Yes, and in fact, he has in the past .
SteveG1
July 15, 2018, 2:58pm
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Monty:
I’m still peeved that every journalist in the room didn’t get up and walk out. Think about it. If the press doesn’t attend his briefings, if the press doesn’t give him the time of day, that’ll probably give him the conniption fit that’ll finally knock him out of action.
They should have walked. And they should treat the whole bunch of these creatures as pariahs, as the criminals they are. Don’t cover what they say, don’t repeat or amplify it, don’t dignify it, don’t soft peddle, don’t apply any sort of “equivalency”.
enipla
July 15, 2018, 3:03pm
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Der_Trihs:
I’m not sure if this has been mentioned already, but they are deleting 20 years of “critical medical guidelines”; no archive or backup, they are shutting it down with minimal warning to make sure the data can’t be saved. It’s part of the whole Trump War on Data; like shutting down environmental research.
The Right demands ignorance, and the destruction of knowledge; and Trump is willing to give them what they want.
Let’s burn the libraries down next.
I just don’t know what to say. If trump has his way, we will soon have an ‘internet’ much like North Koreas.
They aren’t dragging paintings outside and burning them, so everything’s fine.
I’m dying to know who he thinks our biggest Fee, Fi and Fum are right now.
SteveG1
July 15, 2018, 3:42pm
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He’s just doing his master’s bidding. Destroy the EU, destroy NATO, dissolve our alliances/treaties/stuff, destroy us.
asahi
July 15, 2018, 3:47pm
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Oh, but don’t worry. I’m sure that Republicans in congress will put country before party.
If you’re wondering what they’re going to talk about in their one-on-one, I suspect Putin and Trump will be buzzing about this:
The 5 States Most Vulnerable to a 2018 Election Hack (US News)
Due to both a lack of funding and political urgency, a handful of states are still vulnerable to the same type of attack Virginia was.
The worst part?
At this point, there aren’t many remedies that can be employed in time ahead of Tuesday, Nov. 6.
“For 2018, if a sophisticated nation state wants to cause chaos on Election Day, they’re probably already in our systems,” said J. Alex Halderman, an election security expert and professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, during a forum on Capitol Hill this week.
(I never did find out which 5 states were the most vulnerable, though.)
Der_Trihs:
I’m not sure if this has been mentioned already, but they are deleting 20 years of “critical medical guidelines”; no archive or backup, they are shutting it down with minimal warning to make sure the data can’t be saved. It’s part of the whole Trump War on Data; like shutting down environmental research.
The Right demands ignorance, and the destruction of knowledge; and Trump is willing to give them what they want.
Because 1.2 milliondollarsis just too much to pay.
Ann Hedonia nailed it.
Ann_Hedonia:
It’s in the article
This guidelines sometimes recommend against treatments that are heavily sold by companies that donors and lobbyists are invested in. A guideline that emphasized non-surgical treatments for back pain pissed off an organization that represents surgeons
And there were guideline that were critical of some drug that was manufactured by one of Tom Price’s campaign donors, and they refused to take it down.
It’s not just the cost of the program, it’s that sometimes the guidelines suggested courses of action for patients that did not line doctors’ pockets.
jsc1953
July 15, 2018, 4:58pm
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Waiting for outraged denunciations from Republican leadership…any minute now…
enipla
July 15, 2018, 5:50pm
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Good to know Kirsjen. Ya mean like the last time?
Do you a private line to them, or did they tell you over a tweet. Did they pinky swear?
Morons, we have morons running the government.
I’m hoping that they will come November 7, and that they will be outraged denunciations of the voters for “betraying” them.
Well, they’re not as stupid as they think we are…
Well now we know why Trump is so desperate to see Putin.
Everyone (including me) was so sure the Traitor-in-Chief would never become President. So I take heart from the increasing sentiment that Chump will have a second term, as that surely means he won’t.