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Where did Russia go?


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2017 Aug 1, 5:49pm   48,755 views  247 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (59)   ignore (2)  

How come it's not Russia 24/7 anymore on NPR, CNN, and in the NY Times?

Have they run out of lame tenuous connections that no one is buying and which break no laws? Seemed like they could make up a new story every week for the last 8 months.

Or have they realized that investigating further looks more likely to incriminate Hillary than Trump?

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240   PanicanDemoralizer   2025 Jun 24, 12:36pm  

I wonder if we need another Sewell's folly.

Patrick says





Then again we'd get some real nutty neighbors.
241   RWSGFY   2025 Jul 10, 6:45am  




Lose a mil in a stupid war - get a mil from India.

The story of unlimited manpower is not what we thought it was.
242   Fortwaye   2025 Jul 10, 8:41am  




was made using some sketchy looking website, but funny.

seriously feels like forever wars deep state runs foreign policy and media, and we are like free range chickens on tax farm only allowed one opinion that’s for war.

and guys i’m sick of that. always more and more wars, while our cities fall apart, poverty everywhere, illegals all over, homelessness, sexual immorality, drug overdoses. but government hell bent on wars instead.
243   Blue   2025 Jul 10, 8:45am  

RWSGFY says




Lose a mil in a stupid war - get a mil from India.

The story of unlimited manpower is not what we thought it was.


Trump is considering to put 500% tariff on countries doing business with Russia!
244   Fortwaye   2025 Jul 10, 8:48am  

Trump won’t because stock market will collapse again and he will TACO
245   Blue   2025 Jul 10, 2:03pm  

Fortwaye says


Trump won’t because stock market will collapse again and he will TACO

lol! at least he is scaring many countries to get some deals.
246   Patrick   2025 Jul 19, 10:16am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/potboiler-saturday-july-19-2025-c


The Hill was the only corporate media platform I could find that at all covered this massively historic story, running below the weak headline-with-scare-quotes, “Gabbard claims Obama officials ‘manufactured intelligence’ of 2016 Russian election interference.” But you could write an entire book about how unprecedented and important this story is. Yesterday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted this highly-polished thread:




The first thing you should notice is that Tulsi tweeted this from her official government account, not her personal account. Thus, she is speaking as DNI. No previous DNI has ever made an announcement like that one; not even close.

We live in a time of unique historical moments. Everything from Trump’s re-election and the assassination attempts to the southern aurorae and Hunga Tonga. It is easy to become hardened to claims of historicity when everything feels record-shattering. But this story still stands out.

Tulsi Gabbard’s public disclosure as Director of National Intelligence is unprecedented and historic in nearly every dimension of American governance. Never before has a sitting DNI directly accused former top intelligence officials—including her predecessors—of orchestrating a domestic disinformation campaign to subvert an incoming president.

She did not leak anonymously, defer to internal channels, or await a closed-door investigation; instead, she unveiled evidence from a pending investigation in a tightly structured public thread, complete with official documents, internal communications, and a direct handoff to the Department of Justice— all under her own name and title. ...

On December 8th, 2016, IC analysts prepared a brief for then-President Obama that would have reported that Russia “did not impact recent U.S. election results.”

But before it was published, that report was pulled. The next day, December 9th, Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, and CIA Director John Brennan met with President Obama at the White House. “Obama directed the IC to create a new intelligence assessment that detailed Russian election meddling,” Tulsi said, “even though it would contradict multiple intelligence assessments released over the previous several months.”

A series of high-profile leaks to the Washington Post, NBC, and others, immediately followed, all sourced to “anonymous” intelligence officials. The WaPo reported, “This presidential campaign marks the first time Russia has attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome of an election, the officials said.” Similarly, NBC ran with, “U.S. intelligence officials now believe with a high level of confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.”

Then, on January 6th, 2017 —two weeks before Trump took the oath— “DNI Clapper unveiled the new, Obama-directed politicized assessment, a gross weaponization of intelligence that laid the groundwork for a years-long coup intended to subvert President Trump’s entire presidency.”

You know the rest. Resistance! RussiaGate! Election interference! Impeachment! Impeachment again! And so on, ad nauseum.

Tulsi ended her thread with this even more remarkable tweet, advising that she was now “providing all documents to the DOJ”:

I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the
accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people
deserve.

... As more evidence, she immediately announced turning it over to DOJ. For what? The only reason she’d hand it off to DOJ is for prosecution. On cue, understandably fatigued MAGA people sighed, and complained that nothing ever happens. But this is different.

It’s different because there is also zero chance that Tulsi would have invoked DOJ in her announcement without clearing it with DOJ ahead of time. There’s no evidence DOJ was surprised, which is exactly what we should expect. In other words, DOJ was already waiting for the official handoff. And DOJ wouldn’t have agreed to this if they didn’t plan to do something.

The last thing Pam Bondi needs right now is another disappointing non-investigation.


I'm still 99% sure that no one who had any real power will serve any time, because that never happens.

Would love to be proven wrong.

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