PaladinSolo

Lotta tough words going around.

Trump has 1 thing on tomorrow's schedule, a meeting with members of congress that no one in congress knows about.

I don't even know wtf this is, luckily i don't think i'm alone on that, lol.

Dan Coats apparently defied Supreme Leader Trump, when does he get the AA treatment?

She has connections between the Kremlin, NRA, and the GOP, this Daily beast story from February lays it out pretty well.  Like who in the GOP circle isn't talking to Russians?

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629531772/feds-charge-russian-graduate-student-with-conspiracy-to-violate-u-s-law

Authorities said Butina established contact with an unnamed American political operative in Moscow in 2013 who worked with her to arrange introductions to influential people inside the U.S. and to advance Russian interests. One of the contacts was with an "organization promoting gun rights," which NPR has previously reported is the National Rifle Association.

"I believe that Butina and the Russian official took these steps in order to infiltrate those groups and advance the interests of the Russian Federation," agent Helson wrote.

The FBI affidavit said she reported her activities to a Russian official via email, Twitter and other means. That Russian official is not named in the court filing but fits the description of Alexander Torshin, who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in April

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-and-gop-have-a-new-friendand-boy-does-she-love-guns

Depending on the audience, Butina has presented herself as a Russian central bank staffer, a leading gun rights advocate, a “representative of the Russian Federation,” a Washington, D.C., graduate student, a journalist, and a connection between Team Trump and Russia. She used each role to help her gain more high-level contacts in the nation’s capital.

It’s another chapter in what’s becoming a familiar story in Washington: Kremlin-connected operators building bridges to the GOP.

Butina’s relationships, formed with Washington’s conservative society through her fierce advocacy for firearms—one conference described her as the “public face of gun rights in the Russian Federation”—provide a previously unreported link between the Russian government and the Republican Party.

Two of Butina’s friendships in particular have raised eyebrows. She started a business with Paul Erickson, a decades-long Republican Party activist. And she served as a special assistant to the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank, Alexander Torshin, a former Russian senator belonging to Vladimir Putin’s political party with alleged ties to the Russian mob world.

On Nov. 12, 2016, shortly after the election of President Donald Trump, Butina held a birthday party at Cafe Deluxe near American University, where she attends graduate school classes.

The event was a costume party attended by Trump campaign aides and Erickson, who told guests that he was on the Trump presidential transition team. She dressed as Russian Empress Alexandra while Erickson was dressed as Rasputin.

As chilled vodka flowed through an ice sculpture—a bottle imprinted with the Soviet hammer and sickle—she took some time to brag. She brazenly claimed that she had been part of the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia, two individuals who were present said. On other occasions, in one of her graduate classes, she repeated this claim.

“She said so in my class. And she said so several times in the last semester,” Svetlana Savranskaya, Butina’s former American University professor and a staffer at the National Security Archive, told The Daily Beast. “She is a former journalist, so she keeps up her connections in Russia. And she also works and [claims to] keep connections with a member of the Russian Duma.”

More midwest leaning Dem, even if internal polling.

I hope Republicans are proud.

Fuck this motherfucker, is it possible to turn the Washington Monument into a hangmans Gallow?

Totally fine folks, nothing to see here.

Its hilarious they're trying to say they were tricked into saying this shit, nothing about how Cohen is doing these "interviews" is normal and these idiots should have figured it out, Koppel for example challenged him on a rant about Trump's inauguration crowd size where he claimed the photo was taken at 11 PM the night before and its so bright cause it was an eclipse where the sun went between the earth and the Moon and then told him to leave, lol.

Well we won't have to worry about the Russians hacking our election networks, Trump is just going to give them a login.

Well people seem to forget Trump wasn't seen as this ultra conservative that hes been governing as, he promised better healthcare, reducing the deficit/debt, better trade, and massive infrastructure plan, what they've gotten is a trade war that directly impacts regions that flipped from Obama to Trump, an attempt to take what little healthcare they have, not even a whisper of infrastructure planning, and a tax bill that balloons the deficit/debt to new heights.

Not to mention all the other stupid shit they don't like, like separating families, threatening allies, and making nice with dictators.

Meanwhile dems in Texas still pulling in huge fundraising numbers even in deep red districts.

The Midwest appears to be getting over its fling with Trump, Dems have improved their position in special elections by an average of 11 points in the region, with polling indicating dem incumbents being safe with dem challengers surging in GOP districts.  GOP candidates are also trying to moderate their positions even outright vowing to fight Trump positions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/the-midwest-eases-its-trump-swoon-and-flirts-again-with-democratic-candidates/2018/07/15/92ef34ae-8530-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html?utm_term=.d4498e11abd2

In Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio, Democratic senators once thought to be endangered have rebounded and are in fairly safe positions. In House and gubernatorial races, Democrats have grown more competitive since the start of the year — especially in House districts drawn from suburbs that were thought to be safely Republican. In special elections held in the Midwest since Trump’s inauguration, Democrats have improved on their 2016 performance by an average of 11 points.

Democrats have spotted openings on a number of issues, starting with trade. On a three-day Midwestern swing that began Wednesday, Vice President Pence had a message for Republicans: Don’t worry about the trade war.

“We’re going to keep fighting for a level playing field for our farmers,” Pence said Wednesday in Missouri at a stop to benefit the party’s preferred U.S. Senate candidate, Josh Hawley. “And as the president said, America will win that fight, and so will American farmers. Don’t doubt it.”

The same day, every Republican senator from the Midwest backed a nonbinding resolution that urged the president to defer to Congress on tariffs.

In the same Marquette poll that found voters souring on tariffs, Baldwin held leads of nine to 11 points over any Republican challenger. That was striking, Democrats said, because Baldwin was targeted early in 2017 by Republican groups eager to capi­tal­ize on the Trump surge that had flipped Wisconsin and reelected Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

At a 2017 meeting of the Koch donor network, Baldwin was singled out as the senator most vulnerable to a 2016-style campaign — a blitz of early TV ads that would drive down her poll numbers. More than $11 million has been spent against Baldwin, including a new buy from Concerned Veterans for America that highlights the deaths of veterans at a Wisconsin VA hospital, an attack that was used to great effect against Johnson’s challenger.

Across the Midwest, Republicans also have found themselves on the defensive for different sets of Trump administration actions.

Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) has tried to separate himself from the administration’s moves to undermine the Affordable Care Act.

“Our bipartisan plan invests $200 million to help lower premiums for Wisconsin families, because we can’t wait for Washington to get the job done,” Walker says in one TV ad.

This is crazy. 

On 7/1/2018 at 10:56 PM, thewhyteboar said:

I always felt Delanie Walker was the better TE, but Davis had like 2 good seasons and they let Walker go.

Didn't think there were anymore of specials left, guess i was wrong.