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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I thought that was Reagan, and it was about delaying hostage release so he could take credit. Don't think it's proven though. Nixon [allegedly] torpedoed peace talks with the Vietnamese by promising a better deal if he won the election in '68
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theflyingorc posted:Well, Lincoln Guess there's going to be a Trump statue then.
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Night10194 posted:Didn't Nixon also torpedo peace talks? Yeah, but secretly. Nixon was actually devious, Trump is just dumb as all gently caress. Put Nixon in Trump's shoes and he has 60% approval ratings right now, and the FBI and CIA secretly cracking down on everyone to the left of himself instead of... well, himself, basically.
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ShredsYouSay posted:Did some people get shot in Orlando?
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MacheteZombie posted:are there really no sellout musicians to approach for this gig? I mean the song had turned into a Dodge Pickup Trucks selling device before it got taken off the air, so there is probably no better sellout musician for it.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:There are decent arguments to be made that the IRA was not a terrorist group strictly speaking.
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citybeatnik posted:I figured that any reputable e-discovery firm would have to be solid on crap like that. I'm reasonably certain my laptop would have self-destructed if I tried to put a thumb drive in it. This was about 10 years ago and was all internal stuff. Times started changing when hacks became nightly news.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Dear Mr. President, Start saving your pennies. Ambassadors in the posh, easy postings are frequently expected to spend well in excess of their budget on entertaining from personal funds.
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ReidRansom posted:Start saving your pennies. Ambassadors in the posh, easy postings are frequently expected to spend well in excess of their budget on entertaining from personal funds.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Yeah, 90% of the unfilled nominations are all-work, no-glory positions that mostly require competence and experience, and no one who values their long term government careers wants to be associated with this White House. Wingnut Welfare only works if you're in a media-friendly position before you fall on your sword. Even those no-glory positions are quite the payday. Being able to say "Well let's go over this with former Assistant Undersecretary of X" to wow a client is really valuable for lobbying firms, and corporations also like to keep those sorts of people around as advisors for the same reason. There are plenty of people that would be willing to take the positions. Normal presidents would chose people to fill the important slots themselves (and use the really unimportant ones to give out cushy jobs to donors) and then delegate the rest by telling their chosen agency heads to get a good slate of candidates together. Trump doesn't want to put in the work to understand what each position does and doesn't delegate hiring decisions for fear for not getting someone sufficiently loyal, so here we are. Its funny, he first came up with the excuse that he wasn't nominating people to those positions because the positions weren't needed. I guess he thought that made him look smart and business savvy, but of course he can't keep his story straight for more than ten seconds at a time so now we have another completely contradictory excuse for the positions not being filled.
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Chard posted:On the other hand, what expectations? Hm... yeah and actually in this administration you could probably just lay low and be like that one goon that kept getting paid to not do a job.
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Shifty Pony posted:... Trump doesn't want to put in the work to understand what each position does and doesn't delegate hiring decisions for fear for not getting someone sufficiently loyal, so here we are. Haha oh man I'd never considered this aspect of the unfilled nominations. This loving guy
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https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/871836350709891073 I'm very shallow so my first thought about this was "I can't believe this woman's first name is Reality"
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FourLeaf posted:https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/871836350709891073 https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/871835957481394176
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For anyone engaging in online discussions related to terrorism, here's some pretty comprehensive research into who has committed terrorist acts in the U.S. since 9/11: https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/ This chart is particularly handy:  Mainly posting this because my idiot brother started spouting off after the London attack about keeping refugees out of the country, and the chart above shut him up.
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the intercept appears to have shared the ORIGINAL COPY OF THE DOCUMENT THEY RECEIVED with the NSA when asking for comment which is how the NSA figured out who leaked it what loving morons https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/871842516458496001 if you're going to leak stuff apparently the intercept should not be on your list
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evilweasel posted:if you're going to leak stuff apparently the intercept should not be on your list Also like send email about that kind of stuff from personal throwaway email account, on a personal device, from starbucks Wifi, over VPN. Not at work jeez. Rad Russian fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Our government, yet again prosecuting the person reporting the crime and ignoring the crime
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I mean, I seriously think the Intercept was just covering their own rear end, they can't be that loving dumb.
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If you're going to leak something just leak it into the nether and wait for every news outlet to jump on it. Don't go specific. I think that would work?
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quote:Mike Catanzaro, a solar panel installer with a high school diploma, likes to work with his hands under the clear Carolina sky. That’s why he supported President Trump, a defender of blue-collar workers. But the 25-year-old sees Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement as a threat to his job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.6c53fde60fa8 How do these people remember how to breath? 
