Why am I not surprised?

  • Five
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    422 years ago

    This is Netanyahu’s fault.

    “In the spring of 2016, no issue was more important to Benjamin Netanyahu than Donald Trump winning the White House.”

    With so much on the line, Netanyahu appears to have made a drastic decision. He would dispatch a discreet, highly trusted aide, armed with critical intelligence, to covertly “intervene” in the US election to help put his man Trump in the White House. Based on the FBI documents, the intelligence appears to have consisted of advance knowledge of Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and it may have included confidential details from the stolen e-mails. It was likely obtained by Israeli eavesdropping operations that were targeting secret Russian communications, as well as those of WikiLeaks.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    2 years ago

    I would only be surprised if something he did somehow made the world a better place.

    • @khalic@beehaw.org
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      42 years ago

      I really hate him, but he did stop chemical weapons usage in Syria by blasting an airport as warning…. At least as far as I know

      • BaroqueInMind
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        The military took the effort to plan the operation, prepare the battle space, implement procedures, designate all the proper personnel, equip the weapon systems, trained the military operators, developed the intelligence reports, and checked off all the tedious bureaucratic bullshit to prevent legal and international investigations and put that stack on his desk.

        All that fat fuck Trump moron did is listen to the 4-star ivy-league college educated general summarizing the request to him like he would to a toddler while Trump stuffed his fat fuck face with McDonald’s and signed the paper to allow it.

        • @khalic@beehaw.org
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          172 years ago

          Damn, that’s a good summary. I guess I’m not immune to slipping standards. This guy lowered the bar so low, that I considered him doing his job praise worthy

        • Chris Remington
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          152 years ago

          Please, don’t use the ‘r’ word at Beehaw. It isn’t nice and it’s considered a slur.

          • BaroqueInMind
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            102 years ago

            Apologies, @admin. Thank you for the warning instead of instant ban. I will respect your community and pay attention to the site I’m commenting on the future.

            I have edited my comment to comply with your mandate.

  • Track_Shovel
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    132 years ago

    The image of whatever Russian diplomat sitting on the shitter at maralargo and reading docs is hilarious

  • @agentsquirrel@beehaw.org
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    122 years ago

    Yea, but Trump knows Putin is a good guy and Trump declassified those secrets anyways, just by thinking about it, so no way that “intel leak” to Russia (which really wasn’t an intel leak because it was declassified) could have caused any damage. (/s)