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Should I infer from your dismissive attitude toward the Russian kleptocracy that you feel the benefits of cooperation with the Russian mob outweigh the downsides? Maybe you should consider adopting this variation to the law and order meme those on the right used to champion. Consider that "Scoff law and brutal order" is closer to the current reality and is being played out most dramatically in the Philippines although we know that Trump is quite impressed. pubby

I was just establishing that discrimination is discrimination. That this administration and movement is associated with the white nationalist movement is also a fact. pubby

Like an GOOD INVESTIGATION they are keeping the finding close to the vest until they complete the investigation. It is solid, conservative way to do it. What I might point to, in regard to there being more, are the half dozen or so sealed indictments that have been filed. You got think of this kind of like a rats nest not in a barn, but in a small city. You know where they've built underground tunnels and have dozens of nests. Taking out just one here or one there won't stem the tide; you have to observe and observe and observe to find all the entrances and all the nests. It takes t

When this guy, Mercer, his daughter, Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and even those tattooed prison yard nazis don the robes; you know the one's with the full mask and pointy hoods, they all fit right in so why would you care? pubby

Yes. Again, with the projection pubby

Actually, it didn't upset me. I actually appreciated him delaying his congratulatory call for two days. pubby

I think you're also missing the fact that there is a strong current in liberal circles for the establishment of spending limits if not publicly-funded federal elections. If you had such limits in place, these kinds of issues would not even be raised. It is only in the wake of Citizens United where there is no limit on spending as there is no limit on pacs and super pacs or even the identities of those who are contributing. pubby

the proceeds from the Oliver book is also being donated to charity. pubby

what an asinine opinion. The difference is there was push back after 2012 from numerous privacy advocates and there were changes including a consent decree from the courts vs. facebook. I've been warning of the uses of data mining from big data for as long as I can remember. The difference between Cambridge analytica and the 2012 Obama campaign is that there were no rules regarding the use in 2012 but rules were in place, most specifically the copying and diversion of the data to CA as well as potentially other entities including the Russians and the Trump campaign directly.

Have you guys ever read a Russian novel? I think it a bit grand to blame all this on the genius of Donald J. Trump As Rex Tillerson was fond of saying, the guys a trucking moron. Nope, this whole thing was a combination of I looked at the cbsnews.com article you cited and I have to say the only attribution of the article is Major Garrett whom I think is one of the talking heads. He cites no source in the entire article for any of his statements. I.e. there is no he said or she said. I'm pretty certain that Major Garrett wasn't an insider in the Trump campaign; or a

Think about that often, do you pubby

Yes, after VP Mike Pence made his way around right wing politico-religious groups to promote his daughter's children's book which apparently ticked of HBO's John Oliver who came out with a competing children's book. After the first day, this is the story as appeared in the daily beast. Link. You folks are letting down Pence. Could you be letting him down because Trump dismisses the Pences as 'low class' and 'yokels' because they brought their pets into the VP residence? LINK (Apparently Trump doesn't like cats, dogs or rabbits.) Personally, I think the whole thing is a hoot.

I'm far from the only person to have notice the bromance Trump shows for Putin. And as far as being ashamed ... it was you who brought up wet dreams in relation to the kleptocrat ... and I should be ashamed??? You got to be kidding. Hell all the polls show it is conservative white males that like the guy and since you're a conservative white guy ... Well, I wouldn't say the gay part was a freudian slip ... but projection pubby

Diversion off the topic. Answer me this, what odds do you offer on the notion that Jeff Sessions is cooperating with Mueller and the entire McCabe firing is a set up by Mueller using a wire on Sessions to capture additional information bolstering existing charges of obstruction on the part of Trump. I think Mercer and Bannon would have been better off trying to elect Cruz president. I think he is probably both slimy enough and smart enough to have pulled off the cultural revolution if he could only get elected. Didn't you like Cruz initially? pubby

There you go again with the personal insults. The house of cards is falling. pubby

