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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Internet Webguy posted:

https://twitter.com/esquire/status/884433509892411392

To get the full picture, the redoubtable Booman suggests that we examine the criminal complaint that Preet Bharara filed against one Denis Katsyv, another one of Veselnitskaya's clients, and the alleged mastermind of the massive fraud that got Sergei Magnitsky killed. He's right. The breadth and depth of the corruption is almost impossible to believe. There's identity theft … of corporations. (I guess they really are people, too.) There's the entire world as their laundromat, including "Manhattan real estate." Russian security forces raided corporate offices and then used what they took to set up front companies to clean the cash. Essentially, they looted this hedge fund of about $230 million. Magnitsky looked into it. He got busted by the same people he was investigating, and it got him killed. Of course, Bharara got fired, and the case was quietly settled for $6 million and no admission of guilt by anybody.

What I believe I see here is an incredibly corrupt American family doing business with criminal gangs that are way, way out of their league, and that are in league with the institutions of government, and the formidable security apparatus, of an authoritarian state. Talk about punching out of your weight class. This isn't cheating some poor subcontractor. These people throw you out windows. And the Trumps have being doing business in this financial abattoir for years. This doesn't make them sharp. This makes them compliant minnows in a shark tank.

Not to borrow trouble, but what if these guys decide that the president's son—or, god forbid, the president himself—have become as inconvenient as Sergei Magnitsky was. For months now, people have been asking what the Russians "have" on Donald Trump. Maybe it's just fear. If it's not, it ought to be.

good post

agree d

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Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

jBrereton posted:

yeah, also his firstborn is super dumb

Donald Trump, blonde of hair. Eric Trump, blonde of Hair. Ivana Trump, blonde of hair. Donald Trump, Jr........ black of hair....

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

i actually ended up listening to this and it's actually p synthy and dope

Bethamphetamine
Oct 29, 2012

Agrajag posted:

the buck literally stops at everyone else and for some stupid rear end reason people consider this a good "leadership" quality. i still cant wrap my mind around it.

This is a legit management strategy taught in lovely business schools to douchebags. Years ago I worked at a company with leadership exactly like this. Working in an environment like that is abusive. Surprise! Turnover there was astronomical.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Joementum posted:

I love that all the centrists slobbered over Macron as a way to deflect from Corbyn winning and, oopsie-doopsie, looks like he's a racist monarchist!

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884463860736028672

what do you call this? The Aux Au Provence Strategy?

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884480851848855553

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

zegermans posted:

Just think we could have had death being rained from above by this cute little guy



That Boeing prototype always reminded me of a big dumb beluga whale

As far as fighters that weren't chosen, I'm partial to the YF-23. Sexy

Robert Plant
Jan 6, 2015

Agrajag posted:

why are you fuckos acting like dwayne the rock johnson will save us from the trump and gop fuckery?

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

He won't save us, but going down will be that much more entertaining

Yeah this. Nothing will save us, obviously, but I look forward to 8 years of telling everyone I see that it doesn't matter what their names are and welcoming folks to the Smack Down Hotel. Come to think of it, why wait?

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fN32gL9aUman

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



seeing mcconnell fail over and over again w/the bill fuckin owns and is gonna somehow make trump push for single payer because 2017 is stupid as hell

Deceptive Thinker
Oct 5, 2005

I'll rip out your optics!

triple sulk posted:

seeing mcconnell fail over and over again w/the bill fuckin owns and is gonna somehow make trump push for single payer because 2017 is stupid as hell

Trump will never push for anything that will increase his taxes

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

I haven't checked the thread in 2 days, I feel like I missed a decade of events. Is the president still fat and dumb?

donald jr and kushner met with a russian agent in June 2016 because she promised to give them information on hillary clinton

the meeting turned out to be about lifting specific sanctions that freeze the assets of russian mobsters who tortured an anti-corruption lawyer to death

don jr has confirmed the meeting, confirmed that he met with the russian because he wanted info on clinton, and confirmed that it turned out to be "only" about the sanctions

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884481686167277568

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

triple sulk posted:

seeing mcconnell fail over and over again w/the bill fuckin owns and is gonna somehow make trump push for single payer because 2017 is stupid as hell

how long is the press going to call McConnell a "master tactician"

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014




:thunk:

ShutteredIn
Mar 24, 2005

El Campeon Mundial del Acordeon

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

SCHATTENLAUF

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017



this is going to be so so so good

he hasn't had nearly the amount of training/experience sitting before a committee that people like comey and sessions had so he's absolutely going to blab something by accident that he really shouldn't

