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Hey, remember back a week before the election, when we found out that, on top of allegations that Russia had been cultivating Donald Trump as an asset FOR YEARS, there was also this weird server in Trump Tower that only communicated with Alfa Bank in Russia? That was weird! Unfortunately America was distracted at that moment by startling new revelations that Hillary Clinton’s recipe for banana bread might have crossed Anthony Weiner’s XXX server, and the rest is history. Trump the Russian Puppet is “president” of America, and Hillary Clinton is doing whatever she wants, because fuck you is why.

Well! CNN reports that, in case you were wondering if that whole “weird server” thing was just bygones, the FBI is still very much investigating it:

Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.

Questions about the possible connection were widely dismissed four months ago. […]

Slate and The New York Times were first to report the unusual server activity. The Times said the FBI had concluded there could be an “innocuous explanation.”

CNN, you need to BACK THE FUCK OFF. Slate broke the story, not “Slate and the New York Times.” And the Times said the FBI “had concluded” it was probably a big nothing (likely sourced from an anonymous FBI official whose name rhymes with “Homey”) because Times reporter Eric Lichtblau, a fucking hack, was on the server story too, and it appears he was pissed that little old Slate had scooped the fuck out of him. Can we please make sure that little detail is included in all future stories about this? Because Wonkette watched it in real time, and it was fucked up. (For the record, reporting by McClatchy several months later pretty much debunked every little detail in Lichtblau’s sniveling “waaaaaah, another reporter scooped me” story.)

This is all back in the news, of course, because Donald Dickshit Trump thinks some Breitbart story about “Obama” doing “wire tapps” to Trump Tower is actually a thing. According to CNN, the FISA court did not do a “wire tapp” to the server, but the Justice Department is understandably not commenting on an ongoing investigation, because Trump Tower Computer Server is not spelled H-I-L-L-A-R-Y.

After Trump embarked on his storm of molten Twitter sharts about that, the dillweeds at “Fox & Friends,” spurred on by the right wing fever swamps, concluded that Hillary Clinton was actually in on the #WiretappScandal, because she tweeted about the Slate article when it came out at the end of October. The “Fox & Friends” kids are real stupid like that.

Now, we are not sure what these servers are doing with each other, or even if they’re using condoms with each other. The Trump team and others have said it’s spam or something, and maybe that’s true! Maybe the servers in Alfa Bank in Russia and the Trump Tower in New York are just endlessly bouncing back and forth a spam email about how if you attend the big sale at the Big Lots, you are entitled to a gift certificate for two free buffets at Ryan’s Family Steakhouse, and it’s just no big. Why did Trump Tower send the Russian bank that coupon alert in the first place? To be nice, is why, and because again, they ONLY COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER, so who else would they send it to?

OR maybe those servers communicated with each other about the Trump team’s (alleged LOLOL) collusion with Russia to steal the election.

OR maybe they are laundering money.

OR maybe we were right, even though we were just bein’ silly at the time, to wildly speculate that Melania Trump is actually a Russian spy, who started the whole Russian cultivation of Donald Trump, by agreeing to lie underneath him IN HOLY MATRIMONY while he grinded his stale erection up against her bathing suit region. Hey, somebody is still living at Trump Tower, and it is Melania.

An interesting detail to remember about the sexxx between these servers is that when reporters started poking around the story, all of a sudden the servers stopped going “BING BONG!” at each other, only to restart again quietly a few days later, with the connections configured all different-like (insert computer words here about DNS addresses and connections that we, yr lowly Wonkette, ain’t even begin to understand). Weird, right?

Anyway, the FBI is still looking at it, and they will either find #TheSmokingGun or #ASmokingGun, or maybe they might find some really great spam emails, or maybe Russian pee hooker porn, we don’t even know.

Hey, know who ELSE had an email server? Anyway, give Wonkette money, as a love gift, because that’s how we run this place, instead of shitty ads.

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  • Lizzietish81

    BUT HER EMAILS

  • laughingnome

    Ryan’s Family Steakhouse – serves poor people to billionaires.

    • anwisok

      They banned me after The Incident.

    • kindness

      Soylet Greenbacks. Served well done & smothered in ketsup.

