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God bless this administration.

They give me a legit lead story three mornings
a week. I'll miss them in three years.

 

Don't forget, Trump's White House runs like a "finely tuned machine." He said so himself!

 

I've had half tanks of gas last longer than Scaramucci.

 

Sadly, there's virtually zero chance Arpaio does any time. But yes, it's good to see this particular mythical figure die in flames.

 

During the Senate Judiciary Committee, Browder was asked by Senator Lindsey Graham’s on the apparent contradiction of Russia allegedly having ties to the unverified dossier on Trump while also rooting for him to win the presidency.

Browder replied: “What you need to understand about the Russians is there is no ideology at all.

“Vladimir Putin is in the business of trying to create chaos everywhere.”

Senator Richard Blumenthal asked: “They’ve got you both ways: with the carrot of continued bribery, and the stick of exposure and blackmail if you defect?”

Browder replied: “That is how every single one of their relationships work. That’s how they grab people and keep them.

“And once you get stuck in with them, you can never leave.”

The full transcript of Browder’s prepared remarks is as follows...

Bill Browder's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Could Explain Anthony Scaramucci's Bizarre Behaviour | HuffPost UK

 

Terribly written first paragraph, which doesn't say that Kelly was director of DHS at the time.

 

I know. Just nice to see justice done every once in a while.
Got to believe this squelches any chance the great conservative hero and real American will serve any longer in public life.

 

Jake Tapper referred to this administration taking on a "Red Wedding" appearance.

I can't help but think of Travolta and bum, ba-bum, ba-bum, ba-ba-ba-ba-Bum
"Summer Lovin' happened so fast....
Summer loving - it never could laaaaast
I met a Prez - fat as can be.
I met douche - who spoke just like men-hee-hee.

 

That all changed in July 2003, when Putin arrested Russia’s biggest oligarch and richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Putin grabbed Khodorkovsky off his private jet, took him back to Moscow, put him on trial, and allowed television cameras to film Khodorkovsky sitting in a cage right in the middle of the courtroom. That image was extremely powerful, because none of the other oligarchs wanted to be in the same position. After Khodorkovsky’s conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin’s answer was, “Fifty percent.” He wasn’t saying 50 percent for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50 percent for Vladimir Putin personally. From that moment on, Putin became the biggest oligarch in Russia and the richest man in the world, and my anti-corruption activities would no longer be tolerated.

 

I don't know if either you or this EH dude are trying to rip on the original tweet. But it's a riff on an old anti-Soviet Soviet joke:
'What is the difference between communism and capitalism?' 'Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man; communism is the exact opposite.'