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Festival gets rained out, top recruits are in town, and the staff has 5 hours to put together a new music festival or risk losing the whole class. There’s only one man who can pull it off:24 points
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There you go again with the gaslighting by choosing carefully selected words in an attempt to minimize the Kremlin-sponsored cyberwarfare campaign to turn the election that Mueller described as "sweeping and systematic" comprised of a great deal more than "memes on facebook" and downplaying the effects that it might have had on either swaying a tiny fraction to change their votes or dissuading some from voting altogether, which was all that was needed. To call those being concerned that this happened, and is still happening, "hysterical lunatics" is an insult to both your and my intelligence, which leads me to believe that you're being entirely disingenuous and are wholly corrupt with intent in making this argument. It is you who lacks the self-awareness that you're lost in the forest. Turn away from diddling Gretel for a moment and look for the breadcrumbs of truth to lead you out of it.10 points
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Oh, and since Liucci's dumb ass clearly reads Surly, I just wanted to throw this in for good measure: Go fuck yourself, Billy, you halfwit peasant.8 points
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I'm not even a Christian or a believer in any spiritual being at all but you have to be a pretty terrible person to post shit like that on a thread where a guy is mourning someone's death. Grow up man.7 points
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There has been a ton of misinformation that has made it's way to this board. Some anti-Trump folks have gotten over their skis and posted stuff that wound up being false, or is still unproven. Many of us pointed out the error of that as it happened. You constantly gaslight and claim the bulk of us believed what triplehorn was posting from Mensch. Mensch was a Trump supporter and that's been pointed out virtually every time triple horn posted some of her bullshit. Just like your go-to move to minimize Russia's involvement is to post the meme of Satan and Jesus arm wrestling, your other go to is to ridicule the marshal of the Supreme Court post that nearly everyone else called out as obvious bullshit. You know it was pretty much a single poster believing that, yet you continue to lie about it and attribute it to the board as a whole. It's even more ridiculous, because nearly everything posted on this thread by you and the other Trumpublicans has been misinformation, gaslighting and outright intentional lies. Some of the other posters that parrot GOP lies are not smart enough to understand what they are mindless regurgitating. You however, are smart enough and are choosing to be a gaslighting piece of shit intentionally.7 points
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For those of you scoring at home, Crusher attempted to gaslight most of last night about the dossier. He lied and claimed the NYTimes said the dossier was false. He was corrected and continued to lie about it. When another poster posted an article by the Washington Post, which shows that lots of the claims in the dossier are supported by Mueller's report, Crusher chose not to read it and continued to lie. When I posted the entire article for him, he refused to read it and continued to lie. Anyone that reads a Crusher post should know that he is a liar and chooses to remain poorly informed and chooses to continue to lie and gaslight. Unfortunately, he is just parroting what he is told and represents the majority position of the Trumpublican party. We're fucked and it's because of assholes like Crusher not holding their own party accountable and blatantly lying to the rest of us.7 points
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This is an almost perfect illustration of why this country is going to go to shit- judging government policy or events almost exclusively on how it affects one personally. Anecdotes are Exhibit A and the best, most labored-over data available comes a distant second or is lazily dismissed as fake or inconsequential, if it's considered at all ("MY insurance premiums went up after Obamacare was passed!"- as if they weren't before, as if you bothered to look for cheaper plans in the ACA marketplace, as if you now can't afford taking your skiing vacation...) But! Since you asked... Two of the dairies my company used to pick up from went belly up I was denied a raise I requested The hill country roads I travel are clogged with turtle-speed oversized loads transporting oil and pipeline equipment west while being torn all to fuck I have to worry about the Kinder Morgan pipeline planned route through the area I planned to call home until the day I died, and over the aquifer that supplies me with water as well as the local springs, streams and rivers, so that fossil fuels can be exported out of the country for private profit.7 points
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I’m on day 5 and I’m on the mend. It’s probably the best I’ve felt since the surgery. I’ve taken a couple of painless dumps today, which is nice. I’ve stopped taking the painkillers and last night I had some whiskey for the first time since Sunday night. I’m moving around pretty well, but I get sore after a while and have to put some ice on it. I’m still sleeping upright on the couch. I’m a side sleeper and I can’t roll on my side because my balls are still too swollen. They’re getting better daily, but it may be another night or two before I can return to the bed. Other than that, it’s going fairly well.6 points
