Greetings board gamers! In an effort to spotlight some standout members of the /boardgames community, we present to you the Meeple of the Week! Every week we'll be interviewing Reddit board gamers and presenting their profiles so you can get to know them better.
This week's Meeple of the Week is DaboGirl
Note: Due to scheduling, DaboGirl will not be able to answer any questions until after 5pm PDT

Real life

I'm Crystal, I grew up in a suburb of Kansas City but have lived in Las Vegas since 2008 and I'm a 31-year-old female. I am a marketing copywriter who used to work in the casino industry and recently moved into the banking industry (which is not nearly as boring as I thought it would be!) I am proof that you can find gainful employment with an English degree, even if you don't want to teach. As for other hobbies, I play video games, but not nearly as much as I used to. I've recently been playing a bunch of the older Zelda games which has been a lot of fun. My husband plays Magic the Gathering at a pretty high level, so while he would love for me to play that with him, I typically opt out since he beats me every time. Is hanging out with my dogs a hobby? I have three of them so they require a lot of love and cuddles (Sterling, Lana, and Maeby - a maltese, bichon, and poodle-mix).

Introduction to Board Gaming

How did you get introduced to Board Gaming? I played all the typical games as a kid (monopoly, scrabble, kerplunk, etc.) along with a bunch of the girly board games (like Mall Madness and Dream Phone). My fav board game as a kid was The Omega Virus. I got it as a gift for my 8th or 9th birthday and I still own it and it still works perfectly. High school and college saw me drift away, but then in 2007 a coworker invited me to his weekly game night and I was introduced to Saint Petersburg, Ninja Burger, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Race for the Galaxy, Runebound 2nd Edition, and many others. I was hooked. When I moved to Vegas I slowly started my collection and it has been building ever since.

Gaming Habits

Do you customize your games? If so, can you describe one of the games you customized? Not typically. The only real cool customized thing I have is a little wooden guillotine (with a dulled blade) that my friend made me to go along with the Guillotine card game.
How often do you play games? Who do you play with? Where do you play? At least once a week. I joined a local group on Meetup.com awhile back that meets at a local game store and I'm there every Thursday. A lot of the people in that group have become great friends. I also have game nights at my house usually once every couple of months or so. A lot of my friends enjoy board games more casually, but I'm lucky that they are almost always willing to try anything I throw at them.
Do you have a Board Game Geek profile you are willing to share? CrysP

Favorites

What is your Favorite Game and why? This question is so hard to answer. When my collection was smaller, my answer was always Battlestar Galactica. I adored Pandemic Legacy, but it feels weird calling that my favorite. I have a weird adoration of Kingdom Builder that I've never quite understood. I think I'll just wuss out and say The Omega Virus for nostalgic reasons.
Who is your Favorite Designer and why? I don't tend to gravitate toward any particular designers, but if I had to pick I think I'd go with Antoine Bauza. I've played a lot of his games and haven't disliked a single one. I love getting destroyed by Ghost Stories, trying to communicate without communicating in Hanabi, playing with tiny pandas in Takenoko, and especially the newer 7 Wonders Duel. I don't usually play a lot of two-player games and I was blown away by how good Duel is.
What is your Favorite Publisher and why? I love Iello, but admittedly I'm a little biased because I personally know a couple people who work there. Getting to hear a little of the behind-the-scenes stuff just made me love them more. Their games are fun, quirky, and often come in small boxes, so I can easily take them with me anywhere. While I can play the real brain-burning, hours-long games, my weekly gaming consists of lighter fare, and Iello fits in perfectly almost every time. Their games are also usually easy to teach to my family and non-gaming friends. Rumble in the Dungeon has been pulled out more than once to entice people I know into the hobby.
What is your Favorite Artist and why? Marie Cardouat. Specifically for Steam Park and Dixit. Something about her whimsical art style just really does it for me. I haven't seen "And Then We Held Hands" in person yet, but I bet it looks gorgeous.
What is your Favorite Component in a board game and why? Unique meeples (animals or other things) because I'm a sucker for cute, wooden creatures. I also really like unique dice (when they are implemented well). Standard dice can be a real bore sometimes.
What is your Favorite Theme in a board game and why? I think my answer would be "any theme that isn't commonly used." While I enjoy a good dungeon-, space-, or cthulhu-based game as much as the next guy, when I see a game where you're tricking the Sheriff of Nottingham, building a quilt out of patches, operating a theme park for robots, trying to locate the murder victims in a vertically stacked hotel, or betting on a camel race, I'm already more interested just because of the unique theme.
What is your Favorite Gaming Mechanic and why? I enjoy games that force you to "Press Your Luck." I tend to be a bit of a wuss at times, and while it can be stressful to make those tough decisions, it's often very exciting. I also enjoy dice rolling when it is implemented well (not generally a fan where the dice will effect the entire outcome of the game).

Versus

FIGHT!	WINNER
Cubes vs. Miniatures	Miniatures
Cards: Sleeved vs. Unsleeved	Unsleeved
Theme vs. Mechanics	Theme
Logging Plays vs. Just Remembering	Just Remembering
Vertical vs. Horizontal box storage	Vertical
Euro vs. Ameritrash	Ameritrash
Ameritrash vs. Amerithrash	Amerithrash
Foam core vs. Plano box	Neither
Cooperative vs. Competitive	Cooperative
Short games vs. Long games	Mostly short to medium, but I do love a really long game if it is planned for in advance.
Origins vs. GenCon	MeepleCon in Las Vegas!

