Some Good Advice From Stephen Colbert: Don’t Even Try to Out-Stupid Donald Trump
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Trump and the EU’s tariff reciprocation is as much a trade war as a competition of ‘anything you can do, I can do dumber.’
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Former Trump org employee to me:
“Alan knows where all financial bodies are buried within the Trump organization. He knows Trump’s net worth. He knows any and every expenditure out of Trump Org was approved by Alan.”https://t.co/bC6ZKBZxAa via @WSJ— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) July 26, 2018
Wow. It sounds like he knows the kind of things about Trump voters have known about every other presidential candidate since Nixon. https://t.co/84iRVdio9G
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 26, 2018
This could be yuuuuuuuuge.
Weisselberg worked for Fred Trump & Donald. No one is more deeply entrenched in the inner working of their businesses than he is.
He’s been in the mix for decades https://t.co/7GZPQRztfX— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) July 26, 2018
Beta cuck losers
GOP lawmakers abandon effort to impeach Rosenstein after less than a day https://t.co/2v2JlGgMLD pic.twitter.com/elCR6JPzSQ
— The Hill (@thehill) July 26, 2018
In honor of Presidential scandals, for lunch I’m having what I dubbed as the east coast liberal elite burger.
Angus patty on a lightly toasted onion bagel, with a slice of pepper jack cheese with ketchup and mustard (brown, not dijon (it’s what I have), sorry Mr. President) and a couple kosher dill pickle chips
re: #2 JordanRules
This is gonna freak Trump out in a major way.
re: #5 Dr Lizardo
This is gonna freak Trump out in a major way.
So what you’re saying is that we have to brace for another all-caps tweetnami?
If you have to reach back to the 1860s to find evidence supporting your claim that your political party is “the party of civil rights,” please know that you sound like Pabst insisting it’s a “blue ribbon beer” because it won a competition all the way back in 1893.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 26, 2018
Bringing back the DeVos yacht like: pic.twitter.com/JC2Uzann4c
— Ramon Mejía (@MejiaSouth) July 26, 2018
re: #5 Dr Lizardo
This is gonna freak Trump out in a major way.
I think so too. This guy goes all the way back to Pops and might trigger some lashing out that’s even stranger than usual.
re: #12 JordanRules
I think so too. This guy goes all the way back to Pops and might trigger some lashing out that’s even stranger than usual.
New broom sweeps clean.
Old broom knows where the dirt is.
Not revealing the author until the end of the piece paid MAJOR laugh dividends here pic.twitter.com/60i2xo5Qmd
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) July 25, 2018
re: #6 Teukka
So what you’re saying is that we have to brace for another all-caps tweetnami?
Probably.
A lot of criminal types all seem to forget the lesson of Al Capone. It’s never the murder, the larceny, the assorted crimes - both felonies and misdemeanors - that get you.
In the end, it’s always the accountants who’ll bring you down.
Sadly, Kentucky will likely re-elect this asshole as well as Rand Paul.
Tracking poll shows Gov. Matt Bevin’s approval rating falling in Kentucky — especially among Republican voters — as his 2019 #kygov re-election bid remains up in the air https://t.co/lDCFk0wHu7 pic.twitter.com/IbcRDXb3c4
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 26, 2018
In the Q1 @MorningConsult poll, 62% of GOP voters approved of @GovMattBevin, with only 25% disapproving. But in the Q2 poll he dropped at net 34 points to 46/43. https://t.co/lDCFk0wHu7
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) July 26, 2018
re: #2 JordanRules
Is this the short little guy who wears a yarmulke that trump mentioned he loves taking care of his money?
In a 1991 book (ed. Trumped!), one of Trump’s former colleagues recalled him saying, “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” (Trump called the things written about him in the book “probably true.”)
re: #17 Dr. Matt
The drop may well coincide with his efforts to destroy KYNECT (Kentucky’s Obamacare implementation).
I need nicknames for these (8) members of the House who want to impeach Rod Rosenstein:
Mark Meadows (R-NC)
Jim Jordan (R-OH)
Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
Scott Perry (R-PA)
Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (R-AZ)
Jody Hice (R-GA)
Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
Scott DesJarlais (R-TN)
Ready. Set. Go!— Marie Connor (@thistallawkgirl) July 26, 2018
Gym Jordan
re: #17 Dr. Matt
Sadly, Kentucky will likely re-elect this asshole as well as Rand Paul.This gives Democrats a really great opportunity to pick up the governorship in Kentucky.
Especially since my oldest is now a Kentucky resident.
re: #19 lawhawk
The drop may well coincide with his efforts to destroy KYNECT (Kentucky’s Obamacare implementation).
The asshole campaigned on that and they still voted for him. What fools.
re: #20 I Would Prefer Not To
Gym Jordan
Gym “man on boy” Jordan is a given.
Scott “my mistress NEEDED that abortion” DeJarlais
Matt “drunk as a skunk” Gaetz
Achtung! Biggs
Paul “I am a dentist and body language reader to the stars” Gosar
Jody “Who?” Hice— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) July 26, 2018
President Harry Truman ordered desegregation of United States armed forces, 70 years ago tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/SlrZThtSiN
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 25, 2018
The story below the story on Truman’s monumental Executive Order puts the whole thing in context: “Posse, Bent on Lynching, Searches Woods For Prey.” https://t.co/VUfQtEPaFu
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 26, 2018
Apropos. The two are connected. https://t.co/ozEzsbeeKD
— Theodore R. Johnson (@DrTedJ) July 26, 2018
This piece is so important. Another story: in 1946 Truman mobilized the FBI to investigate a quadruple lynching at the Moore’s Ford Bridge in Ga - moved in great measure b/c one of the men killed was a veteran. Read Laura Wexler’s excellent, Fire in the Canebrake for this story. https://t.co/sNxwRtDfFR
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 26, 2018
— Psychedelic Art (@PsychedelicArtv) July 24, 2018
I feel like this spectre is looming above my monitor every time I open Twitter these days
We sat down with a few conservative teens who attended this week’s Turning Point USA conference to hear what it’s like for them to be red in schools they say are overwhelmingly blue https://t.co/m8UdhTEVpY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 26, 2018
“Sit down with kids in Puerto Rico without power. Sit down with kids in Flint without drinking water. Sit down with kids in cages.” - @tonyposnanski
“Maybe you could profile the students of color who are targeted in their schools by nooses, racist graffiti…” @Shaker_aphra https://t.co/ZI2g8yrbMU— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) July 26, 2018
Sen. Menendez attacks Sec. Pompeo as hearing wraps: “If Pres. Obama did what Pres. Trump did in Helsinki, I’d be peeling you off the Capitol ceiling.” https://t.co/0QivkKiB3g pic.twitter.com/sLlJE2S6CK
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 26, 2018
re: #2 JordanRules
Remember, in “The Untouchables” how it all came crashing down on Al Capone once they got his weaselly little accountant to testify? And before that, there was the shootout on the stairs that De Palma shamelessly copied from Eisenstein?
At the end, the Andy Garcia, the G-Man saved the baby carriage (that’s us, the American people), and calmly said “I got him” and blew the thug (Cohen’s) brains out.
Yeah, that calm, deadly G-Man is Robert Mueller.
Refuse to adjust to this. No company should be able to profit from #gunviolence in our schools by making bulletproof backpacks. No child should have to wear this backpack. This item shouldn’t exist. #creativemaladjustment pic.twitter.com/kHjxqMxaie
— The King Center (@TheKingCenter) July 26, 2018
re: #27 JordanRules
“We sat down with a few teens whose parents had rationalized selfishness into an ideology to see if they agreed, and sure enough they did.”
This is what a witch hunt actually looks like, targeting perceived political enemies, staking them out and arresting them on bullshit charges.
