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things seem to be moving along quickly. when Manafort is convicted, Chris and TSA are probably going to say Judge Eliis gave him the bum's rush.
Man, Chris really loves Manafort.
things seem to be moving along quickly. when Manafort is convicted, Chris and TSA are probably going to say Judge Eliis gave him the bum's rush.
Twitter tells him who to love.
Yep, they've been trained to get aroused whenever old men act like jerks so their hopes are sky high right now.
more evidence that America is ...
The Quislings of American Collapse
How Downwardly Mobile Americans are Being Radicalized into Betraying America
a President who’s more loyal to Russian self-interest than he is to any vaguely American ideal.
The quislings of American collapse.
Whole groups of Americans — like the fine gentlemen above — seem to be
perfectly happy betraying America.
By putting Russian oligarchy, repression, and ethnic supremacy, above American democracy, freedom, and civil society. What does it all mean?
What’s happening, to put it bluntly, is that
(some) downwardly mobile white American middle class men — at least some of them — are being radicalized.
Not by ISIS, by communism. But by a seductive, grandiose kind of authoritarianism.
To become something like true believers in the Russian model of society.
A patriarchal supremacy.
A repressive, ethnically charged patriarchy,
in which
the state is a mechanism for the pure and strong
to dominate the impure and weak, with violence, exclusion, fear, and intimidation.
All of which the pure and strong believe vehemently is right, just, noble, and true.
But it’s in fact just a tool of oligarchy, to go on enriching itself.
Give men in decline someone to hate, it seems, and they’ll let you exploit them to the bone.
Who cares if an oligarch owns your energy grid — when you have gays to bash, women to demean, and immigrants to bully?
there are two classes of American quislings today.
One we’ve discussed a little bit — downwardly mobile white men.
But then there are elites.
The elites seem to be less motivated by ideology than by money and power.
That’s ironic, because it’s
an effect of predatory capitalism — which America’s long championed.
Russia’s oligarchs have the money to, it seems, buy American democracy lock, stock, and barrel.
https://eand.co/the-quislings-of-ame...e-f25071465063
that's nonsense, boutons, the Russians didn't buy the US government.
Hey, tonight I’ve got a big for your mouth. Grilled rooster is delicious!
lefties wrapping themselves in the flag and denouncing Republicans for their lack of patriotism has got to be one of the least convincing gambits ever.
it's as craven and dishonest as the original McCarthyism.
FRIFF
it sez "buy American democracy"
Pootin OWNS Trash, comprised Trash's mafiya, Rorhbacher, and numerous US Congresspeople are crawling to Moscow for meeting with Pootin.
Repugs, for years, strongly preferred lily white Pootin to their hated, too-smart, Muslim knitter Obama
wannabe cowboy Clarke, etc went to Moscow
Jill Stein pulled a Nader/2000, stayed in the race after visiting Moscow, dining with Pootin, and helped split the Dem vote to elect Trash. Did she get dark money from Pootin? The oligarchy's SCOTUS sez she can hide it.
the ing NRA exposed as laundering Russian money, then predatory vulture Capitalist Mnuchin quickly responds saying NRA doesn't have to expose the Russian sources.
etc, etc
and 2016's "white working class", downwardly mobile white middle class, have been betrayed by the oligarchy (eg, household income flat for 40 years), so desperate that WWC has declining longevity, UNIQUE among all industrial nations.
WWC is in despair, killing itself by the 100Ks with alcohol, drugs, guns. This is the class of "old white men (and their compliant, Biblically subservient women)" as quislings, wearing "better Russian than Democrat"-type tee shirts.
And the entire evangelical so-called Christian assholes like Pootin's Macho Man bull , his murdering "fake news" press, his persecution of LGBT, non-whites, and think Pootin's BoyToy Manchurian Candidate Trash has been sent by God.
The oligarchy Capitalists softened up, brutalized America of the lower 4 quintiles, corrupted America from top to bottom, and now Pootin is subverting America.
Russia is corrupt, decrepit 3rd rate country with nukes intent on weakening, destroying America, is actively waging 21st Info War on America, and Trash invites Pootin to WH. W T F F?
