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Playing Risk: Nuclear Ambitions
By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 6:08am |
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Ane traditional military ambitions too.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 6:10am
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 10:12am
Messenger: As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward Birnam, and anon, methought the wood began to move.
[Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5]
by moat on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 11:09am
Presumably you were in a coma the week Congress rushed its investigation "results" out, and simply are reciting the Fox Concordia of All Things Partisan and Scripted. Really, nothing to even give serious pause here - more kneejerk propaganda that you do so "well".
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 1:15pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 3:49pm
No begging - Mueller's already flipped a number of Trump aides and indicted others, even as this funny ineffectual House Committee waved its hands wildly to claim "nothing to see here" while running to the White House in dead of night to leak its daily misdeeds. All of this is prosecutable, which is what I mainly care about. You can play yout charade forever, but there's nothing much laughable when the jail cell slams shut. So laugh on. But you certainly won't laugh last. Perhaps smirk.
So here's some more from Marcy on Papadopoulos with direct quotes for you to somehow wish away - how is it WaPo and other news outlets beeak these stories every day, but a House Committee could work on this a year and even deny Trump knew Russians? Let's just say "compromised" is too nice a word.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 5:17pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 7:43pm
The fake news will continue to produce spin and empty threats and unless talking to Russians becomes illegal retroactively there will be no prosecution for thought crimes.
So your defense is that although they "talked to Russians", whatever they talked about isn't prosecutable because their "crimes" can't be proven as going any further than "thought". Gotcha.
by barefooted on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 9:12pm
A year ago Trump was saying he didn't know any Russians and that women just wanted him to do whatever with them. Now we find out it's just one big paid Russian porn party, but your job, Peter, is just to keep ignoring dick pics, bank ttansactions, indictments and plea deals and pretend nothing ever happened. If a tree falls in the woods but it isn't reported on Fox, well, it's still standing.
So while you're gearing up for Stormy Danirls' Sunday night interview-com-DVD, here's a Chris Cilizza piece documenting how the White House keeps blatantly lying and getting caught. Immediately. Like you, in a smaller way.
So here's some more from Marcy on Papadopoulos with direct quotes for you to somehow wish away - before we get distracted with gibberish - yes, Papadopoulos had a much bigger role in Trump's campaign, had numerous hugh-level talks with Russians, has pleaded guilty to crimes and is cooperating with the prosecutor. Exactly like Gates and Nadir. On the Russian side, we have Nastya Rybka providing videos of oligarchs with Putin aides despite another set of denials if nothing there, along with international fallout from Putin's latest poisoning. It's all closing in. Must suck to be you.
[BTW, Guccifer 2.0 that hacked Hillery's emails was Russian GRU and Trump campaign best bud Roger Stone was talking up them and Wikileaks. How do you explain that one? Or is it snowflake imagination to think that trading in stolen emails with a foreign power is not prosecutable?]
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/24/2018 - 9:47pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:18am
If Flynn and Scaramucci were so great why did Trump fire them? Either Trump is such an ass he hired a couple of idiot clowns so bad he had to get rid of them or we forced him to fire two great cabinet members. Either way we won.
by ocean-kat on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 2:09am
Too funny - he put his daughter and son-in-law as high special advisors, Flynn who lasted a few weeks as NSA, know-nothing Betsy de Vos to run Educationand her international gun-runner mercenary brother to set up back channels with Russia & UAE, the buffonish Sessions ("I don't rightly recall") as AG, and now trying to put Larry Kudlow of coke addiction and horrible predictions in at Treasury.along with too many other awful picks to remember. (Sheriff Clarke? Oil exec Rex at State? the old Cyprus Bank money-laundering guy who falls asleep at meetings? The wife beater who resigned? ). So yeah, a 3rd rate drunk to handle Putin sounds as right as Carter Page and Lewandowki - a basket full of incompetent, illicit, self-serving deplorables.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 3:32am
Peter... the meat of the matter... chew it real slow...
Makes no matter what the congressional investigation Monkey show on the Hill had to say...
