Discussion: McCain: Kushner's Reported Push For Russia Backchannel Not 'Standard'

So the new Republican Party will be made up of overstuffed carrion beetles?

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That makes it funnier. Story based on this one in Daily Beast

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Zombies, why does it always have to be zombies? That’s such a worn out trope, like hot, brooding vampire boyz.

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The only good thing about Twilight is that the vampires had been working out. Brooding boys with muscles are just fine.

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Selecting a little known, untested Governor from Alaska and subjecting her to inadequate vetting to run as a VP running mate next to an aged, repeated cancer survivor as a Presidential candidate isn’t “standard” either.

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Don’t ever forget, it was McCain who brought “not standard” Sarah Palin into our lives.

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Whoops my point exactly!

Forget tipping, he wouldn’t even pay the check. He’d eat 3/4s of his entree, then send it back complaining it was burned. Then demand to be comped.

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Let’s face it, Trump is not going to be impeached by this congress no matter what he or his avaricious, traitorous relatives and henchmen do. So, everyone should, as it were, duck and cover or find a doorway or sturdy table to hide under. I’ve got a bad feeling that the firmament of our democracy is going collapse.

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I may be wrong about this, but the suggestion to use Russian secure sites to carry out this back-channel, suggests that Kushner is okay with Russian Intel being in the know about the content of their discussions, but not US intelligence. I wonder if this might be the best way to frame this. What possible information could the administration want to send to Russia that is too sensitive for the CIA to hear that is okay for the KGB to hear?

My guess is that Flynn is so deeply brainwashed by the Right-wing and Russian conspiracy theories that he trusts the Russians more than his own government.

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‘tacky drunk tourist’

Bobbing and swaying at the solemn ceremony.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/869213909848281088

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Seriously. Every time McCain and Lindsey say something semi-reasonable, you can 100% bet that will be followed by “but I’m still gonna shill for the official GOP stance.”

Party over country every time.

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That owner is the lucky one. The unlucky one–Trump has his Surgeon General write up a medical excuse, Trump says the waitperson got germs all over him, tries to shake down the owner for $100k to settle the threatened lawsuit.

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That was the most fucked-up ceremony I’ve seen. Was it really necessary to have an emcee announce everyone?

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Old man stirs, mutters something, goes promptly back to sleep.

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(Mumbling)
“not my night? I coulda been somebody
I coulda been
what do they call 'em–a councilman!”

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God, was it prefaced by the intro to that song, “Y’all ready for this?”

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No, they went with “Are you ready to Trummmmmple?”

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Seeing all their actions through the lens of “they’re in it for the money” is a blind. If you look very carefully at Trump’s “foreign policy” it is Putin’s. No wonder he needed/wanted a secret back channel to the Russians.

Trump simply wouldn’t know what to do about anything if he weren’t executing Putin’s commands–look at what he just did at NATO, Putin’s bĂȘte noir: he did not pledge mutual support in case of aggression against a member state, so if Russia decided to invade a NATO country, it’s unlikely the US would rush to its aid.

Trump is also trying to do to NATO what Reagan did to the Russians, force them to spend so much of their budgets on military that they can no longer function as normal states.

He didn’t get anywhere with the NATO countries on that spending demand, but he came back here to proclaim loudly–very loudly–claimed that he did.

To please whom with this lie? Vlad it is.

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The good old Daily Mail


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