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Well. I get it's time to learn Farsi.

We're just going to have to disagree about what constitutes a "good college." In my mind, we're talking about the top 15-20% of the programs in the country under that qualification, and there's no chance in hell Gettysburg meets the standard. Where I went to school could MAYBE qualify and...

Gonna go with: false. :p My John Hancock pension guys, TBH, are fricking morons who went to great lengths to tell me about how good Trump's tax cuts are and didn't understand jack all about how tariffs work. They were selected by the firm, so I don't get to pick new ones - but I would if I...

Let's be honest here man - you got cranked because you spoke from a place of assumption and ignorance. Just like when you were all in on Burisma/Biden and hadn't followed the timelines, or when you didn't know what was going on with Shokin/Firtash and all of John Solomon's reporting. Your...

You're going too far here Thriller. "Conservative" is bigger than a set of political ideas to a large swath of the country. It's an entire identity. When you see people who get sucked into con artist schemes, multi-level-marketing schemes, religious sects, et al and they just continue to...

Might wanna brush up on your bible dude. Jesus was a political radical who was a fundamental threat to the Roman state. “Each of you who does not give up all he possesses is incapable of being my disciple” (Luke 14:33). The Book of Acts describes the early Christians as selling all their...

I understand all you did was read the headline, but I think you're missing the forest for the trees here. For example, this is a fuller explanation of his position at the time. I think the conservatives agree with literally every piece of this: 1. Clinton was the problem more than Trump...

Also, not to put to fine a point on it, but Jesus - kind of a commie! I'm pretty sure the conservatives go out of their way to claim him as one of theirs.

Actually the most prolific and influential Communist writer currently living and working in English advocated for a Trump presidency over Hillary. And he stands by it. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-hillary-clinton-populist-right-left-democratic-party-civil-war-a8975121.html

The more the years tick on, the more it is apparent that this is the entirety of Trump's appeal. It is fun to give liberals the finger. That's the impulse that decides policy in this country, affects the lives of millions of people, and instills slavish devotion roughly 60 million people...

I'm going to self indulgently self-plagiarize since I decided to be active in this thread for some reason. This was my biggest "WTF" of the day in a session full of odd moments. So a lot has been made of Rep. Loudermilk (R-GA) comparing Trump to Jesus on the floor of the House today, but I...

I mean, Kolomoisky got exiled until about 6 months ago and had his bank seized and nationalized. The PrivatBank scandal is the most covered domestic political issue in Ukraine, including the current round of ceasefire/peace negotiations with Russia. I don't think it's fair to imply that no...

All I learned is that Jerry Nadler was hell of fat.

So we'll throw out all the evidence gleaned from following Carter Page. Fruit of the poisnous tree (ironically, an evidentiary doctrine weakened by Conservative judges). Which evidence is that? The GOP likes to say it started the investigation. That isn't true. The investigation was opened...

BTW: Jazzfanz has to be the least likely place ever for Ukrainian politics to have mattered - but here we are.

Kolomoisky is undeniably a complicated figure in Ukraine (see: recent NYT interview), but I'm trying to figure out what you think the link is between Hillary Clinton and the internal self-lending policies to Privatbank executives. After Zelensky's election I went to a forum among Ukraine...

This is a PERFECT example of false equivalency that is designed to rope in the casual reader into concluding "both sides." Giuliani is the current personal lawyer of Donald Trump, and is working the Parnas/Firtash angle as part of that work. The affidavits he spread around about the...

And since you can't shake a tree near the white house without a Russian falling out: Giuliani's work in Ukraine, the Lev Parnas arm of this scandal, is being financed by Dmitry Firtash - under indictment in the US for activities as part of Russian organized crime and, wait for it, in exile from...

So "the middle" is a pure both-sidesism perspective where everyone is equally corrupt and villainous?

Not a tax attorney. I'm not even positive I understand your question (50% of what?). My read of the Washington post article was that virtually no charitable activity occurred from funds directed to Ensign capital. If true, that would seem to fall cleanly on the "merely amassing wealth" side...