Q&A

Do you consider yourself a Euro gamer or Ameritrash gamer or a hybrid? Do you think the two categories are sufficient or meaningful? I think the lines are being more and more blurred in a lot of the newer games that have come out in recent years. I enjoy a number of games that have characteristics from both categories. I generally shy away from direct conflict, so you'd think I prefer Euros, yet I enjoy Ameritrash games far more than most Euro games. I'm slowly trying to introduce Euros into my life but it has been tough. They aren't games I instantly pick up and love for the most part.
What's the most memorable gaming experience you've had? Rather than one specific event, I think it would be the first few times I played modern board games at my friend's house back in 2007. We all worked graveyard shifts, and would game on our common night off. We would start playing around 7 or 8pm typically and I think what was most memorable for me were when I would look at the time and realize all of a sudden it was already 6am. Time passed so quickly when we became immersed in games and that just blew me away. I wondered how more people hadn't discovered this beautiful and wonderful hobby. Luckily, many more people have discovered it in the past decade!
Where do you buy games? Should you support your FLGS or just buy it cheaper online? I know this can be a hot button issue. If the FLGS where I do my weekly game night has a game I want, I almost always buy it from them to show my gratitude for them letting us hang out every week. A board game cafe just opened in Vegas a few months ago and they have a great retail section so I buy games there as well. And yes, I do buy games on Amazon too. I believe that if a person frequents a store and utilizes their services, they should also spend some money there, but if they don't have a game and Amazon does, I don't usually hesitate to click that "Add to Cart" button.
What are your thoughts on crowdfunding board games? What's your favorite crowdfunded game? Any particularly good or bad experiences you'd like to share? I think crowdfunding as a whole has been great for the industry. People with ideas no longer have to go pitch them over and over; they can just produce them on their own. I also think there are a LOT of mediocre games coming out of kickstarter. My favorite crowdfunded game is probably Blood Rage. I just got to play it for the first time a couple months ago but holy cow that game is fun.
How many games are in your collection? Somewhere between 90 and 100 (I think). Vegas is getting its first Ikea in May and I am super excited to go get some Kallax shelves to display my games and some of my other nerdy stuff.
What does /boardgames mean to you? It's an awesome resource for info about and opinions on games. Almost everyone is kind and helpful and I think that mirrors the board game community in real life as well.
How important are board game accessories to you? (dice towers, dice trays, inserts, ect) Not very important, but fun to have.
Is there anything else you'd like to add? I'll post a tiny teaser here that a couple other lovely ladies I met through this subreddit and I are in the very early stages of creating our own board game podcast. If anyone has suggestions for topics you feel aren't being covered in other podcasts, feel free to suggest things!
Past Meeples of the Week

