The Russians Are Coming
Okay, so the United States Senate gave the State Department $120 million to fight Russian meddling in our elections. Wanna know how much the State Department has spent?
Thelma wonders if that includes the front door mat that says желанный, which according to Thelma and her Google machine, says Welcome in Russian.
“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.”
Okay, so you don’t speak Russian and there are no computer experts. Other than buying old Bullwinkle cartoons and using Boris and Natasha for training experts, I don’t see this job going anywhere. Which is exactly where Trump wants it to go.
желанный, Russians.
Looks like, smells like, sounds like obstruction and or treason to me.
1Perhaps related?
2Russia claims it blocked Mitt Romney from becoming Trump’s secretary of State
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376746-russia-says-it-stopped-mitt-romney-from-becoming-secretary-of-state
Ha!
Actually, it’s добро пожаловать. желанный is an adjective that means “wished for” or “desired.”
And this is why the State Department should hire real people who speak Russian and not rely on technology to get them by.
3Google machine is not too good in Russian, it seems – желанный means ‘desired’.
Here’s how you say ‘welcome’ in Russian:
4добро пожаловать (dobro pozhalovat).
Trump’s Commission on Voter Fraud should have started here in the first place. Although this is probably “Preferred Fraud.”
5i always loved boris & natasha, who knew it would realy happen
6It was all transferred to transportation budgets.
7@Miz JJ
I actually thought Kim Jong Drumpf was Putin’s play pretty, but you may have confinced me he’s Putin’s White House door mat as well.
How do you say “Yahoo buckaroo!!” in Russky? Background music is till gonna be the Theme from Bonanza.
8Shucks, y’all. This is where good old creativity comes in. There is a hand held translator anyone can buy. It already comes equipped with all kinds of languages. If you speak English into the thing, a Russian translation will appear on the screen. You can then cut and paste all that stuff into an actual document.
And then there are the computers that will translate written material for you. Please tell me that the State Dept. has some of them around, leftovers from a previous administration!
9“No collusion!” he keeps screaming from his high chair while pounding his spoon on the tray.
Bugger whether there was collusion then– there’s collusion NOW. The entire US intelligence community says that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to reduce the chances of Clinton being elected, which meant helping Trump, Sanders, and Whatshername, and there’s every indication that they’re going to do it again this year and in 2020– why wouldn’t they? And he’s not doing a damn thing to prevent it– he’s even shut down the office in charge of preventing meddling with voting machines. He has been presented with strong evidence of an attack on the US election process and is refusing to prevent a repeat attack, all because his bloated ego doesn’t want to accept that he had a dirty win. He needs to be impeached for not protecting the country. And if Pence won’t do it, impeach him too. Keep impeaching until you find somebody with integrity. It could take a while.
10Never seen such unabashed corruption, evil and collusion. And
11now traitor trump thinks “we should try president for life”. Too bad he’s so ignorant he can’t read. Not that it makes a difference to traitor trump. But other things might. The hotels carrying the trump name are ditching it due to crashing profits. Seems the world hates traitor trump and paying customers are staying away from his branded hotels in droves. Can only wish the same for all trump products. May they wind up in recycling bins world wide. Unsold.
If using technology was so awesome for interpreting/translating, it wouldn’t be a regular comic feature for late night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzJtC835sio
12There would not be a “conventional conflict between NATO and Russia : it”d near immediately go nuclear! On the conventional side alone, cumulated EU forces are twice as big as Russian ones. For sure, Russian action fucks up the Anglos as IMHO, EU countries are nowhere near being in the mood to follow them in any shit like the Libyan operation, but it”s not a conventional forces fact : it”s because Russia is a nuclear power, thus any direct clash could go out of hand. You also forget one pretty serious point : Russia intervened in Sept 2015. The SHTF began in 2011! If Yanks were really into overthrowing Assad like Gaddafi, they had 4 years to intervene just like in Libya and they don”t even need a coalition, they just prefer such a formula as it”s cheaper for them. Actually, what Yanks wanted was forcing Assad to negotiate. Negotiate what? Not even going, this is bullshit! They wanted him to negotiate the transit of the Qatar/KSA/Turkey pipeline destined to sell Qatar gas to the EU. The Russian intervention is also more here to prevent this to happen as Qatari gas would compete the sales of Russian gas to the EU and through gas, EU is Russia #1 client. Actually, losing parts of this market would really damage Russian economy! It”s all about fucking money, so are all wars! Any other excuse is total bullshit!
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