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We can hope.

 

You don't have to hope. Elijah Cummings sent Pence a letter early in the transition about Flynn. There were multiple media reports about Flynn's work as a foreign agent. Pence saying he didn't know is an outright lie.

 

To whom do they look? Fox News?
Certainly not to anyone who believes in science or to any religious persuasion not led by bigoted televangelists.

 

In 2019 maybe we can get a two-fer impeachment and have a President Pelosi. A great big shitburger for the base.

 

We were told Russia wasn't a problem several years back.

 

I just find it strange that, in the race to be the most super-patriotic, so many people have embraced a commander in chief who cares so little about his military that he can't be bothered to learn about or even listen to troop movement details, however mundane.

 

1. A higher percentage of journalists were killed during Yeltsin's time in office than in Putin's. So much for the "dictatorship" theory.

2. These journalists were investigating corruption by oligarchs . . . who are the ones chiefly responsible for their deaths. That's why a great many of the killers have been tried and convicted and are currently in prison.

When a "dictator" orders a murder, the killer doesn't see a courtroom or a prison.

From the book "Soviet Fates and Alternatives" by Stephen Cohen:

"An entire oligarchical system, based on the merger of privatized property and privatized state policy making, emerged during the Yeltsin 1990s. Shaped by mass and prolonged redistribution of existing property, asset stripping, capital flight abroad, and fearful uncertainty about the duration of the wealth-seizing possibilities, it grew into a demodernizing system antithetical to economic development. During the following decade, Putin made significant alterations in the system, separating Yeltsin-era oligarchs from Kremlin power, and a few from their property, while creating new oligarchs of his own, but he did not change its underlying nature.

"A characteristic and poorly interpreted feature of the system is Russia's economic corruption, both official and private, and the violence accompanying it. The shadowy, illicit procedures and contract murders that fostered the birth of the oligarchy spread with the new system. As a result, corruption also now deprives Russia of billions of dollars and the efficiency needed for modernization. Meanwhile, most of the frequent assassinations of journalists and related crimes, usually attributed to the Kremlin, are actually commissioned by "businessmen" and officials against reporters and other investigators who have gotten too close to their commercial secrets."

 

Ever notice how he grabs women hard by both arms so they can't get away? Just another control thing ...

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You can't prosecute it as rape, so it's a total nothingburger.