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Doctor Butts
May 21, 2002

Wark Say posted:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm thinking that you said "Hurry the gently caress up, Mueller" because you think that once Easy D returns, he's gonna fire Mueller...

... but wouldn't firing Mueller be seen as a very unsubtle clue that Donald (or people really close to him; the Kushners, mostly) is guilty as gently caress?

I am not even sure how you could have such a misunderstanding.

He wants Mueller to hurry up with the investigation so Trump's cronies (and hopefully Trump himself) are prosecuted.

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Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
Well Mosul has been liberated. So only minutes until Trump takes credit for that.

Mystic Mongol
Jan 5, 2007

Your life's been thrown in disarray already--I wouldn't want you to feel pressured.


College Slice

Wark Say posted:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm thinking that you said "Hurry the gently caress up, Mueller" because you think that once Easy D returns, he's gonna fire Mueller...

... but wouldn't firing Mueller be seen as a very unsubtle clue that Donald (or people really close to him; the Kushners, mostly) is guilty as gently caress?

Given that he's fired a bunch of people heading investigations into him, who cares if he does it again?

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

What a pathetic thing to lie about.

Platonicsolid
Nov 17, 2008

Mystic Mongol posted:

Given that he's fired a bunch of people heading investigations into him, who cares if he does it again?

Plenty of people, but it means poo poo if Congress isn't among them.

Drifter
Oct 22, 2000

Belated Bear Witness
Soiled Meat

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Well Mosul has been liberated.

This will last.

umbrage
Sep 5, 2007

beast mode
I mean, 99.9999% of the things Trump says or threatens are fixable by regular democratic processes. But Trump sharing our cyber defense infra is getting drat close to Literal Coup Chat for me. If we even take one step towards this, the entire admin needs to be in chains, stat.

I honestly felt my stomach turn reading that tweet.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

empty whippet box posted:

What a pathetic thing to lie about.

Who's going to hire him after this? He's all-in - there's a reason people keep mentioning he's hanging onto his job by a thread.

umbrage posted:

I mean, 99.9999% of the things Trump says or threatens are fixable by regular democratic processes. But Trump sharing our cyber defense infra is getting drat close to Literal Coup Chat for me. If we even take one step towards this, the entire admin needs to be in chains, stat.

I honestly felt my stomach turn reading that tweet.

If there's one thing I do have some faith in - it's that the NSA will quite literally burn everything to the ground before letting the Russians in.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Doctor Butts posted:

I am not even sure how you could have such a misunderstanding.

He wants Mueller to hurry up with the investigation so Trump's cronies (and hopefully Trump himself) are prosecuted.
I swear that like two weeks ago that was the general opinion (Trump firing Mueller = super bad for his administration). I finished catching up with the thread earlier today after taking some much needed time away from it. This thread moves way too drat fast sometimes. :(

I know that this investigation might take time and all, but aren't there a ton of antecedents to nail Trump's rear end to the wall based on his complete lack of business acumen in the last... I dunno, 30 years?

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Who's going to hire him after this? He's all-in - there's a reason people keep mentioning he's hanging onto his job by a thread.


If there's one thing I do have some faith in - it's that the NSA will quite literally burn everything to the ground before letting the Russians in.

This. If trump legit tries to go through with it and bad mouths IC while doing it. He is hosed. At least they will leak a ton more.

Throwing Turtles
May 3, 2015

empty whippet box posted:

What a pathetic thing to lie about.

I think the thing here is who he's lying to. This feels like he's trying to cheer Trump up.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Dapper_Swindler posted:

This. If trump legit tries to go through with it and bad mouths IC while doing it. He is hosed. At least they will leak a ton more.

Not to mention the fact that we've already got a strategic partnership with the GCHQ. They're going to poo poo all over this as well. It's a non-issue and will never happen.

Arrgytehpirate
Oct 2, 2011

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!



