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  1. 3 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

    I bet that 98% of libs had no clue who this woman was, her background and in a couple of days this will all be forgotten because you libs will move on to the next big deal. I doubt its a long term loss because other than some libs, no one else cares.

    Its like vegans threatening to boycott Burger Doodle because they sell burgers.

    Just a hunch.  A small one, but a hunch.  You probably wouldn't have liked it had someone...oh, say a person of color...sat at a Senate confirmation hearing in the background and flashed gang signs, right?

     

    Or would you have found the humor in that?

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    https://www.axios.com/tag/inside-the-white-house/

     

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    President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward. He’s deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees and even some handpicked aides inside his own White House, officials tell Axios.

    The big picture: He should be paranoid. In the hours after the New York Times published the anonymous Op-Ed from "a senior official in the Trump administration" trashing the president ("I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration"), two senior administration officials reached out to Axios to say the author stole the words right out of their mouths.

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    "I find the reaction to the NYT op-ed fascinating — that people seem so shocked that there is a resistance from the inside," one senior official said. "A lot of us [were] wishing we’d been the writer, I suspect ... I hope he [Trump] knows — maybe he does? — that there are dozens and dozens of us."

    Why it matters: Several senior White House officials have described their roles to us as saving America and the world from this president. 

    A good number of current White House officials have privately admitted to us they consider Trump unstable, and at times dangerously slow.

    But the really deep concern and contempt, from our experience, has been at the agencies — and particularly in the foreign policy arena.

     

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    For some time last year, Trump even carried with him a handwritten list of people suspected to be leakers undermining his agenda.

    "He would basically be like, 'We’ve gotta get rid of them. The snakes are everywhere but we’re getting rid of them,'" said a source close to Trump.

    Trump would often ask staff whom they thought could be trusted. He often asks the people who work for him what they think about their colleagues, which can be not only be uncomfortable but confusing to Trump: Rival staffers shoot at each other and Trump is left not knowing who to believe.

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    Officials describe an increasingly conspiracy-minded president:

    "When he was super frustrated about the leaks, he would rail about the 'snakes' in the White House," said a source who has discussed administration leakers with the president.

    "Especially early on, when we would be in Roosevelt Room meetings, he would sit down at the table, and get to talking, then turn around to see who was sitting along the walls behind him."

    "One day, after one of those meetings, he said, 'Everything that just happened is going to leak. I don’t know any of those people in the room.' ... He was very paranoid about this."

    The Times Op-Ed reinforces everything Trump instinctively believes:

    That a "Deep State" exists. It's trying to undermine him and — in the case of Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department, in Trump’s mind — is trying to overthrow his presidency.

    The Bob Woodward book, Trump believes, exposes that leakers are everywhere — and gunning for him. 

     

     

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  3. So, he's now throwing Jr. under the bus.  Clockwork.

     

    http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/405163-trump-downplays-endorsement-of-losing-candidate-in-wyoming-race

     

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    President Trump in an interview published Wednesday attempted to downplay his endorsement of a Republican candidate who lost his primary, attributing his embrace of a Wyoming gubernatorial candidate to his son Donald Trump Jr.

    Trump touted his track record in primary endorsements during an interview with The Daily Caller and noted that his only defeat to date came when he endorsed Foster Friess on the day of last month's primary in Wyoming.

    "I was asked to do that, by my son Don, and I did it, but I did it — I was asked the morning of — and by the time I did it I guess 70 percent, almost 70 percent of the vote was already cast," Trump said.

     

  4. Hmmm.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-friend-had-early-access-to-trumps-infamous-pro-russia-speech?source=twitter&via=desktop

     

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    In the morning of April 21, 2016, a staffer at the Center for the National Interest, a Washington D.C., think tank, wandered into the office of Dimitri Simes, the group’s president. 

    The staffer saw a pile of papers on the desk titled “FOREIGN POLICY AND DEFENSE OUTLINE.” The staffer realized the papers were the detailed outline, in bullet-pointed paragraphs, of a major foreign policy address that then-candidate Donald Trump was set to deliver six days later as a guest of the center. The staffer used a cellphone to snap pictures of all five pages of the document.

    More than two years later, Maria Butina, who once wrote for the center’s magazine and occasionally emailed with Simes, was arrested as an accused Kremlin agent. Subsequently, the person provided the photos to The Daily Beast. The photos’ metadata confirm they were taken on a cellphone in the morning of April 21, 2016. A second former staffer told The Daily Beast that he saw the same documents on Simes’ desk. 

     

     

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    The pictures provide new insight into the creation of Trump’s historic foreign policy speech. They also indicate that Simes was closer than previously known to the drafting of that speech. (Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of the center’s magazine, wrote for Politico shortly after the speech that he didn’t know what was going to be in it. “I was curious as anyone to see what Trump would actually say,” he wrote.)  

