75 thoughts on “Vote Republican = Vote Putin”

  1. reposting x-r’s early morning rumination and adding the ny times link :
    What Did the President Know and When Did He Know It ?
     
    According to NYT, evening 7/18/18, trump knew the russians had interfered in the ’16 election on Jan 6, 2017, a full two weeks before the inauguration [at which russian oligarchs funded parties !]. Several Intel people were present as John Brennan laid out the details of the russian attacks on our election for trump, including the names and emails of the russian officers and the approval of v. putin.For 1 1/2 years, trump has been an accessory after the fact of the crimes, covering up the interference, attempting to end the investigation, and obstructing testimony, and delaying the collection of direct evidence.
     

  2. to the above, add in the money poured in for the inauguration.  some of which is discussed here by vox 7/5/18:
    Last week, ABC News’s Matthew Mosk and John Santucci reported that several wealthy Russians were “granted unusual access” to Trump inauguration parties back in January 2017 — and that Mueller was seeking to find out why.
     
    This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of Mueller’s interest in the inauguration. Back in April, CNN reported that the special counsel was investigating “whether wealthy Russians illegally funneled cash donations directly or indirectly into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and inauguration” — and had even questioned some oligarchs directly.
     
    These reports have broken in the months since former Trump aide Rick Gates agreed to a plea deal with Mueller’s team in exchange for his cooperation. That may not be a coincidence — Gates was heavily involved in planning the inauguration, with a Yahoo News report in 2016 calling him the “shadow chair” of the event.
    [….long article continues but noteworthy towards the end in that it lists names and number$….]

     

  4. XR, insomnia much?  Yeah, me too. Of course SFB knew about Russian interference and back channel campaign donations. It’s no coincidence that disclosure rules have changed to allow keeping donors’ identities anonymous. Transparency-not.

  5. xrep – That’s quite a list of folks to corral & build a wall around.  Good question  about Pence. Oust the entire administration.

    Is the UK making more headway into the Russkies interfering in Brexit?

    Any intel Mueller can use there?

  9. am wondering if some of the more militant protest displays going on now aren’t also the work (or at least encouraged and enabled by funneling money/trolls to unwitting but naïve and compassionate souls) of the puppeteer.

    remember the russkies divide and conquer routine with fake folk promoting such stuff in 2016 to repress voter turnout.  looks like they’re still at it.

  11. One of Don Lemon’s guest last night was Jeff Sharlet, researcher of right-wing fundamentalism.   red sparrow butina aka anna chapman 2.0 has shone a spot light on the National Prayer Breakfast and the strong man concept.

    from the article

    “What people don’t understand about the National Prayer Breakfast, is it’s not a government event,” Sharlet explained. “It’s run by a private, sectarian, fundamentalist organize called The Fellowship and The Family that believes in precisely this kind of action. In fact, the long-time leader of the organization has called it quiet diplomacy, back channel, back door interactions between international leaders, that they use the prayer breakfast to bring them together. As recently as a year ago, the current leader, Doug Burleigh, was predicting alliance between [President Donald] Trump and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. He predicted that that at a Russian prayer breakfast.”
    Sharlet explained that the cozy relationship between Christian conservatives and Russians stems from the conservatism in Russia, mainly Putin’s crusade against LGBT people and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church.

    “The Fellowship, that organizes the National Prayer Breakfast, particularly admire him because they’re theology, their religious view, is built around their understanding of Jesus, the strong man. They believe Christianity gets it wrong when speaking to every day people. They’re called to administer to elites like Trump and Putin, who can bring peace together. That’s their vision. That’s what they created the prayer breakfast for.”

  12. Think Joe still wants it?

    Two more HC climbs today. Tuesday ‘s winner Julian Alaphilippe was first over Col de la Madeleine. He’s front runner for king of the mountains.

  13. Holy voter suppression. How can we stop these idiots from reaching the voting booths like the gop does to dems? I watched a trump supporter claim the hot economy was enough for his guy to be behooving to putie    He claimed that housing prices were coming back (from the negative zone) and interest rates were going up.  High interest rates are a good for the little guy to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Huh?  He is part of the moran troop that continues to rally for a compromised bankrupt sellout like trump.  I hope this guy is so happy with the ‘WHITE hot economy’ he doesn’t vote.