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Real answer: My blood pressure has spiked about 15 to 20 points. But I'm a middle class straight white male whose ancestors have been on this continent since before it was an independent country. Most of Trump's bullshit doesn't affect me. Long term problems with Trump: * His economic accomplishments are built entirely on debt. We're running Obama level deficits, yet unlike then we're not in the midst of a recession. When the economy eventually stalls again as it always does, there will be nothing in the tank. * We're a joke to the world. Not a single decent world leader respects Trump. None. American hegemony over the western world has weakened under Trump's watch and most of our allies no longer trust us. Putin and Kim Jong Un respect Trump more than Macron or Trudeau. * We're paying welfare to farmers for a needless trade war built entirely on Trump's ego. * He's challenging executive authority at an unprecedented rate. His policy is basically "let's just do it, challenge the courts, and see what they come back with." * He actively embraces every anti-environmental policy he can support. This doesn't affect me, but my grandchildren. Sorry if you don't believe in climate change. Every person who is qualified disagrees. * He fills every federal agency position with sycophants, donors, and people who aren't qualified for the job, completely undermining the federal government. * He spends most of his time watching cable news, tweeting, or golfing, meaning he's ignoring his responsibilities he was elected for. This may or may not be a good thing. I haven't decided yet.6 points
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Bears repeating- In a hypothetical scenario where... 1) I walk out onto 5th Avenue and shoot someone 2) Half a dozen witnesses agree to testify against me at trial 3) I post on each witness' social media that I know people in low places and we wouldn't want something bad to happen to them or their family 4) All witnesses then renege on their agreement to testify 5) Based on witnesses refusing to testify, prosecutors doubt their ability to convict beyond a reasonable doubt and refuse to prosecute the shooting as a crime ...Attorney General William Barr believes I can't be prosecuted for obstruction of justice because there's no underlying crime. It makes sense that he publicly stated in the Senate hearing that he didn't look at obstruction of justice evidence because at that point, to him, it's moot. It's a standard that if allowed prevail would dare any future politician NOT to be corrupt. It would put almost any future candidate with any integrity running for office at an almost insurmountable disadvantage and power dive this country into a race to the bottom. It's a Pandora's Box that you will not be able to close.5 points
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G.I. Joe versus the volcano.5 points
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The best parts of the episode were the Arya/Hound/Beric/Red Witch sequence, Arya killing the NK, and the Little Bear going out like a boss vs the giant. I'm with you there. What would have made me much, much happier, though, is if D+D didn't make all of the main characters look so stupid. I've been letting the bad writing go over and over the last few years, but this last episode burned off whatever last vestige of patience I had. D+D talked repeatedly about using the siege at Helm's Deep as a model in their preseason interviews. You know what the good guys didn't do at Helm's Deep ? They didn't put their entire fucking army OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE!!! D+D have the characters literally forget their life experiences in pursuit of false drama. Ned Stark told his kids that 500 men could hold Winterfell against 10k. With a proper defensive strategy, that would have given them good odds vs the zombie horde, without even factoring in the dragons. D+D literally have all the Starks ignore this. And why wouldn't Tyrion (who successfully defended KL in a siege), Jamie (who has taken castles by siege), Ed, Beric or anyone else with a brain speak up about the fact that the entire army was outside of the castle to start the battle ? It was a complete joke that threw me out of the story, as it made every person in the planning room look like an idiot. The worst amongst them being Jon. He knows the NK and his army better than anyone, and he successfully defended Castle Black in the exact same circumstance when they were massively outnumbered vs the Wildling army. Why did Jon forget all of the lessons he learned that night ? Use the fortifications for protection to even the odds. Where were the barrels of oil to pour fire down on the dead from the walls of the castle ? Where were heaps of dragonglass shrapnel that could have been launched at the zombies ? Why was anyone except the Dothraki outside of the castle at all ? We saw in the Loot Train attack that the Dothraki can shoot arrows effectively while at full gallop. But we didn't see one Dothraki archer in this battle. So instead of using their bows to weaken the zombies from a distance and using their horses to stay out of reach of the zombies, we get the entire Dothraki making a headlong, unsupported charge against an unseen enemy that we know is endlessly deep and isn't going to break out of fear. AND THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE DRAGONGLASS WEAPONS ? The answer to all of this stupidity is that D+D feel the need to create false drama. We saw it in BOtB, the Frozen Lake Battle and again with this episode. D+D put the good guys in a position where things are absolutely hopeless and then save them via Deus-ex Machina. But instead of making things great, it takes the reality and consequences out