listener} A comment made in response to Heather Cox Richardson’s latest daily letter is worth sharing!
Justin Knodell writes: I have a pretty comprehensive list of Trump bending over for Putin. Enjoy!
See if you can answer these very real questions:
- Why did Trump hire Manafort whose most recent election experience was in Ukraine and who, with Russian financial backing, helped elect Viktor Yanukovych who was instrumental from keeping Ukraine from NATO membership?
-- Why did Trump leverage Ukraine’s security payment for dirt on his political opponent?
-- Why did Trump dismantle the Open Skies surveillance program (and try to order to the planes themselves destroyed)?
-- Why did Trump lie in the 2016 campaign, saying that he had no business connections with Russia?
-- Why, once he was the Republican nominee in 2016, did Donald Trump specifically have removed the part of the GOP policy platform that supported military aid to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia?
-- Why was Trump’s 2016 campaign manager meeting with a Russian intelligence agent to discuss a plan for Ukraine that would have given Russia control over the eastern part of that country?
-- Why did Trump publicly ask Russians to hack the e-mails of his political opponent in 2016?
-- Why did Trump associates use messaging apps that later, automatically, destroyed their messages in their communications with Russians?
-- Why did Trump hand over to Russian officials highly-classified information, while meeting with them in the White House?
-- Why did Trump bar all US officials from his meetings with the Russian dictator, and then confiscate the translator's notes?
-- Why did Trump reject the findings of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies, instead publicly saying that he took the word of the Russian dictator that he had never interfered in the 2016 election?
-- Why did Trump try to weaken economic sanctions on Russia, only giving up in that effort after a bipartisan majority in Congress threatened to enact such sanctions in law, over his veto?
-- Why did Trump claim that it was Ukraine that had interfered in the 2016 US election, not Russia?
-- Why did Trump pick fights with our NATO allies, but never with the Russian dictator?
-- Why did Trump ignore it, when it was discovered that Russia was offering bounties for dead American soldiers?
-- Why did Trump take secret and top secret files home?
Until we get real answers to those and even more questions about Trump's bizarre relationship with Putin, we have to treat him and his followers as servants of that Russian dictator, based on how their efforts tend to give him aid and comfort. 🧐
The email kerfuffle was an effort to reverse the SCOTUS ruling that electronic records are just like paper documents, including letters written to Congress, that have to be preserved for future public access. What they wanted to assert was that written electronic communications could be treated like phone calls, logged but not recorded as to substance. Congress found the new retention requirements particularly onerous and eventually went to a centralized mail system that rejects communications that do not originate from zip codes in their home districts. Even more onerous is that complaining citizens cannot be hit up for donations of money. Because, to be frank, what they extort from corporations is never enough. Remember that with Republicans it is never about what they claim it is about. Perhaps they are convinced that is how plausible deniability works. There are many people who are quite content just to be associated with something that looks grand. How else to account for the pomp and circumstance in the female excluding RCC?
Sunnty here earlier, but a light sprinkle as I was coming back from my prostate biopsy. Official results in two weeks. Meanwhile, I have a prescription to prepare for the anticipated testosterone suppression therapy.
Since I was not wearing my "retirement uniform," I went out to dinner today. Forgot it was Vaneltine's Day until I passed a restaurant I knew was normally closed on tuesdays. Not only were they open, they had live music. The one I went to was also fairly full, even relatively late in the evening.
“Oh, no, I’m not announcing anything. I will one day.”
— Sen. Dianne Feinstein, in an interview with Raw Story, about an hour after her office released the statement on her decision not to seek re-election. ---Alan
listener}
ReplyDeleteA comment made in response to Heather Cox Richardson’s latest daily letter is worth sharing!
Justin Knodell writes:
I have a pretty comprehensive list of Trump bending over for Putin. Enjoy!
See if you can answer these very real questions:
- Why did Trump hire Manafort whose most recent election experience was in Ukraine and who, with Russian financial backing, helped elect Viktor Yanukovych who was instrumental from keeping Ukraine from NATO membership?
-- Why did Trump leverage Ukraine’s security payment for dirt on his political opponent?
-- Why did Trump dismantle the Open Skies surveillance program (and try to order to the planes themselves destroyed)?
