards, in other words.
aug 24, 2025, 5:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I just wonder, if they spoke up during the transition, what could they have said that they hadn't said before? The hardest truth to confront is that millions of Americans wanted Trump in the White House. 😢🤬
aug 24, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I'll never understand how the biden admin, the people at NSA, CIA, etc thought it was ok simply sit back and let Jesus take the wheel when it came to domestic threats to the constitutional order
aug 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 5 0 • view
Well, this explains the deafening silence of the Bush family.
aug 24, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
plausible -- if true, the failure to use the tools at their disposal speaks to a cowardice as great as any in history.
aug 24, 2025, 10:28 pm • 2 0 • view
plausible -- if true, the failure to use the tools at their disposal speaks to a cowardice as great as any in history.
aug 24, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Nothing would fire me up more than death threats. I'd be talking about that loudly. Maybe because I'm already old and I hate it here now. 🙄
aug 24, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for this deep dive into the possible whys of the silence and seeming betrayal of the Democratic leaders after the election. And even now. I am in my 70’s and immediately after the election I told my husband I thought we were going to find out if we are willing to lay down our lives.
aug 26, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
In one way or another, Putin is behind everything bad that happens in America!
aug 24, 2025, 11:32 pm • 2 0 • view
#Cowards
aug 25, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
Very likely.
aug 24, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
We have a Russian agent actively making personnel changes in the intelligence services at the direct behest of the murderous GRU thug, and sending armed troops into the streets. Let's keep our eye on the ball. Impea,convict, imprison.
aug 24, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 1 • view
As an aside; The Heritage Foundation needs to be named a terrorist organization
aug 24, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Very very well done! I’m curious what your feeling is about Trumps silence following the election.. remember the days of nothing? The lack of boasting he won? It was SO WEIRD
aug 24, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
imho There can be little doubt about this. They had to’ve known tho what they were leaving our country open to. This to me is unforgivable. The capitulation was swift & indeed the silence was & has been eerie. We can’t know what we don’t know; given the danger it’s high time/past time to spill.
aug 24, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I expect the threat theory is real. I can’t know how they calculated it into their actions. It doesn’t matter to me. Their actions amount to dereliction of duty. They swore oaths to defend this country from ALL enemies, foreign & domestic.
aug 24, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree this is a possibility. What if pootin threatened something else. He's so evil, he could threaten to level a city.
aug 25, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
If we’re talking about unity theater, that’s the choreography of consensus: staged loyalty, synchronized messaging, and the illusion of harmony. It’s often deployed to mask internal fractures or consolidate power without resistance which is apparent in the Trump Administration.
aug 24, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Indeed. Unity theater isn’t unity at all…it’s sleight of hand. A rigged stage where loyalty looks scripted…and fractures get wallpapered over while power grabs the spotlight.
aug 24, 2025, 5:41 pm • 10 1 • view
Exactly. It’s not governance; it’s stagecraft; power in the costume of consensus. The script is tight, the applause pre‑arranged. Behind the curtain, splinters hold the set, and the real drama is what the audience never sees.
aug 24, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I read Alexei Navalny’s memoir this past winter. I totally believe what you say. He was an incredibly brave and inspiring man. He went back to Russia after being poisoned and got thrown into progressively worse gulags until they finally killed him.
aug 24, 2025, 5:30 pm • 12 0 • view
Somebody better tell Hunter because he’s pissed official and not afraid to speak out!
aug 25, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
So, if true, they are cowards
aug 24, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And of course, our intelligence agency, our CIA, our military, and FBI, all who could counter this are now Russian assets. I don't know if this is true. But the quick capitulation of the election by Harris and the silence that followed was/is chilling. It remains chilling.
aug 25, 2025, 12:33 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
aug 26, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
My thought the day after the election was either some rich donors were behind their decision to slink off into the night or there were some threats from elsewhere. Establishment democrats aren’t going to save the U.S.
aug 24, 2025, 4:40 pm • 15 1 • view
Your solution?
aug 24, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m with you on that…money always pulls strings...and threats don’t come with press releases. Either way…the silence was bought. And you’re dead right...establishment Dems aren’t our rescue squad. It’s up to citizens to raise hell...because waiting on them is how we lose the country.
aug 24, 2025, 5:49 pm • 46 8 • view
Join any legit activist group and take principled action. Indivisible is one of them.
aug 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 7 0 • view
Indeed, we spent vital years waiting on MGarland's JD to move on serious criming...that was a probelm Joe should have gritted up and fixed.
aug 24, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Kompromat or threat is also a compelling explanation for the current silence of GOP and Dem congress.
aug 24, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks Jack. Honestly, it is exactly what I had been thinking for the past few months. Really is no other explanation. But I had no ideas for the future. I am protesting & supporting those who are fighting this. I think the key is to get this to move past the “conspiracy theory” stage.
aug 25, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Brilliant writing. Right on the money too. In Russian, Sicilian, Middle Eastern and other circles they go after your family. Down to the last child standing. They erase your lineage from the earth. So your family can never oppose them again. Been the way for millenia.