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B B posted:For anyone engaging in online discussions related to terrorism, here's some pretty comprehensive research into who has committed terrorist acts in the U.S. since 9/11: It's the same in Europe, vast majority are homegrown violent criminals eager to take their revenge on society for 'wronging' them with a flimsy religious justification.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:If you're going to leak something just leak it into the nether and wait for every news outlet to jump on it. Don't go specific. Leak it from an anonymized email address so the reporters you're leaking to don't know who you are. How loving hard is a blind drop? WaPo has one.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Leak it from an anonymized email address so the reporters you're leaking to don't know who you are. How loving hard is a blind drop? WaPo has one. Speaking of the Wapo thing, if leaking classified info is a crime, wouldn't it also be a crime for an outlet like the Wapo to announce that they have a system to allow for that very thing?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Leak it from an anonymized email address so the reporters you're leaking to don't know who you are. How loving hard is a blind drop? WaPo has one. Yeah, and I thought the Intercept had one as well but jesus christ
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Lindsey Graham seems unconvinced that the Senate will be passing a health care bill this year: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/871846772624285696 If they don't get it done this year, it's probably not happening after after midterms, right? I feel like it'd be incredibly hard to get something like this passed during election season, which will be in full force by the new year.
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Mr Interweb posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.6c53fde60fa8 Trump basically supported every position on earth at some point becuase he just played to the crowd everytime. Since he never had (and still doesn't) have any kind of guiding policy, idiots just saw he said a thing they liked once, and assumed that was the real position and ignored everything else. Its like that lady who married an illegal immigrant and then was shocked when Trump deported him.
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The Intercept is Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill's outfit. The latter of which I had enormous respect for. I hope he resigns in protest over this incompetence. 
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So much for Gorsuch https://twitter.com/FRCdc/status/871815847068786688 First Liberty posted:Because the Supreme Court did not decide to review the case, the travesty below by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will now stand,” said Kelly Shackelford, President, CEO & Chief Counsel for First Liberty. “The military court’s outrageous decision means federal judges and military officials can strip our service members of their constitutional rights just because they don’t think someone’s religious beliefs are important enough to be protected. Our service members deserve better.” Freedom Research Counsel posted:The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear this case has the unfortunate effect of allowing a chill on religious expression in the military to continue, and only underscores the need for the Trump administration to root out the anti-religious animus allowed to fester in the military during the Obama administration. Defense Secretary Mattis must consider the many complex ramifications of anti-religious Obama-era policies that remain in effect.
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evilweasel posted:
Or at least don't correspond with who you're leaking to on your goddamned work computer. Also I still can't over her name being Reality Winner.
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The Glumslinger posted:Trump basically supported every position on earth at some point becuase he just played to the crowd everytime. Since he never had (and still doesn't) have any kind of guiding policy, idiots just saw he said a thing they liked once, and assumed that was the real position and ignored everything else. Its like that lady who married an illegal immigrant and then was shocked when Trump deported him. To be fair, it would have been a pretty great strategy for him if he hadn't won. He probably could have made a fortune off of his idiot supporters without anyone expecting him to actually make good on his promises.
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Ballz posted:Or at least don't correspond with who you're leaking to on your goddamned work computer. it is definitely ironic now
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:So much for Gorsuch I know nothing about this case. Is it a good thing for the atheist anti-religious activist, or bad? It sounds good because the FRC are freaking out over it and saying it's a continuation of OBAMA'S ANTI-RELIGION INTOLERANCE IN THE MILITARY.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:So much for Gorsuch 
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evilweasel posted:the intercept appears to have shared the ORIGINAL COPY OF THE DOCUMENT THEY RECEIVED with the NSA when asking for comment which is how the NSA figured out who leaked it Also don't e-mail the people you're leaking top secret documents to from your work computer.
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Apoplexy posted:I know nothing about this case. Is it a good thing for the atheist anti-religious activist, or bad? It sounds good because the FRC are freaking out over it and saying it's a continuation of OBAMA'S ANTI-RELIGION INTOLERANCE IN THE MILITARY. They claimed it was about bible verses...it was not quote:The charges against Sterling resulted from several separate, unrelated incidents over the course of five months. These incidents included failing to go to her appointed place of duty, disrespecting a commissioned officer, and disobeying direct orders from her superiors to wear the proper uniform. These incidents had nothing to do with religion or religious freedom.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:They dared to say nice things about Shia Muslim groups in general and Iran in particular. so did qatar say nice things like reaching out an olive branch to heal the shua sunni divide or nice things like the mexico should invade usa analogy?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:So much for Gorsuch Hasn't a similar issue of religious liberty in the military been spelled out multiple times?
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