Bear Pit: now the sole domicile of politics at LuLa

[digitaldog]

Trump's Response Today
We can sleep safely at night knowing that Donald Trump is defending the United States Russia to the very end.

Damn, seems like he's played his cards and isn't going to call out Putin. And I still have no idea what Joe's going to be sending me..... 

Tell you what, if between today and January 20th, Trump calls out Putin or Russia on the new Hack, this bottle is yours (PM me an address to send it to you).
Deal?

[faberryman]

The hits keep on coming. Here is a headline. No need to read the story.

Congress in frantic race to strike stimulus deal

Of course they are frantic. They only extended government funding for two days. What did they expect? Hello. Maybe three or four days would have been better. Then they wouldn't be frantic until later. I guess their strategy was to keep the pressure on themselves while they negotiate whether the stimulus checks will be $600 or $700. I'd say split the difference and call it a day. It's not like it's real money.

Alan, this is your cue to cut and paste into a post your wit and wisdom on printing money, inflation, and that bread used to cost 21 cents a loaf.

Sen. Ron Johnson, who said he was going to call Bobulinski in front of his committee to rat out Hunter Biden but didn't, and who held those election fraud hearings the other day that nearly resulted in fistfights and duels, said he wasn't going to vote for a $1200 stimulus check because he was concerned about the deficit and/or the debt, depending on if you are talking to Craig or Andrew, also last week voted for $720 billion in defense spending where apparently nobody including Democrats had ever heard of the words debt and/or deficit. Now that Pence has revealed that he is a DC Universe guy, I was thinking that now that a Democrat has been fraudulently elected president, all of the Republicans are going to run into phone booths and change into their Deficit Hawkman outfits. Do you guys ever wonder if we are living on Earth 2?

[jeremyrh]

So the UK has announced extended lockdown measures - the most extreme since the lockdown of last March - and given outline details of a newly detected variant of Covid-19 , upto a 70% higher transmission rate and expected to increase the R by 0.4.

Yes, "Johnson" Johnson promised us a "world-beating" infection tracking system but all we got was a world-beating virus.  On the bright side, a load of his pals made huge fortunes out of the public pocket, so he was sucessfull in one way, at least.

[Craig Lamson]

The hits keep on coming. Here is a headline. No need to read the story.

Congress in frantic race to strike stimulus deal

Of course they are frantic. They only extended government funding for two days. What did they expect? Hello. Maybe three or four days would have been better. Then they wouldn't be frantic until later. I guess their strategy was to keep the pressure on themselves while they negotiate whether the stimulus checks will be $600 or $700. I'd say split the difference and call it a day. It's not like it's real money.

Alan, this is your cue to cut and paste into a post your wit and wisdom on printing money, inflation, and that bread used to cost 21 cents a loaf.

Worthless a-holes...the entire lot.

[TechTalk]

Anyone, regardless of party or political beliefs, that decides to run for public office knows in advance that they will face numerous attacks. Some of those attacks will be personal attacks on their character and some will be false or misleading. Some attacks will be just broad-based vague insults.

Knowing that, they still choose to step into the arena. That takes some actual courage. Not online keyboard warrior courage, but genuine courage.

[faberryman]

Anyone, regardless of party or political beliefs, that decides to run for public office knows in advance that they will face numerous attacks. Some of those attacks will be personal attacks on their character and some will be false or misleading. Some attacks will be just broad-based vague insults.

Knowing that, they still choose to step into the arena. That takes some actual courage. Not online keyboard warrior courage, but genuine courage.

Or obliviousness. You can't rule out obliviousness.

Speaking of aliases, did you know that Hawkman's alias is Carter Hall. I can't remember him ever being in his mild mannered Carter Hall disguise, but then there is a whole lot of stuff I don't remember. I had to look up his origin story. Here is just the first paragraph. It goes on for pages.

"Originally Prince Khufu of ancient Egypt, the hero who would become known as Hawkman discovered an alien spacecraft from the planet Thanagar, powered by a mysterious anti-gravity element called Nth Metal. The unearthly energies of the metal transformed his soul, and he and his love Princess Chay-Ara were reincarnated over and over for centuries. Currently he is Carter Hall, archaeologist and adventurer."

I didn't get that off Wikipedia. It was attached as an affidavit to one of the Kraken lawsuits.

Speaking of affidavits, I was thinking that maybe Kayleigh McEnany was really Princess Chay-Ara, and this time around, instead of being reincarnated as Hawkwoman, she was reincarnated as Trump's seventeenth press secretary, and that cross she wears around her neck is really a secret symbol from Thanagar. It could be true. Anything is possible. No one has proven that it isn't true, so it's still an open question.

