Wasserman writes: "In the Trumputin world of organized crime, Michael Cohen has committed the ultimate betrayal: he's helped Robert Mueller prove beyond doubt that don Putin in the Kremlin put his very own bagman into the White House."
Michael Cohen walks out of federal court on Nov. 29, 2018, in New York. (photo: Julie Jacobson/AP)
Is Michael Cohen Trumputin's Dead Meat? Are We?
10 December 18
n the Trumputin world of organized crime, Michael Cohen has committed the ultimate betrayal: he�s helped Robert Mueller prove beyond doubt that don Putin in the Kremlin put his very own bagman into the White House.
Cohen is the ultimate mobster nightmare, the inside attorney who flips. Many a consigliere has died at Mafia hands for far less.
For what might come next, see Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post reporter literally butchered by the Saudi branch of the Trumputin oligarchy.
Nixon�s lawyer, John Dean, called Watergate a �cancer on the presidency.� Cohen has confirmed that the �conspiracy theories� about Trump colluding with Putin are an epic understatement.
Mueller�s �report� has thus far been seeping out in the indictments against Trump�s enablers, a list that may ultimately include Trump�s children, Vice President Mike Pence, former attorney general Jeff Sessions, and many more, including The Donald himself.
Still missing is the vital context: Trump�s decades of money laundering for the Putin oligarchy.
Watergate did not come in a vacuum. Nixon had already committed treason by sabotaging 1968 Vietnam peace talks. He also illegally bombed Cambodia, feeding the slaughter of at least 3 million people.
In 1972, at Sundance Magazine, I edited a massive expos� by Jeff Gerth detailing Nixon�s lifelong ties to the criminal underworld, much of it centered in Florida.
None of that played a major overt role in Dick�s fall.
But Trump�s decades of money laundering are no secret. As documented by David Cay Johnston, Craig Unger, and many more, Trump used some 1300 shady real estate deals with Russian oligarchs to flip a multibillion-dollar debt and at least four bankruptcies into a cash-rich buying spree. His flagship Trump Tower on Manhattan�s Fifth Avenue is a porous membrane for ruble-to-dollar osmosis.
All that set the stage for 2016. Because he didn�t plan on winning, Trump ran the campaign as just another self-promoting reality show. The Trump Tower he wanted to build in Moscow, with its $50-million Putin penthouse, was to be his flashiest combination showpiece and laundromat.
Putin is vastly more intelligent and capable than Trump, and had a far better grasp on the power of such double-dealings. His oligarchs would be immune from future prosecutions, as Mueller�s futile indictments of so many Kremlin trolls has shown. But their puny White House bagman, an American Boris Yeltsin, would deliver immense fiscal opportunities and stunning geopolitical gains (at least in the short term).
Trump had no clue. True to his authoritarian DNA, he�s fled immediately to fascism, assaulting every aspect of democracy with the blood rage of a cornered rat.
His goose-stepping GOP has followed suit. Fascist coups in Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina are well underway. The governorship of Georgia has been stolen. The gerrymandered Ohio legislature is banning abortion. And that�s just for openers.
With the Supreme Court, a zombie Senate majority, a limp corporate Democrat non-opposition, and Fox as his mighty fortress, Trump is hunkered down for a fight to the death � OUR death.
He�s injected the economy with a methamphetamine tax cut for the rich that will crash it all. Just when we don�t know.
But we now face a four-way fiscal catastrophe: the stock market, housing market, student loan debt, and corporate debt. The sound of that house of cards crashing will echo for decades. Trump is also driving an ecological collapse that�s already dwarfing them all.
He�s already lost the US House and some statehouses. He�s been unable to stop the trickle of Mueller indictments.
Should that turn into a tsunami, he, his kids, and a slew of his partners in crime are certain to be indicted, many in New York, where presidential pardons are worthless.
And he�s lost Michael Cohen.
We don�t yet know how far Cohen�s inside information will reach, or what more he has to offer. We don�t know if Mueller will do anything with Trump�s criminal past. We don�t know what might turn the Trumputin catastrophe thermonuclear, as Nixon�s earlier treasons might have done to Watergate.
We also don�t know how long Trumputin will let Michael Cohen live. There�s no reason to believe the New York prosecutors who want him in prison can protect him there.
Nor is there reason to doubt that Donald Trump will blow up this entire Earth and all of us with it before he faces the true karmic payback of a sad, sad life defined entirely by organized crime.
