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Nihon go o dekiru hito des ka?

Well, if Trump and his friends have nothing to hide, they should not be worried, right?

The NSA (and Trump, during the campaign) said that.

Unfortunately for your theory, technology has solved the problems with fake evidence.

https://boingboing.net/2017/07/17/fake-obama-speech-is-the-begin.html

“It was created by researchers at the University of Washington. They developed an AI model of the former president’s mouth movements so that the bot’s lips sync up to any audio track. In this video, the digital Mr. Obama says things that the carbon-based Obama never said.”

@ Mazzone You gotta love fishing exhibitions. It’s a ‘ham sandwich’ nation, I’m sure they’ll find something they can indite him for. Too bad he isn’t a Democrat, then he’d get an automatic pass.

Both B and C can be explained very simply: The first time they investigated him, Manafort was working for Podesta, who was working with Hildebeeste arranging bribes for uranium. They needed an investigation to say “We investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing” which is what Clintonistas used and are still using whenever that subject comes up.

Now Manafort goes to work for Trump (he’s a DC consultant, he’s good at what he does, and Trump’s cash spends just as well). Then Trump gets nominated. Now, Democrats need a rationale for wiretapping, and someone has a visit from the Good Idea Fairy. “Hey, Manafort worked with Russians; that foreign connection is all we need for NSA / FBI to lie for a warrant!” Recall that their FIRST attempt in 2016 wasn’t believable enough even for FISA judges. What someone forgot is that Manafort worked with Podesta, which is why Podesta is frantically paying belated registration fees as a foreign lobbyist.

I strongly suspect the real reason Manafort is willing to release all the tapes is because he has his own recordings of all his dealings for Podesta set up to be released. He may have done the same for Trump, so unaltered originals will be available, since tech is more than good enough to produce fakes. That FBI raid was intended to find them, but Manafort wasn’t stupid enough to keep them anywhere obvious. So now he’s got them by the short and curlies and is playing chicken…. and Mueller knows it.

@tblakely I think you did not understand that my message was irony. No libertarian ever could have said seriously what I wrote. Of course it is a fishing expedition, and of course they’ll find something on Manafort or Flynn to justify their expenses, and maybe even on Trump.

Said that, Trump is not better than them. Actually is so ignorant not to be able to have the decency of not talking openly about it, as when told Bezos “you should hope I do not become the next president of the US”.

Left or Right is the same shit. If I am forced to make a distinction, I would say that in this very moment in the US, the Trumpian right is probably more dangerous than the left. I do not think any US left had wanted to kill an market anarchist since at least the ´70s, while there are now groups of idiots on the right that would be happy to do so.

@tblakely I reread your post, and I suspect it’s me that did not catch the irony in your post. If so, my apologies.

Nihon go o dekiru hito des ka?

Well, if Trump and his friends have nothing to hide, they should not be worried, right?

The NSA (and Trump, during the campaign) said that.

Unfortunately for your theory, technology has solved the problems with fake evidence.

https://boingboing.net/2017/07/17/fake-obama-speech-is-the-begin.html

“It was created by researchers at the University of Washington. They developed an AI model of the former president’s mouth movements so that the bot’s lips sync up to any audio track. In this video, the digital Mr. Obama says things that the carbon-based Obama never said.”

@ Mazzone You gotta love fishing exhibitions. It’s a ‘ham sandwich’ nation, I’m sure they’ll find something they can indite him for. Too bad he isn’t a Democrat, then he’d get an automatic pass.

Both B and C can be explained very simply: The first time they investigated him, Manafort was working for Podesta, who was working with Hildebeeste arranging bribes for uranium. They needed an investigation to say “We investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing” which is what Clintonistas used and are still using whenever that subject comes up.

Now Manafort goes to work for Trump (he’s a DC consultant, he’s good at what he does, and Trump’s cash spends just as well). Then Trump gets nominated. Now, Democrats need a rationale for wiretapping, and someone has a visit from the Good Idea Fairy. “Hey, Manafort worked with Russians; that foreign connection is all we need for NSA / FBI to lie for a warrant!” Recall that their FIRST attempt in 2016 wasn’t believable enough even for FISA judges. What someone forgot is that Manafort worked with Podesta, which is why Podesta is frantically paying belated registration fees as a foreign lobbyist.

I strongly suspect the real reason Manafort is willing to release all the tapes is because he has his own recordings of all his dealings for Podesta set up to be released. He may have done the same for Trump, so unaltered originals will be available, since tech is more than good enough to produce fakes. That FBI raid was intended to find them, but Manafort wasn’t stupid enough to keep them anywhere obvious. So now he’s got them by the short and curlies and is playing chicken…. and Mueller knows it.

@tblakely I think you did not understand that my message was irony. No libertarian ever could have said seriously what I wrote. Of course it is a fishing expedition, and of course they’ll find something on Manafort or Flynn to justify their expenses, and maybe even on Trump.

Said that, Trump is not better than them. Actually is so ignorant not to be able to have the decency of not talking openly about it, as when told Bezos “you should hope I do not become the next president of the US”.

Left or Right is the same shit. If I am forced to make a distinction, I would say that in this very moment in the US, the Trumpian right is probably more dangerous than the left. I do not think any US left had wanted to kill an market anarchist since at least the ´70s, while there are now groups of idiots on the right that would be happy to do so.

@tblakely I reread your post, and I suspect it’s me that did not catch the irony in your post. If so, my apologies.