Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The next time the wall wtreet journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Not all heroes wear capes.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

In my day, never was longer.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds

    I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

    From 2000 to the end of 2010, Texas’s estimated maternal mortality rate hovered between 17.7 and 18.6 per 100,000 births. But after 2010, that rate had leaped to 33 deaths per 100,000, and in 2014 it was 35.8. Between 2010 and 2014, more than 600 women died for reasons related to their pregnancies.

    I wonder whatever happened, what could it be???

    In the wake of the report, reproductive health advocates are blaming the increase on Republican-led budget cuts that decimated the ranks of Texas’s reproductive healthcare clinics. In 2011, just as the spike began, the Texas state legislature cut $73.6m from the state’s family planning budget of $111.5m. The two-thirds cut forced more than 80 family planning clinics to shut down across the state. The remaining clinics managed to provide services – such as low-cost or free birth control, cancer screenings and well-woman exams – to only half as many women as before.

    At the same time, Texas eliminated all Planned Parenthood clinics – whether or not they provided abortion services – from the state program that provides poor women with preventive healthcare. Previously, Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas offered cancer screenings and contraception to more than 130,000 women.

    Correlation is not causation! The dirty sluts should have just put an aspirin between their knees!

  7. 7.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @OzarkHillbilly: I don’t think the free market is going to correct Texas’ health care system. What the heck is going on there? Poverty and lack of access to care affect maternal health. But it’s TEXAS for pity’s sake. Something is badly wrong there.

  9. 9.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Had a John Cole moment last night. Sat down on a chair, and the left lens of my glasses pooped out onto the floor. I picked up, examined the frames, and discovered they had completely sheered through on the upper edge of the left frame rim. No extraordinary force. And to make it even more fun, these are Lindberghs, from Denmark, and cost not just and arm and a leg, but all four members, only a year and a half ago. I know they are supposed to have a good warranty, but I do not know if it is still in effect. Guess I will find out Monday morning. Sigh.

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    I did a spit-take this morning when I found a message from my RWNJ brother saying that his computer has been infected with ransomware. I haven’t talked to him yet, but he said he thinks it is “RSA 1024” and/or “Nemucod.”

    I have dealt with viruses before, but never ransomeware. Any insight from the Juice brain trust would be appreciated.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    It’s also really big. If you are poor and live way the heck away from everything, closing the one clinic you may actually be able to access is enough to prevent you from all medical care.

  15. 15.

    David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch

    In happier news:

    Diana Taurasi Leads USA To Gold In Rout Vs. Spain

    by Pat Bradley on Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 5:18PM

    For the sixth straight Olympics, the United States women’s basketball team is on top of the world.

    Diana Taurasi, the greatest women’s player ever, once again led Team USA in its gold medal victory versus Spain, 101-72. Her 17 points (6-of-10 shooting, 5-of-7 beyond the arc) tied a team high and led a balanced U.S. scoring punch.

    For Taurasi, the win gives her four Olympic gold medals, tying her with teammates Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings and former USA players Lisa Leslie and Teresa Edwards for the most gold medals of any female basketball Olympian.

    As the late great Moses Malone once said – “four! four! four!” (photo)
    .

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    In other news, I seem to have come down with a cold. I was coughing for a few days, then sneezing, and then yesterday I got the watering eyes, running nose and sore throat. And a lot more sneezing. I have no meds on hand and no idea of what to get, if anything. I can’t remember the last time I had a cold. Fortunately, I can lie low and do nothing today.

  20. 20.

    Joel

    I cannot believe that Yeager is still alive.

    Dude has (predictably) a lot of conservative viewpoints, but he also makes a lot of good dead people jokes:

    She looks like Charles Lindbergh

    @GenChuckYeager where is Amelia Earhart? Do you keep in touch with her?

  23. 23.

    MomSense

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I know. I can’t wrap my head around it. I don’t know how they justify that kind of structural disregard for the welfare of so many human beings. Especially with the clinic closings, they knew damned well how many poor women used the non abortion services like cancer screenings and pre natal care.

  24. 24.

    OzarkHillbilly

    In good news this Sunday: 93-year-old veteran completes three-year run across US

    After two years and 10 months, 93-year-old Ernie Andrus has made it across America. The second world war veteran dipped his toes in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday morning, ending a cross-country run that started in San Diego. Local media reported that Andrus was surrounded by hundreds of people including family members and friends who have joined him at different parts along his journey. He started his trek on 7 October, 2013 on the sands of San Diego, weaving his way over the months and years through the southern US until he reached St. Simon’s Island in Georgia on Saturday morning.

    “Oh, it’s great,” Andrus told The Brunswick News after the run was over. “I’m glad to have finished and met the goal. But I wish it wasn’t over.”
    ….
    He was running to raise money to return a WWII-era ship in Indiana to Normandy, France, for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing. He was a medic on a similar ship during the war.

    What’s he gonna do for an encore? Something a little less strenuous.

    Now that this epic run is finished, Andrus has already planned a new adventure. He’s going to drive his motor home to Alaska where his stepdaughter lives and drive the Alaska Highway.

  27. 27.

    Iowa Old Lady

    My power went off around 4:00 yesterday and came on again only about half an hour ago. Did exciting things happen while I was cut off from the civilized world?

  31. 31.

    Raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: oh yea, the pruning blade for the sawzall was great! I trimmed it and was able to chunk it down to about the 8 inch level. That left me with a 10ft log i was able to roll to the kudzu patch!

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    @rikyrah:

    Thanks. I have to get off the computer every so often because my eyes get so watery I can’t see the screen. And I hate that feeling of being about to sneeze but then the sneeze doesn’t come.

  33. 33.

    Central Planning

    It’s going to be a long day. Woke up at 2:30am with one kid puking and my stomach has been feeling funny since then. On top of that, I’m heading out to my company’s annual sales meeting for a week of training/team building/messaging. Flying across the country… How I don’t puke on the plane

    @Steeplejack: erase the machine and restore from backup. Tell him he got it from p0rn sites or dailykos. If he doesn’t have backups, tell him to pay, but there’s a good chance they will keep his money and not decrypt the data

  35. 35.

    bystander

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    When pro-life people get what they want, women die.

    That’s why I refuse to call them “pro-life”. They’re anti-women’s healthcare. They’re pro-female death.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    Thanks. I’ve started doing some research, and this will help. I need to talk to my brother later this morning and find out what actually happened. I’m sure it has nothing to do with (a) all the sleazy right-wing websites he visits or (b) his AOL e-mail account, which is like a big welcome mat to Nigerian princes, mail-order Russian brides and God knows who else.

  37. 37.

    Steeplejack

    @Central Planning:

    Thanks for the input. I am deathly afraid—though I hope I’m wrong—that he doesn’t have a backup, since he just got this computer a couple of months ago and in the past he has not shown himself to be a safety-minded user. This may be the stern lesson he needs.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    I must check to see if there is a Premier League match on the TV. I keep forgetting that the season started last week.

    . . . Ah, looks like Sunderland vs. Middlesbrough at 8:30 and West Ham vs. Bournemouth at 11:00.

  42. 42.

    mike in dc

    Trump’s suggestion yesterday that he would work to arrange legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants gets a lolwut from me. Kinda late for a pivot like this, chief. Nobody trusts you or believes you, and I expect his surrogates to be walking this back already.

  43. 43.

    raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s weird, last year there was this stink bug that looked like a ladybug but was grey. They were all over rand really knocked the kudzu down. They are nowhere to be seen now and I’ve never seen it grow like it has.

  44. 44.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    @Steeplejack: Windows System Restore is your friend. Google it. Windows creates one when you put on fixes etc. he may have several on his machine. Pick one before the ransomeware showed up and restore.

  46. 46.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    @Steeplejack: Not personally, but secondarily. Depending on the amount (I’m not asking) it may be best to pay it.

    All disclaimers apply about the DBAR situation of course.

  50. 50.

    Immanentize

    @raven: Raven, you have been on the go! Did no one tell you to take it easy for a week or two?

    Glad to hear the kudzu is doin what kudzu does….

  52. 52.

    Poopyman

    @Raven: You don’t know anyone with a chainsaw? 7AM on a Sunday is a great time to run one, especially in proximity to hungover college students.

  53. 53.

    Zinsky

    @Steeplejack: Ransomware is really nasty and often there is little or nothing you can really do to get rid of it. Your only hope is, if it’s a Windows-based machine, is to try to boot it from the original CDs you used when you installed the operating system. Most boot routines require you hold down the F1 or F2 key while the system is booting to “tell” the BIOS to look at the CD, not the hard drive. If you can get it to do that, you can re-install the operating system and you might be OK. I had a laptop that got infected and we ended up throwing away the old hard drive and re-installing a new one. Oh yeah, and stop surfing porno sites! That’s where those ransomware bastards leave their little turds…

  54. 54.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Wouldn’t pin much hope know that. Good (?) malware usually prevents simple solutions like system restore.

