Courtesy of Politico:To make clear: @Newsweek posted story on Trump/Cuba. Hackers attacked, took site down. Lots of IP addresses involved. Main ones from Russia.— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 30, 2016
Newsweek suspects that hackers are to blame for the crash of its website on Thursday night, after it published an article about Donald Trump’s company secretly conducting business in Cuba in the 1990s.
"We don't know everything. We're still investigating," Newsweek editor in chief Jim Impoco told POLITICO. "But it was a massive DDoS attack, and it took place in the early evening just as prominent cable news programs were discussing Kurt Eichenwald's explosive investigation into how Donald Trump's company broke the law by breaking the United States embargo against Cuba."
As of Friday afternoon, Impoco told POLITICO that the main IP addresses involved in the hack were Russian, but that there was "nothing definitive" about the ongoing investigation.
Probably just a coincidence, right?
I don't know about the rest of you but I am getting dizzy trying to keep up with all of Trump's bullshit.
And the thing is that we know if this were ANYBODY else this campaign would have gone up in flames over a year ago.
You know SNL starts back up tonight with Alec Baldwin on deck to play "The Donald."
It makes me wonder if the writers are happy that there is so much to work with, or like myself overwhelmed by the never ending stream of scandals, gaffes, and unhinged tweets?
P.S. By the way just in case you missed it here is the Newsweek article that started all of the trouble.
Update: This just in courtesy of the Daily Beast:
Suspicion is mounting about Donald Trump’s ties to Russian officials and business interests, as well as possible links between his campaign and the Russian hacking of U.S. political organizations. But GOP leaders have refused to support efforts by Democrats to investigate any possible Trump-Russia connections, which have been raised in news reports and closed-door intelligence briefings. And without their support, Democrats, as the minority in both chambers of Congress, cannot issue subpoenas to potential witnesses and have less leverage to probe Trump.
Well so much for putting country ahead of party.
David Mitchell wrote this in his novel (Number 9 Dream) and I apply it to politics in general: We are the unpaid actors on the movie set of life; the politicians are the actors; the directors are the unseen elite pulling all the strings.
ReplyDeleteCynical? I wish I weren't. But knowledge is power, so we must carry on and try to expose the directors. Trump thinks he is the director, so is even more easily manipulated with flattery, money and promises of power & beautiful sexual partners.
Trump is self-deluded, un-self-aware with no self control. If he wins the presidency, the directors have finally finished their movie -- with its very bad ending and not just for America but for the world.
And the fallout, even with him as a candidate has already begun.
It won't go away even if he is defeated, it might even get worse. He won't be under the scrutiny of the public anymore, but his contacts in the deplorable world could make him more dangerous
Delete7:47 -- Agreed. What can stop him? Look at the crap still coming out of Sarah's gob-hole. And his is bigger.
DeleteWHERE IS SARAH PALIN?
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is supposed to be our Russkie lookout up north.
Without Sarah we would all be eating Russkie borscht
REMEMBER THIS?
COURIC: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state.
THAT'S OUR PROBLEM!
Sarah Palin keeps her eyes on Russia. Which eye?
Sarah Palin has wonky eyes 😨!
Don the Con is showing what a yuuge sinner of mistakes he and his women can be. Sarah is family values. She is home keeping her family values strong.
DeleteDakota Meyer is her best opportunity. There are no limits with Dakota. He is a hero, he has medals and he is going forward to greater heroic operations.
With all the hideous talk around Trump and women, he looks every bit as horrible as any labor or sex trafficker in the world.
Dakota and his charity work is sent by God. He is saving children, women and men that are exploited and used by employers like Donald Trump.
https://thespeechatimeforchoosing.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/palin-russia.jpg
@8:24
DeleteI sincerely hope that was a snark!
Maybe Duh could start right there in Wasilly, with Taaahhhd?
DeleteSarah is now a midwife.
DeleteDon'tcha think she is delivering another pillow about now? If it is not a pillow, what will she do?
All Wasilla is waiting for the little blessing to get hear and be introduced to the worl. Happy days are hear again!
OMG!
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Seriously funny snark, Trump, Duhmbkotah, and Sarah? Right wing rusted nutless wingnuts. Not one Nobel Peace Prize among them.
