Irony in the News

[UncleBob]

TRUMP WHITE HOUSE SENIOR STAFF HAVE PRIVATE RNC EMAIL ACCOUNTS

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.

The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails.

Making use of separate political email accounts at the White House is not illegal. In fact, they serve a purpose by allowing staff to divide political conversations (say, arranging for the president to support a congressional re-election campaign) from actual White House work. Commingling politics and state business violates the Hatch Act, which restricts many executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on government time.

But after then-candidate Donald Trump and the Republicans repeatedly called for “locking up” Hillary Clinton for handling government work with a private server while secretary of state, the new White House staff risks repeating the same mistake that dogged the Democrat’s presidential campaign. They also face a security challenge: The RNC email system, according to U.S. intelligence, was hacked during the 2016 race. “They better be careful after making such a huge ruckus over the private email over at the State Department,” says former Bush administration lawyer Richard Painter.

[UncleBob]

Trump Finds a Target More Tempting Than Obama: Chelsea Manning

President Trump came to Barack Obama’s defense on Thursday, slamming Chelsea Manning for calling the former president weak — though Mr. Trump has often done the same.

[UncleBob]

Steve Bannon Is Registered to Vote in Two States (Update: So Is Tiffany Trump)

[hugodrax]

How many motherfracking Trump threads do you need? Are you autistic?

Edit: would have thought there'd have been a filter for that one.

[UncleBob]

How many motherfracking Trump threads do you need? Are you autistic?

Edit: would have thought there'd have been a filter for that one.

This is not limited to Trump. In fact, one of them so far is not about Trump.

[hugodrax]

How many motherfracking Trump threads do you need? Are you autistic?

Edit: would have thought there'd have been a filter for that one.

This is not limited to Trump. In fact, one of them so far is not about Trump.

Ever wonder why your Mama smacked you so hard? Probably from staying stuff like that with a straight face.

[tuttle]

"Wunder how many racists can I catch with this thread?"

[UncleBob]

"Wunder how many racists can I catch with this thread?"

Wrong bait.

[tuttle]

"Wunder how many racists can I catch with this thread?"

Wrong bait.

[Jester]

[UncleBob]

TRUMP WHITE HOUSE SENIOR STAFF HAVE PRIVATE RNC EMAIL ACCOUNTS

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.

The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails.

Making use of separate political email accounts at the White House is not illegal. In fact, they serve a purpose by allowing staff to divide political conversations (say, arranging for the president to support a congressional re-election campaign) from actual White House work. Commingling politics and state business violates the Hatch Act, which restricts many executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on government time.

But after then-candidate Donald Trump and the Republicans repeatedly called for “locking up” Hillary Clinton for handling government work with a private server while secretary of state, the new White House staff risks repeating the same mistake that dogged the Democrat’s presidential campaign. They also face a security challenge: The RNC email system, according to U.S. intelligence, was hacked during the 2016 race. “They better be careful after making such a huge ruckus over the private email over at the State Department,” says former Bush administration lawyer Richard Painter.

[UncleBob]

"Wunder how many racists can I catch with this thread?"

Wrong bait.

This is where we explore hypocrisy. To wit: TRUMP WHITE HOUSE SENIOR STAFF HAVE PRIVATE RNC EMAIL ACCOUNTS

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How many motherfracking Trump threads do you need? Are you autistic?

Edit: would have thought there'd have been a filter for that one.

Do you have any idea how many naughty words there are? And how many we'd expect wouldn't be found on a site with the name "Christian Pipe Smokers"?


Fixed. But only because I couldn't remember how to do it and as long as I was there...

[UncleBob]

Trump's @POTUS Twitter account was tied to Gmail

[infidel]

CHRISTIAN PIPE SMOKER CREATES IRONIC THREAD

[gaining_age]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwxybr3MBOY

[hugodrax]

How many motherfracking Trump threads do you need? Are you autistic?

Edit: would have thought there'd have been a filter for that one.

Do you have any idea how many naughty words there are? And how many we'd expect wouldn't be found on a site with the name "Christian Pipe Smokers"?


Fixed. But only because I couldn't remember how to do it and as long as I was there...

Just a heads up in the rare chance somebody is as graceless as me.

[Jester]

Here is 5

[hugodrax]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -porn.html

Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman sexuality. Child pornography.

[UncleBob]

Hypocrisy on executive orders: Our view

Remember when Republicans were dead set against sweeping executive actions? Remember when they called Barack Obama an imperial president, and worse, for issuing a string of executive orders, presidential memoranda and national security directives?

That was so yesterday.