Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Professor Tiger]

Quicker than polonium, less messy than a bullet in front of the Kremlin, less showy than a kangaroo court trial.

And yes, puter, I spent a few nights on the redneck riviera back in the day. Anything to forget Doug Barfield. I still have my Hog's Breath Ssloon t-shirt.

[bluetick]

Setting up to be the warmest Feb ever here. Setting personal records for Feb golf/wearing shorts in office.

AGW rocks!

[Professor Tiger]

Do you wear your orange and white checkerboard knickers when out on the links?

[hedge]

Overnight...saber-rattling at Iran, piss-fighting with Australian PM, defending Milo Yiannopoulus's right to hate speech at Cal..

the frenzy to Make America Great Again continues

Hate Speech? Why do you hate fags tick?

Milo is great. You really think he shouldn't be allowed to speak? Wow.

Heh, "Milo is great". I wonder if speech about pedophilia is unsettling even for puter? Personally, I think it's fine, as long as it's just speech. Evidently for CPAC and perhaps even Breitbart, it's a bridge too far...

[bluetick]

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... ends-milo/

This conservative wants to give Milo a mulligan and he makes a compelling case. He says Milo was abused by priests and that's why he's confused about his sexuality, and that's especially why he's confused about pedofilia. Whereas he's right-minded about the other stuff (bigotry, misogyny, etc) obviously. I did a double-take, thinking this might be an Onion piece..but it's legit.

[10ac]

Pedofilia (sic)? Didn't bubba hang with a pedophile and take several trips to his private island sans SS? I would think the left would celebrate a homosexual, pedophile.

[hedge]

Only if they had sodomized you as a 12 year old...

[bluetick]

Turkey-neck McConnell makes a fair point about all these townhall protestors being "sore losers." In fact, he could have gone further and said something along the lines of "you get the government you deserve."

A quarter of the country is batshit crazy left, and a quarter is batshit right. There's a large swath in the middle that mostly went about it's business -moral people, but tolerant - but now they're hearing and seeing things that leave them shaken. The amateurism on full display with the new administration, and the unstable behavior exhibited by the new CIC, have people on edge. And if they're not, then they haven't been paying attention.

McMaster was a good hire. The NYT's has a story - "Now Let General McMaster Do His Job." The country needs more of that, in bunches - signs of stability, a sense that things aren't going off the rails. And ffs QUIT TWEETING...75% of the country BEG you.

[Professor Tiger]

McMaster is a cool guy. I first heard of him in Desert Storm when he commanded a cavalry troop in a sister squadron of ours. It was in one of the very few true battles against the Republican Guard. It was a real toe-to-toe fight, and he performed admirably. The guy is a true soldier.

[Professor Tiger]

Looks like Schumer...

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.... is the new McCarthy:

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[bluetick]

I don't believe for a minute that Russian meddling cost Hillary the election. The Benghazi smear job that the repubs actually copped to, had more effect by its own self. Throw in her email server and Director Comey's eleventh hour shenanigans and there you have it. Never mind the popular vote - this one's in the books and that won't change.

Still, the Russians are currently doing in European elections what they did last year in America, giving aid to the alt-right political efforts in France and Germany and others. Putin doesn't seem concerned that his tracks aren't well-covered - some would say he gets off on the notoriety. Russia's economy is for shit and he has designs to change that through land grabs and related forms of hegemony, and he knows he'll get support and be able to parlay with like-minded leaders. All of this is well-known.

Again - all of this is well known. What we HEARD a month ago from the Trump team was that no one had dealings with the Russians during the campaign. Now the question becomes 'did anybody in the Trump campaign NOT have contact with a Russian during the campaign?' Manafort, Flynn, and Sessions have now been joined by Page and Kushner as "persons of contact." There were none, now there's five, and you reasonably get the sense that there's more to come.

It may eventually turn out that the Trump gang were just unwitting beneficiaries of Putin's hacks and whatnot. But the mere fact that all these surrogates had contacts/ties to Putin's men WHILE all of the skullduggery was going on...figuratively blows the mind. Trump and Co. are either extremely naïve and stupid or ... clumsily cunning? Either way, or whatever lies between - they surely are bold liars. And that comes from the very top. No lie too little, no lie too big. Just remember to double-down when you're called out...

[Toemeesleather]

Still at least 5 more years of blaming the previous admin, by your own low standards.

[Professor Tiger]

Here is shocking - SHOCKING! - footage of a US president discussing a US election with a RUSSIAN!!!

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This is TREASON! What else did the president say to betray his country to A RUSSIAN SPY! Did he give away the nuclear launch codes? There must be an investigation! Presidents talking to Russians is unprecedented!

HOW DARE HE!!!

[Toemeesleather]

The NYT/WP/DNC must have really sensed some momentum from Don's speech to congress, so they're obviously trying to tamp that down.

[bluetick]

The NYT/WP/DNC must have really sensed some momentum from Don's speech to congress, so they're obviously trying to tamp that down.

You're seriously going to cry about that? 9 Benghazi hearings to bring Hillary's poll numbers down - those were McCarthy's words - you don't think the DNC would love to jab one up your party's ass? lol

[Professor Tiger]

OMG OMG OMG! The conspiracy is even bigger than we feared!

It was bad enough that Obama was caught discussing US elections with a RUSSIAN, but now we are seeing photos of the nation's top Democrat meeting with Lucifer himself!



Just look at that Benedict Arnold, laughing, drinking coffee, and eating donuts with Vladimir Putin as they plot to destroy American democracy!

O THE HUMANITY!!!

[Toemeesleather]

The NYT/WP/DNC must have really sensed some momentum from Don's speech to congress, so they're obviously trying to tamp that down.

You're seriously going to cry about that? 9 Benghazi hearings to bring Hillary's poll numbers down - those were McCarthy's words - you don't think the DNC would love to jab one up your party's ass? lol

Rest assured, they will not let truth get in their way.

[bluetick]

Man, when it rains it pours. And these emails are being plastered all over the intrawebs. lol

Pence Used Personal Server for Sensitive Government Emails - And Got Hacked - USAToday.com


LOCK HIM UP!! LOCK HIM UP!! lmao

[Professor Tiger]

The RUSSIANS must have hacked it!

According to that infowars wannabe, the Washington Post:

Why Mike Pence’s private email account is way different from Hillary Clinton’s

The FBI felt there was enough in Clinton's email account to launch a criminal investigation into her treatment of classified information. (Of course, the result of that investigation was that they decided not to prosecute her for any kind of crime.)

There is absolutely no investigation related to Pence, which brings us back to the original reason these two situations are fundamentally different: Using a private account if you're the governor of Indiana, where it's legal to do so and you're ostensibly dealing with much less-sensitive information, is much different than using a private email account exclusively to do work as secretary of state,who has access to many if not most of the nation's top secrets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... 5abcf51e21

[10ac]

Don't rain on Tick's parade.