The Official "Damned Trump" Thread

[Dmitry1983]

stories of Donald Trump, team:

-No contacts with Russia
-Some contacts but only about adoption
-Lots of contacts but no crimes
-Crimes, but no collusion
-Collusion, but Trump didn't know

Based on this progression, the next defense is "it's technically not treason."

Russia is a conservative christian pro-rich white country. We are natural allies. Democrats cooperating with Mexicans is treason.

[Fake Messiah]

Russia is a conservative christian pro-rich white country. We are natural allies. Democrats cooperating with Mexicans is treason.

If Russia is a natural ally than why does it treat US like an enemy? Why is Russia constantly attacking US? Here's an example from Los Alamos National Laboratory





Also coincidentally Trump never cared much about cybersecurity

Political leaders have expressed their concerns over the move as well. “It’s frankly mindboggling that the Trump Administration has eliminated the top White House official responsible for a whole-of-government cyber strategy, at a time when the cyber threat to our nation is greater than ever,” says senator Mark Warner (D - Virginia), the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in a statement.

Indeed, there's been a demonstrable uptick in cyberattacks. In a Congressional briefing in February, the heads of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and ODNI all testified that Russia would continue its attempts to interfere in US democracy. North Korea unleashed WannaCry ransomware on the world a year ago, and has been continually emboldened online. And with the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, cybersecurity experts warn that the country could once again target its sophisticated cyberattacks at the US.
“If anything, our enemies are only going to do more, not less,” says Daniel.
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-...ordinator/

And now what's happening with the shutdown

The government's cybersecurity professionals are increasingly concerned that hackers will take advantage of the partial shutdown to tamper with sensitive government data or steal citizens' information -- and that the bare-bones staff won't be able to fend them off.

It's far from clear that the cadre of contractors and "essential" employees that remain on the job -- and without pay -- are equipped to defend against such a hack, a furloughed cybersecurity and IT manager tells me. The risk increases every day the shutdown continues, and he worries that failing to combat a serious hack or disinformation campaign would have consequences long after it eventually ends.

“We’ve never tested the limits like this before and I don’t know if they’re equipped to handle it,” the furloughed worker, who manages a dozen digital systems at a small federal agency, told me. “The risk is much higher than it should be, especially when we’re talking about people’s sensitive data.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powe...6fc5a1c5b/

[Dmitry1983]

Russia is a conservative christian pro-rich white country. We are natural allies. Democrats cooperating with Mexicans is treason.

Why is Russia constantly attacking US? 

We are helping you to get rid of liberal traitors

[Fake Messiah]

Why is Russia constantly attacking US? 

We are helping you to get rid of liberal traitors

So that's why Republicans are so thankful to you and those same Senate Republicans have refused to vote to reopen the U.S. government, but have no problem voting to lift sanctions on a Russian oligarch. That's why Russians are their priorities.

[Yonadav]

I now think that the process of impeachment is going to start pretty soon. The Atlantic has come out with a long and detailed article, arguing the case for beginning the process immediately. The article is really, really good.

A short excerpt:

Democrats’ fear—that impeachment will backfire on them—is likewise unfounded. The mistake Republicans made in impeaching Bill Clinton wasn’t a matter of timing. They identified real and troubling misconduct—then applied the wrong remedy to fix it. Clinton’s acts disgraced the presidency, and his lies under oath and efforts to obstruct the investigation may well have been crimes. The question that determines whether an act is impeachable, though, is whether it endangers American democracy. As a House Judiciary Committee staff report put it in 1974, in the midst of the Watergate investigation: “The purpose of impeachment is not personal punishment; its function is primarily to maintain constitutional government.” Impeachable offenses, it found, included “undermining the integrity of office, disregard of constitutional duties and oath of office, arrogation of power, abuse of the governmental process, adverse impact on the system of government.”

Full article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...mp/580468/

[Amarok]

We are helping you to get rid of liberal traitors

Pretty sure that's definition of treason

[Fake Messiah]

On Thursday’s episode of the Russian state TV program “60 minutes,” the hosts gleefully highlighted the disarray Trump has caused and cheered on the possibility that he would plunge the U.S. into further chaos by declaring a state of emergency over a non-existent border crisis.

“Then we will finally defeat America,” declared co-host Olga Skabeeva.

The opinions expressed on state TV provide important insight into the Kremlin’s perspective on domestic affairs in the U.S. Since Russian TV is controlled by the state, the only views and statements that are allowed on state TV are ones that the Kremlin approves of.

https://shareblue.com/russia-trumps-chao...t-america/

[Fake Messiah]

Remember that time a couple months ago when Ivanka Trump announced she was shutting down her business? Now the government is shut down instead, and the business is receiving new trademarks from a country that’s negotiating with her father/boss.

Ivanka Trump has been granted five trademarks from China for her currently defunct company as her father’s administration continues negotiating with Beijing over trade.
In August, The Washington Post reportedthat the Trump International Hotel in New York saw rental revenue increase by 13 percent in the first few months of 2018 after associates of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stayed at the luxury hotel in March. Besides Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and the Philippines have all reportedly booked rooms or hosted events at Trump hotels, in what some analysts have warned could be an effort to curry favor with the president.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-grants-iv...ns-1299272

Yeah imagine Ivanka going one month without a paycheck or a week, and yet 800k people are forced to as their leader makes money off them.

[Fake Messiah]

wow! Trump really humiliated those federal workers: they're crying, they're starving, they're embarrassed in front of their kids while Trump's people are telling lies to the press like that these workers are enjoying their 'vacation' and that they'll get that money once they return to work. - I mean talk about "Let them eat cake" moment.

[Nakara]

Both of my brothers have been protecting our country’s coast without pay for over a month now.

Thankfully they had enough savings to make it this far but that is quickly drying up.