^ Thanks for posting this interesting story, OH. It must be very worrying for Angela Merkel - especially the knowledge that a similar incident could occur again at any moment.
Sorry if it sounds pedantic, but isn't there a distinction between a Syrian and Iraqui guy being suspected of murder and Syria annexing a town? I wonder if you can join the dots for us without recourse to far-right propaganda. :D

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^ I think I have successfully wrapped my head around your idea, Anteater, and in fact it's absolutely true. Unfortunately, as others have said, it's legally irrelevent.

Many of Trumps cries, allegations and promises have borne no fruit at all when tested in irl: "Lock her up","Obama is phone-tapping me", "Who will pay for the wall? Mexico!" If I were a Trump supporter, I'd be wondering by now why nothing has come of these claims; I might even make a comparison about investigations into the Clintons and investigations conducted by Mueller. If I then found this score card on line, I suspect my loyalty to Trump would be tested to breaking point :-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...QTJPArM2_kJNlR

^ If these stats are true, 12 years of investigating the Clintons have found nothing worth indicting on. Mueller's investigation has come up with a bunch of legal liabilities after just a year. More importantly, Mueller's investigation is throwing light on the real and present danger of continued Russian meddling.

(My apologies for posting a photo that says, "Enough said" at the bottom. That's a very rude and arrogant way to contribute to a discussion imo.)

Everything I've brought up about Clinton is in reference to the 2016 election, which is the same time frame that Mueller is investigating. Benghazi is too long ago to be relevant unfortunately.

Clinton wasn't found guilty in the Benghazi investigation, therefore she could never be found guilty of money laundering. Quickmafs

^ Well, I'm certainly not saying that. It would be ridiculous.

^ In part, I'm saying that I've heard about HC's alleged crimes from a source I've learned not to trust:-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9535f48e67e7 = President Trump has made 4, 299 false claims in 558 days.

I'm just a villager in the fable about the boy who cried wolf; no longer taking Trump's claims seriously. Goes ditto for many GOP members, starting with Sean Spicer...

Link not working.

The New York Times - Agents Tried to Flip Russian Oligarchs. The Fallout Spread to Trump.

I'm gonna guess it went a little something like this...

Do you spend you entire days trying to find **** that will deflect from what's going on with your boy and his hood?

You never post about the legal stuff via Indictments, and plea deals, that actually damages Trump and his posse. Only stuff that you feel deflects. Why is that Ant?

In other news:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/polit...nts/index.html

I don't know about being annexed but everything that is happening there really isn't that surprising. Even in Sweden, there was a march in Stockholm just last week by the Nordic Resistance Movement (nazis) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2uSNhHDVag

The whole thing in Germany with the German being killed is just fuel for the fire of people being angered over the whole immigration issue. I think that in the end, people are mad because of the benifits alloted to the refugees in terms of money, housing, etc.

I saw a Nazi just the other day at the train station (had Nordic resistance symbols all over and such). Honestly, I should be mad that this is happening. But I didn't say a word and just walked on by. And that is what many are doing in Germany, Sweden, etc. Just walking by because we are just tired of it all. And that is how I think, acceptance starts. And it is scary.

You don’t let in a million immigrants from a dysfunctional culture in a very short time without getting some backlash. Merkel has overstepped. It’s an unfair burden on the working poor in Germany. It’s also an affront to their culture and they should have been given a say beforehand.

They should be. That’s government assistance they’ll never see.

I think Merkel was trying to change Germany's image to a more positive one in terms of welcming refugees. But, like Sweden, there was an unchecked stream of refugees and neither Germany nor Sweden could support them all and continue to have a wide open door to them.

I think Sweden's next election is going to be really interesting because SD (Sweden Democrats) are getting alot of support here and they want to take away all these benifits that the refugees have gotten/curb migration/take away Dual Citizenship/etc. It's an interesting time.

Because the indictments are irrelevant unless they actually come up with an end result of political consequence. The mainstream media is fixated on them because they're the new shiny object in the room.

Manafort and Cohen or anyone who isn't critical to Trump's administration going away or being fined is meaningless unless they had some critical information to pin down Trump. And based on how much backtracking Cohen's lawyer did after making false claims about the Trump Tower meeting, it appears that Mueller didn't get what he wanted from these exchanges or his team would have gone ahead and trumpeted an announcement immediately after his trial.