IMPORTANT:
You can and should buy Craig Unger's “House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia” excellent book. This post is sourced from it.
Trump has repeatedly said he has nothing to do with Russia. Here are fifty-nine Trump connections to Russia, as detailed by Craig Unger in “House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia”. This list can be useful when people claim there is no connection between Trump and Russia.
1. Roman Abramovich Putin confidant/billionaire who, along with fellow oligarch Lev Leviev, created the Putin-approved Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, aka “Putin’s rabbi.” Ivanka Trump is close to Abramovich’s ex-wife, Dasha Zhukova, and has taken several trips with the Abramoviches, including a trip to Russia in 2014 as their guest.
2. Aras Agalarov A billionaire Russian real estate developer who is close to Putin, Agalarov partnered with Trump in bringing the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow and was a serious potential partner behind the never-built Trump Tower Moscow. Agalarov remained in contact with Trump after Miss Universe and during the 2016 presidential campaign.
3. Emin Agalarov Son of Aras Agalarov, pop singer Emin performed at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, got Donald Trump to appear in one of his music videos, and was a key figure in arranging the infamous June 2016 meetings in Trump Tower between Russian operatives and top Trump associates.
4. Evsei Agron The first alleged boss of the Russian Mafia in Brighton Beach, Agron came to New York in 1975 and ran his crime gang out of Brooklyn’s El Caribe Country Club, which was owned by Dr. Morton Levine and his family, including nephew Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer.
5. Rinat Akhmetshin Former Soviet counterintelligence officer who became a K Street lobbyist working to end sanctions. Akhmetshin attended the Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and others in June 2016 at which a Russian lawyer promised to provide opposition research on Hillary Clinton. According to the New York Times, Akhmetshin had also worked in Kiev with Konstantin Kilimnik, an aide to Paul Manafort who had a background in Russian intelligence.
6. Tevfik Arif One of the billionaire oligarchs behind the Bayrock Group, the real estate development company, whose offices were in Trump Tower. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Arif worked for the KGB-linked Ministry of Commerce and Trade.
7. Marat Balagula Evsei Agron’s alleged successor as head of the Brighton Beach Mafia, Balagula was suspected of having ordered the hit on Agron, but was never charged and moved into Agron’s former office in the El Caribe Country Club, which was still owned by Michael Cohen and his uncle. Balagula partnered with David Bogatin, who had previously purchased five apartments in Trump Tower.
8. Boris Birshtein Russian-Canadian who founded Seabeco SA with KGB operatives and under KGB guidelines to set up corporations abroad. Worked with son-in-law Alex Shnaider (who later built Trump Tower in Toronto) and two-thirds of the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s Trio (Patokh Chodiev and Alexander Mashkevich). Birshtein hosted the famous 1995 summit meeting in Tel Aviv, at which Semion Mogilevich was allotted an enormous share of the Ukraine energy trade.
9. David Bogatin One of the pioneers behind the Red Daisy gas tax scam, Bogatin bought five apartments in Trump Tower for $6 million in 1984, in the process becoming the first alleged Russian mobster to launder money through Trump Tower. Donald Trump personally sold the apartments to Bogatin.
10. Jacob Bogatin Key member of the Mogilevich Russian organized crime family who was indicted for his involvement in Mogilevich’s YBM Magnex stock scam. Brother of David Bogatin.
11. Oleg Boyko Russian oligarch who was close to Boris Yeltsin and who purchased a Trump Tower apartment in 1994, which he later sold to Vadim Trincher.
12. Mikhail Chernoy Billionaire oligarch who ran Trans-World Group with his brother, Lev; gained control of Russia’s aluminum industry; and acquired a huge stake in processing and distributing other metals and petroleum products. Chernoy allegedly defrauded the Russian central bank of more than $100 million, and is believed by the FBI to be a major Russian crime figure. In the nineties, Chernoy worked with the Chodiev Group. Chernoy also worked with Semyon Kislin, who had a long relationship with Trump and who partnered with Tamir Sapir, a financier of Trump SoHo.
13. Vitaly Churkin Russian ambassador to the UN. Churkin met Trump in 1986 and along with Yuri Dubinin set up the trip Trump took to Moscow in 1987. Churkin died in 2017 in New York.
14. Michael Cohen Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Cohen and his extended family, through his uncle, owned El Caribe Country Club in Brooklyn, which provided an alleged base of operations for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. In 1999, Cohen received a mysterious check for $350,000 that reportedly was intended for one of the leaders of the Izmaylovskaya Organized Crime Group. Both Cohen and his brother Bryan married Ukrainian women, and Bryan’s father-in-law, Alex Oronov, partnered with Viktor Topolov, an oligarch who employed three executives who were allegedly part of the Russian Mafia, including one enforcer who was tied to Mogilevich and admitted to taking part in at least twenty murders.
15. Oleg Deripaska Russian oligarch and founder and owner of Basic Element, a huge diversified industrial group. Close to Putin. Paid Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort $10 million per year to advance Putin’s global agenda. Manafort owed Deripaska nearly $19 million after a failed business deal, but that debt was said to have been forgiven after Manafort offered Deripaska secret briefings on the Trump campaign. Has admitted that, at times, he has had to collaborate with suspected mobsters because he had no choice but to work with such people. Also employed David Geovanis, who in 1996 helped arrange meetings for Trump in Moscow with key Russian figures regarding a potential Trump Tower there.
16. Natalia Dubinina Daughter of Yuri Dubinin who was already living in New York as part of the Soviet delegation to the UN when her father became Soviet ambassador to the UN in March 1986. Stated that there was a determined effort by the Soviet government to seek out Trump. At a time when KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov had been complaining about the failure to recruit enough American agents, Dubinina played a key role in setting up a meeting with Trump and encouraging him to come to Moscow.
