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Additionally, the diplomatic cable that got TWO US ambassadors expelled- Heather Hodges, was expelled over the same cable a week or two before Gallegos was expelled- was part of the Manning dump to Wikileaks. Quite interestingly, this particular cable was not publicly released with the vast majority of the rest of the Manning dump.

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I still can't believe Congress is doing nothing about the Taint ignoring the Russian sanctions. The Taint is spreading across the land enabling nazi's and other deplorables to do evil. They are counting on us getting tired or just not being engaged. Boy are they going to be surprised.

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I really do not understand why anyone who does not want to leave a paper trail would then exchange texts. Do people not know that texts leave a trail and live forever? Do these people not read John Le Carre or Robert Ludlum spy novels? The proper way to communicate privately with a Russian oligarch's lobbyist is to do it the way an actual spy would do it, and "accidentally" bump into each other on a Paris subway, or on gondolas in Venice, or in the opera house in Vienna. Sheesh! These people have no class.

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This is now, officially, what you find in Guinness under World's Biggest Circle Jerk. Not one of these fucks has shown a shred of evidence that so much as a period or a semicolon in the dossier is false.

It would be funny as hell if it wasn't costing millions of taxpayer dollars.

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You know who's "really" going to jail? No, not the one with a Special Counsel investigating him right now... no, not the one that can't get security clearance because the FBI doesn't trust them... no, not the one that has 4-5 cooperating witnesses from within their ranks... No not the one that skipped ethics training as an introduction to governing for the first time...No, not the one that embraces nepotism and forego competence and experience for ideological bend with every appointment... No, not the one that has had nearly 2 dozen high ranking officials resign for legal or ethical reasons in the last year...

Yes, it's the other guys, the ones that went to the FBI with concerns about blackmail or foreign interference but refused to use that information for personal gain. Them. They are bad.

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And another Trumpian ‘squirrel’ jumps from a tree and dies before hitting the ground.

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They don't realise tweets are public so I think the subtleties electronics are a mystery to them.

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he's in england, cat food actually is a delicacy compared to the boiled, flavorless, mayonaisse covered shit they eat every day

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Speaking of Trump getting his briefings from FOX, he doesn't actually read his daily briefings, but prefers an oral report. I guess that's not really news, but there's a new WAPO story about it.Reading the report is not Trump’s chosen “style of learning,” one source told the Post.https://www.washingtonpost....

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Hereditary ownership of any news organization should be banned. I keep getting the sense that this wouldn't be as godawful as it is, if only the news biz weren't being run by snotty little heirs.

It's not just Fox. Look what the Sulzbergers have done at the New York Times (where the sixth generation is about to be piped on board in the person of A.G. Sulzberger, heir, vegetarian, alum of Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Brown University).

Still, even this pales beside the ascendancy at NewsCorp of the Murdoch princelings, Rupert's boys Lachlan and James, third generation courtiers to the Oligarchs' Internationale.

These boys, we were told, would bring old Rupe's operation more into the "mainstream": we were told wrong.

The princelings have taken what Roger Ailes wrought and plumbed whole new depths of rot, transforming News Corp from a covertly white supremacist, anti-democracy, reactionary agitprop operation into an overtly white supremacist, anti-democracy, reactionary agitprop operation.

They fired old sexist and racist boors Ailes and O'Reilly, only to clear a path for unhinged woman-hating white nationalists Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Jesse Watters: and they inflated the already over-inflated Sean Hannity, that gibbering fascist, to the screaming point (oh wait: that's us doing the screaming, because God, make it stop).

Anyhow, the princelings have taken a nightmare and turned it into the apocalypse, and one dreads to think what the next generation of Murdochs has in store for the suffering planet.

Of course, the damage done by heirs isn't limited to the world of journalism. The Kochs, the Trumps, the Waltons, the DeVoses, the Princes, the DuPonts---we're drowning in a toxic sea of privilege, a lynch mob composed exclusively of trust fund brats. But the ones who run the news are worst, if only because they provide a megaphone for all the others.

To the tumbrils with all of them.

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Do these people not read? Nope. They do not read. Not a damned thing.

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But surely they watch James Bond movies. James Bond does not communicate with the bad guys via text. James Bond meets them in the zoo in Geneva, or in a speedboat on Lake Como, or in a casino in Monte Carlo. Of course, I haven't watched the last 4 James Bond movies, so maybe he has updated his protocols.

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If "Democratic Senator on intelligence committee tries to get intelligence sources to testify before intelligence committee, with full knowledge of other members of the committee" is the kind of "dirt" Assange is being passed by his Russian handler(s), why would the Democrats be concerned about what else he or they may have? Apart from whatever minor mischief the fucks at Fox may make by releasing quotes out of context.

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I think the pretzel-ouroboros-centipede is about to devour itself up it's own ass into a wormhole and rip the fabric of time and space here...

Because basically where the conservative insanity machine is at right now, associating with Russians is no big deal, not even illegal, all fake news, except when it's someone NOT related to Trump, then it's OMG THE COLLUSION DEEP STATE FETCH MY FAINTING COUCH!!!!1!11!!1111111111111111111111111111111111111

I just hope I live long enough to see how historians describe the Drumph fiasco 'cause maaaan, it is going to be BRÜTAL...

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In the minds of conservatives, "not yet fully verified" is exactly the same as "COMPLETELY DEBUNKED".

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