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Kathy's avatar

Thx Jack. I can’t help but believe this was 47s plan the entire time. To pretend it was to look like a serious mtg but to have never had the intentions to get a damn thing. The demented man was over the moon with the pageantry in exchange for the playbook he’s been agreeing to for years. He will work the MSM, get rich, and stay on course to keep selling out the world to his fellow boss. He never cared. He’s not being played. He’s agreed to it. There is soooo much in it for him to hand over the keys. Pretending to want the end to a war. He doesn’t care. Gaza or Ukraine… bystanders in his world of consumption.

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Jack Hopkins's avatar

Love this, and you’re dead-on...Kathy. The whole thing reeked of stagecraft: velvet rope, loud music, zero substance. He didn’t “fail” to get a deal...he never went for one.

The objective was pageantry and prestige transfer. Mission accomplished… for Putin.

What you nailed is motive. This isn’t a man being outfoxed; it’s a man aligned. When the cameras roll...he sells the image. When the doors close...he sells the leverage. And the “serious meeting” costume gives cover to the same old playbook: feed the ego...work the media...monetize the chaos...and treat Gaza and Ukraine as props on his personal set.

Here’s where we push back: we strip the theater of its magic. Call the optics what they are, name the concessions he tried to launder as “peace,” and make the humiliation expensive for everyone enabling it.

That means pressure on Democrats to act like the opposition party...on media to cover outcomes not optics...and on our readers to light up phones and inboxes with specific demands...not vibes.

-Jack

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Kathy's avatar
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I’m not sure if you follow former WH fixer turned whistleblower Lev Parnas… it’s informative as is your Substack. Striving for peace inside myself throughout the outrage…BTW the photo you use looks like a Putin impersonator. Lev mentions this

https://open.substack.com/pub/levremembers/p/while-trump-and-putin-stage-their?r=khorh&utm_medium=ios

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AnnieD's avatar

Yes, all that, but I’m having a hard time believing 47 has the capacity to think this up and deliver without massive assistance -- like from Vought et all. The P2025 bunch. Aren’t they really running 47? Who’s just along for the very lucrative ride?

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Kathy's avatar

Yup

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Cherae Stone's avatar

Thank you, Jack.

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Jack Hopkins's avatar

You’re welcome, Cherae. Always!

-Jack

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Joan Powell's avatar

Thank you Jack, still under the weather, was that Putin’s double heard he has one.

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Jack Hopkins's avatar

You’re welcome, Joan. You take care of yourself!

Nothing confirmed. I have long seem reports of a double. Even reports of more than one. Someone like Putin would be wise to have a double…or three. But…I can’t confirm.

We are in strange times…so…I’m certainly slower to rule out possibilities like this. I consider the timeframe and context of politics involved.

-Jack

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Vivian Fletcher's avatar

Thank you, Jack. Horrible, Horrible! I never ever trusted him...knew he was a horrible monster and to sell our country to a dictator is beyond evil. I hope and pray Zelenskyy does NOT come tomorrow!!!

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Jack Hopkins's avatar

Love you for saying it out loud…Vivian. The pageantry was the point…and it was always going to serve Putin…not America. Whether Zelenskyy shows or not… we’ll keep cutting through the fog and documenting every lever they’re trying to pull. Stay close…facts..receipts…and the next moves are coming.

-Jack

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James LoMonaco's avatar

I am deeply angry about the Alaska “summit” that had the American President wandering around a red carpet, clapping for then welcoming a war criminal to our country. Then watch him mug with the kidnapper of children and ultimately surrender our dignity, common decency to that grinning troll Putin. The sacrifices my parents made, serving as Naval Officers throughout the Second World War are demeaned.

We’d better wake up to the consequences that this monster Trump has in mind for all of us. NOW.

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Chrissy Williams's avatar

And what is so confounding is 47 is so ignorant and uninformed and incurious. Very criminally intelligent and clever. When I think of the damage to our country and the people around him, my stomach does this internal thing that I have no words for. It’s sickening.

And to see him clapping for friggin putin on a friggin red friggin carpet. That’s sickening.

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Cherae Stone's avatar

Yes, I know. Counting on that. 😉

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AnnieD's avatar

Thanks for the blunt rundown of the Alaska debacle. Jesus. If you can be kinda’ optimistic after that, well, it’s impressive. Thank you for for sharing your opinions and following up with guidance and a little hope. That’ll work for me.. take good care..

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Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Great post, as always, Jack. Thank you.

If that WAS Putin's double, do you think Donny even realized it?

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