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QuirkyGal's avatar

With that Rusal plant going up in Kentucky - at a minimum, Putin controls Kentucky. And they are soliciting other states for business.

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Operation Orange Crush's avatar

Raygun 1984 said, "There is a bear in the woods..now it's taking a dump in the Oval Office.

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marksb's avatar

But Joel Brenner, who was head of US counterintel and strategy from 2006 to 2009, also says on the record that the years prior, they were focused on "insider threats, and in particular mole hunting," https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Someone Your Own Size's avatar

Is this the Federal land grab that wingnuts are always on about?

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GoutMachine's avatar

I learned last night of a conspiracy theory that posits the world actually ended in 2012. I kind of buy it. (Not really, but it’d make a hell of a lot more sense.)

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GoutMachine's avatar

Can be. Won’t, though, in this case due to those selfsame Republicans.

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GoutMachine's avatar

I disagree. It’s going to take a generation.

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GoutMachine's avatar

I’ve often said that the fatal flaw of the constitution is that it assumes all parties are acting in good faith.

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Perry made me do it Jesterpunk's avatar

Maybe? The problem is 1 getting 67 senate votes to remove him from office and 2 the president is technically the final classification authority and can declassify anything they want. If they charge him once he leaves office number 2 might come into play and I really dont see the courts limiting the presidents authority to classify or declassify anything since that is a major part of their job and also right wing judges they keep adding on the courts.

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Red Richmond's avatar

Much regal, very nobility.

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Relativicus's avatar

Sheeeeee-it, I can’t even get through a sentence with the word “lugubrious” in it!

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marksb's avatar

"Good morning daddy!""Good morning. Nice dress. Hugs your ass.""Thanks daddy.""Jared get my phones?""Right here sir, got six for today.""Burners?""Yes sir, picked three up at different 7-Elevens in New Jersey, three from gas stations on the way to D.C.""Good. Get 'em activated for me, will you? I've got some important calls to make.""You calling MBS? Tell him I've got another enemies list and this one is only going to cost $300 million."

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Beargorod People's Recublic's avatar

How I've wanted to! I promise I'll keep trying, hooman friends.

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Mike Steele's avatar

As ColdWarKids, we found it disheartening that Team Obama was so mindless of RU threat; more disturbing that #MoscowMitch politically blackmailed them into not going public with election ratfuckery, and here we are today - Acting DNI, in defiance of 50USC3033, refuses to share vetted ‘urgent concern’ security breach with relevant Congressional committees. IOW, as we all already knew, POTUS/WH accomplices are a clear and present danger to the nation.Of course, don’t count on anyone being ‘locked her up’ - that’s so 2016.

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osceola's avatar

They say they need their guns to defend liberty against tyranny, then they take the side of the tyrant.

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James Smith's avatar

makes you wonder why Putin wanted a russian asset in the white house.

also, I wonder when did Obama know any of this in 2012? did he downplay the russian threat during the debates for a reason?

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