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lastlib

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5. AND get our cybersecurity defenses fixed before tomorrow morning!

Reply to Initech (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 7, 2017, 11:19 PM

Jul 2017

Putin understands our vulnerability here, and will ruthlessly exploit it. Drumpf is stupidly naive to think that "good ol' Vlad" is going to be our friend ever.

But Drumpf is going Obama one better*--he is doing LESS than nothing about it, he is aiding and abetting it.

(*I'm being sarcastic on that--I don't believe for a second that Obama "did nothing.&quot

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