July 17, 2018 6:30 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, July 17
доброе утро!
- When it comes to Trump’s incomprehensible deference to Putin, even the Washington Times is like, “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K!“
- Here’s what Georgians including Senator Johnny Isakson, Representative Karen Handel, and Newt Gingrich have to say about yesterday’s performance.
- The Georgia Association of Club Executives (not like this club) is optimistic after a Fulton County judge opted to not dismiss their case against the
pole taxfee on adult entertainment venues that was created by the Safe Harbor Act. - Authors confess what books scared them the most.
- Delta celebrated a former flight attendant’s 102nd birthday.
- Deaconess Anna Ellison Butler Alexander, a coastal Georgia woman who died 50 years ago is the Episcopal Church’s newest saint.
- An interesting twist in Savannah’s debate over short-term rentals.
- The Girl Scouts of America want to renovate founder Juliet Gordon Low’s Savannah home, which attracts 10,000 Girl Scouts year like I’m attracted to a box of Tagalongs. Some of Low’s descendants have concerns with the plan to renovate the home’s garden.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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No statement on Putin or Russia from my #treasonweasel rep Barry Loudermilk.
Did you see this piece in The Onion? Funny because it’s pretty much true.
Warning: Not safe for snowflakes.
https://politics.theonion.com/gop-leaders-move-goalposts-on-opposing-trump-to-him-bei-1827640709
#NSFS
#NSFNoway
I’m inclined to agree.
You definitely have a point there.
Today will pass and the alt.Republican party will be a step closer to stealing their second Supreme Court seat.
History is not going to judge this period in time kindly.
Those of you who still support this charade, shame on you.
How are they stealing a 2nd seat? Is this more sniveling? And the first seat was simply applying liberal rules already used before. And is Borking normal behavior for Supreme Court Justices? Nope, sounds like sniveling.
Gotta love The Left’s hate…
Please go to other message boards with this. To paraphrase Obama to Joe the Plumber, “Gotta spread The Hate around…!!” Talk a little louder at your lunch at Applebee’s. At any public setting, really. People will listen and take note. And these same Real Americans Who Matter will lie to the same hapless pollsters who totally were humiliated by The Deplorables in ’16. The same pollsters who are breathlessly predicting a supposed “Blue Wave” in November! The same pollsters who predicted Senator Nunn and Governor Carter in ’14! LMAO! What absolute Losers.
And you get thoroughly schooled by both of us!
Things that make you go hmmmm:
On the day a Russian agent is charged with infiltrating the NRA, the Trump administration announces the NRA and similar groups can keep the identity of their donors totally secret.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-groups/us-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F
Is that all dark money or just Russian dark money?
Japan, EU sign trade deal to eliminate nearly all tariffs
“The European Union and Japan signed a landmark deal on Tuesday that will eliminate nearly all tariffs on products they trade. . . . It covers a third of the global economy and markets of more than 600 million people.”
“The deal eliminates about 99 percent of the tariffs on Japanese goods sold to the EU. About 94 percent of the tariffs on European exports to Japan will be lifted, rising to 99 percent in the future.”
https://apnews.com/bb26231767374debafda43f4d99d5bba/Japan,-EU-sign-trade-deal-to-eliminate-nearly-all-tariffs
For anyone who still might not believe the vulnerability of electronic voting machines:
I have read the comment “the machines themselves aren’t connected so the actual votes can’t be flipped. ”
The nation’s top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.
Election-management systems are not the voting terminals that voters use to cast their ballots, but are just as critical: they sit in county election offices and contain software that in some counties is used to program all the voting machines used in the county; the systems also tabulate final results aggregated from voting machines.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states
https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/georgia-6-and-the-voting-machine-vendors-87278fdb0cdf
The tweeter-in-chief, the white house and the MAGA cultist are unusually quiet today. Even with talking points from Sean, Rush and Tucker, this latest betrayal of America is hard to defend. Even the WSJ editoralized against the insanity.
