President Trump on Friday discussed naming Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, to be a special counsel overseeing an investigation of voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion.
It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan.
Most of his advisers opposed the idea, two of the people briefed on the discussion said, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer. In recent days Mr. Giuliani has sought to have the Department of Homeland Security join the campaign’s efforts to overturn Mr. Trump’s loss in the election.
Mr. Giuliani joined the discussion by phone initially, while Ms. Powell was at the White House for a meeting that became raucous and involved people shouting at each other at times, according to one of the people briefed on what took place.
WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers reached a compromise over the Federal Reserve's emergency lending powers late Saturday night, overcoming a major hurdle that prevented Congress from completing a $900 billion coronavirus relief package earlier in the week, according to multiple sources.
A last-minute roadblock emerged on Friday as Democrats accused Republicans, namely Pennsylvania's Sen. Pat Toomey, of attempting to encumber the incoming Biden administration by cutting off the Federal Reserve's emergency lending abilities created by the CARES Act meant to protect the already battered economy.
“Now that Democrats have agreed to a version of Sen. Toomey’s important language, we can begin closing out the rest of the package to deliver much-needed relief to families, workers, and businesses,” a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told NBC News.
Compromise language is being finalized and any open items are expected to be worked out overnight, according to two aides.
The legislation hasn’t been released yet, but the deal is expected to include direct payments of $600 for qualifying Americans, a federal unemployment insurance bonus of $300 a week, more money for businesses struggling to pay rent and workers and vaccine distribution funds.
A spokesperson for Toomey called the agreement an "unqualified victory for taxpayers."
The deficit matters because of the hypocrisy of conservatives!
New York (CNN)If President Trump tunes into Fox News this weekend, he may see something unexpected: a point-by-point fact-check to wild election fraud claims made by some of his favorite hosts on the network. Newsmax aka Pravda
Meadows Tried to Hide Positive Tests 8:11 am EST The Washington Post reports on White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ efforts to keep a White House coronavirus outbreak secret from the public.
Meadows worked to hide when members of the White House team had positive coronavirus tests and attempted to hide his own diagnosis and told at least one other member of the White House team to keep quiet about testing positive.
Is Trump Cracking Under the Weight of Losing? 7:26 am EST Politico: “It’s not just his odd behavior -—the testy, tiny desk session with the press, the stilted Medal of Freedom ceremony that ended with his awkward exit, the cut-short trip to the Army-Navy football game. It’s even more pointedly his conspicuous and ongoing absences.
“The narcissistic Trump has spent the last half a century—but especially the last half a decade—making himself and keeping himself the most paid-attention-to person on the planet. But in the month and a half since Election Day, Trump has been seen and heard relatively sparingly and sporadically. No-showing unexpectedly at a Christmas party, sticking to consistently sparse public schedules and speaking mainly through his increasingly manic Twitter feed, he’s been fixated more than anything else on his baseless insistence that he won the election when he did not.”
Kemp Mocked for Attending White House Party 11:34 pm EST “Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) faced a slew of social media criticism after he attended a White House Christmas party with his daughter on Friday, despite being repeatedly insulted by President Trump in the weeks since the Nov. 3 election,” USA Today reports.
“The morning of the Christmas party, Trump tweeted that Kemp should call a special session of the Georgia Legislature to challenge the election result… Trump also called him a so-called ‘Republican’ in another tweet that morning.” _________ Trump has proved to be a so-called President.
Because Trump has stepped back the past month, he's so-called? That's just silly.
Putting aside his personality, he's actually been a very effective president - record low unemployment, record low black and Hispanic unemployment, hourly wage growth, job creation, rebound in manufacturing jobs, negotiating multiple middle east peace accords, keeping the country out of war, defeating Isis, bringing north Korea to the negotiating table to name a few successes.
Putting aside his personality, he's actually been a very effective president
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! A creating turmoil, lying and ruining america's stature in the world to benefit himself!!!! The man is an effective joke qn loser, just like you ballz!!!!
