Starker on 3/9/2020 at 00:55
No idea where you're getting this DNC hack stuff from, since there is nothing about it in the story.
Also, 3 hours? This is a highlights video that's 11 minutes long, and anyway, the meat of the story is in the article I linked to.
Gryzemuis on 3/9/2020 at 03:59
Starker, I responded to nbohr. He linked an interview with Bill Binney, that lasts 3 hours. I guess nbohr is on your ignore-list.
demagogue on 3/9/2020 at 04:36
Vol. 5 of the senate report has the good stuff everybody wanted to see 3 years ago, the actual daily coordination between the Trump campaign, Wikileaks, and GRU. But it's almost 1000 pages! That said, the "collusion" stuff is mainly just in one chapter that's also high drama (like part 2 of the Mueller report), so it's a fun read anyway IMO.
One thing I found interesting is that that Russian GRU team also apparently hacked the RNC emails. But that doesn't fit with the GOP kook narrative that it was a DNC insider that leaked them, and Dems ... I mean I want to say they're not savvy enough to know how to argue their own case, but I can understand how a lot of the usual suspects that should be doing that job consider it futile given that their target audience won't hear of it anyway.
Starker on 3/9/2020 at 09:38
Quote Posted by Gryzemuis
Starker, I responded to nbohr. He linked an interview with Bill Binney, that lasts 3 hours. I guess nbohr is on your ignore-list.
Yeah, sorry, I have a script to hide ignored posts, so it really looked like you were replying to me (and it was very early in the morning for me so I didn't think to look at the post numbers in the right hand corner). I guess he saw a mention of Russia as an opportunity to get going on the "DNC wasn't hacked" conspiracy theory that's based on the idea that the timestamps on the files somehow show that the hack was impossible, because the files appear to have been copied at some point at speeds supposedly unreachable over the internet.
Anyway, if you're interested in the topic, here's Crowdstrike's public statement that goes into a little bit of detail what was going on:
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https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/)
Starker on 4/9/2020 at 05:22
After four years, you'd think you've seen the depths to which Lord Dampnut can sink, but apparently there is no bottom (this story has been independently verified by AP):
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/)
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn't fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.
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Trump has been, for the duration of his presidency, fixated on staging military parades, but only of a certain sort. In a 2018 White House planning meeting for such an event, Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. “Nobody wants to see that,” he said.
demagogue on 4/9/2020 at 05:41
Yes that whole article was, well not surprising, but it nicely captured the dominant theme with this guy in a very clear way for the neurotypical among us that don't easy follow what he's really thinking.
It shows just how ingrained his worldview is. He literally can't comprehend why anyone would do any kind of volunteering or service -- join the military or pay taxes -- and someone getting injured doing as much is the horror of horrors for him; they're weak and need to disappear. Strongmen dictators that surround themselves with ridiculous displays of naked power are his ideal, he reminds us every time.
Just like he literally can't comprehend how the US buying more goods from China than vice versa is anything but a pure loss for the US; "they're killing us in trade". He instructed the lady that buys art for his properties to make sure she never buys Latin American art because nobody wants to see poor people in his buildings. If you read, e.g., Bolton's book, it's over 500 pages of it, page after page after page.
He's hyper-consistent. You can tell his frontal lobe is just short circuiting in those situations, and he can't help believing and expressing it over and over and over. We know he can't comprehend anything except raw selfish power because he keeps saying very explicitly he can't every - single - time it comes up.
demagogue on 4/9/2020 at 07:21
Haha, yeah, that book was as much a damning of Bolton as it was of Trump.
Well, there's a million books and news articles that are full of his quotes, so I shouldn't even single out that one as special. Actually some of the most telling stories are things people post in forums and places like Quora (under topics like have you ever met Trump and what was it like?). You have to take them with a grain of salt, but so many of them ring so true. It's where I read about his rampant cheating at golf, the way he walked down a line of beauty pageant girls and stuck his fingers into their mouths to "check their teeth", the story about his art procurer and Latin American art, some of the stories about all the illegal Russian teenage girls living in rathole apartments for Trump Model Management. There's so many stories out there. The guy has to be one of the the transparent persons on the planet.
Starker on 4/9/2020 at 12:13
And there really is no bottom: