a quick poll about Russia and Donald Trump

xxp: It didn't!

even if we do get our own spacious modernist house in order what are we gonna do about those third world nations full of assholes :(

Whoa, just noticed this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NotN9NbGYNU

Look at the comment from "Lynne the Mad Scientist" and then check out the videos she has posted:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MadScientist77777/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd

Don't hate on her just because she's a Momus fan dude

Last Friday, most major media outlets touted a major story about Russian attempts to hack into U.S. voting systems, based exclusively on claims made by the Department of Homeland Security. “Russians attempted to hack elections systems in 21 states in the run-up to last year’s presidential election, officials said Friday,” began the USA Today story, similar to how most other outlets presented this extraordinary claim.

So what was wrong with this story? Just one small thing: it was false. The story began to fall apart yesterday when Associated Press reported that Wisconsin – one of the states included in the original report that, for obvious reasons, caused the most excitement – did not, in fact, have its election systems targeted by Russian hackers.... Then the story collapsed completely last night. The Secretary of State for another one of the named states, California, issued a scathing statement repudiating the claimed report...

None of this means that every Russia claim is false, nor does it disprove the accusation that Putin ordered the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta’s email inboxes (a claim for which, just by the way, still no evidence has been presented by the U.S. government). Perhaps there were some states that were targeted, even though the key claims of this story, that attracted the most attention, have now been repudiated.

But what it does demonstrate is that an incredibly reckless, anything-goes climate prevails when it comes to claims about Russia. Media outlets will publish literally any official assertion as Truth without the slightest regard for evidentiary standards.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/

what could it MEAN? opinions vary.

lol except not in the brazilian dacha

There are literally no journalistic standards or evidentiary requirements for claims about Russia, & noting that means you're unpatriotic. https://t.co/g5ZLC04nP2

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 22, 2017

Lol yes the Secretary of State for California is totally better equipped to assess cybersecurity issues than DHS et al.

obstreperous ass clown.

what could it MEAN? opinions vary.

lol except not in the brazilian dacha

There are literally no journalistic standards or evidentiary requirements for claims about Russia, & noting that means you're unpatriotic. https://t.co/g5ZLC04nP2
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 22, 2017
― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Thursday, September 28, 2017 2:28 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one of the worst posts I've seen on here in a while

someone needs to tell the Wisconsin Elections Commission to take this fake news off their website.

lol xpost

who the fuck is demanding evidentiary standards in journalism dipshit

Journalistic standards are good and TheIntercept should have employed some when they were pushing bullshit stories based on weak assumptions over stolen emails in the last stretch of the election. That would have been nice.

Well it’s an RT subsidiary, what do you expect

you're so predictable, spymaster, in your delusions

Frederik, plz defenestrate

who the fuck is demanding evidentiary standards in journalism dipshit

― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:11 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, im the dipshit. not the shit-posting russiagate centrist dad

alfa bank's american defense attorney is now the head of the american department of justice's criminal investigation division

https://www.courthousenews.com/judiciary-committee-approves-trump-pick-doj-crime-chief/

#mrga

Perhaps . . . 2scoops's only motivation was a hotel in Moscow. He's been dreaming of that since 1987. He tried several times prior to the campaign to get one and they all fell through. It seems, through the Cohen/Sater emails, that he was really hoping he could pull off the deal they came up with at the Miss Universe pageant.

Now, parallel to all that are two other plots: Putin and Trump's kids/family.

Putin clearly wanted sanctions lifted. Could be his entire purpose with Trump was to

a) sow discord in the US, furthering the potential Balkanization of America

and

b) on the off chance 2scoops somehow beat Hillary, to erase sanctions.

If 2scoops pulled off b), he would've been rewarded with that sizable share of Rosneft, or he would finally get his Trump Hotel Moscow.

As for the scoopspawn, maybe they wanted him to win, or at least not get his ass handed to him in a "reverse Reagan '84". To that end, they enlisted the help of the GRU and FSB to help their cyber wing of the campaign, with Kushner directing it. Half Scoop and Eric(!) possibly did a lot of the side deals to make sure daddy's dream of Trump Hotel Moscow became true regardless of the outcome.

A lot of the shadier non-Trump family were likely hired by Stone (who Trump hired because they're bros), hired by someone hired by Stone, or already a longtime Trump associate (Cohn, Sater, etc.)??????????

glad we finally figured out who is sowing discord in the US

http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/ian-mackaye-2014-billboard-650.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-michigan-wisconsin/index.html

xp

Funny, but he was indeed spotted hanging out at the juggalo march.

xpost If accurate that seems pretty huge.

Why can't the Senate get this basic information about the Steele dossier? Who is hiding it, and why? pic.twitter.com/PyZYpZdbOk

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 4, 2017

apparently, glenn simpson, the fusion GPS guy who commissioned the report

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-glenn-simpson-reveal-clients-trump-dossier-investigators/story?id=49367909

While Simpson’s attorney said his client provided significant details about his firm’s findings, he did not reveal the identities of those who paid for his research.

so someone's protecting their sources, why is this a story? I don't get it

I always thought the lore around the dossier was that it was ordered by a GOP primary foe like Jeb or Rubio or Cruz.

obviously they can't get that info because Steele refuses to cooperate and they can't subpoena him.

Greenwald is not v smart sometimes.

He is playing dumb on purpose to obscure the fact that he helped Trump by pushing Russian leaks.

I think Greenwald is trying to insinuate something, but there are multiple equally plausible inferences you could draw here, and too little info to assume anything.

well well well

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-dossier/trump-dossier-on-russia-links-now-part-of-special-counsels-probe-sources-idUSKBN1C92WN

The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump’s campaign and associates

pee pee pee

LOL

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-trolls-schooled-house-cards-185648522.html

Six intelligence leaders -- including [former KANSAS representative and current CIA chief Mike] Pompeo and [(Benedict) Donald] Trump's DNI Dan Coats -- were asked by lawmakers on the Senate intelligence committee whether they agree that Russian intelligence agencies were responsible for hacking and the leaking of information to influence the US election. All six said yes.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/19/politics/cia-pompeo-russia-meddling-election/index.html

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-campaign-digital-director-interviewed-house-intel-committee

to be a fly on the wall

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/358138-tillerson-meets-with-russian-ambassador

http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_article/public/tillersonrex_061417kc_1.jpg

^^^ lego hair

yes

Most every Russia story is how we built a flaw into our society and are shocked to find a nation exploiting it instead of a company.

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) November 1, 2017

fake news

http://www.newsweek.com/putin-trump-elected-clinton-700761

A guy who hasn't worked in the Kremlin since 2011 and wasn't actually close to Putin doing a mind-reading exercise? Yeah, I'd call that fake news.

ah newsweek ye have turned inot a too busy distracting awful website that is unreadable and annoying

"Trump recounted the exchange, remarking that the man, who he identified as retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman said, "That's my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you."

"And I said, 'Man, that’s like big stuff. I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," Trump said. "This was much easier.”

Trump then invited Dorfman to appear onstage with him on camera, as the two posed for photographs and Trump flashed a thumbs-up before placing the Purple Heart back in his suit jacket pocket."

wonder how Dorfman felt about all that

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/DORFonGOLF.jpg

CONFIRMED: Russian-linked hacker Guccifer 2.0 edited the hacked DNC documents before leaking them!https://t.co/00losrYCxS pic.twitter.com/DMjMGgmNn6

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) November 3, 2017

VERIFIED:

THREAD:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-associate

fake news

all this Paradise Papers shit is ridiculous in a bad way. basically everything about this admin is completely mobbed up with Putin.

or at least that's like the first two or three stories I've heard. that said I sincerely do welcome the ShariVari post wherein he just points out that it has ever been thus since at least 2000 and if you "elect" a Trump you should not be surprised by anything

Hello,

I want Paradise Papers of class IX(Chemistry,Biology,Pakistan Studies,English & Sindhi) according to new syllabus.
Thanks..