Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[Caribbean Hen]

Here's a conspiracy theory for ya.

I've been wondering why Trump has allowed Elon free reign to upstage him and do what he wants. I'm sure he has to know the public has been calling Trump Elon's lapdog. And then there's the Time cover with Elon sitting behind the presidential desk. Trump should be fuming, but during Elon's press meeting in the White House, Trump just sat there like a castrated sad clown while Elon's kid told him to shut up.

But why? Why would Trump let himself be upstaged and mocked - especially by a child? He already won the election. He doesn't need Elon's money anymore.

But then Jess told me something Elon's kid said during an interview with Tucker Carlson.
When asked if Trump would win the election, the kid says "yes" and then says "they’ll never know."

During the election, I knew something was up when Trump began accusing Kamala for cheating in Pennsylvania. That's very specific. And historically, he only blames others for things he's doing.

As a programmer, I know anything is hackable. An 11 year old girl at the hacking convention DefCon in Vegas was able to hack into a voting booth in 10 minutes. And that was back in 2018!

And while the voting machines aren’t connected to the internet per-se, it only takes 10 minutes to pop in a USB and get out. And it just so happens there was a bomb threat in PA where they emptied the building. But it wasn’t just one building, it was 67!

Of the 67 locations, 56 were in 11 counties that voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, including the eight most populated. Those high-population Democratic counties include voting locations for Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Phoenix, Arizona; Atlanta, Georgia; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hacker kids do this stuff for the fun of it. Imagine if they were getting paid millions of dollars? And now, Musk has surrounded himself with these kids who have notoriously gained access to federal records, our records, with ease.

Four hours before election results were called, Elon announced that Trump was the winner and he had an "app" to prove it.
And then, there's this... Trump is a complete idiot and actually said this out loud after the election..."He (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers," Trump told the crowd. "And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

Trump even said repeatedly before the election, "I don't need your vote." It's a weird brag that indicated he had already won.

I had been saying Trump was going to cheat long before the election. But the comment was instantly shot down by both sides. Conservatives thought we were being hypocrites, and progressives thought we should be above Trump-style conspiracies and gracefully accept the outcome.

Looking into this now, I'm not surprised I wasn't the only one. The internet is all over this stuff.

Will this info ever come out? Will it even matter? I have no doubt Elon's guys are at the top of their game, and the only way this will ever see the light of day is if one of these guys talks.

But for right now, it's obvious to me why Trump is letting Elon do whatever he wants. Because all it would take is for Elon to turn to a camera and say a few words to the world, "I helped Trump steal the election."

Boom.

This conspiracy is just as believable as the 2020 election was stolen qonspiracy that trump spread ...

What’s weird about the election is how a brain dead candidate got as many votes as she did …

Trump is effectively using Musk to take some heat away from him is the way I see it

[BDKJMU]

[UNI88]

Hungary’s Descent Into Dictatorship: How Viktor Orban pulled off the unthinkable.

Today, Hungary is a flourishing dictatorship. The regime has curtailed press freedom, marginalized the opposition, dismantled democratic checks and balances, controlled civil society, fixed election laws, and neutered criticism—ensuring that only extraordinary events, not elections, could oust it from power.
...
It is in the name of “national unification,” Fidesz’s blanket legitimation for nearly all of its reforms, that the party re-nationalized much of the industrial sector, as well as banking, media, and energy. Over the 2010s, Bozoki and Fleck write, Orban would decimate civil society and end “autonomy in public education, universities, science, professional bodies, and public law institutions.” Under these conditions, it is impossible to call any election free or fair, even if ballot boxes aren’t being stuffed.

[kalm]

Hungary’s Descent Into Dictatorship: How Viktor Orban pulled off the unthinkable.

Today, Hungary is a flourishing dictatorship. The regime has curtailed press freedom, marginalized the opposition, dismantled democratic checks and balances, controlled civil society, fixed election laws, and neutered criticism—ensuring that only extraordinary events, not elections, could oust it from power.
...
It is in the name of “national unification,” Fidesz’s blanket legitimation for nearly all of its reforms, that the party re-nationalized much of the industrial sector, as well as banking, media, and energy. Over the 2010s, Bozoki and Fleck write, Orban would decimate civil society and end “autonomy in public education, universities, science, professional bodies, and public law institutions.” Under these conditions, it is impossible to call any election free or fair, even if ballot boxes aren’t being stuffed.

Listen here, mister. That’s one of our new allies you’re talking about.

[Skjellyfetti]

Images of "Enola Gay," the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remov ... es-2041029

[BDKJMU]

Images of "Enola Gay," the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remov ... es-2041029

Childish libs.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/07 ... d-n2186385

[UNI88]

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remov ... es-2041029

Childish libs.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/07 ... d-n2186385

If trump does it, it's trolling but if libs do it, it's childish?

[SeattleGriz]

Hungary’s Descent Into Dictatorship: How Viktor Orban pulled off the unthinkable.

Listen here, mister. That’s one of our new allies you’re talking about.

Now do Romania! You know, that democratic freedom that terrifies Putin.