Why are Repugs sucking Pootin's ?
Watch from 6:50 to around 15:00
Other panelists seem irritated by what their legal expert is saying.
darrin continuing to watch CNN more than anybody else on ST
I’ve never once defended Manafort and have said from the start to punish him to the fullest extent of the law. That doesn’t mean I can’t laugh with the Judge.
what lefties are wrapping themselves in the flag? this ain't the '60s bull of "my country, right or wrong"
Repugs kowtowing to Pootin and Russia is NOT harmless.
Their treason is based on Pootin helping Repugs stay in/grab power and on Pootin hurting the Dems, again.
Pootin is at war with America, weapons being $Bs (he knows how Americans will crawl on their venal bellies for his $Bs) and cyber attacks.
turn it around: If Dems were sucking Pootin's and obtaining electoral wins, the Repugs and right-wing hate media would be having fits.
Get ready for this nightmare scenario involving Trump, Mueller and Kavanaugh
Simply put:
The battle over whether President Trump will sit for an interview with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III
could end up running headlong into the confirmation fight over Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, that’s set for this fall.
What this means is that, in advance of Kavanaugh’s hearing, we may already know that
Kavanaugh could end up being the deciding vote on the question
of whether a president (Trump) can be compelled to testify to a grand jury.
Now, it is possible that the current court could rule on such a matter sooner (the eight justices might deadlock, defaulting to a lower court).
But it’s also perfectly plausible, depending on how long Trump’s team takes to make a decision and what happens in the courts afterward, that
this could be headed for a showdown in front of a high court with Kavanaugh on it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/07/get-ready-for-this-nightmare-scenario-involving-trump-mueller-and-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.7c81159d4e42&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
And I bet Kavanaugh, appointed by Trash, would refuse to recuse himself from a case against Trash.
That a Pres can be forced to respond to a subpoena and face a grand jury was "settled law" when SCOTUS decided Clinton had to comply with the subpoena.
If SCOTUS now decides (an authoritarian, anti-American asshole) Pres, like Trash, can ignore subpoenas, that would embolden Trash to be even more criminal, knowing he could get away with it.
and of course, Ms of influenceable Americans would also feel they could break "unfair" law and get away with it.
Similar to Manafort escaping punishment for cheating criminally on his taxes would also influence Americans to do the same, esp the rightwingnutjobs who have been groomed since St Ronnie and the Repugs to hate govt
(... "IS the problem)" and taxes as illegitimate.
LOL. Russian State TV Calls Rand Paul a "Loyalist".
Twitter Has Some Things to Say About That.
Julia Davis@JuliaDavisNews
#Russia's state TV:
The host responds to panelist's observation that Rand Paul is not well-liked in the US:
"At least he's one of the few loyalists."
7:02 AM - Aug 6, 2018
Svea Elske@SveaElske
And by "loyalists" they mean traitors to the US. I mean, we all remember who the "Loyalists" were during the Revolutionary War
7:57 AM - Aug 6, 2018
Snarquebus@BarackDaVote
6 Aug
Replying to juliadavisNews
He's going to feel this in 2020 when Kentucky decides to close the book on the McConnell terror
Ken Baldridge@KRBaldridge
If not in prison by then, McConnell will go down with the trump anic in 2020. Rand isn't up for election again until 2022, but he still wants to be president, so who knows?
Kentucky Secretary of State Grimes says, "Rand can be beaten. Just ask his neighbor."
Kris Young@Kyoung2112
· 6 Aug
Replying to @KRBaldridge juliadavisNews
Yes, he's actually in Moscow right now. Haven't you heard?
Michael P. Heath@MichaelPHeath1
Many senators go to hear from their Russian donors-
I mean, er, their donors-
I mean um, their cons uents-
yeah, cons uents, that’s the ticket!-
when Congress is in recess. (It’s in recess now, right?)
1:11 PM - Aug 6, 2018
President Double Negative@realworldrj
The Russians are trolling America amazingly well or are the sole truth-tellers right now. I can’t tell which one it is
5:59 PM - Aug 6, 2018
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
boom
lol how is the oldest news possible on this subject BOOM, Chris?
Meltdown
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