Washington Post Video: Trump Is Doing Putin’s Bidding

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Has Trump finally crossed a line that’s going to lead to his impeachment? From the uproar following his now-legendary, unbelievably craven press conference with Putin, you might think so. And I certainly hope so. But we’ve been at this point before and watched the Tangerine Wankmaggot skate away unscathed, so I’m not placing bets on it.

And by the way, as I watch more excerpts of that press conference, it really is mind-blowing to see an American president acting this way. And not mind-blowing in a good way.

President Trump’s news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a disastrous capitulation, says Democracy Post editor Christian Caryl.

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unproven innocence  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:24:35pm

“This video is unavailable”

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MsJ  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:25:10pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:25:21pm

re: #1 unproven innocence

Same here.

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gocart mozart  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:27:07pm
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makeitstop  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:27:14pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:28:18pm

Even with signing into WaPo the video is not available. :(

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:29:37pm

You guise see what really happened is Trump told an 11th dimensional genius chess lie and totally played Putin.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:30:01pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:30:46pm

re: #7 goddamnedfrank

You guise see what really happened is Trump told an 11th dimensional genius chess lie and totally played Putin.

[Embedded content]

Wait, what? That makes not a goddam lick of sense.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:31:39pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Russia’s got nukes, so we need to be nice to them.

Britain and France have nukes, so fuck them.

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Skip Intro  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:32:09pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:32:30pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

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I think he’s going to fire Rosenstein. He’s reportedly infuriated over the Friday indictments and has been privately raging over them all weekend.

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Belafon  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:32:34pm

re: #7 goddamnedfrank

You guise see what really happened is Trump told an 11th dimensional genius chess lie and totally played Putin.

[Embedded content]

Rounds tried to do a reach-around on Trump and broke his back instead.

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Citizen K  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:33:09pm
Has Trump finally crossed a line that’s going to lead to his impeachment? From the uproar following his now-legendary, unbelievably craven press conference with Putin, you might think so. And I certainly hope so. But we’ve been at this point before and watched the Tangerine Wankmaggot skate away unscathed, so I’m not placing bets on it.

That’s exactly the problem: the only ways he could be held accountable are all controlled by either Trump’s own people or the GOP as a whole, and we’ve seen that when push comes to shove, they’ve willingly submitted themselves to Putin as well to protect their own power. Nothing will come of it, because all the levers of accountability are under their control so they’re free to do everything they fucking want.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:33:57pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:34:23pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

I think he’s going to fire Rosenstein. He’s reportedly infuriated over the Friday indictments and has been privately raging over them all weekend.

Boy, if that’s true, he picked the perfect time to do it - NOT!

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makeitstop  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:35:29pm

I just read that Rick Wilson piece, and he wins the internet today for putting the string ‘alt-right chan-kid wank-squad’ together.

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teleskiguy  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:35:40pm
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austin_blue  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:35:41pm

As I rewatch some of this dismal press conference with Putin, I’m still reeling from some of Trump’s statements. His attempt to use nuclear weapons as a reason to be FRIENDS, while bashing the US, I just, I just, can’t. How is this reality?
7:29 PM - Jul 16, 2018

It may be Drumpf’s reality, but it isn’t anyone else’s.

There’s the rub. He is scared as shit the walls are closing in and the situation is out of his control.

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Belafon  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:37:34pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

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I think he’s going to fire Rosenstein. He’s reportedly infuriated over the Friday indictments and has been privately raging over them all weekend.

He wouldn’t go to Congress for that.

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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:38:01pm

re: #17 makeitstop

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makeitstop  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:38:14pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Neither Schumer nor Pelosi know what this about, per their offices.

Are they even invited?

half/

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:38:27pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

They are also raising membership rates.

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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:41:12pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:41:24pm
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Belafon  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:41:37pm
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Belafon  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:42:41pm
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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:42:42pm

At long last, some people are finding their limit.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:42:55pm

re: #16 Blind Frog Belly White

Boy, if that’s true, he picked the perfect time to do it - NOT!

You’d understand his genius if you had brainworms too.

Sad.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:43:44pm

At this point, I’d bet 90% of Trumpkins wouldn’t even be able to correctly identify which ‘the server’ Trump was talking about. This is intentional. It’s the DNC server, the one hacked by the Russians, which the DNC did not provide to the FBI, who said they didn’t really need it anyway.

BUT by calling it ‘the server’ and then referencing Hillary, they mostly manage to get people to unlearn what they should know - that HRC supplied all her servers and devices to the FBI as requested, when requested.

Now his followers will be convinced that the 30,000 emails are sitting on a server Hillary Clinton refused to give to the FBI when they were investigating her, which is a flat-out lie.

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EPR-radar  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:44:15pm

re: #20 Belafon

He wouldn’t go to Congress for that.