  • anwisok
    • MeerkatsRMammals

      Can I claim Meerkat libelz???

  • I thought the server was in Lititz, Pennsylvania, not in Trump Tower.

  • The Wanderer

    Just remember:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQPLqbGBvs

    (with votes)

  • JMP

    So Donald may have engaged in a little light treason to get to the White House, and sure, it looks a big part of his business ventures involved working with Russian banks known for working with organized crime and terrorist organizations to launder money, he’s still a rich white guy so everything he does is fine, and there’s no reason for the Congress to investigate anything because the GOP doesn’t give a shit about crimes committed by one of their own.

  • Latverian Diplomat

    Three things the Trump Tower server is not being used for:

    1) A world class tax accounting application.
    2) The best darn World of Warcraft server out there.
    3) Protein folding simulations that will create the next generation of antibiotics…patent free.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Melania Trump is actually a Russian spy, who started the whole Russian cultivation of Donald Trump, by agreeing to lie underneath him IN HOLY MATRIMONY while he grinded his stale erection up against her bathing suit region

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/68e9d7043eaf545f1f9d5804e4031c0781c305d95a8815473ff93a28270cf27c.jpg

    • mancityRed6

      yeah, ewwww

    • Gayer Than Thou

      Oddly, this wouldn’t make me feel any sorrier for Melon.

  • DerrickWildcat

    All they need to do is follow the cable to see where it goes.

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      They could put a camera in one of the innertubes.

  • Latverian Diplomat

    The only reason Trump needs a secret server is because the Russuan-made fax machine Putin gave him is “too smudgy”.

  • OTB

    It takes a lot to coordinate the “Fertilizer King’s” private jet to follow you around the country. I’m sure they were just using TripAdvisor.

  • laughingnome

    I thought a secret server was the unnamed waiter/waitress that brings out the bread sticks at Olive Garden for your real server “Hi I’m Angela, I’ll be your server tonight.”

    • Darkest Timeline Zach Morris

      Who I always ask for more breadsticks. Because breadsticks are LIFE

  • Scrofula

    Goddammit, because there’s some who say this server is really in Philadelphia and it really is just spam (https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/04/the-conspiratorial-game-of-telephone-in-bannons-rag-that-made-left-right-and-potus-go-crazy/) but really–
    KICK HIM OUT OF OFFICE for just the CHINA shit, FFS. It’s simple and inarguably unconstitutional.
    Then let the FBI slowly investigate so they can THEN lock ’em all up for treason.

    • spacedcowgirl

      Why did he have a spam server? Or was it just that one of the other tenants was running a spam operation? I’m so confused…

      • Scrofula

        I’m sure it’s dirty, I just mean there’s simpler stuff right now to nail him on.

    • spacedcowgirl

      Oh, sorry. For some reason I failed to comprehend the Pennsylvania part. Still… confusing.

      • Scrofula

        Yeah, it’s just too easy to deflect this with fancy words like “ping” and technicalities to make an impact in the media.

  • mancityRed6

    “The Times said the FBI had concluded there could be an “innocuous explanation.””
    uh huh
    Was it the NY branch that said that?

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Fear has now silenced several of the computer scientists who first analyzed the data.

    Tea Leaves refused to be interviewed by CNN and is now “hiding under a rock,” according to an intermediary contact.

    Yeah, that’s not scary at all.

    • Historicat

      Looking back along a trail of dead Russian diplomats and intelligence operatives, it’s hard to blame them for hiding.

  • Darkest Timeline Zach Morris

    My assumption all along is either laundering money or bribes.

    • laughingnome

      Why not both?

  • Jenny

    Money laundering. So much money laundering!

    • MeerkatsRMammals

      You’ve never seen cleaner bills and/or Rubles! It’s like Billy Mays had at it!

  • george gonzalez

    It is doubly suspicious, as after Trump and Co we re informed of their mail server chatting with Russia, that mail server went down for a day, and came back as son.of.trump.secret.mail, or somesuch, and Alfa bank KNEW about the new name too.

  • Latverian Diplomat

    Out of all of Trump’s staff the server in the basement is the only one human enough to pass the Turing test.

