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How would the most likely scenario have turned out had Schumer not gathered his ten votes, with a shutdown government and Musk paused to make something of it?
What simplistic story would Trump, Musk and JD be finding easy to spin?
Work on it, come up with your best guess.
And as to motive, DOGE is doing what it does because they want the money. They want their tax break to go onward, and don't care a fuck where they hurt people in the process of getting it. You have the circumstances and that's one inference with an appeal to it, given the quality of people and how they've gone already for the money whenever there was having a shot to get it.
Maybe more on that in a later post.
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Historically, there were a lot of Russians buying into Trump Tower units, paying top dollar, and if that concentration of money flow was not statistically random, then what was at play and was there possibly a documented or recorded understanding?
Circumstance or design? If there was a "pee tape" or its equivalent, as Carville muses, it would have to be compromising beyond circumstantial possibility, actual kompromat, as to time and place and impropriety of some nature.