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Cont: All things Trump + Russia Part 2

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d4m10n said:
The only obvious exception is that we were warned about Manafort's impending indictment somewhat in advance.
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Skeptic Ginger said:
Except a lot of that was prior to Mueller. It came out about the undeclared 12 million payment on the Ukrainian ledger before Mueller was on the case. And the morning raid, that would have gotten out if anyone saw it happening.
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Did you click my link?

NYT said:
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.
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Childlike Empress said:
The "new report" has been discussed here when it came out, and the best argument against its direct findings has been that the analysis of the available data from the Guccifer 2.0 (not to be confused with Guccifer 1.0, see above) leaks cannot account for if this is the original data taken from the DNC server, meaning there could have been steps before it was copied in the eastern coastal timezone at speed you can't do over the internet - maybe aliens with space hacking beams. ;)
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"ALIENS"

Stacko said:
US has evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials with hacking DNC.
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Childlike Empress said:
Is there something in the water over there? Let's call the author you can't remember anyway V.V.. Here's the scenario:

V.V.: CNN said the FBI used the Steele dossier as basis for further investigation. If they did without corroboration, big deal---

CNN: The FBI used the Steele dossier as basis for further investigation, says our anonymous source who also says they wouldn't do so without corroboration but didn't tell us details about what, how much and how.

TheL8Elvis: THE ANONYMOUS SOURCE SAID THE FBI WOULDN'T USE SOMETHING WITHOUT CORROBORATION, V.V. IS A LYING LIAR!!!ELEVENTY

:rolleyes:
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This is a ridiculous argument. "The FBI used the Steele dossier as basis for further investigation" by trying to find corroboration, because without some solid evidence, they obviously didn't have a case. Well, Mueller has a few indictments already (and more on the way) because he has evidence of crimes that doesn't depend on the dossier.
 
Childlike Empress said:
A very relevant read: How Obama and Hillary Clinton Weaponized the ‘Dossier’

George Szamuely said:
The Trump-Russia collusion story was a joint invention of the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign. <snip>

Most of this story is pure fiction. [...]
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Despite the frantic Trump-Russia spinning and deflecting and yammering about the dossier, here's where the "joint invention" stands now:

"Rep. Adam Schiff Puts End To Question Of Donald Trump Russia Collusion | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC"

 
timhau said:
It's a perfect whataboutist answer, though.
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Thank you dowarisch!
Everytime I get accused of whataboutism I get 100 Rubels bonus.

Imperialist fools do not know whataboutism is russian counterpropaganda term to make people who use it look stupid.
 
phiwum said:
Reasons to distrust Americans are not reasons to trust Russians.
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It's simple: If there are 2 competing narratives, and one comes from a source that has been lying and lying and lying for as long as I can remember and the other source hasn't I tend to doubt the story of the known liar and rather not the other side.

So USA: "Russians hacked our election!!!!!!" (Whatever "hacking" an "election" means. Neboluos PR speach is of course not exactly inducing trust, even without the US track record)
Russia: "No we didn't."
Gonna believe the russians

USA: "You bomb hospitals!"
Russia: "No, you bomb hospitals"
MSF: "The US bombed one of our hospitals"
Aleppo terrorists: "The russians in the past 24 hours bombed 8721 Hospitals and 1275 Orphanages, a puppy shelter and a grandma trying to cross the street in east alleppo"
Again. Shall I believe the lying torturing killers or the russians? Sorry.
 
magellan said:
It's simple: If there are 2 competing narratives, and one comes from a source that has been lying and lying and lying for as long as I can remember and the other source hasn't I tend to doubt the story of the known liar and rather not the other side.
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The problem is that the "other side" is at least as big a liar, so again you fail to demonstrate why you should trust it.
 
d4m10n said:
Did you click my link?
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Yes. Doesn't change what I said which was, we knew about Manafort getting specious payments when Comey was still in charge.

Not a quibble worth discussing further, hopefully you agree.
 
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Argumemnon said:
The problem is that the "other side" is at least as big a liar, so again you fail to demonstrate why you should trust it.
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Are they?
Can you point me to their "Ghadaffi distributes viagra to help with the raping" statement?
Or their "Communists in Odessa set themselves on fire to make the inoccent neonazis outside with their molotov cocktails look bad"?
Their "let's invade grenada to stop the press from covering beirut"?
Their "Dear kurds! Please fight syrian army and ISIS. we will help you get your own kurdistan in our gratitude."
Their "This is osamas Bond Lair." "These are the mobile chemical weapons factories of Saddam hussain"
Their "We see Iraqi Kuwait border disputes as an inner arab affair and will not intervene"

Do you remember that couragous artist Pyotr Pavlensky? The evil russians wanted to lock him up and declare him insane for setting fire to the door of the former KGB building.
He managed to flee and got political asylum in France.
A few days ago he set fire to a parisian bank. They now want to lock him up and declare him insane...
 
WilliamSeger said:
Despite the frantic Trump-Russia spinning and deflecting and yammering about the dossier, here's where the "joint invention" stands now:
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The Party Line has emerged very clearly in the last few weeks, and the faithful are clinging to it with a tenacity which speaks of desperation. Everything is based on The Steele Dossier; that was paid for by Clinton and is therefore all lies; there is no case.

Matters arising quite separately from the dossier, such as Fredo's meeting and Manafort's long-standing business with sketchy Russians, would never have emerged had it not been for the dossier, making them fruit of the forbidden tree and thus inadmissable.

They're clinging to this Maginot Line as the panzers swarm past them. Still, at least it looks like Manafort is going to make a fight of it. That should prove entertaining.
 
magellan said:
Are they?
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Yes. Really.

At least we heard US journalists being accused of treason for asking questions in the lead-up to the Iraq fiasco, and there's been a great deal of soul-searching since. The Russian situation is simply dire in comparison.

There are indendent journalists in Russia, and short-lived journals that will publish them , but they aren't the ones denying that Putin's Russia didn't interfere in the US election.
 
CapelDodger said:
Yes. Really.

At least we heard US journalists being accused of treason for asking questions in the lead-up to the Iraq fiasco, and there's been a great deal of soul-searching since. The Russian situation is simply dire in comparison.

There are indendent journalists in Russia, and short-lived journals that will publish them , but they aren't the ones denying that Putin's Russia didn't interfere in the US election.
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magellan asked for examples, not blather.
 
magellan said:
It's simple: If there are 2 competing narratives, and one comes from a source that has been lying and lying and lying for as long as I can remember and the other source hasn't I tend to doubt the story of the known liar and rather not the other side.

So USA: "Russians hacked our election!!!!!!" (Whatever "hacking" an "election" means. Neboluos PR speach is of course not exactly inducing trust, even without the US track record)
Russia: "No we didn't."
Gonna believe the russians
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You aren't aware of the specific allegations or the evidence behind them, but you're gonna believe Russian denials anyway? Suit yourself, but so what?
 
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