School Nickname posted:

Rand alPaul posted:

It was the top comment on the NYT's facebook feed.

Vox Nihili posted:

I can't handle this poo poo man

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The problem is Diane Feinstein does get job well. She may not be as progressive as people may like. But to get things done we can't always have two extremes not doing anything. Obama realized this during his presidency

BadOptics posted:

These people are denser than uranium.

BadOptics posted:

These people are denser than uranium.

BadOptics posted:

These people are denser than uranium.

Ytlaya posted:

So apparently poor people are poor because they're just assholes who don't make enough friends. It's just amazing to me how Ryssdal is bending over backwards to be polite and nice to this guy who is complete and utter trash.

Jazerus posted:

the casual acceptance of networking as the agreed-upon engine of advancement is really quite disgusting imo

just a huge romanesque patronage system but without the good parts

Phi230 posted:

the year is 2020 and democrats fly the swastika to appeal to white middle class voters

Condiv posted:

http://fastearningmethod.com/9-creative-ways-to-pay-rent-when-you-dont-have-anymore-plasma-to-sell/

https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/unique-ways-to-come-up-with-rent-payment/

does this count as succ?

Condiv posted:

does this count as succ?

Vox Nihili posted:

I can't handle this poo poo man

VirtualStranger posted:

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Horseshoe theory posted:

Why are we posting honeypots? Clearly it was a troll account being 'willfully dense'.

VirtualStranger posted:

Condiv posted:

why the gently caress is youtube still celebrating a royal wedding? it's loving pissing me off

GalacticAcid posted:

I generally object to fishing out no-name twitter accounts with bad takes but this one is real funny

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An extremely strange episode that has engulfed official Washington over the last two weeks came to a truly bizarre conclusion on Friday night. And it revolves around a long-time, highly sketchy CIA operative, Stefan Halper.

Four decades ago, Halper was responsible for a long-forgotten spying scandal involving the 1980 election, in which the Reagan campaign – using CIA officials managed by Halper, reportedly under the direction of former CIA Director and then-Vice-Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush – got caught running a spying operation from inside the Carter administration. The plot involved CIA operatives passing classified information about Carter’s foreign policy to Reagan campaign officials in order to ensure the Reagan campaign knew of any foreign policy decisions that Carter was considering.

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Halper, through his CIA work, has extensive ties to the Bush family. Few remember that the CIA’s perceived meddling in the 1980 election – its open support for its former Director, George H.W. Bush to become President – was a somewhat serious political controversy. And Halper was in that middle of that, too.

In 1980, the Washington Post published an article reporting on the extremely unusual and quite aggressive involvement of the CIA in the 1980 presidential campaign. “Simply put, no presidential campaign in recent memory — perhaps ever — has attracted as much support from the intelligence community as the campaign of former CIA director Bush,” the article said.

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So as it turns out, the informant used by the FBI in 2016 to gather information on the Trump campaign was not some previously unknown, top-secret asset whose exposure as an operative could jeopardize lives. Quite the contrary: his decades of work for the CIA – including his role in an obviously unethical if not criminal spying operation during the 1980 presidential campaign – is quite publicly known.

And now, as a result of some baffling choices by the nation’s largest news organizations as well as their anonymous sources inside the U.S. Government, Stefan Halper’s work for the FBI during the 2016 is also publicly known.

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To begin with, the New York Times reported in December of last year that the FBI investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia began when George Papadopoulos drunkenly boasted to an Australian diplomat about Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton. It was the disclosure of this episode by the Australians that “led the F.B.I. to open an investigation in July 2016 into Russia’s attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of President Trump’s associates conspired,” the NYT claimed.

But it now seems clear that Halper’s attempts to gather information for the FBI began before that. “The professor’s interactions with Trump advisers began a few weeks before the opening of the investigation, when Page met the professor at the British symposium,” the Post reported. While it’s not rare for the FBI to gather information before formally opening an investigation, Halper’s earlier snooping does call into question the accuracy of the NYT’s claim that it was the drunken Papadopoulos ramblings that first prompted the FBI’s interest in these possible connections. And it suggests that CIA operatives, apparently working with at least some factions within the FBI, were trying to gather information about the Trump campaign earlier than had been previously reported.

comedyblissoption posted:

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19...ntial-election/

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

Assume a deep state plot to stymie Trump.

Why is this bad?

Condiv posted:

why the gently caress is youtube still celebrating a royal wedding? it's loving pissing me off

gradenko_2000 posted:

not enough republicans