aug 24, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The problem with being a critical thinker, person who questions everything is that when you start to understand the cravenness of human nature, you can’t not believe something of a conspiracy. I don’t think we should underestimate anyone at this point.
aug 24, 2025, 4:47 pm • 25 1 • view
Yes. Agreed. Once you really see how craven people in power can be…conspiracy stops looking wild and starts looking like basic survival math. We can’t afford to underestimate anyone…not Trump...not Moscow...not the “respectable” insiders. That’s how they get away with it.
aug 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 37 7 • view
Just read your article. I’m just a 64yo woman who is relatively observant. I can see the intimidation working on Joe Biden, mainly due to all the loss he’s already experienced. But Kamala’s pinch-nosed fury at Pres. Carter’s funeral made me think she was pressured more by politics than fear.
aug 24, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This is what Trump does also. Think of all the politicians and businesses leaders who just instantly change their tune after receiving his whispered threats.
aug 24, 2025, 5:32 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes, but they are republicans and we only eat our own.
aug 24, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
If you’re not a subscriber already, jump in to Jack’s narrative. This story is particularly chilling and feels probable.
aug 25, 2025, 8:53 am • 0 1 • view
Well they COMMITTED TREASON by aiding and abetting our enemies for some reason. We have yet to be able to investigate to find out.
aug 24, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
At the time, it felt like the kremlin at work. The media, too.
aug 24, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
omg … this is scary
aug 25, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
Russia sent an assassination squad to a sleepy little Wiltshire town in the UK, just 30 miles from where I live. They used a nerve agent called novichok. They dumped unused novichok in a public bin. A civilian died, its nothing short of a miracle there wasn't more. The threat is real.
aug 24, 2025, 5:09 pm • 63 13 • view
You’re dead right…the Salisbury attack happened. Russia literally sent an assassination team with a chemical weapon into a quiet UK town. A civilian died because they dumped their poison like garbage. That’s not theory...that’s the playbook. The threat is real…and it doesn’t stop at borders.
aug 24, 2025, 6:01 pm • 114 20 • view
If they did that in the US we’d flatten Moscow.
aug 24, 2025, 6:03 pm • 2 0 • view
You think they didn't do this already?
aug 24, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
… not with Krasnov in office, we wouldn’t!
aug 24, 2025, 6:10 pm • 5 0 • view
For the richest, strongest, most powerful nation in history, we sure act like pansies.
aug 24, 2025, 6:05 pm • 193 19 • view
You got that right sir.
aug 25, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
We are not the richest.
aug 25, 2025, 4:16 am • 0 0 • view
You stopped being the most powerful nation in history when you elected a dotard for the second time who has his balls sitting in a jar on Putin's desk. Power is nothing without control.
aug 25, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Richest ? 38 trillions in the hole says otherwise
aug 24, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
And for those who don't know who you are, John (and I doubt that includes too many people)...I just want people to know that you're a former CIA Station Chief in Moscow. Unquestionably THE man who knows this topic better than anyone in about any thread people will ever see on social media.
aug 24, 2025, 6:33 pm • 110 7 • view
former...we ain't shit now but a failed banana republic
aug 24, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Why are we such cowards?! I don’t understand it..
aug 24, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Especially toward a president...
aug 24, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
And that’s “pansies” like the fragile flower, not the slur, right?
aug 24, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
They have NO respect for borders. #Ukraine Look at all the Russian Alaska spiel before the recent Ancorage 'summit' Putin will stop at nothing to breathe life into the old USSR
aug 25, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
No reason the tables can't be turned and this tactic used right back at them. Make them whistle past the graveyard.
aug 24, 2025, 4:55 pm • 4 0 • view
If so then russia has already won the long war.
aug 24, 2025, 5:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Sad but true.
aug 25, 2025, 4:26 am • 1 0 • view
Whoah whoah, you left all the ChatGPT tells in that piece. It's obvious. Are you even real? 🤔 And to the AI that wrote that, did you forget you're talking about a guy in charge of the US military, FBI, etc at the time? If he can be intimidated that way with no defense/retaliation options...
aug 24, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 1 • view
... Then there's nothing to be done. Moscow has all the power and there's no counter punch. We should all just give up and accept Trump's regime. That sounds stupid to me.
aug 24, 2025, 5:03 pm • 2 0 • view
1/6 🧵 Slow down there...Hot Rod. You’re trying so hard to look like the smartest guy in the room, that you missed the room entirely. “ChatGPT tells”; Cute. Lazy too. Today...when someone doesn't have a counterpoint...they throw the AI card. It’s the new version of yelling “fake news.”
aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 23 3 • view
2/6 Translation: you don’t actually have the goods to argue the content. Second…the idea that presidents are untouchable because they’ve got the FBI...CIA...and the military? That’s comic-book thinking.
aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 13 0 • view
It is also limited to presidents who don’t (won’t) use the government for their own aggrandizement. That’s clearly not Biden. His own DOJ convicted his kid and investigated him. I’ve only ever seen Trump use the gears of power in this corrupt manner.
