rolling trump-russian collusion

it's sad how russia inquiry smashed trump's plan to overturn the gop/usa governing model, cause it was gonna be a total shocka

"regardless of what one thinks of underlying substance," what a fucking weasel

Johnson regularly parrots the Greenwald take of “The President did bad things because of MSNBC hosts”

you'd think ppl like him would get whiplash the way they go back and forth between "there is no evidence show me the evidence where is the evidence" and "would it really be that bad if russia did this i mean we do it all the time"

i was thinking about this in the shower last night, that grim as it is this feels like comeuppance for a few decades worth of america's covert misadventures

we're due for the short end of the stick in the superpower order

you'd think ppl like him would get whiplash the way they go back and forth between "there is no evidence show me the evidence where is the evidence" and "would it really be that bad if russia did this i mean we do it all the time"

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:00 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the investigation is still ongoing and america does do this all the time tho is the thing

lol i'm watching mcmafia (it is bad not good) and the main character, alex godman, maps pretty seamlessly onto "the west" these days - rudderless, amoral, passive, prissy, paranoid, enormously self-regarding, wildly defensive, still thinks he's one of the good guys

Marcy Wheeler is always worth reading on nat'l security stuff.

J.D., plz show us your final report.

Lol Adam Johnson. So sad that it backfired for pro-transparency activists to align themself with a rapist secretly pushing leaks from Russian leaks. Who could have guessed?

OF COURSE the constant discrediting of people like Greenwald, Assange and Manning is leading to more power for the other side. That's why they're so bad for the left.

'leaks from Russian leaks' is a pun, I guess. Um...

so sad that it backfired for anti-transparency DNC to align themselves with a rapsist Harvey Weinstein. Who could have guessed?

OF COURSE the constant bickering about US politics from foreigners like Frederik B has shitted up the discourse. that's why they're so bad for the left.

Yes, clearly what the left needs is to be shittier to 'foreigners'. Great logic there, Adam.

lol i didn't say that

i do think you are probably personally responsible for a number of ILX leftists ditching out of 2016 entirely so congrats on that

Lol. You also think Chelsea Manning will get veteran support, though, so...

https://www.veteransforpeace.org/

they did direct link to her website.

i thought this whole thing was about foreigners sowing dissent in our otherwise pristine electoral process. wouldn't that put you in that group?

um, no?

just how dumb are you, lol

get a room you two

But leave the curtains open.

lol

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mQkhtm1AL.jpg

One of the creepiest things about this whole thing is the right doing stuff like this. Also Fox News commentators demanding multiple people (including low level FBI people) be jailed every night seems bad imo.

Sen Ron Johnson claims "informant" who has news about the FBI "Secret Society" working to overthrow President Trump. pic.twitter.com/QzGhXBEUYD

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 24, 2018

secret society sounds so cool though

lol even Jonah's like, whoa now.

The whole movement to purge the FBI of non-Trump loyalists thing might be indicatative of guilt possibly. Also it seems really potentially bad in a large scale sense. But maybe it’s nothing to worry or raise alarm about because the FBI has been known to do bad things in history?

I'm P sure we can trust the GOP, Trump and Putin, they've never done anything bad.

jfc pic.twitter.com/9E1waQU9cj

— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) January 24, 2018

Dinesh, you’re gay and had a one night stand with a man on a Navy ship, my sources said. And that was how Russia kompromated you as you were too cowardly to come out of the closet. There is a recording apparently. True or false?

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 25, 2018

lmao

That Aronoff tweet is really bad. In context of story it’s a list of oligarchs whose companies have come up in the investigation. I agree though that it would be bad if it were the thing it’s being misrepresented as/random Russians.

i don't get the sense that anyone rly pays attention to louise mensch for anything except lols these days

I seldom even seen her brought up for the lols anymore. Something slightly dated and out of context about it. Like seeing someone dunk on Hamilton.

trying to pick a side in a mensch / d’souza beef is a real ‘daddy or chips’-level conundrum innit

people rag on Louise Mensch a lot but if she were pro-Trump you know FOX would give her a nightly show

I think Mensch is pretty much a double agent to discredit the #resistance at this point.

trying to pick a side in a mensch / d’souza beef

i feel like Mensch's 15 minutes are about up (in America, anyway), and certainly will be once Trump is gone. D'Souza will be trolling us til he dies with movies like "Snacking on Aborted Babies and Raping Lady Liberty: George Soros' America"

kinda wish d’souza had that level of imagination instead of the endless tedium of ‘ahhh but the dems are the real racists do u see’

d'souza must be so frustrated that he got busted for actual crimes instead of hillary getting busted for pretend crimes

I heard that one of the parts of “Hillary’s America” warns that if she’s elected Vladimir Putin would be emboldened and there’s nefarious footage of Putin exiting a plane, so it sort of became dated and out of step with the right wing narrative that took shape during the election.

lol remember when GOP lawmakers (in FL maybe?) were going to require elementary school kids to watch one of his dumbass movies?

Dutch intelligence saw Cozy Bear Russians hack into White House, State Dept, and had camera access to their HQ in Moscow

whoops

brb just going to ask Claude Rains what he thinks about shady as hell oligarchs turning up in Davos

mr. trump and mr. putin will hold hands in the red square and swear before the world there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government; it's all just an honest misunderstanding between two frenemy superpowers : )

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-tells-russia-wants-make-things-better-between-them-putin-fully-agrees-792323

what's good for the goose

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/Hallandale-Beach-mayor-accepted-illegal-checks-from-Russians-prosecutors-say_164910657

just under an hour drive from mar-a-lago

how and why did russia succeed in intervening in an american presidential election on behalf of one of the candidates?

With the 2018 midterm elections set to begin little more than a month from now, Senator Warner says that’s still the big story, even if it’s in danger of being lost in a drumbeat of partisan name-calling.

“If you add up all of the money Russia spent interfering in our election; if you add on what they spent in the French elections, where Facebook took down 50,000 sites that were connected to Russia because they’d seen the Russian intervention, if you add up what they spent on the Dutch elections, where the Dutch hand-counted all of their ballots because they were so afraid of Russian intervention,” he tells me. “You add all that up and you’re still talking about less money than the cost of one new F-35 airplane.”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/29/mark-warner-global-politico-216545

tax cuts

“You add all that up and you’re still talking about less money than the cost of one new F-35 airplane.”

vladimir putin: the real president deals

just a coincidence. nothingburger. fake news!

https://nltimes.nl/2018/01/29/russian-servers-linked-ddos-attack-netherlands-financial-network-report