of the show. All anyone has to do is watch Two Towers (or the defense of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven) to know that you can have all the excitement and tension you ever wanted as the defenders use smart strategies and tactics to fight against overwhelming odds on a more even footing. You're worried about the heroes, but you're cheering for them because they're smart and valiant, and there is some hope of victory. D+D think you have to eliminate any hope of victory to make it dramatic, but that's where these episodes become ridiculous cartoons, as none of the truly important characters die, despite hopeless odds fighting hand to hand and literally everyone around them dying as the zombie horde overruns the home team. It's the difference between a heavyweight classic like Ali-Frazier or Ali-Foreman vs Mike Tyson steamrolling a patsy in the first round. One has great ebbs and flows and endless tension. The other is a joke. I can't believe these guys used Helm's Deep as a model and gave us the steaming turd of a battle that we got, where these guys have their main characters ignore/forget their had-earned life experiences. If you asked me after the end of S4, I'd have said GOT was the greatest tv show ever made. Now ? No way. D+D are so out of their league that it's slowly killing the show. Their need to create false drama has turned GOT into a parody of what it once was, as the characters we want to root for act utterly and completely stupid. In S1-S4, people doing stupid things die. Now ? They just move on to the next idiotic plan where all hope will be lost until they're miraculously saved. My expectations for the last few episodes are very low, so hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.4 points
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The reason Trump is freaking out about this is racist disinformation, hate rhetoric, and conspiracy theories through the social media platforms are central to his re-election strategy. He knows he can’t win without his army of grifters, trolls, and morons echoing his messaging for him.4 points
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That’s what tequila was invented for. i’ll wait for the pics though... edit: flight cancelled.4 points
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God I love playoff hockey. It’s amazing to think the blues could play that physical a game, clean hits, late hits, cross checks behind the play, fucking leaving your feet to go head hunting and they get one penalty for interference all night. It’s absurd. Whats more absurd is that to make the 4-1 penalty advantage look better they call the blues with for a slashing penalty on the last second of the game!!!! So it gave the stars a PP with no time on the clock! So the stats will show 4-2 in penalties. That Schenn charging and head hunting Hintz still has me pissed. Leaving his feet to take out one of our best and no call. We need the big rig bad to lay the wood to some of theirs. I’m wondering what’s wrong with Faksa, he is playing ok but his intensity and physical play is about half of what it normally is. He was built for playoff hockey and he has been pretty non-existent. Thought Janmark played a great game especially on PK. And Hintz and Dickinson continue to be beasts. Dicko may be our best penalty killer at this point.4 points
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So you lied about the Steele dossier being proven fake, then you asked for evidence to backup the claim that is wasn’t fake, you were presented with evidence that it’s not fake at which point you change the subject entirely to Trump being a Russian agent which was not even part of the discussion. And in that entire thing you didn’t read any of the evidence that you or others posted to support their claims. How fucking stupid are you?4 points
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Watched part of the 2009 Fiesta Bowl (Texas v. tOSU) this morning on LHN. For those with memory problems, Texas was 11-1, with a 45-35 win over OU and a last-second loss at Tech, and was left out of the BCS Championship game because of the horrible tie-breaker rule in place. Texas missed out on a possible championship by 0.013 points in the BCS poll, despite a 10-point win over OU on a neutral field, and despite beating both of the Big 12 CCG teams. If any team ever had a reason to feel screwed and disappointed, it was that 2008 Texas team. But the game was great and Texas won on a late TD pass McCoy to Cosby. The announcers never said one word about "hangover", "didn't want to be there", "not ready to play", or any of the million other excuses made for Georgia. UGA and the SEC apologists can go screw themselves.4 points
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Can you imagine how upset people like American Swindle would be if Russia meddled in an election that a Democrat won while openly soliciting their interference, then refused to even admit that they interfered. Can you imagine the flag-draped outrage if Obama took Russia's side over our very own FBI? You can't talk to these people. Their entire belief system is built on ignorance and cognitive dissonance. There is no intellectual honesty. Everything is horrible until my side does it. Stop trying. You are never going to get an honest and open debate from them. They revel in their own intellectual filth. They wear it with pride.4 points