17. Yuri Dubinin As Soviet ambassador to the UN, Dubinin met Trump and invited him to Moscow in 1987. The trip was arranged by Intourist, which was essentially a branch of the KGB whose job was to spy on high-profile tourists. As a result, Trump’s entire visit, including his hotel stay, would have been subject to surveillance by the KGB.6 Dubinin later became Soviet ambassador to the US.
18. Dmitry Firtash Ukrainian oligarch who is alleged to have partnered with and is considered a front man for Semion Mogilevich in “opaque intermediary companies” that siphoned off billions of dollars from the Ukraine energy trade. Supporter of the pro-Putin Party of Regions, which backs such policies. Also partnered with Paul Manafort on an abortive deal involving New York’s Drake Hotel.
19. Michael “MISHA” Flynn Foreign policy adviser to Trump during the campaign who later became Trump’s short-lived national security adviser. Met with GRU chief Igor Sergun in Moscow in 20137 and gave a speech to new hires at GRU headquarters. Was paid $45,000 by RT for a speech in late 2015, and was seated near Putin at an RT dinner.
20.Rick Gates When Paul Manafort became Trump’s campaign manager, Gates, as Manafort’s partner, became the campaign’s number two, after having worked closely with Manafort for pro-Putin forces in Ukraine. In 2017, Gates was charged with conspiracy against the United States, making false statements, money laundering, and failing to register as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act. In 2018, Gates pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements and one count of conspiracy against the United States.
21. David Geovanis As head of real estate for a subsidiary of the Brooke Group,* Geovanis arranged meetings for Trump during his 1996 Moscow trip to explore building Trump Tower Moscow. Later went to work for Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element.
22. Rob Goldstone Music promoter who represents Emin Agalarov. Helped arrange the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 in which representatives of the Russian government offered the Trump campaign “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Extended an invitation to Trump in the summer of 2015 to a party for Agalarov with the possibility of meeting Putin. Attended Trump’s 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
23. Anatoly Golubchik Sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 for his role in the $100 million gambling ring being run out of Trump Tower.8 Owned a condo in Trump International Beach Resort and appeared in the Panama Papers as part of a shell company that has the same corporate director as a company owned by Mogilevich and ex-wife, Galina Telesh.
24. Vyacheslav “Yaponchik” Ivankov One of the last of the old-time vory, Ivankov took over the Brighton Beach Mafia in 1992 and became one of the most powerful mobsters in the US. Connected to Putin through Leonid Usvyatsov, Putin’s judo coach who happened to be a mobster. Owned 25 percent stake in Mogilevich’s company Arbat. Mogilevich flew into New York on occasion to meet with Ivankov. FBI agents looked all over Brooklyn for Ivankov—only to find that he lived in Trump Tower. Ivankov also made frequent visits to Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City.
25. Irakly Kaveladze Longtime US-based associate of Aras Agalarov’s real estate firm, the Crocus Group, Kaveladze attended the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower among Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and the Russians. At one point, he claimed he’d attended as a translator, but another translator was present. In truth, he was there as a representative of the Agalarovs. In the nineties Kaveladze’s company International Business Creations established more than two thousand Delaware-based shell companies and laundered more than $1.4 billion in cash.
26. Viktor Khrapunov A former Kazakh energy minister and ex-mayor of Almaty, the biggest city in Kazakhstan, Khrapunov was charged with conspiring to systematically steal billions of dollars of public assets and laundering the money through shell companies, including three corresponding to apartments in Trump SoHo. Khrapunov has denied the allegations.
27. Konstantin Kilimnik Started working for Paul Manafort in 2005 when Manafort was representing Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, a gig that morphed into a long-term contract with Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin-aligned hard-liner who became president of Ukraine. Studied at the First Department of the Moscow Military Red-Banner Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, which trained interpreters for the Russian military intelligence agency.10 Made two trips to meet with Manafort during the 2016 presidential election regarding the Trump campaign, and the possibility that Manafort would give briefings to Oleg Deripaska. Also opened a consulting firm in 2015 that had ties to Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that helped elect Trump.
28. Semyon “Sam” Kislin In the late seventies, Trump bought hundreds of television sets for the Commodore Hotel (now the Grand Hyatt) from Kislin, a Ukrainian immigrant who became a billionaire. Partnered with Tamir Sapir, whose Sapir Organization worked with Bayrock and financed Trump SoHo. As a commodities trader, Kislin was tied to Mikhail and Lev Chernoy and, according to the FBI, to Vyacheslav Ivankov’s gang in Brighton Beach. Kislin has denied having ties to the Russian mob.
29. Sergey Kislyak Russian ambassador to the US who had a number of secret meetings and communications with Trump campaign officials, including General Mike Flynn and Senator Jeff Sessions. During the Republican National Convention, Kislyak had two brief encounters with Trump foreign policy adviser J. D. Gordon, who was a key figure in rewriting—and weakening—the Ukraine plank in the Republican platform.
30. Simon Kukes Bought an apartment in Trump Parc in 2000 and contributed more than $280,000 to various Trump entities. Picked by Putin to head Yukos Oil, replacing Putin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Shortly after the Trump Tower Russian meeting, Kukes started making major contributions to the Trump campaign as well as the Republican National Committee.
31. Bennett LeBow Founder and chairman of the Brooke Group. LeBow and Howard Lorber, president of the Brooke Group, accompanied Trump on his 1996 trip to Moscow.
