F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It ‘Disgraceful’

I didn't - but I do now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelest
An STD - a spiritually transmitted delusion (or deception).

 

Cohen takes the 5th

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cohen-says-he-would-invoke-his-fifth-amendment-right-in-stormy-daniels-case/2018/04/25/c72a5c5a-48d9-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8f75875ed24a

 

With a completely out-of-control FBI after you, wouldn't you do the same?

 

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/993250184112099328

 

Well, it's natural for you to say that, since you always distrusted governmental authorities. It is more interesting to hear it from Bruce, who is an authority. We behold the Trumpean reality-bending field in action.

P. S. Of course, the guy taking the Fifth is noteworthy because his boss and co-conspirator said many times that only guilty people do it. Then again, he is known to take the Fifth and using other weasely tactics himself, so all we learn is that Trump is a narcissistic habitual liar. In other words, no new information.

 

Stanislav, would you take the fifth if you were accused by Lavrentiy Beria of anything? (if you could do so)

"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria (chief of Joseph Stalin’s secret police)

 

Yeah, thank you for missing the point. You are such a dependable guy. I'm not saying taking the Fifth is not Cohen's right, or that it's not a reasonable thing to do giving his station as essentially a mob-style legal "fixer". I just point out that by Trump's repeated assertions this makes him guilty. And thanks for joining the American loony Left in demonizing American law enforcement.

 

Movie review: http://libertyunbound.com/node/1847

 

I'm not likely to see it, but a good movie by all accounts. A cause of the latest shitstorm in the twisted world that is today's Russia. Previous was "Matilda", apparently a rather boring movie about Tzar Nicolas II's alleged ballerina mistress. People got bound out of shape because it offended the memory of "Saint Nicolas The Royal Passion-bearer" (his actual title in Russian Orthodox Church). Freaks.

 

What was the name of that other flik, Goodbye Lenin? That was supposed to be good but the most I recall of it is that I sat through it.

Digressing, or further digressing, here's a movie I liked: https://www.amazon.com/No-Mans-Land-Branko-Djuric/dp/B000060MUZ

I especially liked that it was placed before US involvement. I think the only mention of the US was a comment that the Americans were becoming impatient.

 

Of course. And you are especially justified in thinking that they are "really out to get you" when you know you did something wrong. With things we know like Trump Tower meetup (and spin around it) and Comey firing (and, especially, spin around it), I don't see the way out of concluding this is the case here.

 

Haven't seen it. But it is a nice point. There's this fiction on the Left that whatever's wrong in the world, US is to blame. This proves that these guys share the same Yankee imperialist conceit with their right-wing counterparts. The locals (and various regional would-be tyrants) in many conflicts have agency and are quite capable to muck things up on their own.
I don't follow Noam Chomsky's work, but was given his book on foreign policy once. Very quickly, it became evident that he makes the case US is always at fault, in impenetrable academese, all the time. This showed me that Chomsky, who is a legitimate genius (see his work in mathematical linguistics) and author of keen insights in "Manufacturing Consent", is an old man who lost it.

 

Not just on the left. NYC has immigrants from everywhere and many would say "CIA" whenever something blew up somewhere in the world. Except maybe for Eastern Europeans who grew up with an ear for disinformation.

 

And we are, Steve.

 

Russian money in Cohen's pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

 

Hoo boy. Also, payments that look like bribes from multiple corporations. Not a good look, for Cohen and Trump both.

The question is, how hard will Trump throw Cohen under the bus? It is not fun to be Trump's loyal minion, not fun at all...

 

Which Cohen?