Today's Image Dump (2/27/22)

[ItsjustMe]

[underpants]

1. The Ukrainians have exposed the Republicans

Love the trucker one

[eppur_se_muova]

2. He's AXIS TUCKER !

SOOOOO many winners in today's collection ....

[abqtommy]

3. Thanks for this excellent gallery. But instead of calling Tucker Carlson "our very

own Tokyo Rose" I favor using the words "our very own Tokyo Road Rose". For those
not in the know a Road Rose is that which falls from a horse's behind.

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. We used to call them "Road Apples"

and that's exactly what the smarmy traitor Carlson is.

[orwell]

15. His new name is...

..."Tuckyo" Rose.

One of the "Assholes of Evil"...

[riversedge]

4. thanks for post

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Damn!

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. That's the one that caught my eye too!

As well as a money freeze, Putin may have more on his mind than helping his Komrades across the pond. Like just surviving politically.

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Pooty Poot must've thought no one would care.

He was wrong about us. We are not all greedy perverted bastards. Still, we can see why he felt that way…

Why Marsha Blackburn fell on a grenade for Donald Trump

Tennessee senator blocks a bill to mandate reporting foreign election aid, Because the GOP has a Russia problem.

Sophia Tesfaye
Salon, June 14, 2019

At least a dozen Republican congressional campaigns used materials stolen from Democrats by Russian hackers during the 2016 election. Several other Republican campaigns received millions in contributions from an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called on the National Republican Congressional Committee to make a bipartisan pledge not to utilize stolen or hacked information in House elections. After months of negotiations, in September of 2018, House Republicans backed out and refused to sign the pledge. These are just some of the often-overlooked reasons why Republicans have been so reluctant to criticize President Trump’s willingness to accept “dirt” on an opposing candidate from a foreign government.

One day after Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he wouldn’t necessarily go to the FBI in the event his re-election campaign is contacted by foreign groups, Senate Republicans killed legislation to safeguard American democracy from foreign interference.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., failed in his attempt to unanimously pass a bill that would require candidates to report election assistance offered by foreign governments to federal officials. Under Warner’s Foreign Influence Reporting in Elections (FIRE) Act, campaigns would have to report contacts with foreign nationals who are trying to make campaign donations or coordinate with the campaign to the Federal Election Commission, which would then notify the FBI. It’s already illegal for electoral campaigns to knowingly accept help from a foreign entity or power.

“This legislation is pretty simple, even for this body. It would require that any presidential campaign that receives offers of assistance from an agent of a foreign government has an obligation to report that offer of assistance to law enforcement, specifically the FBI,” Warner said on Thursday. “We ought to make clear that if any foreign power tries to intervene again in an election, the least we can do is ask for a requirement to report it to law enforcement.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/why-marsha-blackburn-fell-on-a-grenade-for-donald-trump/

The GOP wet their beaks in rubles.

[BComplex]

28. And ALL of that is the fault of the John Roberts supreme court and letting all that

dark money into elections.

THIS IS ON THE SUPREME COURT.

[Farmer-Rick]

23. Mitch McConnell probably won't win Kentucky again

If the Dem running against him just shows how Moscow Mitch is in bed with Putin. Here's to a Moscow free Kentucky in 2026.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Come on, Kentucky!

Send Moscow Mitch to the giant ash heap o’ history.

MITCH MCCONNELL, RUSSIA SANCTIONS, AND RUSAL’S INVESTMENT IN KENTUCKY

EXCERPT...

A bipartisan majority in the Senate tried to block Trump from weakening the sanctions, but McConnell protected Deripaska and Russia and torpedoed the bipartisan effort.

In a rare bipartisan moment, Democrats were joined by eleven Republicans in an effort to block the deal and to enforce sanctions against Deripaska’s companies.

However, McConnell came out forcefully for lifting the sanctions, making a floor speech “accusing Democrats of politicizing the sanctions.”

McConnell and the remaining Senate Republicans prevented the bipartisan group from reaching the 60 vote threshold. The Trump administration officially lifted the sanctions in January 2019.

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https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/mitch-mcconnell-russia-sanctions-and-rusals-investment-in-kentucky/

[L. Coyote]

24. How will supporting the invasion of a democracy impact midterms?

I'm, of course, referring to the US Capitol.

[Kid Berwyn]

27. GOP got more than $10 million from just four Russian oligarchs.

How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns

Campaign finance reports show troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to Trump and top Republican leaders.

By Ruth May|Contributor
The Dallas Morning News, May 8, 2018

Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country.

SNIP…

In total, Blavatnik, Intrater, Shustorovich and Kukes made $10.4 million in political contributions from the start of the 2015-16 election cycle through September 2017, and 99 percent of their contributions went to Republicans. With the exception of Shustorovich, the common denominator that connects the men is their association with Vekselberg. Experts who follow the activities of Russian oligarchs told ABC News that they believe the contributions from Blavatnik, Intrater and Kukes warrant intense scrutiny because they have worked closely with Vekselberg.

SNIP…

And consider Steve Mnuchin, Trump's campaign finance chairman. Could he have known that the Trump Victory Fund, jointly managed by the Republican National Committe and Trump's campaign, took contributions from Intrater and Kukes? Mnuchin owned Hollywood financing company RatPac-Dune with Blavatnik until he sold his stake to accept Trump's appointment as the Treasury secretary.

SNIP…

The contributions are legal because the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling, Citizens United, and several subsequent decisions, allowed American corporations and citizens to give unlimited amounts of money to PACs and non-profit 501c4 organizations, regardless of how they make their money, where they make their money, or with whom they make their money. The only caveat is that PACs and non-profits cannot coordinate their activities with the political candidates they support.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/how-putin-s-oligarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns/

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Wow! What a collection. Thanks!

[niyad]

7. That is an excellent, truthful and appalling collection!

[keithbvadu2]

8. Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag

Loyal Trumpster proudly holding Trump Russian flag

[keithbvadu2]

9. Speaking from a position of strength

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[housecat]

10. hard to pick favorites when they're all so good!

[planetc]

11. Yay! Image Dump!

[FoxNewsSucks]

13. That's a damn fine collection! Thanks!!

[BootinUp]

14. The Drumpf vs. Zelensky stuff is a riot.

[ffr]

16. That history problem not looking favorable we warned them about, got told sooner

than later.

[TeamProg]

17. Excellent!

[steventh]

19. Impressive. Powerful. Fierce.

Thanks for all these.
k&r

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

20. That's a great batch!

Thanks!

[c-rational]

22. Great collection. Thanks. K&R!

[Paladin]

25. Outstanding collection! (nt)