Opinion | Secret CIA assessment: Putin ‘probably directing’ influence operation to denigrate Biden
— Craig Crawford (@craig_crawford) September 22, 2020
Opinion by Josh Roginhttps://t.co/oQaTPvVno9
NBC News confirms: The CIA assessed in late August that Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials are "probably" directing a Russian operation to intervene in the election by discrediting Joe Biden.https://t.co/0hhcoum4W3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 22, 2020
Author: craigcrawford
Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks. View all posts by craigcrawford
BTW, it’s autumn. looks like not just leaves are turning red but GOPers are too – the Яeal Яed state of affairs.
craig, jeremy agrees with you on that collusion charge
note jeremy’s not just another talking head. he kinda knows about these things. according to wiki:
Jeremy B. Bash (born August 13, 1971) is an American lawyer. He was the chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Defense (2011–2013) and the Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011), both under President Barack Obama.
if not collusion, how bout useful idiocy?
mediaite:
Gotta be a harder job this time, now that rRUMPsky is a known entity who only appeals to those for whom racism is more important than anything else.
Meanwhile, folks from the other side of the aisle continue to support Biden, calling him a decent human being. Cindy McCain has now done that. Let’s hope that makes the difference in AZ.
I still wanna crack open that soccer ball.
I gotta admit that while I consider any polls showing a tie in states like GA and IA potential great news, I’m at the same time skeptical that they are not outliers. They just don’t strike me as likely reflective of sentiment in those states.
Oh happy days. I got a solicitation yesterday to contribute to “a national campaign to re-elect the best president seniors have ever had and prevent democrat socialism“. It even gave me a card to carry showing I’m a member of that campaign with that hideous smiling picture of SFB right on the card, just in case I forgot what he looks like I suppose. I don’t think I’ll take that campaign up on its offer. 🙄
Donny Deutsch on Morning Joe this am saying any Jew who votes for Trump isn’t paying attention to history. It might have been hyperbole but it wasn’t wrong. SFB is playing the “Other” card about as hard as it can be played. Saying we are in the early stages of what eventually became the holocaust isn’t out of the realm of possibility.
Another person Trump doesn’t know:
Backwater Virginia there are a lot of cult members. What is funny is they are now redoing their hate signs. No longer is it “socialism” that is evil, that is being over painted with “communism”. Socialists are not scary enough, now they need communists. I always try to believe that humans are capable of learning and being better than the past, and I am always finding disappointment. Yes, they spend a lot of time painting signs showing their love for hate.
weird. probably best not to click on the RT vid they refer to. it might come back to bite you.
daily beast:
lest we forget we WERE warned
I just saw a flash (headline only) that Gale Sayers has died, age seventy-seven. He played for the Chicago Bears, way back when. A great runner.
Yeah…. ok… it’s collusion…
but now what?…
I don’t mean to be flippant… but other than voting the gop out and making this country a one party system of Democrats, I don’t see a solution.
RIP Gale Sayers
If you haven’t seen it, the film about his friendship with Brian Piccolo is worth a watch. Brian’s Song
Thanks for posting the Mad Kennedy whistleblower story, patd.
Question: How IN THE FUCK does trumpco get away with forcing government
employeesvolunteers to sign NDAs???(caps, profanity, and extra punctuation added for emphasis)
Bink – federal employees cannot sign anything like personal NDA’s. We do sign specialized NDA’s and in some cases, especially security work, is you do not get debriefed for certain things. My debriefing for one situation was “you will never be declassified”, along with I cannot write anything without certain agencies reviewing it for release. I cannot get through to the agency which is to tell me which other agencies must review my scribblings. The personal NDA’s so loved by SFB are only good for drawing cartoons on if forced on a fed.
Marked: “Top Secret”
Kushner is incompetent.
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Here’s something for SFB to let roll around in that empty real estate in his head.
The outpouring of love and respect for RBG is something his fat carcass will never get.
He does not deserve a state funeral unless Russia wants to foot the bill.
If they are announcing the GJ findings for Breonna Taylor today, and, they’ve announced a curfew for tonight…it’s a pretty good guess 🙁
I missed it the first night, but taped and finally watched “The Sit In -Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show“. If you haven’t seen it, make the effort to do so. It was one week early in 1968. The guest list was almost every major black entertainer, black and white civil rights activists, and discussion of the issues. I kept crying in parts. We were so hopeful and then the rest of the year happened. I was 24 then and 76 now. To this day I refer to 1968 as the year America died. What surprised me at the end were comments by Harry now 90 and Whoopie Goldberg who feel the same and that some how all of what happened then and the backlash to that burgeoning feeling of change has led us to what we have now.
