US Politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-tape.html

This news has surely been deliberately released to make Trump realise that any other tapes about other issues are also in the hands of investigators.

Moral of the story: don't fuck off the fedz

There are more tapes, just confirmed https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1020350425994678272

Thinking about how Trump cancelled the Ulchi Freedom exercise in South Korea on a ridiculously short notice I want to place a bet on him withdrawing US support for NATO's Trident Juncture sometime between now and October.
I've never placed a bet on politics before, can anyone talk me trough it?

Is that real?

yup

I thought this was very good
https://www.newyorker.com/news-desk/swamp-chronicles/a-theory-of-trump-kompromat

An off-message interviewee on Fox

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1021365601724522497

"that didn't go as planned"

That's the chilling bit; they're so open about their bias.

Just smoke & mirrors? ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvig0KvUaE

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/jul/25/donald-trump-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed-hollywood

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/business/economy/white-house-readies-plan-for-12-billion-in-emergency-aid-to-farmers-caught-in-trumps-escalating-trade-war/2018/07/24/7bec9af4-8f4d-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html

While we prepare to suffer food shortages, Trump is busy bankrupting his own farmers

So Donald has postponed the meeting Putin had already declined and has set an arbitrary deadline for Mueller all in one go...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/politics/trump-putin-meeting.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44962120

And so it begins, the race to remove Rod Rosenstein and install a new overseer for Meuller who would effectively shut down the investigation is on. Whether its by actively working against the investigation and ordering it closed or passively taking no action/not approving funding for future parts of the investigation remains to be seen.

While the attempt is unlikely to be successful it does look like America is truly starting to face a constitutional crisis with services and regulations being stripped away and the puppeteers happy to have Trump as the authoritarian puppet.

That Naom Chomsky piece was perfect @picard (cant tag you for some reason)

that noam chomsky monologue was brought to you by Anonymous... which kinda iffy-fies it a bit.

Do you suppose they told him what to say?

no. but they are solid gold arseholes.

This David Clarke guy is such a weird caricature of a cop that it is hard to believe he is a real living person.

And of course he too accepted a bit of Russian dosh in the run up to the election:
https://boingboing.net/2018/07/24/former-sheriff-david-clarke-ha.html

Another campaign video from the team that did Ocasio-Cortez's pitch (for a candidate in Hawaii)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur-K0sCHcSk

That guy is the biggest of all dickheads, and from what I recall the stories about the people in his custody etc. are horrendous. And I didn't know he was a Democrat!

a Democrat!

Wut? Me neither. Yeah, that party really needs some tidying up.
Further to your vid above, I guess that is exactly what is happening.

The prosecution case against Ms Butina is apparently 1.5m documents and 4TB of data.