32. Lev Leviev An Israeli billionaire close to Putin, Leviev made his fortune by cracking the world diamond monopoly of the De Beers cartel. Has several ties to Trump, among them a business relationship with Jared Kushner, who bought four floors of the old New York Times Building, on West Forty-Third Street, from Leviev for $295 million.13 In addition, Leviev was closely tied to the late Trump SoHo financier Tamir Sapir through Sapir’s son-in-law Rotem Rosen, who was the CEO of the American branch of Africa Israel, Leviev’s holding company, and who also became CEO of the Sapir Organization. One of Chabad’s biggest patrons worldwide, Leviev allied with Roman Abramovich to create the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia under the leadership of Chabad rabbi Berel Lazar, who would come to be known as “Putin’s rabbi.”
33. Howard Lorber President of the Brooke Group. Lorber and Brooke CEO Bennett LeBow accompanied Trump to Moscow in 1996.
34. Yuri Luzhkov As mayor of Moscow, Luzhkov was tied to Mogilevich and cultivated a reputation for corruption that was summed up by John Beyrle, then US ambassador to Russia, in a 2010 cable to Washington. “Corruption in Moscow remains pervasive with Mayor Luzhkov at the top of the pyramid,” Beyrle wrote. “Luzhkov oversees a system in which it appears that almost everyone at every level is involved in some form of corruption or criminal behavior.” Trump’s meetings in Moscow city hall to discuss major developments in Moscow took place under Luzhkov’s aegis.
35. Paul Manafort Before becoming Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort had been hired by Ukraine’s pro-Putin Party of Regions to do an “extreme makeover” of Viktor Yanukovych that succeeded in making him president—only to see Yanukovych later exiled in disgrace. Manafort worked for oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Rinat Akhmetov. As early as 2005, Manafort proposed to influence politics, business dealings, and news coverage inside the United States, Europe, and former Soviet republics to Putin’s benefit. He is alleged to have hidden $75 million in offshore accounts, at least one of which has ties to Mogilevich.
36. Alexander Mashkevich Kazakh billionaire who, with Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, is part of the Troika, or Trio, as they are known, major stockholders in the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, which controls chromium, alumina, and gas operations in Kazakhstan. Along with Chodiev, Mashkevich worked at Boris Birshtein’s KGB-linked Seabeco16 and was tied up with the Russian Mafia through their alliance with the Chernoys in the Aluminum Wars. He is listed in Bayrock’s promotional literature as a primary financial backer, but it is unclear if Mashkevich actually backed Bayrock projects.
37. Sergei Mikhailov Alleged to be the longtime head of Solntsevskaya Bratva, the biggest crime gang in Russia, and an associate of Semion Mogilevich, who is said to have laundered money for him starting in 1984. According to one denizen of the Russian underworld, Mikhailov is very much the boss and is more powerful that Mogilevich, who, as the brains of the operation, laundered vast amounts of money and came up with its most sophisticated financial scams, which is why Mikhailov has partnered in at least eight companies with Mogilevich. Mikhailov’s ties to Trump largely run through Mogilevich, but in 2013 Mikhailov was said to be interested in backing a Trump Tower development in Moscow and allegedly met with Trump representatives at the Ukraine hotel in Moscow.
38. Semion Mogilevich Ukrainian-born alleged “Brainy Don” of the Russian Mafia, with a multibillion-dollar organization allegedly involved in the sale of nuclear materials to terrorists, human trafficking and prostitution, drugs, and money laundering. In a 1995 Tel Aviv meeting, Mogilevich was awarded a controlling stake in RosUkrEnergo by fellow mobsters, thereby securing the franchise to siphon off untold riches from the Ukraine-Russia energy trade. Has close ties to Yuri Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow; Leonid Derkach, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine; and Vladimir Putin. In 1992, Mogilevich sent Vyacheslav Ivankov to New York to oversee expansion of the Mafia into the US. Trump partner Felix Sater was said to be Mogilevich’s shammes—i.e., his errand boy.
39. Hillel “Helly” Nahmad An art dealer who started buying apartments in Trump Tower in 1999, eventually taking over a full floor. Nahmad was a leader of the Nahmad-Trincher Organization, which operated “international sports books” that laundered more than $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States in an enterprise that was based in Trump Tower. The entire operation, prosecutors say, was protected by Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov.
40. Eduard Nektalov A diamond dealer from Uzbekistan, Nektalov, who bought a condo in Trump World Tower directly below Kellyanne Conway, came under investigation by the US Treasury Department for mob-connected money laundering. In 2004, after rumors circulated that Nektalov might cave in and cooperate with federal investigators, he was murdered on Sixth Avenue.
41. Alexandre Ventura Nogueira Primary broker of the Trump Ocean Club in Panama, Nogueira marketed the Trump-branded units to Russians, among others with criminal pasts.
42. Carter Page Foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. Traveled to Moscow in July 2016 during the presidential election and met with senior Russian officials and influential oligarchs. Was approached in 2013 by Russian intelligence officials who were trying to recruit him. Page met with a Russian spy in 2013 and supplied research materials.
43. George Papadopoulos A foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, Papadopoulos triggered the FBI investigation into Trump’s collusion with Russia when he told an Australian top diplomat that Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. In March 2016, Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor who had valuable contacts with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in hopes of setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
44. Sergei Polonsky A flamboyant six-foot-four Russian real estate oligarch, Polonsky was convicted of fraud in 2017. While still associated with Donald Trump, Felix Sater served as an adviser to Polonsky in Mirax Group, which partnered with Sistema, a conglomerate tied to Mogilevich. Polonsky also partnered with Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, a Mogilevich crony.