aug 24, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
3/6 Ask JFK’s family how safe they felt when the Mafia threats landed. Ask MLK’s family about Hoover’s FBI. Ask Vaclav Havel’s wife what Soviet intimidation felt like.
aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 13 0 • view
4/6 The fact that you think being “in charge” means you can’t be pressured…is proof you don’t know how psychological operations actually work. Given your lack of any other well thought out counter-arguments...I'm not surprised.
aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 11 0 • view
5/6 It isn’t about tanks. It’s about leverage. You don’t need to attack the fortress when you can threaten the family dog. So thanks for your comment…but you just proved the whole point. You’re arguing from ignorance…waving your “gotcha” like it means something. All it really did?
aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 13 0 • view
6/6 Spotlighted exactly how little you understand about power…and how it’s really exercised. By the way...I've glanced at your timeline. That's all I'm going to say about that.
aug 24, 2025, 5:37 pm • 16 0 • view
Why is that all you're going to say? I guess ChatGPT can't read Bluesky and you'd have to cut/paste everything, which is tedious. What do YOU know about power "Jack Hopkins"? It sounds like you're just talking up Russian abilities and telling us it's hopeless. Russia won everybody! Give up! 🤔
aug 25, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
If this is true, it’s inexcusable. They were in the best position to do something to protect our country & didn’t. I say this as a mother & grandmother who has felt irrational fear for my family. What about all of the children & families in our country? People who are threatened must band together.
aug 24, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
And I’ll take it one step further, why was he allowed to foment an insurrection and steal classified documents with no consequences? That was on Biden’s watch. Were they being threatened during his whole presidency? Even if they threatened to nuke us, what’s to stop them from doing it any time?
aug 24, 2025, 11:18 pm • 1 0 • view
@jessicadenson07.bsky.social hey!! Coming from my alt account, but have you seen this and maybe include a reference in your livestream today at 1pm PST?! TTFN 👋, I hope my hacked account gets restored soon!! 🤙💙
aug 24, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Read every word and nothing disappoints or surprises. Thanks, Jack!
aug 24, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
If you're in the Big Chair, you're supposedly supposed to have the guts to die for your country. Apparently, that is no longer the case.
aug 24, 2025, 4:45 pm • 24 0 • view
Exactly…I feel that. The oath used to mean something…leaders swore to risk it all for the country. Now too many treat the “Big Chair” like a perk, not a duty. If you can’t carry the weight—or face the danger—then get the hell out of the seat. And I believe that runs from President, Congress...Govs..
aug 24, 2025, 5:47 pm • 52 9 • view
And the Joint Chief's Posse Comitatus Act!!
aug 25, 2025, 5:08 am • 0 0 • view
Stop giving this BS story more fuel.
aug 24, 2025, 6:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m a 3rd grade teacher. We has our first lock down drill last week. One of the kids told me it’s my job to take a bullet for them, which I would. Some kids very every time. They all have stories and are frightened. BUT ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE SCARED! FUCK THAT
aug 24, 2025, 5:06 pm • 14 2 • view
I’m right there with you…I feel that in my bones. Kids being drilled to hide under desks while adults in office hide behind excuses. You’re willing to take a bullet for 3rd graders…and elected officials are too scared to take heat for democracy? Fuck that…I mirror your rage 100%.
aug 24, 2025, 5:46 pm • 50 9 • view
Cry every time
aug 24, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
"The Usual Suspects" Kaiser Soze. Remember what he did so that he could do what needed to be done?
aug 24, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
If true, they are fucking cowards. We could take out Putin any time we want... Assassin drones are real and effective. Backing down to Russian threats is fucking unamerican and disgusting, disgraceful cowardice.
aug 24, 2025, 5:01 pm • 10 0 • view
1/2🧵 If true…yeah…they’re sure as hell cowards. No argument. But the rest of that logic? Not so fast. Sure…we could drop a drone on Putin…but the second we do... mushroom clouds start flying. That’s not “tough,” that’s suicide.
aug 24, 2025, 5:59 pm • 26 2 • view
Is there a #2 in Moscow that would step in and use nukes against us? With Putin out, the power vacuum would be scrambling top military and oligarchy for the next president. Maybe a change in their politics and policies with new leadership? I defer to your experience.
aug 24, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
2/2 The real cowardice wouldn't be in not pulling the trigger on Moscow…it would be in hiding the truth from the American people. Leaders are supposed to level with us…rally us…give us the fight plan. If true...and it's plausible that is could be...they slinked off and hoped we wouldn’t notice.
aug 24, 2025, 5:59 pm • 14 1 • view
Pootin has twice threatened nuclear war Biden fed Ukraine the defensive weapons needed to protect themselves Trump thinks putting on a Russian dress and slobbering all over Pootin will influence a cold blooded murderer There has always been a plan to counter this but, will involve a terrible ending
aug 24, 2025, 6:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Russia can take out Trump regime and their families and I will not shed a tear
aug 25, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
pussies either way
aug 24, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Never before in history has America faced such a situation. The results were fiddled with by putins experienced election fiddlers. Unlike other countries with well established histories of rioting and rebellion, americans all froze in silence.