-- Why did Trump lie in the 2016 campaign, saying that he had no business connections with Russia?
-- Why, once he was the Republican nominee in 2016, did Donald Trump specifically have removed the part of the GOP policy platform that supported military aid to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia?
-- Why was Trump’s 2016 campaign manager meeting with a Russian intelligence agent to discuss a plan for Ukraine that would have given Russia control over the eastern part of that country?
-- Why did Trump publicly ask Russians to hack the e-mails of his political opponent in 2016?
-- Why did Trump associates use messaging apps that later, automatically, destroyed their messages in their communications with Russians?
-- Why did Trump hand over to Russian officials highly-classified information, while meeting with them in the White House?
-- Why did Trump bar all US officials from his meetings with the Russian dictator, and then confiscate the translator's notes?
-- Why did Trump reject the findings of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies, instead publicly saying that he took the word of the Russian dictator that he had never interfered in the 2016 election?
-- Why did Trump try to weaken economic sanctions on Russia, only giving up in that effort after a bipartisan majority in Congress threatened to enact such sanctions in law, over his veto?
-- Why did Trump claim that it was Ukraine that had interfered in the 2016 US election, not Russia?
-- Why did Trump pick fights with our NATO allies, but never with the Russian dictator?
-- Why did Trump ignore it, when it was discovered that Russia was offering bounties for dead American soldiers?
-- Why did Trump take secret and top secret files home?
Until we get real answers to those and even more questions about Trump's bizarre relationship with Putin, we have to treat him and his followers as servants of that Russian dictator, based on how their efforts tend to give him aid and comfort. 🧐
“….but what about her emails?”
The email kerfuffle was an effort to reverse the SCOTUS ruling that electronic records are just like paper documents, including letters written to Congress, that have to be preserved for future public access. What they wanted to assert was that written electronic communications could be treated like phone calls, logged but not recorded as to substance.
DeleteCongress found the new retention requirements particularly onerous and eventually went to a centralized mail system that rejects communications that do not originate from zip codes in their home districts.
Even more onerous is that complaining citizens cannot be hit up for donations of money. Because, to be frank, what they extort from corporations is never enough.
Remember that with Republicans it is never about what they claim it is about. Perhaps they are convinced that is how plausible deniability works.
There are many people who are quite content just to be associated with something that looks grand. How else to account for the pomp and circumstance in the female excluding RCC?
Today I heard the Black-Capped Chickadee's Spring Song for the first time this year!
ReplyDeleteThen I heard the Northern Cardinal's "Chew! Chew! Chew!" call!
Bright sun today, with a strong, cold wind. No gardening.
ReplyDelete---Alan
Sunnty here earlier, but a light sprinkle as I was coming back from my prostate biopsy. Official results in two weeks. Meanwhile, I have a prescription to prepare for the anticipated testosterone suppression therapy.
DeleteSince I was not wearing my "retirement uniform," I went out to dinner today. Forgot it was Vaneltine's Day until I passed a restaurant I knew was normally closed on tuesdays. Not only were they open, they had live music. The one I went to was also fairly full, even relatively late in the evening.
DeleteHoping your results are the best sort, Bill...! Please keep us posted. Will be thinking of you.
DeleteBoth Dr. Leyland and I would be very surprised if it's not cancer. But the results will provide additional information.
DeleteFeinstein Officially Announces Her Retirement [Click]
ReplyDeleteIn other news, US neither confirms not denies that the vehicle shot down over Lake Huron was carrying the Andromedan curling team.
—Alan
“Oh, no, I’m not announcing anything. I will one day.”
Delete— Sen. Dianne Feinstein, in an interview with Raw Story, about an hour after her office released the statement on her decision not to seek re-election.
---Alan
Memory issues, or an office gaffe?
DeleteSenility.
Delete---Alan
So far there are three candidates, any one of whom would be OK with me, although I have two favorites.
Delete---Alan
Those charged with murder can no longer cite infidelity as provocation to kill, Massachusetts [Supreme] Court rules [Click]
ReplyDelete—Alan
Having been born in Boston and having lived part of my childhood there, I am surprised to find it might ever have been considered okay!!
Delete"Provocation" doesn't mean it's OK, it means it's manslaughter rather than murder. But that no longer applies in this instance.
Delete