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    It isn’t unusual for a think tank chief to preview drafts of a speech presented at their invitation. But Simes’ proximity to the speech shows that a person Vladimir Putin once called a “friend and colleague” had an early view into the crafting of a speech that would have historic significance for American foreign policy. Democrats on the House intelligence committee tried to investigate Simes’ relationship to Trump’s campaign, but Republican committee chairman Devin Nunes blocked their efforts. 

    Presented with this account and with the pictures of the document, the Center’s executive director, Paul Saunders, declined to comment. Heilbrunn emailed that he did not receive any preview of the speech. Simes did not respond to a request for comment but wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Sept. 5, 2018, that his think tank’s interaction with the Trump campaign had a “small scope.” Michael Glassner, the chief operating officer at Donald J. Trump for President, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. J.D. Gordon, a foreign policy adviser to Trump on the 2016 campaign, told The Daily Beast he was not familiar with the document.

     

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    The speech Trump ultimately delivered—a transcript is available here—had some notable differences from the lengthy outline that found its way to Simes’ desk. The document on Simes’ desk listed four main weaknesses in American foreign policy: overstretched resources, an unclear understanding of foreign policy goals, allies afraid they cannot trust the U.S., and the disrespect of rivals.

    The speech Trump delivered a week later, on April 27, included one more bullet-pointed weakness: “Our allies are not paying their fair share,” Trump proclaimed. The same concern is detailed in the document from Simes’ desk, but with less prominent billing. It’s a talking point Trump has been hammering for nearly two decades and continues to use in meetings with America’s NATO allies. 

    The outline also criticized American intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton administration—a move also criticized by the Kremlin. “Look what happened in the 1990s,” the outline said. “Even after the attacks on the USS Cole and our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, we continued to pursue nation-building in the Balkans. Then we got hit on 9/11, because our leaders were not sufficiently focused on the security of the American people.” 

    When Trump delivered his speech a week later, he didn’t mention the Balkans.

     

  5. 55 minutes ago, KaiserSoze said:

    The first guy told them 7 months. They thought he was full of shit and sent him packing (although that may have been because he spoke about a previous engagement and they didn't want a 'talker').

    I don't recall the 2nd guy mentioning a timeline but it certainly didn't sound like a moderately quick one.

    That's probably it, but last night I wondered if they sent him packing because he used a computer to record the details of what was needed, and Mike doesn't want any possible data trail to get out.  The look on Mike's face when he opened the laptop is what did it for me.

  6. 6 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    I guess I'm going to have to go buy some Nikes for the first time in my life. 

    I want some basic ones. Anybody got a recommendation?

    Cortez.  Still make 'em.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:

    cdc start texting fuentes.

    In 2014, Mike Holder had a handshake deal for Fuentes to take over after Gundy (would have been) was dismissed.  Stoops elected to re-punt after an OSU penalty, it was ran back for a TD, forcing OT, OSU won....and Gundy's job was safe.

     

    No real point to this other than how things changed for 4 programs and scores of people from that one re-kick.  

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  8. Hmmm.

     

    http://thehill.com/policy/technology/404826-twitter-ceo-personally-weighed-in-on-companys-handling-of-alex-jones

     

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    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has at times overruled or chimed in at the last second on decisions regarding controversial accounts on the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

    The news outlet reported two separate instances where Dorsey favored keeping far-right personalities on the platform. Dorsey reportedly told one person that he had overruled a decision to kick conspiracy theorist Alex Jones off the platform last month.

    The Infowars founder was eventually blocked from tweeting for a week after one of his tweets was deemed to have violated the platform's rules.

    The Wall Street Journal reported that Dorsey acted similarly in November 2016, telling staffers that white nationalist leader Richard Spencer should be allowed to keep one account on the site after Twitter's safety team initially kicked him and his several accounts off the platform.

     

     

  9. The coach at Iowa state is gonna get snatched up by a bigger program and take them to new heights. He seems like a really competent coach.


    He’s the eventual Urban Meyer replacement.


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  10. Yep.  Party of fiscal responsibility.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cancels-pay-raises-for-18-million-federal-workers

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    President Trump announced Thursday that he plans to nix an automatic pay raise for federal workers because of the “nation’s fiscal situation.” About 1.8 million people will not get an automatic pay increase next year under the policy. “We must maintain efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,”  Trump wrote in a letter to leaders of Congress. Most employees were expecting to get a 2.1 percent raise. Trump believes that instead of the “across-the-board” increases currently in place, raises should be based on performance. His plan would also get rid of additional pay for workers who live in parts of the country with high costs of living. The White House said this would save about $25 billion in the next fiscal year. The Senate passed a 1.9 percent pay increase for next year, but the House approved a bill that goes along with Trump’s freeze. “Federal employees deserve the full measure of pay comparability provided by the law, and a 1.9 percent increase is the minimum that Congress should consider,” American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox said in a statement.