The arrest of adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was planned months before she ever arrived in Columbus, Ohio, emails obtained from a whistleblower appear to show. Daniels alleges she had an affair with now-President Donald Trump in 2006.
Emails obtained from the Columbus Police department by the Fayette Advocate appear to show that the police department was aware of Daniels’ scheduled strip club appearance in the town and had been planning a “sting” operation for the night of her show.
Columbus police arrested the adult film star on July 12, claiming Daniels had violated an Ohio law by “touching” club-goers, who were in fact undercover vice officers. The charges were dismissed within hours after Daniels hired Columbus defense attorney Chase Mallory.
The Advocate said it was contacted by a whistleblower from the City of Columbus, who sent the news outlet a number of emails including news clippings discussing Daniels’ scheduled appearance, as well as pictures of her with Trump and videos of her dancing.
re: #7 JordanRules
Not just a competition, it won the blue ribbon at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893!
re: #27 JordanRules
So true…
oh good, finally a Times article about Trump supporters. Thank god someone is finally giving them a voice. after Trump turns the planet into a radioactive cinder, the New York Times will be interviewing cockroaches who still support Trump
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 26, 2018
re: #30 JordanRules
Everything to sell more crap, including more guns, rather than deal with the fact that the reason we have more school shootings, and more mass shootings, and more shootings period than any other developed (not currently wracked by civil war) country is the easy availability of a wide range of firearms.
re: #34 Varek Raith
The NYT can always be counted on for interviews with the deplorable inhabitants of Sisterdaughterfuckistan, USA, about their support for the Daughter-fucker in chief.
ummmmmm
Dallas Cowboys owner says team will be forced to stand during anthem https://t.co/za9hXaGehr pic.twitter.com/TaBGiygWOX
— The Hill (@thehill) July 26, 2018
You know what is sad about #TrumpTapes? He paid the big bucks right before the election to bury these stories because he didn’t want to sink his chances with the Christian evangelicals.
Time has shown us that he actually thought too highly of them.— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) July 25, 2018
Great thread about how Trump overestimated the moral fiber of the white evangelical establishment. https://t.co/2b0Ucza73M
— Tuxedo Mask (@TheLoveBel0w) July 26, 2018
It can be harder to see it now because it was all so odd and norms were exploding left and right but there was still some traditional conservative campaign wisdom in play. We see now that it was very wrong but it was in play.
If you guys don’t vote, this is who will be third in the presidential line of succession. https://t.co/Tp3GIFXy7c
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 26, 2018
re: #34 Varek Raith
So true…
I just wish it would stop publishing all these articles telling Trump to compromise with his Dem opponents.
Oh, wait, they actually don’t publish any. Only Obama needed to compromise.
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re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He also still wants to eat shitty pizza.
I haven’t seen a Jerruh ego explosion in a while. We’re past due.
Waiting to see how everyone responds to this racist bullshit.
re: #17 Dr. Matt
Sadly, Kentucky will likely re-elect this asshole as well as Rand Paul.
I’m hoping tens of thousands of angry teachers and their families will take the bastard down. I know deeply conservative Baptists who are teachers who were out protesting pension “reform.”
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
ummmmmm
It’s only a matter of time before Jerry Jones is brought down from something he did or said in the past. There’s no way this POS has a clean history.
re: #19 lawhawk
The drop may well coincide with his efforts to destroy KYNECT (Kentucky’s Obamacare implementation).
No, he destroyed Kynect his first year in office. Its his viscious attacks on teachers and their pensions that hurt him.
Early this morning a gas station owner in St. Louis was caught on video kicking a Black woman who is homeless.
That gas station has been shut down by the community almost all day. ✊🏾💜
The owner was also arrested.— ashley yates (@brownblaze) July 25, 2018
“You can’t come into our neighborhoods and treat us like trash.” https://t.co/WBMhK1swoa
— ashley yates (@brownblaze) July 25, 2018
People brought their cars to block access to the gas station on Weds night. The store was reopened one day after the owner and another employee kicked a Black woman.
STL shut it down again. ✊🏾https://t.co/ApqJwxNpkg— ashley yates (@brownblaze) July 26, 2018
re: #43 Dr. Matt
It’s only a matter of time before Jerry Jones is brought down from something he did or said in the past. There’s no way this POS has a clean history.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was one of the parties that could essentially ruin the NFLs defense in the Kaep collusion case.
re: #32 goddamnedfrank
This is what a witch hunt actually looks like, targeting perceived political enemies, staking them out and arresting them on bullshit charges.
Charges are dropped against Daniels because she can afford a good defense, but sex workers have been long been targeted for shakedowns and sexual abuse by law enforcement.
Also remember that Mercer, Peter Thiel , Chandler, love the idea of moving to New Zealand while the rest of the world fights itself into oblivion as recommended by Rees-Moggs Dad in his book The Sovereign Individual?
— Obi #MPsNeedBalls (@ObiWokKanobe) July 26, 2018
re: #35 lawhawk
Everything to sell more crap, including more guns, rather than deal with the fact that the reason we have more school shootings, and more mass shootings, and more shootings period than any other developed (not currently wracked by civil war) country is the easy availability of a wide range of firearms.
Unfortunately, I can’t thing of a single thing that can be done about mass shootings except selling more guns and kevlar.///
re: #45 JordanRules
Unruly black mobs and antifas shutting down law-abiding business owner!
re: #47 Big Beautiful Door
Charges are dropped against Daniels because she can afford a good defense, but sex workers have been long been targeted for shakedowns and sexual abuse by law enforcement.
I don’t think she was targeted for being a sex worker. She was targeted for being Stormy Daniels.
ObserverArt says the Vice Squad guys are big-time Red Hats.
.@DLoesch claims it’s standard procedure for @foxandfriends to not introduce her as NRA spokesperson, but in fact they’ve repeatedly done so in the past 🤔 pic.twitter.com/MygiqGYgnh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 26, 2018
Read the remarks by Trump and Juncker regarding moves toward “zero tariffs.” https://t.co/gMJhT0Z1VW via @whitehouse
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 25, 2018
Taking this at face value - does anyone think movement towards a zero tariff regime would have come about without Trump’s tariffs forcing reconsideration? https://t.co/Cqk0Vr5Mhf
— Henry Olsen (@henryolsenEPPC) July 25, 2018
Uh, yes. TTIP’s agreed upon goal was zero tariffs, and unlike the Trump deal it covered autos and farm goods. https://t.co/TwBpbjRywc
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 26, 2018
re: #51 makeitstop
I don’t think she was targeted for being a sex worker. She was targeted for being Stormy Daniels.
ObserverArt says the Vice Squad guys are big-time Red Hats.
Yep, this was a political arrest, especially since it was premeditated.
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’d assumed they just introduce her as “Our great friend and very thoughtful public intellectual, Dana Loesch.”
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re: #3 Dr. Matt
Beta cuck losers
Wait! I thought Majority Whip Steve Scalise (#3 GOPer in the House) signed on to the Free Dumb guys’ impeachment plan just this morning?
He didn’t get the memo this afternoon??
re: #51 makeitstop
I don’t think she was targeted for being a sex worker. She was targeted for being Stormy Daniels.
ObserverArt says the Vice Squad guys are big-time Red Hats.
I know, I just wanted to point out that cops have a long, sordid history of abusive behavior targeting sex workers, most of whom don’t have the money and celebrity to defend themselves like Daniels can.
re: #55 Sir John Barron
I’d assumed they just introduce her as “Our great friend and very thoughtful public intellectual, Dana Loesch.”
