Stay. https://t.co/ivTCnsQb6J
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 12, 2019
Wonder how many other GOP turncoats will use the summer recess to slip away & join ol’ GriftGawdGuns’n’Gravytrain at Vlad’s summer resort? Dana Rorabacher? Devin Nunes?… Kevin McCarthy is too busy ‘acting’ as head to various department Trump wants destroyed. Doubt #MoscowMitch’s spouse will let him avoid his financial duties to the PLA. And Rand Paul is already supposed to be hiding out in Canada for ‘lung surgery’ consequent to losing the lawn-care argument with his neighbor…
That's more marble than meat.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 12, 2019
1) not worth it.
2) he went to russia, because nothing says "we're not owned by russia" like receiving tons of cash funneled through the NRA, taking their help hacking elections, then making frequent trips back to russia
3) you're not wrong— ??????? 3.[Lightly R███████] (@secwonk311) August 12, 2019
Everything about Mike Huckabee and his ideological soulmates works better when translated into Russian
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) August 12, 2019
Checking in on the troll farm, offering meme suggestions.
— Russ S (@lack_of_energy) August 12, 2019
GOP keep spending more and more time in Russia. Maybe they plan on moving the party headquarters
— Mike Tarleton (@VistaMT) August 12, 2019
St. Petersburg is of course the country's mob and Putin's power center. (Moscow generally hates Putin). https://t.co/pNT4Co6AkD
— Wouter van der Horst (@DerWouter) August 12, 2019
Adam L Silverman
Apparently there’s a former GOP elected official convention going on there:
Omnes Omnibus
Just checking, do you mean Finland Station?
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Mein Gott. Fifty shades of delusion.
Kent
Is this like a David Hasslehoff thing? Where if you are washed out in the US you go abroad to Germany?
Washed out old GOP pols go to Russia to cash in and get their payoff?
Anyway, I’d like to know more about the St. Petersburg vs Moscow thing. I was under the impression that St. Petersburg was the more liberal and worldly city not the opposite. But then I’ve never been to either.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, it wasn’t a good joke, but then neither is Huckabee…
Amir Khalid
I know this is petty of me, but Sarah’s dad seems to have regained all the weight he lost by having his stomach stapled.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Anne Laurie
@Kent:
I’m sure the experts will check in, but what I was told is that St. Peterburg is equivalent to NYC or Los Angeles (full of ‘cosmopolitans’ and their loose ethics), while Moscow is DC (which take politics seriously *and* literally)…
Adam L Silverman
@Kent: Putin held his first political position in St. Petersburg and it is still his real urban base of support. He was the deputy mayor for imports and economic development or some such title. It was at this point that he and the Russian mob cemented their relationship for obvious reasons as he controlled the permitting process for imports and business development. What is still unclear is did he get his hooks into the Russian mob and rode them to the top or they got their hooks into him and rode him to the top where he is now, functionally, the krysha or roof, the highest ranking member who protects everyone else. Darwisha’s book has the details of Putin’s rise in the Bratva.
https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Kleptocracy-Who-Owns-Russia/dp/1476795207/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=karen+dawisha&qid=1565674132&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: OTOH Moscow is the city that grew organically and St. Petersburg is the planned city built in a swamp.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Have you finished your Biden-Gillibrand sandwich board?
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I staffed it out.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
Jesus Christ, the fucking Uranium One thing. I know it was a bullshit ginned up “scandal”, but could someone refresh my memory? I barely remember it. I’m not trapped in a time warp like Huckabee is
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: He didn’t have his stomach stapled. You’re thinking of Christie’s lap band surgery. Huckabee claimed that changes he made to his diet and exercise regimen were responsible for the weight loss. There have always been rumors, but, unlike Christie, nothing confirmed.
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman:
Impeach her for it, Mikey!
What an ass, and not even a horse’s ass. An ass’s ass.
