President-elect Donald Trump is freshly casting doubt on the idea that Russia was behind the election-related hacks into Democratic entities, and said the conclusion by U.S. agencies that the Kremlin played a role was politically driven.
“I don’t believe it. I don’t believe they interfered,” Trump said in an interview with Time magazine, which named him person of the year.
Trump has steadfastly refused to say that Russian President Vladimir Putin or his agencies played any role in the hack of the Democratic National Committee and the private email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
When asked by Time if the conclusion reached by U.S. officials was motivated by politics, Trump responded, “I think so.”
It should be noted that this is the same man who claimed that the election was rigged right up until he "won" it.
Trump has also expressed his belief that global warming is a Chinese hoax and that vaccinations cause Autism, and yet THIS one he simply cannot wrap his mind around.
Do you know who CAN wrap their mind around it?
Lindsey freaking Graham, that's who.
As if we needed anymore evidence that reality has changed irreparably, here I am on the same side of an issue with Senator Lindsey Graham.Sen. Lindsey Graham says he plans to lead an investigation into the alleged Russian hacking in US elections https://t.co/6wPebEksQy— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 7, 2016
Up is down, black is white, and the Republican president is clearly the puppet of a Russian dictator.
If this were a script for a James Bond movie, it would be discarded for being too far fetched and unbelievable.
OT?"The authors’ larger point: that one of the biggest causes of conspiratorial thinking was perceived power imbalances, a way of seeing the world that’s a little more political than pathological."When people feel like they’re powerless (hello, electoral college) they look for simple explanations, often of mythic proportions."“There’s a kernel, if not of truth, of plausibility to most conspiracy theories,” says Brotherton. “There are legitimate concerns over the militarization of the police, the power of government.”So what separates a reasonable level of paranoia from true conspiracist thinking? Likely, it’s a matter of how high up you think the conspiracy goes, and whether your worldview hangs entirely on a belief in shadowy circumstances rather than, say, the logic of reality. "
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Lady Gaga ....Watch the vid....
". If Alex Jones and others could motivate this Pizzagate guy to drive 350 miles and shoot up a pizza parlor, it’s not at all crazy to think that a president could have an equal hold over a person’s imagination."he other danger of President Trump’s tweets is this: He will use it, as he already has, to mobilize mob opinion. Not public opinion.>mob has its mind made up already and wants what it calls “justice” or “revenge.”
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http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-branson-on-meeting-donald-trump-2016-10
Richard Branson: "Donald Trump told me he wanted 'to spend the rest of his life' getting revenge"
Richard Branson: "Donald Trump told me he wanted 'to spend the rest of his life' getting revenge"
DeleteMay Karma rise up and make Trumpov's life as he deserves.
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Of course Trump "doesn't believe" that Russia put its thumb on the scales on his behalf. Whether he has guilty knowledge, or whether he's a blissfully unaware puppet, of course he doesn't want people to believe that he had outside help. And he's going to keep on denying it as he's carrying out his controller's wishes—whether or not he's aware that's what he's doing.
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DeleteAnd if he ever is going to say a thing in acceptance of the intel, it will be after he's inaugurated.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/what-a-top-fbi-profiler-taught-me-about-extreme-narcissists-like-donald-trump/
ReplyDeleteTrump also doesn't believe that he's about 2.7 million (and climbing) behind Clinton in votes cast. His ego won't let him believe this either.
ReplyDeleteCrazy old orange fatty. What are business people going to do? Schools, public, are run like business models more or less now but some places haven't gotten rid of teachers who do very little. I was so ready for this imbecile to be gotten rid of but it hasn't happened. Now we have people with money that will attempt to make decisions that they cannot fathom. Educated people where is the outcry!, I know you all paid dearly for your degree, your kid's degree to work in a field to become secretary of state maybe and not some yahoo with money.
ReplyDeleteYes and don't ya love when you explain this to staunch smelly republican puppets that never turns the foxs no news nation channel? It is amazing how these people have been brainwashed into ignorance. They have become mentally stupid and love it. The election was rigged, trump knows it, we know it and the hackers know it and will use against trump as needed. Bribe extortion divide silence. Aint gonna work much longer.
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ReplyDeleteHRC came out! ;-)
I started watching when I saw the Reid tribute on MSNBC, and then I watched the rest on C-SPAN. It just finished a few minutes ago. I haven't shed tears like I just did in a long time. I felt so proud as I listened to the speakers and saw people in the audience--like Tom Daschel--once again. Sounds corny, I know, but with it being Christmastime, seeing the Dems who stand for what's right and for the little guy felt so right.
DeleteAnd then I went down a channel to another C-SPAN channel, and what did I see? I saw my man, Sherrod Brown, in the middle of talking about extending health and pension benefits to retired mine workers and their widows before everyone in Congress left for Xmas break. In fact, he said, many House Reps. had already left DC. Brown was trying to get the benefits extended for a year. He was trying to talk McConnell and the GOP into putting an end to torturing these families with the threats of cutting them off and then going only with very short-term extensions (just as the GOP have done for the past eight years with things like unemployment benefits) when finally pressured to because they look like the evil SOBs that they are.
Brown said it was wrong for the well-off Congress to leave these families in the lurch and just before Christmas. The contrast between the Dems and GOP could not be any starker. We are the good and decent side. We are the side that stands for the people. Period.
Anon at 1:54 pm. I think what Sherrod Brown and other Democrats are trying to do for people now and what they will be trying to do once the Trump empire begins are wonderful. Good for the Democrats. And, imagine, they're doing it for people who voted for Republicans up and down the ticket. Democrats act in order to help people, all of them.
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I think that Donald Trump sold himself to Vladimir Putin in part because he thinks that we Americans have made too much fun at his expense over the years. He was also impressed with the immense wealth that Putin has amassed from his country. Trump is a small and very bitter man with a very limited intellectual capacity. Once Putin is done with Trump, the US will resemble Russia in all its ugliness with pollution and poverty rampant.
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When Trump was campaigning, he went to a lot of the inner-cities that already looked pretty poverty stricken to me.
DeleteHe asked for their vote, put up his hands and said..."what have you got to loose?"
Just guessing, but I think he got a lot of their votes.
Ginger,stop guessing.He did not get many of their votes,just use Google.
DeleteXenophobic, racist Ginger is back.
DeleteO/T Don't Mess With California!
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Xavier Becerra, nominee to be the next attorney general of California, talks with Rachel Maddow about California's preparedness to defend its progressive policies from potential attacks by the Trump administration. Duration: 10:57
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ReplyDelete" for possession and distribution of child pornography.
Trask, 40, has been eluding law enforcement since 2012, according to the ICE website. He is accused of sharing more than 700 images and 10 videos of child exploitation, some of which involved sex acts with toddlers."
GOT ONE!
My free gratias friends of trump ate getting concerned about their Medicare and SS .I just looked at them and walked away. Idiot's!
ReplyDeleteI need different friends.
Ditch those people, they'll never be a good positive thing in your life. The Republicans I have in my internet circle never talk politics but are all very self-absorbed.
DeleteBut let this be a lesson to others: if you don't know a person's politics when you meet them, FIND OUT before you befriend or fall in love with someone who deliberately hurts your life for the sake of their prejudice.
As long as you're ditching your friends, be sure to tell them if they lose their Medicare and Social Security they have only themselves to blame for voting Republican. It's not like it was a secret that's exactly what they were going to do. Weren't they paying attention? "You voted for it, you dumb fuck." would be an appropriate response.
DeleteIf you ever see them again and they start complaining about anything, you just say "Told you so" and walk away.
Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. These Deplorables have to hit rock bottom before you can get their attention for a reality check.
I posted earlier re Sherrod Brown and the Dems trying to get work done before Xmas, including for mining families. It's nuts how the Dems are the ones trying to help them, but they vote for people like Trump. And still, once again, here the Dems, today, trying to get these families taken care of:
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Don't worry. The Republicans will take the credit, the Democrats will be blamed and the dumb fucks will believe it and keep voting Republican.
DeleteI say enough. Let them reap what they voted.
Nobody knows what he believes on any given day because Donald Trump's first instinct is to lie.
ReplyDeleteAnd frankly I don't give a shit what he says he believes about anything, he has no morals anyway.
yep. those are horns on the time cover. yep. Thee devil of the year. Stands out like horns on a hog.
ReplyDeleteRohrabacher felt sorry for Russia and said it’s okay for them to interfere since everyone does it, “No, I’m just trying to —(crosstalk) the bottom line is that Russia, when Russia does exactly what’s going on in other countries, people like yourself are villainizing it saying how horrible it is. But it’s basically happening all over the world.”
ReplyDeleteSo that’s a yes, it’s cool for Russia to hack a Democrat’s emails and interfere with a U.S. election, and it also sounds again remarkably like how diplomats describe Putin’s whining about Hillary Clinton.
If you’re keeping score, that’s defending Russia with a “neener neener” America is bad too. But it gets worse.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/08/putins-favorite-congressman-calls-russians-human-rights-abuses-baloney.html
Trump is nearly ten points less popular that George W. Bush was after the 2000 election. There has not been a recent president less popular than Trump. The partisan divide in the country has only grown deeper as Trump has a 15% approval rating with Democrats when it comes to his transition and explaining his plans and policies for the future. Trump’s approval rating with Republicans (79%) is on par with George W. Bush’s (79%) in 2001. Trump is also generating nearly 20 points less enthusiasm for his cabinet choices than any previous president-elect.
ReplyDeleteThe warning signs are very flashing brightly for Trump and the Republican Party. Donald Trump will take the oath of office as the least popular incoming president in the history of polling. Trump isn’t getting a bounce. The nation isn’t warming up to him and his policies. Fifty-four percent of the country voted against Trump, but instead of trying to appeal to the majority, the Trump transition has been focused on loading up his cabinet with unqualified cronies and misfits who oppose the agencies that they will be overseeing.
