OH GOODNESS, Rachel is SO good!

[elleng]

tmp wants Manafort back, who is/was a genuine putin asset!!!

[malaise]

1. LOL

We posted at the same time - excellent opening.
Rec

[elleng]

2. ;-)

[Traildogbob]

3. The Mueller report

Needs to be completely unredacted and released ASAP. This would help the AG reputation and maybe help save our democracy.

[Justice matters.]

18. Yeah! Wonder why it takes so long for a Dem-appointed AG to act...

What.Is.He.Afraid.Of. I wonder.

[MN2theMax]

4. She's connecting all the dots

And it is evident that the coup is continuing a pace, without interference from any US agencies. How does this get stopped? This is scaring the shit out of me!

[elleng]

5. YES! DITTO!

[a kennedy]

6. This is what she is soooooooooooooooooooooo good at.

[Traildogbob]

12. Me too.

[summer_in_TX]

19. I think it gets stopped by us, collectively.

Doing more.

Getting out of our comfort zones. Registering voters. Talking to people we see, including professionals. Most Americans are turned off by the news, so they actively change the channel. So our role includes finding out if they are aware of DJT's plan in partnership with the Heritage Foundation to implement Project 2025. Educating people – citing sources (otherwise we are going to sound like conspiracy theorists – which I found out the hard way with several friends – Democrats, no less – yesterday).

Writing letters, sending postcards, phone banking, donating. Door knocking. House parties (those were an effective tool when Howard Dean ran – and all the research is the most difference is made by in-person interactions). Making sure everyone you know who is old enough votes. Creative types writing songs or ads, recording personal videos (if we are comfortable doing so).

Also, taking care of yourself, resting, R&R, time with family and friends. Find ways to manage any anxiety. Music, talking with friends, etc. (I subscribed to Jack Hopkin's newsletter and find his pragmatic approach and strategies very helpful.)

All the while staying ready for a possible, maybe likely, coup attempt even if Biden wins. The wider the margin in as many races as possible, not just for President, the harder it will be for him and the Bannon's and Mike Flynn's to succeed. Being braced and ready, while not letting that hold us back.

[bdamomma]

7. Yes, we are

all started threads at the same time. Here we go......asking Russia for money ????

[malaise]

8. Rachel is the best of them all

[bdamomma]

9. She is

the best!!!! Rachel was bringing all that info back. This was all premediated. Putin back in for 6 years. Dictator for life, just what TFS wants to do.


malaise

[lindysalsagal]

10. She's tying together all the details of their criminality

Instead of going with "breaking" news or impressive guests. Not trying to scoop: trying to help and inform. 🥰🥰

[elleng]

11. and worse!!!

[oasis]

13. Show repeats @ 9 pacific.

[triron]

14. I knew Trump was a traitor in 2016.

[B.See]

25. So did I. He stood on a fkng world stage and begged a foreign adversary to hack American servers

They should've locked his ass up right there and then.

[Seinan Sensei]

16. Manafort will pair well

... with current RNC-advisor Chris LaCivita, of (john Kerry) Swiftboat fame

[elleng]

17. right, and then off to russia!

[ancianita]

20. Yes! She was OUTSTANDING. Glad I recorded her and Lawrence tonight.

She started off by saying "This is about us," which is my only sticking point.

Of course she was ingenius to connect Manafort as a money extractor with oligarchs Klimnik and Deripaska in 2016 to Trump's current need for Manafort to get him more money in 2024. My hair stood on end as I saw her paint the picture for the rest of the campaign, and possibly even RNC's "funding," maybe even the american carnage 2.0 lingo we'll be hearing on the runup to the July RNC.

Maybe by the end of this week -- we'll see what Manafort tries to do. And if he knows how to do anything even remotely legal.

But the main thing is that they committed multiple crimes, which means that the only us are those who vote Trump out in battlegrounds, so that there's only "them." They and their RNC conduit are the anti-democracy criminal syndicate, and so far they've failed to drag the rest of us along with them.

Our beating them on Nov 5 is the only thing that makes this about us.

[Cheezoholic]

21. Manafort is far more dangerous than what Rachel reported and I'm sure she probably knows it

He and Stone and Atwater (deceased) effectively started K street over 50 years ago. They alone reopened the floodgates of money that had at least been mostly closed off since the depression into the political game. There were only a few full time lobbyists in Washington before them and Nixon. There were over a thousand after Carters term. Manafort took his show on the road for the next 40 years, selling access at first to DC insiders and politicians to then showing people with tons of money how to completely take over the political structure in there countries. His footprints are all over Central America, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia besides his work for Oligarchs on behalf of Putin. He is more dangerous than an international arms dealer and should be executed. Shits gonna hit the fan wherever he pops up. Guaranteed.

[elleng]

23. Geeze, didn't know that!

THE SWAMP
BUILDERS
How Stone and Manafort helped create the mess Trump promised to clean up.

n that particular April 1 in Washington, in the midst of a presidential primary season trending toward a Reagan landslide, Paul Manafort had a lot to celebrate.

The Republican operative with the thick, meticulously parted black hair and magnetic smile was turning 31. And by a quirk of bureaucratic fate, his new business happened to be officially launching on that same day in 1980.

The little shop that Manafort opened in Alexandria, Va., was envisioned as a political consulting business, like so many others in the capital. But in the coming months — as the candidate he worked for, Ronald Reagan, swept into the White House — Manafort had another idea to bounce off his two partners, Charlie Black and Roger Stone.

They should be lobbyists, too.

“I said, ‘Why in the hell would we want to do that? It’s boring as hell!’ ” Black recalled in a recent interview. “Paul said it wasn’t at all boring.”

Manafort had one more thing to say: “It paid well.” . .

One of the first clients of the firm they christened Black, Manafort & Stone was a New York developer named Donald J. Trump, brought into their portfolio by Stone, who’d met him through the notorious Gotham lawyer Roy Cohn.

The brash Reagan boys would become essential architects of the city Trump now dominates, a place where the line between the lobbyists and the lobbied is so blurred that some question whether it exists at all.

By the time their business was born, they were already expert navigators of loopholes — Black and Stone, along with GOP operative John T. “Terry” Dolan, had founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee, best known as Nick-Pac, five years earlier. The hyperaggressive group was one of the first to bundle contributions to circumvent limits on individual campaign contributions, and was a precursor to the rise of super PACs, which candidate Trump lambasted four decades later as prime examples of Washington’s swamp problem.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/paul-manafort-roger-stone/

The Vast RIght-Wing Conspicacy

[Cheezoholic]

26. Wasn't questioning anyones intellegence just getting it off my chest more than anything ;)

The farther you dig into that POS the uglier it gets. He's at least partly responsible for 10s of thousands of deaths of innocent people in Africa and Central America. He got his seed money with his little gang then took his money hungry death machine on tour.

[elleng]

27. THANK YOU. Also found this:

The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized
An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

By Jane Mayer

May 6, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-papers-of-lee-atwater-who-invented-the-scurrilous-tactics-that-trump-normalized

[SleeplessinSoCal]

22. Stuck around for Lawrence.

Scared me silly because Netanyahu wants TSF back in the WH.

[elleng]

24. Right, a bunch of 'self-centered s.o.bs.'