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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey folks, some people don't watch MSNBC 24 hrs a day
And, while I know it is hard to believe, some don't watch it at all. So when you are posting about something that just happened on that network, please include some substance.
Writing something like, "Rachel sure blew it open tonight" is not descriptive. Heck, there was more discussion of what degree she received and what university she received it from than factual information about what she revealed.
still_one
(92,116 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)Warpy
(111,236 posts)That and all the fucking Twitter threads are making DU suck.
Agreed.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)The people who do that are never gonna change. For that mentality, POW ZAP BAM is much more satisfying than saying something meaningful or communicating information.
BainsBane
(53,027 posts)Is tied to money laundering for Russian oligarchs. She also pointed to a real estate deal in FL, in the midst of a bad real estate market, that netted Trump $60 million from a Russian oligarch. The deal saved Trump from a really bad financial situation at the time.
The implication was this may be the financial transaction linking Trump to Russia, possibly explaining how he came to be a shill for Putin.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Or Rachel......
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)of interest posted, I will go check out the video of RAchel when it's posted, and would greatly appreciate more context and content to know if it's worth my time to look it up later.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Wilbur Ross Comes to D.C. With an Unexamined History of Russian Connections
Trumps Choice for Commerce Secretary Holds a Top Post With a Mysterious, Russian-Controlled Cyprus Bank
By James S. Henry
...........Ross involvement in the Bank of Cyprus raises many questions about his judgment, but also about the Trump Administrations seemingly endless direct and indirect connections with friends and associates of Vladimir Putin, who all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies say conspired to interfere in the November 2016 U.S. election on behalf of Donald Trump.
Whether or not these connections involve any criminality, these are the kind of relationships that most American business people would not tolerate for 30 seconds.
After all, as discussed below, since the 1990s Cyprus has served as one the top three offshore destinations for Russian and former Soviet Union flight capital, most of it motivated by tax dodging, kleptocracy, and money laundering.[4] As of 2013, just before the banking crisis, Russian deposits accounted for at least a third of all bank deposits in Cyprus. [5] As one leading newspaper put it, Russian money is in fact at the heart of the islands economy.[6]
The Bank of Cyprus caters to the island nations large Russian population.
Nor is Ross Bank of Cyprus in particular now probably at least half owned by Russians, as well see [7]any stranger to money laundering,[8] tax dodging, or odious finance. With a market share of 30 percent, Bank of Cyprus has long been the market leader in Cypriot financial chicanery:[9]
https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-comes-to-d-c-with-a-long-and-profitable-history-of-russian-connections/?preview_id=944
just a snip of this detailed analysis of the trump/ross/russia connection
can you say Deutsche Bank? sure....I knew that you could
Gore1FL
(21,126 posts)I'd prefer substance over click bait, bit substance within the click bait is, at least, a pleasant surprise.
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)msongs
(67,393 posts)BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)to my attention -- even if it is so-called "click bait"...I don't subscribe to MSNBC either. However, when someone tells me that Rachel just knocked it outta the park, I can usually find it on YouTube. i guess some people just want their news tied together in a cute little box tied together with a pretty ribbon.
Again, I am just happy someone took the time and energy to put up a road sign pointing out a tasty diner.
ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)watch it or don't with the same careful consideration you should give ALL media. I'm sure there numerous issues and sources that interest you that others also have no knowledge or interest in, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be presented. There is no shortage of things we can learn.
Cha
(297,100 posts)which is desirable, no doubt. Instead of asking .. "What?"
Mahalo, Cajun
RandiFan1290
(6,229 posts)and whine about it there?
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)and I agree that there's many posts that tend to leave out rather important information that would make the message complete, do you realize you kind of just did exactly what you are having issue with?
As a third party to this discussion, I have no idea what thread you are referencing, since you did an OP without any link.
Great idea, but could use some more information as well.