  14. the hill:
    Michael Avenatti says he’s the “street fighter” Democrats need if they’re going to win the White House in 2020.
    […]
    He says he’s skeptical that the politicians now seen as likely contenders in the 2020 presidential race can beat President Trump.
    The Democratic Party needs “a street fighter … someone that can give as good as they take,” he said.
    “Let us remember that Donald Trump beat 16 very experienced politicians on his way to the White House – governors, senators, members of the House – and he also beat the most qualified candidate in the history of the United States, in my view, Hillary Clinton,” Avenatti said in an interview with The Hill on Wednesday.
    “I’ve been fighting on behalf of David versus Goliaths. I have dealt with complex legal matters, assembled teams of people to successfully prosecute those cases, and I’m also smart enough to know what I don’t know and smart enough to surround myself with quality people. I’m smarter because I take their advice.”
    […]
    On some level, the fact that Avenatti is even talking about a presidential run is a sign of how Democrats are searching and searching for the perfect candidate to take on Trump. Oprah Winfrey briefly became a contender after a rousing speech at the 2017 Golden Globes Awards.
    The party is debating whether they need a fighter, a fresh face or someone who voters will want to have a beer with.
    A Rasmussen poll out this week said 73 percent of Democrats surveyed said they want a fresh face as the 2020 nominee. Sixteen percent said the party should nominate a candidate who has run in the past.
    […]
    One Democratic strategist speaking on background discounted the idea of an Avenatti candidacy.
    “Let’s be a little realistic here,” the strategist said.
    Then the strategist, noting Trump’s surprise run to the White House, had a second thought.
    “I guess after 2016, one could say never say never.”
     

  15. He not only wants it, Pogo. He’s running, as are several others. Fundraising & setting up super pacs, hiring operatives, early state visits, it has begun.

    Trump on Biden: “President Obama took him out of the garbage heap and everybody was shocked that he did.” (CBS 7/18)

    TRUMP: Well, I dream, I dream about Biden. That’s a dream. Look, Joe Biden ran three times. He never got more than 1 percent and President Obama took him out of the garbage heap, and everybody was shocked that he did. I’d love to have it be Biden. I think I’d like to have any one of those people that we’re talking about…You know, there’s probably – the group of seven or eight right now. I’d really like to – I’d like to run against any one of them, but Biden never by himself could never do anything. President Obama took him, made him vice president and he was fine. But you go back and look at how he succeeded in running, when he ran two or three times, I don’t think he ever break — broke one. He was at the one or less level, 1 percent or less level. 

     

  18. The barrel is no longer empty…freedom caucus jim jordan takes another tumble in the barrel.

    jordan named in lawsuit/OSU strauss

    On Tuesday, Jordan’s public-relations crisis became a legal nightmare. Attorneys filed a massive class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Ohio on behalf of an as-yet-unnamed former OSU wrestler.

    Jordan, the jut-jawed anti-gay crusader who’s the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House, is singled out in the suit: He’s one of only three former school officials named, including Strauss, though the action is aimed at all the coaches, administrators and others in positions of responsibility at OSU who, it claims, stood by while students and student-athletes were repeatedly “sexually abused, harassed, and molested,” and “forced” to seek treatment from a well-known predator even after they complained. (Strauss was the sole team doctor for the wrestlers; the men say they either had to choose to let injuries go untreated, as the lawsuit says some did, or subject themselves to yet another assault.)

     

  19. More on jordan from the rolling stone article —
    So far, as more former wrestlers, including UFC champion Mark Coleman, have stepped out and told their stories, Jordan has wielded his mastery of right-wing media to try and inoculate himself against this career-threatening scandal. The congressman managed to contain the fallout from an eerily similar revelation last November, when one of his longtime Washington aides and protégées, Ohio state Rep. Wesley Goodman, was publicly unmasked as one of the capitol city’s most notorious sexual predators during his six years working for Jordan, stalking and abusing at least 30young conservative men he promised to “mentor.” This was huge news in Ohio, but was buried nationally beneath the daily drumbeat of Trump atrocities.
    The Goodman scandal alone could have been enough to force Jordan out of Congress. In April, Elizabeth Esty, a Democratic representative from Connecticut, had to resign because she kept a former chief of staff on her payroll for three months after another former aide accused him of harassment. The well-documented accusations against Goodman are much, much broader. While working for Jordan for six years, Goodman reportedly harassed or assaulted at least 30 young men. Jordan adamantly denied that he had any knowledge of Goodman’s notorious reputation – just as he’s now claiming, against the word of his ex-wrestlers, that he had no clue that Strauss (who committed suicide in 2005) was groping the athletes.