At least the music clips were good. I especially liked Leon Bibb as I had forgotten how much I loved his singing way back then.
Coney Barrett’s cult is the inspiration for the Handmaidens Tale. Ewwwe send women back to the 1850’s
Oh, by the way, Trump Jr. admitted to colluding with Russian agents in 2016 on Twitter, and then candidate-Trump publicly appealed to Russia to interfere from a widely-broadcast press-conference.
So, why does the press keep saying “if [there was collusion between trump campaign and Russia]”? They’ve already admitted to it, multiple times.
also happening in florida
orlando sun sentinel:
Actually… Margaret Atwood’s inspiration for The Handmaid’s Tale came from seeing women dressed in burqas while she and her husband were hiking in Afghanistan.
This week’s Newsweek quotes Atwood saying the charismatic catholic groups were an inspiration for the Handmaidens tale. I would put in the link but I’m on my phone and can’t do it
My book club read The Handmaid’s Tale 15 years ago. We did some research on the book. At the time Atwood mentioned the Islamic women as getting her imagination going. She said it was what put that first seed of an idea into her mind. She then went on to study Christian groups who believe the Bible is the word of God in order to write a book for the western world.
There is a lot going on in this blender from Hell. Is there any chance something major will be big enough to overwhelm today? Damned if I know. I had Justice Notorious making it to at least February 1, 2021.
I don’t know anything about The Handmaid’s Tale, so I went to the Oracle (Wiki) to see what it has to say on the subject, and it appears that if you were to name any one of about a half dozen countries (the US and Afghanistan being 2) that served as inspiration for various aspects of the book, you’d be right. I can say one thing about the author – she is incredibly well informed. (I have one fo the t-shirts that were inspired by Game of Thrones – I drink and I know things, that’s what I do. With me it’s yes, and a few. Ms. Atwood certainly qualifies on the 2nd count.)
Ha, so Fauci calls out RandPaul for being an idiot. Good, he is. Has anyone mentioned to Rand that if his mistaken understanding of herd immunity (mentality?) was right, 22% of the US would be about 75 MILLION people. At a death rate of 3% – about what we have now (deaths as a percentage of confirmed cases) that would be 2.25 MILLION dead Americans. It would actually be twice that if the lower threshold for herd immunity – 43% of the population – is correct. 4.5 million dead? No problem, right, Rand? Goddam idiot.
As I have said before, their friends and relatives would miss them. The globe? Not so much. There will be more viruses. Mother Nature is a bitch.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that there was a shortage of inspirations for Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel. From the ‘celestial marriages’ to david koresh, to the taliban, to Hindu fundamentalism, to hugh hefnerism, to scientology and the children of god, there was an abundance of oppression from which to draw inspiration.
What Biden needs is a good strategist maybe like Rahm Emanuel or someone like the ghoul Steven Miller. He must fight fire with fire! No Mr. Nice Guy. No snowflake in the debates.
Biden needs to hit Trump back about Ivanka/China when he starts in on Hunter/Ukraine.
Biden needs middle & poorer class WHITE voters. He needs to stress the Trump tariffs and the effect on them including farmers. He needs to lay out tax breaks, in simple terms, and how they HAVE NOT helped middle & poorer classes.
Biden needs to stress that he will NOT interfere with NIH, CDC, & FDA!
Biden can state that he’s not a malignant narcissist. lol…
Biden can promise REGULAR ORDER in the country.
Since Trump loves to hit sensitive spots, cause pain, and provoke, Biden needs to figure out what to do when Trump hits Beau Biden. Hopefully he will neither cry nor punch Trump out, literally. Although….
Yes, Biden should walk into the debates WITH a mask on. He can not buckle to Trump’s bullying like everyone else does! Dems don’t have canine obedience to Trump the way the repubes do.
Biden also needs a team of psychiatrists to advise on how to deal with a mentally ill, malignant narcissist who’s a bully and will stop at nothing to win.
Coney Barrett’s cult used to use the term “handmaiden” for the women members. I don’t particularly care what Atwood’s inspiration was. I do care about the custom and practice of Coney Barret and her cult and her understanding of the separation of church and state
Old Man, yep to Mary Trump. Biden needs 9 more to offer suggestions.
KGC….Coney Barrett *shivers* Yep, it looks like a cult!
The Senate needs to demand Coney-Barrett tell the truth about the power of her husband over her. He’s not the one being vetted, but it sounds like men rule the roost in her cult.
