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- Continuity2
Well, the material Ms Winner from Georgia sent to The Intercept is most fascinating indeed.
'Russian agents hacked US voting system manufacturer before US election – report'
- Morning_star3
If you get an hour to listen to something today, this is incredibly interesting and a little scary given the current US political shenanigans.
Sam Harris speaks with Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
- CygnusZero4-1
Im not sure if Trump actually said they would defeat ISIS in 30 days. I believe what he said was he wanted his military leaders to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS within 30 days.
I hate to defend Trump, but I dont think he said they would be defeated in 30 days. He is really dumb, but im not sure even he is that dumb to say something like that.
- either way he failedmonospaced
- I would think you guys get some comfort knowing Hillary is out there on the front line fighting against Trump. #bringherbackrobotron3k
- You're still fantasizing about that nonsense?monospaced
- With the amount of hyperbole and bullshit he says, it's perfectly fine to put words in his mouth and exaggerate what he actually said. We need to play with thezarkonite
- same set of rules, or else we keep losing.zarkonite
- He did promise to have a plan in 30 days. He also promised that ONLY HE could defeat isis and that he knew more than the generals. That's not exaggeration.monospaced
- mono is correct here.fadein11
- Failed? ISIS is being annihilate. You should follow what's going on in Mosul and Raqqa.IRNlun6
- http://www.inherentr…IRNlun6
- and that has to do with Trump and his nonexistent plan how?monospaced
- @IRNIun6 - That's Obama's plan, in it final stages, giving the results he said it would.zarkonite
- Continuity1
Uh-oh! If Kellyanne's hubby doesn't watch out, he'll get her fired!
George Conway hits Trump over travel ban tweet
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/0…
'These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad.'
- allthethings0
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edb…
BREAKING: Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal Is Actually Fake
Remember President Trump’s big, triumphant arms deal in Saudi Arabia? It turns out it didn’t really happen. It was Trump’s own fake news, a feat of supply chain vertical integration and more importantly for the MAGA agenda repatriating jobs from Russia. In all seriousness, at the end of the day it didn’t happen. There are no contracts or sales. At all
- The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.”allthethings
- None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.allthethings
- why am i not surprised?
oh, that's because trump is a con artist who has made a career lying and manipulating people.kona
- oey2
Question 1:
Why wasn't Qatar included in the Travel Ban?
Question 2:
Wasn't Saudi Arabia accused of having something to do with 9/11?
Question 3:
Why would someone who wants to ban and expel Muslims visit a Muslim country and sell them guns?
- Probably because for some people any mention of the word gun is enough :)scruffics
- All excellent questions. Also, why heavily criticise Iran's democracy when Saudi Arabia is totalitarian. An Islamic state no less. Hmmmm.monoboy
- < business is business.Morning_star
- BonSeff3
Four top law firms turned down Trump
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-br…
“The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen,’ ”
- No surprise there. No-one wants to risk their reputation representation that puddle of orange diarrhea.Continuity
- *representingContinuity
- monospaced0
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump plans to live Tweet his thoughts and responses during the Comey testimony.
“I was just talking to some White House officials this morning and their view is that the president himself wants to be the messenger, his own warrior, his own lawyer, his own spokesman,” Costa explained. “Some outside people, some surrogates will be available.”
“But the president is expected to be tweeting on Thursday in response to Comey, not to stay quiet during the testimony,” he added. “Because he himself wants to be the one driving the process.”
- Fucking LOL! No way! Hahahahahahahahahaha...oey
- He really enjoys digging his own grave, doesn't he?Continuity
- so pathetic. he couldnt possible be more self-consciousCygnusZero4
- Actually, his and the WH's twitter accounts should be suspended for the duration.Continuity
- I say let him whine on the internet like the little man-bitch he is.monospaced
- Well, the problem is that it helps derail the proceedings, and turns it all into a farce.Continuity
- thank goodness the media and public aren't paying attention to twitter, conducting, or ruling on the hearings thenmonospaced
- that came out wrong ... twitter and media aside, the hearings and rulings won't be swayed by Trump's tweeting,monospaced
- Well, unless someone during the proceedings makes note of his tweets, like the last time when Yates was testifying.Continuity
- covfefe!monospaced
- Live by the Twitter.
Die by the Twitter.kona
- Continuity2
@mono:
Continuing here, because I don't want to write a series of notes.
