Octopus Overlords

"Hold on for a sec, Vlad. Arnie's on the line and he needs help deciding whether to fire Justin Bieber or Herve Villachiaz."

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well this is horrifying:

That's nothing. Wait until they purge the Russophobes from the intelligence community.

Max Peck wrote:

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well this is horrifying:

That's nothing. Wait until they purge the Russophobes from the intelligence community.

You mean the shirkers and wreckers, Comrade.

Holman wrote:

Max Peck wrote:

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:Well this is horrifying:

That's nothing. Wait until they purge the Russophobes from the intelligence community.

You mean the shirkers and wreckers, Comrade.

Trump wrote: "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the transition said in a terse, unsigned statement.


"The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'"

I can't even begin to believe that he's saying this shit. Reality re-created in 140 characters or less.

When you've lost former Congressman Joe Walsh...holy shit. He's currently losing his shit on twitter over Republicans being suddenly ok with Russia interfering in our elections. Cowards.

RunningMn9 wrote:When you've lost former Congressman Joe Walsh...holy shit. He's currently losing his shit on twitter over Republicans being suddenly ok with Russia interfering in our elections. Cowards.

He's lost Palin, too.

He hasn't even taken office yet and people are discovering how badly they got suckered. It won't be long before the only Trump holdouts are Giuliani and Rip.

tgb wrote:Shall we start a pool on how many "surprise appearances" he makes throughout the season?

You mean in the White House?

tgb wrote:

RunningMn9 wrote:When you've lost former Congressman Joe Walsh...holy shit. He's currently losing his shit on twitter over Republicans being suddenly ok with Russia interfering in our elections. Cowards.

He's lost Palin, too.

He hasn't even taken office yet and people are discovering how badly they got suckered. It won't be long before the only Trump holdouts are Giuliani and Rip.

Aaaaand Giuliani is out, so we are left with Rip.

Journalists like Eichenwald are now reminding us that European intelligence agencies aren't going to sit back and ignore the next administration's Putin connections. Trump and McConnell can try to muzzle or purge the CIA, but they can't touch our allies' investigations, and any attempt to do so will just underscore the urgency.

Hopefully they'll still be our allies when all this is over.

Holman wrote:Journalists like Eichenwald are now reminding us that European agencies aren't going to sit back and ignore the next administration's Putin connections. Trump and McConnell can try to muzzle or purge the CIA, but they can't touch our allies' investigations, and any attempt to do so will just underscore the urgency.

Hopefully they'll still be our allies when all this is over.

And hopefully their governments aren't swapped by pod people as well.

Given our own history of fucking with other sovereign nations' elections, I find these politicians getting their panties in a bunch over Soviet interference hilarious.

i have to give the responsible Russian intelligence agencies credit here. very effective.

tgb wrote:Given our own history of fucking with other sovereign nations' elections, I find these politicians getting their panties in a bunch over Soviet interference hilarious.

But those were our vassal states! Russia is not our suzerain. Yet.

Kraken wrote:

tgb wrote:Given our own history of fucking with other sovereign nations' elections, I find these politicians getting their panties in a bunch over Soviet interference hilarious.

But those were our vassal states! Russia is not our suzerain. Yet.

Set up a trade route.

tgb wrote:Given our own history of fucking with other sovereign nations' elections, I find these politicians getting their panties in a bunch over Soviet interference hilarious.

Oops. Senior moment. I meant Russian. I must have gotten distracted by those guys from England with the long hair and the clothes.

I wonder what the Tweeter-in-Chief will have to say about this:

Brilliant.

For fucks sake, even in the alternate universe you are in where you are a smart person, you STILL NEED DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS because the intelligence changes daily.

Every time this dummy feels the need to tell us that he's smart, it reminds me of the fact that in my entire 42 years, I've never once encountered a smart person that had to tell me they were smart.

Smart people never have to say it.

Hey there! That seems harsh - he might be very smart...but just completely disabled by his varied personality disorders.

