The Steele memo said that some massive stake in Rosneft was dangled to Trump, right? And then, after the election like 1/3 of the company shares were transferred to unnamed private entities? As if it was being laundered or vested with dummy corporations in preparation to sell off? That whole angle has been super quiet lately. I am probably off in how I remember this but the basic story was like that.
Gonna google this now. BRB.
1) Russia wants to see us weakened, destroyed, and/or failing in everything that we do.
2) Russia is engaged in an active psyops warfare, espionage, and financial support of Trump and the Republican party.
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Russia subjectively believes that the best way to bring the US to ruin is by supporting Trump and Republicans.
Why don't democrats talk about this more often? Here is an apolitical third party that doesn't have any real ideology. Russia/Putin just pure self-interest and opportunism. Putin wants to see the west burn. Does it give you any fucking pause whatsoever, Fox News viewers, that you perfectly align with the operations and propaganda of a country that wants the US to crumble?
Re: the "merging" of the RNC and Trump's reelection campaign - Trump is basically asking the RNC to eliminate primary challengers and forgo the semi-democratic party process for him. Also, he wants to use RNC money and not his own, because he probably has none or it's all dirty AF.
t sounds like the last-ditch economic policy Soviet officials tried before they said fuck it, we're doing capitalism.
[russian accent]We apply market facilitation payments at end of five year plan.[]
Not only will "someone" give you a job, the fucking President himself will.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/us/trump-bedminster-golf-undocumented-workers.html
Tons of true crime shit.
Carlos Marcello and the New Orleans branch of the Sicilian mafia. Crazy shit, even if they weren't involved with killing Kennedy. Read about his "extradition"
Ken McElroy - look him up
That dude who sold rich people faked bottles of super old wine, including wine allegedly belonging to Thomas Jefferson (one of the Koch brothers even got ripped off which makes me happy)
That dude who stole all the moon rocks from NASA
Basically, everyone Clarence Darrow ever represented
Rudy is the trial balloon guy. And all of his "pleading in the alternative" is team Trump's way of finding out whether Trump should adopt the argument. Rudy gets on TV and goes out on a limb with some position: "Trump can't be impeached because Hillary." They use Rudy to gauge public response to the terrible bullshit arguments that Trump will be making when the Mueller report ultimately comes out.
Since EHX came out with the new "Grand Canyon," people have been unloading their regular "Canyons" like mad on Reverb. I highly recommend. Even new, at $140 or so the thing is a great deal. This market glut ought to push down the price of used ones to dirt cheap territory.
The Crowes always chose perfect cover songs. It wouldn't be a totally obvious track and they'd pick ones that worked really well with their personnel arrangement. I got to see them play "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" once. Also, "Torn and Frayed."
The 6-part Fillmore series from 2010 is loaded with awesome covers.
Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Joe Cocker - Space Captain, Feelin' Alright
Stones - Midnight Rambler
The Band - Baby Don't Do it, Shape I'm In
Otis Redding (written by William Bell) - You Don't Miss Your Water
Pink Floyd - Fearless
Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning, Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You
Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Yer Blues
The what about Hillarys are getting pretty specific and outstanding. I'm waiting for "Why doesn't the news cover Hillary's plan to build a high rise in Moscow?!?!"
I'd be really interested to know what their big influences were for this movie. The Girl Who Got Rattled reminded me of that famous Ambrose Bierce story where the union solider is trapped in a well or ravine or something (no spoliez). Saw nods to Blood Meridian (pretty sure one character was called "the kid") and nods to western artists and authors like Dobie, Tom Lea and Frederick Remington. The Coens used some kind of filter effect to create amazing colors for a lot of the movie (kind of like Soderbergh did with Traffic except he used it to saturate certain scenes with one color). It was beautiful without being too cartoonish. I'm sure they looked at a milion old west books with "plate illustrations" like the title book had.
Here's a pen and ink from some Dobie books, and they have captions just like the book in the movie did.
"The manner of settling difficulties"
Tom Lea
I would knock that Martin over and crack the neck the first day I owned it. For some reason handling valuable guitars makes me MORE prone to drop them. This is also why I will not hold a newborn baby unless I'm sitting down.