Budzbuddha
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Get ready for Bat Shit Crazy time ….……
Examples of GOP Leadership
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PJ Diaz
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Kanye West says Donald Trump screamed at him during dinner at Mar-a-Lago, telling Ye he will lose in 2024 if he runs for president
The rapper said he asked Trump — who is running for the 2024 GOP nomination — to be his running mate, and that the former president was "perturbed."
www.businessinsider.com
Roger A. Shrubber
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what exactly do they mean by "operative"...that makes it sound like his job is doing shady shit for the republicans...oh, right...that IS his job.
Roger A. Shrubber
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what crazy shit? looks like a typical trump rally to me.
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from the Poll Dancing desk …
www.cbsnews.com
Kari Lake files lawsuit in Maricopa County, alleging election laws were broken
Lake, a close ally of former President Donald Trump who has refused to acknowledge President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, has not yet conceded the governor's race.
www.cbsnews.com
DIY-HP-LED
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A good nick name for her, Poll Dancer Kari Lake. Some democrat who owns a strip club should put up a sign to the effect. Our girls pole dance inside here, Poll dancer Kari Lake does it outside in public.from the Poll Dancing desk …
Kari Lake files lawsuit in Maricopa County, alleging election laws were broken
Lake, a close ally of former President Donald Trump who has refused to acknowledge President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, has not yet conceded the governor's race.
Roger A. Shrubber
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DIY-HP-LED
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Budzbuddha
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Eric the Idiot talks about dad - Bone Spur Brigade
Budzbuddha
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“ I know Nuffin …. “
The ridiculousness is thick. SMH
The ridiculousness is thick. SMH
Budzbuddha
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Trumpy has Jack on his mind - 24/7
Don , check under your bed.
Don , check under your bed.
Roger A. Shrubber
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he makes me sad...he tries so hard, and trump just shits on him every time. but it's also hard to feel any sympathy....it's kind of like watching the weak jackal in a pack fawning over the cruel alpha jackal. they're still carrion eating scavengers.
Fogdog
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It's just the tip of the iceberg. No doubt Russian money fed not just Trump's campaign but many other Republican candidates. The shenanigans they played on Facebook and Twitter were also part of their psy ops campaign to get officials into office who would look the other way when Russia annexed Ukraine. It all went sideways when Biden took control with both houses in Democratic Party hands. And so, Putin invaded Ukraine, expecting Biden to roll over.
Following the Money: Trump and Russia-Linked Transactions From the Campaign to the Presidential Inauguration
At the heart of the inquiry into the alleged collusion between Trump and Russia is money. It provides concrete evidence of relationships, methods, and motives.
www.americanprogress.org
The following is just a sampling of the amounts found by Mueller and other investigators:
- A Russian organization allegedly controlled by an oligarch close to Putin spent more than $1 million a month just on social media campaigns favoring Trump, according to the special counsel.6
- a company affiliated with a sanctioned Russian oligarch paid $1 million to Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal lawyer, for unspecified services after the election.
- What is known of Russia’s use of financial resources to help elect President Trump—and his own willingness to violate campaign finance laws—raises serious questions about many still-unexplained transactions executed during the campaign and the postelection transition period. For example, consider Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov’s transfer of $20 million to an American bank account just days after a meeting that he organized between the Trump campaign’s most senior officials, including Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, and a Russian government attorney.
- The GRU officers accused of hacking the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) used cryptocurrency to pay for the necessary computer infrastructure in the United States.22 Mueller’s indictment alleged that the defendants “conspired to launder the equivalent of more than $95,000 through a web of transactions structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity” of bitcoin, among other cryptocurrencies.
- Project Lakhta has aimed “to sow discord in the U.S. political system” through the spread of misinformation on social media platforms.46 Between 2016 and 2018, the project’s operating budget exceeded $35 million, according to prosecutors,47 though only a portion of that was allocated to the congressional campaigns in the United States.
- First, in November 2016—10 days after Trump won the presidency—the Russian government wired Kislyak a lump-sum payment of $120,000.60 Both the timing and the amount raise questions, as the sum was more than twice Kislyak’s normal salary payments.
- the embassy paid $2.4 million to a small construction company controlled by a Russian immigrant in the United States, who was reportedly not equipped to carry out the work commissioned.
- Butina drafted a proposal for her “diplomatic” work targeting the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Republican Party in anticipation of the 2016 presidential election.69 She reportedly submitted the proposal to Alexander Torshin of the Central Bank of Russia.70 She requested a budget of $125,000 to participate in “all upcoming major conferences,”
- Bridges LLC appears to have been used to facilitate suspicious transactions, according to a report describing the $300,000 money trail Butina and Erickson left behind for bank investigators to find
- Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin’s efforts to influence the NRA, the largest dark money donor to the Trump campaign, have reportedly prompted the FBI to investigate whether the Kremlin could have used the gun rights group to funnel money to American political candidates.95 The NRA spent96 at least $30 million—and perhaps up to $70 million—to elect Trump in 2016, which is more than twice what the group spent to support the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney
- June 3—the same day Donald Trump Jr. received the email from Rob Goldstone offering assistance from the Russian government—to which he eventually replied, “I love it”—Aras Agalarov initiated a transfer of $3.3 million to the United States.106 According to Buzzfeed News, which broke the story, Irakly Kaveladze, Agalarov’s representative at the Trump Tower meeting, facilitated the transfer.
