Trump 2.0: MAGAA

[Bobcat]

If you guys were clever and creative you could make jokes too. Like naming Hegseth Whiskeyleaks.

Too bad you guys cant meme

You’re so miserable you can’t take a compliment?

I’m shocked.

Oh, I'm sorry I forgot I needed your approval. However will I go on with my day?

Alas, woe is me

[UNI88]

au contraire, try and bury it in bullshit and FAKE NEWS all you want but using Signal to communicate confidential information is similar to using a private email server.

It was text messaging on an encrypted app. Its not even a news story

Trump administration’s use of disappearing Signal messages to discuss military strikes not allowed under record law, experts say

In a 2023 memo, the Defense Department defined unmanaged apps, which also included platforms like WhatsApp and Apple iMessage, as those "NOT authorized to access, transmit, or process non-public DoD information."

Instead, the U.S. government requires officials to use approved classified communication systems, such as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), to discuss secret data.

In his report, Goldberg also said that some of the messages in the group chat utilized Signal's "disappearing messages" function, with some set to delete after one week and others after four weeks.

This has prompted concerns about potential violations of public records law by the U.S. officials.

One former government security leader, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, told Fortune that all of the officials involved in the Signal group would have been required to preserve their communications under record laws.

The person added that none of the officials involved in the group chat had the authority to decide which of their communications did and didn't apply to public record laws.

2 issues with use of Signal app:
1) It isn't approved by the DoD to access, transmit, or process non-public DoD information.
2) Use of disappearing messaging is likely a violation of public records law.

Pretty similar stuff to what Hildamort was justifiably accused of.

[BDKJMU]

It was text messaging on an encrypted app. Its not even a news story

Trump administration’s use of disappearing Signal messages to discuss military strikes not allowed under record law, experts say

In a 2023 memo, the Defense Department defined unmanaged apps, which also included platforms like WhatsApp and Apple iMessage, as those "NOT authorized to access, transmit, or process non-public DoD information."

Instead, the U.S. government requires officials to use approved classified communication systems, such as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), to discuss secret data.

In his report, Goldberg also said that some of the messages in the group chat utilized Signal's "disappearing messages" function, with some set to delete after one week and others after four weeks.

This has prompted concerns about potential violations of public records law by the U.S. officials.

One former government security leader, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, told Fortune that all of the officials involved in the Signal group would have been required to preserve their communications under record laws.

The person added that none of the officials involved in the group chat had the authority to decide which of their communications did and didn't apply to public record laws.

2 issues with use of Signal app:
1) It isn't approved by the DoD to access, transmit, or process non-public DoD information.
2) Use of disappearing messaging is likely a violation of public records law.

Pretty similar stuff to what Hildamort was justifiably accused of.

If they were on a group telephone call there would be no record just like a disappearing text. Its not like e-mail.

[UNI88]

Trump administration’s use of disappearing Signal messages to discuss military strikes not allowed under record law, experts say

2 issues with use of Signal app:
1) It isn't approved by the DoD to access, transmit, or process non-public DoD information.
2) Use of disappearing messaging is likely a violation of public records law.

Pretty similar stuff to what Hildamort was justifiably accused of.

If they were on a group telephone call there would be no record just like a disappearing text. Its not like e-mail.

They weren't on telephone call.

If it was typed or voice to texted then it needs to be saved. Using Signal's disappearing function to avoid that requirement is shady just like Hildamort's use of a private email server.

[BDKJMU]

Cry me a river. Nat Parks (for the most part no hunting) still has park rangers to enforce park rules.

National Forests/National Grasslands (hunting & fishing) has their own LEOs/game wardens (US Forest Service/Dept of Agriculture) to enforce nat forest rules.

BLM has their own LEOs..

I’ve extensively hunted and fished BLM and other public lands my whole life and I’ve encountered exactly one BLM ranger.

Habitat protection, wildland fire suppression, elementary school field trips, EWU biology grad student field research and facilities including unique and important ecosystem research all take place 5 miles from my house at Turnbull NWR.

Show me where enforcement and all of the above will not be affected by staffing and funding cuts.

These agencies were underfunded to begin with. You’re over your skis on this one bub.

LEOS/rangers/wardens aren’t being cut. I‘ve spent a couple hundred days fishing over the years in New England, NY, VA, and FL (where license required). I‘ve encountered I FL FWC officer (last year)

How many of those RIFed were primarily admin/office types vs primarily in the field?

[UNI88]

Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Fewer than 1 in 5 Americans agree with Trump about annexing Greenland, Canada

Asked by Yahoo News and YouGov whether they would “favor or oppose America annexing Greenland,” a mere 19% of respondents say they would favor the move.

The number who would favor “Canada becoming America’s 51st state” is even lower, at just 17%.

On the flip side, roughly half of Americans oppose annexing Greenland (49%), and a clear majority oppose acquiring Canada (57%). Another third or so — 26% for Canada, 32% for Greenland — say they’re not sure what to think.

His constituents have spoken. Isn't trump supposed to be doing their will?

[UNI88]

rubio ...

