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Intel&Sebastian: Oct 20, 2002; colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

Joementum posted:

is today my birthday or something?

https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/877609892248408064

"Well guys, normally when people do this we recruit them for the CIA after they get fired but we're kind of at an impasse here"

https://twitter.com/EOrbs/status/866539139990036480

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:10

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thrawn527: Mar 27, 2004; Thrawn/Pellaeon
Studying the art of terrorists
To keep you safe

A Handed Missus posted:

https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/877596354037469184

The Judiciary Committee? Why them?

thrawn527 has issued a correction as of 21:13 on Jun 21, 2017

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:10

Rah!: Feb 21, 2006

Gringostar posted:

this is like mailing someone a "you kicked my rear end" trophy after they kicked your rear end

Im resisting, im resisting, i insist, as i get chokeslammed repeatedly by an old man

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:10

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Al! posted:

zuckerberg winning the democratic nomination, and then the presidency is the stupidest most impossible thing so its a lock

what about donny resigning out of fear of impeachment, and then running again and winning as a democrat? that's pretty stupid

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:11

Martin BadClixx: Jul 14, 2012; ^{dada stijl}

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

most of nite crew posts in suck zone so the only person you'll be partying with....

is baloogan

I dont post in succzone.

Ill bring the snacks. I am great fun at parties. May 'wel, actually' is always really fun in convos

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:12

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

cant succ the zuck

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:13

Gringostar: Nov 12, 2016; Morbid Hound

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

most of nite crew posts in suck zone so the only person you'll be partying with....

is baloogan

just because someone posts in the succ zone doesn't mean they're a succ zoner friend

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:13

Al!: Apr 2, 2010

Nichael posted:

what about donny resigning out of fear of impeachment, and then running again and winning as a democrat? that's pretty stupid

trump resigns out of fear of impeachment, but the republicans refuse to acknowledge that he's resigned and continue to operate as if he was still the president.

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:14

mdemone: Mar 14, 2001

Admiral Ray posted:

that thread is hidden in the admin place or whatever, not archives.

Aargh! gently caress I knew I should've saved the Bbcode to a text file. Those links took forever to add!

any admins can help me out here?

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:14

Intel&Sebastian: Oct 20, 2002; colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

Nichael posted:

what about donny resigning out of fear of impeachment, and then running again and winning as a democrat? that's pretty stupid

oh god

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:15

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Al! posted:

trump resigns out of fear of impeachment, but the republicans refuse to acknowledge that he's resigned and continue to operate as if he was still the president.

this is good too

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:15

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/877620895573061632

good

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:15

galenanorth: May 19, 2016

"First time in the garden, she was panting she ran around some much!"

this cat has more freedom of movement than the average American will by 2117, when we'll all have to live in closet-sized apartments with a dozen roommates

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:16

Martin BadClixx: Jul 14, 2012; ^{dada stijl}

Nichael posted:

you mean this?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3820719&pagenumber=3626&perpage=40#post473458829

Many new links added and a few additions to the timeline. As always, as-yet-unverified information now appears in italics, and please feel free to correct/clarify me on any details or dates, or suggest new pieces to add.

The Players

Leonard Blavatnik is a Ukraine-born American businessman. He made his fortune through diversified investments in myriad companies through his conglomerate company, Access Industries. In 2015, he was named Britain's richest man with an estimated net worth of £17.1 billion as of April 2015. He and a friend from university, Viktor Vekselberg, joined with Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group to form the AAR venture, which in 2011 was responsible for stopping the BP merger with Rosneft Oil, the Russian state-owned petrocorp (1). In March 2013, at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, there was a transfer of nearly $28 billion in U.S. currency from an account controlled by Rosneft, to one controlled by four Russian billionaires: Blavatnik, Vekselberg, Mikhail Fridman, and German Khan (2). Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin, often described as Russia's second-most-powerful man, was the central figure behind the deal.

In addition to funding Trump's inauguration party, Blavatnik has long funded Mitch McConnell's super-PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund; see FEC filings showing donations of $1M in December 2015, $500k in April 2016, and $1M on October 25 2016; note that AI Altep is a shell company of Access Industries (3). Also notice that Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone shows up for more than $2M on the October 25 filing, having also given $370k just one week prior. In October 2016, the dark-money super-PAC One Nation donates $11M to the Senate Leadership Fund, with which they share an office.