He would if the purpose of the meeting were to threaten GOP members of Congress with Russian kompromat.

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gocart mozart  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:44:27pm
Putin knew he was going to roll over Trump before he even walked into the room; while both men are experienced liars, Putin brought decades of KGB tradecraft and manipulation to the fight. He’s a wily head-gamer who rose to the top of the bloody Russian pyramid of political power. It’s worth reminding the American people for the thousandth time that the man in that room with Putin isn’t the character he played on The Apprentice.

On his best day, Trump is a dopey man-child, an egomaniacal narcissist who wears his many tells on his sleeve. Written across Trump’s soft, jowly face is a catalog of his blatantly obvious weaknesses—for flattery, money, sex, and status. He’s a walking catalog of the seven deadly sins, and even if Trump weren’t a man with a history of failed negotiations, blown deals, serial bankruptcies, rampant infidelities, wandering-cock syndrome, lousy business outcomes, and general stoogery, Putin would still be a formidable opponent.

By the end of the press conference, even Putin looked slightly embarrassed. He wanted Trump to go down in the third round like a bought-off boxer, but Trump kept laying it on thicker and thicker, swooning over the Russian leader, making winky-googly eyes, and repeating the worst tropes of Russia’s propaganda machine. Trump didn’t just roll over. He rolled over, stuck out his tongue, and begged Vladimir Putin to slap on a choke collar and rub his belly. An American president has never before abased himself like this before a foreign leader, and the horrified eyes of every American outside the Trump cult watched in horror.

Vladimir Putin is sitting on his flight back to Moscow right now laughing maniacally for one reason: His spy services have achieved the most significant single intelligence coup in world history. He has entirely, utterly, and absolutely compromised and controlled an American head of state. Putin has all the proof he needs that all of Trump’s tough-guy talk, bully bravado, and fake-alpha male posturing is an utter fraud, an impotent show for Trump’s credulous base. Trump gave him the green light to run rampant in Europe and around the world—to put his thumb on the American electoral scales in 2018 and beyond.

By the end, I almost expected Putin to demur: “No, Donald, keep Alaska. It’s fine.”

thedailybeast.com

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Charles Johnson  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:45:44pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

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I think he’s going to fire Rosenstein. He’s reportedly infuriated over the Friday indictments and has been privately raging over them all weekend.

He might actually be this pumped up and crazy after his grotesque field trip.

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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:46:03pm
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can't think of a decent username  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:46:27pm

What sucks is this is probably not going to lead to any changes at all. The Republicans in Congress will never desert Trump. There will be nothing done to prevent future election hacking by the Russians. Fox, Breitbart, InfoWars, and the rest of the Trumpers will continue howling their endless hatred for anyone who doesn’t worship Trump.

The press conference was the kind of event that once would’ve been the scandal of the century. It will be forgotten in a week.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:47:37pm
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Skip Intro  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:47:42pm

re: #23 makeitstop

Are they even invited?

half/

Why would they be? They’re the enemy. Not kidding.

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Skip Intro  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:49:08pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

Mark Levin.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:49:45pm

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

Also noting that if they think the FBI had to have the server physically in their hands to know how the data were stolen, they really don’t understand remotely (haha) how this shit works. Too many TV shows where the Nerd King (think Alec Hardison) gives the Tech Neophyte (think Parker) the thumb drive that MUST BE plugged into the server to get it to give up all its data-y goodness.

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:49:47pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:49:55pm

re: #39 Skip Intro

Michael Savage.

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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:50:30pm

This pathetic, cowardly chickenshit is one of my senators, powerful member of a co-equal branch of government.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:51:13pm

re: #41 Single-handed sailor

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Crazy von Moustache is now Craven von Moustache.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:51:19pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

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SMOTI didn’t make the Top 10 list? 😢

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Skip Intro  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:52:20pm

re: #42 Ace Rothstein

Lou Dobbs.

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can't think of a decent username  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:52:31pm

re: #45 Joe Bacon 🌹

SMOTI didn’t make the Top 10 list? 😢

That’s the problem with a Top 10 list. It only has room for ten. :(

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:52:38pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:52:39pm

It’s his real audience, after all.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:52:54pm

re: #46 Skip Intro

Piers Morgan.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:53:53pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

This one, like the child separation reaction seems more powerful than so many past outrages. I’m not saying this is the straw that breaks it, but I think he comes away damaged in any case. And the more pressure the more mistakes, the more likely a medical resignation or 25th A incident.

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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:54:58pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:55:00pm

re: #50 Ace Rothstein

Piers Morgan.

As someday it might happen that a victim must be found,
I’ve got a little list,
I’ve got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed.
They never would be missed!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:55:05pm

Now I know how an American soldier felt when the British burned the White House in 1814.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:55:43pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon 🌹

You mean Canada.

