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I'm just the messenger... (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2017 OP
Oh, damn, I'm getting my hopes up again. DavidDvorkin Dec 2017 #1
I want to believe him, but I will when/if they start breaking. bearsfootball516 Dec 2017 #2
Oh, good, in a few hours we'll know if he's creditable. Hoyt Dec 2017 #3
I do hope he's right. That would be a perfect ending for the year. Arkansas Granny Dec 2017 #4
I've been up and down so many times on this. Hope they do release something soon to shut the RKP5637 Dec 2017 #5
Kicking for follow-up lamp_shade Dec 2017 #6
Cautiously Optimistic JDC Dec 2017 #7
I'm definitely in the True Dough Dec 2017 #8
I could use some good news Maeve Dec 2017 #9
Well now we wait. PragmaticDem Dec 2017 #10
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, ... n/t RKP5637 Dec 2017 #18
What does the tweet say??? I'm blocked and all your replies are teasing me!! nt Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #11
pretty much what he always predicts mercuryblues Dec 2017 #15
LOL true that. But once in a while these predictions are bound to be right! It will happen and Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #23
at 8:00pm - specific time even! n/t FreeState Dec 2017 #33
From Scott Dworkin Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #44
what does this mean: "it will stop some attacks on Mueller"? triron Dec 2017 #50
i'd be glad to wait bluestarone Dec 2017 #12
Cripes jodymarie aimee Dec 2017 #13
I'll check back on Monday to see if anything happened. Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #14
Neglects to say if major news papers or stations are involved. "Released" could mean tweets lindysalsagal Dec 2017 #16
Didn't Joy Reid fill in avebury Dec 2017 #17
She is and deserves a prime time spot, but I still miss Rachel when she's gone. dewsgirl Dec 2017 #21
I'm not holding my breath Dirty Socialist Dec 2017 #19
Did you guys click on Scott Dworkin jodymarie aimee Dec 2017 #20
He's a political pro brooklynite Dec 2017 #25
What does nowhere sound like? The chimes of petulance or the melody of bitterness? LanternWaste Dec 2017 #29
Tell you what jodymarie aimee Dec 2017 #31
Saw that too mcar Dec 2017 #22
Great teaser, but I've learned to temper my expectations. n/t Tarheel_Dem Dec 2017 #24
Before Or After The Kushner Indictment That Was A Certainty 2 Weeks Ago? SoCalMusicLover Dec 2017 #26
It's amazing how easy it is to get our collective hopes up. Bleacher Creature Dec 2017 #27
Collective curiosity rather than hope. It's easy to confuse the two. LanternWaste Dec 2017 #30
I don't believe these "Breaking story that there will be a breaking story!" blurbs. Esp by unknowns. Honeycombe8 Dec 2017 #28
My guess duforsure Dec 2017 #32
Gates will flip first grantcart Dec 2017 #47
Cool Story, Bro . stonecutter357 Dec 2017 #34
This guy is like a lap dance. n/t LuckyCharms Dec 2017 #35
Saw that, almost posted it here NastyRiffraff Dec 2017 #36
maybe this is part of it neohippie Dec 2017 #37
I'm still strapped and braced from the last time, damn it! Chakaconcarne Dec 2017 #38
... Ellipsis Dec 2017 #39
An exclusive from a radio host in Florida .99center Dec 2017 #40
This one feels real. honest.abe Dec 2017 #41
It does feel different... I'm so ready for more TRUTH to be revealed liberalla Dec 2017 #45
Promises, promises. TNNurse Dec 2017 #42
I turned off the news, and have had it off for two weeks MountCleaners Dec 2017 #43
if you have HBO CatWoman Dec 2017 #46
The only thing I see on Twitter that's new and raises eyebrows bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 #48
This maybe? (Grant Stern tweet) lamp_shade Dec 2017 #49
I'm guessing that's it. AJT Dec 2017 #52
I thought about that. Guess we will see. triron Dec 2017 #54
Think we've known that pretty much since May 2016. We are starting to rehash old stuff as new. Hoyt Dec 2017 #56
If it will STOP attacks on Mueller, that means the GOP will be Eliot Rosewater Dec 2017 #51
This concerns me as well. triron Dec 2017 #55
Well, shit. Saying this stuff probably causes Mueller to delay Ilsa Dec 2017 #53
I've undone my strap and relaxed. Kablooie Dec 2017 #57
It seems to have become a regular du thing. Silly twitter nonsense as always. Tipperary Dec 2017 #58
Yep. Norbert9 got banned months ago for not falling in line with Mensch Norbert10 Dec 2017 #59
Big news never breaks on a Friday before a long weekend... Joe941 Dec 2017 #60
Finally! Rove was frogmarched out of the whitehouse. ryan_cats Dec 2017 #61
It looks like its this story about Dossier neohippie Dec 2017 #62
I was strapped in but no major story. PragmaticDem Dec 2017 #63
Here's another story related to this tweet neohippie Dec 2017 #64

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
5. I've been up and down so many times on this. Hope they do release something soon to shut the
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:11 PM
Dec 2017

GOP hucksters up some.