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, blasted Russia on Sunday for a cyberattack he said amounted to an “invasion,” adding that the president’s unwillingness to blame Russia shows he has a “blind spot” when it comes to the country.
U.S. officials believe that Russian intelligence was behind a suspected hacking campaign unveiled last week that infiltrated more than 40 organizations, including many government agencies and contractors.
But while top government officials, like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have publicly said it appears that Russia was behind the hack, President Donald Trump cast doubt on that assessment in a Saturday tweet, where he floated the possibility “it may be China” who perpetrated the hack.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a "grave" counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin's help.
The nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, details how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump's behalf. It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin's aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
The report is the culmination of a bipartisan probe that produced what the committee called "the most comprehensive description to date of Russia's activities and the threat they posed." The investigation spanned more than three years as the panel's leaders said they wanted to thoroughly document the unprecedented attack on U.S. elections.
The findings, including unflinching characterizations of furtive interactions between Trump associates and Russian operatives, echo to a large degree those of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and appear to repudiate the Republican president's claims that the FBI had no basis to investigate whether his campaign was conspiring with Russia. Trump has called the Russia investigations a "hoax."
While Mueller's was a criminal probe, the Senate investigation was a counterintelligence effort with the aim of ensuring that such interference wouldn't happen again. The report issued several recommendations on that front, including that the FBI should do more to protect presidential campaigns from foreign interference.
And what is the drunken point here Nursing home guy?
The 1000 page report found nothing... it didn't find that there was any vote changed. There was no finding of any hacking. There was no finding of anything other than the fact that Russia wanted to interfere and it was of the opinion of some of the report writers that that some Trump associates wanted to exploit it...
But of course, the report doesn't actually show that anyone "did" exploit it or that there was any ties to anyone from the Trump campaign and anyone having to do with any tampering, leaking, or anything else. The so called "Russian intelligence official" whom Paul Manafort had contact with was actually one of his own employees who was "thought to be" but never "proven to be" tied to Russian intelligence. Of course, the fact that he may or may not have been tied to Russian intelligence has nothing to do with election interference. Period.
Of course, this is something you would know if you had read the Mueller reports (and other investigation reports) rather than relying on the media to "spin things" for you....
Gobble, gobble, gobble... the Nursing home resident "slurps up" the debunk idea that the Russians stole the election for the "bad orange man"... Slurp, slurp, slurp.
How sad it must be to be so completely unable to see obvious media spin>
What is even sadder Lil Schitty is your inability to see past trumps lies and BULLSHIT!!!! which the media does not need to spin.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! China did it as the fat ass trump once again covers for Putin who has pictures!!!!
1. We admitted we were powerless over Trumpism our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Trumpaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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A Trump administration official tells Axios that the cyberattack on the U.S. government and corporate America, apparently by Russia, is looking worse by the day — and secrets may still be being stolen in ways not yet discovered.
The big picture: "We still don't know the bottom of the well," the official said. Stunningly, the breach goes back to at least March, and continued all through the election. The U.S. government didn't sound the alarm until this Sunday. Damage assessment could take months.
Microsoft President Brad Smith told the N.Y. Times that at least 40 companies, government agencies and think tanks had been infiltrated.
The hack is known to have breached the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury, Commerce, and Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — plus the National Institutes of Health.8 countries: Microsoft, which has helped respond to the breach, said in a statement that 80% of its 40 customers known to have been targeted are in the U.S., plus others in U.K., Israel, UAE, Canada, Mexico, Belgium and Spain.
In unusually vivid language for a bureaucracy, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of Homeland Security, said yesterday that the intruder "demonstrated sophistication and complex tradecraft."
The agency said the breach "poses a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations."
If this had been a physical attack on America's secrets, we could be at war.
Imagine if during the Cold War, the Soviet Union had broken into a building in Washington and walked out with correspondence, budgets and more.Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC: "It's pretty hard to distinguish this from an act of aggression that rises to the level of an attack that qualifies as war. ... [T]his is as destructive and broad scale an engagement with our military systems, our intelligence systems as has happened in my lifetime."