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“Our Ballistic Princess”
re: #45 JordanRules
The Circuit Attorney’s Office has since issued arrest warrants for one count of Assault 4th Degree, against Jehad Motan, 32, and Ahmed Qandeel, 19.
Given the gas station owner’s name and that of the employee, I sense a potential conundrum for the wingnut contingent on choosing a side to root for.
re: #58 Belafon
“Our Ballistic Princess”
“Let’s extend a warm welcome to Dana Loesch, who is a successful writer and public relations professional.”
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Here with her reaction is the nationally syndicated ratio host, Dana Loesch.”
Is that a reference to how her tweets are often received?
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
Given the gas station owner’s name and that of the employee, I sense a potential conundrum for the wingnut contingent on choosing a side to root for.
Attack both to own the libs.
re: #51 makeitstop
I don’t think she was targeted for being a sex worker. She was targeted for being Stormy Daniels.
ObserverArt says the Vice Squad guys are big-time Red Hats.
Right, but the corrupt legal infrastucture was in place to make the political arrest happen. When it’s not a political arrest with unique recourse you get really shitty dynamics that target a vulnerable group and nobody ever even notices.
We have so much of the infrastructure in place because we are such a carceral state. That’s why Trumps regime can make horrendous things happen fairly easily and quickly. They have the support of way too many folks in and out of power too.
re: #32 goddamnedfrank
This is what a witch hunt actually looks like, targeting perceived political enemies, staking them out and arresting them on bullshit charges.
Frank…I did a whole page in the sidebar on this. I put it up this morning.
FWIW, to ban is defined as “to prohibit, forbid, or bar; interdict.”https://t.co/boiMY0hFqc https://t.co/aDyv66vIHa
Nationally, we estimate that $3,110 of the premium for a typical family of four will be attributable to GOP sabotage in 2019. pic.twitter.com/5hRmZIg43C
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) July 26, 2018
re: #56 Jay C
Wait! I thought Majority Whip Steve Scalise (#3 GOPer in the House) signed on to the Free Dumb guys’ impeachment plan just this morning?
He didn’t get the memo this afternoon??
I really wish there was a procedure by which the Dems could force a vote on this. Scalise signing on to a measure that was never getting brought to the floor was a real profile in courage.
re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m wondering..there may be a player who refuses to stand for religious reasons (“the flag has now become an idol”) and I wonder if that would be a violation of the players’ agreement, or discrimination on the basis of religion, should Jones decide to push it. Hmmmm indeed.
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
“We didn’t forbid, prohibit, interdict, bar, ban. Those are your words, your words, it’s a circular word thing.”
Interesting Bernie and Kamala thread.
Why didn’t Bernard Sanders cosponsor this bill?
Probably because his minions were preparing a full scale assault on Harris in August 2017. pic.twitter.com/BeDOB9njsm— NewDemRicoP 💯✊🏾✊🏾 (@reesetheone1) July 26, 2018
re: #67 Mike Lamb
I really wish there was a procedure by which the Dems could force a vote on this. Scalise signing on to a measure that was never getting brought to the floor was a real profile in courage.
The Democrats could all sign a discharge petition, and dare the Republicans who sponsored the bill or support it to join them to bring it to the floor for a vote.
Disinviting a White House reporter from attending an event isn’t a “ban”.
Giving money to financially struggling farmers isn’t a “bailout”.
The White House’s misuse of language is Orwellian. https://t.co/yHiD8TNsxz— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) July 26, 2018
#NewZealand passes world-first legislation granting victims of domestic violence 10 days paid leave to allow them to leave their partners, find new homes and protect themselves and their children https://t.co/rH9lTIZGGM
— Kingsley Abbott (@AbbottKingsley) July 26, 2018
Congrats to NZ!!
*sigh*
Wish we had a woman President.
re: #53 Single-handed sailor
I wonder if Mollie ever gets tired of [insert expletive] Trump’s [expletive].
re: #70 JordanRules
Interesting Bernie and Kamala thread.
Bernie has presidential fever, and it is worrisome that Berniebros will all be easy marks for Russian propaganda in 2020 to get them not to vote for the Democratic nominee.
re: #75 Big Beautiful Door
Bernie has presidential fever, and it is worrisome that Berniebros will all be easy marks for Russian propaganda in 2020 to get them not to vote for the Democratic nominee.
The 2020 nomination is already rigged.
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re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
This made me laugh
It’s because when she reps the NRA she wears glasses and when she’s a radio host she doesn’t. It’s the worst version of Superman/Clark Kent I’ve ever seen.
— Ward Hegedus (@ward_hegedus) July 26, 2018
When rubles buy silence. Or silencers. https://t.co/cG2LIzuD95
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) July 26, 2018
LOL
THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING - THEY ARE HIDING HIM #TRUMPisGUILTY pic.twitter.com/dimT2mWZFp
— ROSIE (@Rosie) July 26, 2018
Exactly. @washingtonpost’s White House reporter, @jdawsey tweeted THIS👇🏽photo right after that “bad weather” announcement was made. 😏 pic.twitter.com/nYPXWoJacG
— Chet Powell (@ChetPowell) July 26, 2018
re: #77 BeachDem
This made me laugh
Pretty sad when a pathetic person like Dana has to deny her own career.
Come on Dana…you were always so proud to trigger libs for the NRA.
It is who you are were!
About Trump’s sanctions on Iran:
In less than two weeks, the U.S. will reimpose the first round of economic sanctions on Iran that were removed as part of the 2015 nuclear agreement. On August 6, reimposed sanctions will prohibit: Iran’s government from acquiring U.S. dollar banknotes; trade in gold and other precious metals; sales and transfer of aluminum, steel, coal, and graphite; and trade related to Iran’s automotive sector. Come November 4, sanctions on oil and banking will be reimposed. But France, Germany, and the U.K.—all signers of the nuclear agreement—have already told Iran they are considering opening up channels in their central banks so that Iran can do business in sterling and euros, thus bypassing the dollar altogether. China, on the other hand, which is already the biggest importer by far of Iranian oil, could greatly soften the impact of sanctions on the Islamic republic’s oil industry simply by replacing the 400,000 barrels a day of U.S. oil it imports with Iranian supplies. In fact, the U.S.-China trade war has already reduced China’s oil imports from the United States.
re: #45 JordanRules
The greater STL region is one of the most segregated and racially discriminatory regions in the country. We saw it going back to the Ferguson riots following the officer involved shooting of Michael Brown, and I saw it from personal experience visiting there. It’s a palpable thing where the communities simply don’t cross.
Privately, some Trump lawyers have expressed concern that Mueller will stitch together several episodes, encounters and pieces of evidence, like tweets, to build a case that Trump embarked on a broad effort to interfere with the investigation, NYT reports. https://t.co/kxeWA4bLyS
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 26, 2018
It’s called “making a case” and Trump’s slack-wit strip-mall lawyers, pwn duh libz media gimps, sideshow freak consultants, White House fluffers, and delusional fans better hope for a jury of oxy-addled human-possum hybrids who watch 80 hours of Fox a week when Mueller is done. https://t.co/Vb5bVNfHEP
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 26, 2018
It baffles me that this allegation in the Butina indictment hasn’t received more attention—an exchange of messages via Butina between Vladimir Putin and a prominent GOP donor, whom Bloomberg identifies as a Rockefeller heir. https://t.co/4xtz3Gc60a pic.twitter.com/Q0Vq9vktZg
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 26, 2018
The Republican who leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee says Trump missed a deadline to determine whether Russia was responsible for chemical weapons attacks on UK soil pic.twitter.com/QeeEU7FSAX
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 26, 2018
re: #55 Sir John Barron
I’d assumed they just introduce her as “Our great friend and very thoughtful public intellectual, Dana Loesch.”
