Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[ewsieg]

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.  

[gehringer_2]

Dimitri Simes and his wife both indicted today

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/05/us/politics/russia-us-simes-indictment-election.html

[romad1]

DGAF Biden justice Department is the best one

 

[RatkoVarda]

Podcaster Rafael Cruz, who is sometimes a US Senator, is probably furiously sucking on the Russian teat as well.

[mtutiger]

Real "Layla Scene from Goodfellas" vibes going on here lol

 

[romad1]

38 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Real "Layla Scene from Goodfellas" vibes going on here lol

 

Just because that's a great montage

 

[romad1]

add another suspect

Piers

[RatkoVarda]

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.

 

[romad1]

OK...this is a big list

 

[RatkoVarda]

reposting this regarding other shoes dropping

 

[The Ronz]

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, 2024 by The Ronz

[CMRivdogs]

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.

[chasfh]

We have the money and we have the lawyers. All that’s missing at the moment are the guns.

[romad1]

Traitorous scum says what? 

[gehringer_2]

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, 2024 by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

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, 2024 by gehringer_2

[Screwball]

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****.

[gehringer_2]

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?

[romad1]

The stakes 

 

[romad1]

 

I dunno if this is the reason but it isn't not the reason

[romad1]

Well, I know what Putin told him

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asked-putin-advice-whether-222120592.html

[1776]

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.

[gehringer_2]

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.

[romad1]

They traded Bout to save a US citizen from the gulag.   Trump would be sending his political enemies to the gulag. 

[romad1]

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.