The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1837961252053639600

 

[butters]

does anyone think Anthony Blinken isn't busier than a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition trying to quell the fires being stoked to light a full-scale outbreak of war in the Middle East?

seems the House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans don't, deciding to recommend him for contempt of Congress (26-25) for not showing up on Tuesday to testify on 'the chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.'

Despite offering alternate dates and being busy performing his job in New York attending the United Nations General Assembly, as tasked by President Biden, the committee seems to think their petty demands are more important than attempts to prevent full-blown war in the Middle East.


https://www.axios.com/2024/09/24/ho...hold-blinken-in-contempt?utm_source=microsoft

 

[SevMax2]

Remember the complaints about Obama golfing constantly? Apparently, Trump is far worse at golfing too often, a lot more often. Also, Obama didn't charge the Secret Service extra for his trips, and then scoop up the profits.

 

[SevMax2]

does anyone think Anthony Blinken isn't busier than a one-legged man in an arse-kicking competition trying to quell the fires being stoked to light a full-scale outbreak of war in the Middle East?

seems the House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans don't, deciding to recommend him for contempt of Congress (26-25) for not showing up on Tuesday to testify on 'the chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.'

Despite offering alternate dates and being busy performing his job in New York attending the United Nations General Assembly, as tasked by President Biden, the committee seems to think their petty demands are more important than attempts to prevent full-blown war in the Middle East.


https://www.axios.com/2024/09/24/ho...hold-blinken-in-contempt?utm_source=microsoft

I never much cared for Blinken myself, but he's got a job to do, and who's going to prosecute him while he does it? Who's gonna take up that case?

 

[SevMax2]

James Comey, Former FBI Director, and his take on Trump and the election.

 

[butters]

Manchin, despite not having endorsed Harris, uses her remarks about doing away with the filibuster in order to get women's reproductive rights passed as his excuse to loudly declare he'll not endorse her.

oh well. he's retiring at the end of the year anyway

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=e89385f0b4984662954900a6794425a9&ei=17

 

[SevMax2]

Manchin, despite not having endorsed Harris, uses her remarks about doing away with the filibuster in order to get women's reproductive rights passed as his excuse to loudly declare he'll not endorse her.

oh well. he's retiring at the end of the year anyway

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=e89385f0b4984662954900a6794425a9&ei=17

Ah, Joe, Joe, Joe...look, dude, I get it, I get it....you want to remain relevant in West Virginia politics. I get it. I'm from West Virginia (originally). But this ain't it, dude. You can endorse or refuse to endorse as you wish, but over this?

 

[adrina]

 

[adrina]

 

[butters]

Neo-Nazi Telegram Users Panic Amid Crackdown and Arrest of Alleged Leaders of Online Extremist Group

after Telegram boss says he will comply and share identity information of users if presented with valid legal requests, neo-nazis there are losing their shit and some arrests already made

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged Dallas Humber and Matthew Allison, two alleged leaders of the Terrorgram Collective, with a slew of felonies including soliciting the murder of government officials on Telegram.

Humber has pleaded not guilty. She made a brief appearance in federal court in Sacramento, California, on Sept. 13, during which she was denied bail. Humber, shackled and clad in orange-and-white jail garb, said nothing. Allison, who has not yet entered a plea, was arrested in Idaho but will face trial in California.

The two are alleged Accelerationists, a subset of white supremacists intent on accelerating the collapse of today’s liberal democracies and replacing them with all-white ethno-states, according to the indictment.

Through a constellation of linked Telegram channels, the collective distributes books, audio recordings, videos, posters and calendars celebrating white supremacist mass murderers, such as Brenton Tarrant, who in early 2019 stormed two mosques in New Zealand and shot to death 51 Muslim worshippers.

The group explicitly aims to inspire similar attacks, offering would-be terrorists tips and tools for carrying out spectacular acts of violence and sabotage. A now-defunct channel allegedly run by Humber, for example, featured instructions on how to make a vast array of potent explosives. After their arrests, channels allegedly run by Humber and Allison went silent.