    Check out malawarebytes. Sometimes that fixes it. Tell him that once it’s fixed, he needs backups (cloud, if nothing else). Usually the only safe thing with this stuff is reformat and reload.

  55. 55.

    Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap

    @Zinsky: Safe boot and then (If they exist) use Windows System Restore points. This saves you from a complete reinstall or a full restore from backup media. It is also very fast usually takes 5 to 10 minutes. If he’s lucky there will be a couple of Restore points on his hard drive from before the infection, otherwise, what you said. Most people don’t know about Windows System Restore, but it has saved me many times.

  56. 56.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I am going to be a hero to men everywhere. I am going to create a computer virus. That virus will infect a computer and hide pr0n on the hard drive.
    Then for all time, any man who gets busted by his partner for being a degenerate sleaze will have an iron-clad alibi.
    In a hundred years they will be drinking to my name wherever men gather.

  59. 59.

    philadelphialawyer

    Trump’s July financial report out. Looks like he didn’t really raise all that much money, especially if you consider that a big chunk of what was raised actually went to the RNC and a lot of what the Trump campaign itself made never got past the fund raising company. MSN reports that that company is somehow related to Trump’s real estate “organization.”

    “…about half of the campaign’s $18.5 million in spending was vacuumed up by Giles-Parscale, a web design and marketing firm new to national politics, Federal Election Commission filings show. It’s a crossover vendor from Trump’s real estate organization.

    “The campaign paid Giles-Parscale $8.4 million in July, about twice what the San Antonio firm had collected from it over the course of the preceding year. Brad Parscale, the president, is the campaign’s director of digital marketing.

    “The big expense came as Trump put a new emphasis on online fundraising, after paying for his primary run mostly out of his own pocket.”

    From Politico:

    “Though the campaign touted an $80 million figure for its July fundraising, just $36.7 million of that total went directly to the campaign. The rest came in through joint fundraising vehicles with the Republican National Committee and state parties. But at least $9.5 million of that money is off limits for spending on the election because it’s designated for the RNC’s convention, headquarters and legal accounts. Plus, the RNC is considering spending its money down-ballot instead of supporting Trump as tensions boil over between the party’s apparatus and its defiant nominee.

    “The money that the Trump campaign raised also didn’t come cheap. The campaign more than doubled its spending from the previous month to $18.5 million in July, far more than in any other period of the campaign. But most of that money went toward expanding the campaign’s online fundraising operation.

    “A full 45 percent, or $8.4 million, went to Giles-Parscale, the San Antonio-based digital marketing firm that has done Trump’s online advertising. (The company had never worked for a campaign before 2016.)

    “The campaign also paid $100,000 to the Prosper Group for fundraising consulting.

    “Meanwhile, spending on the 84-person staff and field organizing barely increased from the previous month, to just $392,000 and $432,000, respectively. The campaign dropped much more — $1.8 million — on hats and other merchandise.”

    Trump is raising less than Hillary. Hillary is now raising a lot in small donations. Most of what Trump claims to raise is actually being raised by RNC. Which probably does not want to plow it into Trump’s losing campaign. Trump not spending much on organization, ground game or ads. Is spending a lot on raising the money in the first place. And hats! And on his own companies or others murkily related to him, somehow. And Hillary’s super PACs are clobbering Trump’s as well.

    Report released too late for Sunday papers? Because it actually kinda stinks?

  60. 60.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Zinsky: Not just pr0n sites. My mom picks up these things regularly. The only things she surfs for are genealogy and rwnj stuff, usually from email from friends (probably spoofed). Can’t get her to keep her av software subscription up to date.

  61. 61.

    Kay

    @mike in dc:

    This coming week is “immigration week” according to new campaign managers. So that was the start of immigration week. Dumbo blurted something out and now they’ll spend the next week lying about it. They said he “listened 90% of the time” but apparently that 10% off teleprompter was enough for him to fuck it all up.

  62. 62.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:
    I use Malwarebytes at the insistence of a friend who is a corporate IT support guy. He un-bolluxes computers for a living and swears by it.
    There’s a way you can put it on a thumb drive, interrupt the computer’s boot sequence and run it from the thumb drive before the virus has a chance to wake up and delete the antivirus program. I do not know the details.

  66. 66.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @satby:
    Same in Detroit. The storm that passed through dropped the temps at least 15 degrees. High for today is 78. Lady Thunder and I are heading out to walk Doglius while it’s cool. I’m glad I waited until today to mow the lawn.

  67. 67.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: Many ransomware programs and other viruses delete restore points. He may get lucky, but my experience has been that it has a low probability of success. Of course he should try it, but there’s no guarantee that it will work, and even if it does, there’s a good chance that he won’t clean the virus completely off the machine.

  69. 69.

    satby

    @Steeplejack: We went through about 8 weeks of constant colds here last winter and Advil cold and sinus was our go to medicine. I always try to avoid the concoctions that have Tylenol or the generic.

  71. 71.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: It’s a fantastic program. It doesn’t completely take the place of programs like Avast, but I’ve had a lot of success recovering borked drives. The flash drive setup is the best way to go, and renaming the executable helps keep viruses from identifying the program being launched. Last time I looked, the basic program was free, although a subscription gets you better functionality.

  72. 72.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @satby:

    how’s the mouse baby?

    Didn’t look good when I went in to check. She’s looking in on it now.
    ETA: Sadly didn’t make it through the night. Well, we tried.

  75. 75.

    WereBear

    @Comrade Scrutinizer: Your mom might do better with a Chromebook than a PC. Mine does.

    With a gmail account, she gets email and word processing, built in virus protection, and it updates itself.

    Compared to the headaches of taking care of a PC, this thing is about the level of Elderly Woman. Can’t get easier than that :)

  79. 79.

    debbie

    @Kay:

    After listening this morning to Trump’s statement that he intends to steer the GOP back to its heritage as the Party of LIncoln, can this really be much of a surprise?

  81. 81.

    Steeplejack

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    If my brother can get rid of the ransomware—big if—I’m going to recommend that he do a scorched-earth reinstallation of Windows.

    Again, thanks to all for the advice. I am adding it to what I have found elsewhere and probably will be doing a phone consult with my brother in a few hours.

  84. 84.

    debbie

    @amk:

    Interesting to see how his hair’s gotten even bigger over the course of the campaign. Just like his lies.

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    @satby:

    I never get sick—ha!—so all I have in the house is Aleve, and I usually have a hard time finding that when I need it. I’ll ride this out for a few days and then see if I need to do anything.

  87. 87.

    debbie

    @satby:

    For colds, I’ve found Mucinex (plain) and Delsym cough syrup to be the best. And lots of water.

    It’s now cooling off here. I just opened the windows for the first time in weeks. Joy!

  88. 88.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @WereBear: Absolutely, and elderly woman (she’s 81 and starting to have memory issues) is called for. Alas! Family Tree Maker is a hard requirement, and last I looked, the Chromebook wouldn’t support it.

  89. 89.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @debbie: Jealous. It’s still hot in the NC Sandhills. Good thing that climate change is a myth and all, or we might have to get used to this icky weather.

  90. 90.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    The problem is he isn’t a very good conventional politician. He didn’t win the primary on being “mediocre conventional politician”. He won the primary on demonizing groups of people and setting one group against another.

    Without that he’s a less talented, dumber version of Jeb Bush or John Kasich.

    He would have been second or third tier without the racism. A Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina. I think he’s most like the pizza guy from 2012, whatever his name was. If he hasn’t have run a blatantly racist campaign and said all those outrageous things he would have been out in the first round.

  92. 92.

    satby

    @Comrade Scrutinizer: acetaminophen damages the liver. NSAIDs primarily affect the stomach lining. If I have to pick one, I’ll sacrifice my stomach. The liver isn’t expendable.
    But, I seldom get sick too, so I hardly take medicine at all.

  93. 93.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Steeplejack: One other suggestion: Ask with a knowing look in your eye if he has been giving money to Trump or other GOPers. Than suggest he possibly probably got it from them and he should warn all his RWNJ friends of this disaster.

  96. 96.

    satby

    @debbie: and now that you mention it, we had some luck with Mucinex too. Qunoot was sick off and on for about a month and we kept changing out cold remedies.

  98. 98.

    TS

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    Can’t get her to keep her av software subscription up to date.

    As long as she is using W7 or later (& nothing earlier should be connected to the internet) use windows defender. Auto updates.

  99. 99.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Kay:

    The problem is he isn’t a very good conventional politician.

    Well, no. The problem is that he’s a rich, entitled, arrogant, ignorant fascist shit who managed to tap into the id of a bunch of ignorant fascists and white supremacists that the GOP thought they could control. The GOP ‘deep bench’ in the primaries allowed his followers to take advantage of the fractures. The GOP should have reduced the field before the primaries, but that party is deeply broken and can’t impose discipline. Funny, considering ‘Law and order’ party and all.
    He’s not a politician by any definition. He’s a demagogue who has a limited following, and who can’t go beyond his following.

  101. 101.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    The overall impression of Trump is “racist and unqualified”- those are the two descriptions people choose most.

    They could have had a qualified, smarter non-racist. The GOP primary electorate chose the racist. There’s nothing else that sets him apart.

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Ha! Truth. I’d love to “prove” to him that he caught it at BuildTheWall.com or TrumpForever.com or similar, but I think he probably got it through his wretchedly antiquated AOL mail account.

    Also, supposedly he has soured on Trump and is leaning toward Johnson, which I interpret to mean he won’t bother to vote. Which is fine with me!

  103. 103.

    trnc

    @Steeplejack:

    I did a spit-take this morning when I found a message from my RWNJ brother saying that his computer has been infected with ransomware.

    So you told him it’s the free market at work, right?

  104. 104.

    Kay

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    But that’s why he can’t pivot even with handling. There’s no other reason he’s up there at all. He wouldn’t have been on the radar screen at all without birtherism and Building The Wall. That reality show didn’t even get very good ratings.

  105. 105.

    Baud

    @Kay:

    They could have had a qualified, smarter non-racist.

    But they went with someone who represented them better.

  106. 106.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    No. I remember the “The Rent Is Too Damn High Guy,” but not this one. Politics must be enfeebling me.

  108. 108.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    Trump last month continued to pay former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was ousted in late June. His firm earned $20,000 in July.

    Hey, is this a problem for CNN? Good Lord. Talk about utterly destroying a brand.

  109. 109.

    Amir Khalid

    @Kay:
    @Comrade Scrutinizer:
    Der Trump contested the 2016 primary against 14 conventional Republicans, all worse than he at conventional politicking. They all made the same bad tactical choice: not ganging up to fight him until he got too big to fight. The contestants on Survivor knew better than that.

  112. 112.

    Kay

    @Amir Khalid:

    Because the GOP is not really a political Party. It’s a collection of self-interested actors fighting for their own gain.

    It was probably inevitable. That’s the far Right ideology. If everyone works exclusively for their own gain markets will work and broad benefits will….occur.

    I’m baffled why Scott Walker hasn’t fixed Milwaukee. Even if it’s true that Democrats ruined it, Walker has been in power a long time. Does he not want to fix Milwaukee? He says he fixed the rest of the state.

  113. 113.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Kay: And with Bannon at the helm, Trump is openly running for the alt-right bigots. Dog whistles can take a much deserved vacation.

  114. 114.

    JPL

    @Baud: Earlier I streamed CNN and they showed the ad portraying the Clinton Foundation as a scam. My goodness they only give ten percent of their funds to charities. Of course, it’s better if you have an organization set up, that allows you to give directly to those in need, but CNN didn’t mention that.

  115. 115.

    Matt McIrvin

    @debbie: He was briefly the Republican presidential frontrunner sometime in 2011 or 2012! Then again, that was true of about seven or eight people, most of whom are not worth remembering.

  116. 116.

    Amir Khalid

    @Kay:
    My sense of journo ethics tells me that, by still drawing a salary from the campaign that supposedly fired him, Lewandowski is apparently deceiving CNN and its viewers about his objectivity. CNN should sack him.

    Of course, it may be that CNN is in on this deception. If so, it has sold its good name for access to Trump — worthless at any price, and all the more so at that price.

  117. 117.

    dmsilev

    @philadelphialawyer:

    “The money that the Trump campaign raised also didn’t come cheap. The campaign more than doubled its spending from the previous month to $18.5 million in July, far more than in any other period of the campaign. But most of that money went toward expanding the campaign’s online fundraising operation.

    “A full 45 percent, or $8.4 million, went to Giles-Parscale, the San Antonio-based digital marketing firm that has done Trump’s online advertising. (The company had never worked for a campaign before 2016.)

    I knew it. The only question was whether Trump was grifting or was the mark in someone else’s grift. Looks like he’s the grifter.

  119. 119.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    I used to like Anderson Cooper. He was at the 2008 DNC. I was in this basement area where the bloggers were- I don’t know why I was wandering around down there because I wasn’t a “blogger” – but I saw him down there talking to bloggers (who were sitting on the floor). He was nice- really polite and charming. He’s also so good looking it’s shocking, frankly.

    Then I read the official report on the BP oil spill. They were brutal on his reporting. He misrepresented a lot.

  122. 122.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @Amir Khalid:

    Der Trump contested the 2016 primary against 14 conventional Republicans, all worse than he at conventional politicking. They all made the same bad tactical choice: not ganging up to fight him until he got too big to fight. The contestants on Survivor knew better than that.

    I take that as an indication that the institutional GOP has broken down. Ganging up would have required organization and a plan. The GOP had neither. All of the candidates in the primaries were running more or less as free agents. Maybe with the exception of Jeb!, who seemed to be the presumptive favorite of the GOP establishment.
    I wonder what would have happened if someone like Trump had tried an insurgent campaign in Nixon’s day, for instance.

  123. 123.

    Baud

    @JPL: I’m used to the GOP lying about us, but I’m saddened that no amount of debunking seems to destroy their credibility.

    How many lies can you tell before people stop trusting you?

  126. 126.

    Baud

    @Kay: I didn’t realize that. I never much paid attention to him, but always assumed he was one of the better ones. Not that the hurdle is that high.

  127. 127.

    Schlemazel

    @Amir Khalid:
    They were in a trap though. If they fought him in the open they stood a very good chance of offending his supporters, a group that constitutes the majority of the GOP base.

  128. 128.

    Baud

    @satby: I’ve heard too many people supposedly on our side of the political spectrum accept these rumors at face value.

  129. 129.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @satby:

    you remember Jimmy Hoffa, don’t you

    I hadn’t made that connection but I hope you’re wrong/joking.

  130. 130.

    Elizabelle

    Good morning, all. In Fort Lauderdale. Gonna beach my way up the East Coast

    At the NY Deli. Wifi password: Corned beef. Good breakfast for hanging out at the (sweltering) beach. Happy to see some protected turtle nests on a walk after sunset last night.

  131. 131.

    Gin & Tonic

    Sunday afternoon in Ukraine, having coffee, look up at a TV screen on local news and see Manafort. No audio, so not sure what they’re saying about him.

  134. 134.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    I wonder what would have happened if someone like Trump had tried an insurgent campaign in Nixon’s day, for instance.

    Carpet bombing. Napalm. Something like that.

  135. 135.

    Amir Khalid

    @Schlemazel:
    Yes, that’s true. But if they had fought him together, they might have been able to limit the damage to any one of them.

  136. 136.

    Doug R

    @Steeplejack: Try something called a fixme stick. It runs off a USB key and can boot off your BIOS. It may be able to get rid of the ransomware virus, then your friend might be able to deencrypt his files with a google search. Fixme stick articles here and here.

  137. 137.

    Elizabelle

    @Baud: sounds like you will have it soon. BCN is just around the corner for you. Wish I could have stayed to welcome you but (a) tourist visa 90 day limit and (b) big election in North Carolina. Excited about volunteering there.

  139. 139.

    debbie

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Okay, I was finally able to find something on youtube. It’s Herman Cain, the Ladies’ Man. I’d forgotten his plan, but I do remember him. I believe he’s supported Trump this time around.

  142. 142.

    WereBear

    @Comrade Scrutinizer: Heck, if she is handling an actual program, she’s handier with it than my mom. :)

    I also get a kick out of her declaring the Chromebook to be her best Mom’s Day Present Evah. I must have gotten my geek genes from somewhere…

  144. 144.

    WereBear

    @satby: Another problem with acetaminophen (Tylenol) is that a bad dose can creep up on you fast, and those OTC cold meds are prone to layering; one for the stuffy nose, one for the achey, one for the cough… And now you are in dangerous territory.

    For me, there is the added lack of incentive in that it does Jacksquaticil for me.

  146. 146.

    Schlemazel

    @Amir Khalid:
    Well, in psychology there is a term for that but I forget what it is. If you ask a group of people to agree to give one person more money they would all get d=some money but if you don’t agree nobody gets any money most times they will end up getting no money. None of the clowns would agree to do that unless they knew they would be the winner.

  147. 147.

    Amir Khalid

    @WereBear:
    Why not? Pulau Tiga (where they shot season 1) is available, there’s not much happening there right now, and it’s about as far away from America as you can get.

  148. 148.

    The gray adder

    @Steeplejack: Ransomware? Pull the hard drive and start over. I’m assuming there isn’t a master’s thesis or something else important on his machine.

  149. 149.

    Elizabelle

    @debbie: ’twas great. My Spanish language skills, alas, peaked in July. Am not speaking Catalan either.

    Was therapeutic to escape the reality show political news this summer. There’s something relaxing about seeing the news presented, professionally, by male and female anchors dressed in business attire, in Spanish, who look like folks you might want to work with.

    And my only understanding every third word. Twas bliss.

  150. 150.

