Yeah, apparently Rod Rosenstein decided to leave out the counterintelligence investigation of Trump and Russia when he handed over Comey's investigation to Mueller.

Did he, though? I know for a fact there were dozens of FBI agents embedded in the Mueller investigation, and I believe the counterintelligence investigation is still ongoing full steam ahead.

So Mueller thought that the FBI was on it while the FBI thought Mueller was on it. So the most important question -- do the Russians have control/influence over our President was NOT addressed.

FACT: There were approximately 40 FBI agents working with the Mueller team for multiple years. Their work is ongoing.

What a cluster fuck our American political situation is!

Vote D for Democracy or R for Russia. It is that simple. :)

So one day in roughly 1979 I was dittybopping down the street on the campus of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. It was early spring at the time, blustery chilly but with hopeful signs of spring in evidence. I'm passing a record shop and suddenly I hear a perfect just effing perfect note for note rendition of "Lowdown" happening. I entered and went down the stairs to a basement studio and watched this band note for note just kill that song.

TO THIS DAY I remain convinced that I'd stumbled across Box Skaggs, doing his thing back in Ann Arbor.

So to recap: Trump is Putin's parrot, Putin's puppet, and Putin's asset. Full stop. Trump is compromised, and the facts will eventually emerge. Expect more indictments of Trump cronies because more are coming.

Yeah, apparently Rod Rosenstein decided to leave out the counterintelligence investigation of Trump and Russia when he handed over Comey's investigation to Mueller.

So Mueller thought that the FBI was on it while the FBI thought Mueller was on it. So the most important question -- do the Russians have control/influence over our President was NOT addressed.

What a cluster fuck our American political situation is!

andygaus wrote:

Unless Trump somehow does a wonderful job with the first debate (and how likely is that?), I'm sure he will skip debates 2 and 3. In fact, to me the only question is whether he cancels the second and third debates or flees in the middle of the first one as soon as he gets a probing question.

I agree that it's more likely than not that there are NOT three full debates. I disagree with the notion that Trump will stalk off because of a tough question. Trump's track record suggests he'll just bullshit his way thru some kind of an answer -- because to flee the stage would be the lose face. And that ain't Trump's style.

The orange one wants people in NC to vote twice (by mail and in person).

Trump needs desperately to win reelection in order to avoid criminal prosecution himself, I know you know, JFC. Not sure it will help him in the State of New York, but he's got Billy Barr among others in his circle committing crimes for him so Trump encouraging the gullible morons who whine incessantly about voter fraud to actually commit voter fraud for him -- indeed a felony in most states -- should surprise no one at all.

LAW AND ORDER!

I know, right!? When everyone around you is being arrested and more indictments are coming and you know it, isn't it rather comical to refer to yourself as the "law and order candidate"? *laughs*

MAGA means My Ass Got Arrested

The gullible rubes eat this shit up and never question the conflicting messages coming out of the Orange Blowhole because that would require actually using reasoning skills. Ask yourself why someone would encourage you to commit a crime... better yet, ask Cohen, Manafort, Stone, Gates, Flynn, what it got them.

So to recap: Trump has made a career out of committing crimes, and now he's asking his gullible rank and file rubes to follow in his footsteps... "law and order." Have I mentioned lately that Benedict Donald is the biggest threat to our democracy? He is.

Say, any Boz Scaggs fans around here? Getting my Sunday night lineup set ...

Do you mean the Boz Scaggs who grew up in Plano, Texas, and attended St. Marks School private school in Dallas where he met Steve Miller (yes, that Steve Miller) and they formed Dallas' first rock band, "The Marksmen," and who was vice-president of his junior class and a cheerleader his junior and senior years at St. Marks who graduated and attended the University of Wisconsin and played in a band there with Steve Miller (yep) and those two products of Dallas, Texas, then went on to play together in The Stever Miller Band until Boz went solo... that Boz Scaggs?

Never heard of him. :)

They feel that Trump will be a far better debater than Biden, therefore more debates would be better for them. However, this is echo-chamber thinking, because all they are really doing is buying into the storyline that Joe Biden is some doddering old fool who can't put two sentences together without a TelePrompTer.

That "echo-chamber thinking" is quite literally propaganda being pushed by Russia and echoed by the complicit GOP.

DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack on Biden’s mental health

The Trump campaign has repeatedly engaged in a similar line of attack.

By Josh Margolin, Lucien Bruggeman, Will Steakin, and Jonathan Karl

September 2, 2020

In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies of a Russian scheme to promote “allegations about the poor mental health” of former Vice President Joe Biden, according to internal emails and a draft of the document obtained by ABC News.

The draft bulletin, titled “Russia Likely to Denigrate Health of US Candidates to Influence 2020 Election,” was submitted to the agency’s legislative and public affairs office for review on July 7. The analysis was not meant for public consumption, but it was set to be distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement partners two days later, on July 9, the emails show.

Just one hour after its submission, however, a senior DHS official intervened.

“Please hold on sending this one out until you have a chance to speak to [acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf]," wrote DHS Chief of Staff John Gountanis, according to an email obtained by ABC News.

That was nearly two months ago. But the bulletin was never circulated.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-withheld-july-intelligence-bulletin-calling-russian-attack/story?id=72747130

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The Trump administration is withholding information regarding Russian propaganda attempts to influence the 2020 election, while the GOP and Trump disseminate said propaganda.

So to recap: Trump is Putin's parrot, Putin's puppet, and Putin's asset. Full stop. Trump is compromised, and the facts will eventually emerge. Expect more indictments of Trump cronies because more are coming.

Unless Trump somehow does a wonderful job with the first debate (and how likely is that?)

I'd like to see him try to stalk Biden. Hehehehehehehe.

I see.