A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461849
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461849
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I would wager good money that Rudy is just trying to b.s. his way out of it, not coming clean. Still fun!
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Is RUDY leaving a sinking ship? How pretty!
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txlawyer thinks not. Yeah.
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My money says Smith and his team have all they really need from other witnesses. And Rudes knows it, maybe.
Either way, the idea of Rudes sweating his hair dye out brings tears of joy to my eyes.
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it would be the rodentine way.
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RUDY is like a kazoo in a symphony, noticeable but ewww.
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I know you’re probably choking on the smoke but keep in mind the tragedy of what’s happening in Canada. This isn’t anywhere near normal and the Canadian Boreal Forest was a carbon sink…
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Just a couple of banjo guys showing off their skills:
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Sunik is actually considerably smaller in every way. I’m not talking about his physical presence.
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Bottom line is: what will the people Trump showed the top secret document to say in court?
And the elephant in the room: would Trump ever make a deal, say, to drop out of the presidential race and stay out of politics, in exchange for not being prosecuted? Probably not, and especially not if the trial is slow-walked by his appointee, Cannon. (OTOH, if she does slow-walk it in obvious ways, that could be grounds to have her removed from the case, but then that would delay things yet further. No doubt Trump’s attorneys see this possibility.
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@mccaffreyr3
Enormous insights into the fragility of the Putin regime. A bunch of corrupt gangsters. Hard to unseat Putin. He’s off gassing vulnerability. The bench waiting to take power are weak, divided, don’t trust anyone. Couple of thousand tac nukes.
Of course Prigozhin had help from Russian generals. You don’t march 800 km through 4 Russian oblasts virtually unimpeded if there is no significant support in the Russian generality. Putin had to order mayors with dump cars and excavators to set up barricades, because the Russian army was AWOL.
Even though the circumstances of Wagner`s stopping at the gates of Moscow are murky, I stand by my word that Moscow would have been taken by Sunday. The resistance of Putin’s regime was nonexistent or not willing to defend Putin and the question is not if Russian generals helped in this insurrection, but how many were involved.
The dissolution of Russian statehood is continuing and Putin is facing the dilemma whether to send out his few remaining bloodhounds to track down the insurrectionists and by doing so expedite the downfall of the Russian war effort or remain being a lame duck and being removed altogether in a short period of time. Since he is revengeful narcissist who already said that he will never forgive betrayal he would eventually go after the traitors, if he can regain some relative power back, and his enemies are most certainly aware of that fact.
It’s going to be interesting either way, since he will lose no matter what.
Source: https://nytimes.com/2023/06/27/us/politics/russian-general-prigozhin-rebellion.html
ETA: I reiterate, Putin will not survive this war.
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New study: “[F]or every 0.1°C of avoided global warming, over 100 million fewer people will be shifted outside the Goldilocks zone and pushed into unprecedented heat exposure.”
Um, no. The study says the opposite. Opening blurb:
But every tenth of a degree of global warming that society can avoid will keep conditions ‘just right’ for over 100 million people, a new study shows.
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Jack Smith Is Making Rudy Giuliani Sweat It Out
The dude chain-orders bloody marys (marys bloody?) at lunch. This may take a while.
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Thanks, I’m breathing it in.
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Jack Smith Is Making Rudy Giuliani Sweat It Out
And by “it”, we mean hair dye and Barton’s.
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