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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#41 » by closg00 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:00 pm

nate33 wrote:The McClatchy story is based on unnamed sources. And at this point, I have no faith in unnamed sources discussing the Trump/Russia collusion. They have been wrong too many times. I will cede that if it is indeed true that Michael Cohen was indeed in Prague and he lied about it, it would raise a lot of red flags. I'm just not prepared to believe the story yet.

Your so called proof backing the golden shower allegation is very thin and circumstantial. It is not surprising to me that Trump's bodyguard, who was being paid $165,000 a year when working for Trump, got a gig with the RNC for $180,000 a year after Trump no longer needed him. That's not proof of anything shady whatsoever.

And the fact that Trump has sex with porn stars leads me to believe he didn't do anything with Russian prostitutes because he doesn't need to pay for it.

Finally, we can see that Trump is immune to shame, so the fact that there were some number of encounters with beautiful women doesn't seem like it would be much leverage to blackmail Trump.


Fair point on the McClatchy story, but i'll hedge my bet that they have good sourcing there.

Steele knew that Trump was at a minimum, offered prostitutes, this is verified by Trumps own bodyguard. This part of the dossier is confirmed. Do you really believe his bodyguard that Trump turned-down beautiful Russian prostitutes? I don't. Also, why do you assume that he would have had to pay for their services? My understanding is that is was a "gift", he was after all having his beauty pageant there.

I did provide two very specific examples of the dossier being verified.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#42 » by JWizmentality » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:03 pm

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The entirety of its argument rests on how laughably unverified the Steele dossier was. All it would take is a couple of Russian operatives to have fed Steele disinformation. You don't wiretap a Presidential candidate based on the word of a couple of Russian "informants".


Nate, you have falsely asserted repeatedly that the Steele dossier is unverified, this is not accurate. Parts of the dossier have indeed been verified. Among the verified dossier claims:

The Kremlin targeted educated youth and swing-state voters during its cyberattacks: verified. This has been proven by congressional investigations into Russia's misinformation campaigns.

Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met with representatives of Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft: verified. The House intelligence committee released a transcript of Page's testimony revealing he did meet with Rosneft officials during a trip to Moscow in 2016.


Among the dossier claims that are unverified but look money now:

Alleged Cohen Prague trip

It was alleged that Trumps "Fixer" Michael Cohen went to Prague in August 2016 to meet with Russians to clean-up loose ends on Trump/Russia collusion. This allegation was made long before Cohen's role as "fixer" became widely known.
In any case. Cohen swore up and down that he had never been to Prague and filed a law suit against Vox puffing his chest out.

1. Cohen dropped the suit (Vox would have had discovery)
2. Mueller allegedly has information the Cohen was indeed in Prague, therefore moving another Dossier claim into the likely verified category.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html


Re: The Golden Shower Allegation:

1. Trump has offered to pay woman for sex according to several women
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/ex-playmate-says-donald-trump-offered-to-pay-her-after-sex
2. Trump had sex with a porn star
3. Trumps Bodyguard testified that Trump was offered Russian prostitutes during his Russian visit, but that it was turned-down.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bodyguard-testifies-russian-offered-trump-women-was-turned-down-n819386

I posit that Trumps loyal bodyguard lied to protect Trump. The bodyguard was subsequently given a $15,000 a month "consulting job", paid from an RNC slush fund. The bodyguard was rewarded for his loyalty.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/trumps-ex-bodyguard-makes-15000-a-month-from-a-gop-slush-fund.html

Trump turned-down an offer of "beautiful Russian prostitutes"? A man that prefers Eastern European women, who offers money for sex, who has sex with porn stars? The only thing missing is the tape
Trumps lie that he did not spend the night in Russia has recently been debunked.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-dossier-pee-tape-prostitutes-flight-records-moscow-christopher-steele-james-comey-memos-a8319731.html

Go-through the entire list of dossier allegations and compare them to what we know now. The dossier is looking more and more credible, who knows how-many more of the allegations Mueller has been able to verify behind the scenes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier

The McClatchy story is based on unnamed sources. And at this point, I have no faith in unnamed sources discussing the Trump/Russia collusion. They have been wrong too many times. I will cede that if it is indeed true that Michael Cohen was indeed in Prague and he lied about it, it would raise a lot of red flags. I'm just not prepared to believe the story yet.

Your so called proof backing the golden shower allegation is very thin and circumstantial. It is not surprising to me that Trump's bodyguard, who was being paid $165,000 a year when working for Trump, got a gig with the RNC for $180,000 a year after Trump no longer needed him. That's not proof of anything shady whatsoever.

