This fucking asshat:
WikiLeaks suggested on Sunday that its founder, Julian Assange, should lead the U.S.-Russian cyber security unit after President Trump announced the idea on Twitter.
“Why not put @JulianAssange in charge of it? He’s trusted by the public and has the CIA’s best stuff anyway,” WikiLeaks tweeted, replying to Trump’s tweet announcing he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the idea.
Why not put @JulianAssange in charge of it? He's trusted by the public and has the CIA's best stuff anyway https://t.co/K7wFTdlC82
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 9, 2017
Nice mullet. Go eat a bag of e-dicks in your embassy broom closet.
Hal
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html
zhena gogolia
@Hal:
This nightmare, this nightmare. Our country is in the power of traitors, and what can we do about it?
Wag
What could possibly go wrong?
MisterForkbeard
Julian Assange: Not trusted by the public, knowingly took Russian hacked and stolen information in order to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential chances.
I don’t advise violence as a solution, but someone needs to go punch Assange in the nuts for a few hours.
@Hal: Gotta love this:
1. The first public indication, other than Trump literally fucking asking for Russian help in a campaign speech.
2. “some in the campaign” apparently means Trump’s son, his son-in-law who is currently very highly placed in the administration, and his goddamned campaign manager. How is this “some in the campaign” and not “the campaign”, you worthless twits?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@zhena gogolia: Make their lives living hell
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Hal: Smoking gun?
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@MisterForkbeard: Might I suggest some enhanced interrogation techniques?
MisterForkbeard
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: It’s important to remember that waterboarding is apparently NOT torture and might even be relaxing, right?
Frankensteinbeck
HA! Forget how the public looks at him. Assange is a paranoid of the ‘assassins are hiding in the bushes’ level. It would be a hilarious clusterfuck that accomplishes nothing, like four fifths of Trump’s executive plans.
@Hal:
Isn’t that flat-out, no-guesswork collusion? The fire the smoke implied was happening?
Hal
So maybe all these firings were to protect Kushner and Don Jr. Don Jr. especially, because in the end Trump probably doesn’t five a fuck about anyone not directly related to him by blood. I cannot believe that Trump did not know about this meeting at least after the fact.
Patricia Kayden
@Hal: So yet another smoking gun is revealed but life goes on as usual. Trump really can shoot someone and get away with it.
Shell
What public would that be? The Lollipop League? Bizzaro Land?
As each day goes on, ‘WTF’ can no longer express it.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Patricia Kayden: He could probably beat up Melania as well as Barron on video and McConnell and Ryan would say that Melania might have been a cheating bitch and Barron a snot-nosed brat who needed a good smack
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@MisterForkbeard: Right! And so is being put on a medieval stretching rack. Exercising those muscles and loosening those tight joints
Tokyokie
At right after we put Julian Assange in charge of cybersecurity, we can appoint Bernie Madoff to head the SEC.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Tokyokie: I’m sure Trump can pardon him.
Yarrow
He looks like a wannabe from a Lord of the Rings cosplay contest.
Gravenstone
@zhena gogolia: Find them guilty as charged following trial. Line them all up against the wall. And put them out of our collective misery, with their bodies left to rot in place under 24 hour guard.
efgoldman
@Hal:
In the end, he gives a flying fuck about NOBODY other than himself.
If it comes to saving his own ass, he’ll lie, cheat and steal to shift the blame on to every fucking one of them: Princess Ivanka, Kushkie, Uday, Qusay, whoever. All under the bus :::thump:::thump:::
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@efgoldman: I’d love to see that. Hopefully the bus from Speed with Trump on it
debbie
I didn’t think there could be anything worse than Putin setting up an impenetrable secure voting, but then there was this.
sukabi
Putin’s grabbed his püssŷ
efgoldman
@Tokyokie:
And get Jill Stein to head DoD, too. And maybe put Cardinal Dolan on the board of Planned Parenthood.
I still don’t understand why the Ecuadorans don’t just throw him the fuck out.
Bruce K
I say Assange can go screw himself – and before anyone says that’s anatomically impossible, that objection can be answered with a steak knife and a corkscrew.
Radiumgirl
@MisterForkbeard: This kind of understatement is for the lawyers. Or else for the sources. The journalistic credo is not to draw conclusions beyond what your sources are willing to support. That accounts for a lot of the wobbly language you read in these reports.
DLew On Roids
Julian Assange probably knows less about cybersecurity than the average Carnegie Mellon freshman.
Juju
That’s probably the most punchable face I’ve seen today.
Don Beal
You people are unbelievable about Assange. Been watching this website forever and I give up.
Underpaid Propagandist
Who is paying Amy Goodman?
https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/julian_assange
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Don Beal: Added to the pie filter
No One You Know
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Not that long ago I sat on a jury for a case that almost literally adjudicated that situation. It was astonishing how easily the defendant’s justifications then sound like Trump’s now.
SOB found guilty on all counts then. Hoping for the same here…and soon. While we still have a justice system.
piratedan
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: some folks just don’t want to give up on what they hoped would be people who represented themselves as champions for truth and justice only to find that their supposed paladins were tainted, stained and not who they claimed to be.
sure, I go into this knowing that that US no longer has a claim on any kind of moral superiority and can still improve in many ways, but I have a hard time buying into any political savior wanna-be that has to hide out in an embassy to avoid the legalities of what they’ve allegedly done.
TenguPhule
@Gravenstone: I second this motion!