“You most certainly know you shouldn’t be talking about it or passing it on in an email, particularly to a private server like the one she had. What they did is reckless – it’s complete recklessness and incompetence.”

hegseth ...

In a November 2016 Fox News appearance, Hegseth called Clinton’s use of the email server, “criminal.”

“People have gone to jail for 1/100th of what – even 1/1,000th of what Hillary Clinton did.”

In September 2017, Hegseth criticized Clinton’s use of the server on Fox News, calling her “such a corrupt politician,” and her actions “reckless.”

waltz ...

“Biden’s sitting National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent Top Secret messages to Hillary Clinton’s private account. And what did DOJ do about it? Not a damn thing,”

miller ...

“One point that doesn’t get made enough about Hillary’s unsecured server illegally used to conduct state business (obviously created to hide the Clintons’ corrupt pay-for-play): foreign adversaries could easily hack classified ops & intel in real time from other side of the globe.”

gabbard ...

“Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.” The tweet came one day after the group chat began and one day before the US military strikes in Yemen occurred.

‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

I guess they should all be charged or they're hypocrites one and all.

[Bobcat]

So now conversations are classified information? Oh look!!! Its Jan 6th again! (in their minds)

[UNI88]

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts

“We see it as our duty to come to the aid of our American colleagues,” said Jan Danckaert, the rector of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in explaining why his university – founded in 1834 to safeguard academia from the interference of church or state – had decided to open 12 postdoctoral positions for international researchers, with a particular focus on Americans.

“American universities and their researchers are the biggest victims of this political and ideological interference,” Danckaert said in a statement. “They’re seeing millions in research funding disappear for ideological reasons.”

Is this the start of a brain drain that will have long lasting implications on American research, development, innovation, thought leadership, and ultimately competitiveness?

[Bobcat]

Sounds like Russian agents to me

[kalm]

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down

The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts because the servers were overloaded. In the field, office managers have resorted to answering phones at the front desk as receptionists because so many employees have been pushed out. But the agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience with these services, because that office was eliminated as part of the cost-cutting efforts led by Elon Musk.

And the phones keep ringing. And ringing.

The trump regime in one photo ...

Social Security is the primary source of income for about 40 percent of older Americans.

That’s a big number.

It massively reduced elder poverty rates and has kept seniors in their homes and splurging on Granny’s Buffet on a regular basis.

I’m not sure middle class people are prepared to have their parents spend the last 20 years of their life living with them.

Or, if Medicare gets cut, leaving their careers to become a full time untrained care giver.

[kalm]

You’re so miserable you can’t take a compliment?

I’m shocked.

Oh, I'm sorry I forgot I needed your approval. However will I go on with my day?

Alas, woe is me

Who said you needed my approval? I just made an observation. I’m sorry you’re struggling.

[kalm]

I’ve extensively hunted and fished BLM and other public lands my whole life and I’ve encountered exactly one BLM ranger.

Habitat protection, wildland fire suppression, elementary school field trips, EWU biology grad student field research and facilities including unique and important ecosystem research all take place 5 miles from my house at Turnbull NWR.

Show me where enforcement and all of the above will not be affected by staffing and funding cuts.

These agencies were underfunded to begin with. You’re over your skis on this one bub.

LEOS/rangers/wardens aren’t being cut. I‘ve spent a couple hundred days fishing over the years in New England, NY, VA, and FL (where license required). I‘ve encountered I FL FWC officer (last year)

How many of those RIFed were primarily admin/office types vs primarily in the field?

Just like career fire wildland firefighters haven’t been cut? Show your work.

RE: office types. So LE will now be responsible for ecology, research, species census taking, water resource management, admin, payroll, answering the phones?

You’re defending stupid policy here. Not that you’ll ever admit that.

[Bobcat]

Oh, I'm sorry I forgot I needed your approval. However will I go on with my day?

Alas, woe is me

Who said you needed my approval? I just made an observation. I’m sorry you’re struggling.

Its cute how you project.

I don't struggle, I'm severely happy and I am virtually never angry. Why do you try oh so hard to paint me that way? Its weird but not unexpected

[kalm]

Who said you needed my approval? I just made an observation. I’m sorry you’re struggling.

Its cute how you project.

I don't struggle, I'm severely happy and I am virtually never angry. Why do you try oh so hard to paint me that way? Its weird but not unexpected

Go back and read your posts. Hatred, lack
of empathy, blaming others. This is not how happy people think. Perhaps you’re not aware of how your writing reflects you?

I’m not happy about the current state of politics and the destruction of our institutions. However, I’m optimistic and grateful for all that I’vd been given by life and all that I have. I’m empathetic for people who struggle and unduly suffer.

[kalm]

[Bobcat]

Its cute how you project.

I don't struggle, I'm severely happy and I am virtually never angry. Why do you try oh so hard to paint me that way? Its weird but not unexpected

Go back and read your posts. Hatred, lack
of empathy, blaming others. This is not how happy people think. Perhaps you’re not aware of how your writing reflects you?