Speaking of collusion ... Bannon was a VP of Cambridge Analytica. I just saw a report where Chris Wylie, the former research director, said that Lukoil, the Russian oil company that is tied to the Kremlin, was asked to advise and give support to the Russian Oil company on how the data would be used to target American voters. The second fact was that the Cambridge University professor who broke the law by selling the facebook profiles to Cambridge Analytica was also a russian-American and was lecturing at a Russian University about how to use social media data to deliver political communicati

You've not heard the latest, obviously. I just posted about five videos in a new topic that give a more general view of this burgeoning scandal. The key point is that the source of information and it granularity is a big difference. Basically, what Cambridge Analytica did was use a third-party academic to obtain not just targeting data (based on geotargeting and facebook's demographic data like age, sex, household size, etc.) and combined it with political data (voter history - whether they voted in a democratic or republican primary) but used the content from private messages, full prof

Chris Wylie has wanted to tell his story for over a year after leaving his job as research director at Cambridge Analytica. What we've been told before about this secretive entity has been largely lies. The key point is that the company was basically founded on the theft of facebook data on 50+ million facebook users that is capable of providing accurate psychological profiles. Yep, they know things about you and your predictions better than you and using this data, they can 'bring you along' to do what they want. Here are a series of videos that include a 'sting' that involves the

And quite a few more are more corrupt than the Dems. Take Steve Bannon and his benefactors ... the Mercer's ... who were arguably complicit in the theft of data capable of providing psychological profiles on 50+ million American citizens including probably you. The point was 'break' society and from its pieces, create a new society lead presumably by war lords or at least those who fancy themselves as aristocracy - i.e. people who believe themselves to be our betters. If you don't grasp this, then I think you should class yourself as a tory. pubby

Considering that the public airways, not to mention the public roadways are all public property and there is something called taxes, the idea that we are forever married to a political system that depends on those who have money and wish to use that money to expand their private interests is the primary fallacy. Campaign finance reform solves issues like nefarious use of psychological data made possible by those who look at politics as an investment that pays them with tax cuts that ultimately they use to buy more political outcomes. pubby

Actually, that is projection ... again ... and a projection you share with Trump literally. pubby

That was careless. What I don't think you quite grasp, though is there was a conscious effort to avoid the transmission of classified data through this communication medium. It wasn't a 'treasure trove' of classified information as the typical protocol that Secy. Clinton used when communicating about classified matters was diplomatic courier or other secure communications approaches. The total number of emails with classified content was limited to 110, also reported by the FBI. This is over the course of what five years. Mostly, the classified material, while found in 110 emails, wer

They had voter observers, according to the article, and their verdict was, 'dirty election' ... but nothing was or could be done other thanto promise to observe the ballot stuffing 'next time' ... just like the last time. This attitude comes from the top in Russia. The lesson is elections don't matter, democratic institutions don't matter; the only thing matters is money and the power it bestows. In other words, might makes right and bullies rule. BTW: That is the same message the right is preaching right here. Think about it. What was Trump saying right before the election? He was

comey only said that classified materials were handled carelessly but never said that the material had been compromised. BTW: If anyone was going to compromise hillary's server, it would have been the Russians. To anyone's knowledge, none of Hillary's emails; other than those political ones hacked at the DNC or those hacked from Podesta, were ever made public even though, in late July, Trump asked the Russians to produce them. They didn't come because they weren't hacked and your statement that Comey said they were is wrong. But hey, we all know you're right because you're right

This all happened a month or so ago. Rience Prebius and Steven Bannon, Hope Hicks and the like all refused to answer questions posed by a congressional committee citing not, national security, the fifth amendment or even executive privilege. Rather they just refused to answer and the GOP majority didn't press them on the issue. Rather they just refused to answer but there was no obvious reason for their lack of cooperation. We now know that the trump administration forced all top white house staff to sign non-disclosure agreements. While the power of congress to compel testimony cou