rolling trump-russian collusion

it's extremely weird (and suspicious) that he has felt, almost since day one, that the best move for himself would be to pick fights with the intelligence community

you kind of expect a right wing president to get along with the CIA--the least accountable, most secretive part of the federal government

especially since reporters love to do stories about how much happier the intelligence community is with a Republican president

Well, he probably shouldn't have colluded with the Russians to get elected, then.

you kind of expect a right wing president to get along with the CIA

calling him "right-wing" implies he has some identifiable ideology when all he seems to have in his brain is an assortment of idiot-tested-and-approved memes, many of which come from the conspiracy-obsessed fringe, where the CIA is often the arch-villain.

his gut instincts are all right-wing individually and coherently american-postwar-backlash-fascist in combination: xenophobic racism, strongman authoritarianism, and greed-is-good hypercapitalism.

http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim)

Investigators are focused on two bursts of transactions that bank examiners deemed suspicious: one a short time after the meeting and another immediately after the November 2016 presidential election.

The first set came just 11 days after the June 9 meeting, when an offshore company controlled by Agalarov wired more than $19.5 million to his account at a bank in New York.

The second flurry began shortly after Trump was elected. The Agalarov family started sending what would amount to $1.2 million from their bank in Russia to an account in New Jersey controlled by the billionaire’s son, pop singer Emin Agalarov, and two of his friends. The account had been virtually dormant since the summer of 2015, according to records reviewed by BuzzFeed News, and bankers found it strange that activity in Emin Agalarov’s checking account surged after Trump’s victory.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/trump-tower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov

better dead than red

https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-us-dominance-ending-mistakes-typical-empire/story?id=58611354

Extremely self-serving analysis by Putin, but there's a kernel of truth about the USA making typical imperial mistakes by overextending its reach and overestimating its power. The British did this consistently from 1870 onwards, but they stayed in the power seat for nearly half a century more.

Where Putin indulges in wishful thinking is where he asserts a multi-polar world will emerge as US power hits some air gaps. The only nation ready to exploit US weakness enough to insert itself as our rival great power is China. Which, if it happens, makes for a bi-polar world again, not the multi-polar world Putin wishes for. Russia still wouldn't be in the game.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1102316/download

^ in case anyone's curious about the kremlin's (quite effective) strategy for dividing americans against each other, this DoJ complaint is rewarding reading

So is the big moment coming when they finally take down Trump and all his cronies?

When is that deus ex machina perp walk that saves us from having to actually accomplish anything politically?

when flushing a particularly repulsive and sticky turd the jets of water must come from all directions

"Mark Whitaker, now in charge of the Mueller investigation, chaired the 2014 campaign of Sam Clovis, a grand jury witness in that investigation."

https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2014/07/matt-whitaker-chair-sam-clovis-campaign-state-treasurer/

LOL @ GOPutin

so this guy has even more of a reason to recuse than Sessions did

guessing he won't but lol if he does

Cool. After two years of vaguely political comments on Reddit I finally attracted a Петербу́рг/Москва́ fan, who has followed me with pro-Trump comments on wholly unrelated threads.

The only thing I've said acknowledging our new acquaintance is "вы влагалище", which Google translates as "you are a cunt". Purely based on my English-language hierarchy dick,jerk < asshole < cunt. It's not a gender thing for me.

Is this an insult in Russian? Are their more cutting and less overtly misogynistic ways of making this point?

This may be important for many others on this thread with Russian followers.

i wonder who else benefited from this ; )

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rosneft-privatisation-exclusive/exclusive-russian-state-bank-secretly-financed-rosneft-sale-after-foreign-buyers-balked-idUSKCN1NE132

who else?

maybe no one

Eventually, I expect to sell my firstborn to the Qatari Wealth Fund and Glencore. As someone who has only hovered on the margins of commodity markets, the growth of both over the past two decades is just staggering.

from the office slack, re: barbara ehrenreich --

https://i.imgur.com/YQbuJx8.png

this is cute

Well now. Russians claiming a hack of the DNC was a legitimate "military attack"

That's going to have repercussions for the Americans who were conspiring with them. https://t.co/ixw1jkl0Uj

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) November 13, 2018

hm yeah doesn't conspiring in a military action against the US govt constitute treason

DNC isn't the government.