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Our brave lead dust inhalation experimenter, Dana Loesch.
I’m glad our education system is run by someone who can relate to the day-to-day financial struggles of being an educator.
btw Betsy has 10 yachts. https://t.co/xIcqGAu8PU— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) July 26, 2018
re: #87 jaunte
Our brave lead dust inhalation experimenter, Dana Loesch.
Not for nothing, but one has to wonder if some of these gun nuts are actual nuts thanks to ongoing and pervasive exposure to lead at shooting ranges.
Even if they hope for that, the morons who support Trump are hurt by his incompetence just as much as people with IQs over room-temperature are. They should hope he’s marched off in chains if they want to have a future.
— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 26, 2018
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Notice her yacht, docked in Huron, Ohio, is sporting a Cayman Islands flag.
re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth
And to the poor schwabs who got gyped by a for-profit “college”.
re: #89 lawhawk
Not for nothing, but one has to wonder if some of these gun nuts are actual nuts thanks to ongoing and pervasive exposure to lead at shooting ranges.
I don’t have to wonder. I have a friend with cognitive damage from lead, and he has a friend who decided to not stop exposing himself to lead when told he was impaired by lead poisoning. He likes shooting more than thinking.
re: #89 lawhawk
Not for nothing, but one has to wonder if some of these gun nuts are actual nuts thanks to ongoing and pervasive exposure to lead at shooting ranges.
As a shooter and reloader, I have had a lead screen in my annual blood tests for some time now.
Jean-Claude Juncker used “a dozen colorful cue cards with simplified explainers” to negotiate with Trump, WSJ rpts.
Each card had at most 3 figures about a topic, like trade in cars.
“If you want to be stupid,” he told Trump, “I can be stupid, as well.”https://t.co/WPW9UWF74L— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 26, 2018
How to play Trump:
Treat him like a toddler.
Make threats that are equally excessive.
Make no concessions.
Use ambiguous language.
Make Trump negotiate against himself.
re: #89 lawhawk
Not for nothing, but one has to wonder if some of these gun nuts are actual nuts thanks to ongoing and pervasive exposure to lead at shooting ranges.
And there’s this. Never forget.
“Russia is the top exporter of ammunition to the U.S., according to Small Arms Analytics. Between 2012 and 2017, Russia supplied Americans with more than 4.7 billion rounds.”https://t.co/RK8UGKJtNT@latimes archives
— heidi cuda (@foxycuda) July 18, 2018
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
Given the gas station owner’s name and that of the employee, I sense a potential conundrum for the wingnut contingent on choosing a side to root for.
I read the comments on one article (there were three), all white people spewing racist tropes completely unrelated to the article.
You can’t be in a conundrum if you don’t read past the headline. Whick is why I get so incensed by misleading headlines that are the opposite of the article itself.
re: #84 Single-handed sailor
The only relevant jury for Trump is Congress, and obstruction of justice (which Trump has obviously been doing for months), isn’t going to get the job done.
re: #84 Single-handed sailor
Trump’s slack-wit strip-mall lawyers, pwn duh libz media gimps, sideshow freak consultants, White House fluffers, and delusional fans
Wilson’s really got a knack for this shit.
re: #97 jaunte
That seems not just excessive but insane.
Please. This is why tax cuts for the ultra-rich are so important. It would be tragic if DeVos can’t buy her 11th yacht with her tax cuts.
And it isn’t even Friday.
We’ve known that Rohrabacher is a Russian potted plant. It was an open joke among @SpeakerRyan and GOP leadership. All signs pointed to complicity with Russia.
That they refused to investigate further is on them - and on voters to kick the complicit GOP to the curb.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 26, 2018
A radio host in New Jersey called NJ Attorney General Gurbir Singh Grewal “turban man.” When called out on it, he responded: “Listen, and if that offends you, then don’t wear the turban and maybe I’ll remember your name.”https://t.co/rPCS4K1HJj
— Simran Jeet Singh (@SikhProf) July 26, 2018
This is America
Don’t catch you slippin’
re: #81 Belafon
About Trump’s sanctions on Iran:
In less than two weeks, the U.S. will reimpose the first round of economic sanctions on Iran that were removed as part of the 2015 nuclear agreement. On August 6, reimposed sanctions will prohibit: Iran’s government from acquiring U.S. dollar banknotes; trade in gold and other precious metals; sales and transfer of aluminum, steel, coal, and graphite; and trade related to Iran’s automotive sector. Come November 4, sanctions on oil and banking will be reimposed. But France, Germany, and the U.K.—all signers of the nuclear agreement—have already told Iran they are considering opening up channels in their central banks so that Iran can do business in sterling and euros, thus bypassing the dollar altogether. China, on the other hand, which is already the biggest importer by far of Iranian oil, could greatly soften the impact of sanctions on the Islamic republic’s oil industry simply by replacing the 400,000 barrels a day of U.S. oil it imports with Iranian supplies. In fact, the U.S.-China trade war has already reduced China’s oil imports from the United States.
So IOW, Trump is going to go ahead with his inane plan to try to isolate Iran by punishing anybody who does business with them. Even as those entities move to sidestep US sanctions with simple maneuvers than will hurt the US even more than Iranians. And basically laugh at his attempts try to force the ROW to buy into the Saudi/Israeli/Trump-regime “strategy” of making Iran the Designated Boogeyman of the World?
Brilliant.
//
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
Notice her yacht, docked in Huron, Ohio, is sporting a Cayman Islands flag.
That yacht is up on Lake Erie at Huron?
What, does she have a freaking yacht on all the Great Lakes, East Coast, Florida, Tampa, the Gulf, California and Washington state???
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
Notice her yacht, docked in Huron, Ohio, is sporting a Cayman islands flag.
Tax evasion pennant.
re: #20 I Would Prefer Not To
Gym Jordan
Scott “Affairs and Abortions for Me, not for Thee” DesJarlais (R-TN)
That turd is one of my state’s Reps…
re: #109 Dr. Matt
Dollar Tree around here doesn’t sell clothes. They can finally compete with Dollar General.
re: #104 DodgerFan1988
This is America
Don’t catch you slippin’
Radio talk shows really do showcase the shining lights of our species.
Trump is unbelievable.
As in, you literally cannot believe a single thing he says.https://t.co/oekf2vwymn— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 26, 2018
re: #114 jaunte
Trump says of his new association health plans: “I hear it’s like record business that they’re doing…we just opened about two months ago, and I’m hearing that the numbers are incredible.”
The new plans can’t be sold until September 1.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
re: #114 jaunte
like I’ve said before, it’s literally going to take hot radioactive ash falling from the sky and bayoneted troops keeping the military recruitment forced draft lines full to make Trump supporters understand the magnitude of their mistake.
My gosh. Trump lies to U.S. Steel workers, at a U.S. Steel facility, that U.S. Steel is opening up seven plants. It isn’t.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
re: #116 Rocky-in-Connecticut
SOYBEAN MADNESS UPDATE: EU official confirms the Trump/Juncker agreement is a political pledge by the EU not to do anything that affects the market conditions responsible for Europe buying more beans. (Which also come in the form of cakes.) All clear?
— Adam Fleming (@adamfleming) July 26, 2018
You mean Europe isn’t buying more US soybeans?
Shocker!
Seems this is a similar policy to NK: words, bluster & a worsened situation
Trump tariffs are destroying multiple industries.
But does his Admin change the failing policy?
Nope!
Taxpayers will keep paying bailouts… https://t.co/k7dudzL3G4— Tina Issa 🇺🇸 (@tinaissa) July 26, 2018
re: #115 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“Those are your words, not mine, you said they can’t be sold until September 1. Believe my reality, not yours, OK?”
re: #116 Rocky-in-Connecticut
like I’ve said before, it’s literally going to take hot radioactive ash falling from the sky and bayoneted troops keeping the military recruitment forced draft lines full to make Trump supporters understand the magnitude of their mistake.
