Flag-wrapped patriotism is no substitute for compassion; anger and hostility no match for love. Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it. Leading their charge is Donald Trump, a bone spur warrior, a liar and a fraud, a grotesque caricature of a strong man, with the backbone of a bully..
PROTESTERS CLEAR OUT AFTER PORTLAND POLICE DECLARE UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY OUTSIDE MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Friday night’s protest comes on the heels of two nights of demonstrations outside the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct, both of which resulted in clashes.
Russia is using a range of techniques to denigrate Joseph R. Biden Jr., American intelligence officials said Friday in their first public assessment that Moscow continues to try to interfere in the 2020 campaign to help President Trump.
At the same time, the officials said China preferred that Mr. Trump be defeated in November and was weighing whether to take more aggressive action in the election.
But officials briefed on the intelligence said that Russia was the far graver, and more immediate, threat. While China seeks to gain influence in American politics, its leaders have not yet decided to wade directly into the presidential contest, however much they may dislike Mr. Trump, the officials said.
The assessment, included in a statement released by William R. Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, suggested the intelligence community was treading carefully, reflecting the political heat generated by previous findings.
The White House has objected in the past to conclusions that Moscow is working to help Mr. Trump, and Democrats on Capitol Hill have expressed growing concern that the intelligence agencies are not being forthright enough about Russia’s preference for him and that the agencies are introducing China’s anti-Trump stance to balance the scales.
Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence AgenciesAug. 8, 2020 NYTimes - Related Link The assessment appeared to draw a distinction between what it called the “range of measures” being deployed by Moscow to influence the election and its conclusion that China prefers that Mr. Trump be defeated.
It cited efforts coming out of pro-Russia forces in Ukraine to damage Mr. Biden and Kremlin-linked figures who “are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television.”
well of course china and iran prefer biden. he's an imbecile...
The top counterintelligence official in the U.S. government warned Friday of ongoing interference and influence efforts by China, Russia and Iran.
William Evanina, who leads the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that the U.S. government has assessed that China prefers President Trump losing the election, because Beijing considers him "unpredictable," while Russia is working to undermine Democrat Joe Biden.
"Ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections, foreign states will continue to use covert and overt influence measures in their attempts to sway U.S. voters' preferences and perspectives, shift U.S. policies, increase discord in the United States, and undermine the American people's confidence in our democratic process," Evanina said.
In discussing tactics, Evanina noted that the countries could try to compromise election equipment either to affect results or give the illusion of tampered results, but he did not say that such activities have been observed.
China has grown more aggressive in recent months, criticizing the U.S. response to the coronavirus, although Evanina noted that Beijing continues to weigh the "risks and benefits of aggressive action" when it comes to influencing the election.
Russia, however, has been observed using a number of tactics, including spreading propaganda on social media and Russian television, to denigrate Biden, the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee.
Iran also seeks to spread disinformation online, with the intent to undermine U.S. institutions and Trump, and to divide the country ahead of the election, according to Evanina.
The statement did not refer to any specific cyberattack attempts on the part of any of the three countries in the style of Russia in 2016. And Evanina noted that it would be difficult, due to the disparate nature of America's election infrastructure, to affect vote tallying at scale.
Similarly, Chris Krebs, the Department of Homeland Security's top cybersecurity official, said in a speech this week that his team had seen "nothing at the directed, focused level of 2016."
The year "2020 will be the most protected and most secure election in modern history," Krebs said.
In early July of last year, the first draft of a classified document known as a National Intelligence Estimate circulated among key members of the agencies making up the U.S. intelligence community. N.I.E.s are intended to be that community’s most authoritative class of top-secret document, reflecting its consensus judgment on national-security matters ranging from Iran’s nuclear capabilities to global terrorism. The draft of the July 2019 N.I.E. ran to about 15 pages, with another 10 pages of appendices and source notes.
According to multiple officials who saw it, the document discussed Russia’s ongoing efforts to influence U.S. elections: the 2020 presidential contest and 2024’s as well. It was compiled by a working group consisting of about a dozen senior analysts, led by Christopher Bort, a veteran national intelligence officer with nearly four decades of experience, principally focused on Russia and Eurasia. The N.I.E. began by enumerating the authors’ “key judgments.” Key Judgment 2 was that in the 2020 election, Russia favored the current president: Donald Trump.
The intelligence provided to the N.I.E.’s authors indicated that in the lead-up to 2020, Russia worked in support of the Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as well. But Bort explained to his colleagues, according to notes taken by one participant in the process, that this reflected not a genuine preference for Sanders but rather an effort “to weaken that party and ultimately help the current U.S. president.” To allay any speculation that Putin’s interest in Trump had cooled, Key Judgment 2 was substantiated by current information from a highly sensitive foreign source described by someone who read the N.I.E. as “100 percent reliable.”
On its face, Key Judgment 2 was not a contentious assertion. In 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the umbrella entity supervising the 16 other U.S. intelligence agencies, released a report drawing on intelligence from the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency that found Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election and aspired to help Trump. At a news conference with Trump in Helsinki in July 2018, President Vladimir Putin of Russia denied interfering in the election. But when asked by a reporter if he had wanted Trump to win, he replied bluntly: “Yes, I did.”
Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic
So the "real courage" comes from sitting in your basement and hiding/riding it out?
Relationships between presidents and the intelligence agencies they command are often testy, and Trump is hardly the first president to ignore or mischaracterize intelligence. But the alarm in the intelligence community over Russian interference on behalf of Trump’s election in 2016, and Trump’s reciprocal suspicion of the intelligence community, immediately marked their relationship as categorically different from those with past presidents. “Trump’s first encounter with the intelligence community as president-elect was in meetings with James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper, all of whom turned out to be involved with spying on President Trump’s campaign,” Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, said in a statement responding to a list of factual queries for this article. The investigation of Trump’s campaign, McEnany said, was “the greatest political scandal and crime in U.S. history.” (Although the F.B.I. investigated links between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials, a 2019 report by the Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that it had tried to place informants inside the campaign. No claims of spying on the campaign by other American intelligence agencies have ever been substantiated.)
Under Trump, intelligence officials have been placed in the unusual position of being pressured to justify the importance of their work, protect their colleagues from political retribution and demonstrate fealty to a president. Though intelligence officials have been loath to admit it publicly, the cumulative result has been devastating. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, compared the O.D.N.I.’s decline under Trump to that of the Justice Department, where “they have, step by step, set out to destroy one of the crown jewels of the American government,” he told me. “And they’re using the same playbook with the intelligence community.”
If you don't say Seig Heil Mr. Trump you will be fired.
Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies https://nyti.ms/30FcvYc
if susan rice is picked to be the drooling retard's vp, there's going to be something deeply ironic in having 0linsky's most prolific and pathological liar in that spot.
Exactly, the internal polling of Pedo Joe showed urban/Suburbanites want their kids to go back to skool.
So Caucus FLIPPED.
exactly. you just KNOW that democrat internal polling on the school issue was fucked. and the teachers unions yet again reveal themselves not to care for the pupils at all, but they're just a pack of rabid greedy scumbags.
Trump is winning on the issues just by letting democrats be democrats.
No surprise here.....been saying this for months now,,,,,,women leaving the GOP because of the whore mongering Trump and his treatment of women!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
By Rachael Bade, Seung Min Kim and Scott Clement August 7, 2020 at 12:05 p.m. EDT This story was featured in Drop Me The Link, our one-story election newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. A growing number of Republican women are sounding the alarm about continuing loss of support for President Trump and the GOP among female voters ahead of the November election, warning that the party is in danger of permanently alienating women if it doesn’t change course. Trump’s flailing response to the coronavirus pandemic and his move to inflame nationwide racial tensions are exacerbating an already precarious situation, according to interviews with female Republican lawmakers and GOP pollsters focused on female voters. Women now favor presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by an eye-popping 23 percentage points, according to an average of national polls since late June. And White women, a majority of whom backed Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, are starting to abandon the president. Trump struggles to keep voters he won in 2016 | The 2020 Fix
The Fix’s Eugene Scott analyzes President Trump’s falling support among suburban voters as some congressional Republicans start to distance themselves from him. (Blair Guild, JM Rieger/The Washington
“There was a gender gap when it came to Hillary Clinton, but now there is a gender chasm,” said GOP strategist Sarah Longwell, who has been conducting regular focus groups with female Trump voters who no longer approve of the president. “Trump has created an environment where women are not particularly interested in the Republican Party . . . where the Republican Party doesn’t seem like a place for women.” Although GOP pollsters and strategists spoke freely about the problem, many Republican women in Congress were reluctant to criticize Trump or party leaders publicly, fearful of triggering the president’s wrath. Privately, one female lawmaker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly about internal frustration, said male GOP leaders have done little to address the problem, but she also suggested that not much can be done until Trump is out of office.
Most voters approve of voting by mail ahead of a presidential election plagued by coronavirus concerns, and an overwhelming majority agree the contest should proceed as scheduled on Nov. 3, according to the latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
The survey, released Wednesday, shows 58 percent of respondents saying the U.S. “should allow all voters to vote by mail in elections this year” to help slow the spread of the highly contagious disease, which public health experts warn could endanger physical polling places.
I watched it on Faux News and I couldn't believe how irrational he is.
President Trump dismissed new intelligence that Russia is working to denigrate former Vice President Joe Biden, maintaining he’s taken a tough stance on Moscow during his time in the White House. “It could be, it could be very much. I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump because nobody’s been tougher on Russia than I have, ever,” Trump said at a briefing Friday when asked about the intelligence.
He's done more good things for the Africa Americans than Abraham Lincoln
0linsky was doing the very same thing when the ISIS JV team sawed James Foley's head off.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You fucking lying sack of shit.....all you are is a racist, a big mouth and an asshole of gigantic proportions who likes sucking on trumps sorry fat ass,,,,,,,,The only thing trump has done is played 96 holes of golf and hopes the virus will go away!!!!!!!! Great plan for a shitty golfer !!!!
Trump in his 3 years and a few months, playing golf, than President Obama in his 8 years in office
well alky, it helps if you actually own the fucking golf courses instead of being a mooch like 0linsky had to be.
oh, and BWAA?
