US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

slate once again states the obvious like it's some new revelation

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/the-obstruction-case-is-getting-solid.html

That story about Dutch intelligence stumbling on the Russian hacking operation is crazy:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/dutch-agencies-provide-crucial-intel-about-russia-s-interference-in-us-elections%7Ea4561913

The Cozy Bear hackers are in a space in a university building near the Red Square. The group's composition varies, usually about ten people are active. The entrance is in a curved hallway. A security camera records who enters and who exits the room. The AIVD hackers manage to gain access to that camera. Not only can the intelligence service now see what the Russians are doing, they can also see who's doing it. Pictures are taken of every visitor. In Zoetermeer, these pictures are analyzed and compared to known Russian spies. Again, they've acquired information that will later prove to be vital.

Jimmy Kimmel is interviewing Stormy Daniels after the SOTU

and Maxine Waters is delivering her response on BET

options 4u

LBI shared the AIVD / Cozy Bear story earlier but he totally buried the lede imo

Shared it in the Trump-Russia collusion thread iirc

Oh that’s right. Amazing this shit is all public already. SIGINT bidness is supposed to stay out of the news for 25 years at least, clearly the world has moved on

The first head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slammed President Trump and Republicans in a new interview, saying their environmental policies and denials of the threat posted by climate change are dangerous for the U.S.

“It’s a threat to the country,” William Ruckelshaus, the first head of the EPA who was appointed under former President Richard Nixon, told Huffington Post. “If you don’t step up and take care of real problems, and don’t do anything about it, lives will be sacrificed.”

“They certainly are killing everything,” he continued.

Ruckelshaus compared Trump’s EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, to Anne Gorsuch, the former EPA administrator under former President Ronald Reagan who was held in contempt of Congress after refusing to turn over records related to the mishandling of toxic waste.

“They don’t believe in the mission of the agency,” Ruckelshaus told Huffington Posy. “Neither one of them did. Anne Gorsuch did not, and I don’t think Pruitt does either. They think we’re over-regulating.”

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/371053-first-epa-chief-gop-climate-change-denial-a-threat-to-the-country

Ruckelshaus with the sick burns

A reminder: the awful Anne Gorsuch gave birth to an awful Gorsuch

speaking of toxic dynasties

no pun intended

Gorsuck

slate once again states the obvious like it's some new revelation

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/the-obstruction-case-is-getting-solid.html

― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:14 PM (eight hours ago)

at some point slate seems to have ditched the #slatepitch approach in favor of "here's why it's bad that donald trump did this bad thing."

oh man

Oh...so NOW we know which organizations received political donations from the Mercer Family Foundation
This afternoon is going to be 🔥LIT🔥 pic.twitter.com/y4ASLGUPmr

— Alt_SeanSpicer'sMic🎙🤦🏻‍♀️🎙 (@Alt_Spicerlies) January 27, 2018

"sucess academy charter schools" [sic]

lmao

lol

“There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too well because it was getting too cold all over the place. The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level.”

Oh my god, he doesn’t know that they ice caps melt in the summer and then freeze again in the winter, does he? No one has explained that to him yet and obviously he didn’t read any of the reports, not even the special unique one they make just for him that’s all pictures. jfc

i mean when has he exhibited curiosity toward anything not covered in cheap gold plating

(including glorification of himself in the “cheap gold plating” obv)

Speaking of immense mineral wealth, when he was elected I figured he’d be all about oil and gas exploration in the conveniently opened Northern Passage (its crazy, in the summers all the ice there magically melts for no reason now! No one has any idea why!!!!!!!!). He definitely supports it, or at least it’s important to the stooges that he appointed positions of power, but he doesn’t seem to have made it a personal issue. It’s just kind of surprising because it the mineral rights disputes up there seem perfect for him - lots of other countries with claims that he could provoke conflict with, an element later of science and statistics that he could completely abuse and ignore, a huge cash reward for whoever wins by fucking everyone over, etc

is anyone up there calling him names?

maybe someone can tell him it’s rife with sharks

but now they’re setting records. They’re at a record level. what a disgusting liar

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/sea-ice-extent-sinks-to-record-lows-at-both-poles

Seriously, he’s probably looking at the sea ice extent from this winter (when most of it re-solidifies) and comparing it to the summer, when it melts. He’s really that dumb. You have to think of the dumbest possible thing.

This is the dumbest apocalypse ever.

That’s not a giant meteor hurling toward earth, with an eta of 2 hours and 99.9999% chance of collision according to nasa! That is tv. It is a big tv screen showing a new movie that we haven’t seen. The Chinese have installed a big tv screen in the sky to scare us. I hope that I am on that tv screen

it's basically Mars Attacks! but the aliens are from here

I’m sure Piers Morgan quickly corrected him on this. He gets asked to be on television all the time so he must really deserve it

"people keep falsely saying New York is besieged by monsters. why just yesterday I saw fresh delicious Hi-C pouring through the streets. I am sure liberals will insist it's blood"

If #2020election were today, 52% of #Trump voters would “definitely” re-elect him (was 49% last April) @FoxNews #Poll https://t.co/YHLWBp4GFX pic.twitter.com/UtSal0fpp3

— Fox News Poll (@foxnewspoll) January 28, 2018

that seems extremely low

sure but remember that trump voters have a record of lying to polls

yeah i'd like to see how obama voters answered that in 2010

probably with non-sequiturs

'we'll see what happens, we'll see what happens'

a long read on manafort: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/

Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2018

If only there were a platform to semd a targeted message to one particular person while everyone else could also see it

I wasn't going to watch the SOTU, but everyone seems to think he's finally getting ready to become presidential.

SOTU? More like STFU.

I read that Fox poll as 'more people who voted trump would not now, as opposed to April".

New go-to Trump pic:

https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/266926e/2147483647/resize/1160x/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fdd%2F7e%2F22b7778141508db111d8712ebf53%2F180126-trump-pliers-ap-1160.jpg

i think it's a shame that they stop doing voter polls on how people will vote on an election after the election ends. seriously, somebody poll people and ask them how they voted in 2016. i'd love to know what the results are.

Trump in a landslide.

Stupid:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/schumers-to-do-list-fix-daca-win-the-senate-manage-trump/2018/01/28/2d0ba4ea-02a6-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?__twitter_impression=true

So Kurtz wasn't being a sock. He was quoting and apparently has not heard of retweeting or quotation marks.

Paywalled, what's the gist of the WaPo piece?

Skimmed, but ... DACA fails, Republicans get blamed, giving cover to red state Dems to toe away from immigration, helping them get reelected while Chuck works on snagging 2 seats and defending 10 others?

infinity chess!

Pretty much, yeah. Also, moderate Dems successfully pressured to end the shutdown, which means there was no strategy at all going into it.

Oh, and Schumer thinks 'economic populism' means saying 'no WE'RE the ones working for the middle class'

One suspicion is that ending the shutdown was what Manchin demanded to run again. He was ready to retire.