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  On 12/4/2018 at 7:35 PM, Brisketexan said:

Taking down a nation's electric grid is a good way to get every fucking ship in your navy sunk posthaste. That's a pretty damned clear act of war.

And by the way, playing these stupid games with erratic, dangerous people like Putin is EXACTLY how you end up in a fucking war.  It's why you shouldn't play around with him.

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There is no doubt Trump thinks he is craftier, smarter than Putin.  He's using the POTUS position to play Putin for his own economic gains in Russia.

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Say it ain't so, Mitch!

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/mcconnell-received-3-5m-in-campaign-donations-from-russian-oligarch-linked-firm-93UjehU6aUCtejJRBFezCw/#utm_source=Amplify&utm_medium=Intellectualist&utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_term=Cheri

McConnell Received $3.5M In Campaign Donations From Russian Oligarch-Linked Firm

Ukrainian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik, who holds dual U.S.-U.K. citizenship, used to be a fairly run-of-the-mill campaign contributor, donating relatively modest amounts in a bipartisan fashion — and then the 2016 election cycle hit.

Beginning in 2015, Blavatnik lavished contributions on Republicans, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell alone on the receiving end of $3.5 million between 2015 and 2017.

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The attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia are issuing subpoenas for financial records and other documents from more than a dozen of President Trump’s private entities Tuesday as part of an ongoing lawsuit alleging that the president’s business violates the Constitution’s ban on gifts or payments from foreign governments.

The subpoenas seek details on some of the most closely held secrets of Trump’s presidency: Which foreign governments have paid the Trump Organization money? How much? And for what?

All of the documents relate to Trump’s D.C. hotel, which is at the center of the emoluments case because of events foreign governments have held there and the federal lease that allows the business to operate.

In addition to documents from more than a dozen related to the president’s company, including the trust that holds his personal assets, Maryland’s Brian E. Frosh (D) and the District’s Karl A. Racine (D), are seeking documents from managers of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and a slew of competing Washington hotels as part of an effort to try to show Trump’s property is unfairly siphoning business from competitors, according to the offices of the two attorneys general.

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  On 12/4/2018 at 6:30 PM, SmokeyTheBear said:

And then you will have those gun-toting "alphas" out trying to capitalize and change the power structure with their bunkers of weapons and Jim Bakker food (shit) buckets.  

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You don’t need to worry about those types.   They are too scared shitless that somebody will steal their Jim Bakker buckets and Alex Jones supplements to leave their bunkers.   They are the least of your concerns.  

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  On 12/4/2018 at 10:34 PM, atomheartbevo said:

You don’t need to worry about those types.   They are too scared shitless that somebody will steal their Jim Bakker buckets and Alex Jones supplements to leave their bunkers.   They are the least of your concerns.  

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No Donny, these men are cowards.

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I really like the metaphor proposed in this piece and think @Brisketexanwill appreciate the author's conclusion in the closing.

Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency

It won’t be a single news event that takes down the president.

“Today is the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office,” said the legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin on CNN last Thursday.

“This is the beginning of the end for Trump,” declared Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general, on MSNBC.

“The deal may be among the biggest news in the nearly 18-month investigation,” wrote Barry Berke, Noah Bookbinder, and Norman Eisen in The New York Times.

It happens this way every time: A big news event in the Trump-Russia investigation takes place, and commentators talk about it as though a house of cards were collapsing or a row of dominoes were falling. Each time, it’s the beginning of the end. Each indictment or plea is the “big one.” And then those expectations are disappointed. The sun rises the next day—in the east, as expected—and it sets in the west, as it did the day before. The Trump presidency endures.

This time it was the new plea deal from Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. On Thursday, Cohen pleaded guilty to one count of lying to Congress, related to how long into the 2016 campaign he pursued building Trump Tower Moscow—and who exactly was aware of his efforts. In the surprise criminal information that formed the basis of his plea, Cohen admitted that, although he had told Congress the project had ended in January 2016, in advance of the Iowa caucus, planning for the project continued well into June 2016. What’s more, a person named in the criminal information as “Individual 1” but identifiable as Trump, along with his family members and his campaign officials, were briefed on Cohen’s efforts along the way. Additionally, Cohen was in contact with senior Russian officials about the matter.

The admission that the Trump Organization was working secretly—colluding, one might say—with the Russian government on a business deal late into the campaign and that Trump knew about this activity led many observers, including those quoted above, to treat this latest plea as the turning point for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

But the underlying metaphors are wrong. There is no sudden bend in the path of the investigation. There is no house of cards. The dominoes will not fall if gently tipped. The administration is not going to come crashing down in response to any single day’s events. The architecture of Trump’s power is more robust than that.

We need to stop thinking of it as a fragile structure waiting for the right poke to fall in on itself. Think instead of the myriad investigations and legal proceedings surrounding the president as a multi-front siege on a walled city that is, in fact, relatively well fortified.

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  On 12/4/2018 at 7:35 PM, Brisketexan said:

And by the way, playing these stupid games with erratic, dangerous people like Putin is EXACTLY how you end up in a fucking war.  It's why you shouldn't play around with him.