0linsky WAS playing golf when the ISIS JV team sawed James Foley's head off.
President Obama said he should have known better than to go golfing immediately after speaking about the beheading of an American journalist.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama said he "should have anticipated the optics" because "part of the job is the theater of it," conceding "it's not something that comes naturally" to him.
Obama was vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, when Islamic militants released the gruesome video of James Foley, who was brutally killed as a payback for U.S. airstrikes against the terror group ISIS.
The Washington Post reported that Homeland Security Committee chairman Ron Johnson received secret documents from Ukrainians. And former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has confessed to putting Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.
How many of people who were associated with the President, are in jail, compared with President Obama and his administration?
Hypocrisy squared again because you hate the first African American President, who saved our economy from the worst recession since the Great Depression, under a Republican President,?
President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law.
Why it matters: The Affordable Care Act already requires insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. The Trump administration is currently arguing in a case before the Supreme Court to strike down that very law — including its pre-existing condition protections.
His Department of Justice has filed a complaint against the ADA to the Supreme Court to overturn the ADA aka Obamacare
Obama was vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, when Islamic militants released the gruesome video of James Foley, who was brutally killed as a payback for U.S. airstrikes against the terror group ISIS.
Obama had not received any intelligence information about the brutal murder of James Foley before the video was released!
The survey, released Wednesday, shows 58 percent of respondents saying the U.S. “should allow all voters to vote by mail in elections this year” to help slow the spread of the highly contagious disease, which public health experts warn could endanger physical polling places.
You mean Public Health officials like Dr Fauci who suggest we should be able to vote in person?
President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law.
Why it matters: The Affordable Care Act already requires insurers to cover pre-existing conditions.
So does HIPPA which existed long before the ACA.
So the ACA issued a "requirement" that was already a "requirement" but supporters touted it like it was the greatest accomplishment ever conceived. So I wonder why nobody thought it was a big issue with ACA established a law that was already a law, but get bent out of shape when the President does something similar?
HIPAA places what's called a six-month "look back" limit on identifying preexisting conditions. This means that if you have a condition for which you received medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment longer than six months prior to enrolling in your new plan, that condition is not preexisting and can’t be excluded from coverage on that basis. But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions on pre existing conditions that could be imposed on the health insurance coverage.
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
That’s a fucking lie. Only if the new enrollee had no credible coverage
Protection if you change jobs. If you switch from one group health plan to another as the result of a job change, you will not face new preexisting condition exclusions so long as there is no more than a 63-day break in your health coverage. This enables you to switch jobs despite your health status without fear that you will lose coverage for certain conditions.
If for any reason, if you take over 63 days before you get the new job, your employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
If for any reason, if you take over 63 days before you get the new job, your employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
If for any reason, if you take over 63 days before you get the new job, your employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
1. HIPAA health insurance portability --- HIPAA makes health insurance portable by providing rights in three circumstances: • When you leave a job where you had group health plan coverage, and move to another job with group health plan coverage. (This also applies if you are covered as a dependent of the person who changes jobs.) • You lose group health plan coverage, you meet the definition of a HIPAA eligible individual and you wish to purchase individual health insurance coverage. (For more information on a HIPAA eligible individual, go to CMS Webpage, Health Insurance Reform for Consumers http://www.cms.gov/HealthInsReformforConsume/, scroll down to the Downloads, select “HIPAA Eligibility Criteria for Individual Coverage”.) • You have individual health insurance coverage or any other type of creditable coverage, and you enroll in a new group health plan. Misunderstandings about HIPAA: • Portability does not let you keep your current plan or b
Under the current pandemic crisis, it is not unusual for someone can't find a job for 63 days or longer. The HIPAA system would allow your employer to deny pre existing conditions
Portability does not let you keep your current plan or b
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions on pre existing conditions that could be imposed on the health insurance coverage.
Under the current pandemic crisis, it is not unusual for someone can't find a job for 63 days or longer. The HIPAA system would allow your employer to deny pre existing conditions
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
You can’t fucking read, no prex can imposed if the person had creditable coverage
Although Biden has not endorsed universal health reform, but if the Democrats win the control of Congress and the Presidency, we join the rest of the industrialized nations in providing universal health benefits for all Americans citizens..
Your new employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986.
Some plans exclude pre existing conditions coverage.
Your new employer could have imposed a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986.
Some plans used to exclude pre existing conditions prior to the ACA.
Blogger Roger Amick said... Your new employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986
Your new employer could have imposed a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986.
Voter suppression is "un-American" because it violates the ethos that should center our democracy. But it's all too "American" when you consider our history. I saw the ugly truth in the 60s. I see it today.
If you changed your job and you had a pre existing condition, your employer would not provide health insurance coverage.
Wrong... that is exactly what HIPPA provides for people. As long as you have insurance with the previous employer, they cannot turn you down because of pre-existing conditions.
The only time an employer can turn down insurance is if the person has allowed the insurance to lapse for a serious amount of time. This is specifically to prevent people with preexisting conditions to not pay for insurance while healthy and then pick it back up when they actually need it so it pays for everything.