Trump blasts NFL players for taking a knee to protest social issues but he stayed on his knees for more than two hours to keep a tape from being released.
#trumpfirst, #treasonsummit
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-putins-poodle-20180716-story.html#
Trump in the presser is the equivalent to Hitler murdering Jews?! Literal insanity. And his not defending his intel folks? They are corrupt at the highest level. No debate there. They have been trying to destroy him sunce the inception of his campaign. Trump won the race on his own. Outworked his opponent!!! Didnt need Ruskie help. The only known hacks were of the DNC. The only collusion is with Dems and Steele. Most recent indictment had no Gringos snd no vote changed and no elections on any level changed. Period. Y’all are truly pathetic.
Do you get paid for commenting here comrade?
Nobody gets paid here. Period.
I believe you, I apologize if the insinuation is taboo.
Recently he has had a slip or two keeping his legend intact though.
… there is the GAPol hot tub though.
Ed used it and the EPA shut it down.
Funny comment. What party is the home of the Communist Party USA? The democratic party. What Party hated Reagan and sucked up to Gorbachev so much his head turned red. Actually comrades, go to CPUSA.org. Just read it. It is indistinguishable from the Democratic party platform. So I challenge all the comrades on this blog to find something they disagree with on that site. Good luck and waiting for replies.
Right. I can’t really find any kind of manifesto or whatever there to challenge. Mostly all I see is workers rights, election integrity, anti-racism, anti-capitalism, etc.
But I don’t think anyone here would agree with the full-on ‘workers own all the collective output’ if that’s what you mean. I don’t think the Dem platform includes that.
Now you go find some white supremacist site and tell us what you disagree with there.
Did we lose the ability to separate paragraphs?
testing.
Yes, we did. Dang.
To create the dossier Steele sought info from Russian intel/gov’t agents. That is colluding w Russia, right there. Not Repubs, but Dems.
So you accept the authenticity of the Steele dossier, your only concern is the source?
Do you not see how that makes you look?
Like a fool, in case you’re wondering.
I said no such thing, uou dillweed! I said , and of course it’s the truth, Hilly’s campaign paid for the dossier through Steele and his collusion with Russian government agents to put it together. So, the only acknowledged and proven collusion is by the Dems and Russia. GOP is nowhere to be seen. By the way, how did that laptop taste?
I guess every person ever colludes with Google every day, too. Colluding- one aspect of it- means you share a common goal. Information gathering, especially by a professional, can in fact be objective. Even if you’re paid together that information. Weren’t you paid as an investigator or something? Did you collude with your infor sources?
On top of that, there was no common goal. Putin admits that he wanted Trump to win, and you allege that Steele wanted Trump to lose. Seems like opposite goals, if anything.
And I remain confused why folks don’t just look at what happened – or at anything that has happened with Trump- and say “Yeah. that sucked”, then say you like him anyways and move on. No human is infallible, and it’s no shame to admit mistake. And then there’s the story that a tree that bends with the wind will survive the storm, while the tree that doesn’t will break. Plus, why would anyone stake their invaluable GeorgiaPol rep on refusing to be acknowledge reality?
Have you ever thought that there were British spies in Russia or Russians that were against Putin that could have supplied that information? Apparently not by your silly comment.
So, now Trump is acknowledging the validity of his intel folks. Given your statement of the intel folks’ corruption, then adding 1 plus 1, carry the 4… that means Trump supports corruption.
So maybe now it’s becoming clear that it makes no sense to deny the overwhelming validity of officials and real patriots.
And maybe it will also become clear that it makes less sense to defend Trump because he’s going to change his mind pursuant to his fickle political will.
And then he won’t have your back.