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman's Life & Death Spiral of US History: From Deganawidah to the Trumpocalypse will soon be published via Solartopia.org. His "California Solartopia" show airs at KPFK-Pacifica in Los Angeles. "Green Power & Wellness" is at prn.fm.
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And/or a general strike!
Some people may be familiar with that term but unable to explain just what it means!
It is, in principle, a mass revolutionary act intended to shut down the country - nominally until certain massive grievances are remedied, preferably with the resignation of the whole government.
To my knowledge, a successful general strike has never occurred (though France came close in 1968).
In the US, there numerous attempts in the late 19th century, but no revolution occurred.
Apart from a 5-day strike in Seattle in Feb., 1919, the only thing close in 20th-century North America happened in Canada (also in 1919). Called the "Winnipeg General Strike" (because it started in Winnipeg, Manitoba) it won some support across the Canadian west, in Ontario and in Montreal.
It was, however, not well enough organized (although the strike committee did take over the government of the City of Winnipeg) and not well enough supported to win.
Today, trade unions are at their weakest point since before the Great Depression. In the US, I doubt if 10% of the labor force is organized. And, without the workers, there's not much of a strike.
A general strike is a tactic familiar to both anarchists and socialists (with predictable differences of intent and method).
Prime writers? Probably Georges Sorel & Rosa Luxemburg. And, of course, there were America's beloved "Wobblies" - the Industrial Workers of the World, still active after all these years!
True enough. Until we recognize our power is our labor and refusal to purchase goods we will not win. The following is from IWW organizer Joseph Ettor:
"If the workers of the world want to win all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of capitalists..."
It takes great organization and without unions I am not sure we can achieve a general strike but that is what it will take. Half of America went with trump and I can't help but wonder when and if they will figure out what is happening. I don't hold out much hope without solidarity.
I started my own strike the day he was elected. If I don't need something to absolutely survive, I don't buy it. Remember the Boston bombing and the lockdown that followed. The shelter in place was lifted, not when the culprits were caught, but when the people in power realized a couple of days without spending cost business over $300,000,000.
Need I remind anyone George W Bush told people to go out and shop after 911. Use the money you save to hit 'em twice by paying off debt. Resist anyway you can.
The Trump Presidency is brought to you by the dishonesty of Hillary Clinton and the DNC!
We could have had Bernie!
Go on, you phoney, call your local FBI office...no, no, not to turn yourself in!
to explain all the real and true proof you have AGAINST the woman you love to hate, (but never met) HRC. You're not just lying again, are you?
Do you hate OTHER WOMEN TOO?
Go on, call the FBI. They're on YOUR side, you know. Go ahead, turn ME in if you want. They used to know ME pretty good in the local office.
Add to that Republicans have never been "soft" on crime; and with penal colonies being one of the two largest growth industries in the U.S.(the other being the police, security & surveillance industry), Republicans can support their business buddies with more privatized prisons.
Never forget, fighting crime, administering justice and operating prisons are big, profitable businesses in the U.S. So the more laws you make, the more laws get broken and the more people you can prosecute and imprison and the more profit there is for the criminal-justic e industry.
And as we all wince with horror at what will be happening please NEVER forget...
The Trump Presidency is brought to you by the dishonesty of Hillary Clinton and the DNC!
We could have had Bernie!
Amen!!
Yes, if only arithmetic could be suspended to allow Sen Sanders to accept the nomination with 4 million fewer votes than Sec'y Clinton. And the appeal of a Socialist Jew would have stilled the Republican smear machine. This frantic insistence that HRC voters actually voted for Trump is dishonest, delusional, or both. Lose the fairy dust and find some place to oppose Mr Trump.
But trying to use Bernie's unsuccessful campaign to insult Hillary Clinton insults Bernie more than it does the intended object of scorn.
The primaries are over , and so is the 2016 presidential election. It's time to start living in the present -- maybe by persuading Senator Sanders to give it another try in 2020.
We're IN one of THOSE...you know, when you go to a strange door because your car broke down in the rain with you and your girlfriend, and a hunchback named Sessions opens the door and wants you to step inside...bwahah a...
Now he gets to make so many of us hurt more than we wanted or needed to.
Let's just keep on keeping track of who and what class of people he improves the lives of...a few years after somebody unnecessarily dies in those families, the ugly ones may wake up. They won't get any smarter, but they might have learned more...