    Schlemazel

    Here are some pictures from this weekends pow-wow in Shakopee, MN
    http://imgur.com/a/7NVHj

    There are various categories of regalia, jingle dress, shawl, traditional and fancy you can see examples of all along with their veterans color guard in the grand march. Because of the rain they had to move the event to an indoor ice arena.

  151. 151.

    D58826

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: worst case find a good computer tech who makes house calls. I have a guy who charges 85/ per hour but he has all the bits and pieces needed to fix this stuff. geeksquad I think is still around or take it into officedepot/staples. not sure what their rates are.

  155. 155.

    Matt McIrvin

    @satby: I never quite got the point of taking combined cold remedies when you could take the individual components instead and control the dosages independently.

    And cough syrups (guaifenesin, dextromethorphan) just don’t work on me at all. They don’t do a damn thing that is useful, and sometimes they have weird side effects.

    So the most I usually use for a cold is some combination of pseudoephedrine and a painkiller (usually Advil) as needed. Some symptoms I just have to ride out.

  156. 156.

    Brachiator

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    RE: the stupidity in Texas.

    Texas restored the funding in 2013, even though this could not magically undo the damage of their original stupid actions. I wonder whether the Affordable Care Act has helped.

  158. 158.

    Matt McIrvin

    @D58826: Yet another flat tax, basically. Of course, like all flat-tax proposals, it couldn’t have come close to providing adequate revenue.

  160. 160.

    Doug R

    @Matt McIrvin: Pseudoephedrine works well for me too. I find it often cuts down stuffiness enough that I don’t need Ibuprofen which is good news for my stomach lining. Acetaminophen never did jack squat for me either, and now that I know it causes liver damage, I need never buy it again.

  161. 161.

    Schlemazel

    @D58826:
    It was a 9% income tax and a 9% sales tax but I forget what the third 9 was for . . . 9 days until the whole thing would go down the toilet?

  163. 163.

    Brachiator

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Also, supposedly he has soured on Trump and is leaning toward Johnson, which I interpret to mean he won’t bother to vote. Which is fine with me!

    I’m curious. What soured him on Trump?

  164. 164.

    Amir Khalid

    @Amir Khalid:
    14 conventional Republicans, that is, plus Ben Carson, the brain surgeon from another planet, and the rank amateur Carly Fiorina.

  166. 166.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Steeplejack: For a forensic study of the source, effect and impact of the ‘ware, I found this.

    I cannot attest to the veracity of this decryptor, it was second or third on a Google search for nemucod, which looks like ‘document’ backwards, save the T.

    See yesterday’s comments on having a good backup scheme, ‘cuz most of the time with ransomware you are nigh and well fucked. Teach your bro not to click on attachments unless he is very certain of the source, sender, this is one of the most prevalent vectors for spreading this shit.

  167. 167.

    Nom de Plume

    @philadelphialawyer:

    Meanwhile, spending on the 84-person staff and field organizing barely increased from the previous month, to just $392,000 and $432,000, respectively.

    Jesus Christ. This really is an enormous grift. He’s spending a fortune on raising money, and almost nothing on organizing.

  168. 168.

    D58826

    @JPL: Now that the e-mail ‘scandal’ seems to be petering out the new shiny object is the Clinton Foundation and the CGI.

    The argument seems ti bed that the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia will tell Pres. Hillary that the King will make a big donation to the foundation and by the way can we discuss some policy issue while I’m here. Hillary of course will give him anything he wants in exchange for the donation.

    So the solution for this is to shut the charities down. In which case the ambassador will just bribe Hillary the old fashion way with a direct deposit to her secret Swiss bank account.

    I don’t remember anyone making an issue of the Bush family political/financial ties. And there is no way that ‘old little hands’ is going to be able to untangle his financial interests. BUT the Clintons oh my what bad optics. I must get a new fainting couch

    I did see that one of the Clinton charities gave 88% to actual programs and gets a good review by the charity rating services so that blows a hole in the CNN report.

    What also gets confusing is there are two entities here. One is the Clinton Global Initiative and the other is the Clinton Family Foundation. The former does all of the aids work/etc. The later is a mechanism for the family to direct their private philanthropy to specific charities. From what I’ve read it is a fairly common technique for the rich and famous to use. I’m not sure of the mechanics but I think the foreign/corporate donations go to the CGI and not the family foundation.

  170. 170.

    The Other Chuck

    I worked in the AV industry for 12 years. Effective ransomware is known for two things:

    1. It encrypts the whole drive. Restore points and partitions are encrypted too and therefore useless. The only thing not encrypted is the bootloader the ransomware installs instead of your operating system. It’s serious encryption too, the sort you find in VeraCrypt and company, so if you find any product to decrypt the ransomware, you’ve lucked out and gotten hit by old and broken ransomware from sloppy operators. Thankfully a recent rash of ransomware is exactly that sloppy, but if you’re getting the bootloader, you’re almost certainly out of luck.

    2. They usually deliver on the ransom, believe it or not. It’s usually an entirely automated system not dissimilar to a license server for purchased software, so human perfidy isn’t typically involved in that particular step. Obviously you still shouldn’t pay them, but many outfits have been known to do so, and their systems were in working order shortly. Seems to me such outfits should also have had working backups, but I guess the ransom is still cheaper than hiring competent local IT.

  171. 171.

    Central Planning

    @Baud: a liytle late, but say he got the ransomware from those sites, just to see the look on his face. I thought all RWNJs don’t look at p0rn and certainly wouldn’t read dkos. Lame joke attempt, not implying dkos has ransomware

  172. 172.

    D58826

    @Brachiator: Mike Pence signed legislation to cut funding for Planned Parenthood and now they have an HIV outbreak to contend with. But since in both Texas and Indiana it only affects ‘those’ people its ok and part of the Christian plan to punish ‘those’ sinners

  173. 173.

    Matt McIrvin

    @D58826: The notion that the Clinton Foundations are somehow shady money-laundering operations has actually been kicking around for a very long time; I assume that if there were some smoking gun we’d have heard about it long ago.

    The other one getting attention now is the deathers, the people who insist that Hillary Clinton is secretly gravely ill.

  175. 175.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @D58826:

    the e-mail ‘scandal’ seems to be petering out

    Mr IOL just had Fox Sunday morning on, and they were shaking their heads, very concerned that HRC has broken the law. They wanted to know if there was one justice for everyone else and another for HRC.

  176. 176.

    The Other Chuck

    Texas Republicans are blood gargling psychopathic murderers. And they know it. And they enjoy it. This was well known before they yanked PP funding: look at their death penalty record.

  178. 178.

    Schlemazel

    @The Other Chuck:
    I have avoided comment on this because lots of people have jumped in & thats fine. I have worked IT security for 25 years and second everything you said with a couple of caveats.
    1)is there anything encrypted he really can’t replace/live without? If there isn’t then just sand the disk smooth & start over. If there is something he can’t sacrifice he can try a couple of things
    2) do some googling on info you got from the kidnapper, some of these guys are script kiddies & their encryption has been broken, you might find the key available online
    3) email the group & plead poverty (claim to be disabled/retired etc) and ask if they will give you break and take less. I have heard some people have had luck & even gotten out for $100 but that depends on the group & their mood at the moment.

  180. 180.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    @Kay:

    They could have had a qualified, smarter non covert racist. The GOP primary electorate chose the racist. There’s nothing else that sets him apart

    Corrected to match today’s GOP

  182. 182.

    WereBear

    @The Other Chuck: I have been in IT for many (cough!) years, and I am STILL gobsmacked by how flippant people are about backing up.

    And it keeps getting easier and cheaper, too! Most people could get along with a couple of thumb drives and a program like Chronosync, which works out to less than a couple of nice dinners out.

  185. 185.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    Does anyone still think that the cable networks are formative in regards to political opinions / narratives, or has that process shifted to the Internet and social media? Of the people I know, more and more are unplugging from cable TV and going with internet alternatives.

    So far that’s the worst kind of anecdata, but has anyone studied the trend?

  187. 187.

    HeartlandLiberal

    @Gindy51: They were the lightest, best fitting glasses I have EVER owned, that is why I decided to shell out. I have a depression on left side of nose, from having that side removed due to cancer in late 1970’s, and getting glasses to sit evenly and comfortably has since been a challenge. This pair was feather light, and fit beautifully. Even if I replace and repair these, I have the previous frames, I am going to have lenses made with the Rx for them as backup, in any case.

  189. 189.

    Kay

    @Matt McIrvin:

    The other one getting attention now is the deathers, the people who insist that Hillary Clinton is secretly gravely ill.

    They’re doing it exactly like birtherism. There is not a shred of evidence to make this claim but media and conservatives are promoting it as a real controversy.

    It’s backward. The accuser has to produce something.

    Under these new rules everything anyone says is presumptively credible, immediately shifting he burden to the accused, who has to disprove the theory.

    They have too many hours to fill on cable. They make shit up to fill these huge time blocks. They have enough content for 2 hours a day. The rest is trumped up controversy and speculation.

