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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,331 posts)
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 08:13 PM Jul 2017

Trump suggested a cybersecurity pact with Russia. Lawmakers say they were dumbfounded.

On Sunday morning, President Trump spoke of his new alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin to erect an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.”

This, the president tweeted at 7:31 a.m., came after Putin “vehemently denied” hacking the 2016 U.S. election.

The tweet's timing could not have been more perfect — for congressional critics of Trump's new plan.

It gave them just enough of a head start to workshop one-liners and practice their comedic timing before the Sunday morning political talk shows.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-suggested-a-cybersecurity-pact-with-russia-lawmakers-say-they-were-%E2%80%98dumbfounded%E2%80%99/ar-BBE4pBM?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Trump suggested a cybersecurity pact with Russia. Lawmakers say they were dumbfounded. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 OP
THIS?!? Caused dumfoundery? THIS?!?! benld74 Jul 2017 #1
Quoting former republican Jennifer Rubin: madaboutharry Jul 2017 #2
Just call him stupid, using multi-syllabic verbiage will only confuse his base of stupidos... RestoreAmerica2020 Jul 2017 #5
"We might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow" dalton99a Jul 2017 #3
The enemy of my enemy is their cyber security?¿?¿? democratisphere Jul 2017 #4

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,439 posts)
5. Just call him stupid, using multi-syllabic verbiage will only confuse his base of stupidos...
Mon Jul 10, 2017, 12:48 AM
Jul 2017

MsM, more specifically, standard channels, non-cable, Sunday morning news-programmng, may be the only time his [eltrumpf] bag of nuts listen to objective, balanced discussion. So don't mince words, call a lie a lie, an untruth a lie, and when eltrumpf LIES, don't say misspoke--call him a liar; when trumpf says something idiotic just say --- stupid; he's a cheater, a con. Mind you, not as to sway repub-base voters ( that won't happen EVER,) however, perhaps that independent/liberal who stayed home or voted for trumpf ...they'll hear and say huh? Damn, this guy is president aye! (oh my, or what the f***!) Other times trumpettes are viewing Fox or evangelical kkkristian news or lineup of radio hosts--hatenuts...limbaugh, colter and that guy whose always mad ..has some podcast? Sorry delayed cognition...oh, and stop apologizing for everything! That adage "when they go low, we go high," well, that's bullshit..it didn t work in 2016 and it won't work NOW! Yes, we know we're nice and compassiate, strive to do right and that will not change, however, that won't help win Congress in 2018; Whitehouse in 2020. You fight fire wiith fire, you walk in la verdad, (truth you call a liar a liar. Trumpf is a liar, republikkklans are all liars. Sorry went off on a tangent. Where was I...

For those that don't have cable or internet, well-- bless our hearts, we are saddled wiith700 kkkclub, and Christianrepubhate radio (when I did listen in or watch, it was only to get information such as news clips on dems or Obama... who what when; did, say do; they'd show videos or talk about dems/independents /congress or supreme court issues, news clips of the day...I'd have to sort out the kkknoise. Comments of course in the negative about all thinga liberal and nonwhite. Oh they' d start out on the pretext of a Christian program (non profit clause I suppose) then hit you with the hate propaganda; talking to their base only--it's quite sickening really. They'd start with a prayer, then bash Obama, Clinton, Sanders , well everyone really. I couldn't watch, the hypocracy of it all was numbing, the hate was nauseating. ..I can see why the repubbase is almost zombie like, hypnotized my mother says, watching all this fakesnewshatenews day-in-day out 24/7; hate propaganda against dems, black/brown hyphenated not-real Americans Aye! Then, onto immigrants and refugees, ALL LIES!

And, if you are lucky enough to have cable and internet, hell it's a feast for all the haters feeding from the trough of fakenews, hate prapaganda and frankly--just plain evil. P.s. one more thing -- stupid is as stupid does!

dalton99a

(81,649 posts)
3. "We might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow"
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 08:21 PM
Jul 2017

“We might as well just mail our ballot boxes to Moscow,” Rep. Adam Schiff ( D-Burbank) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Schiff, a former prosecutor, is the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

On the same program, former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter called it a page from the old Soviet-era playbook.

“When confronted with something wrong, they ask for U.S. intelligence — old trick — and propose a working group, in this case on cyber,” he said. “But this is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-russia-20170709-story.html

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