President Donald Trump: The Thread

[Dick Allen]

Trump's plan to destroy ISIS, you know he knows more than the Generals, he went to Wharton, seems to really be working as well as he envisioned.

[Big Hurtin]

The MAGA thing is really the long game. He's going to screw us up so bad, that there will be no where to go but up.

 

[StrangeSox]

One if Trump's first moves was to try to undue the sanctions on Russia secretly.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administra...&soc_trk=tw

 

And they gave back two facilities that were shuttered by Obama over the interference in exchange for absolutely nothing.

[Iwritecode]

Maybe Private Russian Hackers Meddled in Election, Putin Says

[RockRaines]

Lets be honest, a bunch of uninsured laborers with black lung is what makes America Great!!

[StrangeSox]

Republicans have no idea how to govern.

 

[Dick Allen]

Isn't that exactly what you complain about?

You were the one complaining about Hillary. All I am saying is your party, even though you try to say it's not, is all about internet rumor as fact, yet not once have I read a post from you denouncing them for it.

 

It is very telling you are more concerned with what Hillary Clinton, citizen, has to say, and getting her facts wrong, than all the bulls*** coming out of the WH.

Edited June 3, 2017 by Dick Allen

[StrangeSox]

You were the one complaining about Hillary. All I am saying is your party, even though you try to say it's not, is all about internet rumor as fact, yet not once have I read a post from you denouncing them for it.

 

It is very telling you are more concerned with what Hillary Clinton, citizen, has to say, and getting her facts wrong, than all the bulls*** coming out of the WH.

Seth Rich!!

[StrangeSox]

Mueller investigation expanding to include manafort, possibly sessions.

 

https://apnews.com/749ff6ea249942d28070c80a...s-Manafort-case

[maxjusttyped]

Pres. Trump has used Twitter to share news report on London incident. We aren't relaying president's retweet, as the info is unconfirmed.

 

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/871144729760722944

 

Imagine having access to the best intelligence sources in the world and instead using twitter to spread unconfirmed fear mongering reports.

[caulfield12]

Looks like casualties fortunately will be "limited" to a handful like the last bridge incident where four died on the bridge and then a policeman was later stabbed...also bet the benefit concert security with Grande, Bieber, Katy Perry and Coldplay was/is insane.

[caulfield12]

CNN host Reza Aslan faced backlash on Saturday after calling President Donald Trump a "piece of s---" after a terrorist attack in London left seven dead and dozens wounded. In a tweet on Saturday that was later deleted, the University of California, Riverside professor and host of "Believer" quoted the president's use of several terrorist incidents in London to justify his executive action barring individuals from several majority-Muslim nations. "This piece of s--- is a not just an embarrassment to American and a stain on the presidency. He's an embarrassment to humankind," Aslan wrote. The tweet immediately sparked outrage on the right. Aslan deleted the tweet and apologized Sunday afternoon,

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/reza-aslan-...n-attack-2017-6

[greg775]

CNN host Reza Aslan faced backlash on Saturday after calling President Donald Trump a "piece of s---" after a terrorist attack in London left seven dead and dozens wounded. In a tweet on Saturday that was later deleted, the University of California, Riverside professor and host of "Believer" quoted the president's use of several terrorist incidents in London to justify his executive action barring individuals from several majority-Muslim nations. "This piece of s--- is a not just an embarrassment to American and a stain on the presidency. He's an embarrassment to humankind," Aslan wrote. The tweet immediately sparked outrage on the right. Aslan deleted the tweet and apologized Sunday afternoon,

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/reza-aslan-...n-attack-2017-6

Again, he should be fired. A professional media person can't call anybody a piece of s*** publicly and keep his/her job. And that CNN anchor who made a racist remark to the spelling bee winner should be ashamed of herself and fired as well.

[caulfield12]

Greg, by this standard, EVERY SINGLE CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR would ALSO be fired, lol.

 

The professor doesn't even work DIRECTLY for CNN, he hosts a show that's aired on that network.

 

The Spelling Bee "faux pas" (Alison Camerota) was far from in good taste, but if that's a FIREABLE offense, then 75-80% of Americans would be fired from their jobs for WORSE than that.

 

None of these things are remotely comparable to the Kathy Griffin case.

 

And none of them is "Making America Great Again!" to waste further time discussing when there are many more pressing issues around the world and country to deal with.

Edited June 5, 2017 by caulfield12

[StrangeSox]

Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech

They thought the president would commit to the principle of collective defense. They were wrong.

 

Trump unilaterally decided to strip the article 5 guarantee from the NATO speech

[StrangeSox]

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

.@foxandfriends Dems are taking forever to approve my people, including Ambassadors. They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS! Want approvals.

8:35 AM - 5 Jun 2017

5,067 5,067 Retweets 17,672 17,672 likes

 

There's a single nominee that's awaiting a floor vote right now (Scott Brown). He hasn't bothered to nominate anyone for ~400 other positions despite Democrats asking him to do so.

