***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[IATT]

 

[Based Jesus]

George (((Soros))) is a legit supervillain to these people. Everything can be traced back to him

 

[RustyShackleford]

Zuck might as well register as a Republican.

Liberals are gonna go from indifferent to hating dude soon

 

[gry60]

George (((Soros))) is a legit supervillain to these people. Everything can be traced back to him

It doesn't help that the Hungarian government is also on a Soros witch Hunt, complete with attack ads on billboards against Soros, which gives the appearance of legitimacy to the delusional right.

 

[gry60]

Zuck might as well register as a Republican.

Liberals are gonna go from indifferent to hating dude soon

Do you think he'd run as anything else if he had the chance? To me, he is not that different from Trump when it comes to the way they see government: another avenue to make money. Zuck is just much smarter than Cheetolini.

 

[biggie62]

Zuck, Cuban, Bezos, and many others are just libertarians who try to act progressive but really don’t give two ****s about the average person. They just want to enrich themselves. They are more republican than they will ever admit.

 

[Based Jesus]

When you show up to the house party tired of everyone there

She was escorted out by security afterwards.

 

[gry60]

https://thinkprogress.org/steele-refuses-cpac-apology-ca5a3bb5c854/

 

[ksteezy]

When you show up to the house party tired of everyone there

She was escorted out by security afterwards.

Who is that sweet sweet woman!? Standing on that podium making all those racists POS men and women feel awkward as ****

These people all confused like WAYMENT WACHUSAID?

 

[gry60]

Who is that sweet sweet woman!? Standing on that podium making all those racists POS men and women feel awkward as ****

These people all confused like WAYMENT WACHUSAID?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/going...disgrace/article/2011729#.WpHaeYINQFc.twitter

One stalwart Trump critic dared to take the stage at this year’s CPAC. “If we want an audience with young people, we have to separate ourselves from the men on our side who’ve behaved atrociously toward women,” said conservative writer Mona Charen—a think tank fellow, and TWS contributor—during a panel discussion of conservative women’s feminist crisis.

“I'm disappointed in the people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are in our party who are sitting in the White House who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women,” Charen challenged. “And because he happens to have an ‘R’ after his name, we look the other way, we don't complain.”

And then she called Marion Le Pen’s invitation to speak at CPAC a “disgrace.”

It’s been an interesting 24 hours at CPAC.

On Friday night, still high on the rhetoric of the French far-right, attendees booed the claim that Mexicans coming to America have more in common with conservatives than liberals and shouted down a suggestion that Republicans, like Democrats, ought to recruit voters at naturalization ceremonies. Then, when THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s Fred Barnes pointed out that many Mexican immigrants share these values, he likewise drew ire from the crowd.

By Saturday afternoon, the convention audience had dwindled to “diehards,” according to the man working media registration. And Charen was ready to take the stage.

De-plor-ables

 

[whywesteppin]

They are more republican racist than they will ever admit.

fixed

 

[gry60]

 

[biggie62]

Can deduct drying cleaning costs.

How sway?

 

[Based Jesus]

Who is that sweet sweet woman!? Standing on that podium making all those racists POS men and women feel awkward as ****

These people all confused like WAYMENT WACHUSAID?

Mona Charen. And she aint that sweet. She's just been one of the few conservatives smart enough to realize that Trump could do significant damage to the conservative movement.

Can deduct drying cleaning costs.

How sway?

Uniform?

 

[IATT]

 

[Belgium]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...76b4fe57ff7_story.html?utm_term=.da8d17ccfd45
Russian spies hacked the Olympics and tried to make it look like North Korea did it, U.S. officials say

Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, according to U.S. intelligence.

They did so while trying to make it appear as though the intrusion was conducted by North Korea, what is known as a “false-flag” operation, said two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

Officials in PyeongChang acknowledged that the Games were hit by a cyberattack during the Feb. 9 Opening Ceremonies but had refused to confirm whether Russia was responsible. That evening there were disruptions to the Internet, broadcast systems and the Olympics website. Many attendees were unable to print their tickets for the ceremony, resulting in empty seats.

