ewsieg Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said: It's not the speech, it's the law. You can't spread around foreign money without registering as a foreign agent and foreign money is about the only kind the law does say you can't spend on an US election - though there are even some loopholes there. I'm not saying no one didn't do anything legally wrong, I was just saying I was pausing on condemning everyone named until I learned some more. That said, I listened to a podcast that I believe gives some good news and views on issues and they discussed this a bit and pointed out that better questioning of where the money was coming from would definitely had happened from them, but from their standpoint, if they were told by a team that employs them that it was coming from a 'wealthy Belgium man dedicated to free speech', they would have assumed the investment was being done legally. I don't know anything about Benny Johnson or Dave Rubin, but they did laugh that if this happened to a political opponent of theirs, they wouldn't give the benefit of the doubt they are asking of others right now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Dimitri Simes and his wife both indicted today https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/politics/russia-us-simes-indictment-election.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 DGAF Biden justice Department is the best one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatkoVarda Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Podcaster Rafael Cruz, who is sometimes a US Senator, is probably furiously sucking on the Russian teat as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Real "Layla Scene from Goodfellas" vibes going on here lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 38 minutes ago, mtutiger said: Real "Layla Scene from Goodfellas" vibes going on here lol Just because that's a great montage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 add another suspect Piers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatkoVarda Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Little Marco has had Trump's hand up his ass so many times working him like a puppet, he no longer needs any lube. Miserable is 100%. Like a whore who cannot believe what has become of his life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 OK...this is a big list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatkoVarda Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 reposting this regarding other shoes dropping Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ronz Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 (edited) I have posted this article about Trump published in 1990 by Vanity Fair many times. The sentence "Trump was seen on the news shows offering his services to negotiate with the Russians" appears in the fourth paragraph. None of this should be surprising as it has been known for over 30 years. https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a Edited September 6 by The Ronz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 3 hours ago, RatkoVarda said: Little Marco has had Trump's hand up his ass so many times working him like a puppet, he no longer needs any lube. Miserable is 100%. Like a whore who cannot believe what has become of his life. I love how these idiots are justifying the allegations by saying "they were targets of a fraud" Hey, someone is giving you millions of $$ which you gladly take, no questions asked, and now YOU'RE being scammed? Come on guys, try harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted September 7 Author Share Posted September 7 We have the money and we have the lawyers. All that’s missing at the moment are the guns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 Traitorous scum says what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 (edited) 2 hours ago, romad1 said: Traitorous scum says what? not that it took any great insight to get to that conclusion. Any FPV flyer who has handled and stressed Li-Ion batteries could tell you that they don't explode, they conflagrate, which is dangerous enough but looks different from what happened. They are also unpredictable enough that you couldn't get a large number to do the same thing at the same time. For instance if you tried to short them all to initiate fire, you'd have no way to know the charge state and the ones that were nearly discharged could end up duds - that wouldn't be a very reliable attack. Edited September 18 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 (edited) Russians are finding out something that has always frustrated the West, which is that India is no-one's ally, it's foreign policy actions are about as transactional as it gets. Quote Exclusive: Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire - https://www.reuters.com/world/ammunition-india-enters-ukraine-raising-russian-ire-2024-09-19/ Edited September 20 by gehringer_2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screwball Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 On 9/18/2024 at 10:33 AM, gehringer_2 said: not that it took any great insight to get to that conclusion. Any FPV flyer who has handled and stressed Li-Ion batteries could tell you that they don't explode, they conflagrate, which is dangerous enough but looks different from what happened. They are also unpredictable enough that you couldn't get a large number to do the same thing at the same time. For instance if you tried to short them all to initiate fire, you'd have no way to know the charge state and the ones that were nearly discharged could end up duds - that wouldn't be a very reliable attack. BS! Sure you could. I can't believe anyone would believe this bull****. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 20 minutes ago, Screwball said: BS! Sure you could. I can't believe anyone would believe this bull****. have you ever tried to blow up a dead lithium battery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 The stakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 I dunno if this is the reason but it isn't not the reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Well, I know what Putin told him https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asked-putin-advice-whether-222120592.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1776 Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Even Al Avila wouldn’t have made this trade. Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants. The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law enforcement sting operation. Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 3 hours ago, 1776 said: Even Al Avila wouldn’t have made this trade. Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants. The 57-year-old, whose life reportedly inspired the 2005 Hollywood movie, “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, spent decades selling Soviet-made weapons in Africa, South America and the Middle East before being arrested in 2008 in a U.S. law enforcement sting operation. Since his release, Bout has joined a pro-Kremlin far-right party and won a seat in a local assembly in 2023, seemingly turning the page on his days as an arms broker. But when Houthi emissaries went to Moscow in August to negotiate the purchase of $10 million worth of automatic weapons, they encountered a familiar face: the mustachioed Bout, according to a European security official and other people familiar with the matter. As much as it may be an insult to civility that Bout still breaths, I'm not sure it changes much that he's out. He's close enough to an official organ of Putin's kleptocracy whatever he is doing Putin would be having someone do in his absence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 They traded Bout to save a US citizen from the gulag. Trump would be sending his political enemies to the gulag. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 I see the reason to point out the failure of the current administration to hold terrorists to accord in general but this isn't a vacuum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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