Jay
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: An Intergovernmental review board, staffed by deputies (political appointees and career senior executives or equivalent) and civil servants (professional, career staff), reviews certain import/export and corporate sales and acquisitions that may potentially impact US national security. During the first term of Obama’s presidency a Canadian firm, that is a subsidiary of a Russian firm, bid to buy a US company that refined and stockpiled uranium. This had to go through the review process, which it did. The sale was approved because a determination was made, and a requirement as part of the sale, that none of the uranium would be removed from the US. And none has. The decision was made as part of the routine work of the Interagency review board and while I’m sure a report went back to all the principals (Secretaries of Defense, State, Energy, Commerce, Assistant to the President-National Security Advisor, Director of National Intelligence, Director of Central Intelligence, Attorney General, Director of the FBI), none of them had to or did weigh in on the decision. That’s it, that’s all that happened.
This has been turned into a conspiracy theory that Secretary Clinton somehow got Secretaries Gates, Munoz, whomever was the AP-NSA at the time (I don’t recall), Director Clapper, Director Petraeus, AG Holder, Director Mueller, and probably a few other people I’m forgetting to allow her to conspire with Vladimir Putin, who hates her, to export the vast majority of America’s uranium stockpile out of the US and into somewhere in Russia where Putin, who happens to hate her, is now stockpiling it for whatever it is he is going to do with it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and find the brain cells that ran off explaining the conspiracy theory.
NotMax
Hey, you Noo Yawkers, let’s be careful out there.
Droves of Blacktip Sharks Are Summering in Long Island for the First Time
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
“dear friends Rick and Karen Santorum.” Now there’s a phrase you don’t hear
very oftenever in a thousand years. When do they play pass-the-fetus?I refuse to feel sorry for the Russkies (other than the wait staff) but damn, that’s a very high concentration of miserable in one spot. I’m imagining Rih launching into a lecture on the evils of big government only to stop himself with, “Ooh, that’s a GIANT bag of cash!”
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I’ve seen a documentary on this. Roy Schieder narrated it.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
How many sharks in a drove? Are they also woke?
Jay Noble
@Anne Laurie: St. Petersburg was conceived as Russia’s window on the West. It was Leningrad back when i visited in ’78 and was still fulfilling that role. During my Soviet studies in the 80’s, the impression was that nobody wanted to go to Moscow unless they had to. The Soviet fall would only have intensified those differences. I’m guessing the being in St. Petersburg was one of the perks for the IRA people.
I heard a Soviet Russian ism once – They were interviewing an old man who in Leningrad in the ’70s. They asked him which did like best – St. Petersburg, Petrograd or Leningrad. Without hesitation he answered “St. Petersburg.”
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
Bleach is recommended.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: Do they have designated drivers, or are they all drunk off their boneless asses on iced teas?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: There’s another Trump fundraiser in the Hamptons?
Chetan Murthy
@Adam L Silverman:
Huckabee dost protest too much
Jay Noble
@Adam L Silverman: The one salient fact I remember is that 14 agencies had to sign off on that sale. 14. But Hillary!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan:
After the main course and before dessert.
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman: Question: Does Putin hate Hillary? It’s unclear.
trollhattan
SeatGeek is really digging into my inner psyche with their ticket suggestions. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Grand Funk Railroad? Somebody hold me back before I melt the AmEx card!
How are any of these people still alive? Weren’t there plane crashes and stuff?
Shalimar
Huckabee probably really believes the naked 19 year olds in his hotel room are there because he’s so attractive.
Jay
trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
An amuse bouche from an amuse douche. Seems fitting.
trollhattan
@Shalimar:
“Oh mister Mike, I hearing you is playing the bass. Bass is sexy, like mister Mike!”
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: ?We’re an American band. And Lynyrd Skynyrd are a bunch of Confederates?
Jay
mrmoshpotato
@Shalimar: Huckabee: She said she was 19!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
Thanks! Good luck finding those brain cells. Could you help me find some of my lost ones from reading your explainer? That’s one stupid conspiracy theory.