DeleteThis is frightening. I'm seriously considering converting all my savings to gold. I remember thinking, when terrorists shut down Manhatten for a full week, how much devastation they could cause if they'd use the internet instead of planes. This was just a warning shot.
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ReplyDeleteGOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties
SHANE HARRIS
09.29.16 10:15 PM E
Suspicion is mounting about Donald Trump’s ties to Russian officials and business interests, as well as possible links between his campaign and the Russian hacking of U.S. political organizations. But GOP leaders have refused to support efforts by Democrats to investigate any possible Trump-Russia connections, which have been raised in news reports and closed-door intelligence briefings. And without their support, Democrats, as the minority in both chambers of Congress, cannot issue subpoenas to potential witnesses and have less leverage to probe Trump.
Privately, Republican congressional staff told The Daily Beast that Trump and his aides’ connections to Russian officials and businesses interests haven’t gone unnoticed and are concerning. And GOP lawmakers have reviewed Democrats’ written requests to the FBI that it investigate Trump before they were made public.
But the lawmakers in both chambers have declined to sign on to them. Republicans have no appetite to launch inquiries into their party’s presidential nominee, and they continue to believe the FBI flubbed its investigation into Clinton and her aides, who should have been charged with mishandling government secrets, the staffers said....
FBI Director James Comey has been called to testify to Congress three times about the email investigation, and Republicans have launched a separate inquiry into whether the former secretary of State committed perjury when she testified before Congress about her unorthodox communications system.
As a result, Clinton is likely to face relentless grilling on Capitol Hill from now until Election Day, but Trump can rest assured that his fellow partisans will go easy on him....
Trump has made no secret of his affection for Russian President Vladimir Putin and came to his defense in the first presidential debate this week when he dismissed the assertion that Russian government hackers were behind intrusions at the Democratic National Committee....
Gryph... Big post at
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/30/gop-blocks-probes-into-trump-russia-ties.html
Really curious how the GOP, which from the late 1940's through the entire Cold War era, saw threats from Russia everywhere. Suddenly they don't care if Russians are messing with a US presidential election or hacking government websites or if their candidate cozies up to Putin, a wannabe Stalin if ever there was one. Bizarre.
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Yes, just like the thousands of emails deleted in their administration. No prob! Start a war for no reason? Twice? No prob. War crimes? No prob. The list goes on and on. I thought good government was accountability. Apparently not.
DeleteNo it is not bizarre, they think they can win the white house, they don't care if they have to destroy the US doing it.
DeleteSt Ronnie must be rolling in his grave.
I am surprised Trump is able to walk after shooting himself in the foot so many times.
ReplyDeleteOr talk with his mouth so full of feet.
DeleteIn response to:
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S OUR PROBLEM!
Sarah Palin keeps her eyes on Russia. Which eye?
Sarah Palin has wonky eyes 😨!
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Alaskans certifies that Sarah Palin's good eye is her left eye.
Unless of course you are standing on her right side.
Then her right eye becomes her good eye.
Hard to decide which eye is the "good one" They dart around in her head like balls in a pinball machine, going all different directions.
DeleteIf I were Melania I would be worried.
ReplyDeleteDonnie got tired of Czech hoohah and got him some of that American blonde hoohah until he seen that Slovenian hoohah rubbing up against some other skank's hoohah.
Now that Donnie has his eyes on Putin and Russia, he may be thinking about getting rid of that Slovenian hoohah for some of that Anastasiya hoohah from Mother Russia.
I wouldnt doubt it has all been promised to him by Putin... but "vagina's are expensive" to get and to get rid of and Melania will take him for half -- all $300 million.
DeleteThere must be an iron clad agreement in place, since he stiffed Marla out of a lot of $$$. Both previous wives are blackmailed, talk and tell the truth, no more $$$.
DeleteThere goes the evangelical vote for Trump.. Reportedly urged second wife Marla Maples to appear in Playboy. And another Playboy pictorial of female staff members at Trump. Nice political pick, Sarah!! Maybe Trump can negotiate a porn for Brissy.
ReplyDeleteNobody in their "right mind" would want to look at Barstool's vajayjay.
DeleteThat's how she got Duhkota. Folks up here said his
"Mind Aint Right"
Anyone who wanted to see it, already has!! Girl really got around.