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So by Monday, both Trump’s personal attorney and campaign manager will be in prison serving hard time for some crimes that came at the direction and coordination of the president of the United States. Trump’s national security adviser, who turned out to be a lying traitor, is still awaiting sentencing. Trump’s longtime political adviser is awaiting trial for obstruction of justice crimes related to the Russian interference in the 2016 election. Also, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, who is still a fully cooperating witness to multiple criminal investigations, is also awaiting sentencing. I’m sure history will look back at this moment in time and say meh, Watergate was worse. /sarcasm3 points
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What a weird thing to neurotically parse through in order to find some way to take offense to what he said. When you join the military the general gist of it is to protect America and Americans, our constitution, and our values, of which freedom of speech is one. Where you get sent isn't something you have control over, but the general purpose of your job as a soldier still remains the above. Strange, silly thing to take offense to. You're mostly just outing yourself as biased against Pete vs. making any valid points. It's the reach of all reaches. There are valid things to criticize all candidates over, and I'm fine with those coming out and being debated in primary season. But this is not one of them. This is one of the debates that's emblematic of why Dems lose elections they shouldn't. This is a nonstarter.3 points
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Oh no, all these kids just have a free beautiful paid-for weekend in Austin whatever will they do.3 points
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Who just days ago in the Senate hearings admitted he didn't look at the underlying evidence in the myriad of obstruction instances/potential obstruction instances in the Mueller Report.3 points
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We had one national appearance during the regular season. That’s it. They don’t want to keep showing us. Let’s make them show us hoisting the damn Cup.3 points
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The legislative budget board calculations for the tax swap proposal are out. To the surprise of no one, it would be a boon for those with incomes exceeding $150k paid for by those making less than $99k.3 points
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Futureman may seem like he’s several idiots, but he’s just several idiots worth in one person.3 points
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Edwin's family didn't approve of her? They're prejudiced against Greeks?3 points
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Make a list of things that have been falsified from the dossier, it's a short list. Cohen to Prague Now let's look at the rest of it. This article was posted on the last page, but y'all clearly didn't read it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/24/what-steele-dossier-said-vs-what-mueller-report-said/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4d37e7a6153e What the Steele dossier said vs. what the Mueller report said Glenn Kessler Barr knew that special counsel Robert Mueller had voiced concerns about his March 24 letter, but did not mention them while testifying under oath in April. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post) Fox News’s Martha MacCallum: “So it doesn’t bother you that the Clinton campaign paid for a dossier to be put together by someone who had all kinds of ties to intelligence and put together something that turned out to be not necessarily factual?” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.): “Which part of it hasn’t been proved factual?” MacCallum: “I mean, are you serious? … For one thing, Michael Cohen said he never went to Prague. Do you agree with that?” Swalwell: “But which part has been proved to be not factual?” — exchange on Fox News, March 23, 2019 Now that a redacted version of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report has been released, what about the dossier? The “dossier” consists of more than a dozen memos, based on conversations with Russian sources, that were written between June and December 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele under a contract with the research firm Fusion GPS. The company had been hired by a law firm connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to look into Trump’s ties with Russia. The dossier was intended as raw, unverified intelligence. But it achieved notoriety after incoming President Trump was briefed on its contents by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in early 2017 and BuzzFeed published a version of it. The FBI’s counterintelligence operation into whether Russia was assisting the Trump campaign was not prompted by the dossier. But the FBI was aware of the document and used Steele as a source. The FBI even obtained a secret court order to monitor the communications of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page after convincing a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that there was probable cause to believe he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, Russia. Steele also briefed selected reporters during the campaign on his findings. The dossier is a political Rorschach test. Depending on your perspective, it’s either a hoax used to defame a future president or a credible guide to allegations about Trump’s involvement with Russia. That vast gulf in perceptions is captured in the exchange above. The dossier itself was not intended to be published and consists largely of rumors and gossip — the starting point for investigative reporters and law enforcement officials, not the end point. Defenders of the dossier say its overall message — that Russia wanted to help Trump win the election, in part to sow discord in the United States — has been validated by the Mueller report. Detractors say many of the details have been proved