islander wrote: 


We need Dana Perino back, if I am going to listen to bullshit which is basically the job description of the Press Secretary then at least give me something nice to look at.

 Steely_D wrote: 
Shocked, I am ...

From Wikileaks ...

 UMBRAGE

The CIA's hand crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the agency. Each technique it has created forms a "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.

This is analogous to finding the same distinctive knife wound on multiple separate murder victims. The unique wounding style creates suspicion that a single murderer is responsible. As soon one murder in the set is solved then the other murders also find likely attribution.

The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.

With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.

UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers, password collection, webcam capture, data destruction, persistence, privilege escalation, stealth, anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques.

Does Spicer read his briefings before he gets to the podium?  His robotic delivery and rote reading of the sheet in front if him is strange.  

 Steely_D wrote: 

Oh FFS. But I suppose I should've expected this.
Fake news blah blah woof woof.

Kredo: DOJ Found Malware in Trump Tower Servers ‘Mimicking’ Contacts to Russian Entities

 Steely_D wrote:
This is a pretty straightforward proof:

Chevy chase has said "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not".



Chevy Chase has played a bumbling president on TV



Donald Trump is playing a bumbling President on TV



Therefore, trump might as well have said "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not".

BTW, They are birds of a feather - I wouldn't want to have anything to do with either in most circumstances.

Please please please let him get a response of "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not."

Trump defends wild claims: 'I'm president, and you're not'

"I'm a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can't be doing so badly, because I'm president, and you're not," he told Time's Washington bureau chief, Michael Scherer.

Read President Trump's Interview With TIME on Truth and Falsehoods

terrifying 

‘Trump Troubadour’ went to 45 Trump rallies in honor of his late son. Now he feels ‘betrayed.’

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
'Watching Trump in the White House left Breslin “a bit sour with what’s going on in our country.”

“Mainly because (Trump was) the kind of guy that in my neighborhood in Brooklyn and (Breslin’s) in Queens we despised,” Hamill said.

“The bulls—t tough guy. The guy is all mouth and couldn’t fight his way out of an empty lot.” '

Such a shame so many people got suckered. 

 pigtail wrote:

The health care "plan" really gets me. Granted, it's Paul Ryan's plan but Trump is peddling it as his own because he never had one in the first place. It's yet another giveaway to the rich. 

Fewer Americans Would Be Insured With G.O.P. Plan Than With Simple Repeal

How the Rich Gain and the Poor Lose Under the Republican Health Care Plan

 

AP Exclusive: Before Trump job, Manafort worked to aid Putin

Here’s what Jimmy Breslin had to say about Donald Trump decades ago

 miamizsun wrote:

 
Don't forget the promise to buy American Steel bullshit:

An order with exceptions

Trump should have been a magician, because he is endlessly skilled at the art of the misdirect. At a White House meeting for business leaders on February 23, Trump told U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi, “We approved, as you know, the Keystone pipeline and Dakota, but they have to buy, meaning steel, so I’ll say U.S. steel, but steel made in this country and pipelines made in this country.”

As it turns out, that’s not true.

“The Keystone XL pipeline is currently in the process of being constructed, so it does not count as a new, retrofitted, repaired, or expanded pipeline,” a White House spokeswoman clarified to Politico on March 2. Keystone’s developer, TransCanada, does not have to buy steel made in this country. Neither will the Dakota Access developer, although both projects are going forward.

 miamizsun wrote: 
A set of rules for the administration, and another for Don the Con.

Do as I say, but...

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
he says a trillion dollar plan to rebuild infrastructure (from cnbc back in jan)

At a rally in Iowa last month, Donald Trump revealed a little more about his $1 trillion infrastructure plans. "My administration will follow two simple rules," he said. "Buy American and hire American."

That's surely welcome news for the many U.S.-based construction, engineering and architecture firms who are salivating over the massive stimulus that may soon be coming their way.

It's also good news for their investors, who could see equity gains climb higher as some of that $1 trillion in funding starts making its way into company coffers. Indeed, infrastructure stocks have climbed since the election, with the MSCI USA Infrastructure Sector Capped Index up nearly 7 percent since Nov. 11, days after Trump was elected.

 

 kurtster wrote: 
Hey Kurtster, my go-to-Trump-supporter-representative-in-chief,

what is your take on the budget?  They are cutting costs in lots of areas, but massively increasing defense spending. Are you ok with that?

Personally, I was hoping he would in fact start a massive Keynsian type drive to invest in US infrastructure, but there is no mention of it, which actually does surprise me, given that he has followed through on his other promises, like the wall and a travel ban for Muslims. Am I missing something?  Or is Trump not actually running this ship after all?

 

 Steely_D wrote: 
Welcome to the chaos created when a 9 yr old is in office.

TRUMP'S DIPLOMAT

“I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job.” He paused to let that sink in.

A beat or two passed before an aide piped up to ask him why he said yes.

“My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.”

Meanwhile, over at the now nearly neutered State Department (Korea desk) :

WTF is going on over there? This is Trump's CAMPAIGN MANAGER.

Yes yes I know. But her emails. He was born in Kenya. I know.

Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government

 President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago