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There's a lot of speculation in here, which ironically is the sort of thing that creates the environment of distrust which you speak of. Seems unlikely Trump would be calling for the release of the affidavit if the alleged crimes were on par with "selling nuclear secrets."

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Trump is selling nukes....give me a break! You are starting to become whacky....which is undermining your real credibility. Its sad because you are an excellent geo-political commentator. Do yourself a favor and come back to earth.

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I know your a leftist, but selling nuclear secrets to our enemies for financial gain? Take a breather, stop writing your partisan nonsense for a time and get out ... meet new friends and experiences and leave your paranoia alone.

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Aug 21, 2022·edited Aug 21, 2022Liked by Dr Pippa

Pippa... seriously... Normally I enjoy reading your stuff and I've understood your Left leaning views, I grew up in DC, it's part of the culture, it get it. But as a die hard libertarian, this latest piece of yours ranks up there as an opinion hit piece from the WAPO or CNN and really discredit's you in the eye's of people like myself living outside of "the beltway" who like to view things more objectively.

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Dumbest post yet!

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By the way: I'm cancelling my subscription. I can very well handle different opinions, and even radical ideas which I believe are wrong, as long as they're founded on constructive intention and rigorous thinking. But this blog post is pure vile trash from someone I thought was a good impartial analyst and commentator... I can now delete everything in my mind I had thought credible from your past blog posts. Just really terrible what you did here, but glad you let the mask fall for all your subscribers to see. They'll no longer be duped by you. Goodbye.

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Wow - you are some kind of moron! This is the most bizarre rant from a mentally ill liberal that I have read lately. You just threw all of your potential credibility in the great woke trash can.

Not even the most deranged FBI/DOJ propagandist has suggested this nuclear weapon sale nonsense - you must get all of your intellectual food directly from demented Morning Joe....

Just wow...

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Tons of spit-take speculation in here, but that's also why I enjoy reading you. I certainly wouldn't describe myself as MAGA, but I definitely get a chuckle at the way that the DC Elite (for lack of a better pithy label) view Trump and his followers. A shame that pearl-clutching isn't an Olympic sport. My litmus test for "respectability" of an anti-Trumper's opinion is: do you believe that Trump caused all of this populist broohaha, or did he see a swelling mob, opportunistically jump in front of it, and claim to be leading the parade? I think reality is closer to the latter than the former. A lot of Team DC Elite seems to honestly view themselves as poor misrepresented public servants. I think a closer analogy is Bourbon France, having their nonstop parties in Versailles. And they need to be careful, because while yes, they're the ones with better credentials and better educations - the peasants are revolting.

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You cite absolutely no facts here just “conspiracy theory conjecture” do you have pictures of all these characters pinned to your wall, tied together with yarn and scribbles of your psychotic visions and secret codes from hallucinatory episodes to make these absurd connections? Or an “anonymous source” named Chris Steele who got this info in a bar from a disgruntled, exiled Oxford CIA “informant”?

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What's unimpressive about this piece is that it has no substance. It's jut an opinion piece, which can be characterized as a conspiracy piece. Where's the evidence? I expected better from Dr. Pippa.

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Wow is all I can say. No idea what to believe, but would tend to come down on the side that whatever Trump was doing, it was not selling nuclear secrets

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As always, your analysis is highly interesting. However, I think at heart, the split in America is about a single, simple issue: democracy or authoritarianism. Those who prefer democracy will fight against authoritarianism within the bounds of democratic tools. Those who prefer authoritarianism will fight against democracy with all tools, including excessive force. Would you agree?

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Aug 17, 2022·edited Aug 17, 2022

pretty speculative. seems to me if you're going to stir the pot like this you would at least have some evidence

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Appears Pippa got radiation burns from the Nuclear Hoax

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This sounds like something Jeb might be pushing! Really Pippa!!

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founding

Pippa, I don’t think so. My pro Trump friends say the election was stolen. When I ask, “Prove It”, they can’t. Prove it like the Nixon tapes proved it. There maybe somewhere, someone with the 10 line of code or 10 emails or recordings that prove the machines were jammed up to do the wrong thing, but so far nothing. Doesn’t mean there is a jilted lover somewhere out there ready to pounce and get even, but time make it less and less likely. Until it happens it is just an illusion.

I looked at the Internet. All references to Trump and nuclear are 4 days ago. It’s a non-story now. And the time slippage keeps working against the dems and the left. What was there? Probably junk. Team Trump literally were running out of town the way they came in. Completely disorganized. Jamming anything that moved into boxes. This is the group that arrived on the scene and did not know they had 5,000 appoints to make to keep the government working. The whole thing reflects his chaotic personality.

The reality is that all their actions were about protecting one thing, The Brand. It is over a year and a half and suddenly someone is asking about nuclear. Trump didn’t know he had it. They didn’t know he had it. They are trying to nail him on anything and end up looking foolish when they can’t. He’s not that smart. He’s not that cunning. They judge him by their standards, what they would do if they were him. Not looking at what he is doing, or not capable of doing so because his concentration is on a totally different agenda. The Trump Brand. All the rest, all of it, is irrelevant. It won’t stick. Never has, never will. They are playing High School Football and he is playing Major League Baseball. Six states over and a 1,000 miles away.

Now, if he really did sell nuclear, his followers would turn on him in an instant. Loyalty vs. Treason. He loses big. Remember the Nixon Tapes. Same thing.

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