I’m not happy about the current state of politics and the destruction of our institutions. However, I’m optimistic and grateful for all that I’vd been given by life and all that I have. I’m empathetic for people who struggle and unduly suffer.

I love the current state of things in this country. It's damn near perfect. Couldn't be more happy. It's not my duty to write in such a way that makes you happy.

That's as much empathy as you're gonna get out of me. Not my job to make others feel good about themselves

[kalm]

Go back and read your posts. Hatred, lack
of empathy, blaming others. This is not how happy people think. Perhaps you’re not aware of how your writing reflects you?

I’m not happy about the current state of politics and the destruction of our institutions. However, I’m optimistic and grateful for all that I’vd been given by life and all that I have. I’m empathetic for people who struggle and unduly suffer.

I love the current state of things in this country. It's damn near perfect. Couldn't be more happy. It's not my duty to write in such a way that makes you happy.

That's as much empathy as you're gonna get out of me. Not my job to make others feel good about themselves

How you write has no bearing on my happiness.

I just feel sorry for you.

[UNI88]

Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.
...
Trump's order is likely to face legal challenges, given that the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states. While Congress has the power to regulate voting — and has done so to pass such laws as the Voting Rights Act — the Constitution makes clear that states have primary authority to set the “times, places and manner” for elections.

It will be interesting to see how this one plays out in the courts. He's got a shot at requiring proof of citizenship but as stated "states have primary authority to set the times, places and manner for elections".

The Constitution gives Congress, not the President the power to regulate voting. Will an executive order meet court approval or does he need an act of Congress?

[BDKJMU]

rubio ...

“You most certainly know you shouldn’t be talking about it or passing it on in an email, particularly to a private server like the one she had. What they did is reckless – it’s complete recklessness and incompetence.”

hegseth ...

In a November 2016 Fox News appearance, Hegseth called Clinton’s use of the email server, “criminal.”

“People have gone to jail for 1/100th of what – even 1/1,000th of what Hillary Clinton did.”

In September 2017, Hegseth criticized Clinton’s use of the server on Fox News, calling her “such a corrupt politician,” and her actions “reckless.”

waltz ...

“Biden’s sitting National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent Top Secret messages to Hillary Clinton’s private account. And what did DOJ do about it? Not a damn thing,”

miller ...

“One point that doesn’t get made enough about Hillary’s unsecured server illegally used to conduct state business (obviously created to hide the Clintons’ corrupt pay-for-play): foreign adversaries could easily hack classified ops & intel in real time from other side of the globe.”

gabbard ...

“Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.” The tweet came one day after the group chat began and one day before the US military strikes in Yemen occurred.

‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

I guess they should all be charged or they're hypocrites one and all.

1. Wasn‘t classified info according to sworn testimony of Waltz.
2. Signal was inherited from the Biden admin.

[BDKJMU]

LEOS/rangers/wardens aren’t being cut. I‘ve spent a couple hundred days fishing over the years in New England, NY, VA, and FL (where license required). I‘ve encountered I FL FWC officer (last year)

How many of those RIFed were primarily admin/office types vs primarily in the field?

Just like career fire wildland firefighters haven’t been cut? Show your work.

RE: office types. So LE will now be responsible for ecology, research, species census taking, water resource management, admin, payroll, answering the phones?

You’re defending stupid policy here. Not that you’ll ever admit that.

You show yours. Show where LEOs have been RIFed.

No. But you don‘t need a bloated administrative state to do all that. The Fed govt (many states too) have too many
bureaucrats and admin types. Could probably do all that with 1/2 the office types.

You‘re defending govt bloat here. Not that you’ll ever admit that.

[BDKJMU]

[BDKJMU]

[kalm]

Just like career fire wildland firefighters haven’t been cut? Show your work.

RE: office types. So LE will now be responsible for ecology, research, species census taking, water resource management, admin, payroll, answering the phones?

You’re defending stupid policy here. Not that you’ll ever admit that.

You show yours. Show where LEOs have been RIFed.

No. But you don‘t need a bloated administrative state to do all that. The Fed govt (many states too) have too many
bureaucrats and admin types. Could probably do all that with 1/2 the office types.

You‘re defending govt bloat here. Not that you’ll ever admit that.

Nice dodge. I didn’t say they’d been fired.

Define bloat.

What’s the right sized government for a state of 8 million people with an abundance of federal lands and dams, 3 national parks, massive international shipping ports, Hanford, etc.

Now do the same on a national level.

Be thorough and show your work. It’s your assertion.

Otherwise you’re defending anarchism (the bad kind) and feudalism.

[UNI88]

rubio ...

hegseth ...

waltz ...

miller ...

gabbard ...

‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

I guess they should all be charged or they're hypocrites one and all.

1. Wasn‘t classified info according to sworn testimony of Waltz.
2. Signal was inherited from the Biden admin.

Of course he does and when asked for proof he’ll say he can’t due to state secrets or similar which shouldn’t apply if it wasn’t classified.

Hildamort probably said the same thing.

The trump regime is the Keystone cops of presidential administrations.


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