New thread within this one. Comments getting too stretched on iphone. Trump I hear, acknowledged Russia meddling. He still says neither he or his campaign was involved. Are we assuming it was Russia that hacked DNCC to expose Podesta and Brazile’s comments snd released them? Comments that have never been denied or being accurate in their content? Were those comments detrimental to the Dem ticket? Sure. It made the Dems look sleazy. But their is no evidence whatsoever that Repubs knew of the effort to hack DNC personnel. Therefore no collusion between Repubs and hackers. No evidence at all.
Lemme ask: were the leaked Dem emails, hacked by whomever and released by Assange, enough to cast enough negative thoughts on the Hilly ticket, for that alone to have given the victory to Trump?
It just doesn’t matter who won. Why everything has to be seen through that prism is odd. If a crime was committed, it was committed.
If a maggot broke into a home, but didn’t steal anything, isn’t he still a maggot?
They were hacked by the Russian Intelligence community. There is no “whoever”. Apparently they stole Hillary’s data which yes could swing the election. It’s the same as Nixon breaking into the DNC but this time instead of Americans doing it the Russians did.
And you contend that those stolen emails were responsible for Hilly’s loss?
And further, you’re saying Trump knew of the theft before it happened or was just damn lucky withthe negative content.
Exhibit A would be yourself. Exhibit B would be Bernie bros pushed on by Russian bots and Bernie himself who wouldn’t speak up about the Russian bots that were helping his campaign. We don’t know that Trump knew about the theft but it sure looks like something was going on. We do know that Doug Stone contacted Russian Intelligence and actually said the emails were going to come out before they came out. We also know from the Mueller indictment that apparently a GOP congressional candidate also contacted Russian intelligence. We also know that Trump spoke regularly with Stone. Yesterday we learned that a Russian spy was all in the conservative organizations. We get to learn more everyday. We do know that Trump has financial ties to the Russians as no one would loan him money after six bankruptcies.
The simple answer is that we just don’t know yet. There’s a lot of smoke that has yet to clear. I tend to think that Roger Stone may be the first to be charged with conspiracy around the hacking. And we don’t know yet what Trump knew.
Btw, I’d feel better if it turned out that the campaign – while it flirted with Russians- did not end up leveraging Russian assistance, because that means people made the right choices in the end. Which is more heartening than learning you’ve been lied to, manipulated, and took heavy damage to democracy.
In the last indictment it said a congressional candidate contacted Guccifer directly for stolen emails. Do you not think that Putin arranged the emails to create a narrative and left out other emails? It obviously was effective to some degree because you believe them.
Sure I believe them. And none of their content was ever denied by the Dems. At least some of the ire your side has had should have been with the unforced error that Podesta and Donna had in putting that info into words!
Dude, do you think the complete story was leaked by Putin? Of course not. You realize that parts of emails threads can be left out don’t you or are you not smart enough to realize that.
As somone who supports pedophiles and treason weasels, you should be the last person lecturing anyone on what they should do.
Reporter: Did you want President Trump to win, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? And before it could be translated….Putin shouts: Yes I did! Yes I did!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629462401/transcript-president-trump-and-russian-president-putins-joint-press-conference&ved=2ahUKEwjbjInm56bcAhXH5oMKHf86ALsQFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw0RbB-chCjxeMTjUG7bcSRA
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1017872859941736448&ved=2ahUKEwit7qyt6abcAhVC4qwKHYIkAfoQFjABegQIABAB&usg=AOvVaw2vVXdKYSwmt37WbrQXGKOU
To Andrew: Steele’s asking official KGB/Russia sources is just that. Asking current Russia employees, if you will, is colluding with those sources to get info. That was done for the Dems. What am I missing?
Holy brick wall, Batman.
Not Andrew, but:
Asking people questions is not colluding.
So, Don, Jr meeting with the Russian contact at Trump Towers about neg info on Hilly isn’t collusion. Thanks for tha clarification.
He met with a Russian spy but then he’s not the sharpest tool in the box. Mueller is going to be the final arbiter of what that meeting was.
Remember Mueller has all the emails, phone calls etc. from the Trump campaign.