Following his election, Trump appointed as Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao -- who is Mitch McConnell's wife and donated $42k to campaigns of Senators who would later vote on her confirmation, including her husband. During the Obama-Trump transition, McConnell had raised doubts about the CIA's report that Russian hacking affected the election, and made clear that "he would consider any effort by the Obama White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics" (4). In mid-2016, McConnell's brother-in-law Jim Breyer (husband of Chao's sister Angela, the CEO of the Bank of China, and a billionaire investor in his own right) joined the board of Schwarzman's Blackstone Group. Almost a year later, following a $110B+ arms deal brokered with Saudi Arabia by Jared Kushner, the Saudis subsequently announced a $20B+ investment into Blackstone Group for U.S. infrastructure. Blackstone, especially the real estate arm led by Jonathan Gray, has long been involved with Kushner's enterprises.

A handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine in 2016 with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party. Financial records confirmed that at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to Manafort’s name were actually received by his consulting firm in the United States in 2007 and 2009 (5). Manafort's political ties to former Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich have been well documented.

The Timeline

On June 14 2016, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Paul Ryan have separate meetings with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman, in which Groysman talks about Russia's financial support of populist politicians and their efforts to undermine democratic governments in Eastern Europe. The next day, McCarthy joked to Ryan and other GOP leaders that he thinks "Putin pays…Trump", after which Ryan laughs and tells the group not to leak the conversation (read the transcript here).

In August 2016, CIA Director John Brennan informs Congressional leadership (the Gang of Eight, as well as Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan) that Russia is intervening in the American election on behalf of Trump. On August 4 2016, Brennan confronts the head of Russia's FSB about the matter.

According to the famous "Steele Dossier" that comes to light in December 2016, one of Steele's inside sources describes the July 2016 meeting between Igor Sechin and Carter Page, Trump policy adviser from his campaign and foreign policy team. (In October, Russian experts would conclude that the inside source was probably a former KGB general, Oleg Erovinkin. In late December 2016, Erovinkin is found dead in his car.) According to the dossier, Sechin offers to broker a 19% sale of Rosneft to Trump's associates in return for the lifting of economic sanctions on Russia (image). Page has an audio recording of Trump promising to fulfill his end of the bargain. During the months of the general election, Trump's campaign has at least 18 undisclosed meetings/contacts with Russian officials.

On Election Day 2016, Stephen Schwarzman's housekeeper is pushed under a subway train (image, bottom]).

Following Trump's victory in November, the transition team quickly began moving to develop sanction relief for Russia, causing alarmed State Dept. officials to urge legislation codifying the sanctions. In early December, Kushner has a meeting with the Russian ambassador/spymaster Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower, in which the men discuss the possibility of a secret back-channel for communications between the Trump team and the Kremlin.

In January 2017, 19.5% of Rosneft Oil is sold to a shell-of-shell-of-shell holding owned by (at the end of the chain) the trust company Intertrust [see the middle of image for holdings flowchart from Reuters, and tracing through shells from QHG to Intertrust]. Intertrust's major shareholder is Blackstone Group and therefore Stephen Schwarzman, who had been named chairman of the strategic and policy forum by Trump in December (he was offered a full-time role in the administration, but declined). Schwarzman now controls around 19% of Rosneft, as promised by Sechin, and has been seen with Trump at Mar-a-lago and many public events (image, bottom]). He remains a constant advisor to Trump.

On January 10 2017, Susan Rice, (Obama’s NSA), consults Michael Flynn about a plan to retake Raqqa from ISIS with the help of Syrian Kurdish forces. (The plan would have been executed under Trump, so Obama’s team wanted Flynn’s approval.) Flynn’s decision is to forestall the attack, an answer that happens to conform to the wishes of the Turkish government, which was benefiting from his lobbying work for which Flynn was paid at least $500,000. While Trump would eventually approve the military plan, Flynn’s decision 10 days before Trump took office delays the operation by several months. Flynn informs the Trump transition team that he is under investigation by the FBI for having been a foreign agent.

On January 27 2017, Donald Trump invites FBI Director James Comey to the White House for a private dinner, in which he asks for Comey's loyalty and assurances that there is no Russia investigation. The memos written by Comey regarding this and other conversations with Trump substantially corroborate his testimony before Congress.