  20. Fall out from the tax cut is starting to take hold.  Real wages falling, healthcare premiums skyrocketing, and deficit about to exceed the 1 trillion dollar mark.

    There is some hope on the horizon with 36 governors up for election in 2018 and 11 more in 2020.  Turn enough of those blue will help redistricting after the 2020 census as well as repairing the electoral/voter suppression crimes of the GOP.

    We really need to turn the house blue in 2018 and elect a Democratic President in 2020, assuming we haven’t been invaded by Russia.

  21. There goes 2020, a guy who had money problems, plagiarism issues, his son was involved in the ukraine and gazprom doings and like it was the 1870’s, his son marries his late brother’s wife, he stifled sexual accusers of thomas hearings, the young think he is not progressive and actually a dangerous with his RAVE act.    He will be put on a swift boat by putie’s gop with his last century ideas and personal life.

    I wish he, too, would have a mentor list.  dems are doomed if they take this path.   Win in 2018, first and foremost.   Save desperation for 2020 if we do not win in 2018.

  22. In my feeble opinion that moment in the debate should be played on endless loop everywhere there is to play it…..right now

    “No puppet!  No puppet! YOU’RE the puppet!”

  23. From March 2017, the nra and russian infiltration..  The feds must have been watching butina for some time.  Even bolton is mentioned in the read.

     

    In the “President’s Column” in the September 2011 issue of the NRA’s America’s 1st Freedom magazine, David Keene announced he was appointing lawyer John Bolton to be chair of the NRA’s international affairs subcommittee. Bolton served in the Reagan and Bush administrations and gained a reputation as a war hawk.
    NRA president Keene explained his decision as follows: “[Bolton] may not be in the State Department anymore, but he’s as dedicated to preserving the Second Amendment as any NRA member and will be advising us on strategy as we confront our opponents in this newly dangerous forum.” The “forum” Keene was referencing was the United Nations, which was then considering a treaty to halt the illicit trade of small arms globally. Keene’s paranoid view of the UN and opposition to the treaty was shared by Bolton, who told NRATV host Cam Edwards in 2009: “[The Obama administration] will use [the small arms treaty] as an excuse to get domestically what they couldn’t otherwise.”
     

  24. If it holds there will be a new leader of the Tour by a bunch. Steven Kruijswijk crested the col de la Croix-de-Fer – the 2nd above category climb in the stage – alone in the lead over 6 minutes ahead of the peloton and the 3 top contenders. If he can maintain that gap he’ll take a 3 1/2 – 4 minute lead in the race. The Alps are where the race is defined. 

  26. bibi and his homeland law.
    According to the Haaretz, “The [nation-state] law also includes clauses stating that a ‘united Jerusalem’ is the capital of Israel and that Hebrew is the country’s official language. Another says that ‘the state sees the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.'”
    The law further rescinds Arabic as an official language, downgrading it to a “special status.”
    The government says the bill only enshrines into law what had long been integral to Israel’s existing character, but the country’s minority Arabs, which make up about 20 percent of the country’s 9 million people, see the change as akin to establishing apartheid.
    “This is a defining moment in the annals of Zionism and the history of the state of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, addressing the Knesset after the vote.

  27. Am I the only one this paranoid? …. On January 6 2017, Brennan et al. reportedly showed Trump emails and texts showing that Putin personally directed the election attack and that the source was someone close to Putin. The source was so tightly held that he/she wasn’t even named in Obama’s PDB and only a few people (including Obama) knew the identity. What is the likelihood/possibility that Trump revealed the source to Putin (Helsinki or G20) and/or Lavrov (Oval Office meeting)? Methinks it is highly likely. Would our intelligence sources somehow have relayed their reveal to Trump back in January 2017 or more recently to give that person a heads up in the high likelihood that Putin goes after them?  Or is the NYT story last night the result of the intelligence agencies finding out that their source has been burned? My head is spinning. Really dark times we’re living in and to see the GOP sitting on their hands is truly sickening.

  28. Looks like Kruijswijk may eke out a win in the stage but unless he’s got some sort of hidden afterburner he won’t take the yellow jersey. He started the last climb 4:20 ahead of the peloton. That will not be enough to overtake Thomas. But he’s putting up a gallant effort and as much as I would like to see Chris Froome win the race ultimately I’m pulling for Kruijswijk today.

