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I think Putin might be in a more precarious position than the conventional wisdom over here assumes. First, the thing with Navalny that makes him dangerous to kill is that he's unlike other opposition figures (who have wound up dead). He's actually more nationalistic than Putin. This takes some explaining. The Putin system is not all that centralized, but is actually a weird, hybrid, federalized regime with local bosses existing in a clientistic relationship with the Kremlin. Ramzan Kadyrov -- Chechen gangster, reality T.V. show host and the world's no. 1 Jean Claude Van Damme fan -- is one of these guys: a local strongman. There are a lot of these local and regional bosses all over Russia enriching themselves. And corruption is endemic and everyone hates it except the bosses. So Navalny's politics are especially potent because (a) he's anti-corruption (b) he's a nationalist and wants to get rid of this clientistic form of federalism. The big wild card here is Trump. Because first of all, Putin has reaped benefits from exploiting anti-Americanism -- how can he now blame the opposition as the patsies of the United States now that Trump is in power? Second, Putin has been able to punch above his weight on the world stage by being unpredictable, which carried political benefits at home -- now the world is reacting to Trump. Third, Trump's own insurgent rise to the White House might be causing Putin to worry that Russia's opposition will be inspired by that. Also Russia's economy sucks.
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The Russian economy doesn't just suck. It loving really sucks. It makes the southern delta regions of Mississippi seem like Dubai.
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Their continued possession of nuclear warheads and delivery methods scares me shitless. Especially after getting a peek at their nuclear C2 in that book The Dead Hand.
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Crossposting from C-SPAM thread: A worthwhile read over whether it is proper to question the President's good faith in his oath to uphold the constitution as well as the DOJ's argument that you should not question it or psychoanalyze the presdient, but with some notable tells: -Pointing out that his cabinet officials didn't say things as outrageous as Trump -Saying everything he said pre-oath doesn't count, and only what he said post-oath does -That second point opens them up, should he lose control and call something a Muslim ban or tweet a bunch of poo poo or, I dunno, say at a rally that the new EO is a watered down version of the old EO and maybe we should go back to the old one
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mlmp08 posted:Crossposting from C-SPAM thread: I don't know, might read that after breakfast, but this question-headline-journalism really pisses me off. "Did the Justice Department Just Admit Doubts Over Trump’s Oath?" Well, I don't loving know, did it, or did it not? you're the loving journos, maybe quit the dumb cluckbaitey bullshit?
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https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/846016099829366784 Guccifer 2.0 is the "person" that's actually the Russian hackers, and suddenly Roger Stone is saying it's a "her". Haven't seen that one before.
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There was a daily beast article a month ago, maybe a few others, that talked about her and I believe they managed her to answer a few questions, I'll see if I can find it Edit: my mistake, mixed it up with a different story: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/30/did-this-mysterious-female-hacker-help-crack-the-dnc.html FastestGunAlive fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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Mar 26, 2017 16:39
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/845985360165421056?ref_src=twsrc^ I'm assuming that she told him to go gently caress himself and that's why he sat around in a sulk and refused to shake her hand.
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Mar 26, 2017 16:44
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Was it like a bill like the kind I get from the electric company? I hope someone releases a copy of it 
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Mar 26, 2017 16:46
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I want to know who the check was supposed to be made out to.
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Missionary Positron posted:https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/845985360165421056?ref_src=twsrc^ Yeah, I'm not buying this at all.
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TBeats posted:Was it like a bill like the kind I get from the electric company? So I wonder if he sent a bill to Norway, Denmark, France, Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemberg, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, Canada and Iceland? I'm sure I forgot someone.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Yeah, I'm not buying this at all. Why? It's no secret that Trump & co. hate Merkel, not to mention Bannon's boner for destroying the EU.
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I want that bill story to be real, and for her to release a copy. I wonder if it is partially to do with that article that referred to her as "the leader of the Free world" instead of him.
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Missionary Positron posted:not to mention Bannon's boner for destroying the world.
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The Leader of the Free World looking good early. https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/846035049405464577
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Those headlines after Merkel's visit in American newspapers must've infuriated the orange trashgoblin. Dude, he really hates the EU, even more than the rest of the world in general: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-steve-bannon-destroy-eu-european-union-214889 Missionary Positron fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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Mar 26, 2017 17:37
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That story omits the part where a Trump aide held out an iPhone equipped with a Square paychip for Merkel to swipe a card.
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Mar 26, 2017 17:40
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cowboy elvis posted:That story omits the part where a Trump aide held out an iPhone equipped with a Square paychip for Merkel to swipe a card. And then the Europeans spent 15 minutes acting smug that it wasn't a chip and pin system
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Re: the last two posts, I have no idea if they are true or not but I totally believe them.
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TBeats posted:Re: the last two posts, I have no idea if they are true or not but I totally believe them. The last one definitely is, because we tend to be dicks about transactions that require no personalized confirmation.
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Mar 26, 2017 18:01
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TBeats posted:Was it like a bill like the kind I get from the electric company?
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Mar 26, 2017 18:17
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Uhhhh I hope this isn't true. Wasn't the USA protecting the dam from ISIS? https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/846047726836092929
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Trump might think WW3 means he can be president longer since that's how it worked out in ww2.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Uhhhh I hope this isn't true. Wasn't the USA protecting the dam from ISIS? Different dam, this one is up-river of Raqqa. The one you're probably thinking of is the Mosul dam.
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Prop Wash posted:And then the Europeans spent 15 minutes acting smug that it wasn't a chip and pin system Slightly related, I use square and the bluetooth chip/NFC reader. It's pretty loving sweet.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Uhhhh I hope this isn't true. Wasn't the USA protecting the dam from ISIS? That seems awfully weak for an AC-130?
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Bolow posted:That seems awfully weak for an AC-130? 105 mm at best, what are you expecting?
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:105 mm at best, what are you expecting? 
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Two Finger posted:why do people do this Office Pig posted:Mental health care is in stellar condition.
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Did you dudes know we only have one megaton class warhead in the nuclear stockpile anymore? And it's a "measly" 1 megaton gravity bomb at that. We can still gently caress up Russia but we've left the era of ending humanity way in the past. This.. saddens me. Make America Great Again let's start with our nuclear warfare capability.
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Mar 26, 2017 19:59
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Obama was getting pretty hot on mass shootings by the time he left office. Has Trump said anything about this one at all?
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Mar 26, 2017 20:06
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Two Finger posted:Obama was getting pretty hot on mass shootings by the time he left office. Has Trump said anything about this one at all? I'm sure he will shoot his mouth off about radical Islamic terrorism as soon as his golf game is over.
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Two Finger posted:Obama was getting pretty hot on mass shootings by the time he left office. Has Trump said anything about this one at all? For maximum chaos: Trump starts advocating gun control legislation.
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Never mind don't wanna gun control chat wooohooooo dog pic
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Gaze upon Ted Koppel's massive balls. https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/846061762751401984
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Zeris posted:That was a good watch
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