  190. 190.

    HeartlandLiberal

    @Pogonip: For one thing, current fashion trends are heavy and dark rims, which I do not want, I lived through the fifties and sixties once already, which was more than enough.Just very light, most comfortable frames I had ever found.

  191. 191.

    Elizabelle

    @satby: thank you. Thrilled to hear about your new house for Casa Pets. Good luck w the move. I checked, and you can totes vote as a Hoosier this fall. You meet all the requirements (and could have done so as a renter too).

    You get to vote for Evan Bayh!

  193. 193.

    Kay

    @Matt McIrvin:

    We should try an experiment. Here’s the accusation: “Donald Trump is mentally ill”. We’re sure he has an actual condition. We’ll just rattle off a bunch of bullshit and he has to rebut each point and when he does we’ll bring up new “questions”.

    Does he have to defend on that for 80 days? That’s exactly what they just did to Clinton, and before Clinton, they did it to Obama with the birth certificate. If this is the rule now, can both sides play?

  194. 194.

    danielx

    @Elizabelle:

    You get to vote for Evan Bayh!

    For those of us who know Evan Bayh (and I’ve had that dubious pleasure for quite some time), this is something less than a cause for celebration. More like a resounding “meh”. Man doesn’t take a leak in the morning without checking a public opinion poll first.

  196. 196.

    satby

    @Elizabelle: Mixed emotions about that, because Indiana will probably stay red, so it will feel like my Hillary vote won’t count. I know that’s silly, but if the state electoral votes go to Drimpf, that’s how I’m going to feel.

  197. 197.

    Kay

    Actual thing Rudy Giuliani said on @FoxNewsSunday: “Go online & put down ‘Hillary Clinton illness,’ take a look at the videos for yourself.”

    And awaaay we go! Deatherism goes mainstream. And the same day that someone finally did an actual investigation into Donald Trump’s business interests! That’s a coinkydink!

    We deserve Trump. Any country that has 24 hours of “news” like this a day deserves what they get. The quality stuff gets completely drowned out by this bullshit. This market isn’t working.

  198. 198.

    Lyrebird

    Just got another campaign ad from the con man… Now I figure I will click on them, so it will seem like placing ads here helps his campaign!

    Could someone re-post the Baton Rouge help links?

    Anyhow, here’s what that con man’s campaign says today:

    I Will Bring Jobs Back to the U.S.
    It’s a very exciting time for America. Your voices represent a bright new future for our great nation full of more opportunities for everyone, not just a select few.
    Together, we WILL Make America Great Again!

  199. 199.

    Doug R

    @Schlemazel: I checked a backup disk we bought about 3 years ago. It is crammed full of crap that I will never use. I should buy a new 1T drive and backup this machine I guess, but now I’m almost thankful Facebook keeps everything forever, at least my pictures should be mostly safe.

  200. 200.

    debbie

    @Brachiator:

    Two of my three brothers are also leaning toward Johnson. Both of them see Trump as a buffoon. I’m not sure they’ll follow through though.

    My third brother clings to the notion of Trump as Outsider.

  202. 202.

    The Other Chuck

    @WereBear: It’s still a pain to back up, frankly, since as backup systems age, they tend to bit-rot. It’s not hard to set up backup anymore, but managing them over time is still an annoyance, and still off by default in most operating systems, if it’s even installed at all. And it’s not going to get any better on the client end, since most stuff is moving to cloud anyway, where backup is automatic — which is a good thing, but there’s no incentive to improve the local clients anymore, since the whole concept of “local client” is starting to go away anyway.

    Phones are doing it right: mine backs up every time I plug it in, with a bare minimum of knobs, dials, switches, or ceremony.

  204. 204.

    Miss Bianca

    @Kay:

    They could have had a qualified, smarter non-racist. The GOP primary electorate chose the racist. There’s nothing else that sets him apart.

    Per Comrade Brecht, it may be time to dissolve the GOP Primary People and elect another.

  205. 205.

    Immanentize

    I’ve read all the mornings comments and I just want you all to know that I am smoking about 10 lbs of pork shoulder today if anyone is hungry later….

  206. 206.

    The Other Chuck

    @Kay: Wake me up when Rudi says anything actually interesting or new on a tv station that runs anything resembling news or programs anything but propaganda for those that have already firmly made up their own minds and private realities to live in.

    Shorter: Fox News is not a news cite.

  213. 213.

    debbie

    @Kay:

    They should be. I hope they can hold onto that lead. It sounds like the Trumpsters in southeast Ohio are really digging in their heels.

  214. 214.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Kay: Are you kidding me? If it’s on the internet, it must be true. This is part of my earlier question. It seems that narratives start on the internet, and msm (whether credulous or cynical) accepts it as true. The old model was to float a narrative in the opinion columns or Sunday news programs and let them take off from there. The new way is more effective because the media “are just reporting what we found”, and people who have opted out of trad media still see the stories. The “where there’s smoke” attitude covers a lot of fuzzy thinking.

  216. 216.

    Kay

    @Miss Bianca:

    I was thinking he could an underground appeal to the alt-Right racists- they have their own media, essentially. His public face would be kinder, gentler and then there would be the whole fever swamp beneath. George W Bush did something like that with fundamentalist religious- he spoke to them in a kind of code.

    Alternately, he could appeal to the crazies by really brutally attacking Clinton. The crazies on the Right believe Republicans aren’t manly-men nasty enough to Democrats. That might appease them. I hope he does Option B because I think it will hurt him more than it helps. I don’t think people hate Clinton and Obama as much as media and conservatives believe people hate them- especially Obama. He’s really quite well-liked, in comparison to the rest.

  220. 220.

    Schlemazel

    @satby:
    I have a couple of videos I took but the sound quality is awful.
    Visually dazzling, these are incredible events. They have dance competitions with cash prizes (the regalia must be incredibly expensive to build & maintain) for instance the men’s fancy top prize was $2500 with $500 for 5th place. In the evening they dance just for the joy of it, a social event. My guess is this is a big meet up for teens; it reminds me of the dance club near my house where ethnic kids went to meet people their parents would find acceptable (it was about mid-way between Greek and a Turkish neighborhoods (an interesting dynamic in itself). I could not hear all the announcements during the grand march but I know I heard at least 15 different tribes represented, from the midWest, Canada, and as far away as Oklahoma.

    There were about a dozen drum teams & those guys work their behinds off. Most of the songs they wrote themselves although some maintain traditional songs of their nation.

  221. 221.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @WereBear:

    What a great idea! Next Republican Presidential primary should be held on a island.

    I can’t think of an island that deserves that kind of mistreatment.

  222. 222.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Kay: Like someone else said last week, I wish we could drop the alt-right label and call it what it is: a white supremacy movement. Sometimes our labels make ugly shit more palatable.

  224. 224.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    OT: Lady Thunder, Doglius and I are back from walkies. She’s dead certain that we’ll* be seeing Ryan Lochte on Dancing With The Stars this season. Because it’s the first stop on a rehabilitation tour when you act like an ass.
    She predicts that he’ll do well because athletes usually do. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s right.

    * or she will. I wouldn’t be caught dead…

  225. 225.

    Schlemazel

    @Doug R:
    That has been my finding over the years, I backup stuff I think I might need & then months or years later ask, “Why the heck did I save that crap?”

  229. 229.

    Miss Bianca

    Meanwhile, in a tangential link to the women’s health situation in Texas…

    I’ve been (in a very minor capacity) involved with the campaign for Amendment 69 here in Colorado. While I am finding *a lot* in the plan to like, one thing does disturb me, Per someone’s suggestion here, that NARAL was against it because it wouldn’t cover abortion services, I emailed my primary contact to the campaign and asked about it. This was the reply:

    Here is the current “official” response we received from Lyn that Irene and others are using:

    “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” While the issue of abortion coverage is debatable there is no question that 350,000 uninsured (including 175,00 women) and 700,000 underinsured (including 350,000 women) would have access to 100% free reproductive health care with ColoradoCare.

    I took this to mean that that meant abortion services couldn’t be covered – probably because of federal funds banning. Or maybe it’s a state constitutional thing, since the whole point of Colorado Care is that it’s a single-payer *state*-funded plan.

    Basically I’ve been advised to just direct attention away from the issue. But as I told my contact, as a former family planning counselor, I don’t feel like I can do that. What I asked for specifically – and what I haven’t heard back about yet – is whether this means that women would have to pay for ABs out of their pocket, or whether this is a case where they would actually have to purchase supplementary insurance to cover it.

    So, am I making “the perfect the enemy of the good” by saying – “hey – abortion services are part of women’s health care, and we can’t just hand-wave that issue away by emphasizing free contraceptive services instead”?

  230. 230.

    Schlemazel

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:
    Isn’t there an island in the South Pacific that is overrun with monitor lizards? That would be the place I would choose for them. It would be very pleasing to see.

  231. 231.

    WereBear

    @Schlemazel: Far better than the alternative.

