Discussion: Meet The Operative Who Was Alleged Conduit Between Mariia Butina And GOP

[valgalky23]

We gotta go hear that band!

[brian512]

@irasdad

Is it possible that Abraham Lincoln was the only Republican in history not in the Kremlin’s pocket?

I’m pretty sure that Ike was clean, but that is so far away from where we are now that you can make a strong argument that he actually belonged to a different party.

[cervantes]

@drriddle

Maybe she was saving some of us the pain of considering steak knives and how they would be used

Well, in that case I clearly messed up. Wouldn’t be the first time. My apologies.

[robcat2075]

Paul Erickson? I’m pretty sure that’s really Larry Fine…

[doctorbiobrain]

As it turns out, your enemy’s enemy might be using you for their own agenda. Who knew?! Seriously, the people who spend the most time conning others are the easiest to con, because they’re so busy getting in your pocket they can’t see how their pockets are open for the picking. I wonder if we’ll be hearing how deep the anti-Hillary folks on the left got too.

What’s truly comical is seeing how happy every single American was when a kindly Russian showed up bearing political gifts and scammy business deals, as if that’s just a normal thing that happens in life. Even if Russia wasn’t a known foe, these fools lacked the basic caution of a small child. Stranger danger, yo!

[mumphrey_o_yamm]

I thought Larry Fine died 45 years ago. Guess I was mistaken…

[kenga]

Yeah, that’s a keeper, alright.

[cervantes]

@irasdad

Is it possible that Abraham Lincoln was the only Republican in history not in the Kremlin’s pocket?

Actually, Lincoln’s opponents said a great deal about Seward’s purchase of Alaska from said Kremlin.

And they were wrong, of course.

[erik_t]

Ahhnold seemed to mostly be on the up-and-up, although “successful California Republican” is already crossing the streams in weird ways.

[sparrowhawk]

@doctorbiobrain

I wonder if we’ll be hearing how deep the anti-Hillary folks on the left got too.

I know that some on the left were soaking up “facts” fed to them by RT-sponsored Youtube channels, so there definitely were inroads made. And it really doesn’t get much more blatant than having the “lefty” third-party candidate sitting at a RT awards dinner, sharing a table with Putin a year before the election.

[spencersmom]

@brian512

@irasdad

Is it possible that Abraham Lincoln was the only Republican in history not in the Kremlin’s pocket?

I’m pretty sure that Ike was clean, but that is so far away from where we are now that you can make a strong argument that he actually belonged to a different party.

Yup, I completely agree. The current occupant makes Nixon look honest, Reagan look lucid, HW Bush look ethical and W look like a genius.

BTW, we had a bunny rabbit when I was little we called Ike. I later learned it was because we got him the day that Ike died and that his formal name was Dwight David Eisenhower. About all I remember of him was that he peed on my a lot, which brings the discussion right back to Fat Nixon.

[c_stedman]

I got as far as John Wayne Bobbitt and the “Love Hurts Tour”.

[cervantes]

@sparrowhawk

And it really doesn’t get much more blatant than having the “lefty” third-party candidate sitting at a RT awards dinner, sharing a table with Putin a year before the election.

From that one event we conclude … what?

Or is there more than the one event?

[occamscoin]

Remind me what schwarzenegger did as governor of california to investigate the enron-organized power embargoes, or undo the 30 year power contracts signed under duress at inflated prices. That’s right, nothing, besides meet all day with Kenny-boy Lay 3 days into his governorship.

[cervantes]

@spencersmom

The current occupant makes Nixon look honest, Reagan look lucid, HW Bush look ethical and W look like a genius.

Too much.

[hectorius]

[sparrowhawk]

@cervantes

From that one event we conclude … what? Or is there more than the one event?

At the very least, we can conclude that Stein is an idiot with poor judgment. RT is and always has been a propaganda tool of the Russian government. Anyone who wants to be taken seriously in the US wouldn’t touch anything RT-related with a 39 1/2 foot pole.

[captain_america]

Bombay?

[ghost]

The first “journalist” Putin called on in the presser yesterday was from RT. The question was everything you would expect it to be.

[erik_t]

(ahem)

DO NOT CONGRATULATE.