Holy shit.

[rameshgupta@mastodon.social]

️ @Extra_Special_Carbon @cstross

>> The least Biden could have done is drop the cases so they coild release the evidence. i mean once Trump was elected, the cases were dead, sk just put it out there

The LEAST #Biden could have done is appoint a competent Attorney General and not kneecap him/her with a preemptive declaration of his own desire to avoid all #Trump investigations.

What a dereliction of duty from a man who knew everything about Trump from the #Obama days!

Biden hopes to avoid divisive Trump investigations, preferring unity

Joe Biden has privately told advisers he doesn't want his presidency consumed by investigations into Donald Trump, five people familiar with the discussions said.

NBC News (www.nbcnews.com)

[geos@toot.community]

@cstross
Yeah, if you follow the money it should probably be called CCCP(ac).

[extra_special_carbon@mastodon.world]

@rameshgupta @cstross That would have bern nice too, but I don’t think it qualifies as “least”. I guess technically, what he did was least, but the one slightly more than that, was release all of the documents.

[ltning@pleroma.anduin.net]

@DM_Ronin @cstross Are there alternative sources? I am not going to throw money at Bloomberg

[mrbirch@beige.party]

@cstross And probably with laundered Russian money.

[bsm6789@toots.nu]

@cstross
Put Orban to jai.
He is a traitor..all of Fidesz are traitors.

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@cstross Watch Trump spin this as "bringing jobs back to the US" if fash-curious American billionaires step up to pay.

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Kierkegaanks @cstross With documents confirming that MAGA bloggers like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson were funded by Russia, I think it's reasonable to conclude that CPAC became yet another Kremlin psyop, intended to disrupt and corrupt US foreign and domestic politics.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@cstross

Jailing Orbán sounds like a nice treat for people who like democracy and human rights.

[whitecattamer@mastodon.online]

@cstross Hey remember this story: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mccarthy-trump-putin-pays_n_591cc97ce4b03b485cae64c2

It really does come back to this schmuck half the time, huh?

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@cstross

Orban functioned as a conduit for Putin's foreign threat funding for years.

Petrostate despots and oil oligarchs fund a lot of fascism globally.

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

Republicans & the Epstein Class cannot resist fossil fuel public corruption.

Konstantin Nikolaev—the Putin ally behind Mike Johnson campaign donation

The Russian oligarch gave money to the Republican's 2018 congressional campaign via a U.S-based company in which he owned a majority.

Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)

The N.R.A. Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money?

Congressional Democrats, the F.B.I., and Robert Mueller want to know why Putin-tied oligarchs took such an interest in American gun ownership.

Vanity Fair (www.vanityfair.com)

[onpubcom@techhub.social]

@cstross Gonna bet JD got paid, too.

[mmarcott@bsd.network]

@ltning @DM_Ronin @cstross

https://archive.ph/IZp17
Try there

[mokhtarstork@sciences.social]

@cstross There is a need to get down improving life rather then than to get political hang-ups. Every one comes with the same political gimmick throughout the world. We call it Democracy, but at the end of the day is there any real difference?

[ravenonthill@mastodon.social]

@cstross see https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3mjhbhrv3mc22

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@klausfiend @GhostOnTheHalfShell @Kierkegaanks @cstross Became? I'm sure they were from the start, a lot longer ago that people imagine.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@cstross Viktor Orban’s Hungary was more meaningful to MAGA than you think. Steve Bannon and many others visited there frequently, and many think-tanks operated from there!

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@W6KME @GhostOnTheHalfShell @Kierkegaanks @cstross The first CPAC was during the tail end of the Cold War so I think it's reasonable to assume it wasn't always a Republican-flavored Gathering of the Juggalos, and at least once serious policy discussions occurred. (No offense intended to any Juggalos who might be reading this.)

[jeffmcneill@hachyderm.io]

@cstross @pluralistic And CPAC was taking the money

[timolaine@mastodon.green]

@graydon @cstross This fits nicely with @anneapplebaum's thesis in Autocracy Inc. All these autocrats form a network of mutual assistance.

Some nodes, like Putin, are more important to the network, I guess. Orban was mostly a satellite?