russia attacks its burned assets with cheese fries?

:o

smothered in brown gravy... like a "fry pie." ;)

“None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he made fatal strategical mistakes which even they themselves might have made at the time. His worst mistake was his selection of advisers—a backhand tribute to the Leader's virtues of trustfulness and loyalty, to his very innocence of the knowledge of evil"
~milton mayer

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

JL

Interestingly, the first person that I heard make this prediction was Ben Bernanke, former chair of the fed. Nearly every financial analyst has followed suit, at least on the reliable news channels.

I heard an analyst say once that tax cuts are the tentpole that supports the entire Republican circus, as it's the only part of their platform that they all agree with.

Not so much Trump's tariffs, although Trump's reasons for imposing them does comport with the tough-guy Masters of the Universe personas the maga-donors love to adopt for themselves. Trump is by no means alone in his admiration for authoritarian strong men in those political circles, and I suspect that his decrees of punishment and reward play for the moment to their elitist instincts.

Wall Street -- who never met a massive layoff it didn't like -- reacted favorably to GM's news, sending the stock up five percent.

Channeling the spirit of Louis Rukheyser there, CW. I can't read that sentence without hearing it in his voice. He used to say that between the ghouls of the bond market and the vampyres of the stock markets, Halloween is just another day on Wall Street. And that was before the voodoo and witchcraft of hedge funds and dark markets had yet even appeared.

If Manafort is expecting a pardon he is going to be disappointed. Manafort is played out as a witness and Trump faces obstruction of justice risks if he offers up a pardon. There is nothing in it for Donny Two Scoops.

russia attacks its burned assets with cheese fries?

:o
JL

LL&P

Trump may fancy himself as Oh So Mafioso, but he's just another NYC real estate developer who has "used their services" in order to get concrete poured in a timely manner with a minimal number of "human inclusions" in the aggregate. To be blunt, Donny "Two Scoops" is just another thug who doesn't get invited to the colorful Family Gatherings.

I'm of the opinion that Paul Manafort is the fellow with the real fear of getting his kneecaps broken by the Mafia....and by his knees, I mean the knees of his family members, and by Mafia, I mean the Eastern European Mafia, and by broken I mean poisoned. That's why Manafort lied to Mueller...and why Pauli "Sharp Suits" is going to jail for a very long time. Pauli lied to Mueller in order to protect Manafort family members from the Ukrainian/Russian professionals that hired Pauli. Manafort is probably doing the right thing by his wife and children.

If you didn't see that coming, you're an idiot.

When a proven huckster sells you a stake in your own future based on their failures, Stacey Keach will be the narrator of the outcome.

And now for something amusingly connected;
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspolitics/could-robert-mueller-be-about-to-tell-us-something-big/ar-BBQ9u09?ocid=spartandhp

My take on this is, Mueller is putting the squeeze on the middlemen between Trump-Assange-Putin. People forget...Putin has Trump's back. Russia has an uncanny way of committing an ignoble act whenever Trump is fresh out of distractions. Win-win for Putin.

Manafort was long thought to be the linchpin betwixt the Ruskies and Trump, throw Stone and Assange into the mix, then you have some naughty boys.

Strap in. it's going to get real.

LL&P