And they’ve got a sizable batch of Russian friendly cabinet picks to confirm…
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OK, inversion, I admire your postings but you got me on this one. I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Oo yeah - very good point.
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Folgers Crystals narrator (in sotto voce):
"We’ve secretly replaced this Trump tweet with one from Leon Trotsky.
Let’s see if any GOP congressmen can tell the difference…"
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Why not sanction Putin personally? The white house said earlier that he had a hand in directing it. And they are now saying they are sanctioning the people personally involved. So why not go after Putin personally? Maybe freeze some of that $80+ billion dollars he has stolen from Russia.
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If I’m reading the order correctly, it doesn’t just smack the named Russian players (one of whom went by “pollingsoon” - cute!) … it authorizes the same range of sanctions against ANY PERSON
“determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State,” to have been involved in such activities.
I wonder who he has in mind? I can’t wait to find out!
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I LOVE this…c’mon Trump…go against America ONE MORE TIME and ‘defend’ your compatriots. Do it, you treasonous bastard.
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Obama’s gift box for the Trump Administration.
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Careful, somebody will accuse you of McCarthyism and red-baiting.
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I love the administration’s mature understatement of exactly that concept:
“If a future president decided that he wanted to allow in a large tranche of Russian intelligence agents, presumably a future president could invite that action,” the official told reporters on a press call Thursday afternoon. “We think it would be inadvisable.”
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The list of Russian spies omitted the following agents:,Trump, Manafort, Tillerson, Bannon, Conway, Flynn, and Lewandowski.
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It raises the question of whether the ongoing investigation is examining links between the hackers, the Russians, and GOP- and Trump-related operatives here and abroad. Fingers crossed…
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That quote cracked me up. Reminded me of “series of tubes”. The great orange shitgibbon is absolutely clueless. He has no freaking idea what any of this means or how it works or what his goals are, beyond “win”/be popular.
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Who would be in the least surprised that someone publicly calling for Russian hacking to aid his election was helping it occur behind the scenes?
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With Ryan’s ‘backhanded’ (but obvious) support, very few people are going with this narrative that sanctions don’t work.
I think one person is still Nunes (House intel chair), but that the future president is still suggesting (though its ‘soft shoeing’) that folks need to let ‘bygones be bygones’ isn’t a defense that he should be relying on.
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A kharmic cyber response would be to covertly hack Russian oligarchs’ financial connections and financial dealings with Trump as well as their’s and Putin’s offshore accounts and threaten to leak the the info…on second thought that might be more Nixonian than kharmic. Never mind ;D.
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The more Trump ties to squelch the sanctions or hamstring a thorough investigation, the likelier he is a dirty traitor.
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Are we to surmise then, that perhaps there is trouble brewing for the unpresident-elect? Please please please
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Maybe we can “turn” one of the Russian hackers to get Trump’s tax returns released?
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No idea
I got a feeling (hedging) that GOP Senate and House leadership is likely watching Trump’s actions on this subject.
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It made me think of my 84 year old mom who mainly uses the iPad we got her a couple of years ago for Facebook and manages to occasionally turn Facebook notifications on her iPhone on. She calls me and says “they did something to my…again”
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