    • MeerkatsRMammals

      If the RWNJ’s have taught us anything…basements are only for pedo-sex-trafficking.

  • Suttree

    I await Wikileaks to release some sekrit information about this any day now.

    • Scrofula

      Leaked!: The CIA has secretly put servers in YOUR basement!

      • Jenny

        In Texas we have storm cellars and very few of us have those either. Seriously, they get flooded.

        • Scrofula

          Well, I’m in CA and we have a crawlspace, which is unusual in the land of concrete slab foundations.
          Still, RWNJs would LOOK if you told them the CIA had secret servers under their house.

      • mancityRed6

        wait, I have a basement?
        I once looked at an apartment that was in a house that was split up. It was on the second floor. There was a door beside the fridge that opened up to stairs, but the light was out and I couldn’t see down the stairs to see where they went.
        That’s why I didn’t move into that place.

        • Scrofula

          It was probably just me living down there.
          I had a pretty nice basement apartment once. Then there was an earthquake and I wondered about the four floors above me.

          • mancityRed6

            I had a townhouse once. I should have had a bigger basement, but it was a one bedroom apartment on the other side.
            I realised that when I was smoking down there and I heard a bunch of exaggerated coughing coming from behind the wall.
            I stopped smoking down there.

          • Scrofula

            It took a while to realize my bedroom “wall” was just drywall, with the hallway to the washer/dryer on the other side.
            I was still getting poon on the regular then, with drunken antics.
            Which was probably why no other tenant ever made eye contact.

          • mancityRed6

            I still remember:
            the next door neighbor coming over in his boxers and robe to apologise for turning the music up too loud
            the neighbor’s downstairs yelling at their kids, “don’t bite me!”
            oh, Joplin, don’t ever change.

          • LucindathePook

            I had a basement sublet in grad school that had a plant growing from under the floor through a hole and up the shower apparatus.

        • Good_Gawd_Yall

          That’s actually fairly common in houses built around the turn of the last century. My son’s last house had that. He cut a little hole in the bottom of the door so the cat boxes could be kept down there; it had a dirt floor and all the furnace/water heater/stuff was down there.

          • mancityRed6

            yeah, I can see that. But it was already at the second story and there was already a stairway up.

      • Sophia

        Well tell them to bring me a beer.

    • happydog

      Sekrit information: Julian Assange is so far up Trump’s ass he could do a colonoscopy.

      • Good_Gawd_Yall

        Well, he is an anal polyp anyway, so . . . .

      • Villago Delenda Est

        I don’t call him Assmunch for nothing, you know.

      • ThaagNasty

        He’s so far up 45s ass he could do dental work. FIFY

    • mancityRed6

      does anyone know of the election results from Ecuador? will he be kicked out?

  • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

    No no no. It wasn’t a COMPUTER server. It was a server at a computer STATION in the restaurant in the tower. And she wasn’t communicating WITH Russia, she was communicating IN Russian.

    -Sean Spicer, any day now.

  • Msgr_MΩment

    I’m sure it’s all very innocuous. I think it was Vladimir Vladimirovich’s Secret Santa app.

    Now, don’t you feel silly for all your suspicions?

  • Lesser Tiffany

    As an IT Person I am still confused as to what the fuck these servers were doing. The translation on CNN left me baffled

    • Msgr_MΩment

      They were serving Man.

    • mancityRed6

      see, after tRump went bankrupt so many times, he can’t really get any funding anymore. so he just sells his name to be put on a property and launders money for Russian people (mafia, government, whatever)

      • Lesser Tiffany

        No I mean technically. Were they transferring files via SFTP or like are they talking about DNS lookups and how would they find that out unless they had access to Alfa’s local DNS servers or smtp servers with end to end encryption also why is Drumpf Industries or Alfa running on premise Exchange I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS

    • Villago Delenda Est

      This is not surprising because Don Lemon was the editor.

      • Lesser Tiffany

        I <3 Don Lemon but yeah I was very confused

    • As an also, too, IT person I feel you. I figure the CNN people have no idea so they’re just dumbing it down to the point where they feel they have a grasp on it, but those of us who might understand the technical side are the worse for it.

