Oh, but a bunch of GOPers who can’t stop hunting up scandals and rumors and made up conspiracies are sane? Benghazi, no results, Whitewater, no results, Birther whackos, no results. But for this, far more evidence than any of those, this is hallucinations?
This is the same Mike Lester who blamed Hillary when Melania Rump was exposed as a plagiarist by the media. Now, when it is likely that the Russians were behind the leak of DNC emails – Lester thinks it’s lunacy !
The real insanity is attempting to govern by alternating between two extreme ideologies instead of cooperating to get the best compromise that everyone can live with.
It is okay if Trump is insane, the Congress will stop him if he is a crazy president. I would say more than Trump, it is his supporters who are deranged. Trump is obviously a lunatic, but you can’t always get what you want.The DNC should have used Clinton’s servers, they were never hacked like the DNC servers.
With whom would the Russians rather deal? A seasoned politician-senator-secretary of state whose spouse did well for his country? Or a four-times bankrupt plutocrat who has no policies? I think the Russians figure Trump as more dangerous, but if manipulated well, may represent an opportunity for them.
From CNN – James Trainor, assistant director for FBI’s cyber division, told CNN in a recent interview that the bureau has been working with political organizations and think tanks to put more resources into the security of their computer networks. He wouldn’t discuss the DNC or the role of Russia, but spoke generally about the increased number of such intrusions.“There’s been aggressive targeting of that sector, the various campaigns, think tanks in the Washington, DC area,” Trainor said..The “targeting of any candidate or any party (that) has political intelligence,” Trainor said. “There’s value in information there if you’re a nation state actor, so (it) shouldn’t be surprising.”..The FBI was right to investigate the Clinton email server. And they are right to investigate foreign hacking of US political parties. What’s strange is the blatant partisan hypocrisy shown in this cartoon. In this case, the digital footprint and evidence reported so far shows an actual criminal threat, and yet Mike Lester is dismissing it..Too bad his focus is only on being anti-Clinton, and not on being pro-America.
Republicons are now in love with the communists, you need to keep up. Trump married a KGB agent from a communist country.
Connect the following 7 dots. Do you see a pattern?
By Robert Reich
www.robertreich.org>p>1. Trump’s debt load has grown dramatically over the last year, from $350 million to $630 million. At the same time, he’s been blackballed by all major US banks.
2. Post-bankruptcy, Trump has become highly reliant on money from Russia — most of which has over the years become increasingly concentrated among oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
3. Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager and top advisor, spent most of the last decade as top campaign and communications advisor to Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian Ukrainian Prime Minister and then President whose ouster in 2014 led to the on-going crisis and proxy war in Ukraine. Yanukovych was and remains a close ally of Putin.
4. Trump’s foreign policy advisor on Russia and Europe is Carter Page, a man whose entire professional career has revolved around investments in Russia and who has deep and continuing financial and employment ties to Gazprom, which, in turn, is part of Putin’s financial empire.
5. Over the course of the last year, Putin has aligned all Russian state controlled media behind Trump.
6. The Trump Camp was totally indifferent to the Republican Party platform, with one exception: They changed the party platform to eliminate assistance to Ukraine against Russian military operations in eastern Ukraine. Not incidentally, this is the single most important issue to Putin.
7. Trump is also suggesting the US and thus NATO might not come to the defense of NATO member states in the Baltics in the case of a Russian invasion — another important issue to Putin.
Now Donald Trump says he’ll make America great again. It’s right there, it’s stamped on the front of his goofy hat. You want to see goofy? Look at him in that hat.
But when Donald Trump says, ‘Great,’ I ask, ‘Great for who, exactly?’ For millions of kids struggling to pay for an education? For millions of seniors barely surviving on Social Security? For families that don’t fly to Scotland to play golf?
When Donald Trump says he’ll make America great, he means make it even greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump. Great for the guys who don’t care how much they’ve already squeezed from everyone else. Great for the guys who always want more.
Because that’s who Donald Trump is—the guy who wants it all for himself. And watch out, because he will crush you into the dirt to get whatever he wants. That’s who he is.