The gravity wasn't immediately apparent because this wasn't the "cyber Pearl Harbor" that experts have warned about: No one took out a power grid, or stole a bunch of money or destabilized the markets.
Instead, it's more like someone has been walking in and out of your house for months, and you don't really know what they took.And they may have built a secret door. "For someone to have access that long, who's this sophisticated, it's pretty likely they built other ways to get in that are hard to find," one official told me.
What's next: President Trump has stayed silent on the hack, meaning that President-elect Biden's overflowing in-box now includes Russian reprisal, damage mitigation and future deterrence.
Promising to impose "substantial costs" on the perpetrator, Biden said in a statement that his administration "will make cybersecurity a top priority": "I will not stand idly by in the face of cyber assaults on our nation."
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Since Election Day night, I have refused to watch any broadcast or network news programs, except for an occasional snippet of NewsMax and a few of Tucker Carlson’s monologues. My main sources of information are from trusted independent media, podcasts, and social media personalities whom I have vetted in the Age of Trump. I simply refuse to be gaslighted by the legacy media with spurious reports of this and that. They know nothing about what is going on at this point, and their continued use of “unnamed sources” confirms their standard agit-prop modus operandi, so why watch them unless the desire is to have one’s blood pressure raised? Oh, and my other main source of information is President Trump. When has he ever been proven wrong about even one of his public statements? Except for a few of his close allies, I simply don’t trust ANYONE else.
Given Trump’s psychological profile, it was inevitable that when he felt the walls of reality close in on him—in 2020, it was the pandemic, the cratering economy, and his election defeat—he would detach himself even further from reality. It was predictable that the president would assert even more bizarre conspiracy theories. That he would become more enraged and embittered, more desperate and despondent, more consumed by his grievances. That he would go against past supplicants, like Attorney General Bill Barr and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and become more aggressive toward his perceived enemies. That his wits would begin to turn, in the words of King Lear. That he would begin to lose his mind.
As if that were not enough, we also learned that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was pardoned by the president after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, attended the Friday meeting. Earlier in the week,
For the foreseeable future, journalists will rightly focus on the pandemic. But once that is contained and defeated, it will be time to go back to focusing more attention on things like the Paris accord and the carbon tax; the earned-income tax credit and infrastructure; entitlement reform and monetary policy; charter schools and campus speech codes; legal immigration, asylum, assimilation, and social mobility. There is also an opportunity, with Trump a former president, for the Republican Party to once again become the home of sane conservatism. Whether that happens or not is an open question. But it’s something many of us are willing to work for, and that even progressives should hope for.
Beyond that, and more fundamental than that, we have to remind ourselves that we are not powerless to shape the future; that much of what has been broken can be repaired; that though we are many, we can be one; and that fatalism and cynicism are unwarranted and corrosive.
There’s a lovely line in William Wordsworth’s poem “The Prelude”: “What we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how.”
There are still things worthy of our love. Honor, decency, courage, beauty, and truth. Tenderness, human empathy, and a sense of duty. A good society. And a commitment to human dignity. We need to teach others—in our individual relationships, in our classrooms and communities, in our book clubs and Bible studies, and in innumerable other settings—why those things are worthy of their attention, their loyalty, their love. One person doing it won’t make much of a difference; a lot of people doing it will create a culture.
Maybe we understand better than we did five years ago why these things are essential to our lives, and why when we neglect them or elect leaders who ridicule and subvert them, life becomes nasty, brutish, and generally unpleasant.
Just after noon on January 20, a new and necessary chapter will begin in the American story. Joe Biden will certainly play a role in shaping how that story turns out—but so will you and I. Ours is a good and estimable republic, if we can keep it.
The stimulus package will be sent to the President for his signature.
The welfare queens will get $600.
In order to secure a deal just before Christmas and allow Congress to adjourn, Republicans agreed to drop a sweeping coronavirus liability shield and Democrats agreed to omit a direct stream of aid to state and local governments.
