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Lote posted:I mean, couldn't you trade out which Reps are on the Committee? It's not like there aren't Republican members on the Committee right now. That'd be conceding to the GOP for literally no reason tho
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Why are people brushing by this? It’s significant, but I think it’s something everyone assumed was the case. This is definitely proof, though. Also, I’m guessing everyone’s a little caught up with Matt Gaetz leading the March of the Impotent Brigade at the moment.
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this is a bullet through at least one GOP talking point but they've already moved on to "abuse of power is fine, actually"
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Lote posted:I mean, couldn't you trade out which Reps are on the Committee? It's not like there aren't Republican members on the Committee right now. It's not about that. They actually just want to paint this as a sham investigation being done behind closed doors and trying to storm the room and being kicked out is good optics for that messaging. They don't want Fox News viewers to know that there are GOP congressmen actually already in the room.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Dumbass is lifting all sanctions against Turkey. Saying there's a "permanent cease-fire." Love to announce lifting sanctions while my foot soldiers in the house are causing a distraction.
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Spaced God posted:That'd be conceding to the GOP for literally no reason tho Does the Speaker need to agree to that? The real issue with the idea is that the composition of the minority party in the committees has no actual bearing on this. The GOP knows what's happening in the committees. They need to pretend that they don't. If they took visible steps to solve their fake problem, it would be harder to pretend that it was a problem. Edit: Will it get Fox News viewers to believe a narrative that flies in the face of reality? The question answers itself. VVVVVVVV Flip Yr Wig fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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Is this brigade stunt even likely to work?
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The thing is, Democrats don't need to do or change a thing. They have 30-35% of the population that will not change their love for god emperor trump. These stunts are working on this population but it literally doesn't matter.
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Willo567 posted:Is this brigade stunt even likely to work? It'll work on the died-in-the-wool GOP base, not on Democrats, a big question mark on independents. So far independents have been more influenced by the Democrat impeachment than the Republicans' defense based on polling numbers.
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Is he...tweeting from inside the SCIF?! https://twitter.com/repmattgaetz/status/1187028992295161858?s=21
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Willo567 posted:Is this brigade stunt even likely to work? The people they are trying to fool with this think Donald Trump is a good and honest businessman who cares about them.
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Willo567 posted:Is this brigade stunt even likely to work? Only if Dems let it. It's more so Fox News has a talking point tonight about how Republicans are "fighting back"
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Willo567 posted:Is this brigade stunt even likely to work? what does "work" mean? Will it stop the committee hearings? no way Will it provide more propaganda to play on Fox News? sure. but that's superfluous at this point
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Good Twitter thread here about the SCIF and why that little stunt was a big problem.....I hope they all get censured. https://twitter.com/MiekeEoyang/status/1187032800572125191
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Dumbass is lifting all sanctions against Turkey. Saying there's a "permanent cease-fire." We had sanctions at all? Did they even bother implementing any of them? Hahah watch this video for Raju's reaction after the clip at around 0:35. He is all of us right now
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PIZZA.BAT posted:It’s the opposite, afaik. The fundamental issue with encryption is being able to generate random numbers that your opponent can’t predict. This was an essentially impossible problem, because what even is ‘true random’ anyways, until quantum computers allowed us to use a particle’s state as the number generator. This is very, very wrong for several reasons. First, cryptographically secure pseudo random generators exist and are extremely difficult to predict. Your computer uses them all the time and it's fine. For people that need truly random numbers for security, solutions still exist without quantum computers - you can get PCIe cards with chips that detect stuff like tiny fluctuations in heat to generate them. One company (Cloudflare?) uses a security camera pointed at lava lamps. I'm serious. Second, viable quantum computing WILL break a lot of the existing algorithms we use for encryption. Many (not all!) encryption algorithms rely on prime factorization being a difficult problem. It is relatively trivial to multiply two large (100+ digit) prime numbers to get a really large composite number. It is much harder to take that really large composite number and figure out what two prime numbers were multiplied together to get it in the first place. There is no known classical algorithm for trying to figure this out that does much better than randomly guessing. There could be one, but we haven't found it. There is, however, a quantum algorithm to do just that (Shor's algorithm). And we've actually used it in real life, on real quantum computers, so we know it works. It's just that the biggest number we've been able to compute the prime factors of is (IIRC) 15. So we're a ways off, but it will happen. Also there are existing encryption algorithms that don't use prime factorization that we don't have a quantum algorithm for (yet). Unfortunately, most of the really important stuff (TLS) uses prime factorization. Lastly, there is a quantum algorithm for making provably secure connections in that it is mathematically proven that nobody can eavesdrop on your message without you knowing about it. But you actually need a quantum computer on both ends so that poo poo is going to be reserved for NSA level stuff.
