ThePeavstenator posted:

one is his dad

Prester Jane posted:

At this point I am developing a pet hypothesis that Russia saw Citizens United as a massive opportunity to funnel money into vulnerable US politicians- and wound up funding a fair portion of the GOP establishment as a result. Further, I suspect the Russians may learned from what the Koch bro's did in creating the Tea Party and are using that as a model to steer/manipulate the alt-right. I am also very suspicious that Russia might have been quietly funding certain American fringe media figures like Alex Jones and the like- certainly Russia has no problem in openly using state assets like RT to support people like Alex Jones.

I think at this point there is a case to be made that Russia may have embraced phase two of the cold war in a much more serious way than America was really prepared to deal with.

RisqueBarber posted:

This is my biggest argument against the second amendment. How much good is my shotgun going to do against the U.S. armed forces? I think drones, jets, tanks, and missiles would just destroy us. What's the point?

paternity suitor posted:

For comedy, you can search the results of why people were denied clearances. It's so arbitrary. You can tell when it was someone important vs a truck driver. I found a case where the dude was busted with child porn on multiple occasions and was eventually granted a clearance after an initial denial. He must have had a PhD in something they wanted to research or something. Then I found a dude who admit to taking a puff of weed at a Dave Matthews concert with his son. Like it wasn't even his, just someone in the crowd passed it and he took a hit. Denied. Him being dumb enough to admit this might be the real reason he was denied.

Suffice to say meeting with Russian agents and then lying about it would def be enough to get even a Secret clearance revoked.

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/885695457669894144

It’s okay he just made a dipsy doodle.

Tzen posted:

The WTF Just Happened Today? sketch today is.. unsettling

#drawingthenews Kellyanne Conway resorts to flash cards to explain Russia controversy. Art by Eli Neugeboren

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Meet one of Trump's new lawyers

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885878039598555136

He is wanted on accusations of killing Miss Scarlet in the Ballroom.

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Meet one of Trump's new lawyers

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885878039598555136

He is wanted on accusations of killing Miss Scarlet in the Ballroom.

Tzen posted:

The WTF Just Happened Today? sketch today is.. unsettling

#drawingthenews Kellyanne Conway resorts to flash cards to explain Russia controversy. Art by Eli Neugeboren

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Meet one of Trump's new lawyers

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885878039598555136

He is wanted on accusations of killing Miss Scarlet in the Ballroom.

quote:

Conway: Hillary Clinton ‘one of the only people’ who believes in Russia collusion

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Friday that “the goal posts have been moved” when it comes to proving cooperation between the campaign of President Donald Trump and the Russian government.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Conway said, is among a handful of people still clinging to theories of collusion.

“I mean, we were promised systemic, hard evidence of systemic, sustained, furtive collusion that not only interfered with our election process but indeed dictated the electoral outcome,” Conway said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.” “And one of the only people who says that seriously these days is still Hillary Clinton and nobody believes it. We know why she lost. It's obvious.”

Tzen posted:

The WTF Just Happened Today? sketch today is.. unsettling

#drawingthenews Kellyanne Conway resorts to flash cards to explain Russia controversy. Art by Eli Neugeboren

Prester Jane posted:

Thanks, I'm going to go check this out.

FYI, I have a hunch I have long wanted to run by someone like you. (That is to say someone who understands how to run down financial connections.) There is an organization called "School of Tomorrow" that I suspect an investigation into their financial history would lead rapidly into some fascinating places. School of Tomorrow publishes a conservative christian private/home school curriculum called "Accelerated Christian Education". This particular organization has deep ties to the Republican political establishment via the Council for National Policy, (the founder of School of Tomorrow sat on the board of the CNP for many years) and the GOP has acted repeatedly over the years to keep School of Tomorrow as far out of the public limelight as possible.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:

Meet one of Trump's new lawyers

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885878039598555136

He is wanted on accusations of killing Miss Scarlet in the Ballroom.

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Meet one of Trump's new lawyers

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885878039598555136

Enigma89 posted:

This guy looks like he belongs on a clue board.

Tzen posted:

The WTF Just Happened Today? sketch today is.. unsettling

#drawingthenews Kellyanne Conway resorts to flash cards to explain Russia controversy. Art by Eli Neugeboren

FlamingLiberal posted:

Wait, so which is it guys, did Clinton/Obama set up Don Jr or is she delusional. You need to pick one.

