Moose & Squirrel v Boris & Natasha: what's the deal with the rooskies and trumpland?

[Jumbo]

sometimes it's thuper therial and sometimes it's just fun  

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/2782bb82-3e31-339e-ba46-581490fec6a4/ss_trump-reverses-pledge-to.html

 

Trump reverses pledge to mandate U.S. steel for Keystone Pipeline. A direct beneficiary is a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin

 

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After green lighting the continuation of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline in an executive order January 24th, President Trump declared as recently as last week that the pipeline had to use American made steel “or we’re not building one.”

 

But on Friday, Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that the directive would apply only to new pipelines or those currently undergoing repair. 

 

That sharp reversal now paves the way for the use of a stockpile of steel manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz, a company in which Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich owns nearly a one/third stake.

 

Abramovich, estimated to be worth $8.9 billion, who ranks No. 151 on Forbes list of the 500 wealthiest people in the world, has longstanding personal and political ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom President Trump has repeatedly praised.

 

According to the report:

 

40 percent of the steel created so far was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz, a company 31-percent owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend. Evraz has also actively lobbied against provisions which would mandate that Keystone XL’s steel be made in the U.S.

 

Abramovich is described in the 2004 book Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere by British journalists Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins as ‘one of the prime movers behind the establishment of the only political party that was prepared to offer its undiluted support to Putin when he fought his first presidential election in late 1999. When Putin needed a shadowy force to act against his enemies behind the scenes, it was Abramovich whom he could rely on to prove a willing co-conspirator.’

 

Evraz describes itself as ‘among the top steel producers in the world based on crude steel production of 14.3 million tonnes in 2015.’ According to a January 2016 piece in The Daily Mail, Abramovich, who also owns the UK’s Chelsea Football Club, gifted Mr. Putin with a 187-foot yacht worth 25 million British pounds after he became Russian president.  

 

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Friday’s announcement of the reversal on Mr. Trump’s initial pledge to mandate U.S. steel is an example of how a  presidential directive can produce an immediate benefit to a Russian billionaire with direct links to Mr. Putin, even if sanctions imposed in 2014 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine aren’t lifted.

 

On February 19 the New York Times reported that three figures, including Mr. Trump’s attorney Michael D. Cohen, conceived a so-called “peace plan” aimed at lifting those sanctions which Mr. Cohen delivered to the office of soon-to-be dismissed National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in late January.

 

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[visionary]

 

[Bang]

And .. ALL. PIPELINES..WILL..BE...BUILT...WITH...AMERICAN...STEEL!

 

applause.

 

Oh, except that we're building them with russian steel.

**** you.

 

 

 

feel stupid yet?

~Bang

 

[RedskinsFan44]

Re Keystone I seem to remember when Trump first claimed the pipeline would.be made.with American steel someone pointed out that the WTO forbids such stipulations.

[DCranon21]

Looks like they may had Russian down Mar-a-Lago this weekend

 

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2017 by DCranon21

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[LD0506]

On a side note, I'd like to see whoever came up with "spox" dragged out in a public place and horsewhipped.

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

 

[codeorama]

Clearly, anything Trump and his diehard on the Alt right say is taken as fact from his supporters.  IMO, it looks like a diversion.  

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[TradeTheBeal!]

Nice hat.

 

[visionary]

 

[LD0506]

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(CNN)Donald Trump's chief White House strategist Steve Bannon said in 2013 that Sen. Joseph McCarthy was right in his 1950s campaign claiming widespread Communist infiltration into the United States government.

 

So he's organized this to make Joe McCarthy look better in hindsight? They couldn't find the commie infiltrators so they became them?

 

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(CNN)Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told CNN that "hysteria in official Washington and in the American media" is harming relations between the two nations.

 

I tried but apparently there is no way to say "Eat a big bag of dicks" in Russian, gets lost in the translation.

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[@DCGoldPants]

40 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

 

So he's organized this to make Joe McCarthy look better in hindsight? They couldn't find the commie infiltrators so they became them?

 

 

I tried but apparently there is no way to say "Eat a big bag of dicks" in Russian, gets lost in the translation.

 

 

Ешьте большой мешок пенисов

 

Google Translate to the rescue. 

[FanboyOf91]

[BornaSkinsFan83]

49 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

 

 

I tried but apparently there is no way to say "Eat a big bag of dicks" in Russian, gets lost in the translation.

 

Ешьте большой мешок пенисов? 

8 minutes ago, @SkinsGoldPants said:

 

Ешьте большой мешок пенисов

 

Google Translate to the rescue. 

Mother****er 

 

Ftr tho my translation came off the top of the dome. So suck it

Edited March 6, 2017 by BornaSkinsFan83

[Larry]

2 hours ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Nice hat.

 

 

Guess I don't know my own strength. 

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What?  Kelly is saying some weird things today.

[LD0506]

Kelly is trying to walk a fine line between supporting the administration and not using the term "****ing lunatic" on the record. I sympathize, gets a little harder every day.

 

Now I have no sympathy for that rat **** Comey, NOW he doesn't want to speak publicly because it might damage the FBIs reputation, oh yeah, NOW that's an issue. He's squealing like a pig in private though, even if the So Called can't connect the dots (or apparently color inside the lines) Comey can, he gets that any questionable wiretapping would have been done by......... wait for it......... THE FBI! ON HIS WATCH! So while it make take a while for the dims to get from A to B, if they wanna rail against Uncle Donny's wiretapps, the sacrificial victim du jour is going to be Comey.

 

Ain't it sweet? Although personally I would have gone for something involving honey and fire ants for Comey, this will suffice.

[Larry]

15 hours ago, visionary said:

 

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As Washington continues to reel from President Trump’s evidence-free assertion that his phones were wiretapped by former President Barack Obama before the election, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden says it seems Trump forgot something during his weekend Twitter flurry.

“It looks as if the president just for a moment forgot that he was president,” Hayden said on Fox News on Monday. “Why didn’t he simply use the powers of the presidency to ask the acting director of national intelligence, the head of the FBI, to confirm or deny the story he apparently read from Breitbart the evening before?”

 

 

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[LD0506]