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Retro42 posted:Someone post some happy news/taxes. I just came dangerously close to throwing my remote at the TV between the House GOP news and the current Trump word-vomit. Shrimp on shrimp action 
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my bony fealty posted:what does "work" mean? When I say work, I mean will it convince Independents that the GOP is right?
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Willo567 posted:When I say work, I mean will it convince Independents that the GOP is right? Lol no
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Retro42 posted:Is he...tweeting from inside the SCIF?! Violating the rules to violate the law to own the libs Also love that the very first response to him is calling out his bullshit SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 23, 2019 |
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Willo567 posted:When I say work, I mean will it convince Independents that the GOP is right? Who knows. It's inside baseball-y enough that average people might be fooled. But I tend to think that enough poo poo has come out that a dumbass stunt like this isn't going to make the polling suddenly reverse course overnight.
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ImpAtom posted:The worrying thing for me is that the Republicans do seem to be getting their messaging together. It is stupid nonsense but that has never stopped them before. All indications are that getting the hearings opened would be a case of "be careful what you wish for" as far as public sentiment. You'd have them live on just about every news channels. I think their main concern is that the closed hearings don't allow them to plan their lies. Sondland getting caught probably is what kicked the whining into overdrive.
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Willo567 posted:Is this brigade stunt even likely to work? I mean there were clearly quite a few laws being broken here, but the optics is just playing to their base. If anything is actually done to the Congressmen, they will claim they are the victims and trump will pardon them. For everyone who is not the base it is just another very clear sign that reality doesn't seem to matter anymore, and we are all living in Donald Trump's world.
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Willo567 posted:When I say work, I mean will it convince Independents that the GOP is right? Does that look like the actions of a party that has the truth on their side? I'm not even really sure how the answer that question, because I don't know who is left to be convinced about the underlying facts.
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SocketWrench posted:Violating the rules to violate the law to own the libs Are all members of congress granted security clearances by default, or is it based on committee assignments? What if they become security threats themselves? 
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Independents literally do not exist anymore.
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Shifty Pony posted:All indications are that getting the hearings opened would be a case of "be careful what you wish for" as far as public sentiment. You'd have them live on just about every news channels. They are desperate to get the hearings opened NOW because they REALLY need to get witness stories straight yesterday. Every additional deposition taken is basically some other Trump toady eating a perjury charge.
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SocketWrench posted:Violating the rules to violate the law to own the libs Charge 'em under the espionage act.
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Willo567 posted:When I say work, I mean will it convince Independents that the GOP is right? "process" arguments are well known for not moving the needle at all with voters voters did not give a flying gently caress about Merrick Garland not getting a vote, for example
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Cactrot posted:Charge 'em under the espionage act. I'm sure Bill Barr will get right on that
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Independents literally do not exist anymore. this is not true
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Does that look like the actions of a party that has the truth on their side? Of course not. But this country is filled with idiots
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Bubbacub posted:Are all members of congress granted security clearances by default, or is it based on committee assignments? What if they become security threats themselves? Every member of Congress is a possible security threat, knowingly or unknowingly. Hence the whole "lock up your cell phones outside the SCIF" because who the gently caress knows which foreign threat has which Congressman's phone bugged.
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bobjr posted:Isn’t Nunes part of the committee anyway? You’d think he would be leaking stuff if it was going to be good for them substance wise. I'm pretty sure he tried to either photograph or outright steal documents out of the SCIF at least once before, but things have been so crazy for so long that I literally can't remember if that actually happened.
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Retro42 posted:Is he...tweeting from inside the SCIF?! I want to live in the timelive where Donkey Kong with a Dem badge comes out at the top of those spiral stairs and rolls a barrel down. And then Mario wiht a
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Retro42 posted:They are desperate to get the hearings opened NOW because they REALLY need to get witness stories straight yesterday. Every additional deposition taken is basically some other Trump toady eating a perjury charge. Or even worse, they’ll tell the truth to avoid getting hit with perjury.
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Angry_Ed posted:I'm pretty sure he tried to either photograph or outright steal documents out of the SCIF at least once before, but things have been so crazy for so long that I literally can't remember if that actually happened. he got kicked out of a hearing a couple days ago iirc
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I need a list of the House GOP reps that took part in this disgraceful stunt, because I have a mighty need to poo poo down my rep's throat if they were there.
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Romes128 posted:he got kicked out of a hearing a couple days ago iirc Yeah he tried to stand in a corner unnoticed.
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