false or remain unverified. Neither case is confirmed by the Mueller report. Mueller was looking for criminal acts, not seeking to confirm the dossier. In fact, Steele is rarely mentioned in the more than 400 pages. So one cannot necessarily say the Mueller report ends the matter, given a continuing counterintelligence investigation. But some key elements certainly appear in grave doubt. “The Mueller Report substantiates the core reporting and many of the specifics in Christopher Steele’s 2016 memoranda, including that Trump campaign figures were secretly meeting Kremlin figures, that Russia was conducting a covert operation to elect Donald Trump, and that the aim of the Russian operation was to sow discord and disunity in the U.S. and within the Transatlantic Alliance,” Joshua A. Levy, counsel for Fusion GPS, told The Fact Checker. “To our knowledge, nothing in the Steele memoranda has been disproven.” Here’s a guide to how elements of the dossier match up with the Mueller report, along with our analysis. “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance.” — Steele memo 80, dated June 20, 2016 The Mueller report documents extensive Russian efforts to ensure Trump’s victory, through hacking operations and social media efforts. Mueller also details Trump’s business interests in Russia, especially pursuit of a Trump Tower project in Moscow. Talks on the project continued even as Trump pursued the presidency — and Trump aide Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to misleading Congress about those efforts. But a case could also be made that the memo’s political analysis about Russia’s motivations might have been made by any close reader of the newspapers. By the time this memo was written, The Washington Post had already broken the news that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee. “There were other aspects to TRUMP’s engagement with the Russian authorities. One which had borne fruit for them was to exploit personal obsessions and sexual perversion in order to obtain suitable ‘kompromat’ [compromising material] on him.” — Memo 80 We won’t get into the details, but the most salacious material in the dossier concerned allegations that Trump cavorted with sex workers in Moscow in 2013 — and that the Russians had tape of the incident. Mueller actually addresses this allegation in an intriguing footnote that called the claim “unverified” but suggested Trump had heard Russia might have such incriminating tapes. “Comey’s briefing [to Trump] included the Steele reporting’s unverified allegation that the Russians had compromising tapes of the President involving conduct when he was a private citizen during a 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant,” the report said. “During the 2016 presidential campaign, a similar claim may have reached candidate Trump. On October 30, 2016, [Trump attorney] Michael Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that said, ‘Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else. Just so you know … .’ Rtskhiladze said ‘tapes’ referred to compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia. Cohen said he spoke to Trump about the issue after receiving the texts from Rtskhiladze. Rtskhiladze said he was told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen.” “Russia has extensive program of state-sponsored offensive cyberoperations.” — Memo 86, dated July 26, 2016 This was documented in the Mueller report, but it was also well known at the time Steele wrote this memo. The methods described in this document do not match up with the methods used by the Russians to obtain DNC and Clinton campaign emails during the 2016 campaign. “Further evidence of extensive conspiracy between campaign team and Kremlin, sanctioned at highest levels and involving Russian diplomatic staff based in the US. Agreed exchange of information established in both directions.” — Memo 95, undated, probably July This memo makes the strongest suggestion of coordination and collusion — a “conspiracy” — between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. The memo claims an “agreed exchange of information in both directions,” with “Trump’s team using moles within the DNC and hackers in the US.” The memo further states that Putin was “motivated by fear and hatred of Hillary Clinton.” The Mueller investigation did not find such a level of coordination. Instead, it suggests the Trump campaign was opportunistic about apparent assistance from Russia, but Mueller could not find evidence the conspiracy outlined in the memo existed. Instead, the report described Russian contacts that “consisted of business connections, offers of assistance to the Campaign, invitations for candidate Trump and Putin to meet in person, invitations for Campaign officials and representatives of the Russian government to meet, and policy positions seeking improved U.S.-Russian relations.” “Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” Mueller concluded. “TRUMP associate admits Kremlin behind recent appearance of DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks, as means of maintaining plausible deniability.” — Memo 95 This is correct. Mueller concluded that Russia distributed hacked material through WikiLeaks, as well as fictitious online personas “DCLeaks” and “Guccifer 2.0.” The report noted: “The presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump showed interest in WikiLeaks’s releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton.” Large sections of the WikiLeaks discussion are redacted in the public version of the report, citing an ongoing investigation. “This [coordination] was managed on the TRUMP side by the Republican candidate’s campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT, who was using foreign policy advisor, Carter