Clay Jones is not only an awesome political cartoonist, but an astute political observer as well. His points in today’s post about the Russian hacking are … spot on.
There is concern during every presidential transition that our enemies may take advantage or test us. The objectives may be to advance an agenda against us while no one is paying much attention, to test the incoming administration to see how much they can get away with, or an excellent opportunity to grab some shit, like intel in a data hack…or Ukraine.
All our intelligence agencies agree Russia is the culprit behind a huge hack into American government and industry. Experts say this is the greatest cybersecurity breach in our nation’s history and yet, our government didn’t catch it. It was caught by a private firm when their system was hacked. To understand the extent of the attack, government agencies aren’t approaching our national security establishment, but instead, they’re going to Microsoft.
Microsoft is the same company that couldn’t get my address correct, so instead of delivering my $2,000 Surface…
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Aftermath of the USA presidential election, worst and longest tantrum ever.
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Sigh. Yes, and it ain’t over yet.
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‘Fraid not.
You will need some pretty tough, ruthless and not particularly affable operators to put the USA back together.
It’s been a long story which arguably has it roots in the end of the Vietnam War and then fired up by 9/11. A long hard road is ahead.
But at least there is hope.
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I don’t know, my friend … I thought there was hope until the past month or so, but now I’m not so sure.
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Wait and see Jill, wait and see. The arch blunderer and brat may yet be the root cause for a revival of Common Sense as a reaction to his antics. We shall see.
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Yes, I shall wait and see, with my fingers crossed!
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