Caroline, regarding Mueller. Did D jr ” intend” to meet with a spy? Don’t bleeeeve so! That pesky intent necessity!
It would seem the intent was to meet with Russians which is bad enough in itself. Can you answer for me why Republicans think it is a good idea to meet with Russians and not call the FBI?
So, it remains to be seen if there was anything actionable that arose from the meeting. But the intent obviously matters, as does Don Jr’s knowledge, as you allude. Donny at least knew there was a Russian connection.
And, to be clear, if it turns out that anyone in the DNC knowingly presented false information to intelligence agencies, they should be prosecuted for that. They’d have to have knowledge that the info was bogus to show intent for that. So if your idea is that the DNC directed Steele to fabricate information- yeah, that’s going to be something actionable. But in that case, he wouldn’t have even needed to question actual Russians- he could have just lied and said he did.
And if the Russians fed him disinformation (I think this is somewhat likely) then there’s no intent to defraud by anyone other than the Russians…
NoWay2016, you really ought to read the transcript of the press conference yesterday, because Putin actually admitted that he aided Trump:
REPORTER: Did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S. Russia relationship back to normal.
My opinion? He answered yes to the first part of the question. To be fair, I’d like clarification on the second part dealing with any assistance.
It’s only unclear to cultist. Putin is fluent in English and didn’t need a translator. He was eager to let the world know he is responsible for the cult leaders election. He owns Trump. Trump is the first US president who is a wholly owned asset of a hostile foreign power.
Country over cult.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_anthem_of_Russia
The press conference that launched 1000’s of campaign ads in the fall.
Noway, I figured you’d be on here slogging it out with the usual suspects. It seems totally lost on the hair-on-fire liberal socialists that the whole thing is about Obama’s intelligence community, not Trump’s. Misdeeds of McCabe, Strzok, Page, Brennan, Lynch, Comey, et.al. in 2016 were all with the blessings of our former president who was trying desperately to get Clinton elected.
Speaking of which, one of the Obama FBI lawyers, Lisa Page yesterday dimed out Obama’s top FBI officials during her House testimony, gave new intel on how FBI bosses covered up evidence that China hacked Hillary’s top secret emails in 2016. The Obama cabal knew that Chinese state ‘assets’ had illegally acquired Clinton’s 30,000+ “missing” emails.
The Russians didn’t do it. The Chinese did. And while Democrats and the mainstream media touted Russia as America’s boogeyman, it was really the Chinese who acquired Hillary’s treasure trove of classified and top secret intelligence from her home-brewed private server. Public revelation of that magnitude would have torpedoed her campaign for sure. So the FBI was weaponized against the American citizenry — they did nothing to assess the damage such a tremendous breach posed for national security.
Hundreds of top secret documents and even the president’s daily travel and security itineraries were on that server — and intercepted by a communist country — yet the FBI sat on the evidence. All of Clinton’s and her inner circle’s outgoing emails were compromised as well.
Even the Inspector General had tipped off the FBI — specifically Strzok — about the China breach. Still, no case was pursued. FBI bosses time after time stalled and concealed intelligence on the Clinton situation in the weeks prior to the election — and since.
But the two days of Page’s testimony have now provided new intelligence for the Congressional committee. It is no wonder that the mind control police of today’s leftist media, coupled with the entertainment industry and socialist Democrats ginned up a phony hysteria about the Helsinki Summit response referring to Obama’s weaponized intelligence community, to prevent public attention to the fact that it was China, not Russia who tried to meddle in our election. And that Obama’s administration covered it up.
They manipulate the mindless masses by shouting “Russia, Russia, Russia! Look over here!”
Lol! Well said. As usual!
Wow. That’s a Fabulously Astounding Keen Enlightenment you’ve got on those dastardly Chinese.