    I pay $.99 a month for Apple to cloud-backup my iPad; automatically and periodically. I store a surprising amount of things, I’d like to keep, on apps on this device: a journal, a great notebook program called Notability, various writing projects stored on the device as Pages documents, latest Contacts since I don’t sync with my laptop anymore, etc.

    When I get a new device, I will log in and it will be set up for me with all my stuff magically appearing.

    Such a deal.

  235. 235.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @Schlemazel:

    Isn’t there an island in the South Pacific that is overrun with monitor lizards? That would be the place I would choose for them. It would be very pleasing to see.

    Komodo? What do you have against reptiles?

  237. 237.

    Schlemazel

    @WereBear:
    for a buck you can’t go wrong as long as Apple protects your stuff & also doesn’t decide to block you from it (both have happened in limited cases). But that is a great price and better than nothing.

  238. 238.

    Miss Bianca

    @Miss Bianca:

    I have since done a bit of Googling and discovered that there is a ban dating from 1984 in the state of Colorado against using “public funds” to cover abortion. NARAL’s legal team says the ban would likely hold; the Amendment 69 folks are arguing that “The general rule is that where an apparent conflict exists between two statutes, the courts must attempt to harmonize them to effectuate the intent of the general assembly. …If the two cannot be harmonized, the statute enacted last in time controls.”

  240. 240.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @debbie: Morgan Stanley’s top executives should be forced to reimburse every last farthing lost by the clients.

  241. 241.

    Fair Economist

    @WereBear:

    Another problem with acetaminophen (Tylenol) is that a bad dose can creep up on you fast, and those OTC cold meds are prone to layering; one for the stuffy nose, one for the achey, one for the cough… And now you are in dangerous territory.

    And layered on *that* – you can take a lethal dose and you won’t even know for a few days.

  242. 242.

    ThresherK

    @D58826: Easter Island, if they can’t bring food. And we can start a betting pool on who starts carving new maoi and when. I got Trump, in 72 hours after landing.

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: Sealand has a power vacuum. It needs more warlords to be the limited government Nirvana. Somehow I think the R primary would dissolve into that.

  243. 243.

    Shell

    The other one getting attention now is the deathers, the people who insist that Hillary Clinton is secretly gravely ill.

    And that one seems to have exploded on the scene. Everything from Parkinsons, seizures to mysterious ‘brain disease.’

  245. 245.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Morgan Stanley’s top executives should be forced to reimburse every last farthing lost by the clients.

    Of all the nerve:
    “The company is fighting dozens of Mr. Wyatt’s former clients in arbitration. It has said in legal documents that the clients were “negligent” for not following Mr. Wyatt more closely.”
    Emphasis mine. The CLIENTS should have monitored him, not his employer. Unfortunately Morgan Stanley has a strong position here.

  246. 246.

    debbie

    @Ultraviolet Thunder

    A graphic on my FB page compares Gabby Douglas’s failure to put her hand on her heart and the ensuing abuse on the Internet vs. Ryan Lochte’s criminality and the ensuing “boyishness.”

    ETA: I forgot to add that this was a BLM post.

  252. 252.

    Doug R

    @ThresherK: i went to Sealand in Victoria, BC as a kid. It’s where Tillikum the KILLER whale first started captivity and killed his first human as featured in Blackfish. It’s defunct now, but I think we could store Republican primary candidates there in a gigantic net open to the sea.

  253. 253.

    Kay

    Just now on @CNN, I asked @tamarakeithNPR about the @HillaryClinton “secret illness” conspiracy theories…

    Because my job is to treat conspiracy theories as if this is a legitimate line of inquiry with a right or wrong answer.

    After all, no one has disproved it! Where does this come from? Did they pluck it from a misunderstanding of 7th grade science class, where a “theory” is live until it’s disproved? It’s like a zany reverse-twist on creationists. They get all bollixed up on “theory” too.

    Maybe approach it the other way? Define “fact” and then compare and contrast with…whatever this “news” is?

  254. 254.

    The Other Chuck

    @Doug R: That would be Seaworld. Sealand is a concrete platform off the shore of Britain, not even big enough to be an oil rig. But I guess Seaworld would work too, and then you could say these mooks are really in the tank for their candidate.

  255. 255.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    Not so much theft as incompetent bungling. That disclaimer that investment funds are not guaranteed and are entirely at risk has been challenged and has stood up as long as the company provided accurate information. Madoff straight up lied that he had assets, so he was convicted of fraud. If Morgan Stanley was informing their customers that they were losing their asses they’re probably in the clear. The case that they failed to rein in a rogue trader would be hard to make. But my sympathies are with the plaintiffs.
    And I check on my investments every day.

  256. 256.

    Elizabelle

    @Shell: projection.

    Republican true believers suffer from prion disease, and are beset by all manner of parasites.

    So they project: look! Crooked Hillary! Parkinson’s! Any day they’ll be whispering it’s prostate cancer too.

  258. 258.

    Elizabelle

    @Kay: found myself pointing out cnn’s idiocies to fellow hotel guests yesterday. European TV does not seem to be this bad. Wider selection of topics, including lots of international news, snappily presented.

    I don’t know how democracy survives for-profit “news”. I kind of think cable and broadcast is digging its grave in plain sight. And too many at the NY Times suffer from Clinton Derangement Syndrome. They’re my lifeline, but I think frequently of cancelling the paid sub for a while to protest. I doubt they would even notice.

  261. 261.

    J R in WV

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Because if I was dying, I would rather spend all my last moments on earth flying around talking to strangers, rather than with my daughter and grandkids. For Sure!!

    And that’s how we know that Hillary is dying, she’s spending her last days and weeks on earth flying around to see more and more strangers. If she was staying home with her family, we would know she was healthy, right?

    Makes no sense to me…

  262. 262.

    one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:

    That one’s already on my radar as a bucket list dive, along with Hawaii lava tubes, the continental plate glacier lake in Iceland and the nuclear fleet sunk off Bikini Atoll (I’ll wait longer on that – it’s a bitch to get to, is a deco dive and there’s a shit ton of radiation exposure).

  264. 264.

    Stan

    Can I just mention here that Chuck Yeager shot down a jet (a messerschmitt ME-262) while flying a prop-driven aircraft (a P-51). That’s epic.

    A lot of people are saying, honest folks, the ME-262 was flying for the Trumpwaffe.

  265. 265.

    dww44

    @Elizabelle: There was this straight news article from the NYT that I found when trying to rebut the onslaught from conservative relatives about HRC’s being compelled to respond to claims made by Judicial Watch, the conservative litigious society.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/politics/hillary-clinton-judge-emails.html?_r=0

    Along the lines of what the GOP’s decades long messaging about the bad and evil government, there’s this post from Booman, which may have already been mentioned at this site, but it truly is one of the best things I’ve read about the state of our politics and the damage being done to our belief in our democratic institutions.

    http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2016/8/20/125835/309#61

  267. 267.

    rikyrah

    I’ve said it before..

    the GOP model is to use THE OFFICE for the grift.

    They are not used to the nominee using THE CAMPAIGN as the actual grift.

    Steven D’Amico
    ‏@stevenjldamico
    #Trump campaign spent nearly $200K in rent to Trump Tower, near $50K to a Trump golf course. Zero on ads.

  268. 268.

    rikyrah

    TWITTER TRUTH

    Broderick GreerVerified account
    ‏@BroderickGreer
    Ryan Lochte teaches us that black people are never children and white people never have to become adults.

  269. 269.

    rikyrah

    (((Touré)))Verified account
    ‏@Toure
    Trump’s question to Black Americans “What do you have to lose?” is perfectly answered by @JamilSmith: “What do we have to gain???”

  271. 271.

    rikyrah

    Greg Sargent ‏@ThePlumLineGS 3h3 hours ago
    If Trump drops mass deportations, it isn’t just “flip flop.”

    It’s an admission he’s peddled giant scam for a year:

  272. 272.

    D58826

    @J R in WV: Another example of raging CDS. Dinesh D’souza is pushing his latest work of fiction on twitter. He is pushing the line that the only way the Clintons go from 0 to 200 million in wealth on govt pay is by being crooks. On the other hand if they were crooks they would not have reported going from 0 to 200 million on govt pay to IRS and various other govt disclosure documents. But then common sense isn’t a requirement for his audience

  273. 273.

    rikyrah

    Jon Ralston
    ‏@RalstonReports
    How the NV GOP chair tried to divert proceeds from a Trump fundraiser to his personal slush fund. My @rgj column:

  274. 274.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: really late, so the thread may be dead, but Is there a restore point he could go back to?

    edit: I see plenty of people have suggested that already.

  277. 277.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: So, the supervisors “neglected” to read the signs that the broker was unstable (wouldn’t let him trade on his own account, but sure, go right ahead and play with the clients’ money). Aren’t “neglected” and “negligent” related to each other etymologically?

  278. 278.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    Just learned 2 things:
    1) Loose handlebars make it impossible to steer.
    2) juniper bushes are pricklier than they look.