But as I've been trying to push out in monthly increments to Trumpster relatives, they're unwitting accomplices to a multi-faceted information warfare attack on American sovereignty and interests. The Trump campaign was just one arm, and probably not the most important one (given its likelihood of abject failure). The more important Russian information warfare attacks have infiltrated nodes of the U.S. electric grid and major corporations. Maybe its all deterrence against similar infiltrations of Russian infrastructure, but I suspect its really Russia turning one of its few strengths (a bunch of hackers, who will work for rubles) into a force multiplier.

At first my relatives responded by regurgitating kool-aid. After a dozen or so of these I don't get responses. Maybe they've all got me blocked, or maybe they are starting to see the pattern.

weird how emma kennedy has became a sort of louise mensch lite

weird how much better at chess russians are than americans

carlos d would make a much better choice imho

More evidence of the absence of US leadership. Next up: A Russian official in charge of @INTERPOL_HQ . https://t.co/Qns7iNL9bl

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 18, 2018

"the head of interpol has herpes"

Days after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian legal authorities deployed the rule of law for political purposes, Interpol is about to elect a Russian government official as its head. Crazy. https://t.co/uZ4oobjnPN

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 19, 2018

i don't know much about interpol *insert carlos D* joke, but

?

"deployed the rule of law for political purposes" is a very strange uh, term of art? is it?

maybe it's a autocorrect-ism for "destroyed"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-sen-barrasso-shrugs-not-surprised-trump-was-doing-international-business

I just want them to be sure. It’s a pretty serious charge. I know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else, and I also know things that other people don’t know, so they cannot be sure of this situation.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/i-know-things-other-people-dont-about-hacking-trump-casts-doubt-on-russias-election-interference/

wait, he has a boy who is ten years old?

Baron!

12

What's Baron Von Trump been up to?

Baron is definitely not 10

The story is from two years ago.

Maybe Baron was 12 then but he is 10 now

Checking in on Trump-Russia “no collusion” dead-enders. pic.twitter.com/eOpSN1VGz8

— Zachary #FBPE 🇪🇺 (@zatchry) December 8, 2018

lol @ gop

“It turns out to be true now, that the Department of Justice and the FBI, under President Obama, rigged the investigation for Hillary and really turned the screws on Trump, and now it looks like in a corrupt & illegal way. The facts are out now. Whole Hoax exposed. @JesseBWatters

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2018

You do not want to miss RT’s Christmas vid for The Donald (cc @joshtpm) pic.twitter.com/014766OGId

— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) December 30, 2018

lol

what presidential campaign manager doesn't share internal polling data with kremlin officials #MAGA

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/politics/paul-manafort-donald-trump-robert-mueller/index.html?

This is the filing I've been waiting for today. The SCO says evidence in Roger Stone's case was found in accounts that were searched for the GRU case, in which 11 Russian military officers were charged with a conspiracy to interfere in the election. https://t.co/yjUIoCF0wG pic.twitter.com/YtnezsGx7K

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 15, 2019

Oh man, I was just reminded of the fact that Eric Garland runs a premium Twitter account that's *still* doing $5,000/month in revenue, down from close to $20k/mo at its peak IIRC pic.twitter.com/qhyefqnlhX

— Quantian (@quantian1) April 29, 2019

https://www.lancerregister.com/attachment.php?s=13b024095f131e938cb2e292ac0c6aed&attachmentid=126936&stc=1&d=1233942749

A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers.

If true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin. @TheLastWord 10pm

— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) August 28, 2019