  29. New slogan contest for Dems.  Let’s see ‘em, folks.

    Fighting Commies at Home…Cuz They’re Here

  30. Kruijswijk Is crumbling. Drat. 

    I may be reporting prematurely. He’s recouped a bit and there was some erroneous reporting on NBCSN

  32. “Fighting Commies at Home…Cuz They’re Here”

    Russians haven’t been communist for 30 years, genius.

  36. Whew, I’m exhausted. Good on Geraint Thomas. Took advantage of the magic of the peloton.

  39. Dang, i should have remembered to invite you into my fantasy league (which i’m winning resoundingly, ofc) pogo.

    I think the route is terrible this year, and I’m guessing all the sprinters agree, since all of them abandoned, today.  It’s almost as if they designed the route FOR Team Sky- no wonder they were let back in at the last minute after having been preemptively DQ’d.

    Everything is so damn corrupt, even ridiculous bike races 🙁

    ok, i’ll speak no more of it- blame pogo.  Back to Russian espionage.

  41. tad divine, bernie’s guy, turns-up 16 times in Mr. Mueller’s evidence against manafort.
    The former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump and Devine worked together nearly a decade ago for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Kremlin Party of Regions, and the pair remained in contact until at least 2014.

    According to the new court filing, Manafort and Devine communicated by email through June 2014, about five months before he joined the Sanders campaign that November.

  42. More from the raw story linked above —
    Devine backed away from his work for Yanukovych after the Ukrainian president began cracking down on dissent, although he evidently remained in contact with his former colleagues.

    Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver reportedly asked Devine to use his connections to Manafort to set up a debate with then-candidate Trump, who apparently liked the idea, but the campaign strategist never called back his old colleague to discuss the proposition.

  43. An opine piece on bernie, manafort and devine from the Medium.
    Beyond Tad Devine reaping millions of dollars as a Sanders consultant, filtered into his organization called “Old Towne Media”, Devine has had a career in mostly unsuccessful national and international politics.
    One can’t rely on the sketchy information in Wikipedia, as this can never be taken as a true source. This was proven as Bernie Sanders entered the Presidential candidacy and when Wikipedia refused to remove some of his dark past associations with extreme socialist governments and Russia, Sanders threatened lawsuit, and Wikipedia caved and removed it. The Wikipedia information on Devine paints him in such a positive light that you would think Devine wrote it himself. It also conveniently omits the fact that Devine worked for the law firm Winston & Strawn, LLP that represented Monsanto or that Devine worked for Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, who was found liable for stealing the money of his clients and then forced out. The only reason this information is important is to set the stage for the kind of work Devine takes on and to get rid of the “halo” that the Sanders group seems to have given him.

  44. And one more opine on bern and russia —
    We already knew Russian operatives waged “information warfare against the United States,” per a February indictment brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. They aimed to move public opinion against Hillary Clinton, we just didn’t know how. With this new reporting, the picture is clearer: Cambridge Analytica and the Kremlin’s troll farm are linked.
    What does that have to do with Sanders? Anything that was anti-Clinton was pro-Trump. That meant helping Sanders as well as Green Party candidate Jill Stein. According to Cambridge Analytica’s Head of Product, Matt Oczkowski, Trump voters and Sanders voters were cut from the same “psychographic” cloth:
    When backed against the wall, Sanders tends to lash out, just as the president does. After Mueller indicted 13 Russians, Politico reported that “Sanders and his former campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, presented a series of self-serving statements that were not accurate, and that track with efforts by Trump and his supporters to undermine the credibility of the Mueller probe.”
    After his presidential run, Sanders has made inequality one of his key issues. But whatever headway he makes on the subject can be partly attributed to the indirect help that he got from at least oligarch, Robert Mercer. The secretive New York billionaire invested in the British data firm Cambridge Analytica, which according to a report in the New York Times, acquired the private information of some 50 million Facebook users in an effort to turn the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor.

  45. fascinating interweaving of Brexit and trump and Russia coming in to view.
    long but worthy read from the guardian a few days ago:

    Elizabeth Denham: ‘Data crimes are real crimes
    […]
    There is an overlap between what the special counsel is doing in the US and what Denham is doing in the UK, and what became clear last week is that there is a zone of convergence between the two. …….
     
