Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

i send bibi govt $, but vlad gets checks from my accounts, but only until we can move some stuff around.

"With the normalization of Trump’s antics, it is unfortunately all too easy to overlook the sheer rottenness of Mitch McConnell."

http://www.mikelofgren.net/mitch-mcconnells-sinister-role-in-the-russian-hacks/

^ article identifies McConnell as a shitbag, which we all knew already. but its case for McConnell committing treason is worthless.

McConnell's putrefying mug alone makes it difficult to overlook his rottenness.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-russian-journalists-think-of-how-american-reporters-cover-putin-and-trump/

^ good corrective to the "putin the chess player" vibe of a lot of russia reporting

This goes way past dog whistle... https://t.co/9VJoPFEsEM

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 7, 2017

On the whole, said Mikhail Zygar, a political journalist and the author of “All the Kremlin’s Men,” a well-sourced insider look at the cloistered world of Russian politics, the way the U.S. media has covered the Russia scandal has made “Putin seem to look much smarter than he is, as if he operates from some master plan.” The truth, Zygar told me, “is that there is no plan—it’s chaos.”

By way of an example, Zygar narrated what he saw as the total disorder that has marked Russia’s military campaign in Syria, which began with a surprise incursion of air power, in September, 2015. Putin seems to consider the intervention a success, because it outmaneuvered Western attempts to isolate him and elevated him to the position of global statesman; but, whatever the achievements, they came out of an absolutely slapdash policy, according to Zygar. “Nothing was calculated,” Zygar said. “There was no strategy, no preparatory work, no coördination with Iran, none with Turkey either, which is how we almost ended up in a war—not to mention the huge amount of money that was simply stolen in the course of this operation.”

According to Zygar’s sources, Putin forced Russia’s military prosecutor into retirement, in April, before he could deliver a report to the country’s upper house of parliament that would have revealed substantial financial losses in Syria due to corruption. Such cynicism and malfeasance is more the rule than the exception, Zygar said. He retold the story of how Putin showed Oliver Stone a video that was supposedly of Russian forces bombing ISIS fighters—“our aviation at work,” Putin told Stone—which turned out to be a lifted clip from 2013 of U.S. pilots attacking Taliban positions in Afghanistan. Zygar shook his head with laughter. “They couldn’t even film a two-minute video!”

gee who does this sound like

jfc at that Palin tweet

Agreed, the Putin-as-mastermind thing I don't buy. Ultimately it's just mutual levels of fronting for perceived home audiences.

i don't understand it.

Trump Gives Speech to the People of Poland, Says 14 Words That Leave Americans Stunned https://t.co/8iKHEQemn9

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) July 7, 2017

the purported events, or the coverage of them?

― Karl Malone,

the events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

oh.

i want to go back to 20 seconds ago, when i didn't know what that meant

loool ugh me too

john podesta's gonna get benghazi'd by gowdy, isn't he :(

what?

https://youtu.be/WEeS-gXkfY4?t=18

Putin looking OLD

hfs i just learned some white supremacist bullshit hatespeech. i spent like 30 seconds counting words and was like 13, 15, 13, 12 wtf he didn't say 14 fucking words wtf is this?

know your enemies, folks

added Palin's tweet to the Wikipedia article. how long before some asshole reverts it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

since it's not signed "SP" it's probably an intern that wrote it who will be of course thrown under the bus

looks like it's already been expunged.

yup. I undid the undo...lolz. not a fight worth fighting but hey

I'm always surprised at the tenacity of wikipedia editors - especially on such trivial topics like "Is this band NOTABLE enough for wikipedia!?!?"

who cares

(The Sarah Palin tweets link to this article is tenuous and speculative currently. If there is some sort of confirmation, it could be readded.) (undo)

"Yes, I meant it as a White Power allusion" - an admission that is not coming. hence why they're dog whistles.

I got this for trying to make a page for a Howlin' Wolf record!

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of music-related topics, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue.

WTF!

unfortunately paywalled, but this was a good article on wikipedia's deletionists iirc http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/03/20/the-charms-of-wikipedia/

our only hope

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hanlepedia_Wiki

meanwhile, I posted a reference on a song's page that my friend and three other people sang the song at karaoke at a local bar to see how long it would stay up, and it stayed on the page for like 3 months

TILLERSON: The two leaders also acknowledged the challenges of cyberthreats and interference in the democratic processes of the United States and other countries and agreed to explore creating a framework around which the two countries can work together to better understand how to deal with the cyberthreats, both in terms of how these tools are used to interfere with the internal affairs of countries, but also how these tools are used to threaten infrastructure, how these tools are used from a terrorism standpoint as well.

Mr. Arsonist can you help us fireproof our home?

I have read somewhere that you can easily get aroudn the notability guidelines if you know how - ie. if you can cite "sources" that mention you in some way even if you are nto well known at all

"i actually meant his 13 word sentence about the west's fight against extremism, but mis-counted. duh, me. sorry! ~shrug emoticon~"

xxpost I was thinking more along the lines of offering 'protection' because it sure would be a shame if something unfortunate were to happen to that country you have there, comrade. But arsonist metaphor also works.

too bad two scoops didn't go more alpha on the handshake

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/twitter-disappointed-over-historic-but-normal-trump-putin-handshake-at-g20/story-8ybZr1t6R7irL6wTARKhiL.html

I have to say I absolutely love the nickname Donnie Two-Scoops. Way better than Drumpf or Cheeto Jesus or whatever else I've heard.

yeah it's my preferred nomenclature, reminiscent of a shitty Dick Tracy villain

TILLERSON: The two leaders also acknowledged the challenges of cyberthreats and interference in the democratic processes of the United States and other countries and agreed to explore creating a framework around which the two countries can work together to better understand how to deal with the cyberthreats, both in terms of how these tools are used to interfere with the internal affairs of countries, but also how these tools are used to threaten infrastructure, how these tools are used from a terrorism standpoint as well.

Ironically, Russia and China have been pressing for a dedicated international treaty covering cyber security for years (and have signed a bilateral one covering it) but the US has always resisted - either because they think it is better to fit cyber crime, espionage, etc, into the existing framework of international law or because they don't want to limit their own offensive capabilities, depending on who you ask.

this seems pretty convincing as an explanation of Palin's 14 words tweet (explanation but not really exculpation given that this is surely an occupational hazard of retweeting articles from crypto-nazi websites)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-sarah-palin-tweeted-the-neo-nazi-slogan-14-words?via=twitter_page

Palin did not immediately return requests for comment on the matter, but the answer for her social-media captions more realistically lies in the Young Conservative website’s backend.

While the headline and the article’s URL make no mention of the neo-Nazi phrase, one astute Twitter user pointed out that the manually selected Facebook caption—which automatically comes up when a user clicks the “Share” button on YoungCon’s website—contains the “14 words” reference.

Donnie Two Scoops loves the cyber!

xp

ironies abound. to think that after all this time and patriotic chest beating the republicans, not the democrats, would sell out to russia is just too much :)

It's no exaggeration to say a vote for Republicans is a vote to not cure Alzheimer's https://t.co/CGlOXofpMb pic.twitter.com/N4MDbOpBy1

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) July 7, 2017

That clearly is an exaggeration

The only problem with this is that it'll piss off Merle's shade when Trump ends up signing it.

Looks like next week, House is considering HR 1988, a bill to name a post office in Bakersfield, Calif. after MERLE HAGGARD

🤠

— Jake Holzman (@jacob_holzman) July 7, 2017

A thing I learnt today:

Hamburg still has cobblestones

what's underneath

The three original Beatles.

The three original Beatles.

The three original Beatles.

The three original Beatles.