The Republicans didn't want to send money to blue states
President Biden should award The Presidential Medal of Honor to Christopher Krebs, A lifelong Republican, appointed by Trump to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Krebs worked for more than two years to protect America’s electoral systems from foreign penetration. Days after the 2020 presidential election, Krebs publicly affirmed the security of these systems and the validity of the result, undercutting Trump’s fraud claims at the root. Trump promptly fired Krebs for that act of truth-telling. Krebs was then assaulted on social media and Trump’s sometime lawyer, Joe DeGenova, viciously suggested on talk radio that he be “shot” and/or “drawn and quartered.” on day two.
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"The Twilight Zone "
30 days until sanity comes back.
President Trump on Friday discussed naming Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, to be a special counsel overseeing an investigation of voter fraud, according to two people briefed on the discussion.
It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan.
Most of his advisers opposed the idea, two of the people briefed on the discussion said, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer. In recent days Mr. Giuliani has sought to have the Department of Homeland Security join the campaign’s efforts to overturn Mr. Trump’s loss in the election.
Mr. Giuliani joined the discussion by phone initially, while Ms. Powell was at the White House for a meeting that became raucous and involved people shouting at each other at times, according to one of the people briefed on what took place.
Great news robotics
WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers reached a compromise over the Federal Reserve's emergency lending powers late Saturday night, overcoming a major hurdle that prevented Congress from completing a $900 billion coronavirus relief package earlier in the week, according to multiple sources.
A last-minute roadblock emerged on Friday as Democrats accused Republicans, namely Pennsylvania's Sen. Pat Toomey, of attempting to encumber the incoming Biden administration by cutting off the Federal Reserve's emergency lending abilities created by the CARES Act meant to protect the already battered economy.
“Now that Democrats have agreed to a version of Sen. Toomey’s important language, we can begin closing out the rest of the package to deliver much-needed relief to families, workers, and businesses,” a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told NBC News.
Compromise language is being finalized and any open items are expected to be worked out overnight, according to two aides.
The legislation hasn’t been released yet, but the deal is expected to include direct payments of $600 for qualifying Americans, a federal unemployment insurance bonus of $300 a week, more money for businesses struggling to pay rent and workers and vaccine distribution funds.
A spokesperson for Toomey called the agreement an "unqualified victory for taxpayers."
The deficit matters because of the hypocrisy of conservatives!
New York (CNN)If President Trump tunes into Fox News this weekend, he may see something unexpected: a point-by-point fact-check to wild election fraud claims made by some of his favorite hosts on the network.
Newsmax aka Pravda
Ignore all the election anomalies in the election. Ignore the hundreds of sworn affidavits of election improprieties. Nothing to see here.
Trafalgar has Warnock down 6 and payoff down almost 3.
Warnock deserves to lose. Ossoff I can tolerate.
LMAO:
Delusinal
http://coldheartedtruthlegacy.blogspot.com/2020/12/delusinal.html
CAN REPUBLICANS EVER ACCEPT THE FACT THAT TRUMP LOST IN 2020?
We're still waiting for dems to accept that Trump won in 2016
Meadows Tried to Hide Positive Tests
8:11 am EST
The Washington Post reports on White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ efforts to keep a White House coronavirus outbreak secret from the public.
Meadows worked to hide when members of the White House team had positive coronavirus tests and attempted to hide his own diagnosis and told at least one other member of the White House team to keep quiet about testing positive.
Is Trump Cracking Under the Weight of Losing?
7:26 am EST
Politico: “It’s not just his odd behavior
-—the testy, tiny desk session with the press,
the stilted Medal of Freedom ceremony that ended with his awkward exit,
the cut-short trip to the Army-Navy football game.
It’s even more pointedly his conspicuous and ongoing absences.
“The narcissistic Trump has spent the last half a century—but especially the last half a decade—making himself and keeping himself the most paid-attention-to person on the planet.
But in the month and a half since Election Day, Trump has been seen and heard relatively sparingly and sporadically.