True Dough

(17,337 posts)
8. I'm definitely in the
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:15 PM
Dec 2017

"I'll believe it when I see it camp."

I don't doubt that Mueller has the goods and he and his team are continuing to turn up the dirt on Trump et al, but predictions on major news have proven unreliable, to say the least.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
23. LOL true that. But once in a while these predictions are bound to be right! It will happen and
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:38 PM
Dec 2017

thank you for responding!

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,047 posts)
44. From Scott Dworkin
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:39 PM
Dec 2017
Scott Dworkin?
Verified account @funder

Everyone strap in & brace yourself. There are about to be some major stories released on the Trump-Russia scandal. First one will be early this evening. I compiled an extensive research report & @GrantStern has the exclusive. Let’s just say it will stop some attacks on Mueller.
10:13 AM - 28 Dec 2017


About 8pm tonight, he says later. Presumably Eastern Time.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
14. I'll check back on Monday to see if anything happened.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:24 PM
Dec 2017

I've gotten my hopes up too many times and been disappointed.

lindysalsagal

(20,741 posts)
16. Neglects to say if major news papers or stations are involved. "Released" could mean tweets
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:27 PM
Dec 2017

or blogs: They may or may not ever get picked up by the msm.

I think Rachel's off this week....

brooklynite

(94,757 posts)
25. He's a political pro
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 04:47 PM
Dec 2017
Scott Dworkin is the Founder and President of Bulldog Finance Group and was a Senior Advisor on both the Draft Biden and Run Warren Run campaigns. He is also a veteran of both the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns. To date, Scott has worked in all 50 states.. Scott also serves on the Advisory Boards for the New Leaders Council and Democratic GAIN. He was named to the Campaigns & Elections Magazine’s 2011 class of Rising Stars. He received a BA in Political Science and a BA in Sociology at North Carolina State University
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
29. What does nowhere sound like? The chimes of petulance or the melody of bitterness?
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:34 PM
Dec 2017

"sounds like nobody from nowhere..."

Were you yourself someone from somewhere (or at least sound like you're someone from somewhere-- as that appears your criteria of validity), he may allow your sentiment all the relevance and consideration it is in fact, due as well.

But I get it... it's mentally convenient to tell ourselves that if we don't know who the messenger is, we may safely ignore it. Sounds like a real game-changer you've invented for yourself. Good luck!




What does nowhere sound like, by the way? The chimes of petulance or merely the simplistic melody of bitterness?

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
31. Tell you what
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:36 PM
Dec 2017

if this pans out, I will buy you a drink...or maybe a car.....neither petulant nor bitter....living in Wisconsin and we know how this works.

Bleacher Creature

(11,258 posts)
27. It's amazing how easy it is to get our collective hopes up.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:07 PM
Dec 2017

I'm not suggesting that Dworkin is or isn't going to be proven right, but the mood of this place can change on a dime following any cryptic tweet along the lines of "major Trump-Russia story to drop soon."

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
30. Collective curiosity rather than hope. It's easy to confuse the two.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:34 PM
Dec 2017

Collective curiosity rather than hope. It's easy to confuse the two.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
28. I don't believe these "Breaking story that there will be a breaking story!" blurbs. Esp by unknowns.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:27 PM
Dec 2017

Never heard of Dworkin.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
32. My guess
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:40 PM
Dec 2017

Mannifort has flipped and has accepted a guilty plea ,and telling all, or they'll have a ton to indict him with moving forward. He has to understand they already know what he's confessing to , and telling them about trump and all those others involved. Anything they ask, they already know about. There are many others already flipped and working for them too. Trump and his team will start saying he's a lair too. Its all caving in on trump , and all those involved, including those in Congress involved now, and looking like a lot of collusion and obstruction charges coming their way. So many hate trump so much in his circle and cabinet, many could be flipped and helping them at this point. Don't count out Pence as one of them either. He's really a crook and liar too.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
36. Saw that, almost posted it here
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:57 PM
Dec 2017

I'm afraid to believe, and get disappointed again. Still I'll be watching the news at or around 8pm.

