Boeing has other issues (737 MAX) that are hurting earnings... Catapiller, on the other hand, is getting hurt significantly by the trade war.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/inves...omy/index.html
Boeing has other issues (737 MAX) that are hurting earnings... Catapiller, on the other hand, is getting hurt significantly by the trade war.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/inves...omy/index.html
"If you are ever asking yourself 'Is Trump lying or is he stupid?', the answer is most likely C: All of the Above" - Seth Meyers
Their argument boils down to 'Because Trump is violating the Constitution, he can't be investigated for it'.
Would have been hilarious if the judges laughed Trumps lawyers out of the court room for that.
Of course you know that if it were lawyers for a Democratic president making these arguments, the GOP would have thrown a fit.
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"If you are ever asking yourself 'Is Trump lying or is he stupid?', the answer is most likely C: All of the Above" - Seth Meyers
Yeah, I have used the term to describe myself before as well. It is just an easier way to communicate my position then "Conservative with actual integrity", because those conservatives without integrity still claim to have it. So Never Trumper is a fairly convenient way of expressing that in no universe will I ever bow the knee and place the whims of a narcissistic moron over the good of the country.
In this instance, I'll label it less outright maliciousness and more his unwillingness to devote his already strained, limited mental faculties on trying to call them anything else. Of course, it just continues to make him look like a deranged idiot, but that's not stopped him before.
I mean it's a good question how many #NeverTrumpers are left. Most of us bailed on the party some time ago. Very few I don't think. There is no saving the Republican Party as we know it. There is no reason to stay in it.
I'm a registered independent for the first time since 2002.
The Republican Party isn't even the conservative party anymore. It's the Power party. It's only agenda is the consolidation of power to corruptly enrich itself. It's not even a liberal democratic party anymore. It's clearly become what the "managed democracy" form of government alternative looks like, but in American form.
They will stand by and let authoritarianism take root here, if it means holding onto power.
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https://arstechnica.com/information-...romised-again/
Cool, so the Trump administration is functionally gutting the White House cybersecurity team.An internal White House memo published today by Axios reveals that recent changes to the information operations and security organizations there have left the security team in tumult, with many members headed for the door. And the chief of the White House's computer network defense branch—who wrote the memo after submitting his resignation—warned that the White House was likely headed toward another network compromise and theft of data.
The White House Office of the Chief Information Security Officer was set up after the 2014 breach of an unclassified White House network by Russian intelligence—a breach discovered by a friendly foreign government. But in a July reorganization, the OCISO was dissolved and its duties placed under the White House Office of the Chief Information Officer, led by the new CIO Roger L. Stone. Stone pulled from the ranks of the National Security Council where he was deputy senior director for resilience policy. (Stone is not related to indicted Republican political consultant Roger J. Stone.)
The resulting changes have put an emphasis more on convenience than security. The Office of Administration at the White House has reportedly been purging information security staffers while responsibility for cybersecurity is outsourced from the streamlined IT operations team. In August, White House CISO Joe Schatz left the White House for a tech consulting job. And according to the memo, senior security experts have been leaving en masse since then as the White House has become increasingly hostile to the information security team.
“Targeted for removal”
"It is my express opinion that the remaining incumbent OCISO staff is being systematically targeted for removal from the Office of Administration," departing White House network defense branch chief Dimitrios Vastakis wrote in the memo. The security team had seen incentive pay revoked, scope of duties cut, and access to systems and facilities reduced, Vastakis noted. Staffers' "positions with strategic and tactical decision making authorities" had also been revoked. "In addition, habitually being hostile to incumbent OCISO staff has become a staple tactic for the new leadership... it has forced the majority of [senior civil servant] OCSIO staff to resign."
Vastakis warned that the transferal of virtually all of the White House's cybersecurity operations to the White House Communications Agency—a Defense Department organization that falls under the Defense Information Systems Agency—was in "direct conflict" with the advice of the Office of Administration's general counsel. He added that it also puts information required to be preserved by the Presidential Records Act outside of the Executive Office of the President's oversight.
"Considering the level of network access and privileged capabilities that cybersecurity staff had," Vastakis wrote, "it is highly concerning that the entire cybersecurity apparatus is being handed over to non-PRA entities."
In closing, Vastakis warned, "Allowing for a large portion of institutional knowledge to concurrently walk right out the front door seems contrary to the best interests of the mission and the organization as a whole." And reflecting on the previous vulnerabilities in White House IT operations, he noted, "given all the changes I've seen in the last three months, I foresee the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again."
Wonder if he'll hire his kid to run it now, I've heard he's very good with the cyber.
Again. Trump. Is. A. National. Security. Risk.
Trump is bought and paid for by Putin.
So he's simply doing what he's told; fuck over the US as much as he can.
SO this is hilarious.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1187104954504433666
The president said a couple minutes ago, "We're building a wall in Colorado. We're building a beautiful wall. A big one that really works."
Senator Leahy responded with this:
https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/sta...17375008755712
Yes. That's a map. And that's a sharpie. And it gives part of the US back to Mexico by crossing out "New" in "New Mexico". A state Trump wants to win in 2020.
An an epic, epic, epic troll by a sitting Senator. I don't think I've seen a troll quite so economical on this forum and it's over run with them. It's beautiful .
Looks like New Mexico is becoming Old Mexico, again boys! Anyone have any comments? Anybody? Anybody from New...errr... I guess its just Mexico now, have anything to add?
Anybody? Thoughts?
Leahy had a word:
(yes that's him)
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...-asylum-seeker
Remember Roxsana Hernandez? The transgender asylum seeker who died in ICE custody?
Yeah, the surveilance footage is gone. ICE deleted it because they don't store footage for more than 90 days. Even if someone dies, apparently, and even if the family requests an independent autopsy that's generally a precursor to potential legal action.