I wish these violations would have any consequences at all.
Really, at this point, “no puddings for a fortnight” would almost seem harsh.
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ivanka, bean enthusiast.
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She’s a has-bean!
Well, someday, if we’re lucky.
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These jokes are leaving me baked.
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I’m only half-baked, myself…
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They’d have to be convicted first, and to be convicted, they’d have to be prosecuted … by Bill Barr
Then, watch how fast Trump pardons his own kids
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Now trump is advertising beans in the Oval Office.
What next? Melania’s East Wing Shopping Network?
A goddamn trailer trash presidency.
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Amanda Marcotte
Trump, ever a black hole for personal validation, cares less about what’s actually best for him and far more for making his monkeys dance as hard as they can to prove they love him. The fact Sessions had self-interested reasons for playing his cards as he did — recusal allowed him to maintain an image of lawyerly respectability and professionalism — offended Trump greatly. He needs his underlings to sacrifice everything for him, including and especially any remaining dignity or reputational goodwill. Nothing but total self-immolation will be considered a good enough demonstration of your loyalty to Donald Trump.
The fate of Jeff Sessions should be a warning to anyone who thinks there’s such thing as working with Trump and walking away with any part of you undemolished. It doesn’t work that way. He will drain you and leave a desiccated corpse where your reputation used to be. As puny a reputation as Sessions had before he made his deal with the devil, now he’s got nothing.
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Well, he’s got something alright:
Plus his Senatecritter salary and health insurance forever. Politics pays.
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If he’d never hooked up with Trump in the first place he’d still be in the Senate now.
Was the attorney general’s office such a tempting Ring of Power for him?
Did he think he was going to be president someday?
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Of the second Confederacy perhaps.
Now he’ll just be Grand Dragon in his home town.
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King of the Keebler Elf Tree.
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I’m hopping on a pinto…ON MY WAY!
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Right there witcha, chickpea!
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Report: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight after Trump gave the OK, say US government officials
The CIA is running a secret cyberwar including Russian-style hack-and-leak operations with little or no oversight, US officials have warned.
The covert operations are largely targeted at Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, say anonymous sources, and have included the public disclosure of 15 million debit card details belonging to customers of Iranian banks, according to a report by Yahoo ! News.
The CIA is now able to authorize its own covert cyber operations, according to officials, rather than gain approval from the White House or discuss plans with other departments. One source called the memo “very aggressive,” and “a vehicle to strike back.”
Most critically, according to the report, the CIA is not required to prove it has evidence that organizations are carrying out activities on behalf of another’s countries intelligence services before it can launch a cyber offensive against them. It merely has to have a strong suspicion, opening up news organizations, non-profits, tech companies, and a whole range of other bodies to state-sponsored hacking.
Fortunately, nothing bad or embarrassing has ever happened whenever the CIA was allowed to just do their thing without strict supervision.
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In a hardened bunker deep beneath the Potomac, the CIA warms up its servers and readies the assault. Days of grueling effort have led them to this moment; they’d had to waterboard hundreds of potentially dangerous domestic terrorists before that librarian from Arlington finally choked out the name of Antifa’s top general and the location of his secret headquarters.
Director Haspel had grimaced and given a curt nod. Of course it was Joe Biden. And that secret HQ? Where other than the basement of Comet Ping Pong pizzeria? It all made sense. She cracked her knuckles and turned back to her laptop. This would be Q’s finest hour. The tweet that would change the world was waiting. She breathed in deeply. The cursor blinked. Haspel hit the button.
~ excerpt from Bay of Ping Pong: The CIA, QAnon, and The Fall Of the United States, author unknown. Recovered in 2066 from the wreckage of what was once the Library of Congress.
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