But insurance is not a free giveaway to pay for people's medical expenses. It's a business.
Note that "This 'payroll tax holiday' is not a tax cut. At the end of it, all deferred taxes will need to be paid, which means workers will get months worth of payroll taxes taken out of their checks at once like an subprime mortgage 'balloon payments.'" - @AndrewFeinberg
The extension of unemployment benefits for $400 a week for people who make less than $100,000 a year, includes the states must pay 25% of the benefits.
Most states are in very difficult fiscal conditions, and many of them will sue the executive order.
One of the executive orders would aim to provide $400 in weekly unemployment aid for millions of Americans whose $600 in weekly benefits expired last month. But some of this money would be required to be paid by states, many of which are already dealing with major budget shortfalls and have pleaded with Congress for more aid.
And the fourth executive order would seek to defer payroll tax payments from August 1 - retroactively - through December for people who earn less than $100,000. He said if he wins reelection he would seek to extend the deferral and somehow “terminate” the tax. The tax funds Social Security and Medicare benefits, and it’s unclear what will happen to those programs without the money.
It's an attempt to get rid of Social Security and Medicare, the Republicans have been trying to do, since it was signed by FDR and LBJ
Most states are in very difficult fiscal conditions, and many of them will sue the executive order.
Another wonderful outcome of Obungleholecare, maybe those states shouldn’t have listened to the biggest liar on Earth and not fallen for sleight of hand Medicaid expansion has cost
It was a bug not a feature and exactly as I predicted, the timing of the crushing costs on the states that expanded
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Flag-wrapped patriotism is no substitute for compassion; anger and hostility no match for love. Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it. Leading their charge is Donald Trump, a bone spur warrior, a liar and a fraud, a grotesque caricature of a strong man, with the backbone of a bully..
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/
after the election we need to start shooting these shitstains.
i'd prefer to do it now, but i don't want to give democrats any martyrs to celebrate.
oh, how quaint.
a canadian academic criticizing us from his ivory tower faculty lounge.
fucking twerp.
LOL.
good one alky.
Still no peace in Portland.
"THE TIME IS NOW': PORTLAND COMMUNITY MEMBERS DEMAND ACTION FROM CITY LEADERS AFTER SPIKE IN GUN VIOLENCE
Portland police said there were 99 shootings in July, up from 35 in July of last year."
Still no peace in Portland
"PROTESTS
PROTESTERS CLEAR OUT AFTER PORTLAND POLICE DECLARE UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY OUTSIDE MULTNOMAH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Friday night’s protest comes on the heels of two nights of demonstrations outside the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct, both of which resulted in clashes.
Author: KGW Staff
Published: 4:16 AM PDT August 8, 2020"
Roger is Spectacularly wrong.
Russia is using a range of techniques to denigrate Joseph R. Biden Jr., American intelligence officials said Friday in their first public assessment that Moscow continues to try to interfere in the 2020 campaign to help President Trump.
At the same time, the officials said China preferred that Mr. Trump be defeated in November and was weighing whether to take more aggressive action in the election.
But officials briefed on the intelligence said that Russia was the far graver, and more immediate, threat. While China seeks to gain influence in American politics, its leaders have not yet decided to wade directly into the presidential contest, however much they may dislike Mr. Trump, the officials said.
The assessment, included in a statement released by William R. Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, suggested the intelligence community was treading carefully, reflecting the political heat generated by previous findings.
The White House has objected in the past to conclusions that Moscow is working to help Mr. Trump, and Democrats on Capitol Hill have expressed growing concern that the intelligence agencies are not being forthright enough about Russia’s preference for him and that the agencies are introducing China’s anti-Trump stance to balance the scales.
Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence AgenciesAug. 8, 2020
NYTimes - Related Link
The assessment appeared to draw a distinction between what it called the “range of measures” being deployed by Moscow to influence the election and its conclusion that China prefers that Mr. Trump be defeated.
It cited efforts coming out of pro-Russia forces in Ukraine to damage Mr. Biden and Kremlin-linked figures who “are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television.”
Portland police said there were 99 shootings in July, up from 35 in July of last year."
as long as those getting shot are antifa/black lies matter scumbags, let's hope it accelerates in both frequency and volume.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/politics/russia-china-trump-biden-election-interference.html?referringSource=articleSha
Russian continues in an effort to get the President reelected
well of course china and iran prefer biden. he's an imbecile...
The top counterintelligence official in the U.S. government warned Friday of ongoing interference and influence efforts by China, Russia and Iran.
William Evanina, who leads the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that the U.S. government has assessed that China prefers President Trump losing the election, because Beijing considers him "unpredictable," while Russia is working to undermine Democrat Joe Biden.
"Ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections, foreign states will continue to use covert and overt influence measures in their attempts to sway U.S. voters' preferences and perspectives, shift U.S. policies, increase discord in the United States, and undermine the American people's confidence in our democratic process," Evanina said.
In discussing tactics, Evanina noted that the countries could try to compromise election equipment either to affect results or give the illusion of tampered results, but he did not say that such activities have been observed.
China has grown more aggressive in recent months, criticizing the U.S. response to the coronavirus, although Evanina noted that Beijing continues to weigh the "risks and benefits of aggressive action" when it comes to influencing the election.