     

     

  11. Well, he is an old.

    https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/29/trump-ipad-reading-flat-one/

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    President Trump is not a big computer user, instead relying on a pair of iPhones for his technological needs. A new report today, however, suggests he’s become quite reliant on an iPad recently – or as he calls it, “the flat one.”

    Amid his many (inaccurate) tweets slamming Google for rigging search results against him, the question arose: has Trump actually used Google himself? While reports have indicated that Trump uses two iPhones, one is said to be a solely for Twitter access, while the other for calling.

    As noted first noted by Business Insider, ABC News White House correspondent Tara Palmeri responded to questions about Trump’s Google usage by saying he “sometimes” uses an iPad to read things. Trump, however, seemingly doesn’t know what to call the iPad he uses, and instead refers to it as “the flat one.”

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    Why Trump refers to the iPad as “the flat one” is anyone’s guess, but the notion that he reads on the device is perhaps more surprising as previous reports had indicated he had aides print online articles for him to read.

    Despite calling for a boycott of the company during the campaign, President Trump has become a big Apple fan since taking office. He’s praised Apple’s investments in the United States, and just recently had dinner with CEO Tim Cook.

     

  12. 3 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    You can do a complete restore on an iphone in an hour even if you have to download a backup from the cloud.  Not sure how it takes 4 hours to clone a phone.  On the other hand, wiping something so that no data can be recovered is a time consuming process.

    Cloning the phone didn't take four hours.   Advising the client on what steps the client should take with the phone before cloning the phone took 3 hours.

     

  13. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I'm pretty close to 100% positive that is the only tactic that has gotten him laid by Melania in the last several years.

    Well, duh.  And $4,000 dresses w/Christian Louboutin's to plant trees in:

    https://www.elle.com/culture/a22849924/melania-trump-tree-golden-shovel-louboutins/

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    The First Lady participated in a tree planting at the White House yesterday, using a golden shovel and wearing a $4,000 dollar dress. Pop quiz: circle the most surprising part of that sentence. Darling, this is how you garden. The plants don't respect you if you don't serve them fashion as well as fertilizer. Everyone knows that. You think Johnny Appleseed was stomping around the countryside wearing a nice dress and a crown? Of course he was! Your lewk better be flawless if you're out in the forest. Nothing shades you like a disapproving apple tree.

     

  14. Yeah.  

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/politics/trump-evangelical-pastors-election.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

     

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    In remarks to evangelical ministers in the White House State Dining Room on Monday night, President Trump spoke in high-minded tones about religious liberty, abortion and youth unemployment. He noted a John Adams quote carved into the room’s fireplace: “I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house.”

    But once reporters and television cameras were ushered out of the room, Mr. Trump turned to the more pragmatic concerns of how evangelical leaders can use their pulpits to help Republicans win in the midterm elections, according to an audiotape of his remarks provided to The New York Times by someone who attended the event.

    “I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote,” Mr. Trump told the group of about 100 evangelical ministers. “Because if they don’t — it’s Nov. 6 — if they don’t vote we’re going to have a miserable two years and we’re going to have, frankly, a very hard period of time because then it just gets to be one election — you’re one election away from losing everything you’ve got.”

     

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    Mr. Trump spent most of his private remarks to the group bragging about having gotten “rid of” the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 provision of tax law that threatened religious organizations, like churches, with the loss of tax-exempt status if they endorse or oppose political candidates.

    Under that amendment, Mr. Trump said, religious leaders had been prevented from speaking their minds.

    “Maybe it’s why you are very plateaued. I hate to say it, if you were a stock, you’d be like, you’re very plateaued,” Mr. Trump said, prompting laughter in the room. “I really believe you’re plateaued because you can’t speak. They really have silenced you. But now you’re not silenced anymore.”

     

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    Mr. Trump warned that if Republicans do not retain control of Congress, religious communities would lose all of the gains he had secured on their behalf.

    “They will end everything immediately,” he said, apparently referring to Democrats. He added, again without being clear whom he was talking about: “They will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently. And violently. There’s violence. When you look at Antifa, and you look at some of these groups, these are violent people.”

     

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  15. http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/403786-poll-cruz-leads-orourke-by-one-point-in-texas-senate-race

     

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    Sen. Ted Cruz (R) leads his Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, by just 1 point in their Texas Senate race, well within the margin of error of a new poll from Emerson College. 

    The survey, which was released on Monday, found that Cruz leads O'Rourke 38 to 37 percent. Four percent of voters favor a different candidate and 21 percent remain undecided. 

    The survey comes as O'Rourke continues to gain momentum in his quest to unseat Cruz.

    While Texas has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in three decades, polls continue to show that the race between O'Rourke and Cruz will be tight. Just last week, a new NBC News–Marist survey found that Cruz led O'Rourke by  4 points. 

     

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