Humiliated Putin picking easy civilian targets.

Thank you for sharing this. I’m sorry to hear about what your father - and you and your whole family - went through.

I enjoy reading your comments throughout Lemmy. You should know: you’re really cool.

This is beautifully written and I agree with the analogy, though I never saw it that way before. Thank you for sharing this.

This is brilliant - I’m going to have to remember that line. Thank you!

Republican.

But you probably knew that.

President Drink Bleach may want all he wants.

Narrator: Yes.

With a POV-styled role-playing introduction, please. Where they’re fully clothed at first, discussing their ideology, before the discourse somehow gets a little steam and gay sex ensues.

This is a disingenuous comment.

Good bot, good summary. Bot speaks the truth.

Fans of President Drink Bleach have an aversion to the truth - even in writing.

Thank you for sharing this important - and very well written - article.

Anyone know why Philips kept quiet abut the carcinogenic defect for a decade and announced the problem only after they had a suitable replacement machine?

I need to check with loved ones now. Wow…

Way to go and I’m with you. Years ago, we were all forced to switch to Windows due to an acquisition - locked down with Bit locker so you couldn’t even use the USB ports.

I purchased a copy of VMware, installed Linux on the guest operating system, and did my work from there.

The heavy e-commerce platform I was running in the guest Linux OS, ran faster than in the host Windows OS. I believe Windows was 20 to 30% slower.

Also in the guest Linux OS, I was able to use all the USB ports. It was beautiful.

Others in my office started doing the same thing.

I like to ask in job interviews if Linux is an option.

Glad you got a great setup!

Now, for some quotes not included in the post above:

Ukraine has sanctioned Fuks, and it is reportedly investigating him for fraud and tax evasion. Fuks now lives in London, according to recent media reports.

Nice!

In his statement, Buma says that he developed suspicions that Giuliani, through his relationship with Fuks, was “compromised by the RIS,” meaning the Russian Intelligence Services. That is a striking claim—an allegation that Russian spies may have obtained influence over a top adviser to the US president.

But I guess we all suspected as much. It’s still shocking to see it.

Buma reveals in his statement that he also probed whether Russian operatives or assets were involved in a 2020 Giuliani effort to make a film about Hunter Biden’s business activities in Ukraine and elsewhere.

Oh, no. Let’s find out how that went, shall we?

The anti-Biden film was to include commentary from Konstantin Kulyk, a former Ukrainian prosecutor who Treasury sanctioned in 2021 for working with Derkach to spread “fraudulent and unsubstantiated allegations” about Biden. That is, this project was to feature information from sources who the US government later deemed were connected to a disinformation campaign linked to Russian intelligence.

D’oh!

Giuliani played a key role in trying to line up investors for the movie.

Hehe

The investors Giuliani did help find were two brothers, David and Kable Munger, who own a large blueberry producing company in California and have donated generously to GOP candidates.

Ok, so they got funding.

The movie never came close to being made, and people involved in the endeavor told Mother Jones the project was disorganized and incompetently managed.

I can laugh my rear off, but really, I shouldn’t be surprised. What a clown show - MAGAs shivving MAGAs:

The Mungers recently sued two GOP activists involved in producing the film, Tim Yale and George Dickson, along with a company they formed. Giuliani was not named as a defendant in the suit.

The Mungers say that Giuliani helped persuade them to invest $1 million by saying that they would receive a share of the film’s profits. The brothers also claim that Yale and Dickson told them the movie would be “more profitable than Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Oh, really? They were going to out-do Mr. Moore?

Giuliani, Dickson, and Yale also said, according to the Mungers’ lawsuit, that they possessed “smoking guns” revealing Joe Biden was corrupt.

Smoking guns, folks, smoking guns!

Giuliani and his colleagues possessed no such material. The Mungers allege that Dickson and Yale stole their investment.

Ruh-oh! There was no smoking gun - not even one.

Giuliani, according to the lawsuit, was paid $300,000 for his participation in the film project. A lawyer and a spokesperson for Giuliani did not respond to requests for comment.

Of course not.

The icing on the cake for me, if I may say, is the following paragraph:

Buma’s revelations may only be the start. A source familiar with his work tells Mother Jones that other potential FBI whistleblowers who participated in the investigation involving Giuliani have consulted the same lawyer as Buma and might meet with congressional investigators in coming weeks. That attorney, Scott Horton, declined to comment.

This was golden - thank you so much!

We love you, good bot. And thank you for the joyous news.

The question swirling in my mind, given this article, is: how were these people expecting to get away with such blatant crimes?

Some notable quotes:

(Re: Kent Vanderwood)

“His willingness to sign a fake elector paper and try to send that in and negate Michigan’s actual vote speaks to his integrity,” Herweyer said of Vanderwood, who was then a member of the Wyoming, Michigan, city council. “How can I trust anything he does?”

In a statement, Vanderwood’s attorney wrote that the mayor “had no intent to defraud anyone” when he signed his name as an elector in 2020…

But he wasn’t an elector. He was a false elector. I’m not understanding how his lawyer could suggest there was no intent to defraud anyone. Isn’t that an obvious contradiction?

(Re: Stan Grot)

“Over 2 million people voted for Joe Biden in Michigan, and Stan Grot decided that our votes didn’t matter,” said Alisa Diez, a Democratic party activist in Shelby Township, where Stanley Grot, one of the 16 false electors, currently serves as township clerk.

(Re: Amy Facchinello)

In Grand Blanc, a small city south of Flint, Michigan, Amy Facchinello, a school board member who in 2021 generated outrage for promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory on social media and now faces charges for her participation in forging the false electors’ certificate…

The crime scene:

Vanderwood, Grot, Facchinello and the 13 others charged met “covertly” in the basement of the Michigan Republican party headquarters in December 2020 to sign paperwork falsely claiming to be official electors, Nessel said, calling the action “an attempt to outmaneuver and circumvent the longstanding electoral college process”.

Does anyone have any idea how these people were going to get away with these crimes? This is astounding.

Thank you - that makes sense.

Thank you, good bot!

Thank you for sharing that! I’ll try to visit one day. I didn’t know about this museum.