 

[butters]

Federal agents raided the headquarters of Carahsoft Technology Corp., a major IT services provider to the U.S. government, on Tuesday, September 24, in what the FBI described as "court-authorized law enforcement activity."

documents and employee computers collected

A Carahsoft spokesperson said the company is "fully cooperating" with the investigation, which they claim relates to "a company with which Carahsoft has done business in the past."

it'll be interesting to hear which company this relates to

Carahsoft, which bills itself as "the Trusted Public Sector IT Solutions Provider," is a major distributor of information technology products and services to government agencies. The privately-held company reported approximately $13 billion in revenue in 2022.

The company currently holds task order-type contracts worth $2.6 billion that are set to expire over the next two years, according to Bloomberg Government data. Carahsoft is also the second-largest vendor in the IT-Product submarket as defined by the General Services Administration, with $3.5 billion in prime contracts.

Its vendor partners include major technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Oracle, AWS, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike.

The raid appears to be part of a broader Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into potential price fixing on sales to U.S. military and other government entities. Court records filed in Baltimore indicate that DOJ lawyers have been investigating since at least 2022 whether SAP, the German software giant, illegally conspired with Carahsoft to fix prices.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...&cvid=fdff9cadba2647b3bd439737ae1505cd&ei=166

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838787955025989743

 

[ll74]

Roseanne Barr and Tucker Carlson...and vampire talks (she's not crazy)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839459602011664704

 

[MajorRewrite]

Roseanne Barr and Tucker Carlson...and vampire talks (she's not crazy)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839459602011664704

Tucker is sitting there thinking, “She’s batshit crazy.”

But he continues to promote bullshit to make a buck. What an asshole.

 

[Rotadom]

Remember the complaints about Obama golfing constantly? Apparently, Trump is far worse at golfing too often, a lot more often. Also, Obama didn't charge the Secret Service extra for his trips, and then scoop up the profits.

It was 98 to 266 at the same time in their presidencies when trump said Obama golfed more. Lies and being bad at math is all he has. Oh, and bankruptcies. And divorces. And single terms, sexual assault adjudications, lawsuits, and felony convictions.

 

[Rotadom]

 

[deckardB26354]

I assumed that was his mom. It tracks.

 

[adrina]

 

[Lazaran]

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[adrina]

 

[SevMax2]

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My wife has never voted. She doesn't believe that it will matter. She has always felt that way. I've felt that way at times, but damn it if right now I'm not staring at the fucking abyss of the guy that I never voted for being even worse than he was eight, even four years ago. Being more deranged. More demented. More cracked. More unhinged. More senile. Every time that I have considered my options and thought of any of my other choices, or thought that maybe I judged that motherfucker too harshly, he says something to fucking remind me of why I never voted for him and why I never took the chance of a third party vote, either, while he ran. Every fucking time that I soften just a bit in my "Never Trump" resolve, even a little, even for a hot minute, that motherfucker keeps saying crap that makes me think, "No way, Jose. I'm not taking the chance that your ass gets back in office and you just snap someday and do something even more insane."

So, thank you, Donald, for keeping me resolved to keep you out of the White House. Because I can't relax until your ass is out of the fucking picture. Then, maybe, I can take a momentary breather. Maybe a second's respite. We got lucky in the first term, in terms of the harm that you did, but everything that you keep saying lately (and actually everything that you've said for a while now), just drives home the point that you can't be allowed to fuck it up this time. I'm not going to push my luck. We got lucky last time, relatively speaking. This time, if we push our luck, we're likely to get burned. It's like the game of chicken. You might survive it the first time or so, but eventually, you're gonna collide with something. I can not, for all of my grave reservations about Harris's judgment as a public servant and as an individual, and despite some of the scary people surrounding her, take the chance that you won't completely lose what's left of your sanity and kill us all.

