I read it for years during and after the global financial crisis. Susan (aka Yves) was right-on about many, many financial developments. She was fairly sharp in her criticism of Democrats, which opened my eyes to their malfeasance.

Things got murky when she dove into global politics. She published a few articles written by “experts” on Ukraine. Aside from the fact that Russia annexed Crimea (which she explained away as necessary), there wasn’t much info on contemporary Ukrainian politics, so it was hard to dismiss those articles. But she threw a lot of shade at the Maidan revolutionaries who ousted Putin’s puppet. She repeated Putin’s talking points about “Nazis” in Ukraine — which in retrospect was obvious nonsense. She did deep dives into Hunter Biden for being on the board of a Ukrainian energy company (as if this is some incredible smoking gun). She made a huge deal of Vicky Nuland’s (some big wig at the state department under Obama) leaked phone call (leaked by who?) saying “fuck the EU” to drive a wedge within NATO. She constantly criticized NATO “enlargement” (aka countries sick of being under Russia’s boot wanting security) and breathlessly repeated the supposed handshake verbal agreement that NATO would never expand into former Soviet territory. Supporting Jill Stein to split the left vote. On and on, things we now know are Russian propaganda.

Where I completely broke with her was when she did some 7D chess supporting Donald — mocking anyone who said anything negative about him as have Trump Derangement Syndrome. She downplayed Donald’s Russia connections. Constantly attacked Democrats. I thought surely a progressive can’t be defending Donald. Stopped reading for a while.

Then, on J6, I popped back in to see what she had to say. Which was “wull, ackshually, you see, it wasn’t really a coup, or even an attempted coup, because of yadda yadda yadda.” Yeah, her brain is totally cooked. Tankie.