      I assume the DNS lookups (of which there were apparently many) were precursors to some other kind of connection, but I found nothing to tell me what kind of connection it was. I assume either Email or S/FTP would be most likely, but maybe they’re just playing DOOM Deathmatches or something…

      • Villago Delenda Est

        You just lost half the Wonketariat with “DNS lookup”.

        • I know that feeling. I get it every time someone who knows a single thing about cars says literally anything about cars that’s more advanced than an oil change.

        • Mr. Blobfish

          Most of the country doesn’t know what an email server is, but that didn’t stop them from voting for this clown.

      • Lesser Tiffany

        It looks like it was mail? Kos talked about a server setup at Trump enterprises that was supposed to be for spam I mean marketing communications, which is kind of weird in itself bc most large companies would use a service.

        • Yeah, that’s a lot of spam from a single source and NO OTHER SOURCE… That’s kinda bullshit on its face right there.

    • Courser_Resistance

      This is why I have a job. I can translate Accounting-speak to DataPuke-speak. I’ve been both. Oddly, it is a weird little niche. Also too, working for IT agencies is FAR superior to Accounting/Finance agencies.

      • Lesser Tiffany

        So from what I can gather it was a mail server that was pretty much just sending mail to one server and with endpoint encryption on both sides? Kos is also cryptic and this is driving me insane

    • DahBoner

      Different server request types go into different port numbers…

      The server was named “MAIL”, yet it didn’t respond to a ping on the normal port number a server uses for email.

    • Mr. Blobfish

      Isn’t the trump organization still running Windows Server 2000? I’m sure the Russians are running pirated Windows Server 2016 the bought from China.

  • Jenny

    Of course it was just spam for all the money the bank keeps offering Lord Dampnut because he is very successful! Please Lord Dampnut, here is a a great loan at a great rate! Please take it!

    Totally legit. You poors are just jealous at all this money people will pay to be associated with him!

    • mancityRed6

      yeah, he hasn’t ever done any business in Russia.
      damn you all for doubting him.

      • Jenny

        None, even though he could, believe me, big league loans could be had. But he never did because … Reasons!

  • Crystalclear12

    This might go somewhere because there are . . . emails!

    No, no if won’t because. . . penis.

    • Scrofula

      Maybe if we called it “Ivanka’s Emails” it will get traction.

    • Clyde Barrow

      Or as Bill Maher puts it, anything with the magic “(R)” next to it is impervious to fact checking or reality in general.

  • Lance Thrustwell

    Unfortunately, my faith in the FBI to faithfully and objectively investigate anything has been a bit, ah, shaken in the last few months. Still, I suppose it’s better than nothing.

    I would like to entertain the possibility (as some here have described it) that Comey has been playing a long game this whole time, and wants to get Trump absolutely dead to rights before bringing him down. Unfortunately that theory still doesn’t explain why he screwed Hillary the way he did.

    • Moebym the Persistent Returner

      I was just going to say that I had always held the FBI in high esteem, or perhaps even awe, but it’s safe to say I no longer feel that way.

    • C4TWOMAN

      I’m holding out that it really is a rogue FBI faction and once they’re taken care of, things might go back to normal.

      Also too, wasn’t there something about evidence planted for Comey or someone to find?

  • Scrofula

    Next Trump Tweet: “Loser Obama hired undocumented servers to spy on my restaurants! Sick/Sad!”

    • Villago Delenda Est

      Probably hired undocumented customers to rig Yelp, too.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    WAIT. Shopping at Big Lots entitles me to two free meals at Ryan’s Steakhouse? Why did the MSM keep this important story from us?

    • mancityRed6

      I keep getting the Golden Corral coupons

    • DerrickWildcat

      I like Big Lots. They have really interesting food products.

      • Ωbjectifier
      • It’s a GOLD MINE for funky, extra special healthy oats and other grains. They sell olive oil by the gallon – if you’re not too picky.

        My personal dirty little BIG LOTS secret are the discontinued breakfast cereals and weird flavors of pop.

        • DerrickWildcat

          Yeah, last time I was there I found some orange jaffa cakes, Naan and this strange black bean soup mix. It’s almost as good as going to an Asian grocery store.