That’s almost as stupid as the Obama admin supposedly helping Putin “frame” Trump or some such bullshit. I got that from some AnCap moron on Tumblr. Also too, Mueller’s a “company man” for the evil deep state.
It was like some weird ass mishmash of anarchism and the alt-right. Proof that anarcho-capitalists are the stupidest mfers on the planet
MoxieM
@Jay Noble: OT: My Gr-Gran was born at Peterhof bei Petersburg (married there too). Nope, thankfully, not aristos. I’m lucky to have a nifty bunch of black & white postcards from a trip my grandmother took to visit folks after she married in 1910–she went all over Eurp; you could tell what country she was in by the language in which she wrote. The pre-Rev Russia ones are very cool. But yeah, 120 years ago St. Petersburg was the place to be. I know nothing about modern times :/
mrmoshpotato
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Goku, but everyone knows Killary conspired with her buddy Vlad to lose the election.
Sister Golden Bear
If you’re being given a free dacha, of course you’d want to go check it out in person.
divF
@Omnes Omnibus:
The Finland Station, Lenin’s destination in the sealed train from Zurich in 1917, still functions as a train station in St. Petersburg.
I actually have a friend (Jewish, now almost 94) who traveled as a teenager with his family in a sealed train from Zurich to Spain in 1941, thence to Lisbon and the US.
Steeplejack
@trollhattan:
You’ve got to read the fine print: “May contain up to 30% original members.”
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear:
Modified for accuracy.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@mrmoshpotato:
Of course, how silly of me.
The sky is green, the grass is blue, and Hitlery will surely kill you ; p
mrmoshpotato
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: While making sweet, sweet love to Putin too!
Millard Filmore
@Adam L Silverman:
In other words, the only thing sold was the right to profit from the labor of digging the stuff out of the ground.
Omnes Omnibus
@divF:
Yes.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
I still suspect Mike Huckabee had some kind of weight-loss procedure done, whatever he might claim in public. However he lost his weight, he doesn’t seem to have stuck to it. As for Chris Creosote’s lap band surgery, I don’t recall that it ever had any noticeable effect on his girth.
opiejeanne
@Adam L Silverman: Have you heard anything from HinTenn? There was supposed to be a meet-up in Seattle when they got back here.
opiejeanne
@divF: What is a “sealed train”?
opiejeanne
@opiejeanne: Never mind, I looked it up. Thanks anyway.
Sister Golden Bear
@mrmoshpotato: Porque no los dos?
J R in WV
@trollhattan:
I dunno about GFR, but the new incarnation of Lynyrd Skynard really sucks. I saw them when they opened for ZZ Top back about 2011 or ’12, and the sound was harshly overdriven, and they were literally wrapped in the Confederate flags, except for when they were wrapped in the Amerian flag. Terrible show, especially in comparison to the show ZZ Top put on afterwards.
Chris Johnson
Well, that’s interesting. They’re really lampshading the hell out of it all, aren’t they?
Hope they are all terribly surprised when it all falls apart on them. I don’t think they really understand how fragile their whole treason thing really is. They’re getting extra brazen, and it’s not smart of them.
zhena gogolia
All day long there’s the same thread about child molestation, and overnight all the good threads appear.
I don’t get my money’s worth here!
mrmoshpotato
@Sister Golden Bear: Could be both, but they’re definitely interested.
Jay Noble
@MoxieM: Neat!
Mike in NC
Thanks to Putin, every Republican politician in America has been granted dual US-Russia citizenship. See you in the Duty-Free Shop, comrades! Caviar and vodka for everybody who is white is part of Trump’s Five Year Plan.
VOR
@Adam L Silverman: And doesn’t Russia have lots of uranium of their own, hence no need to acquire US uranium? Just to make the conspiracy theory even stupider. IIRC they had so much leftover bomb-grade material from decommissioning nuclear weapons that the US bought some of it.