DIY-HP-LED
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Covid messed up the best laid plans I think, Trump's handling of it was atrocious and criminal. In away America and Ukraine are linked by this shit, it might all have been toward that end, and it would have taken the destruction of two democracies, the fracturing of NATO, the crippling of the state department and the compromise of Germany to pull it off. Ukraine had to shed blood to reclaim its democracy in 2014 and now to keep it. Paul Manafort ran out of Ukraine and to America and was sitting on his ass when Trump started using him for the same thing he did in Ukraine, steal a democracy for Vlad. It kinda makes America and Ukraine allies against Russia in a fundamental and visceral way with a shared experience and why Putin must go, and Russian military power must be broken. Joe appears to be just the guy to do it and he has been one or two steps ahead of Putin, busting him at every step and making his corner tighter and constraining his options.It's just the tip of the iceberg. No doubt Russian money fed not just Trump's campaign but many other Republican candidates. The shenanigans they played on Facebook and Twitter were also part of their psy ops campaign to get officials into office who would look the other way when Russia annexed Ukraine. It all went sideways when Biden took control with both houses in Democratic Party hands. And so, Putin invaded Ukraine, expecting Biden to roll over.
Following the Money: Trump and Russia-Linked Transactions From the Campaign to the Presidential Inauguration
At the heart of the inquiry into the alleged collusion between Trump and Russia is money. It provides concrete evidence of relationships, methods, and motives.
The following is just a sampling of the amounts found by Mueller and other investigators:
- A Russian organization allegedly controlled by an oligarch close to Putin spent more than $1 million a month just on social media campaigns favoring Trump, according to the special counsel.6
- a company affiliated with a sanctioned Russian oligarch paid $1 million to Michael Cohen, then Trump’s personal lawyer, for unspecified services after the election.
- What is known of Russia’s use of financial resources to help elect President Trump—and his own willingness to violate campaign finance laws—raises serious questions about many still-unexplained transactions executed during the campaign and the postelection transition period. For example, consider Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov’s transfer of $20 million to an American bank account just days after a meeting that he organized between the Trump campaign’s most senior officials, including Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, and a Russian government attorney.
- The GRU officers accused of hacking the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) used cryptocurrency to pay for the necessary computer infrastructure in the United States.22 Mueller’s indictment alleged that the defendants “conspired to launder the equivalent of more than $95,000 through a web of transactions structured to capitalize on the perceived anonymity” of bitcoin, among other cryptocurrencies.
- Project Lakhta has aimed “to sow discord in the U.S. political system” through the spread of misinformation on social media platforms.46 Between 2016 and 2018, the project’s operating budget exceeded $35 million, according to prosecutors,47 though only a portion of that was allocated to the congressional campaigns in the United States.
- First, in November 2016—10 days after Trump won the presidency—the Russian government wired Kislyak a lump-sum payment of $120,000.60 Both the timing and the amount raise questions, as the sum was more than twice Kislyak’s normal salary payments.
- the embassy paid $2.4 million to a small construction company controlled by a Russian immigrant in the United States, who was reportedly not equipped to carry out the work commissioned.
- Butina drafted a proposal for her “diplomatic” work targeting the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Republican Party in anticipation of the 2016 presidential election.69 She reportedly submitted the proposal to Alexander Torshin of the Central Bank of Russia.70 She requested a budget of $125,000 to participate in “all upcoming major conferences,”
- Bridges LLC appears to have been used to facilitate suspicious transactions, according to a report describing the $300,000 money trail Butina and Erickson left behind for bank investigators to find
- Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin’s efforts to influence the NRA, the largest dark money donor to the Trump campaign, have reportedly prompted the FBI to investigate whether the Kremlin could have used the gun rights group to funnel money to American political candidates.95 The NRA spent96 at least $30 million—and perhaps up to $70 million—to elect Trump in 2016, which is more than twice what the group spent to support the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney
- June 3—the same day Donald Trump Jr. received the email from Rob Goldstone offering assistance from the Russian government—to which he eventually replied, “I love it”—Aras Agalarov initiated a transfer of $3.3 million to the United States.106 According to Buzzfeed News, which broke the story, Irakly Kaveladze, Agalarov’s representative at the Trump Tower meeting, facilitated the transfer.
Budzbuddha
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Herschel the Village Idiot worshipping the orange sphincter
Fogdog
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Biden had to be aware of the damage Putin and his cronies were doing to western Democracy and Ukraine was where he put in all of his chips to stop Putin. They were very quick to enact the kinds of sanctions that shut down their flow of dirty money into the west.
DIY-HP-LED
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If Putin goes down, and there is revolution in Iran, Xi will be lonely at the next despots meeting. Vlad's Blunder has turned into the geopolitical win of the century and bargain, since they will end up paying the entire shot for the war. It is sad it is costing so many lives, but it has to be this way I guess, it is Putin's responsibility and his way out of the corner is to leave all of Ukraine. However, to do so will lead to the end of his regime and true liberal democratic reform could see the dissolution of the Russian federation/empire in a few years.
Roger A. Shrubber
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those sanctions should never be lifted.
bot / troll farms should be a major project for EU/US coordination, it is in the EU's best interest to keep the American government healthy and non fascist.
Roger A. Shrubber
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putin CAN'T do that, unless he decides suicide is the way. The only way out for him is to win, and there is fuck all chance of that. I think it will keep him trying up until things disintegrate around him, though. there will be no peace until putin is out of office, how ever that happens.