          • Liberal Fascist Ron

            The BFF and I love to wander around his local Chinese grocery store, and not just because they have acceptable sushi and (fake) scallops for cheap, but also because they have all sorts of odd foods and even odder signage. Oh, and because the Chinese Muzak is really fascinating to listen to.

          • DerrickWildcat

            I want a Chinese girlfriend just so she can tell me what all those things are.

        • Iron Monkey

          Particularly if you don’t object to the lack of olives in the olive oil.

        • YoBunnyBunny

          IKR! Big Lots was actually the first place that I was able to find reliably cheap-ish quinoa!!! And PB2 powdered peanut butter.

      • msanthropesmr

        I call it. ” The land of failed marketing ideas”

        • DerrickWildcat

          Even the Jaffa cakes I bought were made in Poland.

      • YoBunnyBunny

        Yeah, their international foods sections is pretty damn good, especially during the holidays.

  • Msgr_MΩment

    OT. BREAKING.

    http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/middle-schooler-who-wrote-g-o-p-health-care-bill-claims-he-has-not-been-paid

    MIDDLE-SCHOOLER WHO WROTE G.O.P. HEALTH-CARE BILL CLAIMS HE HAS NOT BEEN PAID
    By Andy Borowitz 01:31 P.M.

    • Villago Delenda Est

      They really should borrow from Vlad’s playbook more and eliminate the worker bees once the objective has been fulfilled.

  • Pilotshark

    inside borscht, caviar trading?

  • Iron Monkey

    In Trump’s Amerikkka, server pings you.

  • Asterix

    Spicy flag pin is a cry for help – he’s asking to be rescued!

  • HorseChestnut

    Ryan’s honey biscuits, tho…

  • Wild Cat

    The Great Dictator’s money HAS to be laundered, Sheeple!!! Have you noticed all the hash marks on them???

  • MynameisBlarney
  • Blackest Noobs

    TRUMP IS A TRAITOR.

    a firing squad would be TOO GOOD for him.

    • Blackest Noobs

      even if we brought back quartering as a form of execution….EVEN THAT would be too good for this fucking TRAITOR TRUMP.

      • Scrofula

        I’d be happy with him being forced to resign.
        Then having his “fortune” and assets seized.
        And having to panhandle in front of his old Tower.
        So New Yorkers can spit on him as they walk by.

      • janecita

        Are the Pear of Anguish and the Brazen Bull good enough for him?
        I like those (with votes)

      • Christopher Story

        How about locking him an open air cell on the National Mall, complete with a Mexican vendor distributing tomatoes for throwing at Trump in between the pointing and laughing. Nothing would hurt that man more than being powerless.

      • LucindathePook

        Drawing, too, first. No, hanged first, then drawn, then quartered. That’s it.

        • Blackest Noobs

          all of them, Katie

  • Villago Delenda Est

    It’s probably something innocent, like a game server.

    A GAME OF THRONES server!

    Yeah, that’s the ticket!

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    I’ve assumed for some time now that the “bank” server is a front for direct, hidden communications between the puppet and the puppet master. What would surprise me greatly would be if anyone in Washington took that seriously.

    • C4TWOMAN

      I guess I’m from a more innocent time where I’m surprised they aren’t taking it seriously just to cynically look good.

      It’s all going to come crashing down at some point and anyone who looks like they were trying to be responsible will be able to cash those political chips in. But I guess they’re plating a different “long game”. AKA “No worries, we’ll never get caught”.

    • DahBoner

      A bank owned by the 2nd Richest Man in Russia who helped Putin before. Just a coincidence.

    • Me not sure

      One wonders who else the bank is communicating with. Wilber Ross’ connections to The Bank Of Cyprus need to be more closely examined.

  • Bill Slider

    After all of this hocus pocus, Emailgate round 2, I hope the FBI/CIA don’t find themselves trying to explain that this dedicated server in Trump Tower is not under the total control of some 10 year old kid who plays computer games with some high level Putin banker.

  • JohnQFugly

    The funny thing about this is, the original story from Mensch didn’t even tie Obama to anything; that was all Trump-fueled conjecture.

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      So you’re saying Dolt 45 pulled the story out of his ass? Wow, that’s never happened before.