Russia, however, has been observed using a number of tactics, including spreading propaganda on social media and Russian television, to denigrate Biden, the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee.
Iran also seeks to spread disinformation online, with the intent to undermine U.S. institutions and Trump, and to divide the country ahead of the election, according to Evanina.
The statement did not refer to any specific cyberattack attempts on the part of any of the three countries in the style of Russia in 2016. And Evanina noted that it would be difficult, due to the disparate nature of America's election infrastructure, to affect vote tallying at scale.
Similarly, Chris Krebs, the Department of Homeland Security's top cybersecurity official, said in a speech this week that his team had seen "nothing at the directed, focused level of 2016."
The year "2020 will be the most protected and most secure election in modern history," Krebs said.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/07/900245813/u-s-intelligence-warns-china-opposes-trump-reelection-russia-works-against-biden?utm_campaign=politics&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com
funny how the fake news NYT only focuses on the russia aspect of election interference.
must protect those "russia, russia, russia" P-U-litzers.
LOL.
media & democrats 3 days ago - Trump re-opening schools will kill kids and teachers!!!
media & democrats yesterday - schools will open. YAY!
In early July of last year, the first draft of a classified document known as a National Intelligence Estimate circulated among key members of the agencies making up the U.S. intelligence community. N.I.E.s are intended to be that community’s most authoritative class of top-secret document, reflecting its consensus judgment on national-security matters ranging from Iran’s nuclear capabilities to global terrorism. The draft of the July 2019 N.I.E. ran to about 15 pages, with another 10 pages of appendices and source notes.
According to multiple officials who saw it, the document discussed Russia’s ongoing efforts to influence U.S. elections: the 2020 presidential contest and 2024’s as well. It was compiled by a working group consisting of about a dozen senior analysts, led by Christopher Bort, a veteran national intelligence officer with nearly four decades of experience, principally focused on Russia and Eurasia. The N.I.E. began by enumerating the authors’ “key judgments.” Key Judgment 2 was that in the 2020 election, Russia favored the current president: Donald Trump.
The intelligence provided to the N.I.E.’s authors indicated that in the lead-up to 2020, Russia worked in support of the Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as well. But Bort explained to his colleagues, according to notes taken by one participant in the process, that this reflected not a genuine preference for Sanders but rather an effort “to weaken that party and ultimately help the current U.S. president.” To allay any speculation that Putin’s interest in Trump had cooled, Key Judgment 2 was substantiated by current information from a highly sensitive foreign source described by someone who read the N.I.E. as “100 percent reliable.”
On its face, Key Judgment 2 was not a contentious assertion. In 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the umbrella entity supervising the 16 other U.S. intelligence agencies, released a report drawing on intelligence from the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency that found Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election and aspired to help Trump. At a news conference with Trump in Helsinki in July 2018, President Vladimir Putin of Russia denied interfering in the election. But when asked by a reporter if he had wanted Trump to win, he replied bluntly: “Yes, I did.”
Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic
So the "real courage" comes from sitting in your basement and hiding/riding it out?
question -
if we delay rent payments and evictions indefinitely, are we going to delay property tax payments and property foreclosures for the landlords as well?
as usual, the left only thinks a problem halfway thru and only offers half of a solution.
Relationships between presidents and the intelligence agencies they command are often testy, and Trump is hardly the first president to ignore or mischaracterize intelligence. But the alarm in the intelligence community over Russian interference on behalf of Trump’s election in 2016, and Trump’s reciprocal suspicion of the intelligence community, immediately marked their relationship as categorically different from those with past presidents. “Trump’s first encounter with the intelligence community as president-elect was in meetings with James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper, all of whom turned out to be involved with spying on President Trump’s campaign,” Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, said in a statement responding to a list of factual queries for this article. The investigation of Trump’s campaign, McEnany said, was “the greatest political scandal and crime in U.S. history.” (Although the F.B.I. investigated links between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials, a 2019 report by the Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that it had tried to place informants inside the campaign. No claims of spying on the campaign by other American intelligence agencies have ever been substantiated.)
So the "real courage" comes from sitting in your basement and hiding/riding it out?
notice also what the canadian toolbox left out -
beaches, bars & political rallies bad.
burn,loot murder protests good.
the guys a hack, so that his hackery was stolen by the alky really comes as no surprise.
Under Trump, intelligence officials have been placed in the unusual position of being pressured to justify the importance of their work, protect their colleagues from political retribution and demonstrate fealty to a president. Though intelligence officials have been loath to admit it publicly, the cumulative result has been devastating. Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, compared the O.D.N.I.’s decline under Trump to that of the Justice Department, where “they have, step by step, set out to destroy one of the crown jewels of the American government,” he told me. “And they’re using the same playbook with the intelligence community.”
If you don't say Seig Heil Mr. Trump you will be fired.
Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies https://nyti.ms/30FcvYc
rrbAugust 8, 2020 at 9:37 AM
media & democrats 3 days ago - Trump re-opening schools will kill kids and teachers!!!
media & democrats yesterday - schools will open. YAY!"
