Go the Boks! We’ve got another week to see what happens in that 3-7 range. SA could still improve their position. They’re playing really well. I’m just hoping the next All Blacks v France test can be played without controversy! It’s reflecting badly on us even though it’s the refs that are screwing up. My mother and I got into quite an argument because I didn’t think the red card was deserved, even though it looked really awful. I thought yellow. I wonder what she’ll say next time I see her? ::-) Thanks for looking all that up.

After this last WE’s games NZ and Ireland are still no’s 1 and 2 (and are likely to stay there in the near future).
Wales is 3rd with 85.94 points, Australia 4th: 85.41, SA 5th: 84.65 and England 6th with 84.35, Scotland dropped to 7th, a bit further behind, with 81.83. 3 to 6 are very close now. Not a single team between 3 and 7 remained in the same position. Wales (5 to 3) and SA (7 to 5) climbed 2 positions, England dropped 2 (4 to 6). Scotland and Australia dropped one each.

I get that. Anyone who crosses Putin is usually on the dead list. Trump really admires that. There is probably a better likelihood that Cohen flips. Trump may get his chance to kill some down on the boarder.

I don’t think they want him dead. I think they are threatening him they will kill him if he drops Putin in it.

A neat bit of info on the witness tampering. They did not get him on this by listening in or wiretapping. Nothing fancy. One of the witnesses went the the prosecution and turned him in. I don’t know what Monafort is going to do but now he is doing it in jail. Sometimes guys like him are so twisted they don’t think they did anything wrong. After some time in Jail and if he really has a lawyer that is worth anything, he will sing just like Gates. He is nearly 70 and is likely to spend the rest of his life in Jail.

To get Manafort to flip, he would have to be offered a high level of protection for the rest of his life. People with that protection elsewhere have still died. And Putin isn’t one for a quick death either. He wants his victims to suffer and know it was him who arranged it. That’s also “better” for propaganda purposes.

I guess Mr Manafort will not ‘flip’, he’s probably infinitely more afraid of his Russian bosses than of a US low security jail. – And there is always the hope for a pardon.

Manafort in jail! Yes! I hate the thought of anyone in jail tttt, but when someone keeps acting like they’re above the law I think it’s necessary. Trump should’ve been there years ago, but I doubt it would have changed his behaviour. He’s too much of a narcissist and completely incapable of looking at himself and thinking he might be wrong. Even when he says he’s wrong, you can see he doesn’t really believe it, or there’s some convoluted reason why it’s not his fault.

Hey, there at the end you sounded a little like Trump. No collusion…
The first I heard the cult was Senator Corker, I think Tennessee. He said cultish. He is not running so he is one of the few who talks sometimes. Stanford was the pathetic one from South Carolina who ran off with a girlfriend and said he was hiking in the Mountains. A real family man.
Latest – the Trump family charity is being suid by the New York attorney general. They used lots of charity money to pay off legal expenses. Also to put in campaign, you name it. Look for Manafort to head to the slammer tomorrow.

Yep. I saw the use of the words ‘Trump Cult’ by a departing Republican too. It’s too early here for me to remember properly. Was it Stanford after losing the primary? Or a senator commenting on his loss?

I see the Trump folks are saying Cohen won’t flip, but the opinion seems to be that a change of lawyers means that’s what he’s doing.

I’d like to know how Cohen can flip on Trump if Trump did nothing wrong? (Sarcasm alert!)