How ’bout we look at 55 year military intelligence veteran James Clapper’s book where he reveals the facts garnered during his role as DNI:
Before most of the media had landed in Philadelphia for the Democratic Convention four days later, Russia launched its big surprise. Russian intelligence—specifically their military intelligence agency, GRU, the agency with which Mike Flynn had met—had quietly gained access to the Democratic National Committee networks in July 2015. Sometime in March 2016, Putin and the Russian leadership decided that it was worth the risk of diplomatic blowback if they were caught, and the GRU went on the offense, exfiltrating emails and large volumes of data. In April, Russia used a third-party “cutout” to send more than nineteen thousand DNC emails and more than eight thousand documents to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, attempting to cover its tracks and to give WikiLeaks some degree of deniability in knowing the source of the leaks. It took WikiLeaks three months to verify the emails were authentic before it released them, and I find it implausible that Assange, as he claims, didn’t figure out during that period that Russian intelligence was his source.
The DNC had actually realized they had a problem in April and hired the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to assess the situation and try to save their systems. CrowdStrike detected the Russian activity and did what it could to quietly remediate the damage. On June 14, the DNC went public, acknowledging they’d been hacked by Russian intelligence. The next day, a hacker self-styled as Guccifer 2.0 claimed to have been the perpetrator. The name was clearly a reference to the Guccifer who had first revealed Secretary Clinton’s email address and domain information in March 2013. Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be Romanian, just as the original had, although he communicated very well in Russian and not well at all in Romanian. The US IC determined later that Guccifer 2.0 was not, in fact, a single person, but was a persona used by multiple Russian state hackers working in tandem.
On Friday, July 22, the day after Mr. Trump’s acceptance of the Republican nomination, WikiLeaks dumped the DNC emails online…
The mainstream media outlets seemed to have little time to discuss the DNC’s and CrowdStrike’s claims that Russian intelligence was behind the cyber theft and leaks, and ironically Mr. Trump seemed to be the only one publicly discussing their source, tweeting, “The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me.”
And that would be the same Clapper who misled the world with false claims of “weapons of mass destruction” in 2003 which were proven to be nonexistent by international inspectors. Excuse me if I don’t place much credence in his musings.
Yep, he fully owns up to being a part of that finding in the book, but you are implying he was solely responsible when he wasn’t even close to the lead dog at the time (although one that was is named John Bolton). Regardless, your dismissal of a man who served his country for 55 years whose brutal honesty is obvious in the book is oddly the same as one of the first putdowns of America’s intelligence community offered by then President-elect Trump in December of 2016, “These are the same people who said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.”
You will excuse me if I lend more credence to this decorated 3-star than I do to a guy repeating some Chinese conspiracy theory that has a familiar borscht smell like Jade Helm and Pizzagate.
What are your sources for all this?
I couldn’t find a one.
Although I didn’t search every sub-reddit conspiracy theory.
I feel like that post, a conspiracy theory without sources, did a disservice to this site and any who read it (not to mention whatever credibility you had with anyone who cares about real issues). It dumbs down the site, and while I used to read your posts with a deference to hearing you out, I won’t be wasting any more such time. Not that you care, but you should still know.
I’m sure Sally has draped himself completely in black – to mourn the fact that Balance will no longer be reading his fact-based postings. He’s actually desperately needed here. To give some counter balance to the Lib Wingnuts who basically dominate Gapol!
So where did you go to college Noway? Was that UGA or Emory?
Both
What popular establishment near the Emory campus had the only Heineken on draft to be found in the 70s and 80s?
Wow! Folks we have Rand McNally temporarily inhabiting Will’s body!! Jeezzz!
Nah, just asking one you can’t google and your evasion is telling.
Pretty sure it wasn’t Moe’s and Joe’s! But I was a Tech guy.
He is also claiming UGA now and didn’t know what a FO from the Varsity is, and that can even be googled.
Will, since you’re into useless trivia. When a band wanted to get away from it all and they came to Gilligan’s Island, what was name of the band and name its’ members!