Majorian posted:

I know I complain about Clinton's campaign a lot, but holy poo poo:


I really hope she gets caught up in all of this and goes to jail. I'm not holding my breath, but the idea puts a smile on my face.

LaserShark posted:

You mean Conway going to jail, right? Unclear.

If so, I doubt it, but I agree it's a heartwarming thought.

DreamShipWrecked posted:

Meet one of Trump's new lawyers

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885878039598555136

He is wanted on accusations of killing Miss Scarlet in the Ballroom.

Ague Proof posted:

Everyone around this man is some garbage sitcom joke character too ridiculous and incompetent to exist. Do they gravitate towards him like an unresistable magnetic force or does exposure to Trump permanently ruin the human brain? His lawyer, his doctor, the butler who wanted to lynch Obama...

Prester Jane posted:

Thanks, I'm going to go check this out.

FYI, I have a hunch I have long wanted to run by someone like you. (That is to say someone who understands how to run down financial connections.) There is an organization called "School of Tomorrow" that I suspect an investigation into their financial history would lead rapidly into some fascinating places. School of Tomorrow publishes a conservative christian private/home school curriculum called "Accelerated Christian Education". This particular organization has deep ties to the Republican political establishment via the Council for National Policy, (the founder of School of Tomorrow sat on the board of the CNP for many years) and the GOP has acted repeatedly over the years to keep School of Tomorrow as far out of the public limelight as possible.

For a demonstration of the depth of the ties between School of Tomorrow and the GOP I reference the article "Remember the Christian Alamo". This article details how a School of Tomorrow facility that had been shut down for the concentration-camp levels of abuse it was heaping on teenage girls. (beatings, forced stress positions for hours, solitary confinement with constant auditory harassment for periods of up to 30 days, etc) Then Governor of Texas George W Bush swooped in and personally intervened to not only reopen the facility but to protect it from future state oversight with a RFRA law.

The thing about School of Tomorrow is that although the CNP is pretty competently run, SoT is staffed primarily by its own deluded cultists at this point. As a result of years of dealing with that organization I am 100% certain that they haven't the sense to cover their tracks competently. I rather suspect that an investigation into their financial history/financial history of their chief officers (the founder of A.C.E. was quietly forced out of the organization for raping one of his students, his wife runs it now) would yield a bountiful harvest of interesting connections and leads.

I have no capacity to take my investigation of School of Tomorrow any further than I have, but I am very certain that once someone starts seriously looking all kinds of fascinating poo poo will emerge. As an organization School of Tomorrow posses the delightful combination of outright evil and bumbling incompetence that has come to define Trump. So if you (or anyone else who has the capacity) ever gets the chance to kick the tires of that one, please let me know what you find.

Tzen posted:

Erebus posted:

RisqueBarber posted:

This is my biggest argument against the second amendment. How much good is my shotgun going to do against the U.S. armed forces? I think drones, jets, tanks, and missiles would just destroy us. What's the point?

DreamShipWrecked posted:

So this is probably old news to everyone else, but I looked up Trump's lawyer on Wiki.

He is repping Trump, but also has represented a Russian oligarch that owns a ton of stuff (Oleg Deripaska) as well as a Russian State Bank.

Oleg is really close with Putin.

Guess who used to work for Oleg. His name rhymes with "Raul Ranafort"

It really is Russians all the way down.

skylined! posted:

holding no punches

feels like a hit piece if it weren't all true. gently caress.

https://twitter.com/nancypelosi/status/885891357902090240

DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/885713096664166402

Overwined posted:

See the problem with the #WakeUpGOP slogan as coming from Pelosi is that even if the GOP was looking up at an asteroid coming down on their heads and Nancy Pelosi came along and said, "If you move 5 steps to the left you'll be safe," they'd flip her the bird and get brained by a spacerock just out of spite.

BrandorKP posted:

My boss used to work under a old Norwegian captain who did clandestine work and was in various national resistance groups in WWII.

Apparently he used to say the following : "Give me thirty men and turn out the lights and I'll give you the country." I don't know how true that was, but what I take away from it is that the veneer of society is thinner than we assume.

What happens in this country if they openly try to steal the next election? I'm not taking about the ways they are clearly trying to steal it already (voter roll purging, etc). I mean straight out obvious Russian elections style try to steal it. I don't own guns (but love to shoot) and that thought hasn't made me buy them.

Thank God they're morons.