Analysts surmise the disruption was retaliation against the International Olympic Committee for banning the Russian team from the Winter Games due to doping violations. No officials from Russia’s Olympic federation were allowed to attend, and while some athletes were permitted to compete under the designation “Olympic Athletes from Russia,” they were unable to display the Russian flag on their uniforms and, if they won medals, their country’s anthem was not played.

As of early February, the Russian military agency GRU had access to as many as 300 Olympic-related computers, according to an intelligence report this month.


The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.

The intelligence, which has not been publicly affirmed, is consistent with reports from private-sector analysts who have said they saw signs Russia had targeted the 2018 Olympics. It also would continue a pattern of such attempts, including during the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Some U.S. officials are concerned the Russians may try to disrupt the Closing Ceremonies on Sunday. “We’re watching it pretty closely,” said one. “It’s essentially a Korean problem,” the official added. “We will help the Koreans as requested.”

Apart from accessing the computers, GRU cyber-operators also hacked routers in South Korea last month and deployed new malware on the day the Olympics began, according to Western intelligence agencies. Such access could enable intelligence collection or network attacks, officials said.

It is not clear whether the disruptions during the Opening Ceremonies were the result of that access, but the development is concerning regardless, information security experts said.

“Anyone who controls a router would be able to redirect traffic for one or more selected targets or cause total disruption in the network by stopping the routing entirely,” said Jake Williams, a former National Security Agency cyber-operator and co-founder of Rendition Infosec, a cybersecurity firm.


“Development of router malware is extremely costly, and Russia would likely use it only in locations where it contributes to accomplishing a high-value goal,” said Williams.

The GRU hackers are thought to work for the agency’s Main Center for Special Technology, or GTsST, according to intelligence agencies. That unit has been highly active in information warfare against the West and was behind the NotPetya cyberattack that crippled computers in Ukraine last year.

Two years ago, the GRU penetrated a database containing drug test results and confidential medical data, and posted information about noteworthy U.S. athletes including tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams, four-time gymnastics gold medalist Simone Biles and women’s basketball standout Elena Delle Donne.

That action was widely seen as payback after nearly every member of Russia’s track and field team was banned from the 2016 Olympics. Numerous investigations uncovered a widespread, government-run doping scheme that dated back years.

Russia has a long history of undertaking such “active measures” against the Olympic Games, noted Thomas Rid, a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University. During the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Soviet intelligence released fake Ku Klux Klan leaflets threatening violence against African athletes as part of an effort to embarrass the United States, he said. That year, the Soviets led a 14-nation boycott of the Games in retaliation for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, which was prompted by the Soviets’ 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

The 1984 effort failed, Rid said, because the U.S. government “very quickly” revealed the Soviet attempt. As a result, no African athletes withdrew from the Games.

While “old-school” tactics relied on leaflets among other things, the Internet has provided new tools to spread disinformation, he said.

In this case, the GRU sought to make it appear as though the intrusions were the work of North Korean hackers by using North Korean IP addresses and other tactics, said the officials. Such deception is common for the GRU.

 

[boris]

$3.50 more a week. Checkmate, libtards.

 

[biggie62]

$3.50 more a week. Checkmate, libtards.

Now they can afford to renovate that kitchen or bathroom!

 

[nomnom]

Lol those boos at CPAC reminded me of this mess

 

[Nike Jordan]

WTF

 

[RustyShackleford]

They booed Johnson when he said he would have voted for the Civil Rights Act. They have a massive problem with that bill.

I could go on for days about Libertarian buffoonery.

 

[Nike Jordan]

Everyone thinks they're a libertarian until they meet an actual Libertarian with a capital L.

 

[stuntman mike]

my paycheck is actually almost two hundo more. most will go in my son’s 539. i still think trump is a POS. i started buying food for homeless people here and there. i’ll probably donate to truefactsstated’s mad dog billboard fund. i’d give up that extra money in trade for impeachment.

 

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[milestailsprowe]

They booed Johnson when he said he would have voted for the Civil Rights Act. They have a massive problem with that bill.

I could go on for days about Libertarian buffoonery.

The great thing about all of this, is that it REALLY lets you know who is up for what. Put the line in the sand for what evil your ok with