The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

[SevMax2]

One factor that has to be considered is the difference of contrasts. Compared to Biden, Trump seemed relatively healthy and lucid. Compared to Harris, not as much. I've also been shocked at just how fast he seems to have gone downhill lately, far more than was apparent even earlier in the year. It's quite terrifying, when you think about it.

 

[Lazaran]

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the dog whistle has been whistled.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488

1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs. As such, they are ubiquitous within the white supremacist movement - as graffiti, in graphics and tattoos, even in screen names and e-mail addresses, such as aryanprincess1488@hate.net. Some white supremacists will even price racist merchandise, such as t-shirts or compact discs, for $14.88.

But the MAGAts totally aren’t racists and fascists…

GMAFB

GTFOH

 

[schism666]

 

[SevMax2]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...r&cvid=4991e02dc87e40c9ac09fb3696f3e771&ei=22

So much for free speech, eh, Donald? But I guess when someone dares to question the graft of certain justices, looking at you, Clarence Thomas, well, we can't have that, can we?

 

[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]

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[deckardB26354]

I assumed that was his mom. It tracks.

 

[adrina]

 

[Lazaran]

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^ The most disturbing image I’d seen recently.

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^ The most disturbing image I’ve seen recently.

 

[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.