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Putin isn’t erratic.  If he was, he would have been killed off long ago.  

He knows exactly what he’s doing.  Which maybe worse.  He’s proven very good at knowing how far he can stretch things and still get away with it.  

We/NATO have the ability to completely rank his economy and put him out of power and he knows it.  Good news for him, Donnie adores him.  

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  On 12/4/2018 at 10:56 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Putin isn’t erratic.  If he was, he would have been killed off long ago.  

He knows exactly what he’s doing.  Which maybe worse.  He’s proven very good at knowing how far he can stretch things and still get away with it.  

We/NATO have the ability to completely rank his economy and put him out of power and he knows it.  Good news for him, Donnie adores him.  

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And I've said it before, and I'm saying it again. I feel China is a silent partner with Russia. Which means you have Iran, North Korea, China and Russia all in a mix. That's a match militarily and economically against the West. Not a complete 1:1 obviously, but enough to make things interesting. 

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  On 12/4/2018 at 11:02 PM, SmokeyTheBear said:

And I've said it before, and I'm saying it again. I feel China is a silent partner with Russia. Which means you have Iran, North Korea, China and Russia all in a mix. That's a match militarily and economically against the West. Not a complete 1:1 obviously, but enough to make things interesting. 

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No. China and Russia hate each other. They are both interested in bringing us down, sure.  But anything they do is as trustworthy as the Nazi-Soviet pact to divide Poland. They have to worry about each other as much, if not more, than us. 

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  On 12/4/2018 at 11:46 PM, FondrenRoad said:

No. China and Russia hate each other. They are both interested in bringing us down, sure.  But anything they do is as trustworthy as the Nazi-Soviet pact to divide Poland. They have to worry about each other as much, if not more, than us. 

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There is probably nothing the Chinese want more than the vast wealth (mineral etc...) hidden in the vast Russian countryside. Russia has about 1/4 the population density of the United States, and only 143 million people. 

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  On 12/4/2018 at 11:56 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

There is probably nothing the Chinese want more than the vast wealth (mineral etc...) hidden in the vast Russian countryside. Russia has about 1/4 the population density of the United States, and only 143 million people. 

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Link for an opinion piece on that

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-borders-need-to-be-redrawn/why-china-will-reclaim-siberia

 

I don't disagree with the fact their relationship is not ideal, but one can help the other in the short term to make gains on us in this time of Trump. 

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  On 12/5/2018 at 12:01 AM, SmokeyTheBear said:

Link for an opinion piece on that

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-borders-need-to-be-redrawn/why-china-will-reclaim-siberia

 

I don't disagree with the fact their relationship is not ideal, but one can help the other in the short term to make gains on us in this time of Trump. 

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They are always going to share a border with each other and not with us. Russia hates the modern "woke" China more than anything else.

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  On 12/4/2018 at 11:02 PM, SmokeyTheBear said:

And I've said it before, and I'm saying it again. I feel China is a silent partner with Russia. Which means you have Iran, North Korea, China and Russia all in a mix. That's a match militarily and economically against the West. Not a complete 1:1 obviously, but enough to make things interesting. 

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"Why don't we just assassinate Xi Jinping?" - Donald Trump

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  On 12/5/2018 at 12:32 AM, FondrenRoad said:

They are always going to share a border with each other and not with us. Russia hates the modern "woke" China more than anything else.

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China and Russia don’t hate each other but they are geopolitical rivals.  However, China isn’t exactly “woke”.  They’re slipping backwards to dynasty style rule as far as their government becoming a stronger centralized power.  

A “woke” China would them embracing western style democracy and massively expanding their economic hegemony and global influence.  

That would scare the shit out of Putin. He prefers China predictable and contained with a monarch, like it is now.

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https://www.vox.com/2018/12/4/18126388/mueller-michael-flynn-sentencing-memo-read

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Special counsel Robert Mueller filed his sentencing memo for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Tuesday.

Last December, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Back then, he was the second former Trump adviser, after George Papadopoulos, to cut a deal with Mueller’s team. And as part of that deal, Flynn committed to cooperate with the probe.

In the sentencing memo, Mueller assessed Flynn’s cooperation as “substantial,” and wrote that “a sentence at the low end of the guideline range—including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration—is appropriate and warranted.”

Flynn will be sentenced by a Washington, DC judge on December 18. You can read the main memo below, or at this link.

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Everyone keeps forgetting Flynn had deep ties to Kaspersky Lab, SCL, and Cambridge Analytica.  

While everyone is assuming Flynn gave up the goods on Trump, I suspect he gave a shitload of information on the Russian influence operation.  

Things like coordinating the targeting and messaging strategy would be Flynn’s forte. 

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"Senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards" says the memo. Ergo, the target.

This is a mob takedown and the big fish is not Russia, it's Trump.

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Top of the crime pyramid is Trump.

Mueller can't get the Russians, so who is he trading up for? He's absolutely going after Trump.

You know, maybe it's a very bad idea to be so viciously and childishly insulting to people on Twitter. Just maybe that's what takes Trump down in the end. His SHIT TALK.

Hillary was right when she said "delete your account". She's not ever going to jail, ever. Trump most certainly is.



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