PAGE, and others as intermediaries. The two sides had a mutual interest in defeating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary CLINTON, whom President PUTIN apparently both hated and feared.” — Memo 95 The Mueller report does not show that Manafort used Trump foreign policy aide Carter Page as an intermediary with Russia before he was ousted from the campaign in August. Manafort had his own Russia-linked connections, as documented in the report. “On August 2, 2016, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met in New York City with his long-time business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who the FBI assesses to have ties to Russian intelligence,” the report said. “Kilimnik requested the meeting to deliver in person a peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort acknowledged to the Special Counsel’s Office was a ‘backdoor’ way for Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine; both men believed the plan would require candidate Trump’s assent to succeed (were he to be elected President). They also discussed the status of the Trump Campaign and Manafort’ s strategy for winning Democratic votes in Midwestern states. Months before that meeting, Manafort had caused internal polling data to be shared with Kilimnik, and the sharing continued for some period of time after their August meeting.” Kilimnik has denied to The Washington Post that he has any ties to Russian intelligence. The report says that Manafort lied to prosecutors about his dealings with Kilimnik, resulting in termination of his cooperation agreement. “The Office could not reliably determine Manafort’s purpose in sharing internal polling data with Kilimnik during the campaign period,” the report said, but added: “The investigation did not establish that Manafort otherwise coordinated with the Russian government on its election-interference efforts.” “TRUMP advisor Carter PAGE holds secret meetings in Moscow with [Rosneft president] SECHIN and senior Kremlin Internal Affairs official, DIVYEKIN. SECHIN raises issues of future bilateral US-Russia energy co-operation and associated lifting of western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.” — Memo 94, dated July 19, 2016 “In terms of the substance of their discussion SECHIN’s associate said that the Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered PAGE associates the brokerage of up to a 19 percent (privatized) stake in Rosneft in return. PAGE had expressed interest and confirmed that were TRUMP elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted.” — Memo 134, dated Oct. 18, 2016 The Mueller report does not confirm a meeting between Page, then a low-level campaign adviser, and the president of Rosneft. But Mueller did document a meeting between Page and a lower-level Rosneft official. The meeting included discussion of a possible sale of part of Rosneft, though apparently not in the context of a reward for lifting sanctions. “Page said that, during his time in Moscow, he met with friends and associates he knew from when he lived in Russia, including Andrey Baranov, a former Gazprom employee who had become the head of investor relations at Rosneft, a Russian energy company,” the Mueller report said. “Page stated that he and Baranov talked about ‘immaterial non-public’ information. Page believed he and Baranov discussed Rosneft president Igor Sechin, and he thought Baranov might have mentioned the possibility of a sale of a stake in Rosneft in passing.” The report stated that Page shook hands with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who made statements to Page about working together in the future. Page wrote a memo to the campaign that Dvorkovich “expressed strong support for Mr. Trump,” as did other senior members of the Putin administration. But the report added: “The Office was unable to obtain additional evidence or testimony about who Page may have met or communicated with in Moscow; thus, Page’s activities in Russia — as described in his emails with the Campaign — were not fully explained.” “Top level Russian official confirms current closeness of Alpha Group-PUTIN relationship. Significant favors continue to be done in both directions... and [Petr] AVEN still giving informal advice to PUTIN, especially on US.” — Memo 112, Sept. 14, 2016 This memo gets the essence of the relationship between Putin and Russia’s largest commercial bank correct. (The Cyrillic name can be translated as Alfa or Alpha in Latin script; the bank itself prefers Alfa.) “Aven told the Office that he is one of approximately 50 wealthy Russian businessmen who regularly meet with Putin in the Kremlin; these 50 men are often referred to as ‘oligarchs,’ ” the Mueller report said. “Aven told the Office that he met on a quarterly basis with Putin, including in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016, shortly after the U.S. presidential election.” The report recounts how, at Putin’s direction, Aven sought to make contacts with the Trump transition team. “Two knowledgeable St Petersburg sources claim Republican candidate TRUMP has paid bribes and engaged in sexual activities there but key witnesses silenced and evidence hard to obtain.” — Memo 113, dated Sept. 14, 2016 The Mueller report does not describe any bribes paid by Trump. There is no indication Mueller investigated this allegation. "The Kremlin had more intelligence on CLINTON and her campaign but he did not know the details or when or if it would be released.” — Memo 96, dated July 30, 2016 “Russians do have further kompromat on CLINTON (e-mails) and considering disseminating it after Duma (legislative elections) in late September.” — Memo 111, dated Sept. 14, 2016 These two memos accurately reported more Russian-obtained dirt on Clinton was coming. On Oct. 