If you say that all those things happened, and that those people said those things, then all you have to do is drop a link. Otherwise, it’s either false witness, or wingnut conspiracy theory. Even you, Noway, at least use links, even if they’re from RT, and you didn’t read the article :b
I don’t like any extremes- right or left- but if you can support your argument with actual facts, a discussion can be had. And every left-leaning commenter here backs up their positions with sources. And we do have the ability to elevate the level of discussion, or we can let it degrade. It’s our choices.
And the hits keep on coming:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-hidden-strzok-emails-latest-production-clinton-lynch-tarmac-meeting-docs-strzok-email-suggests-clinton-investigation-decision-made-april-2016/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=press%20release
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-clinton-emails-reveal-classified-docs-clinton-foundation-connections/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=press%20release
Judicial Watch: The PT Barnum of legal organizations. You would think after being led down tons of rabbit holes by these idiots that one would learn.
Gosh, Fitton speaks so well of you! I don’t really pay attention to his theories, only to the actual legal documents he gets through the Freedom of Information Act, like those contained in these articles. I like to form my own conclusions based on facts, not other people’s opinions. Centrist that I am.
Since I didn’t have any predisposition to Judicial Watch, I feel like I can look at the facts presented objectively. Besides the messy presentation, I found there was mostly theory and conjecture. It’s good that the emails were disclosed and obtained, but the theories are literally in the URL, the main ideas of each paragraph, etc. And there is no coherent link between the content of the documents and the theories. It actually looks like the lack of coherence is intentional, so that you feel OK to jumping to the conclusions of the theories. It would be effective at convincing those who want to believe, but I wouldn’t dream that this could convince even one skeptical member of any jury.
Not suprised to find out David Perdue is a #treasonweasel.
Latent response. U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.: “Why is my monthly NRA check made out to me in rubles?”
“Disagreements between our countries were discussed at length, and what the world saw, and the American people saw, is that President Donald Trump will always put the prosperity and security of America first.” Toady weirdo Mike Pence complimenting treason.
National intelligence employees and others at risk for their service to the country needn’t worry they’ve a fool leader that thinks them of little value. Mitch ‘n Handel ‘n ’em are keeping them in their thoughts and prayers.
He is so creepy. Maybe Mother told him to say that.
Your insults do not deserve to be dignified with a response.
The MSM is crickets today about something of actual importance. They will not report that Putin invited Mr. Mueller and his team to come to Russia & participate in interrogating the 13 Russians indicted last Friday by Rosenstein. Why not figure out some way to do that, maybe get some first-hand information.
If you think that Russia would be honest and not demand ridiculous diplomatic quid-pro-quos, or not interrogate and threaten the individuals (and their families) before Mueller ever spoke to them, or allow actually unfettered questioning, then sure. The Kool-Aid is all red over there, comrade. And of course, Donny would need to approve, but he’d have a dozen reasons that he wouldn’t want to rock the Russian boat. God forbid you improve a relationship by reconciling the mistakes of the past.
Silly, he said he would let them come if we gave him Bill Browder. He wants Bill Browder so he can either jail him or murder him. Are you now not only advocating for treason but to hand over one of Putin’s enemies to him? An American citizen?
http://time.com/5340545/bill-browder-vladimir-putin-magnitsky-act-donald-trump/
Treason??? It really IS the silly season on here!
He did not say we’d have to “give him” Browder. He said that we should look into Browder, since he’s the billionaire who now lives in England, but lived in and made over $1.5 billion in Russia and funneled $400 million into the US to Clinton’s campaign. Putin said that Browder never paid taxes to Russia nor the US for repatriation of the funds.
Putin already claimed Browder was guilty. Do you really think the Russians would come and ask Browder nice questions and then let him go? Of course not. They would charge him with crimes in Russia and haul him back there and murder him or put him in jail. Browder is a big threat to Putin and anyone who threatens Putin gets murdered. And he did not give Hillary that money. That’s a hoax but apparently you fell for the garbage Putin was spewing. This is how Putin’s propaganda operation works.
