What happens when the middle class becomes too depleted to provide nourishment to the vampire squid?A war? or, since the future is already here, an engineered plague? Grey Goo?Can the rich feel rich without the poor to provide a sense of scale?Ever heard of sumptuary laws?Anybody.
She has some weird Russia connections. I read an article about that, that I just spent 15 minutes looking for.I did not find it. But I found this one about Snowden Greenwald and Assange. The other one wasnβt chiefly about Vandenheuvel, it was about various left-wing journalists or whatever and their weird praising of Russia. And was from a couple years before the 2016 election. https://newrepublic.com/art...
Seth Abramson, for lawyer on Twitter, boy I bet heβd loved being called that! Anyway he says that whatβs going on right now is Manafort is negotiating with Mueller trying to get the shortest sentence he can. And that we wonβt hear anything from them about Manafort until thatβs done. And Seth seemed to think it would go on for weeks and weeks. His trial for the crazy bank frauds with the Word document to PDF is scheduled to start on July 20. Mark your calendar π! So thatβs probably kind of deadline in those negotiations.
Deripaska has a tiny head. Itβs freakishly small. Itβs like heβs his jaw was removed and replaced with some kind of teeny tiny replacement. In the photo above he clearly is holding his head at a particular size accentuating angle. But in reality his head is disturbingly tiny. This somehow is an important fact. >π€
Hereβs Deripaska with his tiny head. He now wears a beard to cover up itβs tininess. There was also a great photo of him making an evil Rasputin face. But it wouldnβt upload.
In my reply to Sam, below this if youβre looking at it on Wonkette, I mentioned an article that I couldnβt find. But I found this one instead! Stephen F: is Vanden Heuval's husband. Obvs she is not by virtue of that responsible for his bullshit, except that she publishes it in the Nation.
And the link wonβt work. Itβs giving me a link to a different story that gets a 404. π€¦π»ββοΈ If at this point youβre even still interested itβs an article on Slate called Putin's Pal.
In the 80's I volunteered at Amnesty International in NY. Amnesty members fought for the welfare of political prisoners in the Soviet Union by writing letters to the prisons, demanding that "Prisoner Mr. Andre Durkheim be allowed his life-saving seizure medicine, etc," and this often worked to ease their situations. Sometimes I'd open the mail and find a package of trolling letters back at us from Russian school children:
"Why don't you let your black people out of jail? They are as good as white people! You Americans are so unkind. Don't you believe in freedom? Human Rights! Human Rights!"
It's so in line with all they did in the campaign. And now with our new blogger, Mr. Deripaska, getting all cosy with us Americans, and talking to us as if we're all good friends, though he might have to straighten us out now and then. . . It is so creepy that they have a desire to get their way by insinuating themselves into our conversation-- and in their minds it's mockery they're enjoying. I don't get why Russia has this relationship with us. China couldn't care less about what we do, as long as we're this big market for them and don't take our gunboats over there. Their self-esteem is not involved. But Russia is like a cousin you see only once a year and then she shows up and she's dressed just like you were dressed the year before, but she just stands behind the furniture and stares. And you think, why are you so weird?
Of course to be a government of creepy trollers over the decades is a small fault set beside other policies like murdering your opponents and having bad hospitals, but-- isn't it tacky? Russia has a thousand year history, not to mention charming daredevils I've seen jumping off things in Russia on Incredible Feats of Science, plus a million people we never see. So why Putin has to think about us and the good time we may be having morning noon and night I don't know.
They are afraid of catching cooties.
"power exercised by a small number of individuals from media, business, government and the intelligence community"
You can't go wrong with the classics, Oleg! "Accuse your opponent of what you are doing."
"Our ancestors from 2012..."
Solid writing! Very funny.
What happens when the middle class becomes too depleted to provide nourishment to the vampire squid?A war? or, since the future is already here, an engineered plague? Grey Goo?Can the rich feel rich without the poor to provide a sense of scale?Ever heard of sumptuary laws?Anybody.
"I've seen that from both crazed wingnut and people claiming to be hardcore leftists"
Don't make the mistake of assuming they are different people!
Russbots play all sorts of characters...
Places like Truthdig and Alternet are nothing but Russian propaganda dressed up like "progressive" ideas...
She has some weird Russia connections. I read an article about that, that I just spent 15 minutes looking for.I did not find it. But I found this one about Snowden Greenwald and Assange. The other one wasnβt chiefly about Vandenheuvel, it was about various left-wing journalists or whatever and their weird praising of Russia. And was from a couple years before the 2016 election. https://newrepublic.com/art...
Theyβre held in seashells. Because the Deep State people are so tiny.
Seth Abramson, for lawyer on Twitter, boy I bet heβd loved being called that! Anyway he says that whatβs going on right now is Manafort is negotiating with Mueller trying to get the shortest sentence he can. And that we wonβt hear anything from them about Manafort until thatβs done. And Seth seemed to think it would go on for weeks and weeks. His trial for the crazy bank frauds with the Word document to PDF is scheduled to start on July 20. Mark your calendar π! So thatβs probably kind of deadline in those negotiations.
Deripaska has a tiny head. Itβs freakishly small. Itβs like heβs his jaw was removed and replaced with some kind of teeny tiny replacement. In the photo above he clearly is holding his head at a particular size accentuating angle. But in reality his head is disturbingly tiny. This somehow is an important fact. >π€
Hereβs Deripaska with his tiny head. He now wears a beard to cover up itβs tininess. There was also a great photo of him making an evil Rasputin face. But it wouldnβt upload.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
In my reply to Sam, below this if youβre looking at it on Wonkette, I mentioned an article that I couldnβt find. But I found this one instead! Stephen F: is Vanden Heuval's husband. Obvs she is not by virtue of that responsible for his bullshit, except that she publishes it in the Nation.
And the link wonβt work. Itβs giving me a link to a different story that gets a 404. π€¦π»ββοΈ If at this point youβre even still interested itβs an article on Slate called Putin's Pal.
In the 80's I volunteered at Amnesty International in NY. Amnesty members fought for the welfare of political prisoners in the Soviet Union by writing letters to the prisons, demanding that "Prisoner Mr. Andre Durkheim be allowed his life-saving seizure medicine, etc," and this often worked to ease their situations. Sometimes I'd open the mail and find a package of trolling letters back at us from Russian school children:
"Why don't you let your black people out of jail? They are as good as white people! You Americans are so unkind. Don't you believe in freedom? Human Rights! Human Rights!"
It's so in line with all they did in the campaign. And now with our new blogger, Mr. Deripaska, getting all cosy with us Americans, and talking to us as if we're all good friends, though he might have to straighten us out now and then. . . It is so creepy that they have a desire to get their way by insinuating themselves into our conversation-- and in their minds it's mockery they're enjoying. I don't get why Russia has this relationship with us. China couldn't care less about what we do, as long as we're this big market for them and don't take our gunboats over there. Their self-esteem is not involved. But Russia is like a cousin you see only once a year and then she shows up and she's dressed just like you were dressed the year before, but she just stands behind the furniture and stares. And you think, why are you so weird?
Of course to be a government of creepy trollers over the decades is a small fault set beside other policies like murdering your opponents and having bad hospitals, but-- isn't it tacky? Russia has a thousand year history, not to mention charming daredevils I've seen jumping off things in Russia on Incredible Feats of Science, plus a million people we never see. So why Putin has to think about us and the good time we may be having morning noon and night I don't know.
What's with everyone saying "shoe-in?" The phrase is "shoo-in."
Sure! Let's go with that. =/
We made this bed through our complacency. Pretty sure the rest of the world is like figure it out
And women, and anyone who opposes them openly