rolling trump-russian collusion

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

What do we know about Manafort? We know he ran the campaign of a pro-Russian candidate on behalf of Russia previously; that he had taken on massive debt to a foreign patron, Oleg Deripaska; that Deripaska was working on behalf of the Russian government’s foreign policy; that Manafort accepted his position as Trump’s campaign manager for free; and that he hoped his work for Trump would help him “get whole” with Deripaska.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/there-is-so-much-evidence-of-trumps-collusion-with-russia.html

Want more evidence? Okay.

Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos met with a Russian agent who told him he had dirt on Hillary Clinton, later boasted that Russia had obtained damaging Clinton emails, and lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russia. That would also qualify as evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Peter W. Smith, a veteran Republican political operative, attempted to obtain stolen Clinton emails and told the people he contacted in pursuit of these emails he was working on behalf of the Trump campaign. When one of the cybersecurity experts he contacted warned Smith that his work might involve collusion with Russia, it did not dissuade him at all.

Trump confidant Roger Stone reportedly knew about stolen Clinton emails, emailed with the person who had the stolen material, publicly flaunted his advance knowledge of these emails, and also spoke regularly with Donald Trump during the period when he had this knowledge. It is a virtual certainty Stone colluded with Russia on the email hack, and highly probable he made Trump an accessory after the fact.

Then of course there is the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

But other than that stuff...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/01/the-number-of-people-who-say-the-mueller-investigation-should-continue-is-shrinking/

"should end" = "hurry up and get this guy in jail"

Heard some cynical real talk today that more and more want it to end not because they think he's not guilty of anything or this is a witch hunt but because he *is* guilty, and they want the report to come out when the house and senate are still both crazy GOP rather than wait for one or two of them to flip this fall.

The accompanying questions in the article about the polling indicate it’s as simple as the relentless propaganda is working. It wears people down.

you can't spell "rubles" without rubes ; )

We found that @realDonaldTrump made an abrupt shift in 2006, from borrowing $ to buy properties to buying properties w/all cash. He's spent $400M in cash so far. But we're still reporting, trying to learn more abt 4 questions

Q1: Why did @realDonaldTrump make this change at that moment? @erictrump says it was an aversion to debt itself. But real estate is a debt business. Borrowing spreads out risk, lets you diversify investments, has tax benefits. As true in '06 as in '86.

Q2: Where was @realDonaldTrump's company getting all this ready cash? I'd like to know much more about the $ they had coming in, and costs going out, in that '06-'15 period.

Q3: If @realDonaldTrump's company had turned to a conservative, low-debt strategy in '06, why did they take on huge new loans ($295M in a year) in '12 to buy Doral and the D.C. hotel?

Q4: Have there been other, all-cash land purchases by @realDonaldTrump that we haven't found yet? He has a long list of LLCs, but w/names that don't always announce their purpose. "Trump Marks Asia," for instance, owns a townhouse in NoV

- David Fahrenthold (1978- (Harvard 2000 (?))), Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (2017)

Also available as an article rather than a string of tweets: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-the-king-of-debt-trump-borrowed-to-build-his-empire-then-he-began-spending-hundreds-of-millions-in-cash/2018/05/05/28fe54b4-44c4-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html