Just look at the evidence. Donald Trump cheered on Britain’s current crisis, which has sucked billions of dollars out of your retirement accounts, because he said, hey, it might bring more rich people to his new golf course. He cheered on the 2008 housing crash because he could scoop up more real estate on the cheap. And he cheered on students desperate enough to sign up for his fake university so he could bleed them dry and turn a profit for himself.
What kind of a man does that? What kind of a man roots for people to lose their jobs? To lose their homes? To lose their life savings? I’ll tell you what kind of man: a small, insecure money-grubber who fights for nobody but himself.
What kind of a man? A nasty man who will never become President of the United States! That’s right.
Putin wants Trump to be president. Not because he likes him, but because Trump is an amateur, has no experience or knowledge in foreign affairs, has an extremely thin skin and a yuuge ego – in other words easily manipulable.Hillary is the opposite of all that Trump is and would be much harder for him to deal with.
More lies and half-truths from you… shameful..Here’s Politifact rating all of these claims as false: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-inaccurately-suggests-clinton-got-pai/.Key quotes:.“For one, the United States doesn’t actually produce all that much uranium (about 2 percent in 2015) and is actually a net importer of the chemical, according to Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at Middlebury Institute and former director at the New America Foundation..For another, Russia doesn’t have the licenses to export uranium outside the United States, Oilprice.org pointed out, “so it’s somewhat disingenuous to say this uranium is now Russia’s, to do with what it pleases.” The Kremlin was likely more interested in Uranium One’s assets in Kazakhstan, the world’s largest producer..Trump is also wrong that Clinton alone allowed the transfer..The Kremlin’s 2010 purchase of a controlling stake in Uranium One had to be approved by the nine members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States…".As for the ties to the Clinton foundation, they said: “Third, most of their Clinton Foundation donations occurred before and during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, before she could have known she would become secretary of state. The bottom line: While the connections between the Clinton Foundation and the Russian deal may appear fishy, there’s simply no proof of any quid pro quo.”.So who should we trust? Certainly not people like you who make up stories full of lies to support their preconceptions.
Nonsense… you lied, either out of convenience or out of ignorance, but it’s still a lie. And then trying to blame the fact-checkers with nonsensical propaganda… even worse..You only cite partisan sources, and the rebuttals you used were opinions, not facts. Plus you ignored the fact that no uranium can leave the US without our approval, which destroys your point..Stop lying. And until then, you should be ashamed of yourself..Here’s more evidence, as reported by The Hill (at http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/289296-guccifer-20-used-russian-language-vpns-to-leak-documents )
Russian hacking software, Russian techniques, Russian language interface… that’s hard evidence. Not lies and distortions.
Reality is Russia already had the Black Sea fleet located in the Crimea. They had troops right across the border and Crimea is 60% ethnic Russian at the time of the annexation.It had also been part of Russia until 1954.Only a damn fool thinks that the entire world is controlled by Washington. That other parts of the world don’t have their own history, conflicts, and self interests.
Hello from the future! Hey, M.Lester, maybe you could do a retrospective on this one? Considering that Mr. Donald was briefed in Jan, 2017 that there was evidence that the Russians did interfere in the election with the intention of placing Mr. Donald in office?
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
Only Lester would confuse the truth with insanity.
anotherwhirl almost 8 years ago
Oh, but a bunch of GOPers who can’t stop hunting up scandals and rumors and made up conspiracies are sane? Benghazi, no results, Whitewater, no results, Birther whackos, no results. But for this, far more evidence than any of those, this is hallucinations?
Crabbyrino Premium Member almost 8 years ago
The Russians are for Trump? OK, just another reason to vote Clinton.
shakeswilly almost 8 years ago
This is the same Mike Lester who blamed Hillary when Melania Rump was exposed as a plagiarist by the media. Now, when it is likely that the Russians were behind the leak of DNC emails – Lester thinks it’s lunacy !
Odon Premium Member almost 8 years ago
And Mike those were the DNC’s servers, not the Clinton’s.
superposition almost 8 years ago
The real insanity is attempting to govern by alternating between two extreme ideologies instead of cooperating to get the best compromise that everyone can live with.
