Trump-Russia dealings, a timeline

[devifemme]

On Brian Williams' MSNBC daily hour tonight, LBJ's onetime Press Spokesman Bill Moyers and a lawyer named Steven Harper announced they had created an interactive timeline for ALL of the Trumpies' dealings with Russia, from money-launders to obscure Putin cronies

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[ggary]

A few days ago I read a post from someone (somewhere...I always lose track of stuff like this) that suggested that Trump may be in the first stages of senility. At first I thought that it was the usual joke at his expense, but they supplied an interesting series of symptoms that suggested that it was at least worth considering. One of the most interesting ones was his speech patterns. Back in the '90s Trump spoke in a far more lucid and complex manner than he does today. His Presidential offerings often consist of the same thing said three different ways (We're gonna build a wall on the Mexican border, a wall between us and Mexico, it's going to be a great wall, it'll be great. Great. Yeah) suggesting that he's desperately trying to hang on to what he's thinking. It's probably nothing more than him being shit at public speaking, but together with his aggression and total lapses of judgement it does make you think...

[devifemme]

Interesting point, Gary. Unfortunately, it begs the question why neither GOP "leaders" (who have done precious little leading in recent years) nor Trump voters could recognize an unhinged person seeking the highest office in the land.

A letter-writer in today's Post expressed this latter concern: "American voters are notorious for divorcing their votes from their predictable consequences."

As for non-leading GOP "leaders," voting the lot of them OUT next year is the obvious cure.

[ggary]

Confidence tricksters work by becoming a distorting-mirror version of the people they are conning. His bigotry was able to look like patriotism, his egomania like self-confidence, his childish stubborness like steely resolve, his stupidity like childlike directness. The one good thing that will come out of this is that people may realise that the candidate who offers you everything may not be better than the candidate who only offers you something. I also hope that both parties realise that the general public are not simply some vote generating machine...they are EVERYTHING.

[devifemme]

You're right, sir or madame. And one certainly COULD wish voters were more discerning. But we've muddled through other bad public choices (Nixon, for example) -- even as astute observers like editor H.L.Mencken* referred to the US as a "Boobocracy."

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* http://legaciesremembered.com/h-l-mencken-1880-1956/

Lawyers, Trumpsky and Russia

[devifemme]

I've just looked at Steven Harper's blog, which is superb on Trumpsky's "lawyering up" in connection with his Russia dealings. https://thelawyerbubble.com/2017/08/15/trump-teaches-big-law-a-lesson/

I'm sure that Robert Mueller is a reader of Harper's blog -- even if Mueller's own investigation operates with an even more intricate schematic for Trumpsky's nefarious Russia involvements.

RE: Lawyers, Trumpsky and Russia

[devifemme]

Dear Gary -- I'm glad you cleared up the "mystery commenter." And I too seem to have posting problems lately, both here and on Tumblr.