Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

Largely because improving US/Russian relations isn't as much the goal as improving Trump/Russian relations.

Mansplaining, G20 style. Watch Angela Merkel’s eye-roll. pic.twitter.com/PXEI0WxyYH

— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) July 7, 2017

unless shit kicking off is the plan.

a colleague indicated to me yesterday that german intelligence and law enforcement are certainly preparing as if it is

Spiegel has some live feeds: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/g-20-newsblog-in-english-protests-as-world-leaders-meet-in-hamburg-a-1156308.html

Russia flussia, the real villain is the 1%

Why not both?

false choice, the answer is emails and bros and nazis and twitters and wikis and our stars

Leakers and fraudy voters

And unmaskers of course

so I noticed Trump didn't do the gorilla power handshake thing with Putin, I wonder why???

Apparently Trump 'accepted Putin's assurances that Russia didn't meddle in the U.S. election' =|

BREAKING: Russian foreign minister says Trump accepted Putin's assurances that Russia didn't meddle in the U.S. election.

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 7, 2017

Ok we're good. Thank god

Trump didn't do the gorilla power handshake thing with Putin, I wonder why???

note: mindset improvement opp

NEW: Admin official disputes FM Lavrov's assertion that Trump accepted Putin's assurances that Russia didn't meddle in US election.

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) July 7, 2017

(So look for Trump to say otherwise on Twitter tomorrow.)

Russian foreign minister says Trump accepted Putin's assurances that Russia didn't meddle in the U.S. election.

Putin, in turn, accepted Trump's balls in a ring box.

This reads...unusually.

Putin and Trump had such intense level of engagement neither wanted to stop, Tillerson says. 1st Lady came to interrupt, but went hour more.

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 7, 2017

Tillerson says Trump and Putin didn't see much value in "relitigating of the past" and want to start making the US-Russia relationship work.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 7, 2017

Trump especially sees little value in relitigating the rolling disaster that made his stupid ass president

Two most powerful beings in earth history - and both twats

on the other hand it's nice that he's got a friend now

"donny, i know how to make this work. u see, _I_ get poland, _u_ get luxembourg, _I_ get ukraine, _u_ get andorra, _I_ get baltic states, _u_ get north korea-- jk lol kim is in timeout, like, forever, that is worst punishment."

on the other hand it's nice that he's got a friend now

Bibi forgotten already

NEW: Admin official disputes FM Lavrov's assertion that Trump accepted Putin's assurances that Russia didn't meddle in US election.

this shit is so embarrassing

putin wrestles alligators, has more nukes, more money, and more vassals than bibi. of course trump would like putin better.

who you gonna believe, donnie baby, a mere kenyan's FBI and NSA, or me, vladimir? now have another scoop :)

this shit is so embarrassing

the purported events, or the coverage of them?

i send bibi govt $, but vlad gets checks from my accounts, but only until we can move some stuff around.

"With the normalization of Trump’s antics, it is unfortunately all too easy to overlook the sheer rottenness of Mitch McConnell."

http://www.mikelofgren.net/mitch-mcconnells-sinister-role-in-the-russian-hacks/

^ article identifies McConnell as a shitbag, which we all knew already. but its case for McConnell committing treason is worthless.

McConnell's putrefying mug alone makes it difficult to overlook his rottenness.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-russian-journalists-think-of-how-american-reporters-cover-putin-and-trump/

^ good corrective to the "putin the chess player" vibe of a lot of russia reporting

This goes way past dog whistle... https://t.co/9VJoPFEsEM

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 7, 2017

On the whole, said Mikhail Zygar, a political journalist and the author of “All the Kremlin’s Men,” a well-sourced insider look at the cloistered world of Russian politics, the way the U.S. media has covered the Russia scandal has made “Putin seem to look much smarter than he is, as if he operates from some master plan.” The truth, Zygar told me, “is that there is no plan—it’s chaos.”

By way of an example, Zygar narrated what he saw as the total disorder that has marked Russia’s military campaign in Syria, which began with a surprise incursion of air power, in September, 2015. Putin seems to consider the intervention a success, because it outmaneuvered Western attempts to isolate him and elevated him to the position of global statesman; but, whatever the achievements, they came out of an absolutely slapdash policy, according to Zygar. “Nothing was calculated,” Zygar said. “There was no strategy, no preparatory work, no coördination with Iran, none with Turkey either, which is how we almost ended up in a war—not to mention the huge amount of money that was simply stolen in the course of this operation.”

According to Zygar’s sources, Putin forced Russia’s military prosecutor into retirement, in April, before he could deliver a report to the country’s upper house of parliament that would have revealed substantial financial losses in Syria due to corruption. Such cynicism and malfeasance is more the rule than the exception, Zygar said. He retold the story of how Putin showed Oliver Stone a video that was supposedly of Russian forces bombing ISIS fighters—“our aviation at work,” Putin told Stone—which turned out to be a lifted clip from 2013 of U.S. pilots attacking Taliban positions in Afghanistan. Zygar shook his head with laughter. “They couldn’t even film a two-minute video!”

gee who does this sound like

jfc at that Palin tweet

Agreed, the Putin-as-mastermind thing I don't buy. Ultimately it's just mutual levels of fronting for perceived home audiences.

i don't understand it.

Trump Gives Speech to the People of Poland, Says 14 Words That Leave Americans Stunned https://t.co/8iKHEQemn9

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) July 7, 2017

the purported events, or the coverage of them?

― Karl Malone,

the events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

oh.

i want to go back to 20 seconds ago, when i didn't know what that meant

loool ugh me too

john podesta's gonna get benghazi'd by gowdy, isn't he :(

what?

https://youtu.be/WEeS-gXkfY4?t=18

Putin looking OLD

hfs i just learned some white supremacist bullshit hatespeech. i spent like 30 seconds counting words and was like 13, 15, 13, 12 wtf he didn't say 14 fucking words wtf is this?

know your enemies, folks

added Palin's tweet to the Wikipedia article. how long before some asshole reverts it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

since it's not signed "SP" it's probably an intern that wrote it who will be of course thrown under the bus

looks like it's already been expunged.

yup. I undid the undo...lolz. not a fight worth fighting but hey