In February, Trump asks Pence and Sessions to leave the Oval Office before pressuring Comey again to drop the Flynn investigation; Comey writes a detailed memo about this conversation. In March, Trump asked the director of national intelligence and the director of the National Security Agency to make statements confirming that the investigation had cleared him.

In late March, Flynn requests immunity from the Senate Intelligence Committee and the FBI in return for his testimony; his lawyer claims he has "a story to tell". On April 1 2017, this request is denied.

On April 27 2017, the "Mayflower Meeting" is held, shortly before Trump's first foreign policy speech, having been organized by his campaign chair Paul Manafort and Kremlin-think-tank coordinator Jacob Heilbrunn. In the room are Jeff Sessions (photo), Jared Kushner, and Manafort, along with ambassadors from Russia, Singapore, and the Philippines, and unidentified representatives from Rosneft. Trump's Secretary of Commerce is Wilbur Ross. He is the former vice-chair of the Bank of Cyprus, of which Vekselberg is the major shareholder. Ross, Schwarzman, Blavatnik, and McConnell/Chao would put together an $1T infrastructure plan that would depend on foreign money, as Chao admitted to Sean Hannity on Fox News on March 1 2017.

On May 9 2017, James Comey is fired as FBI Director, the week after he visited the "rocket docket" in federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and just days after he requested more resources for the Trump/Russia investigation. On May 10 2017, Trump meets with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Russian ambassador/spymaster Sergey Kislyak, in the Oval Office, without American press allowed but in the presence of Russian state media. At this meeting, Trump divulges code-word classified information from an Israeli intelligence source regarding the ISIS laptop-bomb plot; this source is said to be the most important double agent now working in ISIS, according to the Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence (Aman). Trump also refers to Comey as a "nut job", and claims to the Russians that the investigation will be over now that Comey is gone (6). The same day of the Oval Office meeting with Russian diplomats, a federal grand jury in EDVA hands down multiple subpoenas for business/lobbying associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, regarding his foreign contacts in Turkey (Ekim Alptekin) and Russia (David Zaikin).

On May 11 2017, the Strategic Campaign Group's office is raided in Annapolis by the FBI and U.S. Marshals following the warrants handed down by EDVA from two separate grand juries, corresponding to ~25 indictments regarding money-laundering and many other charges. Less than a week later, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is appointed by the Deputy Attorney General to oversee the Russia investigation. In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on May 23 2017, former CIA Director John Brennan verified that in August 2016 he had informed the Gang of Eight and others (including Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan) that Russia was intervening in the election on Trump's behalf. In late May, Jared Kushner is revealed to be among the targets of the FBI's Russia probe.

On June 2 2017, Mueller assumes control over the federal grand jury criminal investigations of Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn. James Comey testifies before the Senate Intel Committee on June 8 2017. The following week, Mueller's team confirms that they are investigating the president in part for obstruction of justice with respect to Comey and the Russia probe; as a result, Senate Intel agrees to avoid pursuing that aspect.

References:
1. Yenikeyeff, Shamil, "BP, Russian billionaires, and the Kremlin: a Power Triangle that never was", Oxford Energy Comment, November 23, 2011
2. Vardi, Nathan, "The Four Horsemen of Russia's Economic Apocalypse", Forbes, February 9, 2015
3. SEC statement identifying Al Altep as a shell of Access Industries
4. Entous et al. "Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House", Washington Post, December 9 2016
5. AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
6. Apuzzo et al. "NYTimes, May 19 2017

I save good posts to Notepad, so I don't actually have the embedded links. I just have the text.

I also dont have notepad files on my computer either.

:burn:

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:16

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/877616013134618625
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/877620596934193154

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:16

alnilam: Nov 10, 2009

Al! posted:

trump resigns out of fear of impeachment, but the republicans refuse to acknowledge that he's resigned and continue to operate as if he was still the president.

they parade around the cardboard cutout that one guy salutes every morning and try to pretend he never resigned
weekend at donny's
Only he's cardboard ha ha hA

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:17

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Vertical Lime posted:

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/877620895573061632

good

stupid cops, having bad delivery and being mostly unfunny isnt a crime

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:17

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Thatim posted:

I also dont have notepad files on my computer either.

:burn:

that one's going in the good post file!!!!

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:17

Al!: Apr 2, 2010

Thatim posted:

I also dont have notepad files on my computer either.