45. Vadim Rabinovich A pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarch and Mogilevich lieutenant who spent seven years in jail for embezzlement, Rabinovich attended the famous 1995 Russian Mafia summit in Tel Aviv at which Mogilevich was granted a generous share of the Ukraine energy trade. A year later, in 1996, Rabinovich hung around with his partners Howard Lorber and Bennett LeBow as they showed Trump around town.
46. Vladimir Rezin In 1996, Trump began negotiations with Rezin, the first deputy mayor of Moscow, to build a $300 million luxury residential complex. Like all of Trump’s proposed projects in Moscow, it never came to fruition.
47. Rotem Rosen Chief lieutenant of real estate magnate Lev “King of Diamonds” Leviev, Rosen married Zina Sapir, daughter of Tamir Sapir, who founded the Sapir Organization, which backed Trump SoHo. Attended Trump’s 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in hopes of negotiating a Trump Tower Moscow. His son’s 2008 bris was touted by New York magazine as “the best bris invite ever.” Attendees included Donald Trump, daughter Ivanka, and her husband-to-be, Jared Kushner.
48. Dmitry Rybolovlev Russia’s “fertilizer king,” Rybolovlev owns a 3.3 percent stake in the Bank of Cyprus, alleged to be a haven for money laundering. In 2008, he purchased a mega-mansion from Trump in Palm Beach for $95 million, which Trump had purchased four years earlier for $40 million.
49. Tamir Sapir An impoverished immigrant turned billionaire, Sapir partnered with Semyon Kislin, who, according to the FBI, was a “member or associate” of Vyacheslav Ivankov’s mob in Brighton Beach. Like Kislin, Sapir likely made his money through ties to Uzbek oligarch Mikhail Chernoy. Lived in Trump Tower, and partnered with Bayrock and Trump on Trump SoHo. Sapir denied having any mob ties. Died in 2014.
50. Felix Sater Bayrock’s international man of mystery, Sater was born in the Soviet Union in 1966. As managing director of Bayrock Group, he partnered with Trump and made various stabs at developing Trump Tower Moscow. Cooperated with the government after pleading guilty to racketeering for his role in a $40 million stock fraud scheme in 1998. His father was said to be a lieutenant in Mogilevich’s organization and did business with the Italian Mafia in New York. Childhood friend of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. Served as a government asset who helped the US track terrorists and mobsters, but is also alleged to be working with Mogilevich. Accompanied Ivanka Trump and Donald Jr. on a 2006 Russia trip, in which he said he arranged for Ivanka to spin around in Putin’s chair in the Kremlin.
51. Alex Shnaider In the early 2000s, he began to develop the tallest building in Canada, the sixty-five-story Trump Tower and Hotel in Toronto. When it came to financing the skyscraper, Shnaider, a billionaire of Russian extraction, turned to Raiffeisen Bank International AG in Vienna, whose affiliate company was said to be a front for RosUkrEnergo. Shnaider is also the son-in-law of Boris Birshtein and worked at Birshtein’s KGB-tied company, Seabeco.
52. Eric Sitarchuk As an attorney, Sitarchuk represented Mogilevich lieutenant Jacob Bogatin during the YBM Magnex scandal and, many years later, Donald Trump himself as owner of the Trump International Hotel in DC, when a wine bar argued that the president’s ownership of the hotel constituted an unfair competitive advantage.
53. Roger Stone A close Trump ally for decades, Stone represented Trump when he moved into the gambling industry in the eighties. Served as adviser to the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. Communicated directly and indirectly with WikiLeaks in order to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton and hacked emails before the election.
54. Gennady Timchenko Yet another judoka pal of Putin’s who ended up a billionaire, in this case as chairman of the Gunvor oil-trading firm, with a net worth of $15.6 billion.20 Cited as a member of Putin’s inner circle, Timchenko has been subject to sanctions. As an owner of Sibur, a large gas company, he is one of the biggest clients of Navigator Holdings, a shipping firm partly owned by Trump’s commerce secretary Wilbur Ross.
55. Vadim Trincher Along with Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, Anatoly Golubchik, and Hillel Nahmad, Trincher was a leader of two Russian-American organized crime families—the Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization and the Nahmad-Trincher Organization—which ran “international sports books” that laundered more than $100 million out of the former Soviet Union. They operated out of the sixty-third floor of Trump Tower until they were busted in 2013.
56. Alimzhan “Taiwanchik” Tokhtakhounov Another ringleader of the Taiwanchik-Trincher Organization, Tokhtakhounov has allegedly spent more than three decades working with Mogilevich and the Solntsevo Organization, dating back to the early eighties, when he hung out with Mogilevich and Mikhailov at the Legendary Hotel Sovietsky in the Moscow suburb of Solntsevo. He was indicted for conspiring to fix the ice-skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics. After the bust of the gambling ring in Trump Tower in April 2013, he surfaced in November at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow near Donald Trump.
57. Viktor Vekselberg A member of Putin’s inner circle, Vekselberg is the largest shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus, investing in it at a time when Wilbur Ross, who has since become Trump’s secretary of commerce, was the bank’s vice chairman.
58. Natalia Veselnitskaya A Russian attorney for Denis Katsys’s Cyprus-based Prevezon Holdings, Veselnitskaya set up the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort, among others. Veselnitskaya has been an informant to Yuri Chaika, the prosecutor general of Russia. The meeting held forth the promise of handing over damaging information on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign, as well as addressing the possibility of lifting sanctions against Russia. Closely aligned with the Agalarovs.
59. Viktor Yanukovych Elected president of Ukraine after being completely remade as a candidate by Paul Manafort. Earned a reputation as a “Putin puppet,” and was ousted in 2014, and exiled to Russia. Manafort, Rick Gates, and Konstantin Kilimnik all worked for Yanukovych for more than a decade—in return for tens of millions of dollars.

