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Imagine you could take a time machine back 20 years and tell people, that in 2025 the world is on the brink of World War 3 and desperately in need of a leader, but the Americans elect a reality tv personality for president, and he starts by embracing Vladimir Putin, wanting to dissolve NATO, and annex Canada, Greenland and parts of Panama.”

— Not a single person would believe you.

J.H.Noyes

@randahl

My grandfather was Mario Cuomo's COS for a while, other roles too. He told me that this was going to happen when I went to visit with him in 2001, a couple of months before 9-11. According to him:

NY GOP was in bed with Russia in the 80s
The GOP was going to go over to Putin.
Trump was going to be president w/strong backing from the evangelicals.

I excused myself to the bathroom because I thought his mind was slipping. It sounded so insane.

@noyes @randahl so your saying your grandfather had a time machine...

@ATLeagle @randahl

Grandfather. Keen political instincts. I remember him saying that the GOP wanted Trump to run for governor in the early 90s, but that Trump didn't want to do it.

@noyes @randahl i edited that, so some people will think I'm not a moron.

That really makes me think about what was going on back then. We know guiliani replaced the Italian mafia with Russian, but how deep was the influence at the national level