rolling trump-russian collusion

About?

Not for me to say. But laughing at the mayor's assertion that Laurence Tribe "went to Harvard" as a way of delegitimizing the idea that Tribe is full of shit is picking up the wrong end of the stick. btw, it also doesn't wash, because Tribe did go to Harvard. He went there to work there.

Iowa Writer's Workshop is a CIA front? Huh. Never knew that. I guess I'm glad I never applied.

I'm laughing at the description "Laurence Tribe 'went to' harvard" as if he weren't one of its and the American academic legal community's most prominent professors, Learned Hand.

despite his stint as a public defender in NH and career as a poet, abramson's trajectory through the recruitment-heavy institutions with long ties to the security state -- Dartmouth (98), harvard Law (01), iowa writer's workshop (09), UW madison (16) -- make it very hard to ignore the obvious: he's CIA.

― goole, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:54 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I'm CIA too, guys. Isn't it obvious?

That makes you laugh out loud?

(edges away)

Elvis was FBI, I hope you know.

(Bet the Iowa torture reports are meticulously workshopped, with lush characterization. I mean, man: SHOW don't TELL how your waterboarded that guy.)

That makes you laugh out loud?

(edges away)

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:05 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You think people who typo "lol" do so only when they actually laugh out loud (or even laugh, and not just mock)?

(edges away)

Does the UK’s response really even remotely constitute “gunning for a fight”?

― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:47 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess I mean "Why is Boris Johnson being unhelpfully provocative?" which I accept is different.

Your opinion will be noted after you've graduated from Harvard Law School and represented 100s or 1000s of clients in American criminal proceedings.

― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:11 PM (three hours ago)

lol at this bullshit

ted cruz graduated with honors from harvard law school, guess he must be smart too

i can never turn down an opportunity to trot out my unpopular opinion that ted cruz is smart

attending a prestigious school doesn't make anyone smart. not even graduating with honors at harvard (and princeton, earlier). but look at what he did by the time he was 30, let alone by the time he was 35 and 40: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

there are plenty of emperors without any clothes. but you don't get to argue 9 SC cases by your mid-30s unless you know what you're talking about.

anyway, sorry for derail. i just love ted cruz, he's a great person

the best.

Calling someone dumb robs us of the opportunity to call them an asshole

exactly

yah 4real

No it doesn't you dumb asshole.

(That was a joke)

I mighta suspected my cause of death would be _not disagreeing_ with moo, but i swear i NEVER thought it would be on the issue of asshole of the western world ted cruz. dead now.

ladies and germs, the next National Security Adviser of the United States of America : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=aPM-FXHj5gA

counterpoint ~

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-money-won-trump-the-white-house

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/arts/julia-kristeva-bulgaria-communist-spy.html

i guess the politics of eternity style read is, "every famous thinker was spying for someone, always, glad you get it now."

lol ok I'm dying about Kristeva-as-spy

handler drew the short straw on that assignment

nyt wins the prize for most esoteric april fool i guess

guardian reported it on the 28th too, it’s not an April Fools thing

yeah i know, just amused me that such oddball news showed up in the nyt in the 1st

#52

(THREAD) If you or someone you know suffers from Trump-Russia exhaustion, please read and RT this. Trump's strategy is to get us to cease caring about his coordination with Russia because investigating it takes too long. A long thread may seem an unusual antidote, but try it out. pic.twitter.com/TIRiU1wJG1

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 1, 2018

Abramson has been v good at convincing me not to care

it's all actually pretty simple if you just connect the dots
https://i.imgur.com/CZVNc3b.png

omg, is that yours?

no way, i wish. https://www.facebook.com/dylan.l.monroe

(i haven't actually visited that because i don't have facebook anymore, but that's the website listed for them at https://thegoldfishreport.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/q-anon-learn-to-read-the-map-a-cartography-of-the-globally-organized-corruption-networks-treasure-trove-of-maps-diagrams-org-charts-and-family-trees/)

(looks like they're also here: https://twitter.com/dylanlouism
that's just one part of the map, and they have more that i've seen elsewhere.
sorry for thread derail, but it's the cosmic truth)

Hope that Kristeva thing doesn't turn into another Paul de Man affair.

Trump's strategy is to get us to cease caring about his coordination with Russia

afaics, Trump's main strategy has been to tweet "NO COLLUSION" about 3-5 times a week. Sometimes to vary the message he says it into a microphone.

A "strategy" implies he is following his lawyer's advice (he isn't), so their message and actions are well-coordinated (they aren't), or else he has thought through his present and future actions carefully on his own (he hasn't).

It's like every word I never want to read again all in one place. Except vampirism - I'm still alright with Vlad Drac as far as I know.

"A "strategy" implies he is following his lawyer's advice"

No it doesn't.

Well, someone has to form a strategy. I suggested his lawyers as one obvious source for a strategy, but also suggested he could also be the source. Neither seems true in my view. Who else would you suggest is creating this strategy Abramson says Trump is following?

Oh damn,people follow the the strategies that have worked for them(this has), strategies their advisors recommend (we dont know), and strats their masters require (i def dont know yet).

Rolling Stone: Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump

jesus somebody please hit all these dipshits in the head with a hammer until they're pronounced

As she tracked GOP presidential candidates in 2015, Butina touched down, repeatedly, in South Dakota, where Erickson lives. In July, she lectured at a camp for young Republicans with Erickson by her side. That same month, the duo appeared on a podcast in Manhattan. Erickson regaled the audience with a creation myth about Right to Bear Arms worthy of a Silicon Valley startup. "Maria is very humble," Erickson said. "She started the Right to Bear Arms in the Russian version of McDonald's with friends, and her work became noticed by the highest levels of the Russian government." In September, the pair partied by the graveside of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Maryland. Butina wore a flapper's silver headband and a long string of pearls; Erickson carried a bottle of rum and a copy of The Great Gatsby.

At the close of 2015, Torshin and Butina invited a new delegation of NRA members to a Right to Bear Arms convention in Moscow. The crowd included faces familiar and new, including Keene; Pete Brownell, CEO of one of America's largest gun-sellers who is now the NRA's president; Joe Gregory, the chair of the NRA's Golden Ring of Freedom; as well as Trump surrogate and then-Milwaukee Sheriff David A. Clarke. Erickson reportedly also attended.

The Russians put on a wintry spectacle – replete with ornate Christmas trees and white chairs tied up like presents with red ribbons. Arnold Goldschlager, a major NRA donor who also attended, would tell McClatchy, "They were killing us with vodka and the best Russian food." In a public filing, Clarke estimated Right to Bear Arms spent $6,000 on his hotels, meals, excursions and transportation around Moscow.

I'm sorry if it is rude to use the word "dumbass fucking yokel" in 2018 but

pbs has provided quality educational content to all television owners for decades now, no one can use rural isolation as an excuse anymore

Ignorance is a tool that evil people intentionally deploy in an attempt to give themselves moral plausible deniability

holy shit roger stone is a literal cuck pic.twitter.com/XPQcvSxYop

— Wu Weed™ (@WuTangCannabis) April 4, 2018

fp’d

exhuming mccarthy!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/29/fbi-questions-russian-mma-fighter-with-links-to-trump-cohen