That video is too old. The playbook is similar but the end result /objective is not. That was still all about the old marxist-leninist agenda. That ideology died some 30 years ago.
No one in the GRU cares to get progressive people in charge in Washington anymore or get "regime change". Why would a capitalist country try to turn a capitalist country into a socialist country? There's no point in this.
Modern day russia is in it for the money / influence, not ideology. An America that turns it's focus inwards and let's go of the "world police mission" leaves a vaccuum for Russia's sphere of influence to grow. That's what matters now. Trump has shown he'd walk that path (america first) and that's why he's their pick. As an added bonus, he's really into the strong guy putin image.
Except no. The Soviets initiated it, it took hold, the union fell apart and the monstrosity they started was left to mutate and continue kind of unguided. If anything the very same playbook is still being used by those who seek to control everything. The sun has set on Russia and they are nothing but a built up boogieman these days.
Yelling Fake News is the antidote? Undermining the media is how you restore order? Undermining your own government (deep state) and not trusting your institutions / security services? (Putin said he didn't do it so I'll take his word over the security apparatus).
Yes, they are the driving force for all this shit. If they didn't exist, TDS wouldn't even be a thing. Regarding the security apparatus, that too is a sham with anything anti-Trump related. Remember how the FBI outsourced their duty to investigate the DNC hack to a left lean shill organization called CrowdStrike. They told everyone and confirmed through Fake News it was the Russians who hacked the DNC.
https://www.realclearinvestigations...d_no_proof_of_russian_hack_of_dnc_123596.html
So maybe you should trust Putin over those who make up facts in the attempt to bring down Trump. Lie after lie has erode any trust I afford them and it should be the same for anybody with a brain. If it's not for their agenda, then it's for the views/money and like Yuri said, they're making money selling the rope that will be used to hang them.
The republican establishment fell in line with Trump because they realized that besides all the sideshows, he'd still work towards
tax cuts for the big corporations. He's not a threat to big business interest so it's all good.
A tax break on capital gain as a coronavirus incentive?
How the fuck does that work when the people that don't have any jobs don't have any capital to tinker with?
About 75% of Trump’s proposed coronavirus capital gains tax cut would go to the top 1% of earners
Benefits would flow overwhelmingly to the wealthy, economists say
Roughly three-quarters of the benefits from the capital gains tax cut floated by President Donald Trump as part of the administration's coronavirus relief plan would go to the top 1% of earners, according to the Tax Policy Center.
Trump has repeatedly floated a cut to capital gains taxes, which are taxes paid by investors on profits made when an asset, like stock or real estate, is sold. The capital gains tax rate is already 35% lower than the top income tax rate, and only about 6% of households in the bottom 80% of earners claim any capital gains, meaning the overwhelming majority of benefits would flow to the wealthy.
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/30/ab...ins-tax-cut-would-go-to-the-top-1-of-earners/
The folks at the Kremlin must've been really, really surprised get an invite to Trump's G7.
First let's get something straight, let's decode "tax cuts". That means the government steals less of the money you worked hard to earn. If you're talking about government handouts, actual money transferring from the government to a company, the sure, I am never for that but those are definitely not tax cuts. To also be considered, it's kind of hard to give tax cuts when you're already not paying your "fair share". The bottom 10% would fall further into the handouts category and most already do.
Now capital investments means you put money into a company/idea/person and as a result, you eventually get more money back (a gain). However, this is not always a sure thing, you could lose everything you put in. For that reason the tax rates on money made on gains like this are less than what you pay on a paycheck so that people are incentivized to take the risks.
Let's consider an example, numbers will be extreme to make it easier to understand. A guy saves up $50k working a day job and decides to open the restaurant with the intent to sell it after it's up and running. Two years later sells it to another person for $100k. If the government took 99% of the gain, would he bother busting his ass opening the restaurant for $500? I don't think so. In the mean time he's now employed a cook and 3 waiters/waitresses who are not making much but have a job. If you signaled the guy that you're going to lower the gains rate and you'd allow him to keep more of that $50k, guess what, you now have more people investing and subsequently more jobs for people who just want a paycheck.
Same thing goes for salary. Let's say somebody has a real talent/skill and they can make $12M a year or a cool million per month. Once again you up the tax rate to 99%, this time on income above $1M. What do you think happens? The person works one month and then not wanting to have 99% stolen from him, he fucks off for the rest of the year to a tropical destination because a mil is still good. All that productivity in those 11 months is lost. Flipped around, if there was a flat tax of 10% on the first dollar and the 12 millionth dollar, that guy would be working all year around and maybe push to get to $20M.
So yes, when Corona virus panic and looters have all but destroyed the economy, the smart thing to do is to incentivize those who have money to invest in the economy and that would be by lowering the capital gains tax. Salon and any person who thinks we should stop considering tax breaks to the hard workers, they can take their Socialism/Communism and