Trump's Second Term

dirtywick said:
bringing back the witch hunt line it seems.

these guys just sat there and lied through their teeth, which everyone knew they were, and the evidence came out immediately.

this is ridiculous.
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"I cannot understand," she said, adjusting her pointed black hat with a push of her broomstick, "why there are so many witch hunts. People are so paranoid these days!"
 
shemp said:
"That's right Mr. Trump! Now let's eat our mashed bananas, then you can watch Matlock and take your nap."

"Oh goody goody!"
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During the month my mother was hospitalized before she passed away earlier this year, there were a number of occasions when she forgot she was in the hospital, asking me who the people were walking around in her house (doctors and nurses) or wanting me to push her wheelchair down the hall to her bedroom.
How long until Trump is giving a speech in Texas or somewhere like that and welcomes the crowd to Mar-a-lago or Trump Tower? Of course, his supporters would insist he was just making a joke.
 
A new twist on Whiskeygate pops up:

Trump Officials' Private Contact Information Was Found Online: Reports

Days after a journalist reported that he was accidentally included in a highly sensitive Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, other reporters dug up the private contact information of senior national security officials on the internet.

German news outlet Der Spiegel reported Wednesday that it was able to find phone numbers, email addresses, and in some cases, passwords for top officials including national security adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Der Spiegel reported that many of the numbers and email addresses that were freely available on the internet still appear to be in use, and in some cases linked to social media accounts and LinkedIn profiles. The outlet found that some of the numbers are also linked to WhatsApp profiles and Signal accounts.

Wired magazine also reported that Waltz's list of Venmo friends was publicly available until Wednesday afternoon, when the magazine reached out about its discovery.

The report said Waltz's friends on the popular payment app include journalists, military officials, lobbyists and others.
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:jaw-dropp :eye-poppi

If this doesn't get Waltz thrown under the bus, nothing will! He must be a big leak! And passwords to their accounts? Jesus H. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Christ!
 
dann said:
Does anybody in the USA, I mean, anybody at all, find something like this appalling?
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Of course. Forgive many of us for being a bit numb to it, though. Trump's last Administration was absurdly cruel and horrible, even to his supporters, much less to those like the Kurds who he literally disarmed and betrayed to people who wanted to commit genocide against them. There were also metaphorical neon signs flashing and alarms blaring to draw attention to the signs that he would be even worse the second time around, yet so very many voted for him anyways. The Trump Administration did something cruel and horrible? Yeah, it's a day of the week. It's not like my firm opposition to the Trump Administration's bad behavior is going to change.

dann said:
So far, I haven't seen any all-lives-matter comments, and I'm wondering why.
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"All Lives Matter" was an attempt to undermine and de-legitimize "Black Lives Matter" at a superficial slogan level. Nothing more. The principle invoked has value, of course, but those who actually made it a thing are rather notorious for invoking principles like that only when it suits them and discarding them the moment that they're put to the test.
 
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Top Trump Security Advisers’ Private Info Now Available Online

If Mike Waltz knows anything about national security, he sure isn’t acting like it.

As it turns out, adding a journalist to a Signal channel in which top Trump administration officials discussed imminent airstrikes in Yemen isn’t the only security breach that’s occurred under Donald Trump’s national security adviser.

The German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Wednesday that several senior administration officials had their personal data—including account passwords, cell phone numbers, and email addresses—listed online.

Some of the compromised Cabinet members include Waltz, as well as National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The foreign publication was able to track down their information via commercial search engines as well as databases composed of hacked customer data.

“Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use,” reported Der Spiegel.

Through those details, reporters were further able to uncover Dropbox accounts and personal profiles on running apps that track users’ health data. Reporters were also able to locate WhatsApp and, ultimately, Signal accounts for some members of the administration.

“Hostile intelligence services could use this publicly available data to hack the communications of those affected by installing spyware on their devices,” the weekly news journal reported. “It is thus conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group in which Gabbard, Waltz, and Hegseth discussed a military strike.”

Former intelligence officials are warning that America’s adversaries “undoubtedly” already have the chat records. That’s thanks to the Trump administration’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who was physically in Russia when he was added to the chat on the retail app. In an interview with MeidasTouch Tuesday, former national security adviser Susan Rice said that Witkoff’s use of Signal while in Russia would have basically hand-delivered news of the attack to the Kremlin hours before it took place.

“Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone,” Rice told the network.

But Witkoff wasn’t the only group chat member traveling abroad at the time. During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday, Gabbard admitted that she had been in the Indo-Pacific at the time that the strike was being coordinated over Signal, though despite her sudden recollection, she could not remember which country specifically she had been in before Yemen was hit.

She was reportedly in transit from Thailand to India on March 15, the day of the strike. Days later, Gabbard delivered a keynote address at the Raisina Dialogue, according to a readout from her office.
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Holy ◊◊◊◊!
 
zooterkin said:
Do we even know what sort of missile was used? What dann quoted was an unrelated attack.
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Was it? Checks linked source...

Ouch AlJazeere!!! I'll consider that unreliable. Sorry I can find no confirmation that the RX9 hellfire was used in the Yemen strikes. Sorry, my oversight.
 
shemp said:
It doesn't matter how it got made public. What matters is that it IS public, and that steps that could have prevented it weren't taken.

I protect my cell phone better than these clowns!
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Oh no doubt but for them and the cult it's all about the narrative. Slap a band aid on the severed artery and just go about as if everything was fine.

ETA: Implausible deniability has been their schick for some time now.
 
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Jeffrey Goldberg not commenting on his relationship with Mike Waltz after Signal chat leak

The editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, has nothing to say about his relationship with national security adviser Mike Waltz, who inadvertently added him to a group chat about the United States' highly sensitive plans to bomb Yemen days ago.

"I'm just not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz," Goldberg told CBS News in an interview Wednesday.

Waltz claimed he has "never met" with Goldberg, wouldn't be able to pick him out of a police lineup and trashed his reputation, calling him "the bottom scum of journalists." But photos surfaced online earlier Wednesday of the two together at an event at the French Embassy in 2021.

"If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together," Goldberg said of the photos.

Waltz has also suggested that Goldberg somehow added himself to the Signal chat that also included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — or that some other technical mishap that led to the breach. Goldberg called the claims "crazy."

"This is what happened on March 11," Goldberg continued. "I got a message request from Michael Waltz. I accepted the message request. That's what happened." Signal only allows users to add people to chat groups by phone number, QR code or username of the person they wish to add. The Atlantic story published Wednesday included a screenshot that showed Waltz as administrator and "JG" as a member of the group chat, named the "Houthi PC small group."
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It's not possible to just barge into a private Signal (or any other app) chat uninvited. Waltz and others just can't keep their lies straight.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump: "What we're gonna be doing is a 25 percent tariffs on all cars that are not made in the United States."
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Who is advising him? Carnac the Magnificent?

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Seriously though, since Congress no longer has a role in governing the United States, who IS advising trump?
 
Rep. Jack Kimble
@RepJackKimble

He drinks a whiskey drink
He drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times

Not lyrics, just a typical Signal chat with Pete Hegseth.
 
The administration's reaction to the signal scandal is a classic, textbook masterclass example of narcissistic abuse in action, Not surprising given the leader's malignant narcissism. The strategy consists of:

1) Never admit fault or a mistake. Lie, deny, deflect, and gaslight to avoid admitting the mistake. (nothing was classified, everything went well...)
2) Neve apologize for anything.
3) Attack the messenger and Blame the victim (Atlantic and Goldberg)
4) Create a diversion (tomorrow's insanity will always be worse than today's.

Given this obvious inanity, it is highly likely that things will continue to degrade at a rapid pace. Hopefully some stop to it will occur before millions die...
 
stanfr said:
The administration's reaction to the signal scandal is a classic, textbook masterclass example of narcissistic abuse in action, Not surprising given the leader's malignant narcissism. The strategy consists of:

1) Never admit fault or a mistake. Lie, deny, deflect, and gaslight to avoid admitting the mistake. (nothing was classified, everything went well...)
2) Neve apologize for anything.
3) Attack the messenger and Blame the victim (Atlantic and Goldberg)
4) Create a diversion (tomorrow's insanity will always be worse than today's.

Given this obvious inanity, it is highly likely that things will continue to degrade at a rapid pace. Hopefully some stop to it will occur before millions die...
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It will be as always .. nobody will do nothing until people start dying. And it will be too late then.
But rejoice, this will be the last time it ever happens.
 
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