7, The Post disclosed the “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump had a lewd conversation about women, in what was considered a major setback for his campaign. “Less than an hour after the video’s publication, WikiLeaks released the first set of emails stolen by the GRU [Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army] from the account of Clinton Campaign chairman John Podesta,” the Mueller report said. Mueller noted that thousands of Podesta emails had been stolen in late March. That means the Russians had held on to the material for nearly six months. The report says that “metadata collected from the WikiLeaks site revealed that the stolen Podesta emails show a creation date of September 19, 2016,” indicating that is when it was transferred from the GRU to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks released more than 50,000 Podesta documents in the month before the U.S. election. “Kremlin insider reports TRUMP lawyer COHEN’s secret meeting/s with Kremlin officials in August 2016 was/were held in Prague.” — Memo 136, dated Oct. 20, 2016 The Mueller report suggests no such meeting in Prague took place, even though three of the Steele memos discuss this alleged meeting in detail. One of the memos, dated Dec. 13, stated that Cohen was accompanied in Prague by three colleagues with an agenda of processing “deniable” cash payments to operatives, including hackers, and contingency plans to cover up the operations. Another memo, dated Oct. 19, described Cohen as a “secret liaison with Russian leadership,” a role that had supposedly grown with the departure of Manafort from the campaign. Mueller does not indicate he investigated whether Cohen traveled to Prague; he simply dismisses the incident in Cohen’s own words as he discusses Cohen’s preparation for testimony before Congress. ”At that time [May 2017], Cohen understood Congress’s interest in him to be focused on the allegations in the Steele reporting concerning a meeting Cohen allegedly had with Russian officials in Prague during the campaign,” the report said. “Cohen had never traveled to Prague and was not concerned about those allegations, which he believed were provably false.” The only listed source for this information is a “302,” code for an FBI summary of an interview with Cohen. He has not been consistent on whether he has ever been to Prague, telling the Wall Street Journal he had not been there since 2001, telling Mother Jones in 2016 he had been there for one afternoon 14 years earlier and reiterating on Twitter and to Congress he has never been there. Cohen has been cooperating with the investigation after pleading guilty to criminal charges, including lying to Congress. So, facing a prison term, Cohen presumably would reveal such a meeting if it had occurred. The Mueller report documents Trump Organization discussions about Cohen’s taking a trip to Moscow in 2016 to advance the Trump Tower Moscow project. But that trip never took place. Trump had signed a letter of intent in November 2015, as he was campaigning for the presidency.3 points
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Is it Listeria flavored? Fuck Blue Bell. Until somebody is held accountable, I ain't buying shit from them.3 points
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You can't even construe two coherent thoughts. How deep in the bourbon are you? You literally just summarized Russia's efforts at election meddling as memes and phishing. Presented with the counterargument that no, they did a helluva lot more (much of which has already made it through the courts) your "counterargument" is your typical trollish posting of (a) an opinion, which certainly could be true in terms of what was the straw that broke the camel's back and (b) a media clip. You just can't help yourself. You couldn't #bothsides if I spotted you every Hillary talking point. I don't know what it's like to have a completely busted moral compass, but I'd audit your seminar. It would at least give me a checklist for what to look out for.3 points
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Exactly. Regardless of what you think, Trump is their boss. If the DOJ and the Intelligence agencies choose to go down some rabbit hole or even worse, use their powers to overthrow their legitimately elected boss he has every right to fire them. This whole Russian Collusion thing was a joke fueled by a piece of what looks like now Russian disinformation called the Trump dossier. Either the top officials at the DOJ and FBI were too stupid to recognize it for what it was or they were in on it. Either way they were ripe to be fired. Barr is going to find out which it was and 69 % of Americans agree with him. It's over.3 points
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This is how more average people than you think may see this all once the OIG stuff comes out. Easy to frame it this way. Trump/Campaign investigated extensively for 2 years. Could not establish “collusion”. Did have embarrassing behavior on his side, bordering on obstruction, but his campaign was spied on by the FBI. So shady shit all over. Wait, did they find “collusion”? The summary said no. Shit, why are we talking about this? He did say, “Witch Hunt”3 points
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even my 8 yo knows this 8yo: it was 3 years ago wife: it was 2 years ago 8yo: it was 3 years ago wife: it was 2 years ago, why to you keep arguing with me? 8yo: because you're bad at math I couldn't stop laughing and my wife was not amused.3 points
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Anyone else constantly jack off while driving your jetta around Austin being chased by a creepy stalker chick who videos you?3 points
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