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
37. maybe this is part of it
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 05:57 PM
Dec 2017

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-posh-george-the-shady-money-man-tangled-up-with-brexit-russia-and-trump?ref=home&via=twitter_page


LONDON—When Nigel Farage, Mr. Brexit, watched Donald Trump accept the Republican Party’s presidential nomination at the convention last year he had an extremely unlikely companion. His closest aide on the trip was an offshore investment expert who had boasted on the dark web about his ability to launder money illegally in and out of the United States.

The aide, George Cottrell, was busted at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on his way home to London on July 22, 2016. He would later plead guilty to participating in a scheme “to advertise money laundering services on a TOR network black-market website.”

With questions being raised about a dark money influence on Brexit—and the election of Donald Trump—all of this begs the question: who was this criminal operative chosen to accompany Farage at the RNC where he met with some of Trump’s best known boosters, including Newt Gingrich and Roger Stone?

It was reported earlier this year that Farage is a person of interest in the FBI’s Russia-Trump probe. He appeared alongside Trump at a rally in Mississippi in August 2016, and was one of the first foreign politicians to visit Trump Tower after the shock election victory.

.99center

(1,237 posts)
40. An exclusive from a radio host in Florida
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:15 PM
Dec 2017

That will stop some attacks on Mueller? I bet it involves Florida's AG, Pam Bondi.

liberalla

(9,266 posts)
45. It does feel different... I'm so ready for more TRUTH to be revealed
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:46 PM
Dec 2017

partial excerpt:

"There are about to be some major stories released on the Trump-Russia scandal.
First one will be early this evening..."

gulp...

multiple stories!

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
43. I turned off the news, and have had it off for two weeks
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:37 PM
Dec 2017

Just got tired of feeling manipulated by promises of bombshell stories.

Watching "Pit Bulls & Parolees" on the DVR tonight...something non-political and non-negative.

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
46. if you have HBO
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:01 PM
Dec 2017

They are running a Game of Thrones marathon.

Starting at noon, they play a different season each day.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
56. Think we've known that pretty much since May 2016. We are starting to rehash old stuff as new.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:26 PM
Dec 2017

Eliot Rosewater

(31,124 posts)
51. If it will STOP attacks on Mueller, that means the GOP will be
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:31 PM
Dec 2017

made happy somehow.

I dont like that idea AT ALL

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
53. Well, shit. Saying this stuff probably causes Mueller to delay
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:50 PM
Dec 2017

an announcement so it doesn't look like he's got a leak.

Thanks for nothing, Dworkin.

Kablooie

(18,641 posts)
57. I've undone my strap and relaxed.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 10:50 PM
Dec 2017

Early evening has passed and there's no major story.

This kind of hyperbole is always useless windbaggery.
I wish people would stop saying this kind of thing.

Sigh.

 

Joe941

(2,848 posts)
60. Big news never breaks on a Friday before a long weekend...
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 08:33 AM
Dec 2017

That's when thing's you want to burry "break". Not hopeful.

ryan_cats

(2,061 posts)
61. Finally! Rove was frogmarched out of the whitehouse.
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 09:04 AM
Dec 2017

I predict that Rove will be frogmarched out of the whitehouse. Finally Bush will get his just deserts and never finish out his term.

Donate to my patrion so I can bring you more breaking news as it happens.

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
64. Here's another story related to this tweet
Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:37 PM
Dec 2017
https://thesternfacts.com/trump-donors-funding-gop-rep-whos-leading-attacks-on-mueller-and-fbi-report-22f4aa595719


A new report details how one Republican Congressman benefitted from a surge in national donations from a group of 15 of the President’s largest donors over the last eighteen months, before turning into Trump’s very public attack dog, seeking delegitimize the FBI and become a Fox News darling.

Representative Ron DeSantis is a member of the Republican Tea Party’s Freedom Caucus, but his donor list is missing the kinds of Koch Brothers cash one might expect, instead filled with cash from major Trump donors which Politico calls his “billionaire kingmakers.”

However, concluding that Trump’s tweet caused top GOP donors to fill DeSantis’ coffers inverts the relationship between the two events and omits what’s being shown to the President on Fox News.

I assisted Democratic Coalition co-founder Scott Dworkin in preparing his first of his “Follow the Money” series of reports entitled, “Congressman DeSantis Funded By Trump’s Largest Donors,” upon which this story is based.

“Trump and DeSantis rely on the same people to fill their campaign coffers. We know what they want from Trump — the full-scale turnover of America to corporate interests,” says Dworkin who uncovered the relationship between the Florida Republican and Trump’s donors, “But what do these billionaires want from Rep. DeSantis?”

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