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New Even the New York Times
…or FTFNYT, as it’s fondly known in some circles, that safe harbor for so many “reasonable” conservatives like Bobo Brooks and Cardinal Douthat, an outfit with a deep-seated institutional loathing of the Clintons to rival boxley’s (pumping the email nothingburger during the campaign while simultaneously dismissing the Russian interference story) published a piece on Wednesday in which some possibilities are floated of the sort one seldom runs across in the MSM:
The president is not done.

Soon, there may be indictments from Robert Mueller, the special counsel, of high officials or members of Trump’s family. What then? Ornstein’s nightmare scenario: Trump fires Mueller, pardons himself and everyone else, sends his followers into the street, and, after the inevitable bloodshed, declares martial law.
I am inclined to agree with mmoffitt that we are likely facing years—I almost said decades, but I do not believe that the polity will endure the stresses for that long before it fractures—of increasingly violent oscillations in our public life, and that at some point, rather sooner than later, the brown shirts come out.

cordially,
New soon as the economy tanks they will have to retreat to their shelters and start muttering again
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
New Linked from there, speculation on why Repubs are rolling over
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/opinion/republican-party-national-rifle-association-trump-russia.html
This week, however, a new possibility came into focus. Perhaps, rather than covering for Trump, some Republicans are covering for themselves.

...

It is not surprising that Republicans would want to protect the N.R.A. According to an audit obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics, the N.R.A.’s overall spending increased by more than $100 million in 2016. “The explosion in spending came as the N.R.A. poured unprecedented amounts of money into efforts to deliver Donald Trump the White House and help Republicans hold both houses of Congress,” the center wrote.

McClatchy has reported that the F.B.I. is investigating whether Torshin illegally funneled money to the N.R.A. to help Trump. Wyden has also been trying to trace foreign money flowing into the N.R.A., but has found little cooperation from the organization, his Republican colleagues or the Treasury Department.
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Drew
New long twitter thread on Torshin
(not my favorite long-read form, but some interesting background on the guy, with little Miss Butina in a supporting role). From back in November 2017.

cordially,
     The Rwanda playbook - (rcareaga) - (16)
         Completely unhinged -NT - (drook)
         It maybe a Honeypot, I would like to hope so ... -NT - (boxley) - (1)
             He’d have to have been at it a long time - (rcareaga)
         The er, unfathomably deep trouble is: no one knows just How effective? Can-become - (Ashton)
         The coming revolution. Or Civil War II. - (mmoffitt) - (4)
             Even the New York Times - (rcareaga) - (3)
                 soon as the economy tanks they will have to retreat to their shelters and start muttering again -NT - (boxley)
                 Linked from there, speculation on why Repubs are rolling over - (drook) - (1)
                     long twitter thread on Torshin - (rcareaga)
         It appears that the site has “gone dark” a week later - (rcareaga) - (6)
             My concern stands. - (mmoffitt) - (5)
                 As does mine - (rcareaga) - (4)
                     we get it, the entitled can do no wrong wink wink -NT - (boxley) - (2)
                         Not at all - (crazy) - (1)
                             well we wont really know how bad your scumbag is because she didnt get a shot at the power -NT - (boxley)
                     Brilliant image. -NT - (mmoffitt)

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