[Dick Allen]

There's a single nominee that's awaiting a floor vote right now (Scott Brown). He hasn't bothered to nominate anyone for ~400 other positions despite Democrats asking him to do so.

I wonder what Merrick Garland thought if he read that tweet. Didn't Ted Cruz say if Hillary won, they might not ever get around to confirming someone?

 

It's too bad it's come to this, but doing the right thing hasn't worked. As everyone but apparently Trump knows, you can't bring a knife to a gun fight. Dems have to give Republicans the same s*** they have been getting for years. Let them complain, but apparently it works. Trying to act like an adult hasn't, it gets you run over in today's Washington. Hopefully someday we can get back to that, but right now, you have got to play the same game and be better at it.

Edited June 5, 2017 by Dick Allen

[StrangeSox]

Trump had talked during the campaign about spending a trillion dollars on an infrastructure program.

 

He's now expected to propose privatizing air traffic control and drastically reducing federal infrastructure spending, instead calling on state and local governments to should the burden and rely increasingly on privatized infrastructure.

[Dick Allen]

There's a single nominee that's awaiting a floor vote right now (Scott Brown). He hasn't bothered to nominate anyone for ~400 other positions despite Democrats asking him to do so.

President Trump on Monday wrongly accused Democrats of stalling his ambassadorial nominees in the Republican-controlled Senate, where diplomatic picks cannot be filibustered.

 

Try again Don.

[StrangeSox]

Top secret NSA report details Russian hacking days before election

 

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-sec...-2016-election/

[bmags]

Kinda blown away by how successful these relatively basic phishing attacks were.

 

And successful is relative, not necessarily in affecting anything, but just in doing whatever purpose they served.

[StrangeSox]

On the phone so can't pull quotes, but yeah some pretty shocking and troubling revelations in there.

[Big Hurtin]

Did they catch them in the act? That is the only way to know who did it.

[StrangeSox]

CBS confirmed the report is real.

 

https://twitter.com/RebeccaShabad/status/871822448660029440

 

RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.

 

The top-secret National Security Agency document, which was provided anonymously to The Intercept and independently authenticated, analyzes intelligence very recently acquired by the agency about a months-long Russian intelligence cyber effort against elements of the U.S. election and voting infrastructure. The report, dated May 5, 2017, is the most detailed U.S. government account of Russian interference in the election that has yet come to light.

 

The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood. It states unequivocally in its summary statement that it was Russian military intelligence, specifically the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that conducted the cyber attacks described in the document:

 

Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations.

 

As described by the classified NSA report, the Russian plan was simple: pose as an e-voting vendor and trick local government employees into opening Microsoft Word documents invisibly tainted with potent malware that could give hackers full control over the infected computers.

 

But in order to dupe the local officials, the hackers needed access to an election software vendor’s internal systems to put together a convincing disguise. So on August 24, 2016, the Russian hackers sent spoofed emails purporting to be from Google to employees of an unnamed U.S. election software company, according to the NSA report. Although the document does not directly identify the company in question, it contains references to a product made by VR Systems, a Florida-based vendor of electronic voting services and equipment whose products are used in eight states.

 

According to Williams, if this type of attack were successful, the perpetrator would possess “unlimited” capacity for siphoning away items of interest. “Once the user opens up that email [attachment],” Williams explained, “the attacker has all the same capabilities that the user does.” Vikram Thakur, a senior research manager at Symantec’s Security Response Team, told The Intercept that in cases like this the “quantity of exfiltrated data is only limited by the controls put in place by network administrators.” Data theft of this variety is typically encrypted, meaning anyone observing an infected network wouldn’t be able to see what exactly was being removed but should certainly be able to tell something was afoot, Williams added. Overall, the method is one of “medium sophistication,” Williams said, one that “practically any hacker can pull off.”

 

Mark Graff, a digital security consultant and former chief cybersecurity officer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, described such a hypothetical tactic as “effectively a denial of service attack” against would-be voters. But a more worrying prospect, according to Graff, is that hackers would target a company like VR Systems to get closer to the actual tabulation of the vote. An attempt to directly break into or alter the actual voting machines would be more conspicuous and considerably riskier than compromising an adjacent, less visible part of the voting system, like voter registration databases, in the hope that one is networked to the other. Sure enough, VR Systems advertises the fact that its EViD computer polling station equipment line is connected to the internet, and that on Election Day “a voter’s voting history is transmitted immediately to the county database” on a continuous basis. A computer attack can thus spread quickly and invisibly through networked components of a system like germs through a handshake.

 

Security officials have been warning how ridiculously insecure our electronic voting systems and machines are for years and years. (good read from several years back starts on page 32 here)

 

 

 

 

Edited June 5, 2017 by StrangeSox

[StrangeSox]

SETH RICH SETH RICH CNN STAGED FAKE NEWS!!!

 

 

Oh but this top secret NSA report verified by multiple sources is definitely just "left wing conspiracy"

 

 

lmao