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This is my great fear. That this is somehow a strategy. It's beyond cynical https://t.co/WYxVDri93Z

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) July 12, 2017

did you idiots really not notice this "strategy" for forty years until the world's least subtle political messenger starting doing it https://t.co/ofXzW4vGcX

— slackbot (@pareene) July 12, 2017

Has there been any attempt at an explanation as to why Emin apparently swindled Rob Goldstone and sent an unconnected lawyer to talk sanctions instead of someone with dirt? Because that part doesn't really make sense (and of course, there's no reason to believe it's true)

The going theory is that the lawyer was working for Denis Katsyv - who was fighting a money-laundering charge linked to the Magnitsky evidence. Katsyv's father used to be governor of the Moscow Region (the bit around Moscow that is not Moscow itself) and is friends with Aras Agalarov - who made most of his billions building offices, malls, etc, in Moscow Region. Aras is Emin's dad.

According to emails released Tuesday by Trump Jr., on June 3, 2016—shortly after Trump had secured the Republican presidential nomination—Aras was in a meeting with Yury Chaika, the prosecutor general of Russia, who had been in the post since 2006.

Well, no - according to the emails, Trump Jr. received an email claiming this meeting happened - this doesn't need to be true (and as Fred points out it doesn't match with what happened next) for this to be bad news for Jr.

Fortunately the deplorables have a sane view on this oh wait.

http://i.imgur.com/MvNbKh7.png

i want to see the emails on that thread after the meeting

so this is what Dems are going to run and lose with in 2020

http://www.tattooedmartha.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Tattooed-Martha-Broken-Record-Ombre-Wall-Art-7.jpg

This is an exchange worth watching. Lindsey Graham pushes Wray several times on Don Jr.'s emails. Wray tries dodging. Graham won't let him. pic.twitter.com/n8H9jCrAUD

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 12, 2017

One disturbing takeaway: does Chuck Todd still hit the spacebar twice after a period?

Graham will vote yes

Lindsey Graham is worthless, and obviously showboating here, but okay, irl lol.

so this is what Dems are going to run and lose with in 2020

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, July 12, 2017

No, like this.

^^^otm

backlash against the GOP is gonna be p fierce the longer this drags on and the fewer accomplishments they notch. If the economy tanks/huge natural disaster/huge catastrophe happens then that will only damage them more. And they're going to get it from both the far right due to in-fighting ("Congress won't help Trump!" etc.) and from an energized left.

so this is what Dems are going to run and lose with in 2020

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, July 12, 2017 9:25 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was this an autogenerated post

Gollum reads some Trump tweets

https://youtu.be/64mWOoj68qo?t=239

thanks to you and serkis, i needed that.

GOP timeline currently McConnell Kill the Poor Bill text available thursday, vote early next week

i thought i was mostly over cheap laughs at the sake of our becoming an international laughingstock but the gollum voice never fails

yeah that just induced genuine LOLs at our house, thank you

chyron operator HOF

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Lq7vp38j--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/hvkjc2vqtn85bk8praoj.jpg

*sigh*

Imagining Bannon cracking up at that one.

He was aiming for "Jew-red Kosher" but will still count it as a win.

We're at a point where it's not inconceivable that someone in the WH (possibly even the POTUS) put a bug in the ear of someone at Fox News to 'accidentally' drop something anti-Semitic re: Kushner to knock him down a peg.

Lady in Red is dancing with me

for you non-comic types: matt furie is trying to save pepe. raised 25k.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/615106574/save-pepe

love Furie but man, you gotta let it go

Was there ever an effort to reestablish the pre-Nazi significance of the swastika? Because this seems maybe just north of that in terms of likelihood.

xp when you lose frogbs...

Manafort ordered to appear before Senate Judiciary next week to discuss Donnie Half Scoop's e-mail

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/12/trump-jr-email-chain-paul-manafort-senate-judiciary-240459?lo=ap_b1

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/341701-trump-putin-preferred-clinton-in-the-white-house

“If Hillary had won, our military would be decimated. Our energy would be much more expensive. That's what Putin doesn't like about me,” Trump said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson.

