Everyone needs to calm down. The Russian hack story will go away within the next 48 hours.

[Yavin4]

Nothing is going to be done. No one is going to hold Trump nor the Republican party accountable for this in any way.

[marybourg]

1. Thanx. That makes me really calm.

Not.

[Cha]

8. lol

[wcmagumba]

2. That's it...

we all will know nothing, see nothing, feeling sleepy...sleepy...slee....

?itok=BGge-c_V

[global1]

3. And To Think That The Repugs Were Going To Paint Bernie With The Socialist Moniker....

when they as a Party and the president-elect of their Party - kowtow to the Russians.

What I find interesting is that the Trump supporters would have made mincemeat out of Bernie for being a socialist and yet they tolerate the compelling evidence that Trump is a Putin stooge or a useful idiot.

[Nay]

18. That, of course, is the essential problem with Republican voters. The truth doesn't

matter. The only way to wake them up is for a totally RW administration like Trump's to literally enslave and/or starve them -- then, just maybe, they'll figure it out. For a generation, maybe.

[BainsBane]

26. Russia hasn't been socialist for 25 years

This has absolutely nothing to do with socialism.

[global1]

33. Most Uninformed People Associate Socialist With Communist....

Those same uninformed people would have thought Bernie was a Communist.

Many of those same people still associate Russia with being Communist.

It's just a word association game and the Repugs are good at that kind of association labeling.

My gut is that Bernie could have weathered the socialist moniker that they would have tried to label him and discredit him with and would have turned it around on Trump because of his affiliations and love of Putin and Russia.

[BainsBane]

34. Bernie calls himself a socialist

Quite ununecessarily so, in my opinion. His self-identification as socialist is different from the fact that the USSR collapsed 25 years ago.

And as someone who has read a fair bit of Marxist theory and history, I have yet to see a clear definition distinguishing socialism from communism. Members of Communist parties often refer to themselves as socialists.

What might have happened in an alternate reality, however, can't be known since he never got enough votes to make it to a general election.

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

4. It's time for the blue one again

[0rganism]

5. Fnord Fnord Fnord

don't see the Fnords!

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Never Whistle While You're Pissing

[Dr Hobbitstein]

11. My advice?

Become a flax tycoon.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Trust not a man who's rich in flax

his morals may be sadly lax

[Dr Hobbitstein]

35. Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Totally. And those at the top of authoritarian structures by default end up operating on bad data

because they can't get accurate information from subordinates. The SNAFU principle, I think, right?

RAW did a lot for my thinking. Very influential.

Don't know if you've ever seen Maybe Logic, if not it's worth a watch if you ever have time:

[Dr Hobbitstein]

38. Longtime fan of RAW.

Illuminatus and Schrodinger's Cat trilogies changed my life.

I have seen Maybe Logic, but thanks for sharing. Maybe someone else will see it and come to understand OM.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Yeah, maybe Anthony Weiner's dick will get sighted again, or Kim Kardashian will take a butt selfie

more important news will clearly take precedence.

[Cha]

9. lol.. gawd I know I shouldn't laugh but

wth.. there aren't too many reasons these days.

The m$m is as complicit as putin and the Russian hackers.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. I hear it. You know, the old Chinese curse-

"may you live in interesting times"

...sure seems to apply, unfortunately.

[malaise]

16. Diversion from Groper Don the Con

is more likely

[AgadorSparticus]

10. Really??!?!!! You honestly don't think more stuff is going to come out?

Just because we don't know everything going on doesn't mean it has gone away.

We haven't even started yet....

[KG]

14. right, it's all spilt milk under the bridge. time to move foward and stand shoulder to shoulder w/

der trumpfenfurher!

[RBInMaine]

15. Defeatism defeatism defeatism. If you think like that you will never win.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

17. Right about this incident but it will add to an eventual tipping point resulting in public outrage!

With the attention span and critical thinking skills of a majority of the electorate coupled with asswipes flair for showmanship and cover from a puke congress, it will take a long time to happen and the real damage will have already been done.

We're doomed!!!

[nini]

19. I would generally agree but with some Republicans speaking out now I wonder

I see some of them positioning themselves to use this to become party leadership and 'save' democracy.

The GOP are the ones who are going to keep it going.

[Barack_America]

20. Well, Yavin, that's up to the CIA...

Not up to you, nor I, nor the GOP.

[Solly Mack]

21. Yeah, well if we wanted accountability

we'd have the rule of law.


(I slay me)

[TrekLuver]

22. Wrong.

[roamer65]

23. The CIA isn't going to let this one go away.

You don't diss them and walk away untouched.

[Autumn]

24. I think you are right. It's sickening how the republicans are never held accountable.

Trump will have a free pass by the House the Senate and the media.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Isn't it funny how the focus all year on HRC was "ooh, vague intimations of conflict of interest!"

"Can't have that! Can't have even a whiff of a conflict of interest for someone with a well-connected highly placed gov't position!"


Now it's, like, "Conflict of interest? Pshaaaaaaaaw"

[Baitball Blogger]

25. It was a Friday night news dump.

If something doesn't happen to give it a reason to grow legs, it probably will just linger in the air like mistletoe in a room full of celibates.

[rzemanfl]

27. "mistletoe in a room full of celibates" LOL

[rusty fender]

28. You gotta wonder though...

what, if anything, will bring the Puppet-in Chief down? I thought that pussygrabbygate was the final nail in his coffin, but obviously I was wrong

[kimbutgar]

30. Teflon Don

[rusty fender]

32. Yup

Sadly

[kimbutgar]

29. I just spoke to my son's piano teacher who works multiple jobs to survive

I asked him if he heard of russsian interference in the election. Never heard of it and because I pointed it out he's going to read about it. So it is just not on the radar for non politicial junkies. Watched my local news last night the only mention was of orange hitler denying it and then they moved on. You're right big yawn, no outrage, nothing to see here , move on. Typicial media attitude.

[still_one]

31. It is actually a larger issue than just the CIA report. An alledged president elect of the

United States refuses to attend security briefings. Delegates it to his VP. Publicly trashes our intelligence gathering agency, without even reading the data himself, and proceeds to make false accusations about the CIA regarding the WMDs in Iraq, when it was the Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, not the CIA which said there were WMDs in Iraq, along with others in the bush administration.

Michael Flynn, Trump's National Security Advisor, should send warning alarms all over the the place. He has very questionable ties to Putin, and celebrated Putin's propaganda network, Russia Today:


"a rugged-looking man in a tuxedo who less than 18 months earlier had been head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s powerful in-house equivalent of the CIA. Michael Flynn, now a private citizen after a reportedly disgruntled retirement, was not there to gather intelligence. His attendance at the RT gala, before which he also gave a talk on world affairs, appeared to inaugurate a relationship with the network—presumably a paid one, though neither Flynn nor RT answered queries on the subject. Flynn now makes semi-regular appearances on RT as an analyst, in which he often argues that the U.S. and Russia should be working more closely together on issues like fighting ISIL and ending Syria’s civil war. “Russia has its own national security strategy, and we have to respect that,” he said in one recent appearance. “And we have to try to figure out: How do we combine the United States’ national security strategy along with Russia’s national security strategy, despite all the challenges that we face?”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-russia-today-rt-kremlin-media-vladimir-putin-213833

[Dem2]

36. A healthy dose of cynicism is appropriate

Hope for the best, but little reason to be optimistic at this time.