      • Courser_Resistance

        45 read it on BrightFart who probably added Obama’s name just for the outrage factor.

  • Gosala

    I was a server once and I’ll tell ya –if anyone’d pinged me, Idda knocked their block off

    • proudgrampa

      Ah, but did you get good tips?

      • Gosala

        Well, it was a gay bar…

        TMI?

  • DerrickWildcat

    Last AOL server.

  • Villago Delenda Est

    You tap into my server, and what will you find?

    Jpegs, WoW screenshots, old Star Trek: Birth of the Federation saved games, some downloaded docs from the VA, some gifs, a history of pr0n sites (naked peoples, Game of Thrones, Marvel Universe, Star Wars, Star Trek, Simpsons, some West Wing, lots of Wikipedia, and of course Yr Wonkette) and some badly mangled spreadsheets.

    BORE-ing!

    • Clyde Barrow

      What, no AOHell punter program? LOL

      • Villago Delenda Est

        AOL has never touched any of my computers, ever. OK, the closest thing to it was Prodigy (remember them) long long ago back before the Internet was a thing outside of the military and academia.

    • Persistent Demme

      No Dune?!

  • Clyde Barrow

    Meanwhile, this screenshot of Trump’s server has just been released. Who would have thought that a Commodore 64 was so easy to hack? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8582757477be3926419096de9af5164e4d6f4188752ad9621eab83c77ba90bd5.gif

  • C4TWOMAN

    the FBI had concluded there could be an “innocuous explanation.”

    Good grief, would anyone have said that during the Cold War Era? Even if it WAS innocuous? Jeez…

    This was the moment I realized adults were losing control of the situation.

    • Villago Delenda Est

      THAT happened on November 9th.

    • DahBoner

      The FBI CONCLUSION is only pure speculation.

    • Indivisible Snark Tank

      I have no problem with them SAYING that there could be an innocuous explanation, as long as the don’t stop investigating whether or not that innocuous explanation is actually true or not. After all, I could be dating Scarlett Johansson, but that doesn’t mean I AM. (I am not dating Scarlett Johansson, for the record….but I’d be happy to fall on that particular grenade if necessary.)

  • Anna Elizabeth

    OT – Ima go to the thrift shop, lookin’ for a come up. Hopefully, something fucking awesome. XD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes&index=9&list=PLgA_QpnjZQyyZvMrEBjnHeB4ZLCkhkP7W

    • Ms.MLG on Maui

      Long time no see! Love that song. Hilarious. Find something fucking awesome!

    • resistance_fighter_rosenbomb

      Everything I’m currently wearing is the result of thrifting! It’s the best.

    • Nyumbu
    • Sister the Resister

      As MsMLG said, long time no see! *waves* and (tentatively, in an if-you-want kind of thing) *hugs*

    • Persistent Demme

      Thanks.
      This song always makes me crack up!

  • Khavrinen

    “they will either find #TheSmokingGun or #ASmokingGun, or maybe they might find some really great spam emails, or maybe Russian pee hooker porn, we don’t even know.”

    Maybe they’re sending copies of Leslie Nielsen movies back and forth, and the FBI will find #TheNakedGun ( 1, 2&1/2, and 33&1/3 ).

  • canes_pugnaces

    92% of the server pings from Trump’s gold phalus were from two locations: a DeVos owned server and Alfa Bank. Hmm… I’m not an IT person (thankfully), but I’ll be very curious to hear from any who are on why that’s totally normal.

    • DahBoner

      It’s indicative of a server being used for private communications. 😀

      • canes_pugnaces

        OK, but wouldn’t there be record of that?

        • Biel_ze_Bubba

          Here’s what the record looks like – have at it:
          …11010101001101010100010101010101010101001001101010100101100110100101010101001101001000110111010101010100101001100100110110101010101001010010101010010101001001001010…

          • canes_pugnaces

            Actually, it looks more like this:

            192.168.001.12
            256.231.1.1.2

            And it’s very traceable.

      • laughingnome

        I know nothing about this tech stuff but I’ll make a wild guess that Spectrum was helping Trump launder oligarchs’ money from Alfa. In return Putin hacks Clinton and funnels the dirt to wikileaks and Devos gets Betsy as secretary of education. Betsy will make USA dumber so easier pickings for future Russian shenanigans and a succession of Trumplike GOP candidates. A kind of moronic 1000 year reich.