[Manoli]

Yes, "Johnson" Johnson promised us a "world-beating" infection tracking system but all we got was a world-beating virus.  On the bright side, a load of his pals made huge fortunes out of the public pocket, so he was sucessfull in one way, at least.

Not quite ‘Led by Donkeys’ standard , but a well deserved lampooning of the current crop ...
https://youtu.be/xjG_VB-la7o

[John Camp]

Yes, "Johnson" Johnson promised us a "world-beating" infection tracking system but all we got was a world-beating virus.  On the bright side, a load of his pals made huge fortunes out of the public pocket, so he was sucessfull in one way, at least.

It may be my cynicism coming to the fore again, butI find it interesting that J.J. is saving the UK with a giant fuss about a necessary lockdown, just as the Brexit disaster is peaking. Of course, there may be no relationship between the two, and it's simply a coincidence.

[TechTalk]

Or obliviousness. You can't rule out obliviousness.

That's true. Thankfully, it's been the exception rather than the rule until recently. We'll have to wait and see what the future holds.

[jeremyrh]

It may be my cynicism coming to the fore again, butI find it interesting that J.J. is saving the UK with a giant fuss about a necessary lockdown, just as the Brexit disaster is peaking. Of course, there may be no relationship between the two, and it's simply a coincidence.

The common factor is that both situations are a result of incompetence, greed, narcissism, selfishness of Johnson and his puppet masters. Opening up at Christmas was always foolish and evidence was already there that the infection was rising very rapidly over the last 2 weeks, but he hid from his responsibilities, as he always does.

[Frans Waterlander]

Tell you what, if between today and January 20th, Trump calls out Putin or Russia on the new Hack, this bottle is yours (PM me an address to send it to you).
Deal?

Get a room, guys.

[TechTalk]

Get a room, guys.

After the pompous chest-thumping boastful talk about how no one should want to get you into a discussion of politics and how you'd have to be a masochist to debate you... this is the best you've got? What a joke!

[faberryman]

Get a room, guys.

Hey, we've got a room, and we were here first. If you don't like what's going on in our room, get your own room, or at least head back to the lobby.

[Frans Waterlander]

After the pompous chest-thumping boastful talk about how no one should want to get you into a discussion of politics and how you'd have to be a masochist to debate you... this is the best you've got? What a joke!

Who said this is the best I've got? Not me.

[faberryman]

... this is the best you've got?

Who said this is the best I've got?

Nobody said this was the best you've got. You will note that there is a question mark at the end of that sentence. That means he was asking you a question.

[Frans Waterlander]

Nobody said this was the best you've got. You will note that there is a question mark at the end of that sentence. That means he was asking you a question.

Did you miss the "What a joke" modifier, turning the question into a statement?

[faberryman]

Did you miss the "What a joke" modifier, turning the question into a statement?

Perhaps you don't realize that it may or may not be the best you've got, and it is still a joke. So which is it: not the best you've got and a joke, or the best you've got and a joke?

[TechTalk]

No need to belabor the point any further. It was clear when the boast and bluster were first made that it was just hollow talk posing as intimidation. Let it go.

[Frans Waterlander]

No sense of humor, obviously.

[BernardLanguillier]

Trump's Response Today

The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/Cyber Hack Response

We can sleep safely at night knowing that Donald Trump is defending the United States Russia to the very end.

Well, if Russia actually wants the demise of the US they would benefit a lot more by supporting civil unrest than by stealing some information online.

The timing of this attack cannot be a coincidence, it must be related to the elections.

Note that at the same time the Pentagon stopped all cooperation with the Biden team, officially for the holidays although the Biden team denied they agreed. So it’s a lie.

My latest conspiracy theories:
Version 1:
- Putin actually did it but in alignement with Trump
- Trump changes position in a few days, admits Russia did it and calls the state of emergency
- [Bonus points option] He comes up with imaginary evidence linking Biden with the hack
- A limited armed conflict starts and is used as an excuse by Trump to stop the transition to the Biden administration

What he gets from it: a hope that he stays in power
What Putin gets from it: a weaker US

Version 2:
- same as Version 1 but the Russian have actually nothing to do with it, the hack was orchestrated by Trump with fake evidence pointing to Russia
- this is supported by some generals who have been looking an opportunity to do something about the « Russian problem »
- all the rest is identical

Why would Trump not attempt something like that?

Regards,
Bernard