Exactly, the internal polling of Pedo Joe showed urban/Suburbanites want their kids to go back to skool.
So Caucus FLIPPED.
if susan rice is picked to be the drooling retard's vp, there's going to be something deeply ironic in having 0linsky's most prolific and pathological liar in that spot.
Exactly, the internal polling of Pedo Joe showed urban/Suburbanites want their kids to go back to skool.
So Caucus FLIPPED.
exactly. you just KNOW that democrat internal polling on the school issue was fucked. and the teachers unions yet again reveal themselves not to care for the pupils at all, but they're just a pack of rabid greedy scumbags.
Trump is winning on the issues just by letting democrats be democrats.
No surprise here.....been saying this for months now,,,,,,women leaving the GOP because of the whore mongering Trump and his treatment of women!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
By
Rachael Bade,
Seung Min Kim and
Scott Clement
August 7, 2020 at 12:05 p.m. EDT
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A growing number of Republican women are sounding the alarm about continuing loss of support for President Trump and the GOP among female voters ahead of the November election, warning that the party is in danger of permanently alienating women if it doesn’t change course.
Trump’s flailing response to the coronavirus pandemic and his move to inflame nationwide racial tensions are exacerbating an already precarious situation, according to interviews with female Republican lawmakers and GOP pollsters focused on female voters.
Women now favor presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden by an eye-popping 23 percentage points, according to an average of national polls since late June. And White women, a majority of whom backed Trump over Hillary Clinton in 2016, are starting to abandon the president.
Trump struggles to keep voters he won in 2016 | The 2020 Fix
The Fix’s Eugene Scott analyzes President Trump’s falling support among suburban voters as some congressional Republicans start to distance themselves from him. (Blair Guild, JM Rieger/The Washington
“There was a gender gap when it came to Hillary Clinton, but now there is a gender chasm,” said GOP strategist Sarah Longwell, who has been conducting regular focus groups with female Trump voters who no longer approve of the president. “Trump has created an environment where women are not particularly interested in the Republican Party . . . where the Republican Party doesn’t seem like a place for women.”
Although GOP pollsters and strategists spoke freely about the problem, many Republican women in Congress were reluctant to criticize Trump or party leaders publicly, fearful of triggering the president’s wrath. Privately, one female lawmaker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak frankly about internal frustration, said male GOP leaders have done little to address the problem, but she also suggested that not much can be done until Trump is out of office.
Most voters approve of voting by mail ahead of a presidential election plagued by coronavirus concerns, and an overwhelming majority agree the contest should proceed as scheduled on Nov. 3, according to the latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
The survey, released Wednesday, shows 58 percent of respondents saying the U.S. “should allow all voters to vote by mail in elections this year” to help slow the spread of the highly contagious disease, which public health experts warn could endanger physical polling places.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/05/voting-by-mail-elections-poll-391318
I watched it on Faux News and I couldn't believe how irrational he is.
President Trump dismissed new intelligence that Russia is working to denigrate former Vice President Joe Biden, maintaining he’s taken a tough stance on Moscow during his time in the White House.
“It could be, it could be very much. I think that the last person Russia wants to see in office is Donald Trump because nobody’s been tougher on Russia than I have, ever,” Trump said at a briefing Friday when asked about the intelligence.
He's done more good things for the Africa Americans than Abraham Lincoln
People have no MONEY,no FOOD,no JOBS,HOMELESS,and DYING,and what is trump doing, PLAYING GOLF‼️
Blogger Roger Amick said...
People have no MONEY,no FOOD,no JOBS,HOMELESS,and DYING,and what is trump doing, PLAYING GOLF‼️
what a coincidence, alky!
0linsky was doing the very same thing when the ISIS JV team sawed James Foley's head off.
you didn't seem troubled then about a presidential round o' golf, but you are now. what's changed?
am i detecting a note of hypocrisy here alky?
say it ain't so.
Some of the richest people who have supported Trump in the past are having second thoughts about the dickless President
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-antagonizes-sheldon-adelson-phone-call-392688
Trump in his 3 years and a few months, playing golf, than President Obama in his 8 years in office
0linsky was doing the very same thing when the ISIS JV team sawed James Foley's head off.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! You fucking lying sack of shit.....all you are is a racist, a big mouth and an asshole of gigantic proportions who likes sucking on trumps sorry fat ass,,,,,,,,The only thing trump has done is played 96 holes of golf and hopes the virus will go away!!!!!!!! Great plan for a shitty golfer !!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Trump in his 3 years and a few months, playing golf, than President Obama in his 8 years in office
well alky, it helps if you actually own the fucking golf courses instead of being a mooch like 0linsky had to be.
oh, and BWAA?
0linsky WAS playing golf when the ISIS JV team sawed James Foley's head off.
President Obama said he should have known better than to go golfing immediately after speaking about the beheading of an American journalist.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama said he "should have anticipated the optics" because "part of the job is the theater of it," conceding "it's not something that comes naturally" to him.
Obama was vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, when Islamic militants released the gruesome video of James Foley, who was brutally killed as a payback for U.S. airstrikes against the terror group ISIS.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/07/politics/obama-golfing-optics/index.html
foley was viciously murdered, and ol' skeets was concerned about the optics and theatre of it all.
give the despicable piece of shit credit though - no matter the situation, he always made it about HIM.
