The Trump Presidency 2.0

[amlove21]

Pretty interesting....if true.

"the whistleblower is said to be an FBI employee and was involved in an "off-the-books" investigation targeting then-presidential candidate Donald Trump."

I always had a problem with whistleblowers timing.....why not ring the bell when Trump first got into office in 2016?

Why wait eight more years?

No clue. Institutional pressure? An admin that was in power but obviously not in control? A seismic shift in America about the FBI and actual accountability, as opposed to being thrown in jail by an organization suffering open and apparent ideological capture? Maybe they're out now and felt the time and political winds were right? We can pontificate about it all day, I suppose.

I'd like to ask a more important question- is it true? Did the FBI conduct an operation of this scope and magnitude on the sitting president of the United States of America?

Seems like something I want to know, given the fact that the FBI then conducted the investigation of the guy that tried to assassinate the guy they previously investigated? The investigation we STILL have zero clarity on?

eta- explained the last sentence poorly, I am an idiot.

 

[Topkick]

Pretty interesting....if true.

"the whistleblower is said to be an FBI employee and was involved in an "off-the-books" investigation targeting then-presidential candidate Donald Trump."

I always had a problem with whistleblowers timing.....why not ring the bell when Trump first got into office in 2016?

Why wait eight more years?

Pretty sure not everyone has the balls to "ring the bell" on Comey while Comey is still the sitting FBI director. But he was out in 2017 I think, so I get your point. I don't care though, I believe these people need to pay the piper, people like Adam Schiff, for what they did to the right and the country during Trump's 1st term.

 

[Marauder06]

Man, remember slow news days/cycles? So I guess this is happening now, rumored for a while but picked up by Fox.

FBI investigating claims of Comey-era 'honeypot' operation against Trump 2016 campaign: report

One of the most effective ways of setting up anyone is to get someone attractive to pretend to be interested. James O'Keefe has been doing it to leftists for years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...iberal-icons-can-a-new-lawsuit-take-him-down/

 

[Marauder06]

Pretty interesting....if true.

"the whistleblower is said to be an FBI employee and was involved in an "off-the-books" investigation targeting then-presidential candidate Donald Trump."

I always had a problem with whistleblowers timing.....why not ring the bell when Trump first got into office in 2016?

Why wait eight more years?

Any number of reasons, not the least of which is that the whistleblower hated Trump too. There was a lot of that going around a few years ago.

 

[Box]

I wonder how long it will be before people start getting arkancided....

 

[Cookie_]

Any number of reasons, not the least of which is that the whistleblower hated Trump too. There was a lot of that going around a few years ago.

I would say this is a pretty likely reason. Turn in the others involved so you can control the narrative and save your own skin.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Ugh you took the bait. -1 to you

Eff

 

[amlove21]

Breaking literally everywhere all at once-Bondi says Epstein files tomorrow.

No matter what happens, it won’t be enough- fast enough, enough info, what people want, etc. I’ll just go ahead and lay a bet- if it is tomorrow, and that’s still an ‘if’, I’m going to preemptively say ‘meh’.

 

[RackMaster]

And there goes Tranny hour at the mess.

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[amlove21]

Cmon

 

[amlove21]

Despite every single headline on the face of the planet, poll numbers flesh out Trump's popularity with the initiatives he is tackling- which are all 80/20 issues. It just so happens the "20" controls 99% of the media and would like you to believe otherwise.

Most notably he underperforms on the economy and inflation- people appear to be impatient with current performance and are saying, "It's my money, and I need it NOW!"

String of polls highlights disconnect between media and public on DOGE, Trump’s first month

 

[Devildoc]

One the one hand, "I haz the shocked!"

On the other hand... um... no one has access to the old downrange classified MiRC Chats, right? Asking for a friend. ;)

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E3s and E4s every day:

 

[AWP]

Despite every single headline on the face of the planet, poll numbers flesh out Trump's popularity with the initiatives he is tackling- which are all 80/20 issues. It just so happens the "20" controls 99% of the media and would like you to believe otherwise.

Most notably he underperforms on the economy and inflation- people appear to be impatient with current performance and are saying, "It's my money, and I need it NOW!"

String of polls highlights disconnect between media and public on DOGE, Trump’s first month

And this is where information as a whole gets dicey. We have so much polarization in America, so many compromised sources (starting with the MSM) no one knows the truth and no one trusts the truth. Everything is political these days and truth is relative. Some of us have long held you have to be a junior intel analyst to even hope to understand what's going on. Critical thinking in America is dead and you need critical thinking to understand the world because the information is slanted and the sources plentiful. Bias is baked ito the results.

I watched this great Formula 1 video a few days ago talking about the best F1 team of all time. What is the best? Wins? Wins per races entered? Constructor's championships? Best driver? Wins, wins per season, wins per races started, championships?

What is the best info, the best news source? Most trusted? You can make an argument for anything, anyone, any podcast, any anything. And polls? You mean like those that predicted Trump would never win, much less twice? I'm supposed to believe polls now? Should anyone believe a poll? Only if you agree with the poll will you believe a poll... I think polls are bullshit these days.

I'm kind of dumb I guess. I'll approve or disapprove of someone based on what they say and do. Unfortunately, the media is usually accurate on direct quotes (even f you have to dig for the whole thing and context) and untrustworthy on the results.

YMMV

 

[AWP]

E3s and E4s every day:

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At my overseas job I was the SysAdmin/ Cyber guy for our network which used mIRC chat for official functions. That didn't stop people from typing dumb shit in whispers or setting up some channels.

That also didn't stop me from reading their private chats because we saved all of that shit.

Never underestimate Joe to get stupid in "secure" chat rooms. Everything is an official government record and usually kept somewhere.

 

[Marauder06]

E3s and E4s every day:

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Put enough people of the same rank in the same room with no oversight and EVERYONE acts like a lance corporal or a specialist. O10 and E9 on down.

 

[Box]

The were some high grade shenanigans on mIRC - the best ones were when you were sitting in the TOC during a TIC monitoring mIRC so you could contact the JOC to make sure the CONOP has a plan for CAS
...boy, I'll tell you what - reading that there mIRC when there was a TIC in the TOC

C'MON MAN

 

[Marauder06]

The were some high grade shenanigans on mIRC - the best ones were when you were sitting in the TOC during a TIC monitoring mIRC so you could contact the JOC to make sure the CONOP has a plan for CAS
...boy, I'll tell you what - reading that there mIRC when there was a TIC in the TOC

C'MON MAN

Earlier this week I was setting up for a briefing for some foreign visitors and before they arrived I recounted to some of my cadets that the biggest career-casualty-producing weapon in all of JSOC was a hot mic during a long VTC. Bro. Turn your mic off before you start talking shit. Or before you start talking about how hot my briefer was. Turn off your monitor before you start making weird faces or changing clothes leaving the room entirely before you're bored. That's rookie shit. You're on the varsity team.

Or, you know, don't do that kind of shit at all.

But nah. Everyone acts like grade schoolers from time to time. Dick, fart, and sex jokes abound.

 

[BloodStripe]

Can’t say I’ve ever agreed with her on anything until now.

 

[AWP]

Earlier this week I was setting up for a briefing for some foreign visitors and before they arrived I recounted to some of my cadets that the biggest career-casualty-producing weapon in all of JSOC was a hot mic during a long VTC. Bro. Turn your mic off before you start talking shit. Or before you start talking about how hot my briefer was. Turn off your monitor before you start making weird faces or changing clothes leaving the room entirely before you're bored. That's rookie shit. You're on the varsity team.

Or, you know, don't do that kind of shit at all.

But nah. Everyone acts like grade schoolers from time to time. Dick, fart, and sex jokes abound.

I saw graphic sex talk, guys (and occasionally gals) playing multiple people at once (sometimes on the same shift), one friend of mine who bragged about blowing the ENTIRE fire department on Al Dhafra (her husband was an F-16 maintainer deployed there at the same time), graphic descriptions of one woman's menstrual cycles, the commander is stupid, this or that officer is stupid, this or that chief is stupid, "meant to send a whisper but posted in a theater monitored and available channel" more times than I can count, R&R plans that slowly fell apart, marriages falling apart, couples arguing, shit talking people, amazing gossip about their sexual habits including closeted homosexuals...

And the best part? They thought wiping their chat window deleted it from the server. Nah, the second you hit that enter key it wrote to a text file.

 

[amlove21]

Can’t say I’ve ever agreed with her on anything until now. View attachment 47203

Meh.

Hegseth's statements on the issue-

"I don't need to get into the characterization of we know who invaded who. We understand the stakes of this game," Hegseth said in a recent interview, sidestepping a direct answer when pressed about Russia's role.

When asked why there appeared to be hesitation in naming Russia the aggressor, Hegseth deflected: "Does all the finger-pointing and pearl-clutching make peace more likely?"

The media's breathless compelling of speech they and they alone decide that is appropriate from elected officials while peace negotiations (for the first time since this war started, mind you) are clickbait at best, disingenuous at worst.

He said what he said when he was at Fox News. Now he's responsible for ensuring that further escalation of the Russia/Ukraine war doesn't cost American lives. The end goal here is a negotiated peace and an end to the slaughtering of Ukrainians, which, until VERY recently, I was told has to be America's number 1 goal above all else because we are the sole arbiter of peace in the world. Call me crazy, but maybe coming out and saying "RUSSIA BAD WE HATE RUSSIA" from his position isn't in the administration's messaging for the ongoing peace negotiations?

I'll wait for the outrage carousel to come back around on this one.