DeleteThere goes the evangelical vote for Trump.
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You keep forgetting it is only a problem if it is a Democrat.
They forgive the republicans all their sins, they have a list of excuses ready for any situation.
The evangelicals are the largest customers of pornography, so of course they don't care.
DeleteWho would negotiate a failed porn movie for this?
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A penny for your thoughts Sarah on your misogynistic hero. . . . Where's Sarah? Shouldn't she be afraid Donald is going to fat shame or molest her little girls or that Putin's head might be looking in her little girls' windows to kidnap them? Come out of hiding Sarah...
ReplyDeleteWhen Sarah was hit by that rock she talked about wedding plans. You know she is extremely busy with her family. Trump sent her back to her faraway place and family to straighten up all the messes.
DeleteSarah has a great deal to do with her plans and all. Timing is critical for her. I don't check it at the pee pond often but they are the ones that keep up with her. She has to fix that family of hers and get these weddings and life events on track.
If not she will never be in Trump's cabinet.
No, don't. The cyberwaves are cleaner without you.
Delete8:10 The only cabinets tRump will have will be in his kitchen. Too unstable, idiotic, flawed to be our President.
DeleteIf Trump were a democrat Palin would have insinuated that he is an incestuous pedophile long ago and sent her flying monkey club after him a long time ago.
DeleteLogic tells me that the Russians don't want someone as unstable as Trump to win the election. I don't think Putin views him as anything other than a useful idiot who can be manipulated by flattery, while simultaneously recognizing that he could turn on them in a heartbeat as he has done to all of his rivals in the past.
ReplyDeleteSuppose instead their crack team of hackers manipulates the electoral results of even a single unexpected state, say Kentucky, into the Hillary column, leading her to win by a slightly larger margin, an election she was going to win anyway.
There would be cries of fraud by Trump supporters which might be plausible enough to lead to questioning the election results in other states that HRC did win legitimately, even by the non-Trump supporting segments of the population.
Investigations, probable rioting in the streets and general chaos would ensue. The resultant distraction would permit Russia to have its way in eastern Europe and the Baltics while the perceived-to-be-illegitimate POTUS had her hands tied. Picture Florida 2000 only going on for years instead of weeks.
Please, somebody tell me I'm just being paranoid.
You're not. You are thinking in a wider circle of more subtle influence. Like it, but hate to give them any ideas.
DeleteU.S. election have been stolen before -- you guys don't need much extra help. There are now no-travel advisories from 3 countries re the U.S. -- why not election monitors like in third world countries?
DeleteTrump has already said the election is rigged, they don't need to hack anything. If he loses, he will contest it and send the message to his peons to take up arms.
DeleteTRUMP HAS RECENTLY BIG TIME ALIENATED HISPANICS, PLUS SIZE FEMALES AND NOW ... NATO
ReplyDelete“Especially with the Ukrainian (American) community, the message is very strong and clear,” she said. “You have a choice: Do you vote for Putin, basically, or there’s another choice: Do you vote for Hillary?”
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Politico-
Trump's Russian roulette ...
... the Republican nominee’s frequent praise of Putin and talk of conditional American backing for NATO members under attack has alarmed voters with close family ties to Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and other Eastern European countries, raising the prospect that they’ll bolt the top of the GOP ticket in November.
“The Latvians are primarily Republicans, as are Lithuanians, Estonians, and many Ukrainians, but Trump has put them in a real bind,” said Maris Mantenieks, a Latvian leader in Ohio’s Eastern European ethnic community.
“Because in all honesty they don’t want to vote for [Clinton], and yet again they can’t express their Republicanism due to Trump’s positions.”
These voters, many of whom live in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, are deeply worried by an emboldened Moscow, and anxious over the possibility that the Baltic nations might be the next target of Russian adventurism. Trump’s lavish praise of Putin has exacerbated those concerns — leaving an opening that Clinton’s campaign is leveraging by emphasizing her willingness to get tough with Putin, and her unwavering support for NATO. Earlier this month, Clinton met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in New York — and her allies made sure to publicize the message that Trump snubbed him.
For years, voters with Eastern Bloc roots embraced the Republican Party, viewing the GOP as an anti-communist bulwark and a champion of strength in the face of Russian aggression....