    I think it’s time for a nap.

  279. 279.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @slag: He’s superb in a highly specialized role. Climate change is not related to that role. It’s not dissimilar from all those guys with PhDs who are NOT climatologists saying that it can’t be real, that the data is flawed, etc. etc. etc. They’re totally out of their depth, but because they’re “Dr.” so and so, the rubes think that grants them expertise in climatology. Like “Dr.” Art Robinson here in Oregon, propped up electorally by a hedge fund manager in NY.

  282. 282.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @D58826: When you become a wingnut, any common sense you had is surgically removed.
    That goes double for any critical thinking skills you may have possessed.

  283. 283.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @rikyrah: Similarly, one of the most industrious people I’ve ever met was a (totally legal) migrant from Mexico, a carpenter with superb skills at crafting wood furniture. The fact he belies the stereotype of the lazy Mexican on permanent siesta must drive some people out there crazy.

  284. 284.

    JPL

    @rikyrah: When blacks migrated north for factory jobs, they were able to replace white workers, because of their strong work ethic. Someone mentioned the other day, that it’s time to point towards management for low wages, not those beneath you. It’s been a scam that corporations have been getting away with for decades.
    source Warmth of other Suns.

  285. 285.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Thank you for that story… Kinda wish we had more such news. Stories out of Syria and Texas and similar hell-holes (I’m kidding, I’m kidding… Syria is not that bad) can get rather overwhelming.

  286. 286.

    Baud

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    The fact he belies the stereotype of the lazy Mexican on permanent siesta must drive some people out there crazy.

    Nah. Facts don’t refute stereotypes with these folks.

  287. 287.

    IdahoFlaneuse

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: I am not very knowledgeable about computer but I somehow got the idea that using multiple protective programs is a problem because they each think the other is a virus. Does Malwarebytes play nice with other programs?

  288. 288.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @JPL:

    Someone mentioned the other day, that it’s time to point towards management for low wages, not those beneath you. It’s been a scam that corporations have been getting away with for decades.

    Management won the battle against Labor through PR. I work in an industrial field (non-union) and the universal belief is that unions are terrible and cause all terrible things. There’s no evidence for this but the attitude has seeped into our culture because Management has saturated us with anti-union rhetoric. If I try to point out that an inefficient union plant maybe went union because it’s poorly run, and that management accounts for the crummy productivity I’m ignored.
    It’s amazing that people who would genuinely benefit from union membership are categorically prejudiced against unions. Management played the long game and won.

  289. 289.

    germy

    Latest FEC filings reveal that Trump paid CNN’s Lewandowski $20K in July

    New filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) reveal that Corey Lewandowski is still being paid by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, even after being signed on to CNN as a commentator.

    According to the Washington Post, the ousted campaign manager made $20,000 in the month of July, which was paid to his consulting company Green Monster.

    I laugh at these fucks, but they make more money than I could ever dream of.

  293. 293.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @IdahoFlaneuse:

    Does Malwarebytes play nice with other programs?

    I use it with Microsoft Security Essentials with no issues. For it to keep protecting, the virus definitions have to be up to date. I run both automatically weekly, with automatic virus updates.

  294. 294.

    Brachiator

    @debbie:

    .
    My third brother clings to the notion of Trump as outsider.

    Yeah, I keep hearing this from some people. They’re happy that Trump just speaks his mind and is an outsider who will shake things up; but then they contradict themselves by saying that it doesn’t matter that he is an ignorant stooge. They say the president doesn’t do much anyway, but is just a figurehead.

    It’s crazy. It’s almost as though in voting for Trump, they are voting for themselves, an ordinary white guy with common sense and a desire to make America great again by kicking some butt.

  295. 295.

    Gelfling 545

    @Matt McIrvin: “people who insist that Hillary Clinton is secretly gravely ill.”

    My answer to these folks has been: so what? She has a more than competent vp. I don’t know how anybody who saw her in the congressional hearings/inquisition could think so, however.

  296. 296.

    germy

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    You have to get into the grift early in the game.

    Goddamn this conscience of mine. I should have started early as a “Reagan youth” and by now I’d be independently wealthy. Writing some bullshit column for some rightwing think tank or another. Instead I kept my “integrity” and now I’m as poor as a church mouse.

  297. 297.

    WereBear

    @Brachiator: Do they pick their surgeons this way? Their tax accountant, their auto mechanic, their spouses?

    The way Republicans trample on the very idea of expertise, knowledge, and ability makes me sick.

  298. 298.

    CaseyL

    @Schlemazel: Oh, those are wonderful! Thanks for being there, taking the photos, and sharing them.

    I’d love to know more about how the regalia are made; how many people make their own and how many let the pros handle it. Or whether it’s considered culturally inappropriate for costumers to work on these, even if they’re part of the community.

  299. 299.

    germy

    @WereBear:

    The way Republicans trample on the very idea of expertise, knowledge, and ability makes me sick.

    My oldest son worked for a few years at a local tv station doing production work. After the cutbacks he’s been looking for a new job. Now and then I check “indeed” to see if I can find a job lead to send him.

    Whenever I see a job posting at a TV or radio station that is owned by one of the rightwing families, I don’t bother passing it along. Because I know they treat their employees like crap; it’s their philosophy.

  300. 300.

    Gelfling 545

    @satby: my nephew who lives in Indianapolis feels differently. Since monivg from reliably blue NY he feels his matters finally, not just one of the crowd but getting out there & representing for Dems.

  301. 301.

    Keith P.

    Has anyone seen Steve Bannon interviewed since supposedly taking over the Trump campaign? All I’ve seen is Kellyanne Conway, and so I just see Conway’s fingerprints on Trump’s actions so far.

    SPARTAAAAAAAA!!!

  302. 302.

    Elizabelle

    @Tripod: I relaxed a lot once Tim Kaine was selected. He is both highly competent and electable. Compassionate (honestly), and connects.

    Although I wish Hillary many more happy years.

  304. 304.

    slag

    @Villago Delenda Est: True. But there’s a particular brand of arrogant dumbassery associated with prioritizing your unlearned opinion over that of the actual experts on the subject. That particular brand of arrogant dumbassery hits my central nervous system like fingernails on a chalkboard—so familiar and so grating. And almost always associated with assiduously unexamined white male privilege.

    As NDGT says, “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

  305. 305.

    Brachiator

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    The fact he belies the stereotype of the lazy Mexican on permanent siesta must drive some people out there crazy.

    Racists always have it both ways. Immigrant Latinos are either lazy and on welfare or working hard and taking jobs away from real Americans.

    There’s a Chinese restaurant where the Latino workers speak English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Spanish. But the white supremacists associated with the people Trump has hired to run his campaign believe that Latinos are inferior to white people and must be deported along with other undesirable people so that a majority European white culture be maintained.

    Trump speaks “I love America” platitudes and yet willingly plays up to vile racists and the lunatic fringe.

  306. 306.

    germy

    @Brachiator: I remember reading an article some years back about rejected New Yorker magazine cartoons. Some cartoonists of color tried breaking through the firewall (unsuccessfully). One of the cartoons was a white woman yelling at a black woman “Why don’t you get off your rear and get a job?!” and then the white woman seeing the black woman in a cubicle and yelling “I wanted that job!”

    The cartoon was rejected. The editor said it would be too intense or something for readers.

  307. 307.

    Brachiator

    @WereBear:

    The way Republicans trample on the very idea of expertise, knowledge, and ability makes me sick.

    You really saw this with the rise of Sarah Palin.

    The idiocy that the president must be an ordinary guy you could have a beer with feeds into this madness.

  309. 309.

    Brachiator

    @rikyrah: Did you see that black women, people of color, and women generally cleaned up at the 2016 Hugo Awards?

    Best novel went to NK Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, a richly-detailed story of a planet undergoing a periodic and catastrophic season of apocalyptic climate change. Jemisin has previously clashed with Rabid Puppies co-ordinator Theodore Beale, who was expelled from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America after he publicly called the black author an “educated but ignorant savage”.

    The highly-acclaimed Binti by Nnedi Okorafor scooped best novella. The tale of a member of the first member of the Himba community on Earth to be accepted into a prestigious intergalactic university, Binti also won the Nebula award for the same category earlier this year.

    And best novelette was given to Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfanq, a Chinese science fiction story which, translated by Ken Liu, appeared in Uncanny Magazine.

    The best short story, best editor long form, best editor short form, and best professional artist awards all went to women nominees — respectively Naomi Kritzer for her piece Cat Pictures Please, Ellen Datlow, Sheila E Gilbert and Abigail Larson.

  310. 310.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @Brachiator:

    The idiocy that the president must be an ordinary guy you could have a beer with feeds into this madness.

    I attribute this to the GOP’s general campaign against government. They convince people that it’s just a scam. It’s actually a serious profession. The skill and ability to successfully govern are no longer appreciated by the idiots among us. And politics is seen as entirely corrupt. It has worked. Note the success of term limits laws blocking anyone experienced from office. As if we would do that to any other profession.