aug 25, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
Is there a conspiracy theory you don’t love? The entire premise is based on the belief that American NSA, CIA and other entities both couldn’t protect Biden and Harris nor issue their own warning threats to Putin that he would be dead within hours if anything happened to the families.
aug 25, 2025, 11:29 am • 0 0 • view
I feel the exact moment President Biden found out was right before he walked on the debate stage. We all know that was not President Biden! Something happened right before he walked out on that stage! Biden is 100x smarter than Trump and could easily knock his ass out on a debate stage!
aug 24, 2025, 9:08 pm • 6 1 • view
That's a lot to unpack! It's taken me back to being a very scared 2 year old who didn't understand why Daddy couldn't come home from the base just because the P-3 Orions were flying constantly because of Russian subs. 😫🫣
aug 24, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
So in other words one small Russian man controls the people in the US. ALL the people.
aug 25, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet, why can’t Putin be wiped off the board? I’m utterly confused by this…
aug 25, 2025, 3:23 am • 2 0 • view
Should have happened decades ago.
aug 25, 2025, 4:31 am • 2 0 • view
But our side isn’t/wasn’t powerless. We have/had weapons, too. If this truly has been done over and over and over, wouldn’t we have figured out how to counter it by now? If not, the fault is ours. Fire with fire.
aug 24, 2025, 5:23 pm • 3 0 • view
We did scream Project 2025 from the rooftops. Dissected it’s contents and destructive ramifications. No one anticipated how quickly our guardrails would collapse. We will have time for the blame game later. Now is the time to strategize the fight back. Time is ticking.
aug 24, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Did you read Jack’s substack piece?
aug 24, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I did.
aug 24, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember when Biden said 'Welcome Home" to Trump? I was sickened !!!!
aug 25, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
With a fuckin smile on his face like they were playing some fake ass game of charades 😤
aug 25, 2025, 7:40 am • 2 0 • view
Something happened for sure. No one in power demanded any recounts. No one questioned the veracity of the result. They rolled on their bellies and surrendered despite correctly telling us that if Trump was allowed in, it would be the end of the nation and democracy. A lot of shady shit here.
aug 25, 2025, 8:54 am • 3 0 • view
IF this is the case…they failed their oath and actually should have never been in that office anyway. IF this is true…they are cowards. Nobody made Biden say “Welcome home!” to tRump on 1/20. What’s the explanation for that?
aug 24, 2025, 7:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Sarcasm?
aug 24, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Not sarcasm....
aug 25, 2025, 4:47 am • 1 0 • view
Sarcasm? When a known fascist is given the keys to the White House?
aug 24, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
What was he supposed to say? I'm just curious.
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Certainly not “Welcome home?” I just don’t get it. The whole campaign was based on “You don’t want a fascist, do you?”. And then it’s welcome home and tea at the fir place and all smiles and handshakes at inauguration. I mean, you’re kidding me??
aug 24, 2025, 9:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Just a guess...
aug 24, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah it’s honestly impossible to try to make sense of it 🤷♀️
aug 24, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
To be honest, I was totally speechless about Trumps win for a few days too.
aug 24, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
It made me physically sick for at least a week.
aug 24, 2025, 9:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes... me too.
aug 24, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
The Labor day rallies need to be huge - continue for a week.
aug 24, 2025, 9:36 pm • 1 1 • view
hard to read. but necessary.
aug 24, 2025, 5:14 pm • 9 0 • view
Perfect. VERY hard. But...as you stated, necessary. At this stage of the game, I don't have time for fools who immediately dismiss something grounded in logic...just because it doesn't match the most comfortable narrative they've latched on to. That's juvenile...and exactly how we lose everything.
aug 24, 2025, 6:04 pm • 36 5 • view
TRUMP DECLARES OPEN SEASON ON AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO EXERCISE THEIR 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS The GOP is with him 100% Hegseth authorizes National Guard troops in D.C. to carry weapons www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcn...
aug 24, 2025, 6:44 pm • 6 4 • view
The "only" winning way in today's politics...
aug 24, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
That may explain why some of the up and comers are more outspoken, Moscow hasn’t had the chance to threaten them.
aug 24, 2025, 4:44 pm • 13 0 • view
Exactly…and give it time. The Kremlin doesn’t waste bullets on rookies. They test the big targets first…then work their way down. Loud “up-and-comers” look brave now…but the real test is when the threats get personal. That’s when you find out who’s steel…and who’s stagecraft.
aug 24, 2025, 5:44 pm • 27 4 • view
This article explains a lot.
aug 24, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
The u.s. didn't have a presidential election. It was literally taken over by a foreign power. Looked at from that perspective, everything that's happened since then makes sense.
aug 25, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
And 2016. There were many irregularities. Not to mention; armies of trolls/bots all over social media. Fox News demonizing Hillary.
aug 25, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
Irregularities are only that when that term is voiced. Dead silence is always the wrong reaction. If that was France or Brazil, the population would have rioted. Everybody smelt a rat but Everybody was too polite. You don't do polite when you are being RAPED!