King_Shark almost 8 years ago
Putin sank the Titanic!Putin assassinated Lincoln!Putin wiped out the dinosaurs!Putin was behind the destruction of Atlantis!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Bernie is an INDEPENDENT, allowed to run as a Dem. Now the Dems supported Hillary, a Democrat and everyone is shocked, I tell you shocked.
jespence97 almost 8 years ago
You still have Trump, neener, neener.
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
It is okay if Trump is insane, the Congress will stop him if he is a crazy president. I would say more than Trump, it is his supporters who are deranged. Trump is obviously a lunatic, but you can’t always get what you want.The DNC should have used Clinton’s servers, they were never hacked like the DNC servers.
piobaire almost 8 years ago
With whom would the Russians rather deal? A seasoned politician-senator-secretary of state whose spouse did well for his country? Or a four-times bankrupt plutocrat who has no policies? I think the Russians figure Trump as more dangerous, but if manipulated well, may represent an opportunity for them.
Aliquid almost 8 years ago
Of course Putin wants Trump in office. Trump doesn’t support NATO, and NATO keeps getting in Putin’s way.
DrewK79 almost 8 years ago
From CNN – James Trainor, assistant director for FBI’s cyber division, told CNN in a recent interview that the bureau has been working with political organizations and think tanks to put more resources into the security of their computer networks. He wouldn’t discuss the DNC or the role of Russia, but spoke generally about the increased number of such intrusions.“There’s been aggressive targeting of that sector, the various campaigns, think tanks in the Washington, DC area,” Trainor said..The “targeting of any candidate or any party (that) has political intelligence,” Trainor said. “There’s value in information there if you’re a nation state actor, so (it) shouldn’t be surprising.”..The FBI was right to investigate the Clinton email server. And they are right to investigate foreign hacking of US political parties. What’s strange is the blatant partisan hypocrisy shown in this cartoon. In this case, the digital footprint and evidence reported so far shows an actual criminal threat, and yet Mike Lester is dismissing it..Too bad his focus is only on being anti-Clinton, and not on being pro-America.
Happy Two Shoes almost 8 years ago
Republicons are now in love with the communists, you need to keep up. Trump married a KGB agent from a communist country.
Connect the following 7 dots. Do you see a pattern?
By Robert Reich
www.robertreich.org>p>1. Trump’s debt load has grown dramatically over the last year, from $350 million to $630 million. At the same time, he’s been blackballed by all major US banks.
2. Post-bankruptcy, Trump has become highly reliant on money from Russia — most of which has over the years become increasingly concentrated among oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
3. Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager and top advisor, spent most of the last decade as top campaign and communications advisor to Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian Ukrainian Prime Minister and then President whose ouster in 2014 led to the on-going crisis and proxy war in Ukraine. Yanukovych was and remains a close ally of Putin.
4. Trump’s foreign policy advisor on Russia and Europe is Carter Page, a man whose entire professional career has revolved around investments in Russia and who has deep and continuing financial and employment ties to Gazprom, which, in turn, is part of Putin’s financial empire.
5. Over the course of the last year, Putin has aligned all Russian state controlled media behind Trump.
6. The Trump Camp was totally indifferent to the Republican Party platform, with one exception: They changed the party platform to eliminate assistance to Ukraine against Russian military operations in eastern Ukraine. Not incidentally, this is the single most important issue to Putin.
7. Trump is also suggesting the US and thus NATO might not come to the defense of NATO member states in the Baltics in the case of a Russian invasion — another important issue to Putin.
Happy Two Shoes almost 8 years ago
Now Donald Trump says he’ll make America great again. It’s right there, it’s stamped on the front of his goofy hat. You want to see goofy? Look at him in that hat.
But when Donald Trump says, ‘Great,’ I ask, ‘Great for who, exactly?’ For millions of kids struggling to pay for an education? For millions of seniors barely surviving on Social Security? For families that don’t fly to Scotland to play golf?
When Donald Trump says he’ll make America great, he means make it even greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump. Great for the guys who don’t care how much they’ve already squeezed from everyone else. Great for the guys who always want more.
