2017

Finally. FFS. It’s Friday.

It’s Time. It’s TIME. IT’S TIME. FOR THE NEWS DUMP!

PAUL RYAN ROASTS DONALD TRUMP AT CHARITY EVENT

Speaker Paul Ryan was a guest of honor at the Al Smith charity dinner. Part of it is a comedy routine wear guests tell some jokes. Paul Ryan had more than a few jokes about Trump. Some of them were pretty funny.

BUT HE IS STILL LOSING FRIENDS

Several GOP congressmen have already announced their retirements from the House for next year.

They sense a bloodbath coming for them. Anyone attached to Trump is a target next year.

OBAMA CALLED OUT TRUMP AND HIS POLICIES

I covered this a little yesterday, but here’s another article on Obama speaking about Trump, saying how he’s putting America back 50 years.

BUSH 43 JOINS THE FRAY

Add W to this as well.

JOHN KELLY AND THE REPRESENTATIVE

This one isn’t just weird, it’s downright nuts.

Chief of Staff John Kelly is stuck trying to defend Trump’s Snafu with the soldiers killed in Niger. In doing so, Kelly picked a fight with Rep. Frederica Wilson, who was with Mrs. Johnson when Trump called her.

Kelly’s story was debunked in about 4 seconds, and Walleye Sanders said it’s not appropriate to criticize a 4 Star General. Then Trump called everyone liars, countering what he said.

Here’s a list of 4 Star Generals Trump has criticized. There is a tweet for everything.

The media is tearing Kelly a new one, but #TeamPatriot and others on Twitter is taking a different view on this.

They’re holding true to the idea that Kelly is doing whatever he has to do to keep Trump from doing something stupid. Ok, dangerously stupid which kills a lot of people. Kelly’s statement was carefully parsed out. It sounds bad, carries Trump’s talking points which keeps Trump happy, but doesn’t deny what Representative Wilson said.

Kelly is walking a fine line.

I’m withholding judgment, but I’ll give Louise and the crew the benefit of the doubt on this. They were right with Comey. McCain, and others.

NIGER BASED OFF OF BAD INTELLIGENCE

FBI INVESTIGATES NIGER ATTACKS

THE NIGER RESCUE CHOPPER CONTRACTOR

TRUMP FUCKING WITH THE ACA ENROLLMENT PERIOD

What a fucking surprise.

TRUMP MOB TIES WITH FAT TONY. NO, NOT THE CHARACTER FROM THE SIMPSONS

Supposedly, Fat Tony helped speed up construction of Trump Tower by keeping the unions in check.

WHITE HOUSE EXECUTIVE ORDER ALLOWS FOR QUICK RECALL OF VETERAN OFFICERS TO ACTIVE DUTY

Shit. This is bad. This basically says that at the discretion of SecDef, officers can be brought back to active duty immediately, and in unlimited numbers. This was previously capped at 25 officers per year.

AIR FORCE RECALLING 1,000 PILOTS

This is scary. Hopefully this is all the above EO is used for, and not a useless war.

HOW IN THE CRYSTAL PEPSI FLAVORED FUCK DOES IVANKA HAVE A SECURITY CLEARANCE?

Seriously. How Treason Barbie have a clearance?

JOE ARPAIO STILL GUILTILY

That’s what happens when a pardon is accepted. The conviction stays on the books.

HYPOCRISY METER IS BORKED. PERSONAL EMAIL USE IS OK NOW, PER TRUMP WHITE HOUSE

I … I … I can’t even.

RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS, FRIDAY EDITION

SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MEETS WITH RUSSIANS PRESENT AT JUNE 9 MEETING

This was behind closed doors. Otherwise, I would have watched it on C-SPAN. Yes, I’m that big of a nerd.

JEFF SESSIONS IS NEGLIGENT ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN NEXT YEARS ELECTION

He has nothing planned for 2018.

THERE ARE MULTIPLE TROLL FACTORIES

Tip of the large collection of frozen water floating in the ocean.

TWITTER GIVES CONGRESS BARELY INFORMATION AT ALL

Either they don’t know how much shit they’re in, or they don’t care.

PAPADOPOULOS TRIED SETTING UP MEETINGS WITH TRUMP AND RUSSIA AS EARLY AS MARCH

I’ve talked about this before, but with so many things, it slipped through the cracks. Members of the Trump campaign tried to work with the Russians at least as early as the Primaries.

@JACK RETWEETED RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA

Holy Fucking Shit, Twitter. Really?

POLAND FIGHTING BACK AGAINST RUSSIA

Poland is fighting against Russia in cyberspace. The Poles don’t like or trust the Russians. They are getting ready for something. They saw what happened in Crimea, and don’t want that to happen to them.

22 stories. In one day.

Jesus Fucking Tapdancing Christ.

That’s it for today. I’ll do something this weekend. Not sure what yet.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Thank you, and have a good one.

Daily Check-In 10/19/2017

Thursday. Arthur Dent put it best.