Gryph another big post at
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-russia-vladimir-putin-swing-states-228930
They should be worried. A weakened US who has its leaders in the pocket of Russia would go very badly for eastern European countries. They'd be slitting thier own families' throats.
DeleteOur grandfather's would be sh##ting blue bricks if they could hear trump.
Delete"Karl Rove used to say back in the day (and here he was right), you beat your opponent not by attacking his weakness but by UNDERMINING his strength. "
ReplyDelete"when Trump made the boneheaded mistake of saying it was just business to bet against the housing market, Clinton had responded with something more like:
“No, Donald, that’s actually not business at all. That’s just the greedy, heartless speculation that real CEOs and real patriots despise, because it destroyed American families while you got rich and laughed. Which is why even your fellow business leaders don’t respect you.”
It would have left him looking small and unworthy."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-clinton-hasnt-put-trump-away-090041706.html
And Donald hates to be made to look small. He even pleaded with Jeb Bush during the GOP debates not to bring up Trump's Florida business of kicking out a black woman to get her property, or something similar -- take your pick of his many shady, mean and cheap dealings.
DeleteTrump used those very words.
Where is
ReplyDeleteSen John "COUNTRY FIRST" McCain?
How come he's not coming to America's rescue?
He is a loser according to Donald "Make America Great Again" Trump
Caught in Trump's Cycle of Rage and Abuse
ReplyDelete“She’s nasty, but I can be nastier than she ever can be."
That's the takeaway quote from a disturbing article in the Times out tonight, describing an agitated, febrile Donald Trump, off the high of his overnight Twitter rampage but settled into a steady rage over a week of humiliations and electoral reverses. Trump's biggest liability and weakness through his eighteen months as a politician has been his inability to focus or rule his emotions. He goes off on jags in which he seems to forget what he's at least notionally trying to do: win an election. In the quotation above, his rage against Clinton and Alicia Machado appears to have deluded him into believing that the election is a contest to see who can be the bigger monster.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/caught-in-trump-s-cycle-of-rage-and-abuse
His words are the equivalent of rape: its main component exercising power over the victim.
DeleteI think this is strategy to keep Trump from preparing for the next debate.
DeleteAnd it's WORKING!
Donald Trump Opens New Line of Attack on Hillary Clinton: Her Marriage
ReplyDelete...He said he was bringing up Mr. Clinton’s infidelities because he thought they would repulse female voters and turn them away from the Clintons, and because he was eager to unsettle Mrs. Clinton in their next two debates and on the campaign trail.
“She’s nasty, but I can be nastier than she ever can be,” Mr. Trump said.
“Hillary Clinton was married to the single greatest abuser of women in the history of politics,” he added about Mr. Clinton. “Hillary was an enabler, and she attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I think it’s a serious problem for them, and it’s something that I’m considering talking about more in the near future.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-bill-hillary-clinton.html
he thought they would repulse female voters
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Little Donnie has been hanging out with too many bimbos, he is clueless about women, we are repulsed all right, by HIM.
We would much rather hear about his solutions to problems facing the country, oh right he doesn’t have any solutions.
Since we know he can’t contain himself, when it brings it up, Hillary should respond, let’s talk about the numerous times you have broken the law, where are you tax returns etc.
I suspect that Trump's latest line of attack - blaming Hillary Clinton for her husband's affairs - will back fire big time on the chump with orange hair and little hands.
DeleteBeaglemom
I suspect that Trump's latest line of attack - blaming Hillary Clinton for her husband's affairs - will back fire big time on the chump with orange hair and little hands.
DeleteBeaglemom
Funny that women are always accused of trump's #itchy behavior.
DeleteSurprised they haven't taken down the sites that spilled on Trump's phoney charity foundation not having the paperwork to accept donations totaling more than $25,000 a year. But then there are so many of them.
ReplyDeleteThey can take down Newsweek, but the information is out there now. Can't stop it.
President Obama should "take action" and STOP trump NOW.
ReplyDeleteExactly how can President Obama "take action" and stop the GOP nominee's run for office? President Obama is doing everything he can by campaigning for Hillary Clinton and for Democrats up and down the ticket. What can we do? Those of us who have the mobility can take time to make phone calls, go door to door, work in local Democratic Party offices, put yard signs in our yards, attend Democratic candidate events, contribute to Democratic campaigns. Above all, we can vote for Hillary Clinton and for every Democratic candidate on our ballots.