        • canes_pugnaces

          That’s my take on this (or something similarly insipidly horrifying), it seems impossible to me that the NSA doesn’t have this in the bag.

  • DahBoner

    Paul Vixie, who helped design the very DNS system the internet uses today, was quoted in the Slate story saying that Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization “were communicating in a secretive fashion.”

    Aw, gee. What does someone who helped design the Internet know about the Internet?
    http://www.gifbin.com/bin/320swyu40407.gif

    • Yr. Gma

      Al Gore?

  • “molten Twitter sharts”

    That made my day. Thanks!

  • Flashman

    When you are “interrogated” by a Russian server, I assume it’s with like Plutonium or an AK-47 or something.

  • whitroth

    Wait.. they changed IP addresses, and maybe domains? Right, this is a nothingburger. And Trumpolini doesn’t have a combover.

    I know how to find out: if someone gets me the IP address of that server, I’ll remote desktop in (I’m sure Trumpolini wouldn’t countenance running Linux), and change the host name of the server… to hillary.

    THEN we’ll see an Investigation!

  • cmd resistor

    Nice time break. Leonard Bernstein introducing 7-year old Yo Yo Ma and his sister, playing for JFK. http://www.openculture.com/2017/03/leonard-bernstein-introduces-7-year-old-yo-yo-ma.html

    • Gosala

      Ah, the innocent days when internationalism was a Good Thing.

      You young’uns don’t remember there was a time bit every furriner was a terrorist and Russia was our enemy.

      Good times!

  • Flashman

    Trump server communicates with Russians. Well, now, let’s not leap to conclusions here. It all could be innocent. There are several possible explanations. Trump is innocent until proven otherwise by a Republican-controlled Congress. [strokes chin]

    Hillary e-mails something something. OMFG, the sky is falling! Proof that Hilz can’t be trusted, and then there’s Vince Foster! [aims fire extinguisher at hair]

  • Blackest Noobs

    I am sure maybe in some alternative universe where the Democrats actually gained seats in the 2014 midterms and seats in 2016 where they are putting President Trump on trial for treason…but even in that universe it’s still asking a lot of even their Democrats because Democrats even in other universes are typically Democrats.

  • YoBunnyBunny

    I’m pretty sure that if Melania were the Russian agent, Dampnut would be more than happy to throw her to the dogs so he can updgrade to a newer model.

    • WotsAllThisThen

      Let’s not go wild with speculation. It may have been as innocent as Melania’s Russian escort service. Allegedly!

    • SmokinGood

      #ReleaseThePrenup

  • Fartknocker

    I thought Ping was the name of a special panda at the DC zoo. Does this mean that pandas are now possible intermediaries between Dampnut and the Rooskies servers? If that’s true, Seal Team 6 should take out those pandas – Stat.

    • WotsAllThisThen

      Pandas cone from China so they’re more interested in industrial trade secrets.

      • Villago Delenda Est

        Well, and plans for stealth fighters.

  • Biel_ze_Bubba

    Pretty sure some of Donny’s Russkie pals had an office in the Dark Tower. I’d be exactly not surprised if they were schlepping information, money, and caviar back and forth.

    • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

      Server was in Penn.

  • beatbort

    Let Maxine Waters have a look. She’ll straighten this shit out right quick.
    How much longer are they going to drag this out?

    • Aaron Wise

      Good one.

  • DoILookAmused2u? Résistance☨

    It also–to a much lesser degree–talked to Betsy Devos’ company.

    https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/840288235364503553

    • Persistent Tennessee Rain

      Ironical, iddnit?

      • DrBigHead

        Or, a plea for help?

  • Aaron Wise

    Color me stunned if something actually happens.

  • Vincent Ricola

    “CNN, you need to BACK THE FUCK OFF. Slate broke the story, not “Slate and the New York Times.”

    CNN always does this garbage. I’m surprised they didn’t say “reporting obtained by CNN says…” so they could credit themselves without bringing any icky actual journalists into the mix.