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/977241306211803138
26/ Trump (and Jared) are surrounded by a horde of fundraisers and advisors who are trying to lobby Trump not just about private military contractors in the Middle East but, more significantly, about *nuclear power* in the Middle East. Specifically, gifts of U.S. nuclear tech.
27/ Rick Gates is part of that horde. And so is another man Mueller has in his pocket due to a plea: Michael Flynn. Trump pal Thomas Barrack is also in that horde. So is Bud McFarlane, who was a VIP at Trump's Mayflower Speech in April 2016. So is Broidy.
28/ So now we have a story involving Gates, Flynn, Prince, Broidy, Barrack, McFarlane, Kushner, Nader, and Donald Trump. But guess what: it all comes back to Russia and the UAE, the two parties Prince secretly met with and lied about meeting with while under oath before Congress.
29/ If you read the ProPublica story, you'll see the UAE can only get U.S. nuclear tech if we give it to Saudi Arabia first. Trump's pals are all either working to get that tech to Saudi Arabia or lobbying on behalf of the UAE—which, as to nuclear tech, amounts to the same thing.
30/ What does this have to do with Putin and sanctions? That's a reasonable question to ask.The answer: Moscow wants the contracts to build all new nuclear power plants in the Middle East, and stands to make *hundreds of millions* doing so. Just one thing stops them: sanctions.
31/ Yesterday the Saudi Crown Prince, who wants our nuclear tech, which would allow it to flow also to the UAE, which would make Putin hundreds of millions—but only if sanctions are dropped—said this about Jared Kushner: he's "in my pocket." Process that.
32/ Does this change your view of why Kushner secretly met the Russian ambassador at Trump Tower in December 2016—he smuggled him in the back door—to discuss setting up a secret backchanel to Putin? While Gates and Broidy were running the inaugural committee and lobbying Trump?
33/ Does this change your view of the pending (unanswered) question about where the "extra" tens of millions of dollars raised by Gates and Broidy for the inauguration went?
34/ Does this change your view of today's news about Broidy allegedly helping Moscow companies lobby Trump on sanctions? Does it change your view of whether Mueller wanted Gates under plea for reasons (as the White House says) entirely unrelated to Trump?
35/ Gates and Flynn have a lot to tell Mueller, and we should assume they've told all of it. We should further assume Broidy and Kushner are in Mueller's path and that at least one will roll on Trump. We should assume all pending UAE-Saudi Arabia scandals are equally about Putin.
36/ I've said this from the day I first read Chris Steele's dossier 14 months ago: Trump sold U.S. policy on Russia for money, and he did it before the campaign started (2013 in Moscow), during the campaign (his 2015 Trump Tower Moscow deal) and while in office post-January 2017.
37/ Yesterday's big news from the New York Times is of course part of all this, as it underscores that Trump's clandestine arrangement with Moscow flowed (much if not all the time) through negotiations with the UAE and Saudi Arabia—often via his top aides.
38/ Trump is toast. Not because he's an asshole, though he is; not because he's a Republican, which (in fact) he isn't; he's toast because he's one of the biggest traitors in the history of the U.S. and Mueller has *at least* three key witnesses *already* who can testify to that.
39/ Now you know why Trump hired Joe DiGenova—who wanted Comey prosecuted and will pull the same BS on Mueller. You know why he's hiring DiGenova's wife Victoria, who spread the Uranium One hoax—he's going to go after Clinton. You know why he hired Bolton—he's going to go to war.
40/ Trump knows he's toast, which is why he's preparing for two wars: a war on the rule of law here at home, and a senseless war abroad, in either North Korea or Iran. All of it is to save himself—he thinks—by delaying what at this point is inevitable: his fall from power. {end}
UPDATE/ I was one of the louder voices online outlining why DiGenova and Toensing had too many conflicts to work with Trump—due to other Trump-Russia clients and DiGenova's alleged role in blackmailing Comey to reopen the Clinton case. Well, look at this:
NOTE1/ What Joe DiGenova and his wife are learning, which most of us lawyers learned in law school, is that a client can waive an *apparent* conflict of interest, but an *actual* conflict of interest must be avoided by a lawyer at all costs—per the Rules of Professional Conduct.
