rolling trump-russian collusion

69 percent of Americans are Canadians

therefore 69 percent of americans are....nice

we're all in the doghouse

https://www.buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier/felix-sater-trump-russia-undercover-us-spy

somebody needs to use "69 percent of Americans" to write one of those songs where every line starts the same

69% of Americans
...reported having less than $1,000 in savings
...plan to shop or are considering shopping over Thanksgiving weekend
...wish they could skip holiday gift giving
...are not interested to buy Apple Watch
...uses some type of social media
...have never heard of Buzzfeed
...say they oppose trophy hunting
...think it's cool if athletes smoke weed
...support the First Amendment
...say a belief in God is an important part of being American
...say that Roe v. Wade should not be completely overturned
...don't think Trump should have to sell his businesses
...want President Trump to stop tweeting
...believing that our country has a major civility problem
...age 35 to 44 have at least one missing tooth
...feel it is the “responsibility” of the federal government to provide health care coverage to all its citizens
...say doctors should be allowed to end a patient's life by painless means

(all on the first page of a Google search)

31% of Americans don't support the First Amendment?

Sounds about right.

considering how many of them reference the Amendment incorrectly when getting shouted down for their stupid beliefs, I woulda thought it to have been higher

So the House GOP is going to release a report saying no collusion, russians didn't want trump to win. Assume president piss baby will use this as a shield to deflect all things russia going forward, "I was cleared by congress!"

NEW: Draft of GOP House Intelligence Committee report finds “no evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians.” Per Fox’s Catherine Herridge & @ChadPergram #BREAKING

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) March 12, 2018

that's ok there's a real investigator

I mean this was predicted weeks ago by the press, it'll stay in the news cycle for a day or two, but is there any evidence that stuff like this and Nunes' shit actually sticks with anybody that isn't already a Breitbart/Hannity consumer?

once Mueller got appointed I kinda stopped following the House investigation cos it was fairly obvious it was a sham

http://buffalonews.com/2018/03/10/russian-trolls-pushed-rally-in-buffalo-and-urged-blacks-not-to-vote/

president piss baby comes through

THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2018

"in-depth" fucking lol

Please let the president's assassin be 18-20 years old

well that's a relief. lock thread?

Donald clearly itches to start his own wire service

let us know about all the other subcommittee business too, donald, don't be shy

(that "69% of Americans" list needs to be integrated into an updated video for Van Halen's "Right Now")

i don't want to necrothread an off-topic tangent, but i will say that it was good reading everybody's election 2016 stories up above. it's good to be reminded that it's not just me.

Congressional investigators have learned that a longtime attorney for the National Rifle Association expressed concerns about the group’s ties to Russia and possible involvement in channeling Russian money into the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump, two sources familiar with the matter say.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article205412394.html

hoo boy

I wish this shit could happen behind closed doors more so it doesn't prompt another Nunes "I have a magic memo" bullshit

funny how globalized this wave of nationalist reaction is

yeah funny that

well i never

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-sessions-exclusive/exclusive-sources-contradict-sessions-testimony-he-opposed-russia-outreach-idUSKBN1GU0NC

Not certain what game he's saying, but gotta admit to some modicum of grudging respect for Prosecutor Gowdy on this stuff, if only by comparison.

Yeah, what's up with that dude?

Officer of the court and all

He's been acting like a guy that's seen a ghost.

Most of GOP: (takes a shot of whiskey) "There are no such things as ghosts! Gowdy, you go in that abandoned house and prove there's no ghost!"
Gowdy: (takes a shot and slams down the glass) "Yeah, fuck a ghost! Watch this, you pussies."

Gowdy opens the creaky front door and goes inside. He emerges 5 minutes later, quiet and ashen faced.

GOP: "So what do you say, Gowd!? Tell 'em!!"
Gowdy: "Guys, I just don't want to talk about."
GOP: "What do you mean, Gowd?! I mean, tell them ... tell them you didn't see anything. You didn't see anything, right?! I mean, come on, there are no such things as ghosts."
Gowdy: "I just want to go home."
GOP: "But, Gowd, I mean ... there are no ghosts, right?"
Gowdy: "You believe what you want to believe."
GOP: "But you didn't see anything, right? Tell us you didn't see anything!"
Gowdy: (picks up the bottle of whiskey and takes a big swig) "I don't know what I saw."
GOP: "But, I mean, Gowd ... there was no ghost, right?"

Gowdy stares out at something in the distance.

Gowdy: "I don't even know what to believe anymore."

Gowdy takes the bottle and walks off, silent, lost in his own thoughts, his hands - perceptible to only to most observant - still shaking.

this has all got to be some kind of reverse fakeout to retroactively establish the credibility of his B E N G H A Z I conclusions

fakest news ever

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/379090-whistleblower-cambridge-analytica-met-with-lewandowski-before-trump

It isn't in question that Trump was running in 2015. The question is how far the decision and various linkages go back. To support his long-running theory that the game was afoot in 2013, Abramson is pointing to evidence of what he implicitly deems 2014 CA-Trump linkages -

I've said that Michael Cohen implied to The New York Post in mid-2013 that Trump would run, and that Trump was letting Russians know he'd run by late 2013. Since I said that, the confirmed latest date for Trump deciding to run has been pushed back from June 2015 again and again. https://t.co/USJx4q03YW

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 20, 2018

but hey at least the *job creators* have been unshackled tax-wise!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cambridge-analytica-looked-to-pounce-on-russian-hacks-email-shows?via=twitter_page

xp. Abramson is a fantasist

He's doing what prosecutors and investigators do and stretching the evidence far less than his ideological enemies. Your opinion will be noted after you've graduated from Harvard Law School and represented 100s or 1000s of clients in American criminal proceedings.

your opinion is only as trustworthy as the blend in your haircut

xp. if you give credence to his shit you're basically as disinterested in the truth as any maga chud

it's a good thing no seasoned, harvard-educated lawyers ever disagree with each other, we wouldn't know what to think

I read him as critically as I do anything else, as I've said more than once.

open goal

He's doing what prosecutors and investigators do and stretching the evidence far less than his ideological enemies. Your opinion will be noted after you've graduated from Harvard Law School and represented 100s or 1000s of clients in American criminal proceedings.

― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:11 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

laurence tribe went to harvard and he's full of shit too

lol, "laurence tribe 'went to' harvard"

I think the operative idea there is that tribe is full of shit.

For most of us, it is not a stretch to acknowledge that many many shit people went to/graduated from Harvard.

Naive and non-snarky British question: why do the UK government seem to be gunning for a fight with Russia? Is it as simple as "Its a response to the poisoning on British soil"? (My guess is that it isn't).

Tough talk always plays well with large swathes of the electorate. Think back to the Falkland's War and the big boost it gave Thatcher's popularity, even though the war probably cost more than a century's worth of the Falkland's GDP.

I think the operative idea there is that tribe is full of shit.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:16 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

About?

Does the UK’s response really even remotely constitute “gunning for a fight”?

Yeah, really it should be "nerve agenting for a fight."