And the fact that Trump has sex with porn stars leads me to believe he didn't do anything with Russian prostitutes because he doesn't need to pay for it.

Finally, we can see that Trump is immune to shame, so the fact that there were some number of encounters with beautiful women doesn't seem like it would be much leverage to blackmail Trump.


He's not immune to shame otherwise he would have just admitted it. In case you've forgotten, Trump hasn't admitted and flat out denied he had any sexual romps. Glad to see even you can accept he's a lying POS. He seems pretty darn concerned about people knowing the truth so yes, he can be blackmailed. And if you've actually been following the story, you'd know that's the least of his concerns in regards to what Russia might have.

He doesn't need to pay for it? Oh that's right. Michael Cohen's been paying for it because he's such a nice guy. :lol: :roll:
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#43 » by TGW » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:08 pm

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Waiting for the both sides people to find a way to blame this on Elizabeth Warren and the Democrats.


Uh, Elizabeth Warren is one of the very few Democrats who is squeaky clean. The other ones OTOH, not so much.

I noticed that resident liberal goof gtn sarcastically mentioned Hillary in his post like she's not the most notorious pay-for-play abuser in politics. Uh sorry to break it to you bitch, but Hillary used Haiti for P2P for years...just read the leaked wikileaks emails.


Lol wikileaks.


yea okay buddy. notice how the Democrats scream foul about wikileaks leaking emails, but never address the actual content of the emails?

bu, but, but the Democrats are good and the Republicans are evil! :lol:
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#44 » by gtn130 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:09 pm

Going down the rabbit hole with Nate on this is simply not worth it, guys.

He's 100% oblivious to anything but drive-by right wing headlines, comes into the thread saying NO COLLUSION!! WITCH HUNT!!! and when you take the time to show him anything granular and rooted in reality he'll either dip out or hand-wave it away.

He's already made up his mind and will ultimately stick his head in the sand regarding anything outside of the derposphere.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#45 » by gtn130 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:12 pm

TGW wrote:
Pointgod wrote:
TGW wrote:
Uh, Elizabeth Warren is one of the very few Democrats who is squeaky clean. The other ones OTOH, not so much.

I noticed that resident liberal goof gtn sarcastically mentioned Hillary in his post like she's not the most notorious pay-for-play abuser in politics. Uh sorry to break it to you bitch, but Hillary used Haiti for P2P for years...just read the leaked wikileaks emails.


Lol wikileaks.


yea okay buddy. notice how the Democrats scream foul about wikileaks leaking emails, but never address the actual content of the emails?

bu, but, but the Democrats are good and the Republicans are evil! :lol:


Cite the substantive emails from the Wikileaks dump that prove obvious corruption.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#46 » by closg00 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:14 pm

gtn130 wrote:Going down the rabbit hole with Nate on this is simply not worth it, guys.

He's 100% oblivious to anything but drive-by right wing headlines, comes into the thread saying NO COLLUSION!! WITCH HUNT!!! and when you take the time to show him anything granular and rooted in reality he'll either dip out or hand-wave it away.

He's already made up his mind and will ultimately stick his head in the sand regarding anything outside of the derposphere.


The thing is, some of this stuff you can actually dig into the details from all of the available information, and compare it to the allegations. This is why all of the Nunes stuff fell completely flat on its face, allegations vs facts.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#47 » by Wizardspride » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:18 pm

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President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.
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Post#48 » by TGW » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:24 pm

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that voice isn't annoying at all :-?
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Post#49 » by stilldropin20 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:39 pm

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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#50 » by gtn130 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:42 pm

closg00 wrote:
gtn130 wrote:Going down the rabbit hole with Nate on this is simply not worth it, guys.

He's 100% oblivious to anything but drive-by right wing headlines, comes into the thread saying NO COLLUSION!! WITCH HUNT!!! and when you take the time to show him anything granular and rooted in reality he'll either dip out or hand-wave it away.

He's already made up his mind and will ultimately stick his head in the sand regarding anything outside of the derposphere.


The thing is, some of this stuff you can actually dig into the details from all of the available information, and compare it to the allegations. This is why all of the Nunes stuff fell completely flat on its face, allegations vs facts.


Oh, 100%. I just think Nate and the rest of the derposphere isn't about to change their collective mind no matter what evidence is presented.

