Thursday, Thursday. I’ll try to make this shorter today, as I just finished up an article about Fox & Friends – 10 Minutes Is Enough
Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning and… Does this sentence ever end well? If I make this a multiple choice question, can you guess at this point?
Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning and…
- Talked about how beautiful the statues to Traitors to the United States are.
- Directly compared Robert E. Lee and George Washington.
- Attacked the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee for not standing by him as he defended Nazis in public.
- Advised our military leaders to perform war crimes and crimes against humanity, based on a debunked story.
- Engaged in secessionist rhetoric with his base, hoping to scare anyone looking to remove him from office.
- ALL OF THE ABOVE
Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
Having a hard time with today’s question? I’ll give you a hint. It’s Donald Fucking Trump.
That’s rigth, 6. All of the above.
After studying Trump for the last couple years, when Orange Julius goes off like this, shit’s about to hit the fan.
What could that be?
First, Congressman Steve Cohen promises to introduce Articles of Impeachment. He doesn’t say what charges specifically, but at this point, there’s enough to go around.
Steve Bannon had this interview where he proposed a trade war with China, smeared Trump on North Korea, proposed raising taxes on the rich, and about some of the infighting. Here’s a summary on Axios.
Speaking of Bannon, over the last few days, a couple rumors have been floating around about Bannon’s connections to Gamergate, World of Warcraft, and Russia. I need to find more details on it, but the short version is that Bannon and the Alt-Right stoke the hate that occurred in Gamergate, especially the Anti-Feminism, Anti-Women stuff, to a bunch of men that have been getting real good at doing some low-level coding to mine in WoW and other games. With a little bit of proper encouragement, these men were pushed to some hacker forums on the dark web, where they were likely frequenting anyway, and urged a few of them to take on work outside of gaming, making malware and other stuff. Eventually, they were radicalized, and started working with state-sponsored hacking groups like Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear.
Speaking of Fancy Bear, they’re still at work. Remember when Diaper Donny released his mails to the world showing that he wasn’t colluding with the Russians when the email chain said flat out he was? Well, around that time, the White House started pushing a story about the “Real Collusion Story” between HRC and Ukraine? The White House started talking about this on July 10. Fox News picked it up on July 12, referencing a website from some group called Cyber Berkut. Who are they? Fancy Bear. That site went up on July 12, claiming to have emails between HRC and Ukraine.
Yesterday, Chuck Todd and Shepard Smith both reached out to any and all Republicans they could, looking for anyone to defend Donald Trump. No one agreed to come on their shows.
Newt Gingrich said that there are no very fine people that are Nazis on Fox News.
The Dow Jones fell 150 points today over fears that as long as Trump is in office, Republicans won’t get their tax cuts.
Republicans across the country are doing the slow dance away from Donald Trump, but not fast enough or hard enough. When more than a couple openly ask for him to step down, call it a game for Donald Trump.
That’s it for today’s update, unless something big happens between 18:20 and 22:00. I’m going to work on a couple of the GTKYG series, starting with the Federal System, The Branches, Impeachment, and Pardons. I’ve got a feeling they’re going to be in the news quite a bit coming up.
None of this is Normal 