Matt Taibbi

This has a lot of interesting details and info, along with a nice summary of the Magnitsky affair: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-russia-russiagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290

most ppl have been, are, or will be creepy

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 14, 2017 2:39 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks i can now listen to pieces of shit without guilt or regret

It's also not true. Most people do not coerce people into sex by threatening to fire them.

I like some of Taibbi's writing and don't want to be an agent of "moral panic" or whatever, but come on. This kind of behavior cannot be considered acceptable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-russia-russiagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290

This is very good. I'd somehow managed to neglect the fact that Akhmetshin works for the same company that organised the Steele dossier.

a piker next to Klaus Kinski

Good thing Kinski wasn't a pretty major political commentator for the left, then?

i made a vow last week not to get into dumb arguments on the internetz

It's also not true. Most people do not coerce people into sex by threatening to fire them.

― Treeship, Friday, July 14, 2017 4:19 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

source?

From the podcast's descr on Patreon:

The TARFU Report runs weekly and includes celebrity guests from the world of politics, journalism, comedy, and more. One show a week is completely free, and patrons have access to a complete, 30-60 minute additional show each week. Subscribers will also have access to all archive content--all for just $5 a month, which is less than it costs to take your working-class friend to lunch at a fine Italian delicatessen.

Everyone who posted to ILX in the Bush era is now one degree of separation from Matt Taibbi's weird mouth/jawline.

Hey I thought we agreed to no more chinshaming on this board

It's more that his mouth never seems to open completely. TBH, Matt Taibbi looks like what I thought Bill Simmons looked like before I ever saw Simmons.

there is already a post-pilot episode up, on RussiaRussiaRussia

and a new one now w/ Charles Pierce

whoa

Last week's was terrible. Pareene (whose voice I've never heard) and Taibbi sounded like college kids.

this is a little better, less stammery, and charlie pierce is on point, but at the moment you have to sign up for patreon to hear it

There's gotta be someone with interesting opinions who wasn't a chronic sexual assaulter

me, but i have a job already

Alfred, they could have you on if they wanted someone who sounds like George Sanders

only if I get to wave a cigarette holder while talking

https://legendofhistory.com/resources/fdr-cigarette%20jaunty%20hat.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-what-does-russiagate-look-like-to-russians-w493462

After Boris Yeltsin won re-election in 1996, Time magazine ran a gloating cover story – YANKS TO THE RESCUE! – about three American advisers sent to help the pickling autocrat Yeltsin devise campaign strategy. Picture Putin sending envoys to work out of the White House to help coordinate Trump's re-election campaign, and you can imagine how this played in Russia.

about half of russian voters were okay with it?

heh

the thing that drives me nuts about the "russia interfered in the election" or "Trump has russia ties" or "Trump is in debt to russians" is the conflation of all russian interest

I mean, my image of it is that there's an oligarchy of billionaires who benefited from the post-Soviet kleptocracy in Russia who do hold some political power.

It's completely possible state-sponsored actors interfered in the US election (they were working for someone). It's true that Trump has a lot of loans and investment from Russian banks and billionaires. It's true that his son and advisers met with several Russians who were marketed (by a weird agent for celebs) as having Russian government ties and possible dirt that could be used in the campaign.

But there's no grand unified Russian theory here.

nothing to see here, either

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/paul-manafort-reportedly-owed-millions-to-russian-oligarch-before-joining-trump-campaign

that Taibbi Yeltsin bit is some lazy tu quoque shit. yep, pretty much the same thing as happened in the 2016 election.

I'm starting to wonder if I should cultivate some russian investor friends to buy some property! Sounds lucrative.

TARFU Report is a bit insufferable, although the addition of David Rees (sadly, a guest, not a new host) made it a million times better. That guy is the best.

more sufferable than mssg boards

Yeah, as a podcast it's a bit of a tough slough

I enjoyed them having David Rees on there

Yeah Rees was great especially during the Brooks segment.

TARFU pod now on WFMU radio. Live beginning in 3 weeks, w/ phone calls.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TV

a little surprised alex didn't know about GGL eating rat haunches tbqh

His latest: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-madness-of-donald-trump-removal-25th-amendment-w504149

All of the remove-Trump options seem pretty far-fetched. I guess if Mueller uncovers something truly explosive, maybe impeachment could be possible. 25th amendment stuff seems like a total pipe dream.

bad diet could do the trick

then we get Mike & Mother

who we rootin' for here

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-steve-bannon-splits-from-trump-hilarity-ensues-w504732

coronary heart disease

Does kim jong un have a missile that can reach Alabama?

As delicious as it was to watch the mainstream Republican Party crushed under the weight of its own internal contradictions during the 2016 campaign season, a new horror show could be even better

http://i64.tinypic.com/nl4kyr.jpg

there it is

oh fuck that a thousand times to hell and back

what a GOTCHA

god knows the politILXors get no schadenfreude/entertainment from GOP vaudeville

you didn't finish, sleepingbag

Of course, the price of this chaotic spectacle is high. Roy Moore is an awful human being, and it will be a bummer to see him decorating a Senate office with a stone relief of the Ten Commandments. Moreover, the likely endgame here is Trump running back into Bannon's arms behind the scenes, resulting in even worse White House behavior.

Tarfu Report this week had the ideal setup: David Rees in studio, Taibbi phoning in (which makes his tendency to vocal-frying "ahhhhh"s less irritating).

I'm wondering if they record this in Sam Seder's studio. At one point in the last episode the Majority Report producer Matt Leck starts talking out of nowhere.

also David Brooks use of "moral joy"

the Hitler/Tony Robbins quote game last week was incredible