Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is there never any refutation of points ? Only ridicule of the posters for being crazy, on drugs, russian, or whatever.
As someone who could been seen as an outsider trying to gain a better understanding of both sides of this, it's extremely disheartening to me to see compelling, reasoned posts responded to with "crack is whack". It's silly and immature, and does nothing to increase the overall level of understanding.
If you don't have anything substantive to add, please refrain from posting and wasting everyone's time with your childish rubbish.
Which points do you want refuted?
For one thing, I'd like to know what the uranium thing is. Did America sell uranium to Russia? Why? Russia has plenty of its own sources for uranium. Why did this happen, if it did?
The uranium issue is totally off-topic for this thread AND has been fact-checked out the wazoo and determined to be false.
http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-russia-hillary-uranium-575071
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/mar/28/fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweets-about-hillary-c/
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/trump-claims--falsely--that-clinton-gave-russia-20-of-us-uranium.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-russia-paid-hillary-clinton-for-uranium/
Anonymous wrote:Putin is just like anyone else, when he pays someone to do a job he expects that job to get done. Manafort has acted very honorably in this case by doing the work he was hired to do at the agreed price. I don't see why that upsets people.
Anonymous wrote:Putin is just like anyone else, when he pays someone to do a job he expects that job to get done. Manafort has acted very honorably in this case by doing the work he was hired to do at the agreed price. I don't see why that upsets people.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is there never any refutation of points ? Only ridicule of the posters for being crazy, on drugs, russian, or whatever.
As someone who could been seen as an outsider trying to gain a better understanding of both sides of this, it's extremely disheartening to me to see compelling, reasoned posts responded to with "crack is whack". It's silly and immature, and does nothing to increase the overall level of understanding.
If you don't have anything substantive to add, please refrain from posting and wasting everyone's time with your childish rubbish.
Which points do you want refuted?
For one thing, I'd like to know what the uranium thing is. Did America sell uranium to Russia? Why? Russia has plenty of its own sources for uranium. Why did this happen, if it did?
Anonymous wrote:Why is there never any refutation of points ? Only ridicule of the posters for being crazy, on drugs, russian, or whatever.
As someone who could been seen as an outsider trying to gain a better understanding of both sides of this, it's extremely disheartening to me to see compelling, reasoned posts responded to with "crack is whack". It's silly and immature, and does nothing to increase the overall level of understanding.
If you don't have anything substantive to add, please refrain from posting and wasting everyone's time with your childish rubbish.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is there never any refutation of points ? Only ridicule of the posters for being crazy, on drugs, russian, or whatever.
As someone who could been seen as an outsider trying to gain a better understanding of both sides of this, it's extremely disheartening to me to see compelling, reasoned posts responded to with "crack is whack". It's silly and immature, and does nothing to increase the overall level of understanding.
If you don't have anything substantive to add, please refrain from posting and wasting everyone's time with your childish rubbish.
Which points do you want refuted?
Anonymous wrote:Why is there never any refutation of points ? Only ridicule of the posters for being crazy, on drugs, russian, or whatever.
As someone who could been seen as an outsider trying to gain a better understanding of both sides of this, it's extremely disheartening to me to see compelling, reasoned posts responded to with "crack is whack". It's silly and immature, and does nothing to increase the overall level of understanding.
If you don't have anything substantive to add, please refrain from posting and wasting everyone's time with your childish rubbish.
Anonymous wrote:Why is there never any refutation of points ? Only ridicule of the posters for being crazy, on drugs, russian, or whatever.
As someone who could been seen as an outsider trying to gain a better understanding of both sides of this, it's extremely disheartening to me to see compelling, reasoned posts responded to with "crack is whack". It's silly and immature, and does nothing to increase the overall level of understanding.
If you don't have anything substantive to add, please refrain from posting and wasting everyone's time with your childish rubbish.
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.
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.
What assessment - that your wrestling coach friend has delicious blood that goes great with ice cream?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
The third act twist no one saw coming!
No. That the Russians would've much rather seen a Clinton presidency because of the previous arrangements with the Clintons (Uranium One, etc)
It was in the interest of Russia to have her in the Whitehouse rather than Trump. So spying on his campaign with a long time asset (Manafort) to pass info back to the Clintons to use to defeat Trump makes sense.
Complicating this whole mess was the hacked email scandal though, which may or may not have been done by the Russians, but pushed Clinton into a face-saving escalation of hostilities against them.
I shudder to think that we'd literally fight a war - a NUCLEAR WAR - with Russia over something so trivial as hacked emails, but with the way she was ratcheting up the rhetoric, it was conceivable. Thank God that crazy harpy didn't get elected.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
The third act twist no one saw coming!
No. That the Russians would've much rather seen a Clinton presidency because of the previous arrangements with the Clintons (Uranium One, etc)
It was in the interest of Russia to have her in the Whitehouse rather than Trump. So spying on his campaign with a long time asset (Manafort) to pass info back to the Clintons to use to defeat Trump makes sense.
Complicating this whole mess was the hacked email scandal though, which may or may not have been done by the Russians, but pushed Clinton into a face-saving escalation of hostilities against them.
I shudder to think that we'd literally fight a war - a NUCLEAR WAR - with Russia over something so trivial as hacked emails, but with the way she was ratcheting up the rhetoric, it was conceivable. Thank God that crazy harpy didn't get elected.
There's too much obfuscation, partisan sniping, media bias, and an earnest desire by BOTH parties to see Trump destroyed to ever allow a true finding of what did or didn't happen to ever be known. The whole thing is as fncked up as a soup sandwich.