Sorry, not interested
Russian hacking of our elections? What’s that? What could that possibly mean?
As Russia’s virtual war against the United States continues unabated with the midterm elections approaching, the State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy.
As a result, not one of the 23 analysts working in the department’s Global Engagement Center — which has been tasked with countering Moscow’s disinformation campaign — speaks Russian, and a department hiring freeze has hindered efforts to recruit the computer experts needed to track the Russian efforts.
In other words Trump has sent them a signal: Russia, if you’re listening, hack our elections in my favor, spasibo.
James K. Glassman, the under secretary for public diplomacy during the George W. Bush administration, said the center’s uncertain funding and temporary leadership reflected the administration’s lack of interest in countering either jihadist or Russian propaganda.
“They’ve got the vehicle to do this work in the center,” Mr. Glassman said. “What they don’t have is a secretary of state or a president who’s interested in doing this work.”
Mr. Tillerson is focusing his energies instead on drastically shrinking the department, leaving a significant part of its budget unused and hundreds of important decisions unmade.
And Russian trolling unhindered.
He’s hoping his good friend Vladimir can continue to help set him up in the “President for Life.” business. All the cool kids are doing it and he wants to too.
I guess from Tillerson’s point of view it’s simple. If all you’ve had to think about all your working life is ‘sell more oil’, then clearly the State Department also has only one important thing to do, maybe two or three tops. Who needs all those people and decisions. Clearly irrelevant. Same with Donny Two Scoops. If all you’ve had to think about all your life is yourself, who needs all this stuff about other people. I mean, some of them aren’t even fuckable!
Tolerance and understanding people. It’s not like either of them are responsible for running a country or stabilising the worlds political and economic underpinnings.
Ah, the irony of Rompin’ Ronnie Raygun’s party pretending to fight totalitarianism for all these witch hunting years, when all they really wanted was an ally to foster born-again czarism, now handed to them by a classic stalinist thug
Is there something in the Constitution that requires an elected representative to accpet bribes, in any form?
Is there something in the Constiution that requires an elected representative to belong to a “Party”?