TBeats posted:

She is goddamn scary looking

TBeats posted:

She is goddamn scary looking

Genocide Tendency posted:

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/892105071894249472

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/892104256509104130

Genocide Tendency posted:

Fun Fact:

https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/892105071894249472

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/257847692057772032

TheGreasyStrangler posted:

He's going to kill himself, isn't he?

TBeats posted:

She is goddamn scary looking

Blind Rasputin posted:

Did we fly a bunch of bombers over NK today as a show of force? Is that a good idea? It also seems.. Like an empty threat to me.

Blind Rasputin posted:

Did we fly a bunch of bombers over NK today as a show of force? Is that a good idea? It also seems.. Like an empty threat to me.

McNally posted:

If they flew over NK with impunity, I'd argue that's not really an empty threat.

Though I doubt they actually flew over NK.

Blind Rasputin posted:

Did we fly a bunch of bombers over NK today as a show of force? Is that a good idea? It also seems.. Like an empty threat to me.

TheGreasyStrangler posted:

He's going to kill himself, isn't he?

quote:

On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Germany last month, President Trump’s advisers discussed how to respond to a new revelation that Trump’s oldest son had met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign — a disclosure the advisers knew carried political and potentially legal peril.

The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for Donald Trump Jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn’t be repudiated later if the full details emerged.

But within hours, at the president’s direction, the plan changed.

Flying home from Germany on July 8 aboard Air Force One, Trump personally dictated a statement in which Trump Jr. said he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children” when they met in June 2016, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations. The statement, issued to the New York Times as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was “not a campaign issue at the time.”

The claims were later shown to be misleading.

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Although misleading the public or the press is not a crime, advisers to Trump and his family told The Washington Post that they fear any indication that Trump was seeking to hide information about contacts between his campaign and Russians almost inevitably would draw additional scrutiny from Mueller.

Trump, they say, is increasingly acting as his own lawyer, strategist and publicist, often disregarding the recommendations of the professionals he has hired.

“He refuses to sit still,” the presidential adviser said. “He doesn’t think he’s in any legal jeopardy, so he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself.”

Trump has said that the Russia probe is “the greatest witch hunt in political history,” calling it an elaborate hoax created by Democrats to explain Clinton losing an election she should have won.

Because Trump believes he is innocent, some advisers explained, he therefore does not think he is at any legal risk for a coverup. In his mind, they said, there is nothing to conceal.

cowboy elvis posted:

Dunning-Krueger

bird food bathtub posted:

2018 ain't looking too good though. If Pootie Poot goes whole hog and just flat out hacks the elections with no subtlety to make the entire thing appear untrustworthy to both sides it could get ugly.

RFC2324 posted:

Trump is going to claim any evidence Mueller finds is fabricated, isn't he?

RFC2324 posted:

Trump is going to claim any evidence Mueller finds is fabricated, isn't he?

Wasabi the J posted:

Every republican I know jacks off to their power fantasy american movies like Red Dawn so i suggest bombing russia would be a good start to unifying the country.

poo poo, it'd even be good for putin; he'd actually have an outside threat to get that populist base deepthroating him even harder.

quote:

Christian Broadcast News has suggested President Donald Trump’s cabinet is the most evangelical cabinet in history even more than born again Christian George W. Bush.

“These are godly individuals that God has risen to a position of prominence in our culture,” said Capitol Ministries president and founder Ralph Drollinger. According to CBN, the majority of the cabinet officials attend a frequent Bible study class, that is the first of its kind in at least 100 years.

He has long maintained that changing the hearts of lawmakers to see a Christian worldview could guide them to making good policies. While he doesn’t lobby on behalf of peace or advocate policies that would fit a Jesus-like agenda, he has started a Bible study group in 40 state capitols as well as foreign capitols. He teaches weekly Bible study classes for the U.S. House and Senate and now leads a group of nearly all of Trump’s cabinet officials.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Education Secretary Betsy Devos, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are all regular attendees.

The most notable, however, is Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“He’ll go out the same day I teach him something and I’ll see him do it on camera and I just think, ‘Wow, these guys are faithful, available and teachable and they’re at Bible study every week they’re in town,'” Drollinger said of his influence.

He said that the group is the “best” he’s “ever taught” because the officials “are so teachable; they’re so noble; they’re so learned.”

CommieGIR posted:

CommieGIR posted:

evangelicals.txt

quote:

(CNN)A self-described "email prankster" in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.

"Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August," the fake Jared Kushner on an Outlook account wrote to the official White House email account of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert. "It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible (sic) quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening."

Bossert wrote back: "Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can't refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is" (redacted).
Bossert did not respond to CNN's request for comment; the email prankster said he was surprised Bossert responded given his expertise. The emails were shared with CNN by the email prankster.

White House officials acknowledged the incidents and said they were taking the matter seriously. "We take all cyber related issues very seriously and are looking into these incidents further," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN.

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One such exchange appears to have possibly played a role in the tensions between then- White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, who resigned from his job earlier today, and since-fired White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

Masquerading as Priebus, the prankster emailed Scaramucci's official account using a mail.com account on Saturday, the day after Priebus' resignation was announced.

"I had promised myself I would leave my hands mud free," wrote the fake Priebus, "but after reading your tweet today which stated how; 'soon we will learn who in the media who has class, and who hasn't', has pushed me to this. That tweet was breathtakingly hypocritical, even for you. At no stage have you acted in a way that's even remotely classy, yet you believe that's the standard by which everyone should behave towards you? General Kelly will do a fine job. I'll even admit he will do a better job than me. But the way in which that transition has come about has been diabolical. And hurtful. I don't expect a reply."

The very real Scaramucci responded: "You know what you did. We all do. Even today. But rest assured we were prepared. A Man would apologize."

Fake Priebus wrote back: "I can't believe you are questioning my ethics! The so called 'Mooch', who can't even manage his first week in the White House without leaving upset in his wake. I have nothing to apologize for."

Actual Scaramucci responded: "Read Shakespeare. Particularly Othello. You are right there. My family is fine by the way and will thrive. I know what you did. No more replies from me."

Two Finger posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/892147656319004672

CommieGIR posted:

The final finger to the Mooch.

M_Gargantua posted:

Since it was Kelly who fired him what do you think the odds were he didn't tell trump he was doing that first? Another reason he got escorted off the premises so that he couldn't go running to the ovalgold course to tattle and make trump un-fire him.

facialimpediment posted:

you've gotta be loving

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politics/white-house-officials-tricked-by-email-prankster/index.html

quote:

Othello