Well, he was the target of a national attack from the center-right in the form of the mainstream media and Democratic Party establishment.

Wait, liberals are pretending to be anti-war? I thought they wanted a new Cold War with Russia.

Hey that's not fair! The Democrats' last two presidents were great at politics! They were just bad at government.*

*face palm*

I know I'm about to phallus-leep.

You're not wrong about that last part at all. It was already half way there when I lived there in the 2000s but it's much worse now.

The music scene and Barton Springs are, unquestionably, fucking awesome. Other than that, it's an aggravating place to live because the public transportation sucks too much to not have a car, but the traffic is AWFUL because they purposely didn't expand the roads despite huge population growth in order to encourage…

The Hill Country is great. Easily the best thing about Texas IMO. Best thing about San Antonio is the proximity. Also, it's a more livable city than Austin but close enough to make the occasional trip up there for a show. I do wish even half the bands that came through Austin would come through San Antonio as well…

Thankfully there's plenty of rumen here for all of this silly nonsense.

Oh great, another offal pun thread.

They've started being nicer to him since Flynn got the axe.

Hey now, Chuck Schumer is a bit paunchy, but not too bad for his age. I didn't known he was a feminist icon though.

Seriously wondering, what realistically is the worst case scenario that you are worried about with Trump vis-a-vis the Russians?

I don't know, personally I think Putin, is a nasty individual and an authoritarian, like Trump, and the latter's apparent admiration for the former is disturbing and objectionable. I don't see a whole lot else to get worked up about, or at least nothing that is unprecedented for an American president (thinking Bushes…

My objection is really just the anonymous leaks coming from the CIA and the way the media amplification has turned that into established fact in the public mind.

Yeah it's a really bad system that seems to have arisen mainly as an accident of history, I believe having something to do with circumventing wage controls during WWII. Excellent points all around.

Nope, not even close. I don't know where you're from, but if you want it, you can have it. Good riddance.

"Nothing more than innuendo and conjecture."

I agree with all those criticisms! Isn't that enough? Do we really have to make up stories about him being a Russian puppet, when there is such a huge potential downside to doing so?

Ok. Well I think the articles made a pretty compelling case.