And, yes, Joe walks in with a mask, he does NOT approach tRUMPsky nor shake hands. He stays at his lectern and tells the truth. Don’t interrupt SFB. Just let him lie, lie, lie. Joe needs to speak to his plans of realistic hope to fix tRUMP’s sh/+show. Not pie-in-the-sky ‘it’ll just disappear” nonsense. Folks will appreciate the truth…except for the racists. Appeal to Main Street and to farmers.
bob, he was a moose, not goose, hunter.
i would not have been so surprised about the mauling were he hunting geese with whatever light weight weaponry that requires, but hard to imagine he couldn’t have at least scared off the critter with his moose-killing gun.
Well, i was a decent, not great, cook before, but pandemic has turned me into a legitimate pretty-ok cook💪🇺🇸
Fried rice secret: cook everything separately and mix at the end. Fry the rice for 20-30 mins.
see where judge ordered eric trump to show up to be deposed by NY atty gen. wonder if this quote reported by vanity fair in 2017 will come up:
“So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’ Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12
Well, here’s a LP ad just waiting to be made. Over two dozen women who have charged tRUMP with sexual assault, including several who were minors. Then, in his own words, he just kisses them and grabs the by the…
Scumbag!
‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’
how interesting, eric, tell us more
A photo made available by the Russian Foreign Ministry shows President Trump, far left, meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, second to left, and other U.S. and Russian officials during their White House meeting on May 10. (Russian Foreign Ministry/AFP/Getty Images)
I hope Biden takes pictures or video to the debates. This is one of Trumps most egregious acts!!!!
Trump Shared Intelligence Secrets With Russians in Oval Office Meeting
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-denies-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russian-officials-1494890345
Another egregious act by the Ugly American Trump when he pushes past the Montenegro minister at NATO! Wadda pig!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/may/25/trump-appears-to-push-aside-montenegro-pm-at-nato-photocall-video
Apparently Trump now says all the ballots will be thrown out by the court and there won’t need to be a transfer of power.
‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ -eric trump
…nice catch, patd
Root Out the Cancer- Vote Biden
And this from Drudge:
TRUMP DOESN’T COMMIT TO TRANSFER OF POWERCONTINGENCY PLANS TO BYPASS RESULTSWHAT IF?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/23/politics/trump-election-day-peaceful-transition/index.html
He won’t go quietly, but he will go. This is America. We will not have a dictatorial ass and his crime family squatting in OUR WH.
CB, bless you. You remind me of music I forgot I loved. Sea of Heartbreak… North to Alaska. Bubba, you and JBuffet (pronounced jay-boofay for the uninitiated) bring me back to where I once belonged. I thank you for that.
from your bruddah:
NO DEBATE!!!! DO NOT STOOP TO INTERACT WITH tRUMPsky!
This is what hes was capable of. Now he’ll just throw out the votes. Adam Schiff is calling for repubes to do and say something NOW.
Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump
So, if Orange Julius manages to install himself for another term, it won’t last.
We flip the Senate.
Impeach tRUMPsky and PENCEsky; remove them from office and off to jail they go for treason.
Pelosi is sworn in as Prez.
No pardon for either of them. The whole tRUMP/Kuchner crime family goes to prison. There is no way out of this for tRUMP. He’s going down and the entire family is going down with him.
ok, i’ll click the song with the cool Greco-inspired art
Damn that was Fleetwood?! Musta been from their “ripping off Santana” period🤷♂️
This is how you trap tRUMPsky with intel. Give him some plausible-sounding garbage and see if it shows up with the Russians. He is, at the very least, a security threat. HE’S THE LEAKER! But really, it’s intentional. He’s helping Poo-tin because he’s got dirt on him. And Lindsey. And Nunes. And McConnell.
Yeah, so these motherfuckers are doing everything possible to rig, cheat, and steal the election, so…
i’m not optimistic, but i’m going to vote, anyway
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If you read “Disloyal” you know trump is capable of anything to win and will feel no remorse. It’s a grim state of affairs. I’m voting for freedom and applying for a passport as a backup.
Well, if tRUMP attempts to overthrow the government, there are ways to deal with that. It’ll be the end of his orange ass and good riddance to bad rubbish.
LP needs to do a Russia ad; Junior and Senior and Eric and the guy that just got him coffee once and Deutsche Bank.
Still, if we flip the Senate…down goes Frazier. Impeach and remove!
Here you go, Sturge- i can’t listen to this song without seeing the eighth-notes from your meme:
You had better flip the fucking Senate, lol
ok✌️ gone for real
Ooh, yay, i’m getting Biden ads between songs on Youtube
ok just got an anti-Biden ad, was weak as shit
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