aug 25, 2025, 9:33 am • 1 0 • view
Great substack today. Threats to Dems are why I believe a majority of our Dem leaders have been shying away from taking a stand. There’s a dearth of Dems sticking out their necks—and those that do, lay low for quite a while. Imagine the messages, and “visits”, they get. Need fearless people to win.
aug 25, 2025, 6:48 am • 2 0 • view
Who cares? There was complete capitulation on our part. I’ll always be angry and the way Biden snd Harris just.., rolled over. Yes, they did.
aug 24, 2025, 7:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Extremely frightening and very plausible.
aug 24, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
If true it’s pure cowardice. A president is supposed to stand up for the people, not hand them to a fascist dictator. I’m already pissed Biden hired an Attorney General who wasn’t really interested in prosecuting Donald.
aug 24, 2025, 4:52 pm • 35 1 • view
When you debate/critique an UNPROVEN topic, you are ACTUALLY creating a Fake News. " Tell a lie often enough and repeatedly, people will believe it true."-Frederick Nietzche (paraphrased)
aug 24, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree. If this is true...it’s cowardice at the highest level. The job isn’t to tiptoe around fascists…it’s to crush them before they crush us. And Garland? Yeah…that pick was a wet blanket when we needed a hammer. No wonder people are pissed...we expected fighters...not caretakers. #Newsom
aug 24, 2025, 5:53 pm • 102 10 • view
We’ve heard the Big Lie. We’ve witnessed January 6. Now we watch tanks roll into blue cities. How many times must the clown warn us before we stop laughing? 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note...
aug 31, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Call out the Republican majority of the Supreme Court.
aug 25, 2025, 9:46 am • 0 0 • view
Bullshit. The first thing Jack Smith should have done was change venue. If Garland hadn’t waited a year and a half to appoint a special prosecutor we might not be in this situation. You think republicans would have twiddled their thumbs instead of swiftly applying justice?
aug 25, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Biden was a great president, the best in my lifetime. But as soon as someone comes up with crazy conspiracy theories (probably from the Kremlin), you are ready to throw him under the bus. Not me. Garland & Jack Smith tried their best, the Supreme Court is to blame for creating this mess.
aug 24, 2025, 5:58 pm • 26 2 • view
Biden had ONE JOB: Protect America from the insurrectionist who just tried to sack the Capitol to install himself in power. He completely failed. He was as egotistical as Trump in his own way, sure that he could magically restore normalcy and refusing to accept it when he started to decline.
aug 24, 2025, 9:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Either that or he was complicit all along. That’s what I’ve come to think may be the most likely scenario. Sad as it seems.
aug 24, 2025, 11:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Fight the fascists and stop smearing & blaming those who fought so hard for us. Voters stayed home because they could not bring themselves to vote for a woman. And now here you are, hurting the democrats and blaming them. Fascism is here because of IGNORANT PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP.
aug 25, 2025, 3:14 am • 1 0 • view
Baloney. They did nothing. He incited an insurrection and stole classified documents and he was allowed to walk. They fought nothing. I still will not ever vote for a republican but our democratic leadership is impotent and we need something new. Most of them cower and clutch their pearls. Enough!
aug 25, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
A woman who refused to separate herself from the genocide enabling administration. I don’t think her being female was what kept her from being elected. It was the genocide and abandoning half the voting base of progressive voters.
aug 25, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
That wasn't her choice, Biden, the egomaniac, demanded "no daylight" between them, because in his head he was being attacked for no reason, and forced to give up what would have been a winning campaign, so she was only to act as his proxy, nothing more. Or else.
aug 25, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it really shows his arrogance and subconscious racism and misogyny. He would never have dared say that to another white man. "Hey, I'm stepping down and you're taking over for me, so that means you have to do everything I say. No daylight, kid." To a middle-aged former senator.
aug 25, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
If it wasn’t her choice then she was the wrong candidate anyway, even though I campaigned for her.
aug 25, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It was up to us to vote for Kamala. It's not his fault that we didn't. Both warned us many times. People still didn't vote. Now it's his fault? It's not Mcconell's fault for failing to impeach? It's not the Supreme court for giving him power? It's not the GOP for doing what trump wants? Come on!
aug 24, 2025, 11:02 pm • 6 1 • view
Bullshit. How dare he blame the voters, when he is the person who didn't take care to ensure the laws were faithfully executed and the insurrectionist was charged, convicted, sentenced, and disqualified.
aug 24, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
He did not blame the voters. As a matter of fact he was interviewed on “The View” and stated that he felt responsible. But not because of the stupid conspiracy theories in the article. This is propaganda and trying to further split Democrats. Thanks to you it’s working.
aug 25, 2025, 3:10 am • 2 0 • view
#NoAccountability
aug 25, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
100% No where does the president take an oath to improve the Economy, Infrastructure, Health, Energy, Housing, Labor, or the Environment and while nice it would have been better had he done what he swore an oath to do.
aug 24, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 1 • view
Biden warned us many times. All we had to do is vote. People did not vote. Democrats did not show up. The supreme court and the judge in Florida protected Trump. That's not Biden's fault. Wow! It's like the Kremlin is trying to smear a great president, and you guys are helping!!!