RunningMn9 wrote:When you've lost former Congressman Joe Walsh...holy shit. He's currently losing his shit on twitter over Republicans being suddenly ok with Russia interfering in our elections. Cowards.

Seriously - but also screw Joe Walsh. He was happily carrying water for Trump until he crossed the line by denying Russian hacking? That was the line? Joe Walsh can complain all he wants but he should have known better well before now.

I mean yeah, but that's the point. Walsh has been Trump's lap dog, and even he is like WTF Trump?!?

Words of wisdom from Teen Vogue.

Defiant wrote: For fucks sake, even in the alternate universe you are in where you are a smart person, you STILL NEED DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS because the intelligence changes daily.

If he's going to pick and choose what he believes anyway, what's the point of briefings? Maybe HE should be briefing THEM.

malchior wrote:Words of wisdom from Teen Vogue.

That was unexpectedly good.

Kraken wrote:

malchior wrote:Words of wisdom from Teen Vogue.

That was unexpectedly good.

When even Teen Vogue is calling you on your bullshit.........

I can't wait until next week's hard-hitting piece of investigative reporting from Us!

tgb wrote:

Kraken wrote:

malchior wrote:Words of wisdom from Teen Vogue.

That was unexpectedly good.

When even Teen Vogue is calling you on your bullshit.........

Yeah, I usually only go there for fashion advice.

Have there been any interviews with Pence since the pronouncement that the Russian hacks were intended to help Trump? As much as I dislike him, he at least has seemed to give credence to these assessments in the past. And, by all reports, he's the one actually getting the daily briefings.

Senators *have* been attending their briefings, and they're treating the issue of Russian interference like the crisis that it is. McCain and Graham are calling for deep investigation, and they certainly have no interest in making Hillary Clinton look good. At this point everyone who's been given access to the information is taking it very seriously except for Trump and his campaign loyalists.

Meanwhile, Trump is entering office with record-low approval ratings for a president-elect. Presidents have always started high and gone down, but Trump is lower than every modern president's complete first-term average, and he's lower than all second terms except Truman, Nixon, and GWB.

Is it possible for a president to be ruined before he's inaugurated?

Even if he's ruined, he still has executive power.

I know this is a slim thread here, but he isn't president yet. There's a slight possibility (OK, very slight) that if he keeps pulling shit up until the Electoral College votes, the members may just say "Uhhh......no.".

Thank god it is only a little over a week till we can put that crap to bed with the recount.

Then hopefully anger fades fast and we can get to bargaining.

Will Trump continue to negotiate as poorly as he did with Carrier?

Here's John Bolton running full-steam on post-truth lunacy, suggesting that the DNC hacking was a false-flag operation by the Obama administration.
How do you even...? There are no words.

In a sane America, that would be enough to disqualify Bolton from being taken seriously anywhere at any time by anyone.

US doesn't 'have to be bound' by One China policy.. Yeah, this should end well.

The absurd derp is coming so fast, I can barely keep up.

tgb wrote:I know this is a slim thread here, but he isn't president yet. There's a slight possibility (OK, very slight) that if he keeps pulling shit up until the Electoral College votes, the members may just say "Uhhh......no.".

The only way I see that scenario happening is if there is solid evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. And even if they did, and it can be proven, it ain't gonna happen in the next week.

One of my facebook friends has been grasping at straws like this ever since the election. It's my opinion that overturning an election is worse for the republic than accepting and trying to contain a bad result. My opinion will change if the election was won by treason.

It does beg the question of why they are certain the Russians hacked the DNC but have no idea who hacked Clinton's server?!?

Rip wrote:It does beg the question of why they are certain the Russians hacked the DNC but have no idea who hacked Clinton's server?!?

And we're off.

Rip wrote:It does beg the question of why they are certain the Russians hacked the DNC but have no idea who hacked Clinton's server?!?

Duh, you are assuming what you to prove - there's no evidence her server was hacked.