2017

Tuesday.

SENATOR FLAKE ANNOUNCED RETIREMENT WITH EPIC REBUKE OF TRUMP

Jeff Flake, Senator from Arizona and frequent target of Rage Tweets, announced his retirement at the end of term.

Take twenty minutes and Watch his speech.

His speech will be in history books. Jeff Flake spoke out against President Trump in a rebuke attacking everything from his rage tweets, his inability to say a sentence, his divisive nature, and how his policies are poisoning this country and the Republican Party.

Flake pointed out the ridiculousness of how our discourse has devolved over the last decade, and fell off of a cliff under Trump.

To quote Senator Flake, “None of this is Normal.”

SENATOR CORKER SAYS THAT US POSITION IN WORLD DEGRADED DUE TO TRUMP

Elsewhere in the Capital, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker has had enough of Trump’s act.

Bob is the head of the Foreign Relations Committee. He hears directly from Ambassadors and World Leaders, and Trump has them scared.

Whom ever takes down a traitorous administration first will have schools named after them.

SMALL TWO-MAN COMPANY FROM SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR RYAN ZINKE’S HOMETOWN SELECTED TO REBUILD PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC GRID

This is just straight up corruption. There isn’t a valid reason why a two-man company should get a contract to do what dozens of companies do all the time for less money.

Sure, they could be really good at their job, and be specially qualified for this task, but being from Zinke’s hometown makes this reek of corruption.

FROM THE “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK” DEPARTMENT: HILARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN PAID FOR PART OF STEELE DOSSIER.

No fuck, Buckwheat. The Clinton Campaign took over funding of the Steele Dossier in April, just as the Republican Primary was winding up and the unknown candidate *cough*Jeb Bush*cough* withdrew from the race.

Expect this to be blown out of the water by Right Wing Media. They’ll ignore the fact that this was paid for by a GOP Candidate.

NPR ARTICLE ABOUT MONEY LAUNDERING

Thanks, Ryan. This is an even better description of money laundering than I wrote a month or so ago.

BRAD PARSCALE, MICHAEL COHEN INTERVIEWED BY SENATE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital media expert who was vital in spreading propaganda, and Trump’s personal lawyer who supposedly met with Russians last year in Europe, both met with Congress today.

MANAFORT IS MANAFUCKED, PART 347

SDNY, Southern District of New York, is coordinating with Mueller’s team on multiple money laundering investigations.

RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS, TUESDAY EDITION

Russian journalist attacked with knife.

Russian propaganda hosted on website run by immigrant to New York.

McCain statement on Bill Browder having visa revoked.

House Intelligence Committee turning into a clusterfuck because of Dipshit Cowpoke Devin Nunes.

FBI extradited Stanislav Nazarov to United States on money laundering charges.

Florida Company tied to Russian propaganda via New York websites.

That’s it for tonight.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Daily Check-In 10/23/2017

Monday.

A lot of stories came out this weekend and today. Where I may normally try to talk about all of them, or at least as many as possible, I want to focus on just a couple that might’ve flown under the radar. I’ll mention several more in the lightning round.

BILL BROWDER, INTERPOL, AND A VISA

Over the weekend, Putin used a loophole in the Interpol system to issue a warrant for Bill Browder’s arrest. This ended up causing his visa to the United States being revoked over the weekend. It was reinstated just a couple hours ago.

This is just the latest attack on Bill Browder by the Russians. Sadly, it won’t be the last.

HILARY CLINTON AND THE SPIES AROUND HER

Get ready for some Whataboutism.

We’re going to get a few stories, starting this week, talking about the spies and agents of influence got close to Hilary Clinton.

The purpose of the stories is to show how deep the Russians have gotten in to our political system.

Expect the trolls to use this as their “what about the Russians around Hilary? Trump’s awesome!” moment.

Also, get ready for news about the Party of Regions. They were the Pro-Putin Party in Ukraine that Manafort worked with. Several of the party members approached HRC and her team over the years.

BANNON AND HIS MIDDLE EAST CONNECTIONS

Steve Bannon is up to some shit.

Remember a few weeks ago, or was it months ago, when stories came out about Flynn, Manafort, and Bannon tried to set up multiple nuclear deals with several Middle Eastern countries? Well, that’s coming back around.

Russia is just one piece of the corruption map.

RUSSIAN MACHINE NEVER BREAKS, MONDAY EDITION

Trump launders Russian money in Toronto.

Trump promises to pay legal fees for White House staffers in Russian Investigation.

Dipshit Cowpoke Devin Nunes goes rogue in search of Steele Dossier patrons.

FBI, DHS warm about cyber threats to power infrastructure.

Tony Podesta’s marketing firm registers with FARA after working with Paul Manafort.

Russian Troll account @TEN_GOP spread propaganda that was retweeted by Trump family.

JFK Papers to be released soon. Not only will Trump take credit for a law written in 1992, but if anything even slightly conspiratorial involving the CIA comes up, expect Trump to beat that drum like John Bonham.

IN OTHER NEWS

CREW lawsuit against Trump about emoluments clause gains strength.

McCain has no fucks left to give.

This is crazy. Not that Arpaio is guilty and won’t have his record wiped clean, but that obvious corruption like this isn’t even in the top 10 stories.

Senators stunned to find out that almost 1,000 American soldiers are in Niger.

Prepare for a debate on the Authorization of the Use of Military Force.

Politicians feel that Trump is a pretty shitty deal maker.

16 pieces of Obstruction of Justice.

Trump couldn’t remember name of fallen soldier while talking to widow.

Ivanka left “charity” Trump Foundation off of financial disclosure form.

That’s it for today. I’m going to start coming up with all of the ways that Trump could fuck up the Traditional Turkey Pardoning. I will come up with the worst things I can think of (that I’m okay publishing), then will revisit it afterward. I’m afraid that whatever I come up with, Trump will be even worse.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Daily Check-In 10/20/2017

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.