aug 24, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
The system was not designed to respond to an insurrection by letting the insurrectionist run for office again and putting it to the voters. That was a catastrophically stupid and unethical choice by Biden, ignoring the law and all historical precedent from everywhere else in the world.
aug 24, 2025, 11:49 pm • 1 0 • view
The Kremlin probably loved Biden. He wouldn't let Ukraine attack within Russia, didn't give them enough to win the war, and did nothing at all to stop Putin's American puppet, who had staged an insurrection and in any rational country would have been rounded up on January 20th as Biden's first act.
aug 24, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
The Kremlin loves people like you, spreading propaganda and misinformation; dividing us and making us weaker. Stop blaming Biden and democrats! That’s not the way we fight fascism. We unite and work together to stop them. Not blame our leaders and complain, complain, complain.
aug 25, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
The Kremlin is a real place, ruled by a real person with specific goals and methods. It can't be just whatever makes you unhappy. Biden was objectively good for Putin's interests because he didn't do anything to Putin's puppet, and allowed him to run again, so Putin can continue his war.
aug 25, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Trump was impeached right after the insurrection. Mcconell was senate majority leader & voted no on impeachment, republicans voted no instead of doing their job, they chickened out. You cannot blame Biden on that. It was catastrophically stupid and unethical choice BY THE MAJORITY REPUBLICAN SENATE
aug 25, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah, choosing to let the people who had participated in the insurrection handle the impeachment was another stupid choice. This wasn't just another high crime and misdemeanor like all the other ones Pelosi looked the other way on. This was insurrection. A disqualifying crime on its own.
aug 25, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
The greatest president 🙄 give me a fucking break.
aug 24, 2025, 11:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Give me a fucking break too! You see the republicans in your red state voting for a fascist and you blame Biden. Common!!! Ignorance and racism in this country is what brought us here. Instead of blaming Biden, fight for education and equality.
aug 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
They threw Reality Winner in prison for five years for one piece of paper. A paper to warn us of Russian election interference. Trump had a whole bathroom full of secret documents but somehow just couldn't muster up a prosecution in time. Sure, you bet.
aug 24, 2025, 6:08 pm • 42 9 • view
Where is she today?
aug 24, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
She's on BlueSky!
aug 24, 2025, 8:18 pm • 2 0 • view
The judge in Florida Aileen Cannon, appointed by Trump, helped stall and even dismissed the case. Jack Smith appealed but then trump was elected president so the appeal was withdrawn. Blame Cannon and corrupt judges like her. Not Biden.
aug 24, 2025, 11:15 pm • 2 0 • view
The only error in the documents case was filling it anywhere near Aileen Cannon. There isn't a lawyer in earth getting a conviction there.
aug 25, 2025, 12:18 am • 5 1 • view
You don’t know that. Don’t we need to try?
aug 25, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
*states in confusion*...it was tried? Aileen Cannon froze it out until she could kill it? Like it was filled in Palm Beach County. A normal judge would have completed the case before the campaign, and likely would have been open to pretrial detainment.
aug 25, 2025, 12:31 am • 2 0 • view
A year and a half had to go by before even appointing a special prosecutor? Give me a fucking break. Biden was a great president other than his handling of an insurrection. Swift justice was required. They slept.
aug 25, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I think the “ threat if credible information “ wasn’t limited to personal dangers and or personal members of the target’s family. If there’s a reason why, it’s much more than that. Kiss off for continuing bullying and undermining of others. We need your help and direction.
aug 25, 2025, 10:19 am • 1 0 • view
This is what I've thought. They weren't silent because they were scared for themselves - but their families were threatened.
aug 25, 2025, 10:07 am • 0 0 • view
Respectfully, how does this help in today's fight?
sep 1, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
@tianaadams.bsky.social @chukbahb.bsky.social @hostilepatriot.bsky.social @bobeahleahleah.bsky.social what are your thoughts? I feel the threats & fear they ran from were always possible. I mean it was just weeks ago I believe when Dem members were hunted & one killed. Enemies have our data! Etc.
aug 24, 2025, 5:18 pm • 9 0 • view
I think they’re pussies if they didn’t put their lives on the line for democracy. Idgaf if Russia threatened you, you do the right thing for the people who elected you. Feckless bitches. I’m tired of the “but I was threatened” argument. You would rather save your own ass than protect the nation?!
aug 24, 2025, 5:57 pm • 17 0 • view
The threats aren't to their person - it's to their loved ones, children and grandchildren especially.
aug 24, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Put them in witness protection 🤷🏽♀️
aug 24, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
But there isn't any. Trump removed all the protective details.
aug 24, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
For god’s sake. Biden could have taken the millions in AIPAC money and sundown in a safe country if needed. Now it’s our loved ones and children that are threatened to be thrown in the gulag
aug 24, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. Its still treason, even if you were "scared".