Because that’s who Donald Trump is—the guy who wants it all for himself. And watch out, because he will crush you into the dirt to get whatever he wants. That’s who he is.
Just look at the evidence. Donald Trump cheered on Britain’s current crisis, which has sucked billions of dollars out of your retirement accounts, because he said, hey, it might bring more rich people to his new golf course. He cheered on the 2008 housing crash because he could scoop up more real estate on the cheap. And he cheered on students desperate enough to sign up for his fake university so he could bleed them dry and turn a profit for himself.
What kind of a man does that? What kind of a man roots for people to lose their jobs? To lose their homes? To lose their life savings? I’ll tell you what kind of man: a small, insecure money-grubber who fights for nobody but himself.
What kind of a man? A nasty man who will never become President of the United States! That’s right.
Elizabeth Warren DNC address
shakeswilly almost 8 years ago
Putin wants Trump to be president. Not because he likes him, but because Trump is an amateur, has no experience or knowledge in foreign affairs, has an extremely thin skin and a yuuge ego – in other words easily manipulable.Hillary is the opposite of all that Trump is and would be much harder for him to deal with.
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
They weren’t, and you can’t prove otherwise. The DNC emails were hacked, did you know there was a difference?
DrewK79 almost 8 years ago
More lies and half-truths from you… shameful..Here’s Politifact rating all of these claims as false: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jun/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-inaccurately-suggests-clinton-got-pai/.Key quotes:.“For one, the United States doesn’t actually produce all that much uranium (about 2 percent in 2015) and is actually a net importer of the chemical, according to Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at Middlebury Institute and former director at the New America Foundation..For another, Russia doesn’t have the licenses to export uranium outside the United States, Oilprice.org pointed out, “so it’s somewhat disingenuous to say this uranium is now Russia’s, to do with what it pleases.” The Kremlin was likely more interested in Uranium One’s assets in Kazakhstan, the world’s largest producer..Trump is also wrong that Clinton alone allowed the transfer..The Kremlin’s 2010 purchase of a controlling stake in Uranium One had to be approved by the nine members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States…".As for the ties to the Clinton foundation, they said: “Third, most of their Clinton Foundation donations occurred before and during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, before she could have known she would become secretary of state. The bottom line: While the connections between the Clinton Foundation and the Russian deal may appear fishy, there’s simply no proof of any quid pro quo.”.So who should we trust? Certainly not people like you who make up stories full of lies to support their preconceptions.
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
did you miss the convention? They are so scared of their shadows!
DrDon1 almost 8 years ago
How about, for starters, Bush & Cheney destabilizing the whole Middle East ?
MaryWorth Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
Just for you, Mr. Lester
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/26/dnc-hacker-unmasked-he-really-works-for-russia-researchers-say.html
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
You want to start the second Crimean War?
manteo16nc almost 8 years ago
Damn Rooskis! Infiltratin’ our Democratic Party way of life with their subversive truthful emails!
DrewK79 almost 8 years ago
Nonsense… you lied, either out of convenience or out of ignorance, but it’s still a lie. And then trying to blame the fact-checkers with nonsensical propaganda… even worse..You only cite partisan sources, and the rebuttals you used were opinions, not facts. Plus you ignored the fact that no uranium can leave the US without our approval, which destroys your point..Stop lying. And until then, you should be ashamed of yourself..Here’s more evidence, as reported by The Hill (at http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/289296-guccifer-20-used-russian-language-vpns-to-leak-documents )
Russian hacking software, Russian techniques, Russian language interface… that’s hard evidence. Not lies and distortions.
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
Hey Mr. Lester,This is your boy:
Trump just asked Russia to spy for him..
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
Reality is Russia already had the Black Sea fleet located in the Crimea. They had troops right across the border and Crimea is 60% ethnic Russian at the time of the annexation.It had also been part of Russia until 1954.Only a damn fool thinks that the entire world is controlled by Washington. That other parts of the world don’t have their own history, conflicts, and self interests.
Durak Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Hello from the future! Hey, M.Lester, maybe you could do a retrospective on this one? Considering that Mr. Donald was briefed in Jan, 2017 that there was evidence that the Russians did interfere in the election with the intention of placing Mr. Donald in office?