ialdabaoth posted:i had this delightful conversation with a democrat the other day about "election hacking" that concluded with an explicit call for my slimeball self to be hanged for treason
what did the Democrat have to say in response
remembering that the Democrats' first two lines of attack on Trump as president, hours after he took office, were 1) he doesn't want to live in Washington, D.C. all the time, and 2) he refuses to tell the White House press pool in advance where he's going to be for the next 48 hours. the idea seemed to be that most people in the United States would be horrified by both.
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:if hillary was 1% less a complete striving egomaniac i would suspect she deliberately threw the election
got you covered bruv
“Hillary meant to lose the election” might be my favorite galaxy brain ever pic.twitter.com/BX5XnTLY44
— pokey pup (@Whatapityonyou) July 17, 2018
i don't think any amount of conspiracy could stop the foaming at the mouth desire of the campaign staff on either side, though
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE BITCH?
Petrol posted:To Iranian President Rouhani:
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE BITCH?
this is exactly what sprang to mind when i read that tweet
Donald Trump did not draw many positive reviews after his summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin last week, at least among the punditocracy. But in a new NBC News–Wall Street Journal poll, conducted both before and after the Helsinki summit, Trump has seen his approval rating tick up to 45 percent, an all-time high for him in the survey.
Because there is LITERALLY no other way to explain it, imho.
Like, pretty much everyone in the U.S. still has hideous & stupid ideas about DPRK they got from racist sketch comedy, but most of them don’t really give a fuck about fighting it or want to do that. I think a lot of reporters and columnists had been swimming in the “bipartisan” U.S. elite perspective on the issue (occupy everything on the other side of the DMZ forever & treat “peace treaty” as profanity) at a time when most people in the U.S. were totally ignoring Korea (pretty much every day of every year between the Axis of Evil speech and the crappy Seth Rogen movie).
It’s a purely subjective impression, but it seemed like the country’s newswriters, columnists, etc. seriously overshot in their assumptions of how much of their audience would know or care why they were condemning what appeared to be a pretty common “good news” narrative within U.S. popular knowledge of the world: some kooky, mysterious Eastern type was now willing to talk peace instead of threaten people with bombs. Right around then, the poll numbers and the stories around them on most U.S. news s[ites] seemed to decouple and float into different dimensions. The people writing for those sites seemed to really, really, really believe that peaceful overtures toward DPRK would do terrible numbers, which seems uncommonly dumb even for them.
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ialdabaoth posted:Petrol posted:To Iranian President Rouhani:
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE BITCH?this is exactly what sprang to mind when i read that tweet
except he can actually do everything in that post
tbh i watched a fair bit of his press conference with putin and i thought it was completely fine, his statement was coherent and pleasant and so were his press conf answers. the interactions between a russian journalist asking a question and trump's response made them both seem like entirely reasonable people discussing serious real things. the people who were the most obnoxious were american journalists, which is what i hear was also the case at the dprk thing though i didn't watch it myself.
i'm not going to make a left case for trump or anything but it's really something how much banshee wailing there is about this. just total incomprehension. the gut-tearing horror of having an ok conversation with an Evil
Petrol posted:To Iranian President Rouhani:
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME, YOU LITTLE BITCH?
meanwhile in a bizarro reality, Trump quote tweets Kendrick Lamar - Humble to Iran and everybody loves it
drwhat posted:it aligns exactly with his deep state / media is fake news message, it's like custom made for him
tbh i watched a fair bit of his press conference with putin and i thought it was completely fine, his statement was coherent and pleasant and so were his press conf answers. the interactions between a russian journalist asking a question and trump's response made them both seem like entirely reasonable people discussing serious real things. the people who were the most obnoxious were american journalists, which is what i hear was also the case at the dprk thing though i didn't watch it myself.
i'm not going to make a left case for trump or anything but it's really something how much banshee wailing there is about this. just total incomprehension. the gut-tearing horror of having an ok conversation with an Evil
Catman is a Russian puppet. Further evidence: took over the communist faillord forum after NATO-backed originator died of obesity, has presided over criticism of democrats, is foreign, is engaged in кошка притворяется
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump is “looking to take away” the clearances of half a dozen former senior national security and intelligence officials who served in the administrations of George W. Bush or Barack Obama. Sanders accused them of profiting off their public service and making “baseless accusations” against the president.
LMAO holy shit.
This is probably the single thing the White House could do to most piss off the elder members of the “intelligence community”, i.e., the agency retirees who work to manipulate domestic politics. The former-director types have been going pretty hard lately in the press against Trump, but as a response from his administration, even just announcing that the White House is looking into revoking clearances is an extreme escalation.
I doubt they’ll be able to do it, since the guys he’s threatening will call in every last favor they can short of an actual kill squad to prevent it, but even suggesting it is a declaration of war.
sovnarkoman posted:so the "left case for trump" is for dismantling retirement benefits, good job guys
the left case for trump is beyond human understanding imo
drwhat posted:i'm not going to make a left case for trump
I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/putin-s-soccer-ball-for-trump-had-chip-that-can-transmit-data-to-nearby-phones-20180726-p4ztn7.html posted:Russian President Vladimir Putin's gift of a soccer ball to US President Donald Trump last week set off a chorus of warnings - some of them only half in jest - that the World Cup souvenir could be bugged.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina even tweeted: "I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House".
It turns out they weren't entirely wrong. Markings on the ball indicate that it contains a chip with a tiny antenna that transmits to nearby mobile phones.
But rather than a spy device, the chip is an advertised feature of the Adidas AG ball. Photographs from the news conference in Helsinki, where Putin handed the ball to Trump, show it bore a logo for a near-field communication tag. During manufacturing, the NFC chip is placed inside the ball under that logo, which resembles the icon for a WiFi signal, according to the Adidas website.
The chip allows fans to access player videos, competitions and other content by bringing their mobile devices close to the ball. The feature is included in the 2018 FIFA World Cup match ball that's sold on the Adidas website for $US165 ($222).
Adidas declined to comment on whether the chip could be a vector of a Russian hack. There is no suggestion that such balls or their chips have any security vulnerabilities. The chip itself can't be modified, according to the product description on the Adidas website. "It is not possible to delete or rewrite the encoded parameters," it says.
While the logo on the ball advertised the presence of the chip, it couldn't be determined from the photos whether the chip might have been removed, replaced with actual spy gear, or, even more remotely, whether the entire ball itself was fabricated for the event and only resembled the Adidas model in question.
sovnarkoman posted:
banned for doxxing every single rhizzone user at once