[UNI88]

Justice Department attorney fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights

Despite being an acting special ambassador to Hollywood, Mel Gibson, the actor and Oscar-winning director who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battering his ex-girlfriend in 2011, still doesn’t have the right to own a gun. Call it a public health measure that a man who threatened to burn down his girlfriend’s home and suggested she be raped doesn’t have access to firearms—and that’s before going into his history of homophobic, antisemitic, sexist, and racist outbursts to the press, romantic partners, and the police. Nevertheless, high-ranking government officials think someone of Gibson’s character should have access to guns, and former Justice Department attorney Elizabeth G. Oyer believes she lost her job for refusing to reinstate them.

[Bobcat]

Its unconstitutional.

Shall NOT be infringed. For any reason

Glad these activist judges are getting put in their place. Its about time common sense ruled the DOJ

[Skjellyfetti]

https://www.newsweek.com/military-remov ... es-2041029

Childish libs.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/03/07 ... d-n2186385

Possible it's malicious compliance... but, I thought the whole idea of DOGE was to improve government efficiency? I seriously doubt they have people sitting around manually combing through the archives for DEI/LGBTQ references. If so, that seems super inefficient to me... and prone to error. And malicious compliance.

I think it's more likely a crawler written by one of Musk's DOGE teenagers flagged some stuff it shouldn't have.

It's funny regardless, though.

[SeattleGriz]

I'm shocked. This guy would never lie!

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/in ... dium=email

The irony here is deep — The lawsuit Mann brought on the basis that he was intemperately accused of misconduct winds up revealing that Mann engaged in misconduct that was “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.” It’ll be interesting to see what the climate science community does now.

[UNI88]

eloon has some competition.

[Bobcat]

Just wait until the sheep find out this guy is getting government money. (If he isnt he will be)

The idiot left will suckle from his teet because hes not Elon, they he will basically become another Elon and then the person they supported will be evil Hitler. LOL

So awesome, so predictable sooooo low IQ

[BDKJMU]

Keep Ireland Irish..

Looks like a peaceful protest.

All of Western Europe has allowed this shit.

[UNI88]

IMO all this talk of going after the January 6 Select Committee is just that - talk. It's read meat for gullible MAQA yahoos but trump's DoJ would get their ass handed to them in court if they actually did it.

[Bobcat]

Lets find out.

This is the single biggest crime in the history of the USA

[GannonFan]

Lets find out.

This is the single biggest crime in the history of the USA

What? The investigation of Jan 6th that didn't result in any charges brought against Trump? That's a crime? What crime would they even accuse them of? Being legislators? Congress investigates things all the time, it's under their purview as the legislature. There's nothing here.

[Bobcat]

Nobody cares about Jan 6th except the left that went after political opponents to shut them up. It was 5 years ago, nothing burger.


the crime is the American people allegedly elected a President to represent them, he was mentally not capable of doing his job. A judge even said he wasn't able to stand trial because of his mental illness.

Who was signing things? It wasn't Biden, hes even argued with people over things he supposedly signed saying "no I didnt". This was all done in the dark and by someone not elected. The American people deserve justice and they deserve to know who was doing it. Its criminal, its fraud, its deceptive, its par for the course if you are on the left. The vast majority of American choose to follow the law and elected a leader that will and has proved to be the person to bring back the rule of law. Trump is killing it. Now he needs to go after the shady snakes hiding in the dark and shine light on them.

They are criminals and have defrauded this country

[Bobcat]

18 U.S.C § 1028 - Federal Identity Theft Law
Identity theft is a crime where someone wrongfully acquires another person's personal identifying information for fraud or deception for economic gain.

Federal Identity Theft Law - 18 U.S.C § 1028
18 U.S.C § 1028 is the federal statute used by prosecutors to charge someone with identity theft.
In other words, it's taking another person's identity for fraud, false statements, or misrepresentations. Federal prosecutors seek to file charges against someone for identity theft, typically using 18 U.S.C § 1028.

Somebody can commit identity theft by using someone's personal information for economic gain or pretending to be another person.

[kalm]

IMO all this talk of going after the January 6 Select Committee is just that - talk. It's read meat for gullible MAQA yahoos but trump's DoJ would get their ass handed to them in court if they actually did it.

And discovery might be interesting too. Not that J6 was lacking in evidence.

[BDKJMU]

IMO all this talk of going after the January 6 Select Committee is just that - talk. It's read meat for gullible MAQA yahoos but trump's DoJ would get their ass handed to them in court if they actually did it.

The process is the punishment. The DOJ going after people can ruin them even without any guilty verdict or plea. Heck with just an indictment. Heck sometimes with just an investigation. A years long spector of the possibility of an indictment can be extremely stressful.

[UNI88]

I saw a Facebook post about Benghazi this morning.

WTF, you're so desperate to divert attention from Signalgate that you're bringing up Benghazi in 2025?

[BDKJMU]

I saw a Facebook post about Benghazi this morning.

WTF, you're so desperate to divert attention from Signalgate that you're bringing up Benghazi in 2025?

Who?

[UNI88]

I saw a Facebook post about Benghazi this morning.

WTF, you're so desperate to divert attention from Signalgate that you're bringing up Benghazi in 2025?

Who?

MAQA yahoos in general.