“And that's why I say, why would he want me? Because from day one I wanted a strong military — he doesn't want to see that,” the president added.

so he goes on the stupid fucks show ? lol what a fucking idiot

Representative Brad Sherman files the first articles for the formal impeachment of Donald Trump in his position of President of the United States."

whew glad that's taken care of

thats my rep!

I've been reading True Colors, about the art world of the '70s and beyond, and, in a chapter devoted to Rob Scholte, a Dutch artist whose car was bombed (and who lost his legs below the knee), the beginning of this awful letter he received in 1995 on the eve of a presentation is reproduced ("Written in crude capitals with numerous exclamation points"):

YO ROBBIE! COKE BOY! YOU'VE LOST YOUR FEET, ASSHOLE!! I'M FUCKING MICKY NOW!! I, AT LEAST, HAVE MY BALLS AND FEET! FAKE ARTIST! LOSER!! THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IN A WHEELCHAIR! HAVE FUN! I WILL BE FUCKING MICKY NOW!!!

Micky was his wife. No need to spell out who I thought of. Uncanny, even at 200+ characters.

Crude Capitals is the best font

Looks who's a big boy now!

👀 pic.twitter.com/GjkL2xNTtj

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 12, 2017

Oh Oliver you just got TWO-SCOOPED

http://img.wennermedia.com/480-width/rick-astley-fafdb413-f264-4d61-8671-6c93bda94591.jpg

I mean Rep. Chaffetz

anyone know what j-kush's ex-con father is up to these days?

WSJ just now - "Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began - U.S. intelligence starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed meetings with Trump associates"

WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed associates of Donald Trump, several months before he declared his candidacy for president, according to current and former U.S. officials.

In some cases, the Russians in the overheard conversations talked about meetings held outside the U.S. involving Russian government officials and Trump business associates or advisers, these people said.

It isn’t clear which Trump associates or advisers the Russians were referring to, or whether they had any connection to his presidential aspirations.

The reports were gathered by intelligence agencies that routinely monitor Russian espionage against the U.S. Such efforts can include monitoring phone calls and emails as well as information from informants. The efforts weren’t aimed at Mr. Trump or his associates, these people said.

The U.S. intelligence agencies weren’t sure what to make of the vague and inconclusive information, given that Mr. Trump had done business in Russia and was a global celebrity well-known to prominent people there. The names of Americans do sometimes show up in conversations involving Russian officials that are overheard by U.S. intelligence.

Now, in light of the release of emails Tuesday by Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, investigators are going back to those early reports to see if they can understand them better.

The emails provide details about a meeting Donald Jr. arranged in June 2016—as his father was on the verge of clinching the Republican nomination—with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to discuss allegedly incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton obtained by the Russian government.

Donald Jr. and the Russian lawyer said no information on Mrs. Clinton was disclosed in the meeting. But the emails offer the first clear public evidence that senior officials in Mr. Trump’s camp were open to offers of assistance from Russia in his quest for the White House.

A lawyer for Mr. Trump didn’t return a call seeking comment on the overheard 2015 conversations.

As with other new revelations in the probes of Russian interference in the election, the Trump Jr. emails enable investigators to look at earlier reports with fresh eyes, and to ask new questions, the current and former officials said.

The reports on the 2015 conversations weren’t particularly illuminating, the people familiar with them said. Mr. Trump had business connections in Russia—he produced the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow—and had sold properties to Russians.

In that respect, the reports in and of themselves weren’t alarming. But they did have officials asking each other, “What’s going on?” one former official said.

Then, in the spring of 2016, U.S. intelligence officials’ suspicions about Russian meddling in the election grew after their counterparts in Europe warned that Russian money might be flowing into the presidential election, according to officials with knowledge of the warning. It remains unknown if or whether those funds were funneled to a particular campaign or to others to spend it on behalf of candidates.

Like how did it even get to this point

Was there ever an effort to reestablish the pre-Nazi significance of the swastika? Because this seems maybe just north of that in terms of likelihood.

I went to university with a guy from tiny Swastika, Ontario. He was a little sheepish about the town's name but pointed out that it was named in 1908, and in the 1940s a sign was erected saying "Hitler be damned - we were here first"

feels like what went on around the 2013 miss universe pageant is a major piece of this whole jigsaw

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-sessions-addresses-anti-lgbt-hate-group-doj/story?id=48593488