Malaise wants to tell us ReTHUG rats something

[AzJames73]

malaise (156,276 posts)

Listen carefully ReTHUG rats
Jump ship now

http://www.newyorker.com/business/adam-davidson/will-robert-mueller-explore-trumps-russia-business-ties
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On July 24, 1943, the United States and Great Britain launched Operation Gomorrah, a seven-day-long attack on Hamburg, Germany, that destroyed much of the city and killed more than forty-two thousand German civilians, yet resulted in unusually few Allied casualties. The mission was successful in part because airmen in the bombers threw strips of paper that had been coated with aluminum paint out of the planes. This new decoy system, code-named chaff, so confused German radar that it cut the usual rate of downed aircraft by two-thirds.

Donald Trump has long deployed what might be called the chaff approach to evading legal scrutiny in his business dealings. Parts of his labyrinthine business holdings seem to be likely targets of investigation. He was sued for civil fraud over promises made to students of Trump University (a case that was settled after Trump became President). He talked on CNBC about the need to pay bribes when doing business overseas. His Atlantic City casino, the Taj Mahal, was in violation of anti-money-laundering laws when Trump owned it. He has had ties to New York Mafia figures. Yet he has never been indicted nor, for all we know, did any prosecutor consider pursuing a criminal case. Perhaps this is because the structure of Trump’s business has been, like chaff tossed out of a bomber, a remarkably effective defense. There is no one thing to look at when investigating Donald Trump. There’s not one company, there are hundreds, possibly thousands. Every deal he does has its own legal structure, its unique set of participants and business model. Rarely—and less often in the past decade—is Trump the primary owner and visionary of a project. More typically, he has sold a license to put his name on someone else’s project.

Robert Mueller, who was recently appointed as a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the Presidential election, has the authority to clear up the picture. Mueller was given an expansive brief to investigate any links between “anyone associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump” and the Russian government as well as, basically, anything fishy he might turn up along the way. It seems reasonable to expect that the investigation will take a careful look at Trump’s business history. During the campaign and over the several years before it, Trump had business deals with several figures who are close to the Kremlin. To discover if there was collusion in 2015 and 2016, an investigator would surely want to better understand these earlier business relationships.

To take one example, Trump has tweeted and talked about his strong relationship with Aras Agalarov, the Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire and Putin ally who partnered with Trump on the Miss Universe pageant that was held in Moscow, in 2013, and from which Trump made a twelve-million-dollar profit, according to his lawyers. At the time, Trump tweeted about his hope that the pageant would be the occasion for him and Putin to become close. (“Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so, will he become my new best friend?”) A few months later, Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference, “I was in Moscow a couple of months ago, I own the Miss Universe Pageant and they treated me so great. Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present.”

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Lots more at link

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[franksolich]

  Ok

My sentiments exactly.

It's only that ugly old bitch Jamaica Christine anyway.

[Delmar]

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Lots more at link

I wasted enough time skimming her stupid post.  I'll take a pass on the link.

[SVPete]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzVDDSfeeA[/youtube]

Charlie-Brownian Progs face two threats:

* Mueller will utterly debunk the Russia-Hacked-The-Election narrative well before the 2018 mid-term election;

* Mueller will look on the D side of the ship and find genuine scandals, and maybe even felonies.

But they're too focused on Lucy's football to see her arms tensed to yank it away or too see how hard the ground they're about to land on is.

Not that mal needs to worry, safely ensconced in her gated estate or community there on her Caribbean Paradise.

[Old n Grumpy]

First, we don't care what you think, you lost & we won.
Second we really think you don't know how to think, because you all are a bunch of LOSERS!!
 

[ADsOutburst]

This has woke! Trump is legs! Stay toast! Don't let them light the gas! Don't let them frame you!

Did I forget anything?

[SVPete]

First, we don't care what you think, you lost & we won.
Second we really think you don't know how to think, because you all are a bunch of LOSERS!!
 

OnG, mal is Jamaican, a university professor, so she really has no horse in any US political race. She a racist and a socialist, so she has preferences, but that's about it. She's just sitting safely in her gated compound or community, tossing empty rum bottles at Americans who love this country and want it to be great.

What she cannot conceive of is that people who want the US to be great also want other nations to be great as well (with a few obvious exceptions), so we push and pull each other up. mal wants all nations to be equal ... equally miserable hellholes.

[Old n Grumpy]

OnG, mal is Jamaican, a university professor, so she really has no horse in any US political race. She a racist and a socialist, so she has preferences, but that's about it. She's just sitting safely in her gated compound or community, tossing empty rum bottles at Americans who love this country and want it to be great.

What she cannot conceive of is that people who want the US to be great also want other nations to be great as well (with a few obvious exceptions), so we push and pull each other up. mal wants all nations to be equal ... equally miserable hellholes.

I used to live in Miami and have been to Jamaica, and done work for Jamaicans.  They have an attitude of superiority and think they are more intelligent than most. I find them to be a bunch of cheating schemers and really have no use for them.
Their country is a shit hole that has been ruined by greedy politicians and socialism.  violence and crime are a way of life along with a crumbling infrastructure, poverty and filth. So I can see where she is coming from.

[jukin]

What a coinky dink. My asshole wants to tell malaise something too. Pucker up DUchebag and My culo will give you a special message.

[DUmpsterDiver]

I heard Jamaica Christine has a solution for chaffed posteriors and it involves a gerbil. 

[FunkyZero]

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I'm sorry, but I just can't help but laugh every time one of them says "reTHUG".
That has to be one of the least inventive of all the ones I've seen from them.

[SVPete]

I'm sorry, but I just can't help but laugh every time one of them says "reTHUG".
That has to be one of the least inventive of all the ones I've seen from them.

IKR? They should mix in "Repugnican" or "Repugs" for the sake of a little variety.

Not that either impresses me.

[ADsOutburst]

I'm sorry, but I just can't help but laugh every time one of them says "reTHUG".
That has to be one of the least inventive of all the ones I've seen from them.

That has my vote for least imaginative attempted insult since "chickenhawk".

[AzJames73]

Is she EVEN an American citizen ?

[franksolich]

Is she EVEN an American citizen ?

Nope.

Born in then-British Guiana, her father a headmaster or whatever at a girl's school circa the 1940s and 1950s (Christine is circa 60 years old, maybe a tad bit older), and moved to Jamaica as a child or young adult.

A fan of the 1%ers' favorite game, cricket.

Just a real ugly old bitch with an utterly negative personality.