The Deripaska story, on the other hand, was only reported by The New York Times yesterday until it got picked up by other outlets half a day later. It was at the top of Google's search results for 'Trump' just yesterday. Not a hard thing to uncover unless you think .2 seconds is too much time. In that story, the relationship between Ohr, Steele and others are explored in greater detail, and it doesn't look good because it also illustrates that the dossier was critical to establishing the special counsel's investigation and that FBI hoped to flip Russian oligarchs (eventually) to siding with them because they had no way to validate any of the information that Steele had supposedly uncovered. If they play their cards wrong (since they were already looking into Trump in 2015), it will come off as a validation of Trump's witch hunt commentary.

If you want to know how this will actually play out, you need to understand the arguments being made on both sides. And when I say arguments, I mean REAL arguments that cover legalities. The Democrats make a good moral case for removing Trump but it has some serious issues, so I don't see it holding up if literal Russian oligarchs are showing up and saying "The FBI tried to turn us into assets to result in a specific outcome, even if that outcome isn't based on evidence.". I haven't seen anything yet presented by the Dems that justify what we are learning about how the FBI, the DNC and how other organizations conducted themselves. If you are going to say your opponent directly colluded with a foreign government, you need something else other than character attacks and "B-b-but he must be in debt with the Russians! CNN told me so111".

The reality is that the special counsel and the FBI have gotten multiple people seeking immunity because these people (the ones seeking immunity) are afraid Mueller will financially ruin their lives if they fight it in court. It's a lot easier to say "I'll tell you what I know" even if they don't have anything to say because it will cost them the least amount of money to take that road. Strong-arming people to ensure cooperation is a common tactic.

Then wouldn't every country that didn't offer to take them in have blood on their hands by that edict?

I'm hungry. If I starve to death, is every person who didn't offer to buy me some KFC guilty of my death?

Got em!

Deputy shoots suspect at Del Mar Fairgrounds

Wow that's crazy. I had no idea that Ice Cube was doing a free show.

Video: https://twitter.com/andrea_m0ren0/st...44445816762368

That Twitter link doesn't work. Here are some archived versions of it:

https://archive.is/WZinW

https://web.archive.org/web/20180903...44445816762368

And here is link to a video that might be congruent to what it might have shown:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=EAut_1535944989

Ja the Liveleak one is it. From the comments:

https://cdn.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a..._4cgcLWHNhQ8ps

If you sat back and watched someone starve to death while you ate a bucket of KFC would you be guilty of something?

Church’s > Popeyes > KFC

Poor decision making skills

How about KFDN?

Kentucky Fried DEEZ NUTZ

Good band.

Punk Fucks Shit Up During Horah at Cousin’s Bar Mitzvah

The picture they use is the fucking funniest thing I've ever seen.

404 error. Probably because the swear words in the link are censored.

They handed me a gun and a NATO card. *shrug* The only thing I occupied were some Fraulein's underpants.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/healt...ill/index.html

Snakes or zombies?

Harrison Ford.

Business Insider - A farmer running for Minnesota state representative identifies as the N-word in his first campaign ad

How to commit political suicide in 24 hours or less. :usehead:

**** yeah, nigga, show some balls!

And Business Insider does realize it makes them look pathetic for using "the N-word" in a professional news article, don't they?

The guy's campaign Facebook page is literally bombarded by comments from African-Americans calling him a "disgrace to our race", among other things. But it's like, what did he think was going to happen?

"I'm not racist I have black friends."

The word n igger is so scary that it must not be uttered by whites or spelled correctly by blacks. It’s horrifying. What a frightening word. Ironically n igger is the n igger of words but we must not even call the word n igger a n igger. Can’t even think it.

That said. If I were going to vote. I would vote for the candidate who insisted on being my n igger. If elected I’d contact him immediately for a shoeshine. Then off to the whipping post to formally change his name to Toby. A fine name.

Nah. There's already been dumb Trump supporting white guys who said n1gger publicly pretty recently, like that one dude who got outed on Cohen's Who Is America show. But they aren't triggering the libs: they're just stupid.

Yeaaaah.

What a wonderfully non-specific way to criticize someone.

You misspelled a word. I guess your entire line of reasoning is faulty.

I didn't bold the rest of his post because I honestly don't care what it says. I just felt like pointing out a typo.

If folks don't like something they gotta come out and say it. I'm not a mindreader like this guy:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ogLZmBEHNEM/hqdefault.jpg