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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel May 28

    Incidentally, can those of you who speak Russian read this passage and explain the connotation of Veselnitskaya's Q whether Trump was meeting @PreetBharara to decide whether to "wet or not wet" him?pic.twitter.com/7Hu0wXIhw4

    12:52 PM - 28 May 2018
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      2. Whiskey Hyrax‏ @yahhello1 May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        Are they referring to wet work?

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel May 28
        Replying to @yahhello1 @PreetBharara

        emptywheel Retweeted Yakov Feygin

        @BuddyYakov says no. But that's why I asked.https://twitter.com/BuddyYakov/status/1001190727546699777 …

        emptywheel added,

        Yakov Feygin @BuddyYakov
        Replying to @emptywheel @john_sipher and 2 others
        Yes. In this context it means to get rid of in the sense of making his life difficult or fire him. Not to kill him.
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      2. Awake and Alert  ☕️‏ @dontmeanathing May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        Not “wet” — “drench” which is colloquial for “drown” My wife is a Russian language linguist and translated this for us. (Thread)/1

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      3. Awake and Alert  ☕️‏ @dontmeanathing May 28
        Replying to @dontmeanathing @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        /2 It says: Maybe that’s why? Is that a bad sign? I don’t know that it’s a bad sign. He left him!!!! [or, He left it!!!] How is that possible??? Or maybe anyway it’s just a game? Maybe in some way he is trying to control him [it]? Whom to drench, and whom not? [“drown”] Maybe.

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      4. Awake and Alert  ☕️‏ @dontmeanathing May 28
        Replying to @dontmeanathing @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        /3 Or is there some other connection for understanding what it is worth? [I’m not quite about that phrase...]

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      1. bmaz‏ @bmaz May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        Golden showers, obviously.

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      1. Arkadiy Kukarkin‏ @parkan May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        мочить = to murder, but it's unclear who the object is, and could also be used figuratively

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      1. Kat Capps‏ @KatCapps May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        @DustinGiebel Can you assist?

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      2. drone department‏ @dronedept May 29
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        some very interesting translation suggestions. in this context mochit' means *destroy* or *wreck* or *smash* colloquially. remember putin's famous line about catching terrorists and *destroying* them in the toilet? (mochit' v sortire). same meaning ;-)

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      3. drone department‏ @dronedept May 29
        Replying to @dronedept @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        http://bit.ly/2LFnU0D  :-) or *whack*

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      1. Karol  🌿‏ @karolcummins May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        @AltNellGwyn ^^

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      1. Dmitriy Kolesnikov‏ @NanoHydraulic May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        In context I think it means trying to control Preet’s actions insofar as decisions about whom to “drench” via prosecutorial power.

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      1. no-respect‏ @CapulettiM May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        sounds like it could be like our 'throw under the bus.'

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      1. Um Yeah....‏ @msut777 May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        What fresh he'll is this

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      1. Sponson‏ @sponson May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        Vet?

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      1. Gold‏ @goldnnadia May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        I thought Schumer got Preet to keep his job.

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      2. I N‏ @IGN_1986 May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        To dominate? Not very clear if that was intended to be said or not though

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      3. I N‏ @IGN_1986 May 28
        Replying to @IGN_1986 @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        looks like I was close

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      1. Peter Ramsey‏ @pramsey342 May 28
        Replying to @emptywheel @PreetBharara

        ...what?

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