No-showing unexpectedly at a Christmas party,
sticking to consistently sparse public schedules
and speaking mainly through his increasingly manic Twitter feed,
he’s been fixated more than anything else on his baseless insistence
that he won the election when he did not.”
Kemp Mocked for Attending White House Party
11:34 pm EST
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) faced a slew of social media criticism after he attended a White House Christmas party with his daughter on Friday, despite being repeatedly insulted by President Trump in the weeks since the Nov. 3 election,” USA Today reports.
“The morning of the Christmas party, Trump tweeted that Kemp should call a special session of the Georgia Legislature to challenge the election result… Trump also called him a so-called ‘Republican’ in another tweet that morning.”
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Trump has proved to be a so-called President.
We never questioned THAT Trump won in 2016, only HOW he won.
...with a little help from his friends...
Because Trump has stepped back the past month, he's so-called? That's just silly.
Putting aside his personality, he's actually been a very effective president - record low unemployment, record low black and Hispanic unemployment, hourly wage growth, job creation, rebound in manufacturing jobs, negotiating multiple middle east peace accords, keeping the country out of war, defeating Isis, bringing north Korea to the negotiating table to name a few successes.
Oh I very much disagree. That's why Resist was born.
We never questioned THAT Trump won in 2016, only HOW he won.
...with a little help from his friends...
An allegation that had zero proof based on the fact that five different investigations failed to find anything!
But it's funny how some of you are still stupid enough to believe it anyways. Baaaaaaaad orange man!!!! He will haunt your nightmares forever!
Fake never a pastor lying on the Sabbath.
"JamesNewLeaf December 20, 2020 at 8:37 AM
We never questioned THAT Trump won in 2016...."
So Trump is your President?
Stimulus Socialist Democrats Win.
New bill which This President will sign gives the chronically unemployed $15,600 more a year to do nothing .
The ball less wonder posted
Putting aside his personality, he's actually been a very effective president
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! A creating turmoil, lying and ruining america's stature in the world to benefit himself!!!! The man is an effective joke qn loser, just like you ballz!!!!
The Senate released a statement saying that the Russian government had interfered with election.
Not enough to change the outcome. Scott asshole
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, blasted Russia on Sunday for a cyberattack he said amounted to an “invasion,” adding that the president’s unwillingness to blame Russia shows he has a “blind spot” when it comes to the country.
U.S. officials believe that Russian intelligence was behind a suspected hacking campaign unveiled last week that infiltrated more than 40 organizations, including many government agencies and contractors.
But while top government officials, like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have publicly said it appears that Russia was behind the hack, President Donald Trump cast doubt on that assessment in a Saturday tweet, where he floated the possibility “it may be China” who perpetrated the hack.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump campaign's interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a "grave" counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin's help.
The nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, details how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump's behalf. It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin's aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
The report is the culmination of a bipartisan probe that produced what the committee called "the most comprehensive description to date of Russia's activities and the threat they posed." The investigation spanned more than three years as the panel's leaders said they wanted to thoroughly document the unprecedented attack on U.S. elections.
The findings, including unflinching characterizations of furtive interactions between Trump associates and Russian operatives, echo to a large degree those of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and appear to repudiate the Republican president's claims that the FBI had no basis to investigate whether his campaign was conspiring with Russia. Trump has called the Russia investigations a "hoax."
While Mueller's was a criminal probe, the Senate investigation was a counterintelligence effort with the aim of ensuring that such interference wouldn't happen again. The report issued several recommendations on that front, including that the FBI should do more to protect presidential campaigns from foreign interference.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election
And what is the drunken point here Nursing home guy?
The 1000 page report found nothing... it didn't find that there was any vote changed. There was no finding of any hacking. There was no finding of anything other than the fact that Russia wanted to interfere and it was of the opinion of some of the report writers that that some Trump associates wanted to exploit it...
But of course, the report doesn't actually show that anyone "did" exploit it or that there was any ties to anyone from the Trump campaign and anyone having to do with any tampering, leaking, or anything else. The so called "Russian intelligence official" whom Paul Manafort had contact with was actually one of his own employees who was "thought to be" but never "proven to be" tied to Russian intelligence. Of course, the fact that he may or may not have been tied to Russian intelligence has nothing to do with election interference. Period.
