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Vinca

(50,269 posts)
1. I heard somewhere yesterday that the boyfriend is the real missing link who connected
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 08:19 AM
Dec 2018

the Trump campaign to Russia via the NRA. This should get interesting. An orange jumpsuit for Wayne LaPierre perhaps????

cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
14. If he is then he would be well advised to use thick disposable gloves when opening any doors
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:06 AM
Dec 2018

and avoid anyone carrying an umbrella as Putin could decide to get rid of him like he has others who have either stood in his way or been a nuisance.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. :) Bless their harmonic little hearts. She's been badmouthing this beast
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 08:34 AM
Dec 2018

to federal investigators, who say she regards him with disdain. Her comments I'm guessing are being relayed to him in much more detail.

Running scared time, all right. Paul Erickson is a long-time Republican insider, worked on several presidential campaigns, etc, etc., and of course has been very involved in South Dakota politics, a Republican redoubt for decades. So a lot of people we have and haven't heard of have already anxiously lawyered up.

Beyond typical now for the sort of scum surfacing from this swamp, several former business associates claim Erickson defrauded them, and that's now being investigated also.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
13. Well if Erickson scammed people
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:58 AM
Dec 2018

that would be par for the course. He is afterall a Republican operative, who are largely a bunch of venal opportunistic grifters and scam artists.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. This era's Republicans, all right. The more old-fashioned
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:09 AM
Dec 2018

ones who had limits were purged by our new wannabe kleptocrat classes and replaced with corruption without limits. We thought the old ones were bad comparatively, and some really were, but never like this.

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
9. Can't wait for Lin-Manuel Miranda to do the Play "Russian Beauty and the GOP Beast" on Broadway....
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:23 AM
Dec 2018

(Music from Beauty and the Beast in background but with the new version for Russian Beauty and GOP Beast&quot


"BEEEEE......OUR GUEST!!!! BE OUR GUEST!!!!! IN THE NRA/GOP INVEST!!!!!

GIVE THOSE RUBLES... HOLD THAT AR 15 TO YOUR BOSOM - AND THEN LET US DO THE REST!!!!!



(DANCING AND SWIRLING ON STAGE OF MANY MEMBERS OF THE NRA AND GOP CONGRESS MEMBERS ALONG WITH RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS AND PUTIN IN BACKGROUND LAUGHING AND DOING VODKA SHOTS WITH TRUMP AS RUSSIAN HOOKERS FAWN OVER TRUMP SHOOTING WATERGUNS WITH YELLOW WATER IN THE AIR)

calimary

(81,238 posts)
11. This thread is almost as hilarious as the recent Mike-Pence-as-Doorstop threads
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 10:51 AM
Dec 2018

From this week’s Pelosi-Schumer visit!





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