Maybe Lois Lerner was his accountant?
Sally Forth, when you fell from the stupid tree, you must have hit every branch on the way down.
Why are you trying to cover for that disaster of a press conference? Even the spineless, Viagra-addicted water-carrying Trump Republicans distanced themselves to the point of having Trump tell us that he “mis-spoke”. I don’t think he did, he knows he crossed a line by cozying up to a despot. His feelings for the intelligence community were unambiguous.
This is one dangerous idiot we have in the White House. Trump surely isn’t the first president to try ginning up some relationship with Putin. Both GW Bush and Obama (remember the “reset button”?) However, I’ve never seen a president so unfit for the job with his recklessness, dishonestly and just an obvious lack of intellect for a head of state. These are strange times.
The last time Russia invited investigators:
Russian KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko fled to England for asylum. Putin sent the KGB (FSB) to kill him in 2006 by slipping RADIOACTIVE POLONIUM into a cup of tea he was drinking. Litvinenko died a miserable death from radiation poisoning, but he made a death bed confession that Putin and the KGB were behind it. Nobody doubted it, given that this is Putin/KGB style. You defect from the KGB, and we’ll find you, and kill you in the most dramatic, horrible way you can possibly imagine.
-Witness dissident writer Georgi Ivanov Markov poisoned in London with a ricin-tipped umbrella.
-Witness politician Victor Yushchenko, poisoned with dioxin for taking Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit.
-Witness Sergi Skripal (and his daughter, an innocent bystander), poisoned with novichok for defecting from the FSB
-Witness journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, poisoned TWICE with an unknown agent.
-And Litvinenko, poisoned with a tea cup full of polonium.
So, British Scotland Yard traced down three Russian suspects. Russia first denied they existed, but then admitted they did when Scotland Yard told them exactly where they were. (In a radiation sickness hospital.) Russia agreed to let some Scotland Yard detectives come to question them. When they got there, they were asked to a meeting at the Russian prosecutors office, and offered some tea. Later that day, the whole team got very sick. They were sure they’d been (mildly) poisoned at that meeting.
After having their strength sapped by a few days spent on the toilet, they continued the investigation. Eventually, they managed to interview the last suspect who was still alive, and recorded the interview on tape. They packed the tape into their luggage, and wen’t back to the U.K.
When they unpacked their bags, they found the tape, and all other evidence they’d collected, was gone.
So, let’s recap. Last time Putin invited detectives to Russia to investigate Russian crimes:
A) He POISONED the detectives when they arrived, and then…
B) Stole the evidence they’d collected on the way out.
400 million? Wow! That’s one helluva bribe, even for The Hag!
It’s a hoax but I’m sure you don’t care. And you had questioned the effectiveness of Putin’s propaganda in the election? You just fell for it yourself.
Aside from the Podesta emails how else were the Americans fed Anti-Clinton propaganda? Facebook ads?
Read this article. It goes into great length.
https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/
Gotta go — bubbye.
I heard some dolt from the Freedom Caucus say something to the effect of how great it was that two superpowers had a summit.
Newsflash: Russia is not a superpower. They are a regional power with a lot of nuclear weapons. Both California and Texas have larger GDPs just by themselves. Florida might even have caught up with Russia this year as well.
Not a superpower? Would the highly respected Obama intelligence officials agree with that? Paging Brennan and Clapper!
Lol! Of course not!
Think of something funny like Will just did. I know enough sheriff’s deputies that his other thought might have been a distinct possibility! LOL!!
1.283 trillion is our close to our new deficit. http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/07/17/White-House-Makes-Trillion-Dollar-Admission. “The updated budget now includes a projected 2019 deficit of $1.085 trillion, up from $984 billion in February — and more than double the $526 billion the White House called for in its 2018 budget.”
And we haven’t even gone to war yet.