Nah, they’d still find a way to blame liberals.
#Marvel has been around so long that at one time “solid dick” was slang for “straight talk”. pic.twitter.com/XPDTgufv4L
— Daniel (@DannyDutch) July 26, 2018
re: #116 Rocky-in-Connecticut
like I’ve said before, it’s literally going to take hot radioactive ash falling from the sky and bayoneted troops keeping the military recruitment forced draft lines full to make Trump supporters understand the magnitude of their mistake.
“It’s really libs fault for hating us so much, though.”
Trump, complaining about the trade deficit (which he exaggerates for the 23rd time), says, “In other words, if we didn’t trade, we’d save a hell of a lot of money.” (Cue economists’ heads imploding.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
Imagine how much we’d save if we never bought anything.
we’re living in the dumbest of all futures https://t.co/rdJYbVOUb8 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 26, 2018
Trump: “Everywhere I go, I’ve got all these cameras. This never happened to Obama. This never happened to Bush.”
Fact check: Yes it did. It’s the White House press pool. That’s how it works. pic.twitter.com/T95oQX9WaP— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 26, 2018
re: #123 jaunte
Imagine how much we’d save if we never bought anything.
Start explaining to people where chocolate comes from.
re: #125 Single-handed sailor
We’ve reached another new bottom today, I see.
“We really are starting to live by two very important rules: Buy American and hire American,” Trump says at Illinois rally #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/KqezEAEmJO
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) July 26, 2018
Trump and Ivanka largely manufacture Trump-branded products in countries like China, Indonesia, Turkey and Canada. https://t.co/UjimKoMfCb https://t.co/M3mIYVN0M2
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 26, 2018
re: #122 Sir John Barron
“It’s really libs fault for hating us so much, though.”
And, that liberal hate of us makes us all crazy ‘n’ stuff, so we go out and do and say really stupid shit.
It’s not our fault. It never is.
re: #117 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
As the days wears on, the yam’s idiocy grows exponentially.
Poor Daniel Dale.
re: #129 Single-handed sailor
And who works at Mar-a-Lago?
re: #32 goddamnedfrank
This is what a witch hunt actually looks like, targeting perceived political enemies, staking them out and arresting them on bullshit charges.
This is the beginning of actual political persecution.
re: #127 Sir John Barron
We’ve reached another new bottom today, I see.
As long as The Orange Bozo is in office there is no bottom.
We are mining new depths in American politics.
Just got off phone with a former Trump Org employee who echoed @KatyTurNBC reporting on Weisselberg subpoena: “Alan knows everything and anything about all the financials…He knows every dollar that goes in and every dollar that leaves. He knows where all the bodies are buried.”
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 26, 2018
It’s always been interesting how readily current/former Trump associates acknowledge that there are buried bodies. https://t.co/x3oPwR2XAF
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 26, 2018
Hello all. Just driving by.
Sun came out today. Or it showed up. Got through. Didn’t see it since Friday. Got the storm totals. 9.7 inches of rain. Power went out 1:07 AM Tuesday, hustled to hook up my generator. Sump pump was going nonstop and that short time allowed the cistern to just about fill up. I sat there watching the 3/4 horse just keep up with what was coming in. For 3 hours. Lived here 37 years or so. Never saw that. I actually had to take water out of my in ground pool. Think about that.Then after everything kind of stabilized, water came up from the ground. Floating slab in the basement. In-fucking-sane. Still coming up slowly, not as bad as before. Shop Vac and kerosene heater. Ah, the good old days.
I am wore the fuck out.
I suspect where I am got over a foot.
Never so glad to see the sun.
So I’m thinking older tunes
Start drifting.
then….Lou call me..
Oops, bad paste. Meant to do this:
Right wing dirtbags Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec are now going after Sarah Silverman.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 26, 2018
re: #136 makeitstop
Philip Rucker
✔
@PhilipRucker
Just got off phone with a former Trump Org employee who echoed @KatyTurNBC reporting on Weisselberg subpoena: “Alan knows everything and anything about all the financials…He knows every dollar that goes in and every dollar that leaves. He knows where all the bodies are buried.”1:59 PM - Jul 26, 2018
Natasha is correct…all the Trumps speak like Jersey mobsters.
Probably because they have picked it up over the years…and they are a mob too.
re: #136 makeitstop
It’s always been interesting how readily current/former Trump associates acknowledge that there are buried bodies.
Dear God, please let that be a metaphor.
Sarah Silverman clearly isn’t a child molester because if she was, the president would have endorsed her to run for senator of Alabama
— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) July 26, 2018
re: #84 Single-handed sailor
Its like what Bannon was quoted as saying in Fire and Fury, Mueller has assembled a team of killers, and Trump has a couple of guys with post-it notes.
Trump: “The one thing I know about NATO is that it’s a lot better for Europe than it is for us. A lot better.”
“Now hundreds of billions of dollars will go into NATO.”
No, it won’t. That’s not how NATO works. pic.twitter.com/EBhmt5qgRR— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) July 26, 2018
A deliberate distortion he repeats frequently to keep his delusional base raging at the furriners. https://t.co/QoRLEjHNKh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 26, 2018
Trump is delivering an unhinged rally speech to steel workers. Here he is ranting about Germany buying natural gas from Russia and attacking NATO.
His audience is in stunned silence. pic.twitter.com/j08zNrXVz4— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 26, 2018
With the crowd in stunned silence, Trump again attacks media, says, “the stronger we get, the less people are going to be messing with us. We don’t want to use that kind of strength or power. The more power we have, the more we’re not going to have to use it, it’s very simple.” pic.twitter.com/4ZBqWslo7o
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 26, 2018
JFC the bus is over the cliff
Trump is now ranting about MS-13 using knives to inflict pain, etc. This is supposed to be a speech about his tariffs and the supposed steel revival, but his brain is all over the place.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
re: #144 Charles Johnson
Trump then adds two more false claims:
- NATO spending has been up $44 billion according to Stoltenberg ($41 billion)
- At the meeting they agreed to hundreds of billions more (no)— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
re: #146 The Vicious Babushka
JFC the bus is over the cliff
I think rather than not wanting Trump to give speeches, we should want him to give 3 hour speeches. Something will give way at that point.
If there were any doubt that he’s getting worse (a feat not thought possible a few months ago yesterday.)
Trump’s last six weeks are ALL in his ten most dishonest weeks as president. pic.twitter.com/KxpFXwMRhB
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
— Miss Sneaky Squirrel (@missneakysqurl) July 26, 2018
WTF does this even begin to mean?
Trump: “A country, Czechoslovakia, long time ago, people used to take single dollar bills and they used to paint ‘em and paste ‘em onto the windshield of their car because it represented America. It’s all coming back now. That’s what’s happening.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
This was one of the most bizarre speeches Trump has ever delivered. It was a nearly hour-long political harangue to an audience of steel workers. Completely unhinged. pic.twitter.com/jtrf61aFQX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 26, 2018
re: #148 Belafon
I think rather than not wanting Trump to give speeches, we should want him to give 3 hour speeches. Something will give way at that point.
Wasn’t that one of Fidel Castro’s standard shticks? Going on TV (and of course, it helped that Cuba only had one (?) channel), and bloviate away for hours on end. Maybe we should encourage Trump to do that: set up a (gold-leafed, overplush) studio with pictures of himself everywhere, and MAGA hats in a case, and give speeches as long and as windy as he cares to.
Of course, they wouldn’t actually be broadcast anywhere, but the WH comm team could splice in a hysterical-applause soundtrack, and Dolt 45 could amuse himself for hours replaying his “greatest hits”…
Across the pond the UK government is stockpiling food and medicine for Brexit. That sounds normal.
Theresa May’s government admitted that it has begun to stockpile food and vital medicines in case a deal with the remaining EU members can’t be reached. https://t.co/8Ubokp7aiN
— CBC News (@CBCNews) July 26, 2018
Possibly the biggest news of the 2018 election coming in minutes
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) July 26, 2018
re: #151 BeachDem
WTF does this even begin to mean?
Apparently Daniel Dale doesn’t know either.
do you have any idea what this is in ref to? usually I can at least spot a trump reference from a few degrees of separation but this is baffling me
No idea, cannot believe my fact check is going to have to involve calling up Czechoslovakia experts, anyone please tell me if you know https://t.co/LS5Ee0Avl3
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
re: #156 BeachDem
Where is our local expert from Ostrava?
Why of course he is #1,000,032
CNBC - Papa John’s founder accuses board of ‘coup,’ sues Papa John’s for records
Just heard this on local news…along with Facebook dive in stock price.
Papa John’s founder John Schnatter is suing the pizza chain, seeking documents related to his ouster as chairman earlier this month and accusing the board of acting negligently or staging a possible “coup,” according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Delaware.
Schnatter resigned his post on July 11 after Forbes published an article detailing a May conference call in which Schnatter used the N-word. He confirmed his comments, apologized and stepped down as chairman that same day, after giving up his CEO post in November.
“Instead of standing behind the founder and working with news media to explain what actually occurred, the Company followed its usual, and flawed, manner of dealing with false and mistaken reporting as to comments made by Mr. Schnatter,” according to the lawsuit obtained by CNBC.
Schnatter said he suspected that the board breached its fiduciary duties, “either the purportedly independent directors acted without adequate information … or [they] planned this coup in advance.”
He said the company refused to correct “misreported stories” about his comments on the May conference call as well as when he took a shot at the NFL last November, blaming falling pizza sales on the league’s “poor leadership” amid players kneeling during the national anthem. Instead of defending him, the board asked him to resign, he said in the lawsuit.
“Now they are doing the same thing again - rather than address the real issues like the health of the business, the Company is hiding documents that, we believe, will disclose the actual facts as to what is occurring here, including using Mr. Schnatter as a scapegoat to cover up their own shortcomings and failures,” Schnatter’s attorney Patty Glaser told CNBC in a statement.
Papa John’s spokesman Peter Collins said the company is providing Schnatter, who remains on the board, with the documents he “is entitled to as a director….a bit more at link
An example of when not to use the passive voice here— It’s important to say who called her out, and relevant to even a casual reader’s understanding that Cernovich and a bunch of 4chan Nazis have recently chosen this as their praxis. https://t.co/VSRLG1GAbW
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 26, 2018
CNN is letting really bad people play them like a fiddle to harm decent people. https://t.co/UpldeMrc42
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 26, 2018
We have a hell of a story about to drop…
— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) July 26, 2018
re: #104 DodgerFan1988
A radio host in New Jersey called NJ Attorney General Gurbir Singh Grewal “turban man.” When called out on it, he responded: “Listen, and if that offends you, then don’t wear the turban and maybe I’ll remember your name.”northjersey.com
— Simran Jeet Singh (@SikhProf) July 26, 2018
This is America
Don’t catch you slippin’
But they’re not racists or bigots….
Right.
EXCLUSIVE: Russian GRU hackers targeted Claire McCaskill’s Senate office, a Daily Beast forensic analysis reveals, making the Missouri Democrat the first identified target of the Kremlin’s 2018 election interference. With @kpoulsen >> https://t.co/ov5SjfEZwN
— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) July 26, 2018
re: #162 Charles Johnson
I’m sure it’s just to get some information on ways that they can help her campaign…
Virgin Galactic spaceplane smashes altitude record in latest test flight https://t.co/yZ24jsmmhk pic.twitter.com/YjnEABRCla
— NBC News MACH (@NBCNewsMACH) July 26, 2018
“The [RUSSIAN MILITARY] hackers sent forged notification emails to Senate targets claiming the target’s Microsoft Exchange password had expired, and instructing them to change it. If the target clicked on the link, he or she was taken to a convincing replica of the U.S. Senate’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) login page, a single sign-on point for e-mail and other services. “
thedailybeast.com
Trump Tries To Fix His Trade War By Throwing Hats At People In Iowa https://t.co/DwEzfteuM3 pic.twitter.com/cmXJf5GOsz
— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊 (@Politics_PR) July 26, 2018
re: #148 Belafon
I think rather than not wanting Trump to give speeches, we should want him to give 3 hour speeches. Something will give way at that point.
Can you record them, go through all the BS and pull out the incriminating stuff?
Okay, thanks…I need to keep what little sanity I have left after a year and a half plus of Trumpisms?
BREAK: Russian intelligence tried to hack Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign — first campaign they’re known to have targeted this cycle
from @desiderioDC and @kpoulsen https://t.co/QXjCMyelKa— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) July 26, 2018
Both predictable and predicted: Trump’s constant excuse-making for Russia and undermining of the investigation into their last attack has essentially given them the green light to do it again. https://t.co/IIyehuFEdJ
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) July 26, 2018
In other Russian news.
BREAKING: Russian government announces opening of a new criminal case against me and various US officials involved in the creation of the Magnitsky Act and the investigation into Russian organized money laundering in US connected to Magnitsky case https://t.co/mYsij26msl
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) July 26, 2018
Space came one step closer today. First footage is in, check it out! #SpaceShipTwo pic.twitter.com/yTQdXVHEVE
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) July 26, 2018
Updated key stats from today’s test flight:
Release altitude: 46,500 ft
Burn time: 42 seconds
Boost Mach: 2.47
Apogee: 170,800 ft, 32.3 miles, 52 km
Re-entry Mach: 1.7— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) July 26, 2018
re: #158 ObserverArt
Please, please, please let him use his own money to buy back the business then go broke. Is that too much to ask?
Well if we see GOP gains in November, we know why.
Here we go again!
Russian Intel agencies behind the 2016 election hack have started their attack for the 2018 midterms. They targeted Senator McCaskill.
Yet Trump and his criminal cabal are cozying up to Putin and attacking our Intel Agencies https://t.co/dPNxNFtnNt— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) July 26, 2018
Elections are stolen in small margins … and in the few seats that matter. https://t.co/6IUUYcRq4I
— reifman (@reifman) July 26, 2018
A phishing attack on a Senate office by a foreign adversary marks an escalation from the 2016 attacks. Those attacks targeted campaigns, staffers, party offices, and state govts. A Senate office is part of the US federal govt itself.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 26, 2018
re: #156 BeachDem
Apparently Daniel Dale doesn’t know either.
Decoupage a US Dollar Bill to a car’s dashboard for good luck…or as a dream of wanting to be like America?
Hey…it’s crazy talk, just trying to interpret it.
Evergreen reminder that anyone who characterizes a widespread multi-platform disinformation campaign as “juvenile social media ads” is lying to you by omission. #DisinformationWarfare
(source: https://t.co/03eu4hpfEE - and apparently caring about this issue makes me an “elite”) pic.twitter.com/i6NdUPL7Rm— Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) July 26, 2018
You gotta love the Nation’s hot take of “oh but the REAL national security crisis is believing there’s a national security crisis.” 🙄 https://t.co/kgKBMSermp
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) July 26, 2018
Someone will be rage-tweeting this evening
Amazon tops $2 billion in quarterly profit for the first time in its history https://t.co/KksIGgAuoH pic.twitter.com/5U1dtz4Ig8
— CNN (@CNN) July 26, 2018
re: #178 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Someone will be rage-tweeting this evening
Probably fuming that all that $2B in profit is coming at the expense of the Postal Service…
Some more info on the phising attacks.