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Unshaken Defiance  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:55:45pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

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Missed Bannon of all people.

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:56:13pm

Got CL’d in the last thread with this:

re: #585 JordanRules

I really don’t think it will matter.

Pee tape won’t matter.

My friends in Ukraine have been trying to figure out WTF it could be, that a mere hooker tape is not enough to make Trump go this overboard and self-damaging, and what they’ve come up with is …

that it’s some kind of homosexual tape. Either a hooker with a strap-on, or some big buff Siberian dude bending Trump over, and giving him what he’s been giving America.

Remember, Russia is FAR more homophobic than the U.S.; the Russian mob (which is what Putin is, really) considers being gay the worst, lowest, most shameful thing imaginable. So it makes sense that if you really want to compromise a person, you get the most damaging possible information on them, right?

Which is one of the things that they have in common with Trump’s base. And Trump himself, come to think of it. Imagine all the MAGA-hats being confronted with tapes on WikiLeaks of Trump squealing in delight as he’s getting just pounded? There would be a run on mops in Wal-Marts all across the Bible Belt just to clean up all the ‘asploding heads.

Maybe this is why Putin was giggling like a schoolboy? Because he knew what he has on Trump is SO MUCH worse than any Pee-Pee tape, something that strikes right to the heart of Trump’s image as a ladykilling cocksman…

Sorry to anyone who clicked on that and barfed a little into their mouths, but it’s one of the hot rumors. Probably not true. Probably.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:57:30pm

re: #55 Ace Rothstein

You mean Canada.

As Archie Bunker would say…”Same Thing…”

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Belafon  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:57:33pm

re: #52 jaunte

Edit: Can’t even get my tweet right the first time.

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BeachDem  Jul 16, 2018 • 5:57:42pm

Which dinner is this? (Note Sleuth’s congresscritter is mentioned)

Reminds me—I need to throw a few bucks Harley’s way. If he can beat Dana Moscowbacher, I’m all in for him. (Plus nostalgia—I remember him from when he was a high school kid in Columbus.)

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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:00:04pm

re: #57 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

I don’t think they need any more leverage over Trump but the appeal to his vanity and an offer of a real estate deal. Trump would sell us all out for a tax break on a hotel.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:00:06pm

They say that Trump is heavily influenced by the last person he talked to, due to his condition.

This time that person was Vlad Putin. What did any expect to happen?

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bratwurst  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:00:07pm
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Belafon  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:00:28pm

re: #59 Belafon

Reload this comment.

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lawhawk  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:02:13pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

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mechanic  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:02:32pm

“The moment called for Trump to stand up for America. He chose to bow. “
WaPo headline
Rather, He chose to Blow.

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:03:02pm
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jaunte  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:03:04pm
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lawhawk  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:04:51pm

re: #52 jaunte

The KKK are patriots…. just forgot to mention patriots for what country.

It isn’t the US. They’re backing the Russians.

All these right wing fuckers who continue supporting Trump and fancy themselves as Wolverines from Red Dawn are actually siding with the Russians in their ongoing effort to destabilize and undermine the US government by and through Trump and his cronies and other compromised and complicit GOPers.

Wolverines?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:05:05pm
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petesh  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:06:43pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

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I think he’s going to fire Rosenstein. He’s reportedly infuriated over the Friday indictments and has been privately raging over them all weekend.

At this point, I favor heightening the contradictions. Fire Rosenstein, because he won’t fire Mueller. Fire the next in line if he/she won’t. And on down. Unlike Nixon’s time. the Attorney General will remain, so no one has the Bork excuse for acquiescing. (Bork stayed because someone had to keep the lights on, and his bosses supported that, even as they quit.) I am completely sure that Mueller and Rosenstein have transferred copies of files elsewhere; hell, the Pentagon Papers got published …

I’ll be quite surprised if this shitshow is not coming to a climax.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:08:13pm

re: #69 lawhawk

The KKK are patriots…. just forgot to mention patriots for what country.

It isn’t the US. They’re backing the Russians.

All these right wing fuckers who continue supporting Trump and fancy themselves as Wolverines from Red Dawn are actually siding with the Russians in their ongoing effort to destabilize and undermine the US government by and through Trump and his cronies and other compromised and complicit GOPers.

Wolverines?

But if you remember the original movie, the troops the Wolverines were fighting were CUBAN, not Russian. Also, the Soviet Union had pretenses of being antiracist and antinationalist.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:08:21pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

I think he’s going to fire Rosenstein. He’s reportedly infuriated over the Friday indictments and has been privately raging over them all weekend.

I hope that Rosenstein and Mueller have 24/7 armed protection, chem and bioagent sniffing robots and food-tasting rodents.

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EPR-radar  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:08:27pm

re: #63 bratwurst

I amused myself reading the “flight 93 election” essay. My God what a pile of insane right wing drivel.

