Friday, April 20, 2018

Reuters — Democrats sue Russia, Trump campaign for alleged 2016 election conspiracy


The need for more popcorn is unending. Please pass the popcorn.

Reuters
Democrats sue Russia, Trump campaign for alleged 2016 election conspiracy
Mark Hosenball, David Alexander

Also

Trump returns fire.

Zero Hedge
Trump To "Counter" DNC Lawsuit; Seeks Servers, Clinton Emails And "Pakistani Mystery Man"
Tyler Durden

10 comments:

Noah Way said...

Meanwhile house REPs have filed a criminal referral with the DOJ against Clinton, Comey, Lynch and others in news that has been completely ignored by NYT / WaPo / etc.

https://www.unz.com/article/on-the-criminal-referral-of-comey-clinton-et-al/

Tom Hickey said...

The USA is coming apart at the seams. Quite the spectacle. And it's amping up.

Bob Roddis said...

Democratic National Committee vs. The Russian Federation, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Donald Trump, Jr. and Roger Stone, Jr. inter alia

Check out paragraph 177. THEY ALL CONSPIRED TOGETHER. Don Jr., Roger Stone, Julian Assange and the Russia government. You know it's true, right?

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/20/604343810/democrats-sue-russia-wikileaks-and-trump-campaign-over-election-conspiracy

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4443360-DNC-v-Russia-Trump-WikiLeaks-Lawsuit

Download Complaint here:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4443360/DNC-v-Russia-Trump-WikiLeaks-Lawsuit.pdf

Tom Hickey said...

Loony. — unless it is purely political, of course.

Tom Hickey said...

I just updated the post with this.

Trump To "Counter" DNC Lawsuit; Seeks Servers, Clinton Emails And "Pakistani Mystery Man"

Noah Way said...

It's not purely political as it is being used to advance other agendas. Reps and DEMs both work for the same people, and it isn't us.

Tom Hickey said...

@ Noah Way

Politics is about gaining and wielding power. The objective of gaining power is to wield it.

So that you mention is also political, but in a somewhat different way.

One way is oriented to gaining power when you are out and maintaining when you are in. Another way is oriented to wielding power. One holds power when in but then the opposition does its best to prevent one from using it as desired.

Tom Hickey said...

@ Bob Roddis

Right. I was being snarky.

Noah Way said...

Which leads us straight to Clausewitz and a rather broad definition of 'politics'.

Tom Hickey said...

Which leads us straight to Clausewitz and a rather broad definition of 'politics'.

Right. Geopolitics is obviously not about gaining power through elections.

Domestic "politics" in liberal democracies is about competing factions in elections. But there are also other dimensions of politics related to power operative domestically, and liberal democracy is not the only form of government.

Where power affects or controls relationships, there is always "politics," even in families. Politics is about the dynamics of power.

Geopolitics is about gaining, maintaining and extending power.

Therefore, politics in the broad sense is integral to dialectical logic, which is based on oppositional forces and complementarity.