The Washington Post reported that Homeland Security Committee chairman Ron Johnson received secret documents from Ukrainians. And former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has confessed to putting Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.
Collusion?
How many of people who were associated with the President, are in jail, compared with President Obama and his administration?
Hypocrisy squared again because you hate the first African American President, who saved our economy from the worst recession since the Great Depression, under a Republican President,?
Obama had not received any intelligence information about the brutal murder of
James Foley before the video was released!
Your perseverance in distortion is an example of how the social media era works
Incoherent saucemeister strikes again
President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law.
Why it matters: The Affordable Care Act already requires insurers to cover pre-existing conditions. The Trump administration is currently arguing in a case before the Supreme Court to strike down that very law — including its pre-existing condition protections.
His Department of Justice has filed a complaint against the ADA to the Supreme Court to overturn the ADA aka Obamacare
https://www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-insurance-preexisting-conditions-6482b96a-e9fe-4efe-8d40-141d1adee730.html
Obama was vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, when Islamic militants released the gruesome video of James Foley, who was brutally killed as a payback for U.S. airstrikes against the terror group ISIS.
Obama had not received any intelligence information about the brutal murder of
James Foley before the video was released!
The survey, released Wednesday, shows 58 percent of respondents saying the U.S. “should allow all voters to vote by mail in elections this year” to help slow the spread of the highly contagious disease, which public health experts warn could endanger physical polling places.
You mean Public Health officials like Dr Fauci who suggest we should be able to vote in person?
ADA is not Obunghole care
President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law.
Why it matters: The Affordable Care Act already requires insurers to cover pre-existing conditions.
So does HIPPA which existed long before the ACA.
So the ACA issued a "requirement" that was already a "requirement" but supporters touted it like it was the greatest accomplishment ever conceived. So I wonder why nobody thought it was a big issue with ACA established a law that was already a law, but get bent out of shape when the President does something similar?
It's just going to disappear
Georgia school district says 100 students, staff test positive
I would love to get the schools open, but the staff, teachers and at risk.
The Democrats wanted millions to help the schools to prepare their schools, but the Republicans didn't want to give money to blue states!
ACA.
Republican states refused to implement
pre-existing conditions.
HIPAA places what's called a six-month "look back" limit on identifying preexisting conditions. This means that if you have a condition for which you received medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment longer than six months prior to enrolling in your new plan, that condition is not preexisting and can’t be excluded from coverage on that basis. But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions on pre existing conditions that could be imposed on the health insurance coverage.
Republican states refused to implement
pre-existing conditions.
How
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
That’s a fucking lie. Only if the new enrollee had no credible coverage
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-the-health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-hipaa.html
Read it and weep
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-the-health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-hipaa.html
From your corrected link liver
Protection if you change jobs. If you switch from one group health plan to another as the result of a job change, you will not face new preexisting condition exclusions so long as there is no more than a 63-day break in your health coverage. This enables you to switch jobs despite your health status without fear that you will lose coverage for certain conditions.
Any new employee can be excluded from health insurance coverage.
If you changed your job and you had a pre existing condition, your employer would not provide health insurance coverage.
The ACA removed that restrictions
Any new employee can be excluded from health insurance coverage.
If you changed your job and you had a pre existing condition, your employer would not provide health insurance coverage.
That’s a fucking lie liver from your own link
If for any reason, if you take over 63 days before you get the new job, your employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions
Then you could’ve been responsible and taken COBRA
Spin all you want you were caught lying
You don't understand how this works
If for any reason, if you take over 63 days before you get the new job, your employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions
You don't understand how this works
If for any reason, if you take over 63 days before you get the new job, your employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions.
Oh I know far better how it works than you ever will
1. HIPAA health insurance portability --- HIPAA makes health insurance portable by providing rights in three circumstances:
• When you leave a job where you had group health plan coverage, and move to another job with group health plan coverage. (This also applies if you are covered as a dependent of the person who changes jobs.)
• You lose group health plan coverage, you meet the definition of a HIPAA eligible individual and you wish to purchase individual health insurance coverage. (For more information on a HIPAA eligible individual, go to CMS Webpage, Health Insurance Reform for Consumers http://www.cms.gov/HealthInsReformforConsume/, scroll down to the Downloads, select “HIPAA Eligibility Criteria for Individual Coverage”.)
• You have individual health insurance coverage or any other type of creditable coverage, and you enroll in a new group health plan.
Misunderstandings about HIPAA:
• Portability does not let you keep your current plan or b
https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/health-insurance-reform/healthinsreformforconsume/downloads/hipaa_helpful_tips_rev_1.pdf
Under the current pandemic crisis, it is not unusual for someone can't find a job for 63 days or longer. The HIPAA system would allow your employer to deny pre existing conditions
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-the-health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-hipaa.html
I’ll throw this in for good measure
Note: A waiting period does not count towards a break in creditable coverage. For more information on HIPAA creditable coverage, see item 10.