To criticize Marco Rubio from the fascist standpoint, it is necessary to refer to the theories of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., a brilliant political thinker and perennial candidate whose contributions to political science have been sadly overlooked by the political orthodoxy. It was the opinion of LaRouche that the United States of America is controlled by a cabal of Jewish Freemasons working in tandem with Queen Elizabeth to undermine the republic.
According to LaRouche,

Literally thousands of operatives for the Zionist lobby have penetrated the halls of Congress, the State and Defense Departments, the CIA, and American business and labor organizations to gather information which is then transmitted up the chain of command to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the Maltese Order. These agents gather information and intelligence on U.S. national security policy, corporate policy, and financial policy for transmission to the enemy. Their loyalties lie not with the United States but with the Zionist-British organism. The Zionist octopus must be eliminated.¹

The majority of these Jewish Freemasons are Zionists, that is, they have either been brainwashed or indoctrinated with the idea that God has ordained the state of Israel to belong exclusively to the Jews, even though their scripture expressly contradicts this. In fact, the Zionist fallacy has been most effectively refuted by Neturei Karta, a group of ultra-orthodox Jews whose literal interpretation of the Talmud precludes the legitimacy of a political Israel.
Rubio is, indeed, controlled by Jewish Freemasons who have sworn a blood bond with the Baron de Rothschild and the Knights of Malta. The Knights of Malta are the earthly representatives of seven demons known as the archons. But I digress.
LaRouche’s thesis, which was contemptuously derided as paranoid fiction by the insufferable Marxists who dominate the academic milieu, is now being vindicated by the discovery of a dossier containing previously classified documentation on Sen.Rubio’s participation in a secret government program conducted by MI5, the intelligence arm of the British government. These documents were obtained by the journalist Glenn Greenwald, who is said to have received them via e-mail from the notorious hackers’ collective known only as Anonymous.
If you are easily disturbed, I urge you to read no further. The information in the dossier reveals the tactics and methods used by British agents to not only coerce Rubio, but actively brainwash him so that he would become a de facto double agent in the services of the British government, whose objective was in the fomentation of subversion in this nation.
On a balmy night in 1982, Rubio was schmoozing at a Miami party when he was approached by a strange personage known only as The Mystery Man, who asked to speak with him in private. Rubio acquiesced.
Once Rubio had been isolated from the other guests, The Mystery Man informed him that the he had been handpicked by the Queen of England as the sole candidate for a secret experiment conducted by the British Psychological Warfare Division under the auspices of MI5.
Rubio was informed that should he agree to participate in the program, he would be compensated to the tune of one million dollars, paid in a lump sum and deposited in an escrow account.
He was handed a contract. Rubio, who had been mesmerized by money ever since his adolescence, when he was first bewitched by the bodacious butts and boobs of the babes of Miami Beach, skimmed the fine print and signed on the dotted line.
The next day, he was apprehended by several men in suits who were working on behalf of the Baron de Rothschild, then sequestered in a black limousine, whisked to the airport, and escorted on a plane bound for Heathrow Airport.
Upon his arrival in the terminal, Rubio was met by a cadre of police officers, who informed him that he was under arrest. He was unceremoniously shoved into an unmarked Volkswagen Beetle, blindfolded, and driven to an undisclosed location.
He was first injected with sodium thiopental, and then placed in solitary confinement for seven days, where he was tortured and forced to watch a series of disturbing videos, including snuff films, actual depictions of rape, and pickle surprise, all while being forced to listen to Enya’s “Only Time” on endless repeat. These tactics were borrowed from the LaRouche movement, who had previously referred to them as “ego-stripping” and “psywar techniques.”
Once he had been fully conditioned, Rubio’s brain was then connected to a strange contraption referred to as the Influencing Machine.
The Influencing Machine was originally commissioned by the Anglo-Dutch banking cartels and designed for use by the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD, for this reason, its measurements were made according to the metric system, and the notation of its blueprints are written according to metric standards.
The purposes of the Influencing Machine was to determine whether a machine could be designed which could control someone’s mind from a remote distance. This was particularly useful to both MI5 and the AIVD, whose control of the world economy was contingent on the world’s population continuing to be enslaved to the dogma of political economy.
Rubio’s brain was zapped with lasers and a series of tests were conducted to ensure that his will had been completely subordinated to the Machine; in other words, after his brain was zapped, his thoughts and actions were now in the control of the machine’s operators. A tiny camera was installed in his forehead so that his operators would be able to monitor his field of vision. He was then disconnected from the Machine, and a second series of tests were performed to ensure that his movements could be controlled by a propriety wireless software based on technologies invented by Thomas Dolby.
Once it had been established that Rubio’s mind was fully controlled by the Influencing Machine, he was transferred to the Department of Pneumatic Chemistry, which is itself a subsidiary of MI5. The Department of Pneumatic Chemistry was at that time staffed with a rogue group of meteorological revisionists known colloquially as “The Air Loom Gang.”
The Air Loom Gang was, and continues to be comprised of several famous celebrities, including Kenny G, Yanni, and John Tesh. Other members of the Air Loom Gang include faceless characters known only by pseudonyms such as “the Middleman,” “Glove Woman,” and “Sir Archy,” all of whom conduct their business under the supervision of the evil astrologer Dane Rudhyar, whose method of calculating the transits of Transpluto have earned him wide acclaim amongst Scientologists.
Now that he was fully under the control of the Influencing Machine and the Air Loom Gang, it was decided that Rubio should be dispatched back to the United States to recommence his political career. He was able to immediately assimilate back into the political scene; this time, however, he was a replicant whose every move was being remotely manipulated by the Air Loom Gang.
Fast forward to today.
The machinations of the Air Loom Gang have been so successful that Rubio’s popularity is skyrocketing. As a result, the Queen of England sends a memo to Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The memo commands Priebus to ensure Rubio qualifies as a candidate for the Republican primaries. Priebus, who strongly prefers George Pataki, at first balks at the Queen’s command.
Priebus, who was then on a business trip in L.A., arrived at his satellite office only to find it abandoned, with a note on the door. An address was listed on the note. Priebus was instructed to drive to this address immediately or risk immediate termination. Accordingly, Priebus jumped into his rental car and began driving eastward, up into the California mountains. He drove for hours, and as the night wore on, began to become anxious. Why had the office been abandoned? Who had placed the note on the door? What if he was being duped? He decided to continue on the journey.
