They're too busy letting fox news tell them what to think PP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

I was married to an Intel Analyst, Ranger, Green Beret (we're still good friends). He and his buddies would agree with your assessment as a very distinct possibility.

Can you and PP please explain this "assessment" in a way that makes sense with the following known facts?
A) Manafort is a lifelong Republican
B) Manafort has spent decades as a foreign agent working on behalf of Russian oligarchs
C) Vladimir Putin and other Russian oligarchs hate Hillary Clinton

Thanks!

Anonymous wrote:This:

"....according to people familiar with the discussions."

I want to see the email.

"If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.

But I'm sure we'll all see it eventually.

So Manafort was 8-9 figures in debt, Trump was 9 figures in debt and Kushner was 9-10 figures in debt.

These bastards have basically sold out our country for their own personal gain, and the GOP and anyone defending them are happy about it.

WTF.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

I was married to an Intel Analyst, Ranger, Green Beret (we're still good friends). He and his buddies would agree with your assessment as a very distinct possibility.

This:

"....according to people familiar with the discussions."

I want to see the email.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

Then you need to do better research into Manaforts long ties to the GOP and his shorter ties (only twenty + years) to the Russian and former Soviet state Oligarchs.

Anonymous wrote:You guys can't see the forest for the trees here.

What if Manafort was actually spying on the Trump campaign for Russia, who was in turn feeding that intel back to Clinton?

Why else would Manafort be briefing the Russians on Trump? If Russia were helping, wouldn't the briefings be coming FROM them, as opposed to going TO them?


That's the problem with demanding investigations when your own side is dirty. You never know where or when something might lead back to you.


This is getting REAL interesting.

So Manafort, whose days with he GOP go back to before Lee Atwater, was a Clinton operative? I want what you're drinking.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

If you bleed apple pie, you should get that looked at before they repeal Obamacare.

Also, you should understand show some basic horse sense. The Russians hate Clinton. This isn't even in dispute. So your crazy hypothetical makes no sense at all. Didn't your business school teach you to draw conclusions from data?

Anonymous wrote:You guys can't see the forest for the trees here.

What if Manafort was actually spying on the Trump campaign for Russia, who was in turn feeding that intel back to Clinton?

Why else would Manafort be briefing the Russians on Trump? If Russia were helping, wouldn't the briefings be coming FROM them, as opposed to going TO them?

That's the problem with demanding investigations when your own side is dirty. You never know where or when something might lead back to you.

This is getting REAL interesting.

Um, because he's been working for the Russian oligarchs for years?

Where's your MBA from, Trump University?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

W had an MBA too. Thanks for proving my point.

"Small business owner and wrestling coach" are clearly make you an expert in investigating espionage. Thanks for proving my point.

A navy blazer, red tie, white shirt, and flag lapel pin wearing fascist wannabe is still a fascist wannabe. Thanks for proving my point.

You can get off your shift soon, Sergei.

You didn't believe it either? Those idioms get them every time.

Seriously, the eastern Ukrainian troll farms must be scraping the bottom of the barrel these days. You get better trolling in the Private/Independent School forum.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

W had an MBA too. Thanks for proving my point.

"Small business owner and wrestling coach" are clearly make you an expert in investigating espionage. Thanks for proving my point.

A navy blazer, red tie, white shirt, and flag lapel pin wearing fascist wannabe is still a fascist wannabe. Thanks for proving my point.

You can get off your shift soon, Sergei.

You didn't believe it either? Those idioms get them every time.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

W had an MBA too. Thanks for proving my point.

"Small business owner and wrestling coach" are clearly make you an expert in investigating espionage. Thanks for proving my point.

A navy blazer, red tie, white shirt, and flag lapel pin wearing fascist wannabe is still a fascist wannabe. Thanks for proving my point.

You can get off your shift soon, Sergei.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

How does one form a substantive response to utter nonsense? Holy hell, "fellow American," you were just gibbering. The GOP COMMIT TREASON and we're starting to get to see the proof. Stop trying to bring it back to the DNC and a bunch of debunked conspiracy theories, and then expecting anyone to take you seriously. So, kindly, you are either not too bright or not too American.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not Russian. I'm an American. A combat Veteran of two wars. I have an MBA. I'm a small business owner and I coach wrestling. I'm so American I bleed apple pie.

The "Vlad" jokes reveal that you have no substantive retort. Snark is all you've got. It's a white flag.

Yeah, no retort:

Dallas Morning News:

"Oleg Deripaska is the founder and majority owner of RUSAL, the world's second largest aluminum company, based in Russia. Len Blavatnik owns a significant stake in RUSAL and served on its Board until November 10, 2016, two days after Donald Trump was elected.

Deripaska controls RUSAL with a 48 percent majority stake through his holding company, EN+ Group, and the Russian government owns 4.35 percent stake of EN+ Group through its second-largest state owned bank, VTB. VTB was exposed in the Panama papers in 2016for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Vladimir Putin and is under sanctions by the U.S. government.

Deripaska has been closely connected to the Kremlin since he married into Boris Yeltsin's family in 2001, which literally includes him in the Russian clan known as "The Family."According to the Associated Press, starting in 2006, Deripaska made annual payments of $10 million to Paul Manafort through the Bank of Cyprus to advance Putin's global agenda."

Sorry that all the facts point to you voting for a traitor.