RussiaGate

[Koyaanisqatsi]

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Someone needs to make that photo into a t-shirt

 

[fromderinside]

"Everybody must get Stoned."

 

[marc]

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[ZiprHead]

New McCarthy ad praising Trump includes Russian stock footage

A new ad released by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that praises President Trump seemingly includes Russian stock footage.

McCarthy released the ad on Twitter defending the president amid the impeachment inquiry and as the 2020 election approaches. But one of the clips in the ad was discovered to be stock footage from Russia.

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

 

[barbos]

New McCarthy ad praising Trump includes Russian stock footage

A new ad released by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that praises President Trump seemingly includes Russian stock footage.

McCarthy released the ad on Twitter defending the president amid the impeachment inquiry and as the 2020 election approaches. But one of the clips in the ad was discovered to be stock footage from Russia.

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

Are you seriously considering this as evidence of Russia-collusion? You are doing disservice to RussiaGate. In doing so, one could argue you are pro-russian.

 

[ZiprHead]

New McCarthy ad praising Trump includes Russian stock footage

A new ad released by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that praises President Trump seemingly includes Russian stock footage.

McCarthy released the ad on Twitter defending the president amid the impeachment inquiry and as the 2020 election approaches. But one of the clips in the ad was discovered to be stock footage from Russia.

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

Are you seriously considering this as evidence of Russia-collusion? You are doing disservice to RussiaGate. In doing so, one could argue you are pro-russian.

Who said anything about collusion?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

New McCarthy ad praising Trump includes Russian stock footage

A new ad released by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that praises President Trump seemingly includes Russian stock footage.

McCarthy released the ad on Twitter defending the president amid the impeachment inquiry and as the 2020 election approaches. But one of the clips in the ad was discovered to be stock footage from Russia.

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

Are you seriously considering this as evidence of Russia-collusion? You are doing disservice to RussiaGate. In doing so, one could argue you are pro-russian.

It makes it likely the ad was produced by Russian sources.

 

[Elixir]

It makes it likely the ad was produced by Russian sources.

Or by someone accustomed to using Russian sources, like Trump - and now, Republican congresscritters.

 

[barbos]

Are you seriously considering this as evidence of Russia-collusion? You are doing disservice to RussiaGate. In doing so, one could argue you are pro-russian.

It makes it likely the ad was produced by Russian sources.

Right, and when stock photo of Wehrmacht soldiers was used it made it likely that german Nazis produced the video?
Stock photo/video fuckups happens regularly everywhere, they were happening during Obama, during Bush, they happen in US, they happen in Russia, they happen everywhere.
You are fucking ridiculous and utterly oblivious of reality.

 

[barbos]

It makes it likely the ad was produced by Russian sources.

Or by someone accustomed to using Russian sources, like Trump - and now, Republican congresscritters.

There are no russian sources, these are stock video/photos which are bought/sold/collected by companies which are in that business.

 

[Deepak]

It's a guy walking in a cornfield... https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage...lds-tablet-corn-field-and-examining-crops-agr

The agency is headquartered in NYC, they rely guys-and-gals-with-cameras all over the world to generate content. The most likely scenario:

1. We need to make a video that will go over in the Heartland
2. Let's get a clip of a guy in a cornfield
3. Go to pond5.com
4. Search for 'corn farm'
5. Filter for Commercial usage, 1080, 29.97 fps, Male, 1 person
6. Sort by price low-to-high
7. Go to first clip that isn't a goof in a high-viz vest
8. Ignore literally everything else on that page and buy the video for 25 dollars

Let's not get crazy here - it wasn't some guy wearing a tracksuit and ushanka with a Су-34 flyover of a Lysenko wheat field. This seems like a nice family guy who likes using his camera and is trying to make some money while he does it https://www.pond5.com/artist/sergeygribanov#1/2063

Are we really going to require US sourcing for b-roll now?

 

[Elixir]

It makes it likely the ad was produced by Russian sources.

Or by someone accustomed to using Russian sources, like Trump - and now, Republican congresscritters.

There are no russian sources, these are stock video/photos which are bought/sold/collected by companies which are in that business.