Nearly 60% of the country isn’t buying it. In fact, they are rejecting President-elect Donald J. Trump.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/08/americans-reject-trump-giving-lowest-approval-rating-president-elect.html
It will only get worse as regret sets in. Those that regret voting for Trump will only grow with each passing day, each cabinet announcement, each twitter war and the growing list of his business conflicts.
Delete...There is no doubt that Blunt knows damn well “Obamacare” has not done any damage to Medicare. And in fact, the Affordable Care Act has strengthened Medicare and guaranteed its solvency for at least 16 years longer than if “Obamacare” had never existed; the longer “Obamacare” stays in place, the longer Medicare’s solvency is guaranteed. That is just one reason why Republicans want to get rid of the Affordable Care Act; to purposely create the “Medicare solvency issue” Paul Ryan depends on to “overhaul” the program with a coupon. Last week Ryan pledged that he was going to phase out Medicare in 2017, but he may have a tougher time than he thought and it may be Republicans who impede his efforts.
ReplyDeleteIt isn’t the greatest news that Medicare’s death is likely prolonged due to some Republicans’ reluctance to punish seniors and disabled Americans. But in these darkest of times in America, any good news should be celebrated as if it is the last; because it probably is.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/08/wary-republicans-portend-good-news-disabled-seniors.html
One of the first changes that President Obama made to Medicare was to include a complete physical, previously a once-in-a-lifetime event, as an annual event. When I see my doctor in January for my annual physical exam I'm going to explain that i realize that it will be the last annual physical exam that I'll have thanks to the GOP. What will her practice do once we senior citizens only show up at the office doorstep really sick or dying? I'm quite sure that many of the doctors there voted for Trump and for all the other self-centered, mean Republican candidates.
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Donald Trump will cause US power to collapse, says man who correctly predicted fall of USSR
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-us-power-to-collapse-predicted-ussr-fall-johan-galtung-a7460516.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-working-mothers-donald-trump_us_584987dee4b04002fa801b47
ReplyDeleteIn "Trumpland, the burden of parenting always falls on the mother. She will always be the one to pull back at work. The idea that a mother could perhaps share parenting responsibilities with a partner or, god forbid, look to social policy for support is not on the table.
There is only one table. Men sit at it. The end."
Kellyanne is doing damage control pre-hittingthefan.
She's using the old "time to spend with my family" as a reason why she isn't going to have a place in Donald Trump's White House.
(hey, Kellyanne - TOLD YOU SO!)
"Kellyanne Conway suggested on Wednesday that she would turn down an official role in the White House because of the strain it would put on her family. Conway, who managed Donald Trump’s campaign, added that she would continue to advise the president-elect."
(That's because she isn't going to be offered anything.)
"But what she did say at “Women Rule,” a conference hosted by Politico, signals that the environment for women in the Trump administration will be difficult. Men are the ones who rule in Trumpland, which adheres to “traditional” male-female roles when it comes to work and family. Modern notions don’t seem to apply."
"She recalled discussions about what role she could play in Trump’s administration, remarking that senior campaign officials would say, “I know you have four kids but …”
“I said there’s nothing that comes after the ‘but’ that makes any sense to me so don’t even try. Like what is the but?” she said. “But they’ll eat Cheerios for the rest of the day? Nobody will brush their teeth again until I get home?”
“And I do politely mention to them the question isn’t would you take the job, the male sitting across from me who’s going to take a big job in the White House. The question is would you want your wife to,” she continued. “Would you want the mother of children to? You really see their entire visage change. It’s like, ‘Oh, no, they wouldn’t want their wife to take that job.’ But it’s, it’s all good." "
Misogynistic Administration. Not anything we didn't already know.
Personally, I'll be glad to see the back of Kellyanne. If she gets a boot to hurry her along, all the better.
My fear is that Lindsay Graham's investigation of the Putin connection with the recent election will be at best half baked and that the GOP conclusion will be that it was "much ado about nothing" and that the Democrats must simply be paranoid. I've become that cynical.
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Go Miss. Lindsay !!! When the proof comes out and it will, let the impeachment begin, which could include pence.
ReplyDeleteI am already sick of the sociopath trump and he isn’t even in office yet.
The only fact that trump has told in a year: the election was rigged.
Nobody believes that ugly liar. First he says its rigged and now he says what? Really? It was rigged, he knows it and so does the American people. Just enough fudge to spin it in rumps favor and the cons think we all watch fox no news nation. Nope. Most of us do not watch no news fox nation.
ReplyDeleteTrump turned out to be guilty of everything he accused others of during the campaign so I'm quite sure that he knew that the tally rigging would go on.
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Give a look see at this commentary:
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Now we can all use our critical thinking skills to understand that in short-hand, Trump Takes from Peter to pay Paul. Smoke and mirrors for sure.