I'm covering a Bernie healthcare rally right now. It's pretty packed and holy poo poo so many DC based media is here. I'm getting all the phone numbers and business cards

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe
1https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/884049665326493696
2https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/884058945085722625
3https://twitter.com/yashar/status/884069257612582912
4https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/883905501507014656
5https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/884076343163596800
6https://twitter.com/tomlobianco/status/884081957180760065
7https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/884080474410414080
:siren: 8https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/884098577831788544 :siren:
So they're basically trying to drag that ethics dude through the mud because he quit very publicly.
9https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/884027476728578048
10https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884027201804488704
11https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/884028627058384896
12https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/884057660341059584
13https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/884087506286907395
14https://twitter.com/owillis/status/884096985397170178
15https://twitter.com/thegarance/status/883751242480189442
16https://twitter.com/yashar/status/884094158197149696
17https://twitter.com/Slate/status/883790495973089280
18https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/884062358196322306
19https://twitter.com/owillis/status/883747954103865344
20https://twitter.com/owillis/status/884090097599172608
21https://twitter.com/medialens/status/883245429693009920
21https://twitter.com/LukeKennard/status/883989826546147328
22https://twitter.com/21logician/status/882689490678157312
23https://twitter.com/owillis/status/884098985149026307
25https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/883948761814155265

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

Charliegrs posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884016887692234753
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/884018776391503872

Am I reading this right? Did he say he wants election hacking (and many other negative things) to be guarded and safe?

Talk about a Freudian slip

gently caress, he's talking about hiding those things, not stopping them.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/884029003472003072

Nice try.

e: Why not put him in charge of a sexual assault prevention taskforce?

Ague Proof fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jul 9, 2017

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Um. What the gently caress.

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

Ague Proof posted:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/884029003472003072

Nice try.

e: Why not put him in charge of a sexual assault prevention taskforce?

Isn't the answer "Because Trump doesn't get to name the Russian representative"?

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

empty whippet box posted:

Um. What the gently caress.

Its cool that we've already completely lost Cyber War One.

umbrage
Sep 5, 2007

beast mode

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Not to mention the fact that we've already got a strategic partnership with the GCHQ. They're going to poo poo all over this as well. It's a non-issue and will never happen.

In my fevered dreams, the entire IC is treating the Trump Administration as a Five Eyes honeypot against Russia.

Red Baron
Mar 9, 2007

ty slumfrog :)

Hahahaha, holy poo poo. Because of course this is The Most Important Issue that faces us today, the ending of a children's movie. I can only imagine they are furiously working on fan fiction that corrects this grievous mistake.

"And then the boy cars won forever and never got tired of winning and no girls were ever allowed in the secret clubhouse ever again! No girls!"

Show me on the car where the bad movie touched you.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

namaste faggots posted:

I'm still amazed at the lack response over MH17 being shot down. Years later no one remembers it actually happened.

There's an Egyptian airliner that went down and nobody seems to give a single poo poo about the investigation

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I love how his article says they "staged it". This fictional car couldn't have won a real fictional race, it was rigged!

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
Am I misremembering or did Trump briefly play with the idea that Russia did rig the election but it was for Hillary?

Post 9-11 User
Apr 14, 2010

Quorum posted:

Actually, targeted sanctions, like freezing the assets of individual people, can inflict a certain amount of pain on oligarchs. It won't get rid of all of their money, obviously, but it will prevent them from using large portions of the world to move their money through. I don't know if this is the kind of sanctions that Lindsey Graham has in mind of course.

I don't think he does, either, but I was surprised that Trump's pick for AG would openly criticize him. I can hear the kekistanis screaming "sour grapes" already.

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

namaste faggots posted:

I'm still amazed at the lack response over MH17 being shot down. Years later no one remembers it actually happened.

They've decided to hold the trial in the Netherlands a few days ago, but, well, it's .... extremely unlikely ... that Russia would hand over the likely suspects.

Tha_Joker_GAmer
Aug 16, 2006
it's nice that he has accepted in his heart that cars can be females as well as males, it's a small step for progress, asking him to accept them as equal is too much too quickly.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Al Borland Corp. posted:

I love how his article says they "staged it". This fictional car couldn't have won a real fictional race, it was rigged!

A cartoon world where there are no people and cars race themselves: IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT





Although, to be fair to that guy, the Cars movies have some serious and troubling implications

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
As a white dude, what the gently caress? Maybe I just don't know how bad it is up North or how good it is down South? Goddammit, I probably have to click this one.

e: a barista was racist, but when she went back South she learned about a KKK church burning in 1995 and saw literally no sense of anything livable

quote:

his South where history looms large, filled with Confederate flags and songs of Dixie, isn’t the South black millennials are flocking to. Perhaps that, too, is part of my Northern elite imagination, or just a tired stereotype. Instead, they are headed to a modern, progressive South brimming with black politicians and business executives, a formidable black activism scene and black middle-class suburbs.
"cities are better everywhere", saving everyone else the click

DACK FAYDEN fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jul 9, 2017

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Post 9-11 User posted:

I don't think he does, either, but I was surprised that Trump's pick for AG would openly criticize him. I can hear the kekistanis screaming "sour grapes" already.

