Monday, August 1, 2022

Red Team Storms LIV


It should not be a surprise that cruel people came out of the political woodwork for the LIV Golf event at Trump Bedminster.  Tickets went for as low as $1 to entice people to attend as 9-11 families protested nearby..  

I imagine Tucker Carlson is laughing at the symbolic bag of cash Trump received from the murderous Crown Prince.  The Red Team sold their soul to the devil in Donald Trump.  He too will meet his maker and atone for his earthly sins.  Tucker and Marjorie will not be there to bolster his lies or fluff up Trump's insatiable ego.

Update 8-3-22:  One story got the mean greed vibe but did not explore the possible role of Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners in LIV Golf.  Is Jared coaching Affinity Partners' affiliate LIV Golf alongside former Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer? The Trump team's disregard for the law can be seen in its Mafia-like behavior according to a former FBI official.

Update 8-16-22:  A Saudi woman studying at Leeds University was sentenced to 34 years in prison for using Twitter to follow and retweet activists and dissidents.  The World Economic Forum ran a piece on using AI to reign in abuse on the internet:

By bringing human-curated, multi-language, off-platform intelligence into learning sets, AI will then be able to detect nuanced, novel online abuses at scale, before they reach mainstream platforms.

I imagine the Crown Prince would be most interested in such technology. 

Update 8-17-22:  The Saudi Crown Prince already has such an app.  Someone "reported her on the Saudi app, which is called Kollona Amn, or We Are All Security."

Her alleged crimes including using a website to “cause public unrest” and “assisting those who seek to cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security by following their Twitter accounts” and by retweeting their tweets.

The World Economic Forum welcomed the Saudi Crown Prince in 2018 and now appears to endorse something similar to his security app.  

Update 9-27-22:   Tucker Carlson cheered the election of a neo-fascist Italian Prime Minister, an admirer of Mussolini.  

Update 11-18-22:  The Blue Lucys plan to shield the Saudi Crown Prince from a U.S. civil suit filed by the widow of WaPo journalist Jamaal Khashoggi. 

Update 11-19-22:  A former top State Department advisor called the move to protect the Saudi Crown Prince a bad strategy and is "carrying MBS's water."

Update 12-6-22:   The U.S. court case against the Crown Prince was dismissed under the guise of sovereign immunity, something the Prince did not have at the time of the execution.  The judge said his hands were tied by the Biden administration's recommendation to the court.  Thugs win.

Update 1-15-23:  The LIV hoard stalled as the tour nears its second year.  Meanwhile, the Saudi Crown Prince continues optimizing his image over the freedom and lives of Saudi citizens.

Human rights advocates and Saudi dissidents living in exile have warned that authorities in the kingdom are engaged in a new and severe crackdown on individuals who are perceived to be critics of the Saudi government.

Update 3-8-23:  The Hill reported:

“We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Tucker Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan. 4, 2021.  “I hate him passionately, I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”