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Cigar anyone?
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Congratulations and best of luck. You are going to be great parents!
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Does the Russian connection surprise anyone? Really?
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/kurteichenwald
ReplyDeleteEeeww! "probe tRump"?? Eeeww!
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump Is Being Outplayed by Women—and He’s Losing His Mind Over It
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-being-outplayed-by-women-and-hes-losing-his-mind/
Keep America Safe. A good woman can do as well as any man.
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#ShowUsYourTaxes: Here’s Every Time Donald Trump Has Said He Would Release His Tax Returns
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Trump will make everyone hate politics. Can we 'elect' our president by raffle or something more entertaining? I am ready for something fresh. This is adorable.
ReplyDeleteYour Weekly Top Ten Features Wonkette Baby Being AN ADORABLE BEATNIK
http://wonkette.com/607128/your-weekly-top-ten-features-wonkette-baby-being-an-adorable-beatnik
Who can't use some good baby entertainment news about now? They are our future. Trump can't be the past soon enough!
The GOP and Trump make my brain turn to mush.
I don't know about the rest of you but I am getting dizzy trying to keep up with all of Trump's bullshit.
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His campaign has been one huugee mockery of our electoral process and office of the president of the United States. He has proven any ignorant idiot can run for president, it remains to be seen whether they can be elected president.
We have been exposed to months of his BS and I have yet to hear him tell us HOW he plans to do anything.
I guess he is too busy compiling his revenge list and twittering insults to be bothered although I would image that since he hasn’t spent a whole lot of time formulating any policies, they would fit on a bumper sticker. Wouldn’t want to overwork the pea brains of his supporters.
I blame the republican party for not taking this nim-com-poop seriously in the primaries and the media for promoting his BS with all the free air time. Finally some of them are doing their jobs as journalists; let’s hope it isn’t too little too late.
So judging by Palin's silence on the topic of Trump's close ties to Putin, has she given up on "keeping an eye on him if he rears his head" and gotten used to the idea of waving to him "from land there in Alaska"?
ReplyDeleteSICK BASTARD WANTS TO WATCH EVERYBODY'S SEXTAPE
ReplyDeleteWatched the SEXTAPE of a family friend's daughter who he thought was hot even at 12 and then demanded to watch a SEXTAPE of a girl when she was 17 years old.
Fuc_ing perv couldn't get enough of his own daughter's hot body that he even had the nerve to tell everybody on radio and TV shows that daddy has the jones for Ivanka.
😠In 2009, Trump called on Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean to release a sex tape she made at age 17.
Prejean, dueling with Trump over her dismissal as Miss USA, had criticized Trump in a book for allegedly sorting contestants in his pageants by how sexually attracted he was to them. She had also recently said she filmed an erotic video for her boyfriend when she was 17, calling it her “biggest mistake.”
In response, Trump told the television show Extra: “She's trying to act like she's a nun... so maybe she should release the sex tape and people would see whether or not she is a nun."
😠Days later, Trump again called on Prejean to release the underage sex tape on CNN.
“As far as the sex tape, I guess Carrie was the one that told people about the sex tape. She openly admits there is a sex tape. Maybe she should reveal the sex tape to see whether or not it’s horrendous or whatever.”
😠In a 2005 interview with Vanity Fair, Trump said the sex tape made Hilton “hotter.”
Art of Dying - Die Trying
ReplyDeleteCough cough - hey Alexei!
It is Time!
Over and Out!
Uh oh the Global Underground Network is up
DeletePowerman 5000 - When Worlds Collide
Are you going with me
Cuz I am going with you
That's the end of all time
Are you ready
Yeah I'm ready
Are you going
Yup I'm going
That's the end of all time
When will the bundle of joy be here?
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This pig could possibly become president, Marla isn't a well woman (in her head). Here's some things to know about Don and Marla and their out of wedlock doll tiffany
ReplyDeletehttp://www.people.com/article/marla-maples-donald-trump-ex-wife-dancing-stars
Sure she's been rich and she's been poor, but she still loves her ex husband and extended family. Isn't there something in the Bible that says you shouldn't commit adultery and have kids out of wedlock, or is that just a suggestion. Family Values my butt!