Russian Hackers’ New Target: a Vulnerable Democratic Senator
Looks like Microsoft played a big role in stopping it.
The Daily Beast identified McCaskill as a target while investigating statements made by Microsoft VP Tom Burt last week in an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum. Burton discussed the Virginia injunction, and told the audience that it allowed Microsoft to thwart a phishing campaign against three midterm election candidates, who he declined to name.
“We did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks, and we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all standing for elections in the midterm elections,” said Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust. “We took down that domain and working with the government actually were able to avoid anybody being infected by that particular attack.”
CNN continues its anti-Trump crusade by trying to make its reporter, Kaitlan Collins, into a martyr. Yesterday, she yelled questions about the President’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, at a White House photo opportunity.https://t.co/IgCywUcs9Q
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) July 26, 2018
As an aggressive reporter myself, I have no problem with any press trying to get questions answered. But there is protocol at times that should be followed. https://t.co/Bkmtmc5PoW
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) July 26, 2018
Bill O’Reilly “protocol” guide:
—make a doctor a subject of 28 shows, call him a baby-killer, get him murdered, and take no responsibility for what happened
—send producers and agents to harass private citizens at their homes
—pay $32 million to quiet victims of sexual harassment https://t.co/Up86htYIvX— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) July 26, 2018
re: #176 ObserverArt
Decoupage a US Dollar Bill to a car’s dashboard for good luck…or as a dream of wanting to be like America?
Hey…it’s crazy talk, just trying to interpret it.
A story citing an Ivanka memory as told to Hugh Hewitt. Yeah—I’m sure it all happened just like he said.
Via @_jfwall, Trump also told this we-used-to-be-beloved-in-Czechoslovakia story in 2015. This time, he nonsensically added, “It’s all coming back now. That’s what’s happening.” https://t.co/W7Tv67kNRA pic.twitter.com/tib71CDDXq
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
re: #181 Bubblehead II
Some more info on the phising attacks.
Russian Hackers’ New Target: a Vulnerable Democratic Senator
Looks like Microsoft played a big role in stopping it.
The Daily Beast identified McCaskill as a target while investigating statements made by Microsoft VP Tom Burt last week in an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum. Burton discussed the Virginia injunction, and told the audience that it allowed Microsoft to thwart a phishing campaign against three midterm election candidates, who he declined to name.
“We did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks, and we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all standing for elections in the midterm elections,” said Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust. “We took down that domain and working with the government actually were able to avoid anybody being infected by that particular attack.”
I had just pulled this part of that story to post, when I saw your comment:
In October, Microsoft wrested control of one of the spoofed website addresses—adfs.senate.qov.info. Seizing the Russians’ malicious domain names has been easy for Microsoft since August 2017, when a federal judge in Virginia issued a permanent injunction against the GRU hackers, after Microsoft successfully sued them as unnamed “John Doe” defendants. The court established a process that lets Microsoft take over any web addresses the hackers use that includes a Microsoft trademark.
Microsoft redirected the traffic from the fake Senate site to its own sinkhole server, putting it in a prime position to view targets trying to click through to change their passwords.
The MS angle really jumped out at me too, especially considering recent Facebook news.
re: #183 BeachDem
A story citing an Ivanka memory as told to Hugh Hewitt. Yeah—I’m sure it all happened just like he said.
Why was Vanky going to a Communist country as a young girl?
Maybe they got to her first.
/half
Cells so cold they sleep stacked, shivering so hard they can’t speak. Some are in wet clothes & given sandwiches that are frozen & rotten.
Mothers stop producing breastmilk as they go into shock.
Guards kick them to keep them awake.#ThisIsAmerica https://t.co/qmfXNd5hKn— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) July 26, 2018
FOUND IT!!!
It’s an interview he did with Hugh Hewitt back in 2015:
Donald Trump On Race, Guns, President Obama And The Need For American “Cheerleading”
HH: Explain to people what you mean by cheerleading.
DT: Creating a spirit for the country. We don’t have that spirit anymore. You know, it’s very interesting, my daughter, Ivanka, told me a story that she would go when she was a very young girl to a communist country, Czechoslovakia, and they were so proud of the American dollar, they used to, I never heard this before. They used to take the American dollar and scotch tape it onto their windshield of their car, even if it was a dollar bill, because they were so proud of having anything American. They were proud of even just a small one dollar association with the United States. And they’d post it, and she said today, it’s a whole different thing. Today, they laugh at us and they scoff at us. But you know, she told me that story, and I think I’m going to use that a little bit. I haven’t used it except for you right now, but I heard it two days ago. And she said you know, dad, when I used to go to Czechoslovakia, because he in-laws were there, she’d go there for a week. And the people were so proud of that dollar being posted on the windshield of their car. We don’t have anything like that today. Today, they’re not proud.
re: #183 BeachDem
A story citing an Ivanka memory as told to Hugh Hewitt. Yeah—I’m sure it all happened just like he said.
I was close!
I’m specializing in Trumpish. It is an odd language.
Plus, it tends to change as it is used.
RE:#185 JordanRules
Love or hate them, Microsoft is actually being a responsible Tech company unlike Facebook and Twitter. I seriously doubt they are doing this for altruistic/patriotic reasons, more to protect their brand. But they are at least cooperating with Law Enforcement and sharing the information they gather.
re: #191 Bubblehead II
Love or hate them, Microsoft is actually being a responsible Tech company unlike Facebook and Twitter. I seriously doubt they are doing this for altruistic/patriotic reasons, more to protect their brand. But they are at least cooperating with Law Enforcement and sharing the information they gather.
A good court helped too. Hope we can keep enough of those.
Trump falsely says the U.S. has been prevented from selling cars into the EU. European Automobile Manufacturers Association: “The U.S. is the third biggest exporter of cars to the EU in terms of value, representing a 15.4% share of EU imports in 2017.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 26, 2018
“commonly known as Europe”
good grief
re: #186 makeitstop
Why was Vanky going to a Communist country as a young girl?
Maybe they got to her first.
/half
Supposedly to visit Ivana’s parents. I take the whole famdamily and all of their stories with a huge truckload of salt.
re: #186 makeitstop
Why was Vanky going to a Communist country as a young girl?
Maybe they got to her first.
/half
Probably visiting Mom’s side of the family.
Though Ivana seems (unsurprisingly) to prefer living in New York….
re: #196 Jay C
Probably visiting Mom’s side of the family.
Though Ivana seems (unsurprisingly) to prefer living in New York….
Yeah, the 3 kids used to spend the summers there when they were younger. IIRC 1 or 2 of them speak another language because if it.
Documents reviewed by The AP show that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the lawyer who met with Don Jr., Kushner and Manafort in June 2016, worked more closely with Russian government officials than she previously let on. https://t.co/0FKTtTR2oF
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 26, 2018
re: #198 MsJ
Looks like we’re about to get the 100th piece of evidence that Veselnitskaya is a Kremlin agent. https://t.co/KkQeR0BoSi
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) July 26, 2018
re: #145 The Vicious Babushka
I’d love to listen to the periods of stunned silence, but I can’t watch Trump speaking with the sound turned on.
re: #193 JordanRules
A good court helped too. Hope we can keep enough of those.
We will. His appointee’s can be removed from the bench if enough of their rulings are either routinely over turned or are way out in lala land. Not to mention since he tends to appoint people who are like him, most will probably get burned on corruption charges.
This is insane.