It's a guy walking in a cornfield... https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage...lds-tablet-corn-field-and-examining-crops-agr

The agency is headquartered in NYC, they rely guys-and-gals-with-cameras all over the world to generate content. The most likely scenario:

Ah, you're both right. My bad.
Which doesn't mean there are no Russian sources or that they're not used to using Russian sources, just not necessarily for ad footage.

 

[ZiprHead]

Republicans block FEC probe of NRA's Russia money and Trump

Rachel Maddow segment.

 

[blastula]

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Oh, good, I'm glad they discussed election meddling. I was getting worried he hadn't got his latest instructions from Putin yet.

 

[lpetrich]

The Republicans have become the party of Russia. This makes me sick. - The Washington Post by Max Boot

Of all the changes that have occurred in our politics since the rise of Donald Trump, the most gut-wrenching for me personally is to see the Republican Party transformed into the Kremlin’s “useful idiots.” As a young refugee from the Soviet Union growing up in Southern California in the 1980s, I was attracted to the GOP because it was the party of moral clarity — the party willing to stand up to the “evil empire.” How far we have come — in the wrong direction.

Today, we have a Republican president who, while reluctantly acceding to sanctions against Russia, incessantly praises its dictator, Vladimir Putin (“a terrific person”); tries to bring Putin back to the Group of Seven; conceals the details of their meetings; undermines Ukraine, a victim of Russian aggression, by harping on its corruption while ignoring Russia’s own kleptocracy; allows the Russians to take possession of U.S. bases in Syria; and propagates Russian propaganda blaming Ukraine for 2016 election interference. Trump is joined in spreading Russian disinformation by his secretary of state and other supporters, such as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), even though the U.S. intelligence community has exposed claims of Ukrainian election interference as a “fictional narrative.”

Tucker Carlson of Fox News goes further, eagerly siding with Russia.

MB asks what Trump sees in Russia. "His affinity for Russia is as deep as it is mysterious. Has he been compromised by Russian intelligence? Is he financially dependent on Russian business partners? Or does he simply admire the way that Putin has destroyed Russian democracy?"

In for a kopek, in for a ruble: The Republicans continued defending Trump even after it emerged that he had tried to build a Trump Tower in Moscow while running for president and that members of his campaign’s high command had met with Russian emissaries promising dirt on Clinton. Republicans were not even fazed when Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey in May 2017 to stop the investigation of “this Russia thing,” or when in July 2018 he was utterly supine before Putin in Helsinki.

MB describes Putin's regime as combining crony capitalism and ultranationalism -- just like Trump himself. He also notes that Putin's regime presents itself as a champion of "Christianity, traditional values and the white race".

Though Russia has much stricter gun-control laws than the US, Russian agent Maria Butina succeeded in infiltrating the National Rifle Association.

That so many Republicans are just fine with it is yet another sign of how a once-grand party has lost its way. By turning into apologists and advocates for a Russian dictator, the Republican Party has become all that it once despised

 

[lpetrich]

I look at what Max Boot had written for the WaPo and I can't help think: why aren't more Republicans outraged at the Jerk-in-Chief?

 

[J842P]

I look at what Max Boot had written for the WaPo and I can't help think: why aren't more Republicans outraged at the Jerk-in-Chief?

Max Boot is a moral simpleton if he thinks the Republican party of the 1980s was the party of moral clarity.

I guess, now the Democrats become the red baiters. Awesome.

 

[Gun Nut]

I look at what Max Boot had written for the WaPo and I can't help think: why aren't more Republicans outraged at the Jerk-in-Chief?

Imagine a football game where one team has a coach dictating to the quarterback what plays to run, whose team members run the plays he calls perfectly, every time... imagine that team playing against another team that has a coach giving loose guidelines to a quarterback that provides suggestions to their team members, who are all empowered to choose what play they will run at any given moment?

What a complete slaughter.

 

[barbos]

I look at what Max Boot had written for the WaPo and I can't help think: why aren't more Republicans outraged at the Jerk-in-Chief?

Max Boot is a moral simpleton if he thinks the Republican party of the 1980s was the party of moral clarity.

I guess, now the Democrats become the red baiters. Awesome.

He is a weird guy, he (with the help of parents I suspect) managed to completely forget russian when his family emigrated to US.
Kinda ironic considering how much of his rants involves Russia, But as you said he is a simpleton, so no analysis is required.