Once he arrived at his destination, he turned off the ignition, disembarked from the automobile, and was accosted by an enigmatic figure known only as The Cowboy, who communicated a series of instructions.
Priebus was instructed not only to file a formal declaration on behalf of Rubio to the Federal Election Commission, he was also commanded to do everything in his power to ensure that Rubio wins the nomination. Priebus was warned that he or his relatives would be kidnapped and murdered if he failed to comply with these requests. The Cowboy then reiterated the demands of the Queen, and instructed Priebus to catch the next flight to Miami. The Cowboy then departed.
Priebus capitulated to these demands, and flew back to Miami immediately to meet with Rubio.
Phase I of the total subversion of the American nation by the British Crown was complete.
Priebus filed the necessary paperwork the next day. The minute that he filed it, he sent a text message to Frank Luntz, his business associate. Unbeknownst to Priebus, Luntz was in Vegas at the behest of several Jewish Freemasons, who had convened there for a convention on deism. Luntz informed his superiors of the events which had transpired, and the Jewish Freemasons immediately sprang into action. Luntz was tasked with conducting focus groups which would provide the information necessary for the Air Loom Gang. You see, the Air Loom Gang needed to know which demographics to target. Once they had this information, they could manipulate Rubio’s thoughts and movements so that he would appeal to those demographics.
Accordingly, Luntz dutifully obeyed his bosses, organizing several focus groups over a period of days.
Luntz’s conclusions were indisputable: the focus groups indicated that Latinas would be the most important demographic in the 2016 presidential election. Luntz transmitted this information to the Department of Pneumatic Chemistry, which immediately began to orchestrate Rubio’s actions so that he appeals to the greatest number of Latinas, who the RNC (i.e. Jewish Freemasonry) has determined to be essential for winning the 2016 presidential election.
All of Rubio’s actions are carefully choreographed by the Air Loom Gang to captivate the hearts of Latinas. If his shit-eating grin extends too widely, his facial muscles are manipulated by “Glove Woman” using a process known as “Lobster-cracking.”
If the cadence of his vacuous platitudes and monotonous utterances becomes too predictable, then his Broca’s area is remotely massaged by “the Middleman” using a process known as “Apoplexy-working-with-the-nutmeg-grater.”
Rubio is an automaton whose speeches consist of telepathic messages transmitted to him by Gary Spivey. Jorge Ramos was also brought on as a consultant to the Air Loom Gang. His thoughts are manufactured and his movements are choreographed by his controllers, who take particular pleasure in their vicarious romps with his wife, Jeannette (who is a spy for the AIVD.)
After his candidacy was made official, Rubio’s campaign coffers were immediately flooded with cash from a fringe coalition of industrialists, Chinese crime bosses, used-car salesmen, vegetarians, Sandinistas, neo-Nazis, casino-capitalists, monarchists, democratic socialists, Virgos, vulture-fund CEOs, leprechauns, dialectic materialists, and Cuban frogmen, all working under the directives of Buckingham Palace.
Let’s not forget also that the Miami Dolphins are colluding with Big Cocaine to orchestrate rallies for Marco Rubio. In fact Don Shula was summoned to Buckingham Palace last week in order to inform the Air Loom Gang how to improve Rubio’s appeal to football fans. His answer was to emphasize Rubio’s connections to various drug cartels in the Miami area.
These events were the beginnings of Phase II of the campaign by the British Crown to undermine this nation by placing one of its moles in the Office of the Presidency. But in order for this to be accomplished the Queen of England and the Jewish Freemasons first have to make sure that the election is rigged.
So Phase II has only been partially completed. The objectives of Phase II are to rig all voting machines so that the election is predetermined.
Consequently, the Jewish Freemasons have instructed their minions who work at Diebold (now Election Systems Software) to install malicious software in the DRE’s and VVPAT’s that will ensure that all votes for George Pataki are actually allocated to Rubio. This is significant because a lot of Republicans are voting for Pataki, even though the polls, which have also been rigged by Frank Luntz (a Pisces working for the interests of Jewish Freemasony), say that Pataki has only 0.0% of votes.
At this very moment, a plethora of situationist organizations are also being convoked to create propaganda favorable to Marco Rubio. These organizations are spearheaded by Captain Midnight and Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command.
All television airwaves have been hacked by the situationists, and all newspaper staffs have been replaced with situationists. In fact, all of the mainstream media has been infiltrated by the situationists, who are tasked with creating disinformation and propaganda intended to bamboozle Americans into having a favorable opinion of Sen. Rubio.
The Air Loom Gang, meanwhile, continues to pull the strings on Rubio. A crucial mistake was made during the third Republican debate, when “Glove Woman” accidentally pulled a lever instead of pressing a button, causing Rubio to say “president” instead of "parent", when he was trying to politicize a fake tax credit. This was nearly a fatal glitch, but due to the comprehensive efforts of the situationists to bury the story, and due to the public being distracted by sports and entertainment, the gaffe went unnoticed.
Let’s also remember that the American media is also owned by the same Jewish Freemasons who are rigging the election. It’s all disinformation and propaganda intended to bamboozle Americans into having a favorable opinion of Rubio. But as mentioned, these Jewish Freemasons work in concert with the Queen of England and the Anglo-Dutch criminals of the IMF to ensure that the Air Loom Gang follows their dictates to the smallest detail.
There is a silver lining, however. Not all states have adopted DREs and VVPATs. In fact, the majority of states still use paper ballots. So as long as the information contained in this screed is disseminated throughout the United States as quickly as possible, it is still possible to defeat Rubio and the Jewish Freemasons who are both working for the Queen of England.
The British are a crafty folk, always plotting and scheming. Worse, they harbor resentment against this nation ever since they were defeated in the Revolutionary War of 1776. The British want to exact revenge against the great people of this nation simply because they can’t handle defeat. The British are intrinsically evil; an uncontrollable rage, a sadistic craving for violence simmers underneath the mannerly equanimity and conscientious presumptuousness so characteristic of those islanders.
The British must be defeated. Marco Rubio must be exposed. He must be exposed for what he is, a British spy, a foreign agent who has infiltrated American politics. He is a foreign agent who must be defeated. It is our duty as Americans to defeat Marco Rubio. It is our solemn duty. There is no excuse. Rubio must be defeated.
The most important thing to emphasize is this. Wherever you go, whether it’s to the roller rink, the laundromat, or the five-and-dime, the most important thing is to speak the following statement to everyone you encounter:
DO NOT VOTE FOR MARCO RUBIO.
If they ask why, tell them it's because he wants to stop the party.
It is our duty to save this country. If this information is circulated quickly enough, the Jewish Freemasons will not be able to get away with their crimes. Please pass this along to everyone you know.

1. LaRouche, Lyndon H. "Register the Zionist Lobby As Foreign Agents!" New Solidarity. (September 5, 1978): n. page. Print.