    There is even, the Observer has learned, an ongoing channel of communication between them. A source familiar with the FBI investigation revealed that the commissioner and her deputy spent last week with law enforcement agencies in the US including the FBI. And Denham’s deputy, James Dipple-Johnstone, confirmed to the Observer that “some of the systems linked to the investigation were accessed from IP addresses that resolve to Russia and other areas of the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States]”.
    It was a recent discovery, he said, but an explosive one, potential evidence of a direct link between the company at the heart of the Trump campaign – and files holding information of 220 million US voters – and the Russian government’s disinformation campaign.   […continues…]

     

    and today from npr’s fresh air interview  with the journalist who wrote the above:

    Reporter Shows The Links Between The Men Behind Brexit And The Trump Campaign

    Carole Cadwalladr’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica’s role in Brexit led her to Russian connections and the Trump campaign. She says British investigators are working “closely with the FBI.”

     

    be sure to listen to the npr interview first.

  47. The Story Behind TIME’s Trump and Putin ‘Summit Crisis’ Cover
    At first glance, the man on TIME’s July 30, 2018, cover might seem familiar: it was created by morphing images of two of the world’s most recognizable men, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
    The composite image, by visual artist Nancy Burson, is meant to represent this particular moment in U.S. foreign policy, following the pair’s recent meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
    As Brian Bennett writes in this week’s cover story, “A year and a half into his presidency, Trump’s puzzling affinity for Putin has yet to be explained. Trump is bruised by the idea that Russian election meddling taints his victory, those close to him say, and can’t concede the fact that Russia did try to interfere in the election, regardless of whether it impacted the outcome. He views this problem entirely through a political lens, these people say, unable or unwilling to differentiate between the question of whether his campaign colluded with Russia — which he denies — and the question of whether Russia attempted to influence the election.”
    To represent that conflict, Burson merged the faces of Trump and Putin into a still image and video that morphs between the shifting appearances of the two world leaders.

    […]
    She says the goal of her latest composite is to help readers “stop and think” when it comes to similarities between the two leaders.
    “What my work has always been about is allowing people to see differently,” she adds. “The combining of faces is a different way for people to see what they couldn’t see before.”

  48. I love that Time cover.  If it actually is on the magazine I will buy one – for the first time in years.

  49. BlondeW…  thanks for digging up all those articles on Devine, Sanders, Manafort, etc., etc.  It makes me realize how little we all know of all the machinations behind the scenes.

    I like reading the TDF stuff.  Please let us know who wins it.

  50. Re: today’s events: In February, Mueller released information clarifying how and why  desperately wanted to stop  from being elected. Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein were helped by Russian election interference  

    Thereport details how Sanders supporters were wooed with disinformation about–disinformation we all saw repeatedly on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. It was compelling & many reporters tried refuting it, but unwittingly, Sanders promulgated it.

    One question raised by ‘s total influence over Sanders is why Devine advised Sanders to remain in the primary not just after he lost resoundingly, but for 2mos after it officially ended and even after Obama asked him to withdraw and unite with Hillary against Trump.

    —-Victoria Brownworth

  51. patd – I always offer a small “glad it wasn’t me” to the elephant handler who decided his constipated elephant needed a laxative.  The result was the elephant cleaned out, but the handler was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was killed by the massive output.

    TdF is getting rough.  Sagan is doing better now, still picking up points.  Team Sky is strong and solid.  It reminds me of a few teams back in the Armstrong days (he was dirty, but so were his competitors).  Teams were expected to work together in the mountains, as well as the flatlands (I am from Colorado so that is how I describe places that are not mountains).   I am watching the rerun of today’s climb.  I saw only a few seconds at a time during the day so I watch the rerun in the evening.  I do know the results and find it fascinating that Geraint Thomas won yesterday and today.  He and teammate Chris Froome are going to fight it out for yellow jersey.  Sagan is so far in front with points he just needs to be careful to the end.

    I have decided classical music is my best sounds for driving, no more radio or SiriusXm radio.  it takes a lot to not listen in to the daily ss of SFB.

  56. Once more for the record, the dems like biden, sanders, etc. who think they could have beaten trump in 2016 because HRC was a flawed candidate?    They would have been victim to putie’s attacks, too.  I doubt either of them would have won the popular vote as Hillary did.  Until the dems admit that HRC was robbed, attacked and filleted by putie?   This will muddy the midterms, 2020.

