23-03-2017, 02:46 PM
Lauren Johnson Wrote:Tracy, you used the word's "Putin's playground" in the title. That implies a story line of a thoroughly compromised POTUS, Red Donald Trump, turning the US and even the world over to a voracious Putin led Russia? The CIA and the FBI are therefore on to this disaster and are trying to warn the American public?
Lauren, don't read too much into my snarky sense of humor. But Putin has obviously mastered a very low-cost way of sowing chaos in Western democracies by feeding junk news stories into social media (i documented some of that in another thread, Fake News for the Win).
I don't understand this argument that because the CIA and FBI have a bad history, it means that anyone on the "other side" must be trusted and defended. Listen, I don't trust the CIA, the FBI, Putin, Trump, the Clintons, the oligarchs (American or Russian), the media (mainstream or alternative)...I think for myself. I'm pretty damn good at putting together a general outline of what's going on using all available sources of information.
On a completely unrelated note, just to point out again how dangerously BATSHIT CRAZY Trump is, here is the latest from a new interview with Time magazine:
-Trump stands by bringing up the conspiracy theory that linked Ted Cruz's father with Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. When Time brought up Trump's past embrace of a conspiracy theory linking Cruz's father and Oswald, Trump said he was just quoting a reputable news source about the matter a.k.a., the National Enquirer.[/FONT]
"That was in a newspaper," he said. "No, no, I like Ted Cruz, he's a friend of mine. But that was in the newspaper. I wasn't, I didn't say that. I was referring to a newspaper. A Ted Cruz article referred to a newspaper story with, had a picture of Ted Cruz, his father, and Lee Harvey Oswald, having breakfast."[/FONT]
Have any of us ever seen a photo of Oswald eating breakfast with anyone? I never have, and I think I've seen every photo of the guy that's ever been made public. This is not the first time Trump has told this "having breakfast with Oswald" story. He's completely fucking crazy, and yes, the adults need to call Melania to take him back to his golden toilet in Trump Tower. This man cannot be anywhere near the authority to use nuclear weapons.