I find it awfully funny that conservatives on this board have said oh, there’s no way Putin’s propaganda could have done anything to affect the election and yet here they are swallowing everything Putin said whole. #treasonweasels whose alliance is not the United States. Putin is not our friend. Putin attacked us but it seems most conservatives are okay with that bit of nonsense too.
Question: which did more damage, Podesta’s emails or Comey’s reopening the email investigation?
You tell me. The email thing went on for months. Comey broke protocol. That actually came out of the NY field office which Giuliani is also implicated in. Are you aware that the NY field office held the laptop until right before the election? Probably not I would guess. Jason Chaffetz also released classified information but no consequences for him are there?
You tell me how much stealing Hillary’s data helped the GOP allowing Putin to microtarget propaganda.
Here is proof that the Russian investigation is a joke.
Here is Rosenstein saying the evil Russians he just indicted had NO EFFECT on the election at all. Period. No American did a damn thing. Yet this was his BIG announcement just before Trump’s meeting wit Putin.
Not my words. Rosenstein’s…
And here is Obama himself ridiculing Trump 3 weeks before the election to quit whining about any Russian influence in the election and anyone that thinks so is a moron and a sniveler. Our elections are too decentralized which is a fact. Obama tells Trump to grow a pair of balls and go get some votes! Now what happened 3 weeks later? The fat, old, lazy, unlikable hag loses an election and we have had nonstop sniveling, whining, moaning and special councils all trying to create excuses for an historic ass beating. Its embarrassing.
This is nothing other than a way to discredit this administration. The press knows this is true and everyone in Washington too and on this blog as well, yet they continue to carry on this narrative for political gain. They don’t want the truth to be publicized. Keep the idiots riled up to go vote socialist or worse this November.
Obama ripping Trump a new one and now we still have nonstop sniveling from the libs..
Why was this no problem when it is directed at Trump but a national threat when the libs get an ass whipping? We all know why…
8 years, no investigations (and certainly no indictments)
1 wife, no divorces (and certainly no abortions)
But he was black, so we know “downthemiddle’s” true colors.
So you agree this is just liberal sniveling and nothing more?
Good.
How many in the FBI have been fired, reassigned over their fair and balanced investigation? The top 3 folks!! Oh, and they got one of Trump’s advisors for tax evasion 10 years ago and a few Russian trolls! Impressive! Just out of curiosity, how many “trolls” does the US employ? It better be thousands! And screwing up the Iranian nuclear program s is just one example. I hope they place a few anti Communist ads in some overseas elections. They might try the USA too since the democratic party is now and has been the home of the Communist Party in this country.
I don’t like lying, idiocy, over the top America hating and folks getting railroaded. And that is what is going on here. Those certainly are my true colors when looking at this situation.
The feds actually denied Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway his recently purchased hot rod. Another extravagent purchase from ahem, confiscated drug money. First denial from them I can recall:
Longtime Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway has always preferred Dodge Chargers as his official use vehicle, but never a Charger like this one.
The 2018 Dodge Charger Hellcat has a 707 horsepower, supercharged six point two-liter engine, with a top speed of 200 miles per hour. It’s considered the fastest sedan ever built. And the feds aren’t happy.
In a letter sent to the Sheriff Conway last week, the US Department of Justice pointed out seized drug money cannot be used for “extravagant expenditures” and law enforcement should spend those funds without creating “the appearance of fraud, waste and abuse.” The feds want their $69,258 returned by the end of this month.
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/i-team/feds-gwinnett-sheriff-s-hellcat-violates-drug-money-rules
Gwinnett taxpayers are now on the hook for his ride. But look at it this way it is only 9K more than the Ford Explorers now driven by the Gwinnett Police sergeants. I met one today probably driving it home on a narrow road in Barrow, halfway across the center line while staring into his lap, I hope he was only guilty of the new distracted driving law and reading a text on his phone.
Now, that is actually funny!
‘I think only the president can rein himself in.'” Coward Chuck Grassley doing his part to MAGA!