    And biden?  He let mcconnnell walk all over him just like obama about the russian hacking,  he was there when he let Garland wither at the hands of old mitch.     He and obama let this happen, but thankfully were smart enough to lay down markers.

  57. Some are conveniently forgetting that younger folks liked Bernie’s messsage, and, that there were debates & townhalls where we heard from Bernie & Hillary directly.   Russians leveraged the progressive/status quo split in the Dem party,  but both candidates made their cases directly to the voters.

  58. So, is Harris gonna have a chance or is she too progress for the party machine?

    Can Warren get enough foreign policy experience, because I think she is tough enough to win.

    The Dem candidate is going to be running against Pence (unless he gets rolled up in this, too).  Is Trumpsky’s interpreter working undercover for Putie, too?  You know the Russkies recorded that “private” meeting.  Why wouldn’t someone have bugged Trumpsky’s flag pin or something when they knew he was stupidly meeting with Putie in private?

  60. I think Bernie and Biden would also have beaten trump in the popular vote, but the cheating in PA, MI, & WI, and the russian interference would probably have been insurmountable, and they would have lost in the crooked Electoral College. As a candidate, Ms Clinton was fine. She made mincemeat of trump in the debates. However her campaign failed her. Had her campaign been smoother, I’m sure the russians and ripoffs would have merely ramped up their cheating. Maybe not even FDR could have won that election, the cheating was so awful.

  63. Time to bring back the old bushie color alert system…and rod is going to that, sort of!     Justice department to warn public of security risk.  It should have been baboon-ass red during the 2016 elections.  Sound the sirens, putie is attacking.
    The government will inform American companies, private organizations and individuals that they are being covertly attacked by foreign actors attempting to affect elections or the political process.
    “Exposing schemes to the public is an important way to neutralize them,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who announced the policy at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. Rosenstein, who has drawn President Trump’s ire for appointing a special counsel to probe Russian election interference, got a standing ovation.“The American people have a right to know if foreign governments are targeting them with propaganda,” he said.

  65. If Democrat Number x-175 is nominated they have my vote. I KNOW  all of what that means….I’ve read a lot of history……

    you got something better?    No.

  66. clint eastwood spotted in Mesilla at my favorite restaurant — I wonder if he brought his own chair?
    It has been over 50 years since Eastwood filmed a movie in Las Cruces.
    “The Mule” is a crime film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Nick Schenk,  based on the true story of Leo Sharp, a World War II veteran who becomes a drug dealer and courier for a Mexican cartel. Reports online state Bradley Cooper and Lawrence Fishburn will co-star.
    Eastwood will also be acting in the film.

  67. Sturge, I’m wit’ ya. If it’s D v. R, it’s D. If the D is Bernie! I’ll throw my vote away and vote for him. If the D  is anyone else I’ll gladly vote for them.

    TDF, absent a catastrophe it will be Froome and Thomas on the podium, and because of the system I’m betting Froome takes his 5th yellow jersey. Hard to say who’ll join them.

  68. Did any of those funds to Nunes’ PAC come fro Russia…funneled through the NRA or othe Russian affiliates?

  69. Things will be different this time…probably.  I do think the DNC will need to be less heavy-handed & not try to force through their pick.

    The Dems need to play the red card (Russian/Republican) and that should keep everyone on the same page.

    The Repugz will probably counter with the claim that Putie’s real goal was to destroy their party, thus ushering in Dems and their socialist agenda (universal healthcare, etc.) which will scare their base.

    Dems need to learn to pivot the way Republicans do.  I think Elizabeth Warren is more equipped to put them in their place than anyone, at this point.

  71. In Re The Case Of Don The John tRump :

    There is no sense in stretching to attribute to stupidity that which is so easily explained by mere evil.

  72. Gilbert is not a bad choice. I’m not sure what today did to the remaining sprinters. I wouldn’t be surprised to see van Avemaet step up tomorrow.

  74. x-r, avenatti has said he would only run if no viable dem steps up and will gladly  bow out when one does.  biden did it that way in 2016 and the bern should have but his Russian connection told him to stay in past expire date.

  75. x-r, am referring to that brownworth tweet sturge linked at 5:15 above.  she went on to note “Bernie Sanders’ campaign strategist #TadDevine turns up 16 times in evidence against #PaulManafort“

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