aug 24, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 1 • view
🔥
aug 24, 2025, 6:09 pm • 6 0 • view
I actually appreciate this sentiment it's kinda like how many innocent lives were sacrificed I understand it seems like an impossible decision but people who preach and take an oath to uphold the law and the Constitution should do so. If they can't this isn't the right position. (1/2)
aug 24, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
All of our lives now not just theirs but everyone is under attack. Like I feel like had they stopped this and handled the votes the right way or 14/3 we wouldn't be here. Yes we'd have a fight but not with as many people as they think. Also it's like since when do we bow down to terrorists? (2/2)
aug 24, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Considering the two whistleblowers’ take on DHS forensic audit showing VP Harris won(if one accepts it), I can’t help but feel there’s a very large(human existence casualty level) threat against us. If I defer to Occam’s razor, they’re wishfully weak that the threat isn’t as bad as they campaigned.
aug 24, 2025, 5:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah that makes sense and I wonder when more of the election results kick in (Rockland, ETA) if they will talk. The threat is bigger now I think. I mean DOGE and that data grab was just a piece of the puzzle we can't forget they obtained nuclear codes etc. The inaction will surely never be forgotten
aug 24, 2025, 6:12 pm • 4 1 • view
It’s truly breathtaking. At every crossroads I feel the administration gave the appearance of taking the route of benefiting the doubt. They told us over and over how dire the threat was, then punted with politics as usual in the end.
aug 24, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. How do we go from this is the most consequential election of our time and people will die to meh we can wait until midterms. 🙄
aug 24, 2025, 6:33 pm • 2 0 • view
I vacillate between ‘elections are too compromised’ to, ‘they wouldn’t try so hard to rig elections if they were fully compromised’. I’d imagine the truth is in between. I keep reminding myself that Washington likely didn’t run to all the newspapers while he was planning on revolting from England. 🤞
aug 24, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
That tracks!!! And if true… if they really ran away in fear…. Kamala better cancel that damn book tour and sit the fuck down. The DNC, Biden, and Kamala will have a lot to answer for.
aug 24, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Pretty much sums up what I thought- also why the Dems are -
aug 24, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Read and read it again. Act, now. ✌️
aug 24, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Spot on. Most underrated post on all of social media.
aug 25, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The post election acquiescence from the Dems was shocking. It felt “off” & suspect. If this is the reason we have been betrayed
aug 24, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Why didn’t Kamala ask for a swing state recount? She had lots of fundraising money to pay for it.
aug 24, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I have never understood why Harris did not ask for recounts when she'd been warned by experts that it was hacked. I don't care what threats they received. They should have fought for our country as their positions require.
aug 24, 2025, 10:30 pm • 8 0 • view
I’m am in fear for my family too. I’m still speaking out and I have no protections or political allies to help create cover for me. Granted I’m nobody. Yamtits is a Russian asset. He has likely given away the safety and security of the entire nation for the opportunity to grift & plunder all he can.
aug 24, 2025, 10:16 pm • 5 1 • view
He’s destroyed our alliances. The entire nation is in peril & people with power sat on their hands. Garland, Biden, Schumer, all leadership failed miserably before, during and after the transition of power. They knew full well his capacity for destroying this nation and they neglected their duties.
aug 24, 2025, 10:16 pm • 3 0 • view
𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐥𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭”. 𝐎𝐥𝐞𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐳𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐬𝐤𝐲, 𝐀𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥’𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 Putin & trump both have a history of threatening dissenter’s families.
aug 24, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 1 • view
They chose to be leaders. What good is having safety when they are going to destroy everything? What are they protecting?
aug 24, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Whoa! I've gotta think about this for a bit...👀
aug 24, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I had not thought about personal threats. 🤔 I have always leaned toward national kompromat. A huge amount of our national security was taken by King Ding a Ling when he left. I am pretty sure that info went to Russia. I know our country has some dirty secrets.
aug 24, 2025, 6:05 pm • 5 1 • view
Why do we have bombs if we don’t use them. Now would be a good time to give Ukraine and Gaza a little bomb to send. Russia and Israel need to be held accountable
aug 25, 2025, 2:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It was treason, and elder abuse, by his staff and Cabinet. Same with Diane Feinstein's staff. They get instantly addicted to power, and do everything to keep it. They way they dragged that poor, husk of a body around, until she died, was fucking despicable.
aug 24, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Biden/Harris were told Trump has law enforcement and the National Guard behind him, if you want violence, we'll give it to you. The democratic leadership capitulated, ran away, and left us fuKKKed.
aug 24, 2025, 4:57 pm • 4 1 • view
Big “what ifs” here. What we do know is already bad enough to motivate all of us into action. As you say, write letters & call representatives. Demand action against the Project 2025 initiatives that seem to be unfolding right before our eyes with little resistance from our elected officials.
aug 24, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Still mulling over the proposition you’ve put forward, but in terms of the latter part of the piece it tracks with how Trump has defanged the FBI, making domestic threats more probable.
aug 24, 2025, 5:06 pm • 8 0 • view
That's the goal: to get you to mull the material...and think. I'm glad your mind is purring.
aug 24, 2025, 5:38 pm • 10 2 • view
Jack, is this why Kamala didn’t get a forensic recount of the obviously weird swing states results? Please?
aug 25, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
That possibility crossed my mind too.
