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2020-01-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Paul Krugman Alert: You knew he was a nut. But a pedo as well?

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Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 @paulkrugman
The Times is now on the case.

Times? No police Paul because why....?

Mary@mlh247
If memory serves, didn't Anthony Wiener throw this excuse out there also? WTH??

Tony Bruno@TonyBrunoShow
Replying to @paulkrugman
Waiting for confirmation from @TheBabylonBee a more trusted news source

Al Q. Holic@Johnnywhales
8h8 hours ago
Not exactly sure why he feels the need to share this info.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-09 00:58|| 2020-01-09 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Former FBI Director James "BleachBit" Comey is on the case.

Posted by Glinter Jaique8353 2020-01-09 01:05|| 2020-01-09 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Agree. Why the publicity, Paul?

Or should we be addressing you by your Carlos Danger-style nick? What is it-- "SnuggyBear"? "Papa-Lib"?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 01:08|| 2020-01-09 01:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Re the Twitter thread (thanks, 'Erb!), IIRC Krugman's behavior follows the exact same pattern shown by other busted high-profile child pr0n aficionados such as one of the British 60s invasion rockers ... I forgot which one.

The standard SOE for those monsters seems to be:
1. Get busted
2. Claim to have been "hacked"
3. Make lots of noise and busy motions that you're supposedly "on the case" and hunting down the dastardly hackers

Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 01:16|| 2020-01-09 01:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Betting pool, anyone?

How long before he's arrested? Months, weeks? Hours?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 01:21|| 2020-01-09 01:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I suppose it's possible that like Brennan, Jeh Johnson and others he could have been the victim of illegal access gained by a fifteen year-old "Cracka" who pranked his ISP's call center idiots who then let the prankster into his computer through the front door as it were.

But not likely.

No one, not even demented fifteen year-old anarchists like the above perp, Kane Gabriel, gives a shit about this former-economist-who-types-boring-screeds-ad-nauseam

Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 01:37|| 2020-01-09 01:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Rep. Anthony Weiner Says He's Victim of a Hacker - May 30, 2011

Posted by Lex 2020-01-09 04:51|| 2020-01-09 04:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The guilty flee where none pursue.

Posted by Spusotle Tojo1377 2020-01-09 08:02|| 2020-01-09 08:02|| Front Page Top

Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-09 09:36|| 2020-01-09 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Not to be mean, but given Krugman's record of being wrong about everything, he is probably wrong about this too.

Hey, maybe it's those Russian pranksters that called Maxine Waters the other day.

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-09 11:00|| 2020-01-09 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 You don't compromise an IP. You spoof it. Easy thing to do, but Krugman wouldn't have anyway of knowing if that happened, unless perhaps one his accounts reported an access from his IP that he knew wasn't him. So it sounds like prepping his defense in advance once he caught wind he was under investigation.

On the flip side, this has become the new 'dropsy' testimony. It's just too easy for the cops to plant incriminating files on your PC - so they do.

Posted by Iblis 2020-01-09 12:46|| 2020-01-09 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 ...or erase video tapes when its about them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-09 15:43|| 2020-01-09 15:43|| Front Page Top

#13 He might have just naively fallen for a new Indian phone scammer scheme.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-01-09 15:58|| 2020-01-09 15:58|| Front Page Top

#14 He's getting in front of the story.

Posted by charger 2020-01-09 18:22|| 2020-01-09 18:22|| Front Page Top

#15 . #13 He might have just naively fallen for a new Indian phone scammer scheme.

The most likely explanation.

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-09 22:19|| 2020-01-09 22:19|| Front Page Top

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