:burn:

Al Altep was my father, you can just call me Al

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:17

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

galenanorth posted:

"First time in the garden, she was panting she ran around some much!"

this cat has more freedom of movement than the average American will by 2117, when we'll all have to live in closet-sized apartments with a dozen roommates

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:17

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

prefect posted:

https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/877616013134618625
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/877620596934193154

something about the phrase "j-school" makes me want to punch people

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:18

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/877621026451988481

what did i say

immune af

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:19

Martin BadClixx: Jul 14, 2012; ^{dada stijl}

Nichael posted:

that one's going in the good post file!!!!

Thanks. Spend 30min coming up with it.

Feels good to be recognized

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:19

Anime Schoolgirl: Nov 28, 2002

p...p...piss tape???

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/877296339859546114

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:19

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Vertical Lime posted:

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/877621026451988481

what did i say

immune af

this seems illegal~! it's not though lol

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:19

Yinlock: Oct 22, 2008

Nichael posted:

something about the phrase "j-school" makes me want to punch people

j/o school

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

Mariana Horchata: Jun 30, 2008; College Slice

Joementum posted:

is today my birthday or something?

https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/877609892248408064

i got orange

I asked for lemon lime :colbert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geF4VRja6W4

:minnie:

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

Yinlock: Oct 22, 2008

Nichael posted:

this seems illegal~! it's not though lol

rest assured that all the oversight committees are extremely concerned about this

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

Anime Schoolgirl: Nov 28, 2002

Nichael posted:

this seems illegal~! it's not though lol

laws only apply to poors and minorities, even laws that never actually existed

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Nichael posted:

something about the phrase "j-school" makes me want to punch people

I went to J-school. :ohdear:

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

p...p...piss tape???

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/877296339859546114

yeah he would though wunnee

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

Stinky Wizzleteats: Nov 26, 2015; My bird blood is ethically sourced.

j-school sounds like one of them cartoons ecchiwald wanks off to

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:20

Third World Reagan: May 19, 2008; Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

rip in piss tape

2017-2017

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:21

Grizzled Patriarch: Mar 27, 2014; These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.

trump has just broken the press' minds and now reporters are out there going full-on colonel kurtz

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:21

byob historian: Nov 5, 2008; I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

Mariana Horchata posted:

nctv m8

but im in the band >______>

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:21

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

change my name posted:

I don't follow twitter drama, why does arthur chu hate the chapo guys so much (he's been mass tweeting ever since ossof lost about how republicans will only vote republican)

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:22

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

trump has just broken the press' minds and now reporters are out there going full-on colonel kurtz

You try reading this thread without saying "the horror, the horror" fifteen or twenty times a day.

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:22

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

p...p...piss tape???

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/877296339859546114

gosh I wish someone in the federal government told voters about all these russian shenanigans when it loving mattered

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

laws only apply to poors and minorities, even laws that never actually existed

prefect posted:

I went to J-school.

it's not the act of going, it's just calling it that. don't call it that

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:22

Martin BadClixx: Jul 14, 2012; ^{dada stijl}

Mariana Horchata posted:

nctv m8

I want to be original.

So ill just make gifs from people losing hats due to wind

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:23

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Good soup!: Nov 2, 2010

The last thread died but I'm here getting drunk in Lithuania reading the news and laughing my rear end off and I know someone asked for a trip report and I'm not back until next week but lol at this

So apparently Evanescence was gonna have a concert at trakai castle (which is loving awesome btw) and they had a crowd of like 8 people watching them warm up amid all of the hundreds of other tourists who ranged from indifferent to annoyed with all the noise, because who loving gives a poo poo about Evanescence, so I go to take a photo for shits and giggles from the court yard and this big dumb babby dude walks in front of my camera and puts up his hand like "no photos" like lmao are u serious bro, your lovely dumb band is practicing in a large tourist attraction by themselves in the middle of the fuckin day where hundreds of other people have their cameras and phones out already, you dudes should have probably put a little bit more thought into this hth haha, sorry but i won't let u WAKE ME UP INSIDE (CANT WAKE UP), this ain't no loving festival and poo poo with press passes I've shot photos at that kind of poo poo so lmao get out of here dude

We had a good laugh and left and no one realized I was a lovely American from Trump land at least and on the ride back to our Airbnb I read about the Georgia election and tonight we are getting hosed up with other alcoholic Lithuanians who are like ayo gently caress Russia and might have some weed so that's fun at least

This place is p cool

# ? Jun 21, 2017 21:23

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