    FIX YOUR SHIT IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE LAUGHED AT AND CALLED FAKE NEWS STUPID CNN!

  • timpundit

    From today’s White House press briefing:

    REPORTER: President Trump has refered to jobs reports in the past as “phony” and “fiction.” What does he think now?

    SEAN SPICER: “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”

    • boyblue123

      and the jobs report will be fake again once the economy tanks

  • Mr. Blobfish

    I say it’s both money laundering and pee pee hookers.

    • timpundit

      It’s a floor wax AND a dessert topping.

      • TheBoatDude

        Shimmer!

  • kindness

    This just proves that Fox & Friends* is one of the most effective Brain-wipes out there.

    *product may cause irrational behavior and/or insanity.

  • Martini Ambassador

    Servers: bytes go on, rubles go out, who can explain it?
    http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2015/02/20/oreilly-false.jpg

  • Blackest Noobs

    off subject rant (my fave rant about shitty public library patron):

    so i had this dumb fucker come up to the desk to check out items and pay her fucking fines. which is fine and all but this fucker decides she rather pay it all in change even though she clearly had dollars bills ( it’s a fine of $1.40). so because she is a shitbag bucket i proceeded to do her transaction as fucking as slow as i possibly could do it. i couldn’t give two shits if that annoyed her because FUCK HER. if you’re gonna waste my fucking time counting out your fucking change then go FUCK YOURSELF. and of course this fucking meatbag is a Trump supporter ( she had like three of his fucking books).

    goddamn it i dunno what i hate more…the people who run public libraries or the asshole who uses the public library. and yeah im biased….never had this annoying shit when i worked in an academic library.

  • laughingnome

    Someone gave me the dns lookups from the server. Means nothing to me.

    1422|AS15632|217.12.96.15|217.12.96.0/23|JSC “Alfa-Bank”|Moscow|Moskva|Russian Federation|RU
    1395|AS15632|217.12.97.15|217.12.96.0/23|JSC “Alfa-Bank”|Moscow|Moskva|Russian Federation|RU
    729|AS30710|167.73.110.8|167.73.96.0/20|Spectrum Health|Grand Rapids|Michigan|US|US
    2|AS3061|74.118.76.182|74.118.72.0/21|Peer to Peer|Rehoboth|Rhode Island|US|US
    1|AS40715|71.5.34.5|71.5.34.0/24|DataCenter.BZ, LLC|Worthington|Ohio|US|US
    1|AS32491|64.98.42.242|64.98.32.0/20|Tucows.com Co.|Toronto|Ontario|CA|CA
    1|AS32392|98.130.1.253|98.130.0.0/15|Ecommerce Corporation|Columbus|Ohio|US|US
    1|AS22611|205.134.252.154|205.134.252.0/24|InMotion Hosting|Los Angeles|California|US|US
    1|AS16509|54.206.26.93|54.206.0.0/17|Amazon.com, Inc.|Seattle|New South Wales|US|AU

    • Blackest Noobs

      IP addresses we ought to hack probably…oh where’s Anonymous?

      oh that’s right…doing fucking nothing as usual.

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      Where on earth did you get that? Interesting.

  • boyblue123

    From what ive seen in the Slate article it just shows that Alfa Bank and the server inside the Trump Tower were communicating with each other but not the specifics of what those communications were.

    If the FBI can somehow get a hold of the specifics of those communications, Drumpf would be up shits creek

    • FukuiSanYesOta

      NSA will have it.

  • laughingnome

    My source who knows a lot more about these things says –
    The times of the queries are consistent with human interaction—trumps server was accessing alfa’s intranet, which alfa checking account holders wouldn’t have. That’s specialized access.

    • laughingnome

      They were wiring him money. That has to be it, according to my techie pal.

      • laughingnome

        Or he was wiring them money, according to techie pal.

        Any techies out there who can react intelligently to this?

    • Vincent Ricola

      My pet theory is human interaction, too.

      I would be interested in seeing the length of the data packets exchanged, 15 seconds or longer would indicate human contact – maybe VOIP.

  • Pierre_de_Fermat

    What world are we in now?
    From Schindler:
    http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/dana-rohrabacher-russia-estonia

    //twitter.com/20committee/status/840193184437284867

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