Look at it another way:
What were to happen if someone in the proceedings' audience were to continually heckle and interrupt the hearing with loud running off at the mouth? It wouldn't take long for that person to be removed from the room — at best. At worst — depending on how they were heckling and interrupting — they might be charged with something like obstruction or contempt (conjecture on my part, I'm not that intimiately familiar with the US's laws).
Case study — Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing:
http://www.nbc26.com/news/nation…
'At least three people, including two men and a woman, were removed from the room by security as they continued to shout.
Those people weren't the only protestors present at Sessions' hearing. Two other men who were dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb were also removed from the proceedings.'
Now ... Trump's live tweeting will be the digital functional equivalent of the loud heckler in the room, action designed to disrupt proceedings.
The problem here is that we're not dealing with a couple of protesters dressed up in white bed sheets taking the piss out of Jeff Sessions; we're talking about the head of state of a country.
It seems to me that his live-tweeting could — and should — be construed as a form of obstruction, and should actually be dealt with accordingly. At bare minimum by ensuring he can't live tweet at all, to allow the institution of the congressional hearing to prosecute its business without hindrance and undue influence from the subject of the hearing.
- < Thiskona
- Urgh. Pardon the shit grammar and spelling.
*what would happen
*intimatelyContinuity - Jeez, it's not like there's an Amazon echo in the room live reading his tweets out loud. :)monospaced
- also +1, no president should act like this, that was my point originally ... i just thought the more he makes an ass of himself, the better somehowmonospaced
- utopian2
Amid a weekend of terror and protests, Donald Trump returned to his usual weekend pastime of golf.
Since becoming president, he has spent multiple weekends at golf courses in his downtime despite criticising his predecessor Barack Obama for doing the same thing.
- Nice shot from what is clearly OOB you fat fuck.
"Take that ISIS"kona - that's what he meant by "draining the swamp"Krassy
- < But Obama wasn't doing the same thing. He was golfing one in a while, golfing every weekend would be doing the same thing.ArmandoEstrada
- Nice shot from what is clearly OOB you fat fuck.
- utopian3
Fake signing ceremony...Trump launches infrastructure initiative with fake signing ceremony.
Donald Trump, a fan of spectacles and spotlights, has a habit of signing executive orders that don't actually do anything. The president likes to appear before cameras and give the appearance of work, but in nearly every instance, Trump's "accomplishments" are little more than political theater.
- chukkaphob0
If Trump gets impeached, Pence becomes prez. Is that any better?
- No! I don't want him impeached. Let him limp along doing nothing...mstocks
- Irrelevant. It would be progress.monospaced
- progress? moving sideways ain't progress. LOLchukkaphob
- Yes, progress. Having Trump out of the office is good no matter what.monospaced
- I hope you're not implying people should second guess their goal of impeachment just because of Pence being runner up.monospaced
- you believe Pence would be any different/better?chukkaphob
- Irrelevant. Getting rid of Trump is progress.monospaced
- I don't believe Trump will get impeached either.monospaced
- lolchukkaphob
- what's so funny?monospaced
- if dems played political chess, they'd keep trump in till 2020 or impeach his ass a few months before 2020moldero
- A lot of people misunderstand impeachment. It doesn't necessarily mean being removed from office or that the VP takes over.yuekit
- then count me misunderstoodmonospaced
- samemoldero
- chukkaphob0
Is Trump's love for Twitter good or bad for Twitter?
- He's a big media draw and sells tons of kleenex to the cry baby liberalsrobotron3k
- you said liberals but I think you meant alt-right as they use tons of kleenex to blow their loads into while jerking off to the thought of trumps tiny peniskona
- No he doesn't, robo.monospaced
- Better stock up then, robo. The slack-jawed pinheads who voted for him will be crying when their insurance fails to cover their gastric surgery & diabetes meds.face_melter
- antimotion0
- False flag just like Sandy Hook to try and scare people away from 'leaking' information.kona
- ^ idiot.Morning_star
- "but but the Macedonians..."robotron3k
- lol konamoldero
- utopian2
- sure. and facebook is the third largest country in the world.renderedred
- is it a big crime to hack trump's twitter account? I mean more of a crime than hacking your twitter account?Beeswax
- he's bounded by twitter's security protocols which is pretty hackable. someone can start a national crisis easily by achieving that.Beeswax
- ^ sure we will find out when there's enough of a backlash and he declares it as a "hacked". Next step after "hoax" and "fake"formed
- but pizza emails derp!monospaced
- That would be crazy.sofakingback
- MrT1