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Not that I would expect real evidence to support the ridiculous point you were trying to make.

 

1781.

 

The British want to pull out of he Treaty of Ghent (1783) and renegotiate.

 

I'm case anyone was wondering what's happening on Planet Zoltar, these were the chyrons during Lyin' Maiden's chat with Fox and Friends:

Comey: Lynch pressured on Clinton probe

Comey: Lynch wanted probe called "matter"

Did Lynch cover for Clinton?

Dem: They should investigate Lynch

Comey, Meuller friends, worked together

Economic boom is WH bright spot

Economy soars under President Trump

 

Her friends sound nice:

 

So the Queen's Speech, the address Queen Elizabeth reads to Parliament setting out the agenda of the government, was supposed to be a week from today, but will be postponed. First, May hasn't completed negotiations with the DUP Northern Ireland Protestant party for their de facto coalition. And this means there won't be time for the ink to dry on the goat skin parchment which by tradition must be what the damn thing is written on. No teleprompters for Her Majesty! Not even a printout.
PS: They don't use real goat skin anymore, but the closest synthetic equivalent they can get.

 

Don't need 'em as a friend. Don't expect them ever to be a friend.
Need 'em to be a partner. Just a couple of days ago a Russian rocket launched an American satellite into orbit.
Partnership. It works.

I discussed this two months ago. Navalny's protest was illegal. NOT because "protests are illegal", because they aren't. Navalny was granted permission to hold his protests on SPECIFIC streets in Moscow (cities have the right to tell people where they can stage large protests for logistical and practical purposes). Navalny refused to comply and held his protests in places he did not have permission to hold them. Thus, the protests were illegal. Navalny also likes to surround himself with kids at his rallies so that when he is accosted, he hopes some kids will be roughed up, too, so he can bitch about THAT (just learned that the other day, BTW). Navalny is a notorious lawbreaker and as knee-deep in corruption as those he claims to oppose.

Your sources will never give you the entire story. That should piss you off. For some reason it doesn't.

 

The US and Russia certainly should be partners in many instances and can be friends too in a lot of ways. The nations share a wide geographic/climatic range, have a pretty diverse society (Russia by circumstance over the decades) and many historical parallels.

The problem is, Fucko's treasonous pandering puppet behavior toward Putin would be pretty much just as bad if he were kissing up to the U.K., Israel or Canada.

The problem isn't so much Putin himself and Russia as a country (although that's part of it), the problem is, who is Fucko working for?

The POTUS is supposed to work for the interests of the United States of America. Not Russia. Not Romania. Not Canada. Not the U.K. Not Germany. Not Israel. Not Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, not Japan, Korea, etc etc and must definitely not the interests of The Trump Organization.

 

With regard to the two state's Attorneys General suing Trump over the emoluments clause, part of the injury standing for filing it is that convention centers in their states are losing business to Trump hotels and resorts. They also intend to go after his tax records as part of it. Per NPR this morning.

 

If Russia had not tried to influence our election in any way, if none of that stuff happened and Flynn was still NSA and all the rest, Trump's policies towards Russia and NATO would still be politically toxic for him because most Americans do not have a good opinion of Putin and perceive Western European countries as our friends. It wouldn't be anything as big a deal as it is today, but it would still be a significant controversy.

 

Bibi Netanyahu (and his predecessors) blatantly and continually tries to influence U.S. elections, and the RWSM constantly bitched that Obama didn't kowtow to him enough.

 

“It’s not a Republican thing or a Democratic thing. It really is an American thing.”

That’s what former FBI Director James Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian meddling into the 2016 election. Yet much of the political reaction over recent days was just the opposite, providing the latest evidence that American politics is more polarized than ever, with much of the country – or at least its elected representatives — siding solidly red or blue. ...

The refusal to look beyond the partisan silos has some observers worried, especially with Russia seeking to disrupt American politics by sowing dissent in its democratic institutions, using disinformation campaigns and cyberattacks. ...

“What Russian active measures do is they exploit the weaknesses that we present, and partisanship is a great weakness,” said Heather Conley, a senior vice president at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former deputy assistant secretary of state.

“Slowly,” she said, “you are eroding your faith in your leaders and the institutions and that is exactly what the Kremlin is interested in. The Russians are starting this, but we are doing this to ourselves.”

Partisanship may obscure Comey’s real warning: Russia’s threat to America