And they could have bought COBRA or a creditable individual policy, if Obungolecare hadn’t destroyed the individual market, you doddering old fool
Thanks for making my point .
Portability does not let you keep your current plan or b
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
The ACA removed the restrictions on pre existing conditions that could be imposed on the health insurance coverage.
You obviously failed any debates!
Under the current pandemic crisis, it is not unusual for someone can't find a job for 63 days or longer. The HIPAA system would allow your employer to deny pre existing conditions
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-is-the-health-insurance-portability-and-accountability-act-hipaa.html
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion on new enrollees for conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was received or recommended within the six-month period prior to the enrollment date.
You can’t fucking read, no prex can imposed if the person had creditable coverage
Fuck you’re dumb
Stupid HIPPA had a creditable coverage provision.
Group medical
Cobra
Individual policies
Medicaid
Are all creditable you senile old fool
Although Biden has not endorsed universal health reform, but if the Democrats win the control of Congress and the Presidency, we join the rest of the industrialized nations in providing universal health benefits for all Americans citizens..
Portability does not let you keep your current plan or b
And stupid if my prior employer had Aetna and my new employer has Kaiser, how could I keep my prior plan?
Put down the PBR and read English
But, a group health plan can impose a preexisting condition exclusion
Put down the lithium, no prex if you had creditable coverage.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I have a degree in this, from the number 1 risk management and insurance university, in the country
We dropped to #2
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-insurance-risk
Your new employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986.
Some plans exclude pre existing conditions coverage.
No they can’t if you had creditable coverage you fucking fool and I posted the CMS regs, idiot
You’re either being obtuse or lying
Your new employer could have imposed a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986.
Some plans used to exclude pre existing conditions prior to the ACA.
Group plans could NOT impose prex under HIPPA with creditable coverage
You’re abjectly wrong
Liver even prison coverage counted as creditable coverage under HIPAA
You’re out of your league
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Your new employer can impose a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986
Your new employer could have imposed a preexisting condition exclusion, including Kaiser Permanente insurance coverage. I have been on Kaiser Permanente insurance since 1986.
I’ll take that as a surrender
LMAO
You never know what you speak of
BTW I’ve never seen a closed model HMO enforce prex ever
He's losing control
Once again #AssholeInChief claiming he signed Veterans Choice....which was passed during Obama Administration.
Voter suppression is "un-American" because it violates the ethos that should center our democracy. But it's all too "American" when you consider our history. I saw the ugly truth in the 60s. I see it today.
If you changed your job and you had a pre existing condition, your employer would not provide health insurance coverage.
Wrong... that is exactly what HIPPA provides for people. As long as you have insurance with the previous employer, they cannot turn you down because of pre-existing conditions.
The only time an employer can turn down insurance is if the person has allowed the insurance to lapse for a serious amount of time. This is specifically to prevent people with preexisting conditions to not pay for insurance while healthy and then pick it back up when they actually need it so it pays for everything.
But insurance is not a free giveaway to pay for people's medical expenses. It's a business.
Note that "This 'payroll tax holiday' is not a tax cut. At the end of it, all deferred taxes will need to be paid, which means workers will get months worth of payroll taxes taken out of their checks at once like an subprime mortgage 'balloon payments.'" - @AndrewFeinberg
And notice the mere fact he would say, “your employer”, when it the the insurer and state regs shows how fucking stupid he actually is
The ACA gave 25 million Americans health insurance coverage!
He said that mail in voting does not include signature verification.
That's a fucking lie
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Republican states refused to implement
pre-existing conditions.
Hey delusional, you never answered, how?
Your new employer could have imposed a preexisting condition exclusion under HIPPA
Medicaid you stupid old fool
Can you not man up and admit, you were talking out of your ass?
Your employer could, huh?
My god you’re fucking stupid.
No discrimination lawsuits ther
The extension of unemployment benefits for $400 a week for people who make less than $100,000 a year, includes the states must pay 25% of the benefits.
Most states are in very difficult fiscal conditions, and many of them will sue the executive order.
The New York times newspaper agreed with me!
One of the executive orders would aim to provide $400 in weekly unemployment aid for millions of Americans whose $600 in weekly benefits expired last month. But some of this money would be required to be paid by states, many of which are already dealing with major budget shortfalls and have pleaded with Congress for more aid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/08/trump-executive-order-coronavirus/
The Washington Post!
And the fourth executive order would seek to defer payroll tax payments from August 1 - retroactively - through December for people who earn less than $100,000. He said if he wins reelection he would seek to extend the deferral and somehow “terminate” the tax. The tax funds Social Security and Medicare benefits, and it’s unclear what will happen to those programs without the money.
It's an attempt to get rid of Social Security and Medicare, the Republicans have been trying to do, since it was signed by FDR and LBJ
Thank god for that pen and phone, eh stupid
LMAO
Most states are in very difficult fiscal conditions, and many of them will sue the executive order.
Another wonderful outcome of Obungleholecare, maybe those states shouldn’t have listened to the biggest liar on Earth and not fallen for sleight of hand Medicaid expansion has cost
It was a bug not a feature and exactly as I predicted, the timing of the crushing costs on the states that expanded
Idiot
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