Of course, this is something you would know if you had read the Mueller reports (and other investigation reports) rather than relying on the media to "spin things" for you....
Gobble, gobble, gobble... the Nursing home resident "slurps up" the debunk idea that the Russians stole the election for the "bad orange man"... Slurp, slurp, slurp.
How sad it must be to be so completely unable to see obvious media spin>
What is even sadder Lil Schitty is your inability to see past trumps lies and BULLSHIT!!!! which the media does not need to spin.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! China did it as the fat ass trump once again covers for Putin who has pictures!!!!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10165026383775647&id=890775646
Sunday Funnies
Slurp up Trump's mushroom penis and swallow every drop.
The 2016 election went to Trump, by approximately 72,000 votes in swing states.
It's impossible to determine whether it changed the outcome. My observation is that it changed the outcome.
That's my opinion.
Your opinion differs from mine.
Go back into the newsmax world, and live in denial. You are a Trumpolic.
Find a Trumpolic meeting and take the 12 steps.
1. We admitted we were powerless over Trumpism our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Trumpaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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A Trump administration official tells Axios that the cyberattack on the U.S. government and corporate America, apparently by Russia, is looking worse by the day — and secrets may still be being stolen in ways not yet discovered.
The big picture: "We still don't know the bottom of the well," the official said. Stunningly, the breach goes back to at least March, and continued all through the election. The U.S. government didn't sound the alarm until this Sunday. Damage assessment could take months.
Microsoft President Brad Smith told the N.Y. Times that at least 40 companies, government agencies and think tanks had been infiltrated.
The hack is known to have breached the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Treasury, Commerce, and Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — plus the National Institutes of Health.8 countries: Microsoft, which has helped respond to the breach, said in a statement that 80% of its 40 customers known to have been targeted are in the U.S., plus others in U.K., Israel, UAE, Canada, Mexico, Belgium and Spain.
In unusually vivid language for a bureaucracy, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of Homeland Security, said yesterday that the intruder "demonstrated sophistication and complex tradecraft."
The agency said the breach "poses a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations."
If this had been a physical attack on America's secrets, we could be at war.
Imagine if during the Cold War, the Soviet Union had broken into a building in Washington and walked out with correspondence, budgets and more.Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC: "It's pretty hard to distinguish this from an act of aggression that rises to the level of an attack that qualifies as war. ... [T]his is as destructive and broad scale an engagement with our military systems, our intelligence systems as has happened in my lifetime."
The gravity wasn't immediately apparent because this wasn't the "cyber Pearl Harbor" that experts have warned about: No one took out a power grid, or stole a bunch of money or destabilized the markets.
Instead, it's more like someone has been walking in and out of your house for months, and you don't really know what they took.And they may have built a secret door. "For someone to have access that long, who's this sophisticated, it's pretty likely they built other ways to get in that are hard to find," one official told me.
What's next: President Trump has stayed silent on the hack, meaning that President-elect Biden's overflowing in-box now includes Russian reprisal, damage mitigation and future deterrence.
Promising to impose "substantial costs" on the perpetrator, Biden said in a statement that his administration "will make cybersecurity a top priority": "I will not stand idly by in the face of cyber assaults on our nation."
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Since Election Day night, I have refused to watch any broadcast or network news programs, except for an occasional snippet of NewsMax and a few of Tucker Carlson’s monologues. My main sources of information are from trusted independent media, podcasts, and social media personalities whom I have vetted in the Age of Trump. I simply refuse to be gaslighted by the legacy media with spurious reports of this and that. They know nothing about what is going on at this point, and their continued use of “unnamed sources” confirms their standard agit-prop modus operandi, so why watch them unless the desire is to have one’s blood pressure raised? Oh, and my other main source of information is President Trump. When has he ever been proven wrong about even one of his public statements? Except for a few of his close allies, I simply don’t trust ANYONE else.