NOTE2/ Representing Clovis, Prince, and Corallo is an *actual* conflict of interest for DiGenova and his wife that can't be waived by the clients and can't be allowed by DiGenova and Toensing. Their clients (and they) have info on facts and strategy Trump wants and needs to know.
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~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 3:50am
OGD, so 10 secs ago. Kushner bro/pop hit Qatar up for cash just before US-supported embargo - pay-to-play never so explicit.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 5:20am
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 10:13am
Well, Peter, you have a complete fucking inability to reference anything objective & concrete, just the vagaries of your brain and your wish-it-all-away fantasy world. Did you get through school by just making shit up? Perhaps if you were a world expert on something, anything, your peerless navel contemplation and paeans to conservative Valhallas might carry some weight, but no, you're just an anonymous 1-trick pony.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 12:06pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 2:59pm
No, these are breaking news stories weekly. We didn't have near this amount of info Nov 2016, and it wasn't until the Steele Dossier was released by Buzzfeed that we started to get a first inkling of just how dirty it'd been. But the details don't come out overnight - a ton of investigation has gone in.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 3:12pm
Are you conceding that all these "little stories" are true?
The cascade of "little stories" over the last year has already shown that Trump surrounded himself with cronies whose interest in making a buck was integral to their motivations to work in the administration. The "little stories" have revealed that these cronies have lied multiple times about their tiny actions. Some of these miniscule lies were told while under oath.
So, if you are in agreement about what has been revealed through all these reports, your argument that Trump himself could never have had anything to do with these nefarious actors is kind of amazing. The poor fellow really fell into a bad crowd.
Maybe Clinton made him do it.
by moat on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 4:11pm
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 5:35pm
Proving charges is hard to do. It is a good thing that there is a Special Prosecutor on the job to work on that problem.
Which incidents are you referring to? Your waving of the arm doesn't indicate what you would like to dismiss.
by moat on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 6:04pm
Do you realize that you have described the former (most Americans - the 99%) and the latter (the entire trump administration and the Republican members of Congress). Yes, you described them to a tee.
by CVille Dem on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 7:44pm
Notice what numbnuts said here?
And numbnuts has maintained a manic mood all these months trying to spin that horseshit...
~OGD~
by oldenGoldenDecoy on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 2:06am
And Trump has maintained that manic mood for decades, which I didn't care about until people started taking him seriously for president, and here he is into his 2nd year still ranting like a madman - with 42% approval. I'm supposed to ignore this threat, focus on football or frisbee or tabloid singer/social media grudges instead?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 3:39am
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 9:53am
You're obviously ignoring his Twitter feed. Nothing "rested and strong" about it - it's about a man who's at the end of his wits, and didn't have a lot to start out with (only orneriness and chutzpah, certainly different from his self-congratulatory "smart").
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:26am
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:12pm
In 2017 Trump had 31m followers of whom 51% were believed fake, so 15 million. More than his inauguration but still...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:51pm
..Trump has harnessed this medium for communication with his supporters..
What Peter says here is true, and it's the point of everything Trump does that befuddles the majority of us. His supporters get it, feed off of it and in turn feed him.
by barefooted on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 9:02pm
My goodness. Baghdad Bob Lives!
by moat on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 1:24pm
by Peter (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 5:01pm
I see dead people
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 1:34am
Sorry, this tweet on Sunday looks embarrassingly pitiful to me, same with this one.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 8:50pm
I'm relieved that peter is so happy with Trump. From my point of view he's done nothing he promised and campaigned on. The republicans and the democrats in congress have stopped him. If his base is still supporting him in spite of achieving so little they're less likely to push him to try to accomplish the truly destructive policies he claimed he was going to do. This isn't sarcasm I'm serious. I'm still worried especially with the appointment of Bolton but so far we've dodged the bullets. Let's just hope Trump continues to be as incompetent and ineffectual as he's been the last year.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 10:21pm
Also Trump's log for work as president is less than 2 hrs. a day for the last 4 business days.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 1:03am
Hmmm, wonder what he's working so hard on.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 6:48am