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.

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.

Thursday.

UNINSTALL KASPERSKY SOFTWARE YESTERDAY!

If you have Kaspersky Anti-Virus, or any other software installed on your computer, uninstall that shit right the fuck now.

Then, rip the hard drive out, take it to a person who can get your special files off it, and only if you don’t have backups already.

Then buy a new computer, and never, ever, ever, ever, ever install ANY Kaspersky software again.

DO IT!  This post will still be here when you’re done.

Why go to such extremes?

Here’s why.  The Russians stole a metric fucktonne of information from the NSA, and they used Kaspersky to do it.

An NSA contractor who had Kaspersky installed on their computer, had downloaded some files to their laptop.  The Russians, using Kaspersky as a backdoor, tunneled in to this machine and stole all of the files on the laptop.  Since this mental midget didn’t get caught the first time, they kept doing this, until eventually other IC agencies found out about the leak.

IS JOHN KELLY OUT AS CHIEF OF STAFF?

This one comes from the Rumor Mill.  Take it with a grain of salt.  Sea Salt works well, but if you have Himalayan Pink Rock Salt, just use it.

Earlier this week, when Trump was on his way to Las Vegas, Chief of Staff John Kelly was not on Air Force 1 when it took off.  While not completely unusual, it did raise some eyebrows.

According to a couple people on Twitter, John Kelly either already had resigned or will resign.

Yep, that’s him listening to Donald Trump fuck up a speech at the U.N. by ad-libbing that Neo-Nazis are fine people.

The reporting is a little sporadic.  @AngryWhiteHouseStaffer (Angry) and @Alt_SpicerLies (Spicy) reported early in the day that Kelly had quit last week, but was serving out his notice.

Confirmation has been sketchy on this.  Expect to hear something about this tomorrow in the FRIDAY NEWS DUMP!

GENERALS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST TRUMP

This is a bit peculiar.  In a well-functioning American Republic, the Military Leaders defer to the Civilian leadership in pretty much everything that isn’t military business.  The Military serves the Citizenry, not vice-versa.

So, when multiple generals and admirals speak out against the President and his policies, that is definitely not normal.

Speaking out against a Senior Officer is heavily frowned upon in strict chains of command like the Military. (One of the reasons I didn’t serve.  It’s not that I have a problem with authority figures, I have a problem with idiots in authority, and I don’t always say the smartest thing in the spur of the moment.)  Speaking out against the Commander in Chief is nearly verboten.

The Military is acting like the conscious of the country while the President actively does the worst thing possible at all times.

BREITBART COURTED ALT-RIGHT.  HOW THE F*** DID BUZZFEED GET ALL OF MILO’S EMAILS?

Here’s a great article by BuzzFeed about Milo Yiannopoulos and how rose through the ranks at Breitbart from a Tech Editor to the Face and Voice of the Alt-Right.  It’s a very, very long read, but it is absolutely amazing.  This is the kind of reporting that used to be only the domain of the Washington Post or the New York Times.  Like, Pulitzer quality reporting.

This article asks “How does a Gay Jew with a Greek name and Black husband end up as the poster boy for a bunch of misogynistic, racist, hate-filled, anti-democracy white supremacists and Neo-Nazis?”

And yes, I’m aware that I censored out the F-Bomb in this section title, but dropped it like 10 times so far.

TRUMP AND THE “FAKE NEWS” TWEETS

Once again, Trump calls the media FAKE NEWS.  Once again, Congress says Not Fake.

This is getting old.  Every time Trump hears about a report he doesn’t like, he cries “Fake News.”  The worse the news, that tiny-handed prick jumps on the caps lock key, then attacks the place that reached out to him or the White House by comment.

SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION IMPLICATED IN USING PRIVATE JETS FOR TRAVEL.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has been accused of taking 7 trips on private jets.  If her name sounds familiar, she’s also Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife.

On top of that, The Cryptkeeper and Trump Spokeswoman KellyAnne Conway has been on several of those flights, and more details came out today about Ryan Zinke’s use of jets.

Chao, Shulkin, Perry, Mnuchin, Price, Zinke.  5 out of 15 cabinet members.  One has been forcefully resigned already.

NYC AG RETURNS SOME OF THE MONEY DONATED BY TRUMP

Guilty Conscience Much?  Or, is he returning money in an attempt to not appear dirty AF and avoid a corruption and bribery charge?

DEBUNKED IRS SCANDAL, AND THE FRACTURING GOP

New York Magazine wrote this article breakdown about the mass hysteria that’s taking over the GOP at times, this time against the IRS.

That’s it for …, oh, what’s that?  One more story?

What’s that?  oh…

ROBERT MUELLER MET WITH CHRISTOPHER STEELE THIS PAST SUMMER!

I talked about this yesterday, but I didn’t have an article confirming it.  The Steele Dossier was originally a piece of opposition research against Donald Trump paid for by one of his opponents in the GOP Primary (*cough*Jeb Bush*cough*).  That person hired Fusion GPS, who then contracted out former MI6 Agent Christopher Steele.  Steele, having previously worked on the FIFA corruption scandal, combined some of his previous work and rolled it into his job on Donald Trump.

The Dossier is definitely worth a read.  There are some salacious claims in there, but much of it has already been confirmed.  Multiple meetings, people, and places have been corroborated by the press, and reverse engineered by law enforcement and Congressional investigators.

This past summer, Steele shared his info with the FBI.  He shared his notes, his sources, his raw intel, all of it with the FBI.

And Bobby Three Sticks was part of that conversation.

That’s it for today.  I’m going to do a little neatening up tonight, and plan my next few long form stories.  I’ve got a few in the pipeline, like a breakdown of the Justice League, more articles on Crimes, a few more breakdowns of how the government works, how to spot propaganda, and why voter fraud is a red herring.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur