Discussion: Cohen Talked Russian Relations With Kremlin-Tied Oligarch During Transition

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Are we headed towards a Kurzweilian “singularity” of derp and corruption?
The acceleration of evidence of corruption is just staggering, and there seems to be no let-up in sight. How will it all end?

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it’s like a picnic being overrun by ants and the right is arguing whether any particular ant is indeed attacking the picnic basket, completely ignoring the larger picture.

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“all the evidence is fake and was planted by the deep state under the direction of Hillary and Obama”. Republicans will nod in agreement.

I wish I was kidding.

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And what did anyone think they were talking about, weather, soccer, their moms?

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Damn. It’s still Friday a.m.

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Let us never forget that for months after the election, the Trump Traitors denied having ANY contacts at all with the Russians or agents of the Russians. ZERO.

And yet with every passing day and week since then, we discover more and more previously undisclosed meetings, calls, communications, back-channels, etc., by virtually EVERYONE on the Trump team.

Not much like ZERO at all, is it?

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Let’s get it done. Bring Gina Haspel to interrogate this guy.

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“Obviously, if I’d known in January 2017 that I was about to hire this high-profile guy who’d wind up in this big mess, I wouldn’t have introduced him to my biggest client, and wouldn’t have hired him at all,” Intrater told the New York Times.

So once again, the regret is that they were caught and not the fact they were doing something improper or illegal.

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And Cohen is STILL deputy chair of finance for the Republican National Committee. Where do you think the GOP got all its money from? Russia.

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I love the pictures that go with these stories.

I’m trying to decide if I have the bandwidth to set up a “Sad Michael Cohen” Instagram account.

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This is typical of the rightwing argumentative style: a fallback to a hyper-legal mode of argument. Climate change and evolution are examples. Argument based on the scientific method, statistical inference and consilience of inductions (numerous threads of data and evidence all tending toward the same conclusion) is abandoned in favor of strictly “prove beyond a shadow of a doubt” hyper-legal argle bargle and jiggery pokery, complete with extreme reliance on the “god of the gaps” to drive their “point” home.

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I’d think that by now any trumpers who didn’t talk to Russians are starting to feel left out.

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And yet Trump would have us believe that all of these dozens of Trumpers all acted entirely independently and alone, and never said anything to anyone else on the team, despite all of them doing the exact same thing at the exact same time.

“I don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout nuthin’!”

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Our local art museum had an exhibit of short art videos and this situation reminds me of one of them. It was a still life, fruits piled up high on a plate. Then the video proceeded in stop motion as the fruit ripened, softened, rotted, slowly covered with mold of all colors and finally dissolved in a puddle of goo.

That’s how this administration will end up. Republicans drowning in a puddle of goo.

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Are there any of those?

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Everything’s coming up Milhouse!

I mean Russians.

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“Good grief, if I knew my biggest client, who also happens to be my cousin, was close to Vladimir Putin, I would never have introduced him to that well-known fool and bagman Michael Cohen!”

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I had something along those lines
Hillary! Emails! FBI! Meeting on the Tarmac!
Nothing to see here , move along

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NO COLLUSION. NO COLLUSION. NO COLLUSION.

If I say it loud enough and repeat it enough times, that makes it true. Right?

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