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@McGentrix,

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So you posted it knowing that it was fiction, ok then. Why? It adds nothing to your blog, in fact it just distracts from it. It's "noise" that makes it appear that you might have something against our fine President, Donald Trump.

"Fiction". You are not even trying, McG. Unless, of course, you want to claim that all surmises on Benghazi or Obama's nation of birth were not surmises or possiblities raised but rather mere "fictions". Do you really want to go there?

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Ya know, when I think about it, I start to have a little more empathy for these illegal aliens.

If I was a hoser, I would immediately cross the border into the U.S. legally, or not--it wouldn't matter what the consequences might be. What a hellhole.

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@McGentrix,

Sorry. My error. There are two distinct posts by Josh and I mixed them up.

Mind you, there are pieces on this now all over the place, some linked by Josh and others now coming up. The subject is, of course, links between Russia and Trump (and his circle) which has now apparently garnered three FBI investigations (plus perhaps more from other agencies). And reporters are digging in to get details.

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@blatham,

I don't recall posting links to those stories on my blog, but let's not go there. Let's stay here and discuss how Josh Marshall is lying and making up facts to get a story out.

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@McGentrix,

The point is that your use of "fiction" earlier and you use of "lying" in the last post are incoherent. That's why you cannot extend your use of these terms to other instances of the same or similar sort. It's why you somehow manage to impute a trend of media pushing falsehoods while Trump speaks truth.

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@blatham,

Quote blatham:

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there are pieces on this now all over the place, some linked by Josh and others now coming up. The subject is, of course, links between Russia and Trump (and his circle) which has now apparently garnered three FBI investigations (plus perhaps more from other agencies). And reporters are digging in to get details.

Sheesh, took 'em long enough. Trump's campaign manager, Manafort, was a lobbyist for Kremlin stooges trying to influence US legislation. Why not just walk down the street and hold a sign saying, "I'm Putin's guy"?

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From George Packer at the New Yorker

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After a month in office, Donald Trump has already proved himself unable to discharge his duties. The disability isn’t laziness or inattention. It expresses itself in paranoid rants, non-stop feuds carried out in public, and impulsive acts that can only damage his government and himself. Last week, at a White House press conference, the President behaved like the unhinged leader of an unstable and barely democratic republic. He rambled for nearly an hour and a half, on script and off; he flung insults at reporters; he announced that he was having fun; and he congratulated himself so many times and in such preposterous terms (“this Administration is running like a fine-tuned machine”) that the White House press corps could only stare in amazement. The gaudy gold drapery of the East Room contributed to the impression that at any moment Trump might declare himself President for Life, and a flunky would appear from behind the curtain to pin the Medal of National Greatness on his suit jacket, while, backstage, officials and generals discussed his overthrow. Trump experienced such a deep need to get back on top by lashing out that he apparently overrode the objections of his advisers, felt much better afterward, then prepared to go to Florida to sustain his high at the first rally of his reëlection campaign.

NYer

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@Blickers,

Well, tough to tease out the full and accurate story in all of this as much is purposefully covert and denials (such as from Flynn) to be expected.

A key point in all this is that the on-going and any future investigations by the FBI or by congress (good luck on that one) would almost certainly not have come about if all the reporters working on these matters had been doing something else. We can't count on Trump to be forthcoming or any of the other principles in this and we can't count on a modern GOP controlled congress to do its job so it's up to the press. If, in the unlikely event the GOP allows an independent commission to dig into this, it will only be because media coverage and reporting has forced them into it.

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@blatham,

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Trump experienced such a deep need to get back on top by lashing out that he apparently overrode the objections of his advisers,...

Cool!

Trump would have gotten no where listening to lame-ass advisers.

Politicians have been taught, and have thereby learned, to take abuse and not cross the press. What a bunch of candyasses, eh?

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You've heard the old saying: "You can't fight City Hall."

Trump just says: "Ya think? Hide and watch me."

Most politicians have been trained to "befriend" the press and glad-hand their ass.

But, as Al Capone done noted: "You can get a lot more of what you want with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile."

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More coincidental stuff as noted in Ha'aretz

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Fourth Wave of Bomb Threats Targets 10 Jewish Community Centers in at Least Six U.S. States
New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas, New Mexico and Alabama centers affected, according to local news reports. Trump's racist remarks empowered anti-Semites to act, Alabama rabbi says.

http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.772886

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Robert Costa ‏@costareports 1h1 hour ago
There are ongoing discussions at Breitbart this afternoon about Milo's future with the company, per sources

Costa, who used to write for NRO, is well connected and worth attending to. I'll definitely be watching to see what happens here.

Dave Weigel thinks it would be "remarkable" if Breitbart cut ties with Yiannopoulos because the site is now so heavily invested in forwarding him and his celebrity in right wing world.

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tweet from Sweden's PM

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@carlbildt
Last year there were app 50% more murders only in Orlando/Orang in Florida, where Trump spoke the other day, than in all of Sweden. Bad.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

The point is that your use of "fiction" earlier and you use of "lying" in the last post are incoherent. That's why you cannot extend your use of these terms to other instances of the same or similar sort. It's why you somehow manage to impute a trend of media pushing falsehoods while Trump speaks truth.

In other words, no matter what it takes, the true, honest and free media will do what ever it takes to bring Trump down. Even if that means lying and making up facts. It's good that you have finally come around on this topic.

It was hard to tell without a machete, a compass and a Sherpa to get me through the jungle of posts you make every day.

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@McGentrix,

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Bill Kristol ‏@BillKristol Feb 19
Honest Q for conservatives who aren't just working with or around Trump, but rationalizing him: In your heart, don't you know you're wrong?

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@blatham,

Packer has written well for the NYer for a long time, as you likely now. I don't remember if I've always agreed, but I always pay attention to him.

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Col. Morris Davis ‏@ColMorrisDavis 1h1 hour ago
Col. Morris Davis Retweeted CBS News
30 days in office, 10 of those days spent at his Florida country club and 6 rounds of golf ... @realDonaldTrump the public servant.

He's exhausted. So much victimization just drains you. If it weren't for the days off and all the Fox TV watching, the man might begin to look and talk kind of...um...nutty.

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@blatham,

About some stuff yes, some stuff no. You need to bear in mind that a large part of society, part of which I am in agreement with, wants Trump to succeed because we agree with what he wants to do. We are against illegal immigration, we don't like Obamacare, we want the swamp drained, we want jobs in America, We want manufacturing to return to America, we want less regulation that stifles small business growth, we want less governmental intrusion, we want trade deals renegotiated, we want the rest of the world to pay their share of things, we want energy independence, we want less crime, we want lower taxes...

Can Trump get us of these things? Probably not but I can certainly tell you one thing, the Democrats will get us NONE of those things. The media is fighting tooth and nail to prevent Trump from doing things as is Congress it appears. We have a do nothing Republican side and the do less than nothing Democrat side.

It's pathetic.

Your daily posts of all the daily "news" about Trump does nothing to help America. I know I can simply give this thread a thumb down and then my day would be better, but then I miss all the talk.

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@ossobucotemp,

I thought I'd read a book by Packer but just went through his titles and I guess I didn't, just pieces he's written at NYer and elsewhere.

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@blatham,

I'm guessing that's Santa Fe.
Oy.

Re the word 'oy', I'm a long lapsed catholic (50 years), am without theism, and have had a zillion co-workers in a couple or three different fields. A lot of what took in my brain in my laboratory years were the wisecracks and serious talk of my jewish colleagues.
Oy, from me, means sympathy re a situation.

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