Seems like an all-caps note is not the way to deal with a hostile foreign leader. It’s barely the way to deal with a coworker who keeps stealing your yogurt from the fridge. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/r7MzR8yjWN
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) July 24, 2018
The response “colour us unimpressed,” would be applause-worthy if the situation wasn’t so serious. It sounds like Iranians know Trumpsky is just (thus far) a bully & a blowhard.
Do you suppose when he says that there was no collusion (past tense) it’s because it’s ongoing so he feels like he’s telling the truth?
Revoking security clearance from his detractors is what he meant by draining the swamp.
Suckabee must have a dark, little soul (or none at all) to spew those lies for the destroyer of democracy. She must think she’s going to get something wonderful for shoveling Trumpsky’s sh/+. Sarah, you can’t do that job without getting the stench all over yourself.
Defense bill offers harsh words for Russia, China https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/23/politics/ndaa-russia-china/index.html
Good news, bad news, messy news.
Can ‘climate kids’ take on governments and win? https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/health/youth-climate-march/index.html
Go, young folks! So glad to see there are activists for the environment, too.
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This is, what we call in Psychology, a delusion.
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I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!
I notice the product placement for yoplait brand yogurt in the threatening breakroom missive. A former payroll assistant who monetizes his position is a former payroll assistant who shouldn’t be trusted with payroll. Report to Human Resources immediately. All profits MUST accrue to the CEO. – THE CEO
It doesn’t matter if he’s crazy like a fox or just plain crazy, nothing that comes out of his brain is truthful.
Sarah Huckster & the rest of the admin, plus numerous senators & house reps, should be charged with aiding and abetting the enemy. As soon as Trumpsky starts to lose traction, they will bail. They weren’t loyal to their constituents & they won’t be loyal to Trumpsky when it no longer looks like it will serve them.
This divide is, of course, what Putie wants…but he is a soulless KGB agent & does not understand American resilience when we come together against a common enemy. The enemy: Russian sellouts.
Tour de France riders inadvertently tear-gassed https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/sport/tour-de-france-protesters-pepper-spray/index.html
I guess CNN isn’t on the side of the farmers…because I don’t see anything about why they were protesting. ~Awesome reporting~ The farmers should’ve worn yellow to get more attention, maybe.
“Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful.”
– Khalil Gibran
Max Boot is making sense.
Sorry Trump, your misdirection won’t work this time.
Try try again. Hence his Sunday night threat against Iran. Coming from any other president, this out-of-the-blue, ALL CAPS ultimatum would have led to suggestions that he’s hitting the bottle. But for Trump the teetotaler, it’s just business as usual. This time, he got the world’s attention. I was planning to write Monday about Trump and Russia. Instead, I’m writing about Trump and Iran. Far more important from Trump’s perspective, the talk on cable news turned from Russia to Iran. Mission accomplished.
Norm Ornstein, the smartest republican since Lincoln, maybe the smartest who ever lived, turned against nunes last night on MSNBC. Norm said he should be expelled from the House, and maybe even tried for treason.
Yup.
Ivanka Trump to shut down fashion company https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/ivanka-trump-brand-company/index.html
Oh, for F’s sake. Go back to your Chinese-made frocks & stay the heck out of public policy. She should plan on spending time visiting daddy & hubby in prison…or Moscow, if they defect.
Chinese frocks face a huge tariff. Big Daddy put li’l ivanka out of business. All profits go to the CEO !
Trump administration plans to help farmers hurt by global trade tensions https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/trump-tariffs-farmers/index.html
Trumpsky buying votes from the farmers in his base that he screwed over with tariffs.
All cameras, microphones, and tweetizers must go to the CEO ! Dammit ! Your Attention ! Achtung ! Listen up ! LOOK HERE !
NO COLLUSION !!!
Here is a kick. My old campaign website is still on the Internet. It was removed from the server a few weeks after the election was finalized (it took longer because of a recount). But, there it is almost ten years after it was over. http://pambennettforaurora.com
bbronc, good campaign picture. with such an honest face and enthusiastic smile, who wouldn’t vote for such a solid citizen. good write up too BTW.
nbc news:
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security told representatives of electric utilities Monday about a round of efforts by Russian hackers last year to target control systems for electric power plants and grids.
In an unclassified webinar, DHS officials said the hackers last summer got access to vendors who provide computer services to electric utilities, and used that to provide a way into power company control systems.
“This activity took place last summer. While hundreds of energy and non-energy companies were targeted, the incident where they gained access to the industrial control system was a very small generation asset that would not have had any impact on the larger grid if taken offline,” a DHS spokeswoman, Lesley Fulop, said in a statement Tuesday.
“Over the course of the past year as we continued to investigate the activity, we learned additional information which would be helpful to industry in defending against this threat.”
The webinar was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
DHS has been warning the industry for years about efforts to target power plants and other utilities with cyber attacks. One of the ways utilities have responded has been to take their control systems off the internet, so they cannot be easily hacked. The webinar said the latest Russian effort involved the roundabout means of getting access through third-party vendors.
wapo:
Maria Butina was the ultimate NRA Cool Girl
[….]
Are there women with personalities like this in real life? Maybe. But is there a surfeit of highly intelligent, hot, bilingual Eastern European graduate students who love Jesus, cooking, guns, big-game hunting, bourbon, lipstick, cowboys and tenderly repairing the hearts of damaged men?
Maybe?
The fact that Butina became so popular in conservative circles so quickly seems to point in the other direction: There aren’t a lot of (real) women like her. “She was like a novelty,” a former Michigan GOP chair told The Washington Post last week. “Friendly, curious and flirtatious,” described another anonymous source, who met her through the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The men who championed her were so pleased to meet a woman who fit an ideal mold, they never stopped to think that maybe she was an ideal mole.
Or, as one jokester observed on Twitter: “Such a shame that good guys with guns are powerless against bad guys with vaginas.”
This is why the honeypot scheme continues to be a thing. Because it’s based on an ego-stroking fantasy, a form of currency that never goes out of style.
The sexy narrative of Maria Butina is that she’s a devious femme fatale. But her maneuvering through Second Amendment circles revealed as much about her marks’ desires as it did about her own plotting. Maria Butina was NRA Cool Girl. Her Russian compatriots might have hacked into servers and political databases. She learned to hack the American psyche.
The Bible-thumpers should be familiar with Butina’s style. Straight up Eve & the apple. Well, she’s the snake, too. Poor, gullible, gun-loving, so-called Christians.
BB – Very nice. When was the last time any city flew an MIA-POW flag? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one at all. The more folks are reminded of the human cost, maybe better decisions would be made. Just like they (the media?) don’t want to show caskets being taken off of military planes, cuz it makes folks think & feel about real stuff.
Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/foreign-leaders-call-white-house/index.html
Ohhh, CNN aired the Trump/Cohen tape about setting up a shell company to pay Pecker for catch & kill of the McDougal story.
I guess Lanny Davis could release the tape because Rudy brought it up & atty/client privilege was lost?
What’s SFB done stupid today?
patd, we men are so stupid when it comes to sexy women. All that stuff about thinking with the wrong head, etc., is true. I hate to admit it, but it’s true.
about Ms Butina, Pogo is right.
It seems to be a real hazard in the construction industry.
When I was still pounding nails a tool and nail supply company hired such a type of woman, lol she went through the area smiled batted eye lashes and showed cleavage soon she had the business of all the framers in the subdivision. The boss left a supplier who would run right out with an order if it was an emergency did everything you could want but he didn’t have a vagina.
lol
So I’m not at all surprised that the NRA was taken in.
Fantasy fulfillment
Jack