Maria Butina to plead guilty to conspiracy, accused Russian agent flips to help investigations

[Brainspore]

@Pink_Frankenste

Merely pointing out that this isn’t such a big deal or any sort of smoking gun

I believe the term is “smocking gun.”

[OWYAC]

I think … if she has been following orders all along, she’ll survive, but if she has caved and given up other agents and operations, then likely not.

Schrodingers’s Butina; we won’t know until and unless she has a suspicious heart attack, odd cup of tea, falls out of a window, whether or not she was following instructions.

[GagHalfrunt]

@HMSGoose

If I were ambitious, I’d create a diagram/graphic of a “nothingburger” and name all the layers cleverly after the people flipping on trumo. If I were really ambitious, I’d start a burger chain called Nothingburger with big, fat juicy burgers, and half my proceeds would go to campaign finance reform.

To honour the inventor of the word, serve the nothingburger with goulash.

[knoxblox]

@Keith_McClary

like lobby groups that are such a de facto part of the government that “infiltrating” them is considered “espionage” and astroturf campaigns funded by dark money

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers lobbyists.”

― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

[anon62122146]

@Brainspore

Denying the problem doesn’t make us look strong, it just makes us look like rubes who will just sit back and take it as Russia continues to undermine our democratic institutions.

I’m not saying we should deny it. I’m explaining why her bosses don’t care if she spills all the beans. At this point, the more lurid the media coverage, the better it is for them.

[philbin1]

Man, her face could harsh the buzz right off the Easter Bunny.

[GulliverFoyle]

'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit

That’s a little on the nose, Russia.

[Brainspore]

I wonder if that guy has a partner who dresses up like a troll.