Well hopefully those twelve steps will help you get over the bad orange man Roger... we all wish you well with your addiction.
You are in denial about your Trumpaholicism. Unless you admit your Trumpaholicism you will never recove your mind.
Senator Mitt Romney was on the talk shows today.
He said that the Republicans will follow Trump and suffer defeat until the younger generation steps out and follow the principles of conservativism.
Limited government.
Deficit reduction.
He can't recognize the Republican party he knew. I don't agree with him on many issues, but he is a real Republican, not the cultist Scott Asshole.
You are in denial about your Trumpaholicism.
Yet... you seem to be the only one of us who continues to bring him up. It's called "psychological projection" Roger. Look it up.
Given Trump’s psychological profile, it was inevitable that when he felt the walls of reality close in on him—in 2020, it was the pandemic, the cratering economy, and his election defeat—he would detach himself even further from reality. It was predictable that the president would assert even more bizarre conspiracy theories. That he would become more enraged and embittered, more desperate and despondent, more consumed by his grievances. That he would go against past supplicants, like Attorney General Bill Barr and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and become more aggressive toward his perceived enemies. That his wits would begin to turn, in the words of King Lear. That he would begin to lose his mind.
Patrick Mahomes vs Drew Brees
I wouldn't bet either way!
Denial is what you suffer from.
As if that were not enough, we also learned that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was pardoned by the president after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, attended the Friday meeting. Earlier in the week,
For the foreseeable future, journalists will rightly focus on the pandemic. But once that is contained and defeated, it will be time to go back to focusing more attention on things like the Paris accord and the carbon tax; the earned-income tax credit and infrastructure; entitlement reform and monetary policy; charter schools and campus speech codes; legal immigration, asylum, assimilation, and social mobility. There is also an opportunity, with Trump a former president, for the Republican Party to once again become the home of sane conservatism. Whether that happens or not is an open question. But it’s something many of us are willing to work for, and that even progressives should hope for.
Beyond that, and more fundamental than that, we have to remind ourselves that we are not powerless to shape the future; that much of what has been broken can be repaired; that though we are many, we can be one; and that fatalism and cynicism are unwarranted and corrosive.
There’s a lovely line in William Wordsworth’s poem “The Prelude”: “What we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how.”
There are still things worthy of our love. Honor, decency, courage, beauty, and truth. Tenderness, human empathy, and a sense of duty. A good society. And a commitment to human dignity. We need to teach others—in our individual relationships, in our classrooms and communities, in our book clubs and Bible studies, and in innumerable other settings—why those things are worthy of their attention, their loyalty, their love. One person doing it won’t make much of a difference; a lot of people doing it will create a culture.
Maybe we understand better than we did five years ago why these things are essential to our lives, and why when we neglect them or elect leaders who ridicule and subvert them, life becomes nasty, brutish, and generally unpleasant.
Just after noon on January 20, a new and necessary chapter will begin in the American story. Joe Biden will certainly play a role in shaping how that story turns out—but so will you and I. Ours is a good and estimable republic, if we can keep it.
The stimulus package will be sent to the President for his signature.
The welfare queens will get $600.
In order to secure a deal just before Christmas and allow Congress to adjourn, Republicans agreed to drop a sweeping coronavirus liability shield and Democrats agreed to omit a direct stream of aid to state and local governments.
The Republicans didn't want to send money to blue states
Because they are shittily governed
President Biden should award The Presidential Medal of Honor to Christopher Krebs, A lifelong Republican, appointed by Trump to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Krebs worked for more than two years to protect America’s electoral systems from foreign penetration. Days after the 2020 presidential election, Krebs publicly affirmed the security of these systems and the validity of the result, undercutting Trump’s fraud claims at the root. Trump promptly fired Krebs for that act of truth-telling. Krebs was then assaulted on social media and Trump’s sometime lawyer, Joe DeGenova, viciously suggested on talk radio that he be “shot” and/or “drawn and quartered.” on day two.
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