DISTRACTION DU JOUR – TRUMP TWEETS, TRUMP PROJECTS ABOUT STEELE DOSSIER. FBI GETTING CLOSE, TRUMP FEELS PRESSURE

I don’t like to talk about Trump’s tweets, because this is how he sets up his distractions and diversions.

Today, a little different. He attacked Comey, Clinton, Uranium, the Steele Dossier, and the news.

Why?

Could be that the FBI is hot on his heels?

I have three guesses. Either he’s projecting again based on his own guilt, someone asked him for comments on an upcoming story, or Fox & Friends talked about it.

POTUS 43, 44 BREAK RADIO SILENCE

This could be completely coincidental, but two former Presidents spoke publicly for the first time in a long time, and both had a similar message.

George W. Bush spoke about how we must reject bigotry and hate.

Barrack Obama gave the same message today.

It could be a complete coincidence, but then again, maybe not. Former Presidents receive the same level of Intelligence briefings that the received while in office. They know what happened.

In the last few days, several moderate republicans have spoken out against Trump. They’re setting the field, giving the go-ahead to abandon Orange Julius.

VOTER SUPPRESSION AND IT’S ROLE IN 2016

Mothers Jones has an article describing the effects and methods of voter suppression and how it affected the 2016 election. New Republic followed up with one of their own.

Voter suppression is one part of swinging an election. If entire communities can be prevented from voting, it is a direct attack on Democracy itself.

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA HAS A PROFILE ON EVERY VOTER

Combine this piece with the previous section. If suppression is used, it helps to know who and where to suppress.

WHY IS TRUMP INTERVIEWING US ATTORNEYS FOR NEW YORK CITY?

This is not normal. Not in the slightest. No President has ever interviewed individual attorneys for local jurisdictions. Especially jurisdictions where they live and work. Especially if they are under investigation.

This is a level of corruption we’re not used to in the United States. This is some tinpot dictator shit.

RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS, THURSDAY EDITION

CIA corrects statement of Director Pompeo

Oligarch with ties to Trump investigated in Monaco.

White House prevents Cybersecurity Czar from testifying.

U.S. Ambassador to United Nations says that a foreign power interfering in elections could be an Act of War.

NFL OWNERS: WE WOULDN’T LET TRUMP BUY AN NFL TEAM.

Donald Trump has a problem with the NFL. They prevented him from buying the Buffalo Bills in 2014.

Shad Khan, owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars had an even better takedown of Trump.

Trump has a very long and ugly history with the NFL. He tried buying part of the Giants in the early 80’s, then the Jets. When those efforts failed, he bought the New Jersey Generals of the USFL, a rival league that played in the spring.

He then proceeded to bully the other owners into playing in the fall, and sue the NFL for running a monopoly. His hope was that the NFL would settle, and let the USFL teams join the NFL.

Trump was such a monumental dick that when the jury found in his favor, instead of forcing the NFL to pay millions or billions, the jury awarded $1 to the USFL and Trump. One Fucking Dollar.

I was a fan of the USFL as a kid, and Donald Trump killed it. That’s when I started to hate him.

That’s it for today. I wonder how News Dump Friday will unfold.

Thank you, and have a good one.

Daily Check-In 10/18/2017

HSIOW. Holy Shit, It’s Only Wednesday.

THE KEEBLER NAZI GOES IN FRONT OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, mostly as a check up for how the DOJ is doing.

At least, that was the plan.

Several senators asked Jeff about Russia, Dreamers, Russia, Trump, Russia, and Mueller.

The most interesting parts of his testimony were his back and forth with Senator Al Franken, and Jeff’s attempt at being coy with answering the questions about Mueller.

MEANWHILE, IN THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE …

Corey Lewandowski testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. He spent several hours in closed door testimony.

Corey was Trump’s first campaign manager, before he was fired for punching a reporter for Breitbart. He was then replaced by Paul Manafort.

When punching a reporter isn’t even the scummiest thing a campaign manager does, it’s a bad campaign.

ERIK PRINCE FEELS LEFT OUT OF THE INTERVIEW PARTY

Erik Prince hasn’t interviewed Mueller yet. Oh, and that back channel meeting in the Seychelles was a complete coincidence. Nothing shady there…

Said the man who tried to set himself up as a baron or governor of Afghanistan.

OUTRAGE DU JOUR – CONDOLENCES FOR A FALLEN SOLDIER

I don’t mean to belittle or demean the deaths of four Green Berets in Niger (pronounced KNEE Zhair), but Donald Trump knows how to use the media to distract from other problems.

That being said, Trump managed to screw up a condolence call to a grieving widow.

Trump didn’t even know his name. He said that “he knew what he signed up for.” He had SHS smear Obama and John Kelly to the press.

How do you fuck that up?

I’m not sure what’s more depressing, that he fucked this up, or that I’m amazed that he didn’t fuck it up worse.

By the way, the Annual Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon is about a month away. I’m taking bets as to how he’ll fuck that up. My money is on at least two racial slurs and a Hilary Clinton joke.

RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS, WEDNESDAY EDITION

There were a few things today, and it’s getting late, so let’s go to the TREASON SPEED ROUND!

Judge tosses out Oleg Deripaska’s libel suit against the Associated Press.

@TEN_GOP was a Russian Troll account with over 200k followers.

Trump Team retweeted Russian propaganda week before election.

Trolls posed as a group offering to pay for black people to take self defense classes.

Facebook and Google are involved again.

More details about the IRA.

MAGNITSKY ACT SIGNED INTO LAW IN CANADA

That’s it for today. A little note on the Russian Active Measures Campaign. The IRA is just one front, one face of the operation. The FSB and Putin wouldn’t trust this large of a mission to one group. The IRA is just one player on the field. Like CozyBear and FancyBear, they’re just a player. Putin is the coach calling the plays.

But Putin is vulnerable. If the Oligarchs lose their money, or don’t feel that Putin will get their money back, they could organize and take him down.

On top of that, the Russians themselves are fed up. Their economy might as well be non-existent at this point. It’s less than half of California.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Thank you, and have a good one

Daily Check-In 10/17/2017

Tuesday. Never a dull moment.

NEWS OF INTERVIEWS COMES OUT.

The Senate wants Documents from Flynn Jr. And Chuck Johnson. And Carter Page. None of them are cooperating.

Matthew Tait. Interviewed by Mueller. He’s the British Security Expert recruited by Peter Smith to find and corroborate HRC’s emails from the dark web.

Know who else was interviewed by Mueller?

SHOUTY SPICE MUTHA FUCKA!!!!!!!! Sean Spicer interviewed Robert Mueller for several hours, and grilled him on his statements about Comey’s firing and Trump’s meeting with the Russians in the Oval Office.

RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS, TUESDAY EDITION

Several Russian stories broke today. Details about the Internet Research Agency came out today regarding their operations, including the fact that they had 100 paid protesters in the USA, and used groups like the Heart of Texas to coordinate their actions.

The Trolls report to Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as Putin’s Chef, Per CNN.

One of Putin’s rivals, an Oligarch that he kicked out of Russia, has gone on the record to say that Putin interfered in the American election last year.

The reporter who broke the Panama Papers story was murdered by a car bomb in Malta. The Russians lost a lot of money when that came to light.

Outbrain, one of the web’s largest advertisers is investigating whether or not the Russians used their ad platform to push propaganda that affected the election.

Here’s another Article about a memo from Natlalia Veselnitskaya.

VICE WATCHES THREE DAYS OF FOX & FRIENDS

Remember when I watched a morning of Fox & Friends? Well, This writer from Vice is much braver than I.

They came to the same conclusions. Fox News isn’t there to inform or educate, but to corrupt and infuriate.

They are propaganda.

FORBES PUBLISHED NEW RICHEST 400 LIST. TRUMP FALLS ALMOST 100 PLACES, LOST $600 MILLION FROM HIS FORTUNE.

I’m surprised he hasn’t lost his fragile little mind yet. One of the stories about Trump over the years was that he would call Forbes and bitch about how low they rated his fortune. How rich someone else said he is affects him so much, that he can’t help but attack them.

He was the only person to ever call and lobby for a better position on the list.

ALABAMA SENATE RACE NECK AND NECK

Well, this is different. Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones are basically tied in polling right now.

If by some chance Doug Jones wins a Senate seat in Alabama, the deepest of the deep red south, expect shit to hit the fan.

BANNON COULD CAUSE THE DISASTER HE IS TRYING TO PREVENT

Vanity Fair has a good write up on how Steve Bannon is prepping for battle against the GOP in next year’s elections.

What the GOP fears is that Bannon will be successful in the Primary elections, but will lose to the Democrats in the general elections in 2018.

McCAIN AND TRUMP AT EACH OTHERS THROATS

Trump wants to pick a fight with John McCain. John was a POW who was tortured repeatedly, and has brain cancer. His give a fuck levels for Trump are about zero on a good day.

TOM MARINO OUT AS DRUG CZAR FOLLOWING 60 MINUTES REPORT

Trump’s pick for the head of the DEA withdrew his name following a report from 60 Minutes which showcased his championing a bill which prevented the DEA from going after drug companies for deaths caused during the ongoing opioid crisis.

I had a feeling that Tom Marino was a shady shit when he was the only member of the Foreign Relations Committee to have the same assignments as Dana Rohrbacher, and Marino was on Trump’s transition team.

MORE WOMEN COME OUT TO TALK ABOUT ASSAULTS IN HOLLYWOOD

Not necessarily related to Trump, but I’m inclined to include it. It feels like the floodgates are starting to open on this front, and will spill over.

The fallout of this has caused the value of The Weinstein Company to crater. Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of Trump,is lining up to purchase TWC.

This will be interesting to watch.

That’s it for today. I’ve got a feeling from this point on, things are going to pick up. Late October and November will some truly historic stuff

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Thank you, and have a good one