Yep, pretty much nailed it, Mr. KingâŚ
Thanks to Moscow on the PotomacâŚ
King: With Trump In Charge, U.S. Is Under Russian Attack âWith Hands Tiedâ.
While Stormy Daniels spanks us with a rolled up copy of Forbes magazine.
âMy problem is I talk to people in Maine that say, âThe whole thing is a witch-hunt and hoax because the president told me.'â
âNo people in Maine, no people in Maine, youâre the people in Maine.â
âI am sick and tired of going to these hearings, which I have been going to for five years, where everybody talks about cyber attacks, and our country still does not have a policy or a doctrine or a strategy for dealing with them,â King said. The Obama administration, he observed, âdidnât do it either.â
First off, Iâm going to call bullshit on this. The mechanics of elections are the purview of the States. There really is nothing the Obama Administration could have done beyond making suggestions and perhaps signing enabling legislation and providing assistance funds, something that Republicanâts will not do.
Second, we have the solution to election hacking already in hand. Itâs called Paper Ballots! They are impervious to Internet hacks, which is precisely why Republicanâts wonât implement them.
Third, Republicanât are, by orders of magnitude, a far greater threat to election integrity than the Russians. Republicanât meddling is thoroughly documented and verified to have been effective, while Russian meddling, not so muchâŚ
The problems we have in dealing with issues with Trump being in charge are not, unfortunately, unique to the cyber attacks of Russia.
Sorry Senator, we really canât help it that the people of Maine are credulous rednecks who believe what a proven liar tells them. Theyâre your people.
His hands are not tied. He is giving them a hand.
King is a good stalking horse for this kind of stuff, since heâs Not a Democrat.
The Mustache of Righteousness rides again!
Exactly! Iâll take a hanging chad any day over a hacking VladâŚ
Yes. More please. And louder. Amazing what someone can do/say when not tethered too tightly to a party of flaccid pissants.
"âDirector Pompeo, you understand this issue, do you not?â "
Oh yes, he absolutely does, but heâs been extremely busy protecting Trump by trying desperately to avoid obtaining documents some Russians have offered that show, at least partly, how Trump is compromised:
Pompeo may as well be a Russian agent just like Trump.
There he isâŚhands down winner of the " understatement of the year award"âŚlets give credit for the fact that he acknowledged the debacle.
Susan Collins just released a visual press release, clearly stating her rock solid, steadfast position on this critical issue.
Anyone else read the story about Russian nuclear engineers busted for hooking up a supercomputer to the internet in order to mine Bitcoins? I hope the computer was compromised in the time it was hooked up to the internet. Story:
No. As far as the Constitution is concerned the federal govât has the power to involve itself even in intra-state elections if the processes in place and systems being used violate any of our federal protected rights. Moreover, the federal govâtâs purview over national security provides a fantastic portal into that realm, which is why I anticipate hearing more from the GOP about mythical illegal immigrant voter fraud and the danger it presents to national security. Theyâve already tried to hand the issue to DHS for crissakes. Besides, I think King is merely talking about a policy/doctrine to guide appropriate federal action, not suggesting direct interference in the parts of those processes that are in fact left to the states.
Obama could absolutely have done more (at least from a legal standpoint, if not a practical one) and, frankly, probably should have at least tried, but we all know what he was dealing with, so itâs at least understandable, if not entirely excusable, that he focused on other priorities. Any attempt by him to involve himself in any way, shape or form, no matter how slight, in elections processes would have caused a shitstorm of epic proportions and been perceived first and foremost as him attempting to rig the system for the Dems. Would have done no good as a practical matter. As it was, it was hard enough for him to defend against all the GOP attempts to rig the system in their own favor.
LOLâŚthatâs just fucking ridiculous, especially since bitcoins arenât worth shit anymore. Itâs the others that people are mining lately. In fact, being a computer geek and having recently built a new high-end rig in Nov, it was funny to watch high end GPU prices go astronomical right after I finished building it, all because there was a sudden surge in crypto-currency farming.
Who are you and what have you done with the keninmn I was arguing with yesterday?
I mean youâre both right and wrong on that last point, but still.
Câmon AngusâŚkeep pushing and pushing and pushing.
Obviously not the best paper ballot design in the world, as it was designed for a machine to read it so that the network talking heads could go to bed early on election night, something far more important than the integrity of our election. That said, at least somebody got to physically evaluate the butterfly ballot after the fact, something that cannot be done on any touchscreen voting system in use todayâŚ