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/884417261234266112

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

triple sulk posted:

seeing mcconnell fail over and over again w/the bill fuckin owns and is gonna somehow make trump push for single payer because 2017 is stupid as hell

somebody way upthread said something to the effect of "why can't they just pass one of the 40 Obamacare repeal bills the House voted on before. did they lose the paperwork or something?"

this particular issue really highlights how completely full of poo poo these people are, about everything

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



triple sulk posted:

seeing mcconnell fail over and over again w/the bill fuckin owns and is gonna somehow make trump push for single payer because 2017 is stupid as hell

I'm of the theory that he can only resist just doing whatever polls best for so long, and anything that he could perceive as a grand betrayal by the GOP (not funding wall + failing horribly on healthcare may count, more likely those two + some kind of Congress-caused economic crash) could cause him to embrace things like not only legal but free weed and UHC, and someone like Trump could get enough of the right on board to make up for those in both parties who would resist

We really just need to make a Bannon clone and put Bernie's brain in it and replace the original Bannon

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Deceptive Thinker posted:

Trump will never push for anything that will increase his taxes

Or that requires any actual effort.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
We thought the failson in law would take down trump but failson jr is doing his best to take that from kush

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

So that'll take, what, three, four minutes?

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884463860736028672

This dude loving sucks

gregday
May 23, 2003


Please flip on your dad

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Deceptive Thinker posted:

Trump will never push for anything that will increase his taxes

it's not like trump pays his taxes anyway

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Al! posted:

i actually ended up listening to this and it's actually p synthy and dope

Reminds me of the excellent The Guest soundtrack

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlhhZIVhGw8

Except this has, you know, vocals

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Deceptive Thinker posted:

Trump will never push for anything that will increase his taxes

That's why you get the people writing the bill to exclude Trump and only Trump from the tax increases to pass this insanely popular bill that he could sell as an election promise fulfilled

MasterSitsu
Nov 23, 2013

ShutteredIn posted:

he is a republican so

was once registered Republican. Currently registered independent.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Shageletic posted:

what do you call this? The Aux Au Provence Strategy?

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884480851848855553

gee I wonder what European country literally raped Africa of it's resources and planted numerous seeds of conflict that still haunts the continent to this day.

Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

These two are in love.

Deceptive Thinker
Oct 5, 2005

I'll rip out your optics!

gregday posted:

Please flip on your dad

Third favorite child turning? not likely

Eric or Tiffany...they're the betrayers

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

GobiasIndustries posted:

CALL YOUR SENATORS

Thousands of people have called my republican senator who assures everyone that they "aren't sure" if they'll vote for the bill. They aren't fooling anyone because "aren't sure" is just code for "I'm not going to say so in advance but there's a 100% chance I'm going to vote for this bill after some tiny, meaningless change.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Bread Liar

SKULL.GIF posted:

this is going to be so so so good

he hasn't had nearly the amount of training/experience sitting before a committee that people like comey and sessions had so he's absolutely going to blab something by accident that he really shouldn't

That, and the Trump's perceive themselves as royalty. Coupled with the idea they're protected because their dad is prez, the Trumps are all but willing to say whatever because they think nothing will happen.

I'm sure they're right, too.

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

yeah, if he's not owning tropm in handshakes he can gently caress off

didn't france have a semi-socialist president recently? what happened to that?

CortezFantastic
Aug 10, 2003

I SEE DEMONS

Karl Barks posted:

my god he's turning into trump



Nothing better than when his sexts leaked and he was as gross as you can imagine

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Al-Saqr posted:

gee I wonder what European country literally raped Africa of it's resources and planted numerous seeds of conflict that still haunts the continent to this day.

Slavery in the United States was really terrible, Macron agrees.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Flavius Belisarius posted:

somebody way upthread said something to the effect of "why can't they just pass one of the 40 Obamacare repeal bills the House voted on before. did they lose the paperwork or something?"

this particular issue really highlights how completely full of poo poo these people are, about everything

lol I forgot about that. they've had six years or more to come up with an alternative and they have nothing because the only thing they know how to do is campaign lmfao

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Thoguh posted:

Thousands of people have called my republican senator who assures everyone that they "aren't sure" if they'll vote for the bill. They aren't fooling anyone because "aren't sure" is just code for "I'm not going to say so in advance but there's a 100% chance I'm going to vote for this bill after some tiny, meaningless change.

Hey you must have one of my Senators. One is staunchly opposed and the other got wise to the trick we figured out of calling him staff extension and is once again MIA with blanket statements to that effect lol

Maybe I should call other Senators

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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Shageletic posted:

what do you call this? The Aux Au Provence Strategy?

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884480851848855553

what does he mean about demographic transition........................ hes talking about the colonialists that got kicked out isnt he

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