Here’s some of the most recent articles about the U.S. intelligence agencies’ report on the Russian influence in Trump’s election.
First, here’s a PDF of the report itself.
Next we have relevant articles from yesterday’s Washington Post and the New York Times.
And then a couple of articles on Trump’s post-intelligence-briefing statements, one from the NY Times, and one from this morning’s Raw Story. Apparently Trump took time from his preoccupation with Arnold and The Apprentice to tweet a few idiocies while avoiding the ‘yuge’ Russian elephant in his room.
What will it take for Trump, his minions, and the GOP to finally admit that the chambers in the Russian Roulette revolver aren’t all empty?
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TheZoo 
People who win by cheating don’t easily give up their crown.
Future school textbooks will refer to this period as the Twitter Presidency.
You mean the Twit Presidency.
‘Follow the money’: Robert Reich explains exactly why Trump won’t condemn Russia
We could soon be witnessing the complete privatization and selling of our government and its agencies to corporate/financial hands.
….and the selling of all public lands.
It’s only a matter of time before Republicans float the idea of repealing the 13th Amendment….
We are, imho, a small handful of steps short of ‘permanent’ fascist rule. If Trump (or Pence) should get 2-3 SCOTUS appointments (they already have one), and if Republicans manage to gain full control of a large majority of state legislatures (which seems to be their game plan) along with continuing control of the Legislative and Executive arms, our 240 year-old goose will be cooked.
Imagine, e.g., the consequences of a GOP-called Constitutional Convention (see Article V.), a situation where the GOP will be Constitutionally empowered — via control of 67% of states (34), to propose any number of Constitutional amendments that will suit their overall agenda. And IF they can manage control of 38 states (3/4 of 50), those amendments could easily be ratified, and the country changed to reflect the GOP’s (conservative-teabagger-fascist) defining politic, the one that’s driven by hate-fear-greed.
2016 pushed us closer to that outcome than we’ve ever been before, and 2018/2020 could serve to finish it, to finish “us” off (and to make Mexico happy to have that border wall, with Canada suddenly knowing they’d better build one – fastly!).
Somewhere in a future galaxy:
A nine year old Alien child from Outer Space asks his mother: “Mommy, what caused the destruction of the planet once known as Earth?”
The Alien Mother replies: “The Twitter War of 2019.”
A preview of Monday’s Watering Hole. People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
https://pickwaynesbrain.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/donnys-a-liar-a-song-parody/
Your Sunday LOLcats – Hill Areas Edition
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018914305
Chuck Todd is interviewing Gramps and Miss Lindsey together! They’re sitting close enough to hold hands below the camera’s view!
I don’t think I could watch them this early in the morning. Are they saying anything worthwhile?
What makes you think they’re holding each others hands? 😉
Yeah!
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2017/01/fuck-you-rural-elitists.html?m=1
Read this, seriously, just read it.
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/entertainment/columnists/hinson/2014/07/11/native-floridian-vermont-visit-bizarro-world/12537859/
Oh, lordy, I wish that I had read about this one sooner, we could have had Wayne “suggest some lyrics”: http://www.christianpost.com/news/gospel-artist-carman-to-release-song-about-donald-trump-wild-election-172646/