Trump's AG is Jeff Sessions, not Lindsey Graham. Graham is a "deeply concerned" brand of Republican in that he criticizes Trump fairly regularly but doesn't actually do anything about it.

KickerOfMice
Jun 7, 2017

[/color]Keep firing, assholes![/color]

Spaceballs the custom title.
Fun Shoe

I read this as saying 'the presidency is an industry.'
Doesn't seem that off target.

Burt Buckle
Sep 1, 2011

DACK FAYDEN posted:

As a white dude, what the gently caress? Maybe I just don't know how bad it is up North or how good it is down South? Goddammit, I probably have to click this one.

The south isn't that bad, we've had almost no KKK rallies at all this week.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Immigrants and minorities don't count as people in their approximation.

Tatsuta Age
Apr 21, 2005

so good at being in trouble


Burt Buckle posted:

The south isn't that bad, we've had almost no KKK rallies at all this week.

with few exceptiosn

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


DACK FAYDEN posted:

As a white dude, what the gently caress? Maybe I just don't know how bad it is up North or how good it is down South? Goddammit, I probably have to click this one.

e: a barista was racist, but when she went back South she learned about a KKK church burning in 1995 and saw literally no sense of anything livable

"cities are better everywhere", saving everyone else the click

outside of major cities, the north is probably more segregated than the south. maybe even in the cities too. you gotta take into account that a lot of the suburbs and exurbs even in the bluest states went for trump, people around here are racist fucks just not often as transparent about it. they won't wave confederate flags but they will go "but don't all lives matter" or post "blue lives matter" on fbook.

FilthyImp
Sep 30, 2002

Anime Deviant

1stGear posted:

Its cool that we've already completely lost Cyber War One.
It's pretty cool that we went from thinking of the internet a marketplace of freedom of exchange of ideas and a way to forge new friendships and add new interconnected conveniences to life to making it a hellscape of abuse, fraud, and the latest domain of warfare in, what, shy of 20 years?

If you had told any of us that foreign states would be routinely poking at infrastructure and city systems to install debilitating firmware we would have thrown a Clancy novel at your face.

But yes, The Cyber is quickly becoming a covert warzone.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

also in case anyone is confused why Nikki Haley's statements have no relationship to anything else the admin is saying, from the reports i read basically nobody talks to her at all and she responds by just freelancing and saying what she thinks the policy should be.

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.
If you guys think these 4-8 years will be bad, consider the next 100+ years while America cedes international control to authoritarian nations of China and Russia. For the last 100 years, America has been pushing for more individual freedoms and a better world. Now, China and Russia will spend the next 100+ years pushing back. And, with America itself losing its soul, we can expect 100 years of reduced individual rights, the slow death of democracy, and the end of all we hold dear. That is, of course, if we don't somehow get this bozo impeached and stem the bleeding of American power.

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

Covok posted:

If you guys think these 4-8 years will be bad, consider the next 100+ years while America cedes international control to authoritarian nations of China and Russia. For the last 100 years, America has been pushing for more individual freedoms and a better world. Now, China and Russia will spend the next 100+ years pushing back. And, with America itself losing its soul, we can expect 100 years of reduced individual rights, the slow death of democracy, and the end of all we hold dear. That is, of course, if we don't somehow get this bozo impeached and stem the bleeding of American power.

russia is a joke of a country that is only taken seriously because it has a lot of nukes and past historical relevance, they have no economic power and they have no real military power beyond their nuclear weapons, putin's doing quite the juggling act but it won't last

china is the real deal though

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Tarezax
Sep 12, 2009

MORT cancels dance: interrupted by MORT

Peven Stan posted:

Immigrants and minorities don't count as people in their approximation.

The original person he was replying to kept posting an article from the sacramento bee about how poor people were moving to texas and other places while wealthier people were moving in, as a response to people pointing out the population growth, as if what they were complaining about (nonviolent offenders being released from prison) would scare off poorer people over rich pearl-clutchers

when really it's just the cost of living driving that, most likely

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