If the pee tape is ever made public, the Breitbart crowd will all start peeing on each other in solidarity.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#51 » by Wizardspride » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:05 pm

gtn130 wrote:
closg00 wrote:
gtn130 wrote:Going down the rabbit hole with Nate on this is simply not worth it, guys.

He's 100% oblivious to anything but drive-by right wing headlines, comes into the thread saying NO COLLUSION!! WITCH HUNT!!! and when you take the time to show him anything granular and rooted in reality he'll either dip out or hand-wave it away.

He's already made up his mind and will ultimately stick his head in the sand regarding anything outside of the derposphere.


The thing is, some of this stuff you can actually dig into the details from all of the available information, and compare it to the allegations. This is why all of the Nunes stuff fell completely flat on its face, allegations vs facts.


Oh, 100%. I just think Nate and the rest of the derposphere isn't about to change their collective mind no matter what evidence is presented.

If the pee tape is ever made public, the Breitbart crowd will all start peeing on each other in solidarity.

:lol:

President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.
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Post#52 » by gtn130 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:20 pm

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Yeah, Stormy Daniels is old news! It's high time we started talking about Hillary's emails!

Can't make this stuff up
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Post#53 » by stilldropin20 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:33 pm

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Dat2U wrote:OMG why did I have a Luvabull flashback when I saw this pic of Sanders?


yea that's one ugly mug

and uh, could you guys not quote STD please if it's not necessary? the troll block doesn't work when it's quoted unfortunately :(

Yo TG. A joke is over 15 years old and predates Your entry date. get with the program or STFU


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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#54 » by stilldropin20 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:46 pm

gtn130 wrote:Going down the rabbit hole with Nate on this is simply not worth it, guys.

He's 100% oblivious to anything but drive-by right wing headlines, comes into the thread saying NO COLLUSION!! WITCH HUNT!!! and when you take the time to show him anything granular and rooted in reality he'll either dip out or hand-wave it away.

He's already made up his mind and will ultimately stick his head in the sand regarding anything outside of the derposphere.

Wrong. Every damn one of you has panned your entire hopes to a 100% uncorroborated dossier. At the time the Obama DOJ use thatdossier evidence now shows that none of itWas verified by American intelligence. None of it at all.
So it was completely and entirely foreign collected intelligence on a political opposition. That’s laughable. And people are gonna get in trouble for this. We’ve already had over 10 criminal referrals to the DOJ specifically regarding this dossier that you serve it to obtain the Pfizer warrants in the surveillance collected on trump trump and the unmasking of all the Trump campaign people while they were surveilling them.

I mean come on. At this point job and can’t read mafaucking handed. You can’t be any more red-handed then this.

As Nate has already brought up the whole reason why they have a fire these people out right now and I’m talking about struck page McCabe another’s was because if they kept them there it’s easier to investigate them and to get them to cooperate.That’s why McCabe was fired on the last possible day he could be fired.

So we shall see who flips on who but it is going to get more and more interesting.I would comfortably right declare that many people would go to jail right now but because it’s politics at the highest level instead a deal will get cut at some point where the trunk DOJ legs off these people and Trump gets some of his stuff done And that’s only if the current Democrats in Congress want to keep going to bat for Obama and Obamas DOJ. If they decide to throw a bomb on the bus then yeah people are going to go to jail.




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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#55 » by Wizardspride » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:57 pm

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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#56 » by Wizardspride » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:13 pm

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Post#57 » by TGW » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:46 pm

kanye lost his mind years ago. I don't know why anyone takes anything he says seriously...
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Post#58 » by Pointgod » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:47 pm

Surprise surprise. Looks like SD20's new bae who told black people that racism is a thing of the past sued a school for........you guessed it racism.

https://m.newstimes.com/news/article/Racist-threats-case-filed-by-Stamford-High-107476.php

First welfare queen Sean Hannity is exposed, now Candace Owens. It's almost as if right wing talking heads know they can make money peddling bull to braindead lemmings.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#59 » by closg00 » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:40 pm

Pointgod wrote:Surprise surprise. Looks like SD20's new bae who told black people that racism is a thing of the past sued a school for........you guessed it racism.

https://m.newstimes.com/news/article/Racist-threats-case-filed-by-Stamford-High-107476.php

First welfare queen Sean Hannity is exposed, now Candace Owens. It's almost as if right wing talking heads know they can make money peddling bull to braindead lemmings.


:lol: We knew all along she was clowning, just like Diamond & Silk. Blacks clowning for conservative media is a wide-open opportunity.
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Re: Political Roundtable Part XX 

Post#60 » by Wizardspride » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:49 pm

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President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.

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