yikes
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link
dangling exoneration for Dmitri Firtash to discredit the Mueller report coming out of his own department
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
straight takedown of Devin Nunes, implicating him on a micro level in Yavonovich removal
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
Is it to late to add Lev Parnas to the 2020 deadpool?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 16 January 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
Maybe he's hoping to finally get his own Wikipedia article:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Parnas_and_Igor_Fruman
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 January 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
lol
― j., Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:12 (four years ago) link
This Maddow episode is nuts.
― DJI, Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:01 (four years ago) link
How long til Rudy flips?
― DJI, Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
hopefully when his car hits an embankment
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:09 (four years ago) link
Rudy can't afford to flip. He's in too deep. He must stick with Donald to the end and hope to dodge most of the bullets he's a ripe target for, and a pardon falls out of it somehow in the end.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 16 January 2020 06:12 (four years ago) link
Dude on after Maddow asked why he was talking, and she said he basically said his head is full of all sorts of information, and that if it stays there it's really easy to "make it go away" or something, so better to get it out when he can.
On the other head, he is so clearly sketchy and self-interested a la Michael Cohen that everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Can't believe you'd so casually impugn the character of someone who looks like he just stepped out of a David Lee Roth video.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
(If only they'd shot the interview in extreme close-up through a fisheye lens as Lev exaggeratedly mopped flop sweat from his brow.)
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
And a glazed donut to go!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
and good morning!!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
Unlike his boss, Donald J. Trump.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
There's no reason not to believe this guy. You don't just go ratting out the president, his lawyer, the secretary of state, the attorney general, the vice president, and the former chair of the house intelligence committee on a whim
unfortunately for us guys like this and Michael Cohen are more credible than most any elected Republican
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
There is every reason not to believe this guy! (At least not entirely.) He's trying to stay out of jail and/or not get whacked. But there is every reason to believe him, too, as the people he is ratting on are criminals and liars. Tbh I'm not sure I heard anything new from him as opposed to just more/further corroboration of stuff that's been reported. But since it's corroboration from the mouth of a sketchy, not trustworthy guy out to save himself ... we're a bit back to the beginning.
Like, everything he said is definitely within the realm of truth, don't get me wrong. I'm just not sure what it offers yet beyond a bit more pressure, more reasons others with more direct knowledge should testify. But that may be up to the aforementioned criminals liars.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
The police in Ukraine have opened a criminal investigation into whether allies of President Trump had the United States ambassador to the country under surveillance while she was stationed in Kyiv, the Ukrainian government said on Thursday.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
See, it’s not THAT hard to get Ukraine to announce a criminal investigation!
To be the first of millions of people to make that joke today
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
xp Josh you have effectively put over Lindsey Graham's talking points next week.
And you are levaing out the big difference between his story and the accounts he effectively corroborates and fleshes out: he has evidentiary documents, audio recordings, and texts
It's far from getting the president removed from office but it's hardly "back to the beginning."
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
Between this and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thread on ILM, Josh is in a very "eh, I don't see the big deal" mood this week.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
I watched excerpts of Parnas talking to Anderson Cooper this morning and I was way more stunning than I expected it to be, particularly since he also provided evidence to back up his claims
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
I haven’t read the rock HOF thread but it sounds like he might be otm there
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Parnas has also—I think persuasively—dismissed claims that Yovanovich was physically surveilled or in any physical danger
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
KM have you seen the interview?
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I dunno, I feel like we have been here before. For example, the author of that New Yorker piece exposing thoroughly reported Trump inc. corruption and money laundering in Central Asia has been reminding people of his piece, saying, basically, hey, it's all here, tons of crime! But Congress, law enforcement, the press, all seem unwilling or unable to do anything with this information. as of yet. who knows, things might change.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
That's different than saying, "It's no big deal," though.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
again I'm not saying this is going to lead to a conviction, but it absolutely significantly complicates things for senate R's. The documentary evidence they are trying to suppress is not longer any mystery. It's different in kind and available to the public: a first-hand account implicating the president directly, bolstered by texts and voicemails and contemporaneous handwritten notes.
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
Plus Pat Benatar has had operatic training.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
what do Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn think?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
get over it
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
trying criminal conspiracies generally involve the testimony of criminals
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
This was basically Fox News' headline last night, the one cherry they could pick from Parnas' interview.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
DON: The arrogance of this administration is something to behold. As key chroniclers of ol' Tricky Dick in songs like "On The Border" and "The Last Resort"--and then again of Reagan on my own releases "If Dirt Were Dollars" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance"--I have think, "Are ever really done with this shit?"
GLENN: I'm still wondering why we could never get Giraldo out of the room so we could tell Pat, "Love Is A Battle Field...and we surrender!"
DON: Well, yeah.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
xpost Don't need to tell me! It seems like it should be a big deal. But we just had hours and hours of testimony from career government officials, in theory the opposite of criminals, saying esentially the same thing as this guy. And Asshole was impeached as a result. He can't be more impeached, and as far as removal goes I'm not sure this moves the needle much. It's just further fodder for a future book.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
The problem is we are running with the shadows of the night.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
Les Parnas may be a real tough cookie with a long history, but I don't feel this disqualifies his testimony
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Politics is a battlefield
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
He's been a tarred and feathered criminal but his testimony seems credible. No promises, no demands, just facts
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
guys don't harden your heart towards lev
― brownie, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
wait that's Quarterflash
Does he distort the facts?
I dunno. Seems like there's no looking forward or turning back. He belongs to the light.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
lol brownie - classic blunder! At least you didn't hit us with Sheena Easton or Laura Branigan.
Politics is a battlefield― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, January 16, 2020 9:46 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, January 16, 2020 9:46 AM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Lev is a Battlefield
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link
otm
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
the weirdest thing is parnas is the most perceptive, most interview adept, and maybe the most informed and most skilled person in all of trumpland i've heard so far. by a bit. that makes him neither honest nor credible, but i admit i did not see it coming.
― in a mellow, balmy way (Hunt3r), Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
One presumes that these flailing, dysfunctional public figures are dependent upon at least a handful of people who are content to stay in the shadows while demonstrating some semblance of competence (however debased those competently-handled acts may be). Like if it's abject morons all the way down they would've blown themselves up on a runway by now.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 January 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169%3famp=1
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link