His father-in-law’s a billionaire Russian oligarch and he was involved in helping pro-Russian activities in the Ukrainian government. Just another coincidental Russian connection among Donald’s friends.
Anyway. I’m sure he’ll be fine. His father in law can buy him a new degree. Maybe he’ll be an architect this time!
Well, yeah, Merneith, it sounds bad when you put it like that. But the van der Swann indictment doesn’t say that Trump was personally involved, so I think this is good news for Trump. He’s not implicated at all. This is just more evidence that Mueller has no case. This’ll all blow over soon.
Really??!! I see Mueller taking his time and building his case slowly. The midterm elections are what matters, and what Mueller moves on right before and right after that.
Exactly, the fact that the van der Swann indictment is not a smoking gun with Trump’s fingerprints on it tells us exactly two things. Furthermore, we must simultaneously hold these two thoughts in our heads because… reasons.
Every time Mueller indicts someone who isn’t Trump, Trump is totally vindicated. This is like Trump’s seventh total vindication in 2018 alone. That’s some top flight vindicating Bob.
The fact that Trump was not named shows that the Mueller investigation is total waste of time and Mueller would better serve the country by trying to predict where the next high school shooting will occur. How do you sleep at night Bob? Are childrens’ cries of anguish like lullabies to you (you sick fuck)?
Mueller’s pace is not politically motivated.
I read sarcasm in Bayards words, but maybe it’s just me.
That’s what I got, too.
So did I
Same “coincidence”.
I’ll make it four.
Nope, it was dripping with sarcasm. Obvious is an understatement.
Sorry, I was just being a smartass. Seriously, I think this is yet more bad news for Trump, and the end game of this is Trump himself being indicted, or at least his administration being hollowed out. I won’t be really happy unless Trump is drummed out of office in the most humiliating way possible, but if everyone around him falls, that will at least be an improvement.
City planner!
waitaminutewaitaminutewaitaminute.
I get that Putin annexed Crimea.
I get that his military activities in support of the annexation amounted to an invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.
I missed the bit about Putin reinstalling Yanukovych as President of Ukraine.
I suspect I’m missing some nuanced interpretation of events in which it can plausibly be claimed that Yanukovych had been reinstalled by Putin. Because, to me, that implies that he’s back in his presidential palace, ordering people around, rather than in exile in Russia, hiding from prosecution for high treason (which is where his Wikipedia article places him).
Could you help me out?
And he was right.
*“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.”
I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.” Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism.”
“I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.”*
I won’t be satisfied with just that. Remember the scene from Game of Thrones?
Shame. Shame. Shame.
Dragged through the mud, covered with shit, humiliated, financially ruined forever, friendless, abandoned, broken, and then tossed in prison forever.
You’re correct. Yanukovych is MIA. I was conflating the invasion of Crimea with his fleeing office. I seem to recall that there was talk of reinstating Yanukovych, but I can’t remember where at this time. I might just be mistaken.
Also according to Wiki - Yanukovych made off with the equivalent of $70 Billion Dollars, so if he’s still alive, I assume he has better things to do.
So, a “Goldwater Republican” is one that is sane?
Whoa WHOA whoa; no one said “sane”.
Awesome post, Merneith.
And yeah… there’s that pesky, hoax-ey dossier again. 
No, A Goldwater Republican is one with balls, for good or for ill. There don’t appear to be any in the current Congress.