I call fake … if she really had a smoking gun, and she’s stuck in a Thai jail, something unsavoury would already have happened to her
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PBR I see where you are going! 
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I’m not sure Mueller has the power to spring her from a Thai jail. And letting the world know you have dirt on both Russians and Trump seems like a sure way to disappear from the face of the Earth.
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To be fair, his driving trollies account is just a baby, give him time.
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Yay, more garbage. I’m getting a little tired of the red meat you toss out on here, Mark. You’ve become something of an arrogant, opinionated uncle spewing political commentary to a captive audience at Thanksgiving dinner.
There’s plenty going on that’s of real consequence. You could talk about Trump’s proposal today for steel tariffs. I grew up in a blue collar town where the primary employer was the steel industry. Over the years, plant hours were restricted, or in some cases plants were shut down for extended periods of time, increasing financial instability in the area. Friends’ dads lost jobs. Trump took this action despite the fact that it enrages many in the GOP. I live in the Bay Area now, and many here are blissfully ignorant of the financial hardships affecting those in fly-over country. If that weren’t so, they would have been much less surprised by the outcome of the election.
Similarly, we could talk about Trump bucking the NRA and many in the GOP to propose increasing gun restrictions. Or his willingness to work with Schumer and Pelosi on a range of issues. Trump’s politics appeal to me because he’s neither a Democrat nor a Republican, really.
But no…posting anything positive about Trump would require recognizing the world as the complicated place that it is, where people are more than one-dimensional cartoon characters who are always either heroes or villains.
Actually, the Navalny video is quite compelling, on the surface. Certainly entertaining. Did you watch it?
And tariffs? That’s what you got?
Although economists disagree by how much, the consensus view among economists and economic historians is that “The passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff exacerbated the Great Depression.”
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Voodoo economics and the Laffer Curve just gave us Trump’s tax cut too. LOL
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You mean they might get accused of running a child prostitution ring out of a pizza shop or even murder?
Because it would be awful if something like that were to ever happen. I’m aghast just thinking of the possibility.
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Welcome to BoingBoing!
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Amen. Open-minded, critical thinkers of BoingBoingBBS unite 
Ha! That’s rich, that there. I think you mean use Schumer and Pelosi’s cynical realpolitik deal making to string them along and deflect some portion of blame onto them while doing absolutely nothing to hold up his side of the “bargain”. They may as well be Trump tower contractors waiting for that check.
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Actually, as someone who wields influence in this community, he does have something to feel bad about. The decisions he makes about what to post are consequential in shaping the type of community we have here. And what Mark decides to post also says something about the quality of his judgement.
Was that ever in doubt?
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The question though is, was blowing still involved?
I’m here all weekend folks.
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It’s being talked about in the Trump events thread. I’m certain that if he’s serious, it’ll be chained to his wall funding. No gun control unless he gets his erection.
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I too am pretty skeptical of these claims, but you and @Alasdair_Lumsden come off as concern trolls here.
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Then, perhaps you should contact the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other reputable news outlets for reporting all of this and set them straight regarding quality of judgment.
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Steelworkers shouldn’t depend upon the government to step in and keep their dying industry afloat because they’re too lazy to learn new skills and move out of their economic dead zones. Those are the rules that Trump supporters apply to everyone else’s economic hardship, so I don’t see why they should be held to a different standard. They want to alleviate their economic woes by taking healthcare away from millions; are those millions now supposed to view them as friends in need, or a rival tribe to be guarded against?
They just got done plundering the treasury to give rich people tax breaks at the expense of future generations. Let rich people care about their problems. We have our own, and Trump is one of them.
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Alasdair comes off as a typical employee of the Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg who had the misfortune of pulling a Boingboing alert ticket. The only thing more pathetic than someone paid $0.10 per propaganda post is someone who cheers him on for free.
Careful, there seem to be people here who believe “The Art of the Deal” is the true story of an upstanding NYC businessman and that “The Apprentice” is a business management documentary.
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As harsh as your channeled conservative rhetoric is, it pales in comparison to the real cruelty at work.
For all that defenders of Real Americans™ in the Heartland complain about out-of-touch librul Coastal Elites, they’re conspicuously silent about the con man in the White House who offers false hope to desperate people. Brain-dead protectionism that throws the larger economy into turmoil and factory photo ops aren’t bringing back these industries or the one-employer towns that depended on them – for various reasons they’re gone and won’t return anytime soon.
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