The Kremlin can deny the phone calls until the Sun burns out, but if the NSA doesn’t have the metadata on TSF calling Putin, then believe that European intelligence services have it – perhaps even transcripts of their conversations as well.
Actually at the moment it’s not acute (was a couple of months ago), but he’s coming up on 91 and getting frailer. My cousin is coming to Germany to visit next week and I made a fairly snap decision to fly back with her, as the timing turned out to be good in my crazy schedule for the next few months.
First of all, I was kind of hoping Milton would avoid Tampa and St Pete and do a major swerve that takes it directly over the Villages and then parks on top of Mar a Lardo, but alas, I don’t have a security clearance that allows me on Antartica.
Second, the opposite of a h/t to the Wall Street Journal publishing a completely lie filled op ed by Vance today. I rarely agree with the editorial board anyway, but this is truly outrageous and dangerous.
Who are you going to vote for? I was thinking of voting for Harris, but I don’t feel she has worked hard enough for my vote (My New York Times tells me she has still not sat for an interview with them) and people on Facebook whom I’ve never heard of tell me Jill Klein has a lot of good ideas.
I love Wonkette. Here’s a post about Woodward’s new book:
Love this quote and happy to see Joe agree with many here (Trigger warning, something mean will be said about Merrick Garland.):
Reacting to the prosecution of his son Hunter — by a special prosecutor named by Garland amid partisan recriminations over the Justice Department’s prosecution of Trump — the president told an associate, “Should never have picked Garland.”
The larger effect is that people are talking about Trump’s disastrous handling of covid again. Especially how he used the crisis to try to selectively punish his “enemies”. Just as he did with environmental disasters at the time.