Unless the author of that piece has had a wholesale revision of his world view, he will merely latch onto the next demagogue that pretends to care about the author’s brand of conservatism. His repudiation of Trump means nothing without an acknowledgement that Trump is very much a monster of the GOP’s own making.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:08:36pm

re: #71 petesh

At this point, I favor heightening the contradictions. Fire Rosenstein, because he won’t fire Mueller. Fire the next in line if he/she won’t. And on down. Unlike Nixon’s time. the Attorney General will remain, so no one has the Bork excuse for acquiescing. (Bork stayed because someone had to keep the lights on, and his bosses supported that, even as they quit.) I am completely sure that Mueller and Rosenstein have transferred copies of files elsewhere; hell, the Pentagon Papers got published …

I’ll be quite surprised if this shitshow is not coming to a climax.

Prepare to be surprised.
//

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petesh  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:09:58pm

re: #75 Blind Frog Belly White

Prepare to be surprised.
//

Tease!

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:11:59pm

… how this is all driving us bonkers, batshit underpants-on-the-head barking mad:

… and a hopeful note:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:21:55pm

re: #60 BeachDem

Which dinner is this? (Note Sleuth’s congresscritter is mentioned)

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Reminds me—I need to throw a few bucks Harley’s way. If he can beat Dana Moscowbacher, I’m all in for him. (Plus nostalgia—I remember him from when he was a high school kid in Columbus.)

The linked article is from March 2017. Massie isn’t named in the article (far as I can tell) but Rohrabacher is. OTOH, it would not surprise me that Massie was there.

Bistro Bis, a swanky French joint on Capitol Hill, is a Washington institution that has hosted all sorts of political summits over the years. But the group that piled into the restaurant’s Leaders Room on the night of Feb. 1 was among the more unusual. For four hours, current and former Russian officials dined with two Republican Congressmen, a conservative magazine publisher, a longtime GOP consultant and a close friend of top White House strategist Steve Bannon.

As the murky ties between Moscow and members of Donald Trump’s campaign consumed the city outside, the group dining inside the George Hotel explored ways to strengthen the bonds between the two countries. “We have so many people who are trying to destroy the relationship between Russia and the United States,” says Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, who attended the dinner and has visited Russia at least a half-dozen times over the past five years. “I’m trying my best to expand the amount of personal contacts we have with people who are engaged in government in Russia.”

However, I did find this old tweet that also says Massie was there and links to the NYT:

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gocart mozart  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:31:36pm

Page 27: sex in St Petersburg, bribes or coercion to silence wittnesses
documentcloud.org

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ObserverArt  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:31:39pm

re: #65 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

I thought of that right off.

But no way was I going to type the “R” word. No Way.

But it is juicy dreaming. I could see him begging to be forgiven for everything if he just steps down.

Yeah…dreaming.

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BeachDem  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:37:47pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

The linked article is from March 2017. Massie isn’t named in the article (far as I can tell) but Rohrabacher is. OTOH, it would not surprise me that Massie was there.

However, I did find this old tweet that also says Massie was there and links to the NYT:

[Embedded content]

Found that one and this one

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MsJ  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:45:06pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

The linked article is from March 2017. Massie isn’t named in the article (far as I can tell) but Rohrabacher is. OTOH, it would not surprise me that Massie was there.

However, I did find this old tweet that also says Massie was there and links to the NYT:

[Embedded content]

There was a tweet just 20 minutes ago that said Massie was there. I couldn’t find it again.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:49:24pm

Maybe we can trick him….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 16, 2018 • 6:52:09pm

re: #81 BeachDem

found Massie directly named at this link: talkingpointsmemo.com

February 2, 2017: Torshin attends the White House prayer breakfast as part of the Russian delegation. According to Butina, who spoke to Yahoo News’s Michael Isikoff, she and Torshin expected a meet-and-greet with the president, but the meeting was nixed the night before. Instead, Torshin had breakfast with Republican congressmen Dana Rohrabacher (California) and Tom Massie (Kentucky). Rohrabacher told Isikoff it had been “a good exchange” — Torshin seemed to agree with the American conservatives that “[t]he whole problem is with radical Muslims.”

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ckkatz  Jul 16, 2018 • 7:27:33pm

Just finished watching Rachel Maddow. <*sigh*> Took a needed break and looked at Amazon Prime Day for a little retail therapy.

Looks like they have the Instant Pot DUO 6qt on sale for $59 plus tax. Official price is $100.

Duo is the second from the bottom of the model lines. There are three sizes 3, 6 and 8 [quart]. Wirecutter recommended it as a good cost versus features option.
thewirecutter.com

I have been using the wirecutterdeals twitter feed as a Amazon Prime Day filter. (wirecutter.com is NYT consumer product recommendation website.) They have been identifying Amazon Prime Day items that they had previously recommended.


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