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On a side note, for awhile I had a security clearance and worked as a government contractor. We would have to use government approved pc's using government approved web conferences with each of those using government approved log in methods. On top of that, someone was required to take the lead on a call and document everyone on the call. And document is a loose word, as we would question who they were if we didn't recognize them and once we sat on a pri-1 outage call for 5 minutes without doing anything because 1 person refused to drop from the call where another person from the same department was unaware of who that person was. Turned out to be a legit employee that was covering another team and once a manager on their end confirmed it, we continued on with the call.

I went back and did a quick review with Hillary's emails. Much more similarities than I had remembered. The Same * Both were tied to wanting handheld devices to communicate. (now via app on smartphone, then blackberry) * Both, while unintentional, had classified info (now because Hegseth doesn't understand classification guidelines,then in part due to bad classification) * No harm came from the outcome of choosing to use their own method. Any differences? Hmm, maybe the fact that you actually brought in a person into that communication before the strike that you would go on to publicly state that they basically hate America. So at minimum, you're admitting you got lucky.

i'm not as confident as you that Obama knew.

In my opinion, which all of MAGA agrees with me on, is that was a big deal. So by comparing this to that, aren't you saying it's just as big of a deal?

When will people realize that there is a very thin line, and sometimes no line at all, between the 'well they did this!' response to an issue. Seems like today's right wing response to this leaked text is 'but Hillary's emails!'. Aren't you kind of saying that issue, which you felt was such a big deal before, is no longer a big deal? Or if you're trying to compare it, aren't you admitting this is a big deal? I don't get it.

holy ****, that's some crazy news. Mid terms can't get here fast enough.

UAW is happy about it, funny they don't think Trump won't **** them too.

He's on pace to have 162 home runs!!! Seriously though, I liked the approach at the plate by most. Grinded out enough runs to win most of their games last year.

I hope when we score 6 in the 9th they do a montage of all the celebrities with their jaws dropped instead of high fiving after the Ohtani HR.

Do you allow Margot to hit or bring in another pitcher and face Carps? This is why I hate ESPN.

https://mikepesca.substack.com/p/ny-times-jumps-the-turnstile-on-a?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share I know this isn't the stuff that makes headlines, but this is the stuff that annoys me with MSM.

Sadly, you're probably right. That said, this has legs I haven't seen in a bit and I think that's because of just how blatant it is, coupled with the fact that everyone involved knows they have to repeat the presidents lie, despite knowing how foolish they look. I texted a MAGA friend that loves the new press secretary and initially he seemed confused that she couldn't just claim it as a mistake. I reminded him that dear leader Trump would not allow her to keep the job if she did and he actually conceded. My concern now though is Trump has always been a magician. He's going to try and redirect and usually that means doing something pretty ****ing awful.

To be fair, law enforcement always gets overly cautious when a high profile case occurs.

I'm not going to bother posting as 1) it's Dave Portnoy and 2) it's long, but he basically put out a 'WTF' post about the Houthi PC small group. At minimum he says Waltz should be fired. He's not overly political, but part of that bro podcast club. Good to see IMO.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1NfSgmkaJK/?mibextid=wwXIfr See, this guy gets it.

As one of the few conservative posters still left on this board, I just wanted to say that the emoji's in the text thread makes me realize it's a young new guard in charge now and i'm so confident in how this will go. Also to note, I was unable to type the above sentence with a straight face and it's complete horse****. The emojis alone would have been in just about every meme coming from the right if this was a democratic admin that got caught like this.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/03/24/jd-vance-house-sale-government-contractor-lobbyist-trump/ "Despite the sale price being $170,000 over asking, Garcia did not appear to pay more than the market price for the home. The $1.9 million purchase price works out to $642 per square foot—below the $741 per square foot average of 10 comparable Alexandria homes sold in 2024, according to city data." Doesn't scream 'shady', and my guess is if you sell a home in Northern VA, probably 1/3 of those sales will go to people that work for the government.

I know we're battling against people that get their news from memes, but there is no benefit to society if we evolve to just both sides exaggerating further than they do already. As I mentioned before, find anecdotal evidence and feel free to push that, but don't flat out lie. I'm already concerned about government norms being tossed away forever, this would only ensure it.

Week starting 3/17 summary: I almost posted earlier when I saw articles about Trump deleting information on Ukrainian kids that were kidnapped by Russia, but it sounds like the program tracking them stopped, which honestly there may not have been much further for them to do. As the week played out, I feel the worse thing he did this week was sending 'gang members' to Venezuela. The 'high standard' they used, like interpreting tattoo's simply meant a lot of civil rights were violated and unfortunately not only violated, but due to moving them outside of the US, there is no means for recourse either. Add in the fact that it appears like they violated a court order by not returning them because they were over international waters (I thought the Gulf of America was renamed so we had rights to that area?)

History shows that not doing anything usually is a pretty good offense for the minority party going into midterms. With all the chaos we're seeing now, it's tough to argue against that. But while we all agree what Trump is doing is idiotic, he's doing a lot less than he claims he's doing. Courts, so far, are ruling against him. Much of his executive orders appear to be more of a press release then any actual order. So if he boots Elon and embraces his first term of just golfing and not wanting his people to get in his way (meaning he doesn't empower them to act like the idiots they are) it's possible we get a soft landing on this and of course he's going to claim how amazing he was. So in my opinion, I somewhat embrace Carville's thoughts on not fighting the GOP on everything. Explain why you don't like what he's doing, but point out you don't have the votes. While doing that, spend your efforts making a case why government is important. Every time DOGE claims another 'win', dig into it. Find a sympathetic anecdotal story about someone effected by DOGE's "win". Tie every DOGE win with a hard working American whose life is now more difficult as a result.

This might be bull****, with it being Trump, it probably is, but I wouldn't be surprised if this also was an extremely old federal ban which no longer is truly in affect based on how courts have ruled over the last 60-70 years, making this nothing but more paperwork that needs to be checked at the federal level and by eliminating it, it does nothing in terms of reverting back to the pre-civil rights era, but does eliminate worthless paperwork.

Looks like he pulled the same thing they did with the Epstein files. In this case it looks like they just re-released everything they had, making it difficult to find if anything new was included. I'm going to give it a few more days as the media does their deep dive, but yeah, on the surface it definitely looks like another turd.

Probably because they plan on putting us out of our misery soon.

I got sidetracked last week from posting here. Another week that Trump did a lot that would probably define most presidents worst moments for their entire term. The bad: I'm going to go with the Mahmoud Khalil situation. There is a chance Trump reverses course rather than being reversed by the courts (please tell me that's a given....right?). I picked this over the honorable mention of what I would consider is a bribe with the Tesla dealership on the WH lawn issue. While both are clear illegal violations IMO, and arguably easier to tie directly to Trump on the latter, the first one should show that Trump does not care about your rights. He can argue this guy is not a citizen, but if he's going to go after him, there is no reason to believe anyone that disagrees is next. Note: I wish I would have posted this Friday or Saturday, as I can't rule out that his Pardon tweet from today did not influence me that he's ready to go after anyone that disagrees with him publicly.

Bloody hell. I put my phone down around dinner and enjoyed an evening with the family. As everyone is off to bed, I decide to check on shutdown news. Nothing! Twitter, no. CNN, no, Fox, no. Just stuff about a DOJ event with Trump. Time for bourbon I guess.