  314. 314.

    PsiFighter37

    @germy: CNN should demand that Lewandowski appears for free going forward.

    Unbelievable…yet not surprising that Corey never (officially) went off the Trump dime.

  316. 316.

    Elizabelle

    313 comments. Is there no pet picture to be admired, or a chicken or wine foil sculpture going unphotographed?

    Betty? Adam? Hillary? BixbyMom? Hello out there?

  319. 319.

    Ruckus

    @Matt McIrvin:
    That flat tax would have provided all the income they were willing to spend. It wouldn’t provide any funds for things like the VA, welfare, the ACA, etc, etc. The republicans do not want government at all, people should be able to keep their money and purchase the security that they need. And if all those people die there will be more for them. Of course there won’t be anyone to plant or pick the crops, process the food, repair the roads that the unregulated trucks without drivers don’t use to deliver the food to the market that’s shut because no one works there. But that’s OK they can just drive there, even though there won’t be people building the cars that can’t drive on the same potholes as the trucks, which also won’t be able to deliver the gas to the stations that won’t be open………..
    Conservatives seemingly have no idea how interdependent we all are on each of us doing our little bit to make the whole thing work. Nor are they seemingly capable of logical, cognitive thinking. They are about having it all, not earning any of it, IOW taking or theft. They also don’t seem to mind stealing lives, as long as they can somehow feel better.

  322. 322.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Ruckus:

    Conservatives seemingly have no idea how interdependent we all are on each of us doing our little bit to make the whole thing work.

    Yup.

    I haven’t looked into it carefully, but I don’t understand why the Preamble doesn’t hold the same relevance as the rest of the Constitution:

    We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

    Why is the bolded stuff practically ignored? If we can fit (almost) the whole of the federal regulatory framework under the “commerce clause”, why doesn’t the Preamble expand the clearly-intended foundation of the national government? Doesn’t Obamacare (and more) fit under that? It’s a mystery to me (but I’m sure the constitutional lawyer folks learn this the first day).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  323. 323.

    Ruckus

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    I get emails every once in a great while, from people I know well, that just do not look right. They all look like a forward of something, but it’s never a picture, always some script. I never open them, just delete immediately. I’ve also gotten the FedEx delivery scam emails, that say click here to find out where your package is. That one is easy to spot as a scam. I find that adBlocker and NoScript help a lot to avoid problems. They make using a computer a little less bothersome and a little more difficult, right up to the time you don’t have to completely wipe your drive and start over.

  324. 324.

    Brachiator

    @The Lodger:

    . ..It’s not obvious from the quoted part of the story, but Jemisin, Okorftor and Hao are all women too.

    I tried to account for that in my brief write-up, but hopefully anyone interested in the Hugo Awards could check out details on the winning authors.

  325. 325.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:

    They have too many hours to fill on cable. They make shit up to fill these huge time blocks. They have enough content for 2 hours a day. The rest is trumped up controversy and speculation.

    One channel has too many hours to fill. Trying to fill all the channels makes it even worse. They are all in competition for the same 2 hours of stuff. Now add in that they have been talking heads and not journalists for at least a couple of decades and they have 22 hours of bullshit to produce every day. That’s an 11 to 1 bullshit ratio. Which side of that equation does anyone think is going to get all the attention? The 11 side or the 1 side? I know where attention has and is being directed, and it isn’t the 1 side.

  326. 326.

    john fremont

    @WereBear: I retort by saying, “You know that’s what the NFL thought about referees experience too when they brought in substitute refs a few years ago, and looked how that worked out?”

  328. 328.

    Ruckus

    @Shell:

    to mysterious ‘brain disease

    Projection. It’s always projection with conservatives. Trump has a disease in his brain, (it is obvious even to them) therefore it must be true that Clinton does.

  329. 329.

    germy shoemangler

    @Ruckus:

    One channel has too many hours to fill. Trying to fill all the channels makes it even worse. They are all in competition for the same 2 hours of stuff.

    They’ve got all these commercials to show. They need some sort of filler to air between all the commercials.

  330. 330.

    Ruckus

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    You didn’t know that before? I thought everyone without enough money to invest knew that theft by Wall Street was legal. The people with money seemed not to notice.

  331. 331.

    Ruckus

    @Elizabelle:

    Any day they’ll be whispering it’s prostate cancer too.

    LOL, although it’s probably true and therefore not all that funny.

  332. 332.

    Dmbeaster

    @JPL: I dont get this. The Clinton Foundation gets an A rating from the top independent charity rating outfit, “Chaity Watch.” 88% of all funds go out to programs. They only spend $2 for every $100 raised. It is the real deal. These numbers are based on the audited financials and tax filings.

  335. 335.

    Ruckus

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:
    Management is almost always the problem. 99.9% of the time almost. And I say this as someone who owned a business with employees and also held a job as a manager of approx 100 people in total. A mistake or a stupidity or whatever it’s called when you make a call that you know will screw everyone for a possible few bucks, until the shit hits the fan can be a relatively small thing, until it spreads to those employee below you, that you are supposed to take care of so they can do their jobs. IOW an employee is one person, a manager directly affects all the people below them and possibly a bigger part of the company than any one employee normally can.

  336. 336.

    Ruckus

    @WereBear:

    Do they pick their surgeons this way? Their tax accountant, their auto mechanic, their spouses?

    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    No. A spouse needs to be unflaggingly supportive, so that is the one trait that is actually looked for.

  337. 337.

    Steeplejack

    Wanted to get back before this thread completely died to offer some closure on my brother’s ransomware problem.

    Success! At this point, between my brain fog from having a cold and my brother’s “You’re not the boss of me” attitude, I’m not sure exactly how it was accomplished, but we were able to decrypt his captured files and (allegedly) nuke the ransomware virus from orbit. I strongly urged him to do a clean rebuild of Windows, but I’m not sure he will follow through with that. He has always prided himself on being a “wrench-turner”—automobile and motorcycle mechanics, do-it-yourself home projects, etc.—and somehow he (mistakenly) got the idea that translates to computer/software expertise. So it is hard for him to take advice/direction, and he tends to have a somewhat, uh, unscientific approach. Whatever. It was a good outcome, and I’ll take it.

    I tried to keep notes as we flailed away, and I’ll keep those on hand for future reference. I think the final breakthrough was a decryptor from Emsisoft. It correctly identified the 24-digit key that he was then able to use to unlock his files.

    I wanted to thank all of you who offered advice and links to possible solutions. They were very helpful for me to confirm and cross-check other stuff that I found on line. Saved me untold time and effort. So thanks!

  338. 338.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Steeplejack: Thanks for the good news! A friend in Ohio got hit by some ransomeware a year or two ago and had to pay them. I don’t know anyone local who has had that happen, but it sounds like it’s something I should not figure is impossible to happen here…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  339. 339.

    Steeplejack

    @Brachiator:

    What soured him on Trump?

    I don’t talk politics with him anymore—he got tired of my using “reply all” and Snopes.com, etc., to debunk all his right-wing e-mail bullshit in front of his CC list—but he fancies himself a sober, “fiscally conservative” Republican. The reality is that on the RWNJ spectrum he is in the gun-nut, anti-immigrant, rabidly pro-military tranche. And anti-Democrat anything. I don’t think he cares about abortion or religion.

    Despite being an RWNJ, he’s not stupid, and I think at some point Trump’s sheer clownishness went over the top for him. He (my brother) wants to be taken seriously and is hypersensitive to any mocking of the RWNJ bullshit. Trump has made himself too easy a target. I think Johnson is nothing more than a convenient resting place so that my brother doesn’t have to admit that Trump is so crazy he can’t vote for him. Johnson is a “better choice” or something, so that avoids the whole “Trump is a joke” issue.

  342. 342.

    KlareCole

    @Steeplejack (phone): interesting, on the AOL insecurity. Back when Colin Powell used AOL for ‘a lot of correspondence with ambassadors,’ I guess he wasn’t too secure either? But he didn’t save any copies of his, paper or electronic. Like Hillary. And then suggested in a memo that Hillary use a a private email too. FBI Comey said public email providers were typically more secure than private servers. Although none of our private business servers have ever been hacked over the decades. But plenty of my contacts who use public servers have.

  347. 347.

    grandpa john

    @Ultraviolet Thunder: I think it involves loading Malwarebytes with the computer in safe mode.I remember having to do that several years ago with one of those hijacking bugs that went around.you rebooted in safe mode with internet access and reloaded Malwarebytes not using the one already on your computer, if you had it already loaded
    If you search the net, you can usually find a source of information of how to remove most of these viruses. that is where I found the above solution

  349. 349.

    Big Picture Pathologist

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    Until I got my folks an Android desktop (yeah, I know, but they mainly surf the Web anyway), I installed a remote desktop client on their Windows laptop and stealthily did all their updates/cleanup/backup/disinfecting myself.

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