Just flee to another country. That's my advice. Don't come back, either. Liquidate all of your remaining assets, get enough liquid cash, move to fucking Timbuktu or Taipei or some place like that, and leave us alone. Sell Mar-a-Lago to someone who can turn a profit without charging Secret Service agents and other public employees for their stay. Get out of Dodge. Leave us alone. I'll give this new girl a chance and hope that she proves me wrong about my doubts about her, somehow. It's better than chancing that you'll wake up on the wrong side of the bed and there's blood in the streets someday. Or whatever else.

 

[adrina]

My wife has never voted. She doesn't believe that it will matter. She has always felt that way. I've felt that way at times, but damn it if right now I'm not staring at the fucking abyss of the guy that I never voted for being even worse than he was eight, even four years ago. Being more deranged. More demented. More cracked. More unhinged. More senile. Every time that I have considered my options and thought of any of my other choices, or thought that maybe I judged that motherfucker too harshly, he says something to fucking remind me of why I never voted for him and why I never took the chance of a third party vote, either, while he ran. Every fucking time that I soften just a bit in my "Never Trump" resolve, even a little, even for a hot minute, that motherfucker keeps saying crap that makes me think, "No way, Jose. I'm not taking the chance that your ass gets back in office and you just snap someday and do something even more insane."

So, thank you, Donald, for keeping me resolved to keep you out of the White House. Because I can't relax until your ass is out of the fucking picture. Then, maybe, I can take a momentary breather. Maybe a second's respite. We got lucky in the first term, in terms of the harm that you did, but everything that you keep saying lately (and actually everything that you've said for a while now), just drives home the point that you can't be allowed to fuck it up this time. I'm not going to push my luck. We got lucky last time, relatively speaking. This time, if we push our luck, we're likely to get burned. It's like the game of chicken. You might survive it the first time or so, but eventually, you're gonna collide with something. I can not, for all of my grave reservations about Harris's judgment as a public servant and as an individual, and despite some of the scary people surrounding her, take the chance that you won't completely lose what's left of your sanity and kill us all.

Just flee to another country. That's my advice. Don't come back, either. Liquidate all of your remaining assets, get enough liquid cash, move to fucking Timbuktu or Taipei or some place like that, and leave us alone. Sell Mar-a-Lago to someone who can turn a profit without charging Secret Service agents and other public employees for their stay. Get out of Dodge. Leave us alone. I'll give this new girl a chance and hope that she proves me wrong about my doubts about her, somehow. It's better than chancing that you'll wake up on the wrong side of the bed and there's blood in the streets someday. Or whatever else.

I was raised by parents whose parents raised them with a simple and very direct edict: If you don't vote you can't complain. That tenet was passed on. It was treated very seriously. It is a responsibility. Like having a job, or paying your taxes. In essence, it is mandatory. That was how we were brought up.

When my sister turned 18 she was handed her voter registration and Dad took her to turn it in. The first election she was eligible to vote in, he went with her to vote, and for several elections thereafter until it was habit. He did the same with me. I have voted in every single election I have been able to for the entirety of my adult life. As did my sister.

There are a lot of "sales pitches" for voting. You've likely heard them ad nauseum as has your wife. I may have a slightly different take on it.

It doesn't matter if you think your vote counts. It doesn't really matter if your vote actually does count. What matters is the voter and the potential for the voter's voice. The vote is the only direct mechanism for a citizen's input. People can shout from the roof tops but if they aren't voters, their shouts end up on deaf ears.

Voters matter.

As to the existential threat Trump is... yes he is. An apathetic and lazy electorate allowed him into power once. And we have paid the price since with lasting repercussions that will literally take decades of steady and continued effort to repair. More showed up to stop him in 2020. Even more need to show up in 2024.

I honestly don't understand people like your wife. I hope she comes to understand her value as a voter. Even if not just for herself and your family, but also for those who would really be the most harmed by another Trump presidency. Heh, although no one would come out unscathed.

I hope you're able to communicate to your wife that she as a voter matters and that she'll hear it.

 

[adrina]

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839824015315079645

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840082607650025697

 

[schism666]