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2019-12-11 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Steele's Own ‘Primary Sub-Source' Cast Doubt On Steele's Collusion Claims

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-11 02:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Key takeaway: The Bureau knew in January 2017 that the Steele "dossier" was bogus, but continued to run with it anyway.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-11 02:35|| 2019-12-11 02:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Where the fook is Steele, anyway?

Last I read, he "went into hiding."

How on earth can anyone take this nonsense seriously?
The fools pushing his garbage could not be more obvious if they tried.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-11 08:48|| 2019-12-11 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 "Hearsay": right.

Piss fables. In the presidential suite of Moscow's oldest, most beautiful and elegant hotel, supposedly committed by a man whose fortune derives from building and operating luxury hotels. Right.

Even more absurd - totally unremarked upon, btw, thanks to the near-total ignorance of Russia and the naive stupidity of our political and media elites - is the fact that no western real estate figure of any consequence could ever establish a major commercial real estate footprint in the heart of the Russian capital. Prestige properties are off limits to foreigners. So the parallel notion that Trump was seriously angling for real business concessions from the Kremlin - which doesn't even allocate these properties, btw; that would be the mayor of Moscow - was equally idiotic.

Iirc the supposed "smoking gun" evidence of Trump people seeking favors was a cold email sent by Junior to "the Kremlin." With the email address MISSPELLED.

And note the supposed quid in all this: that Trump if elected would ... do what, exactly, for Putin? Sign a disastrous treaty? Trump RIPPED UP our arms control treaty with Russia. Relax sanctions? Trump EXTENDED AND EXPANDED the sanctions. Do more business with Russia? Trump SHUT DOWN RUSSIA'S CONSULATES and trade offices around the US. Do Putin's bidding? Trump is not Putin's puppet; he's Putin's nightmare. We are closer to war with Russia than we have ever been in the last 35, perhaps even 57, years.

God these people are stupid. And they think we're even stupider, that we will swallow their absurd horseshit and applaud their nonstop parade of nonsense on stilts.

We are truly ruled by morons.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-11 09:06|| 2019-12-11 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Right on everything except We are closer to war with Russia than we have ever been in the last 35, perhaps even 57, years., Lex.

They are not stupid. They only push when whey smell weakness (in USA's case lack of resolve).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-11 13:21|| 2019-12-11 13:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ True, point taken, grom. Modify to read that Trump has shown more resolve, more willingness to stand up to Russia than we ever saw from his two predecessors.

The whole f---ing thing is ludicrous.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-11 17:25|| 2019-12-11 17:25|| Front Page Top

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