aug 25, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
The swing states results were very weird. I can’t stop thinking about this. You too?
aug 25, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
It would have been good to have them analysed to put rumours to rest, if nothing else. But I personally find it highly suspicious.
aug 25, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
And it makes it worse because no recount. She had to be the one to request it.
aug 25, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Harris’s silence began on election night and it was eerie.
aug 24, 2025, 5:30 pm • 17 0 • view
I thought so too, but I got yelled at for saying it
aug 24, 2025, 6:52 pm • 5 0 • view
IF this is true, They are Traitors as well. Put your tail between your legs, and surrender to Propaganda. Garbage.
aug 24, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Jack, presuming we are thoroughly “kompromised,” where do *we* even begin to rally to actually fight back?
aug 25, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I think your supporters have spoken!
aug 25, 2025, 3:45 pm • 0 0 • view
The comments are interesting. Makes me wonder if all the keyboard warriors read the piece to the end points.
aug 24, 2025, 5:29 pm • 5 0 • view
VERY few, actually. That's why I've toyed with ceasing the posting of the links on social media. My newsletter now has 44k people who have chosen to subscribe because they do want to read the entire article. On social media...a large percentage comment on things they haven't read...or fully read.
aug 24, 2025, 6:08 pm • 6 1 • view
The links, while lending legitimacy, support journalism. Needs all the help it can get.
aug 24, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t stop on social. If only some read your newsletters in their entirety it’s worth it. I do subscribe but like to see it here as well. I don’t always agree with everything, but I always admire your point of view.
aug 24, 2025, 6:15 pm • 12 1 • view
💙💙 That's the voice of a critical thinker!
aug 24, 2025, 6:34 pm • 4 1 • view
I also appreciate what you do, and the insight that you have 👍💪💯.
aug 24, 2025, 6:36 pm • 3 1 • view
So we're basically fucked.
aug 24, 2025, 6:42 pm • 3 0 • view
A chilling revelation. Fuck Putin. Fuck Russia. Fuck every single goddamned citizen who would forfeit their freedoms to these monsters.
aug 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, but how are you going to get rid of them now? They are all among you now. To get rid of contagion, you have to kill it.
aug 25, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
You’re definitely on to something. Agree wholeheartedly. Everything was off about this election, calling it so quickly and walking away. Makes a lot of sense.
aug 25, 2025, 12:32 am • 0 0 • view
This was an excellent sub-stack. I’m wondering if utilizing ppl that have NOTHING to lose or no one( ie: family) to hurt heads off these threats? I think we need to regroup & rethink our tactics in this arena.
aug 24, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The most selfish man in American history. Betrayed our country and our democracy. All he had to do was retire to his oceanfront mansion..hes a despicable war criminal who should be getting his radiation at the hague.
aug 24, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
How do you resist a tyrannical coup like The Trump Syndicate and you are attacking your friends like Trump is attacking NATO? We need unity NOT political purging/ ESPECIALLY over UNPROVEN OPINIONS! "...They will have you loving the Oppressors and hating the oppressed"! -Malcom X (paraphrased)
aug 24, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s trump not Biden. He was the one who got betrayed by his own party.
aug 24, 2025, 4:49 pm • 9 1 • view
Trump wasn’t “betrayed” by his party…he bled them dry until self-preservation kicked in. Betrayal implies loyalty was ever real. It wasn’t. What Biden faced was different…he walked into office with intel briefings in hand and threats swirling. Comparing the two is apples to hand grenades.
aug 24, 2025, 5:42 pm • 54 6 • view
🪖🌮🪖
aug 24, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Joe Biden would have literally lost by 400 electoral votes. He would have lost NJ. Let me frame this for you. He had a 38% aprvl. NO ONe, IN FED OFFICE HISTORY AT ANY LEVEL HAS WON REELECTION WITH THAT %. 76% OF HIS OWN PARTY DIDNT WANT HIM RUNNING. LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN
aug 25, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Have always said this - the threats going around must be extreme and terrifying 💙
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
God dammit Jack! Stop connecting the dots in such a calm thought out way! I haven’t had my second cup of coffee yet! Something tells me the “ashen faces” of Trump’s staff in Alaska is akin to these described threats.
aug 24, 2025, 5:14 pm • 19 0 • view
Right?! lol I'm a real grouch before that second cup of coffee. You'd be right. "Ashen faces" were hovering in my mind during this whole piece.
aug 24, 2025, 5:24 pm • 24 1 • view
My wife is now yelling at me for describing your article. I should have held on to my rage over your “so obvious it could have been in a Clancy novel” article till Monday
aug 24, 2025, 5:38 pm • 5 0 • view
😂
aug 24, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
One of the best assessments of things I’ve read since the beginning of the year. Admittedly, your good insight and what I learned from you, namely about leader silence, turned me around. Once again I hear the assignment & thank you Jack. I hope all read & subscribe to you. 🙏💙👊
aug 24, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Russia is a huge problem and must be defeated. Pounded to ash.
aug 24, 2025, 6:39 pm • 2 0 • view
It should be split up into several countries.
aug 25, 2025, 4:37 am • 1 0 • view