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State of the Union Live Feed and Open ThreadPost + Comments (139)
The Raucous Caucus, Which Is Not In Caracas, Open Thread
Looks like we could use a new open thread. Just a quick note, they have changed the way that they are reporting the Iowa Caucus results tonight. They will report the initial result. Then the final result after the second round when caucus goers redistribute themselves after their first choices don’t make the 15% cut …
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The Best Laid Schemes o’ McConnell an’ Men Gang Aft Agley
Let’s step back a bit and take stock of what has happened today. First and foremost a battle was won. Specifically that there will be no vote tonight, in fact there will be no vote until Wednesday, on the final disposition of the impeachment of the President. While I’m sure this seems like cold comfort …
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Breaking: John Bolton Tries To Get Himself Out of His Self Constructed Bind
The New York Times has just reported new information regarding the President’s attempt to extort Ukrainian President Zelensky to announce an investigation into the Bidens in exchange for both US military and other aid, as well as a White House visit. EXCLUSIVE: Bolton book contains new, earlier, allegation of Trump's involvement in pressure campaign. Trump asked …
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The Black PSYOP Part VII: Pam Bondi Brings Russia’s Agitprop to the United States Senate
In every one of the Black PSYOP posts I’ve done, I’ve referenced Paula Chertok’s reporting that the earliest mention of Vice President Biden having a potential ethical and/or legal problem was Russian agitprop first reported in Russian state backed media RIA Novosti. I have also referenced in several of these earlier posts that Secretary Kerry’s …
Ambassador John Bolton is a Coward, Has No Professional Ethics, Could Care Less About the Security of the United States, and Cares Only for His Personal Profit
Ambassador Bolton, the Frank Burns of American national security, has allowed his unpublished manuscript to be selectively leaked to Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt at The New York Times. Bolton’s book deal reportedly came with a $2 million advance! Haberman and Schmidt have excerpted the material that is pertinent to the President’s impeachment and which Bolton …
Lordy It’s The Tape: The President’s Fundraising Dinner Tape Has Been Released
The entire tape is out! The closest I’ve found to a transcript is from Susan Simpson’s, a DC attorney, Twitter feed, which I’ll excerpt below and provide snarkmentary on: Here’s the clip/part about Ambassador Yovanovitch. The bleeped out part was apparently "the ambassador of Ukraine." Okay who the hell bleeped that out and why?https://t.co/ANIEhCuVm9 — …
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The Black PSYOP Part VI: The President’s Defense in the Senate
The ongoing Black PSYOP by the President, his Congressional defenders, his surrogates, and his supporters is set to enter its next phase: using the defense of the President in the Senate trial of his impeachment to launder the Russian misinformation and agitprop about Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden, and the conspiracy theory that the Clinton …
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Information Security Is Essential!
The Guardian has now reported that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’s cell phone, which is what many of us who work in the information warfare area of national security had assessed shortly after The National Enquirer ran their hit piece on him. What we got in today’s reporting, however, were important and disturbing details! (emphasis …
McConnell Has Released His Motion for the Senate Impeachment Trial Rules
Senate Majority Leader McConnell has released the motion, which will be voted on tomorrow, that delineates the rules for the Senate’s impeachment trial. Also, as expected, there will be a debate of up to four hours on the question of "whether it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any …
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WhitePeoplePalooza 2020 Has Ended
WhitePeoplePalooza, doing business as The Virginia Citizen’s Defense League’s (VCDL) annual day of lobbying in Richmond, Virginia, has come to an end. Without, apparently any acts of extremist domestic terrorism. Aaaaand I think that is about it. The rally is mostly dispersed. Random groups of heavily armed men and women will continue to traipse about …
The Parnas Interview: Information, Misinformation, Agitprop, and a Terrible Interviewer
I’ve watched the Rachel Maddow interview with Lev Parnas. I’m not impressed. I’ll get to that in a moment, but I want to do the substance before I get into format/process. The information that Parnas presented was a mixture of accurate information, misinformation, and agitprop. For instance, we already know, from previous reporting that has …
The Debate Part II: The Debating!
I came in about 1/2 an hour late, then had to hit pause on the DVR, and am running about five minutes behind actual. But it looks like we can use a fresh debate thread, so here you all go. Open thread!
The Black PSYOP Part V: Russia Was, Apparently, Listening – Election 2020 Edition
I’ve written several posts about Black PSYOPs, which are attempts to launder misinformation, disinformation, and agitprop through legitimate sources to influence people’s, groups’, and governments’ attitudes and actions. I’ve specifically focused on attempts by Republican elected and appointed officials, as well as the President’s surrogates, to launder the debunked, factually inaccurate, lie that Vice President …
Bloomberg Reports That the “US Probes If Russia Targeting Biden in 2020 Election Meddling”: YA THINK?!?!?!!?!?!
Today in water is wet reporting: U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president still the front-runner in the race to challenge President Donald Trump, according to two officials familiar with the matter. The probe comes as …