And, of course, DON JR TWEETED ABOUT THE JUNE 12TH COLLUSION MEETING AND PROVIDED THE PUBLIC WITH EVIDENCE.
Sorry for yelling, thought this may be relevant.
You may or may not be wrong, but in either case, better English instruction for operatives posing as native-English speakers would surely be a good idea.
It started when my tablet’s keyboard started randomly typing endless O’s and I started using the on-screen keyboard. And yeah, I first thought it was a flyspot. Did I use the accent grave correctly?
My tablet hates me. Had I known my Win10 netbook was still under warranty I’d’ve sent it off months ago. But it is. And getting another year is half what I paid for it. Sometimes it pays to buy brand name.
Michael Cohen refreshed his Twitter profile today to remove the picture of him behind a “Trump” podium. He also removed “Personal attorney to President Donald Trump” from his bio.
That just ain’t so.
Investigating the Trump campaign is LITERALLY the first thing on the list of things the SC is charged to do.
to wit:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3726408-Rosenstein-letter-appointing-Mueller-special.html
The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trum*p*;
We didn’t need to know IF “Russia interfered with the election”.
We already knew that Russkies had interfered.
That’s what started the investigation.
The problem is that all of this is inherently very complicated, confusing and boring. In order to even describe to voters what he did wrong, let alone lay out the evidence, you will need at least 5 minutes and a flow chart at which point they have already zoned out and are checking their phones for the latest cat video. In order for this to be the turning point you need something that they can instantly understand and will grab them emotionally, like for example, boinking an intern in the oval office.
Hmmm… the agency that did that fabulous ad for M.J. Hegar needs to make a video where kittens explain in speech balloons what the case is about while doing cute kittenish things. I’D watch that. It could wind up being a 12-part reality series. Appropriate for the Reality Star-in-Chief.
No clip, but a transcript:
Mueller claims to show evidence that the money laundering charges against Manafort are tied to crimes within the Trump campaign, focusing on a $6 million loan.
Mueller is hiring more prosecutors. Sounds like bad news for Trump.
Remember when people used to say that because candidate Trump was so rich, he had no need to be crooked? He would self-fund his campaign, and couldn’t be corrupted by the lobbyists in D.C. Those were the days.
It was always just a lame excuse for voting for him. No reasonable person believed it.
After all, it’s not exactly news that lots of rich people care very deeply about acquiring more and more and more money.
Well, there’s also the fairly common belief in America that there’s some sort of virtue inherent in being wealthy. It’s the root of a lot of our problems as a nation.
“Prosperity Theology.” If you’re rich, it means God likes you.
Predates that - “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” is a long time refrain in American discourse.
It was of course disappointing to see Christianity warped to follow that line of discourse (even though I’m not really a Christian anymore).
It’s a subset of the “just world” philosophy. “The world is just, therefore if someone is struggling or gets hit by misfortune, they probably did something wrong to deserve it.”
It’s kind of amazing how little “there but for the grace of God” goes on in these people’s heads.
It’s kind of amazing how pervasive it is in all of our heads. If you haven’t had occasion to say and feel “but that, that’s just fair” multiple times in your life, I’d be relatively surprised. I do it reflexively every time I hear about child cancer patients, for just one instance.
You read about kids with cancer, and among your reactions is an urge to say “but that, that’s just fair"?
:eek:
Currently of the opinion that this was clumsily worded.
I think he dropped the word “not”.
I have a question. Perhaps it deserves its own thread in GD, but I’ll try here.
The press makes it sound like Michael Cohen is ready to “flip” on Trumpo. If so, why did Donald Trump let this happen?
Let’s stipulate that Cohen has serious dirt on Trump, that Trump is evil, and that Trump has above average intelligence. In the movies, a criminal mastermind would make Cohen an offer he can’t refuse. Along with threatening Cohen with a gangster’s ‘stick’, if Trump really were a billionaire he could offer Cohen a very generous ‘carrot.’ If Trump is broke, he could still have one of his kleptocrat friends come up with a suitcase stuffed with carrots.
So why is Cohen still alive and threatening to flip? Is this all a show? Is Trump so self-confident he thinks he’s invincible? Are he and his children just too stupid and narrow-minded to do what it takes? It seems unlikely, but is it possible that Cohen’s testimony wouldn’t pin any felony on Trump?
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On a separate matter:
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Stone**: what constipated aberration leads you to make everything the fault of the “left”? I struggle to treat you as an intelligent human … and then you give us more crap like this.
IIRC, it was America’s right-wing, much more than the left, that abetted the kleptocrat’s power grab in Russia, thinking of it as a great Friedmanist experiment, or some such crap. Do you have cites to the contrary? I’ll bet you don’t. Ten gallons of prune juice?