While Russia was helping Trump win the election, according to @moscow_project, there were 82 known “contacts between the Trump team and Russia-linked operatives.” And Team Trump tried to conceal all of them. Me in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/WrFBziDk0M
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 26, 2018
Hey Charles! Bob has the show up now. Will let you have the honors.
re: #200 stpaulbear
I’d love to listen to the periods of stunned silence, but I can’t watch Trump speaking with the sound turned on.
# Me Too
The audio is more repulsive than the video. But it’s a close call.
#BREAKING: We’re leading 12 AGs and suing the Trump administration to stop its sabotage of our health care system.
@POTUS’s Association Health Plan rule is nothing more than an unlawful end-run around the consumer protections enshrined in the #ACA. https://t.co/mpOIKbCDbj pic.twitter.com/mqpechY5U2— NY AG Underwood (@NewYorkStateAG) July 26, 2018
re: #202 MsJ
This is insane.
Sure is a lot of info rushing out this week. Damn.
Trump is cut and bleeding.
I hope we get to hear very soon: “Trump is down. Trump is down and he is not getting up. It was a roundhouse right he never saw coming from Mueller. The refs have called the fight. Trump is not untouchable and invincible. He is down…defeated.”
Wow. This thread is crazy.
Wow. Look at the targeted ads run on FB by Aggregate IQ for Vote Leave in 2016.
Does this look like political advertising to you?
The vote swung from Remain to Leave on the last day. Why did they spend hundreds of thousands on these if they didn’t work?https://t.co/3C2WfXlJ7a pic.twitter.com/9SiV1YW07A— Sophie Germain (@veritasta) July 26, 2018
re: #204 wrenchwench
# Me Too
The audio is more repulsive than the video. But it’s a close call.
I can’t stand to hear his whiny nasal sleazy scammer grifter conman voice.
re: #177 jaunte
Can’t wait to see the Nation announce that they’ve decided that Ziegler was right and that the Watergate break-in was just a third-rate burglary.
As a graphic artist capable of doing such ‘fake’ ads I hope those that are doing this kind of crap are identified and pay for this. Whether that is losing their careers or forced to do crappy low-pay work forever, I don’t know. Grrrrr.
Trump “doesn’t do anything quietly or secretly, including impede justice” - @LawProfButler on Giuliani claiming people don’t obstruct justice “in public” pic.twitter.com/4NNwu510VS
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) July 26, 2018
Evidence Shows Hackers Changed Votes in the 2016 Election But No One Will Admit It https://t.co/hHNbyQ9iCm via @TheRoot
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 26, 2018
Evening Lizardim. So, witness tampering and obstruction of justice, eh? Has the Tangerine Wankmaggot unleashed his fearful rage upon the Twitterverse yet?
When people said red meat was bad for you, I thought that meant you should cook your burgers or steak well.
— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) July 26, 2018
re: #213 JordanRules
Pro Publica not a fan of this piece.
U.S officials don’t specifically deny that Russian operatives altered votes, they say that there is no conclusive evidence to support it. That is simply not true: https://t.co/W4orDkL25n pic.twitter.com/7tbkZB5KTQ
— The Root (@TheRoot) July 26, 2018
This article contains so much false, conflated information that it is stunning this got past editors. This is *dangerous* in its implications, none of which are supported by facts. https://t.co/mc5IWFS4qa
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) July 26, 2018
Some bright red flags for sure, an interesting hot take op-ed.
They fucking don’t even try to hide it.
There is no way that the LLC, Global Energy Producers (“GEP”), generated enough revenue in one month to afford a $325K superPAC donation. It didn’t even have a website.
Looks like somebody laundered money through GEP, and to the Trump superPAC, to keep their identity a secret. pic.twitter.com/QHEZqsT1uE— Brendan Fischer (@brendan_fischer) July 26, 2018
re: #213 JordanRules
That’s a pretty damning article.
So much info coming out. I think we are at or beyond a preponderance of evidence.
re: #214 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Evening Lizardim. So, witness tampering and obstruction of justice, eh? Has the Tangerine Wankmaggot unleashed his fearful rage upon the Twitterverse yet?
Go through some of his rants this afternoon at his “rally.” He was really rolling in crazy today. You can find them in the threads from this afternoon.
I think all the stuff coming out this week has got him reeling. I hope he loses it and just blurts it out now.
re: #217 BeachDem
They fucking don’t even try to hide it.
And this little tidbit about the PAC they gave the money to:
America First Action, which calls itself the primary super-PAC backing the president’s agenda, used to employ the consulting firm owned by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. This week it hired Kimberly Guilfoyle, who’s dating Donald Trump Jr.
That’s really unacceptable. Keep doing whatever is necessary to reunite.
Some kids separated at border may never see parents again https://t.co/D5ozjXAkUP @DianneG reports @TheLeadCNN
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 26, 2018
re: #218 ObserverArt
That’s a pretty damning article.
So much info coming out. I think we are at or beyond a preponderance of evidence.
So…the article is over the top I see.
It does seem to have a lot of possibilities though it might be over eager in that is what was actually done.
Though, will we ever know what was actually done?
re: #223 ObserverArt
So…the article is over the top I see.
It does seem to have a lot of possibilities though it might be over eager in that is what was actually done.
Though, will we ever know what was actually done?
The only way to know for sure would have been a comprehensive audit, immediately after the fact, of the systems that had proper audit controls (paper backups). At this point, all we’re left with is conjecture. The article puts together a lot of suppositions in a connect-the-dots fashion not unlike the conspiracy theories they reference in the closing paragraphs, but therein lies the problem - it is all conjecture and supposition.
WSJ confirms our reporting: George O’Neill Jr. is confirmed as the “U.S. Person 2” who helped Maria Butina. https://t.co/OfqKIrq8Kh
— Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) July 26, 2018
BREAKING: George O’Neill is “person number 2” named in charges against the alleged Kremlin agent who infiltrated the @NRA - Maria Butina. O’Neill worked on the 1992 presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan. Butina’s boyfriend, Paul Erickson, served as Buchanan’s political director. https://t.co/UqmT5MEpu7
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 26, 2018
re: #222 JordanRules
That’s really unacceptable. Keep doing whatever is necessary to reunite.
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Everybody involved on the jailers’ side needs to think about what they’ve done in a chain link playpen until all children are back with their parents. Unless they can do something to speed the reunions, in which case they can serve the sentence afterward.
Today, in “Oh clutch the pearls and concern troll the shit out of the libs” -
The LA Times questions whether taking a pickaxe to Trump’s star is going too far.
Meanwhile, on the FRONT FUCKING PAGE OF THE LA TIMES is a heartbreaking image of a Honduran father, sobbing, as he holds his son that he was just reunited with.
But yeah, LA Times.
Lecture us all about how rude and unsavory it is to attack a star on the Walk of Fame while this is going on.
re: #223 ObserverArt
So…the article is over the top I see.
It does seem to have a lot of possibilities though it might be over eager in that is what was actually done.
Though, will we ever know what was actually done?
I still believe if they got in, they weren’t just looking around. I can’t take that to court but it can surely be within the realm of discussion for concerned and thoughtful folks.
I think most people are being too conservative in how they discuss the possibilities and what some basic things can tell us about what’s going down.
But like you said, that piece was overeager and had some other issues.
re: #139 Charles Johnson
Right wing dirtbags Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec are now going after Sarah Silverman.
Mike Cernovich actively supports the distribution of child pornography via 8chan
re: #57 Big Beautiful Door
I know, I just wanted to point out that cops have a long, sordid history of abusive behavior targeting sex workers, most of whom don’t have the money and celebrity to defend themselves like Daniels can.
This had nothing to do with cops attacking sex workers - everything to do with pleasing their master by arresting Daniels.
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