Iranian Hackers Stole Emails and Reports from the Trump Campaign. The Media Is Waiting to Publish That Material For a Short Time.

The media can't rush to publish this information, hacked by an enemy foreign regime, after they refused to publish information from Hunter Biden's laptop, pretending that that was hacked by Russia.

They are pretending to impose this rule even-handedly as they scheme about how to publish it. Or how to get leftwing blogs to publish it, which they can then cite.

They don't admit that, but of course, that's exactly what's going on.

The Washington Post:

Why newsrooms haven't published leaked Trump campaign documents

The Trump campaign said the documents from a mysterious source came from an Iranian hack. The FBI is now investigating.
An alleged Iranian hacking operation that the Donald Trump campaign says leaked internal documents to reporters has run into a surprising problem: So far, newsrooms have been reluctant to run with the material.
Over the past few weeks, reporters at Politico, The Washington Post and the New York Times received emails from a mysterious figure who called himself "Robert," offering internal Trump campaign documents, most notably a 271-page one listing JD Vance's potential vulnerabilities as a running mate, apparently compiled well before Trump picked the Republican senator from Ohio.
The FBI is now investigating alleged Iranian hacking attempts, which also targeted the Biden-Harris campaign. Longtime Trump friend Roger Stone confirmed to The Post on Monday that his email account had been compromised.
All of it -- an alleged hacker hiding behind a pseudonym offering internal documents of questionable news value -- has echoes of the Russian hacks of Democratic campaign emails in 2016, which were then published by WikiLeaks and eagerly picked over by the press.

No, the press was not "eager" to pick over them. But you can see the Washington Post preparing the way for its own soon-to-come Sudden Reversal on whether to publicize data hacked by enemy foreign governments.

Now, eight years later, media organizations are being tested again with how best to cover news from an alleged hack, without playing into the hands of foreign actors looking to interfere in American elections. For now, the decision among the outlets that received the documents has been not to publish them, focusing instead on the possible hack itself.

Eight years later? Surely you mean four years later, because it was four years ago that the media presented a united Marxist front in refusing to report on the Hunter Biden laptop, falsely claiming it was #Hacked by #RUSSIANAGENTS.

Are you seriously going to pretend that away, Washington Post?

Spoiler: Yes they are.

After receiving the #Hacked emails, Politico immediately "confirmed the document's authenticity."

They still haven't confirmed the Hunter Biden laptop, have they?

Reporters confirmed the document's authenticity, then attempted to learn the individual's identity; the emailer refused to get on the phone but said there was additional information to share. When Politico pressed how they got the documents, the person wrote back: "I suggest you don't be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them."
Then Microsoft revealed early Friday that Iranian hackers had tried to get into the email account of a "high-ranking official" in a presidential campaign by using a former senior adviser's email address that had already been compromised; The Post reported that that was a reference to the Trump campaign, citing a person familiar with Microsoft's work.
...
In 2016, Trump relished Russian hacks of Democratic campaign emails, once asking the country to find more of Hillary Clinton's emails with the phrase, "Russia, if you're listening."

Again, they're making the case for publishing the hacked data, just skipping over the years they spent attempting to get anyone publishing the Hunter Biden laptop disclosures deplatformed.

But in the aftermath of its own possible hack, the Trump campaign told reporters that to publish the material would be assisting a foreign state actor in undermining democracy. "Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America's enemies and doing exactly what they want," Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement.
...
The decision for newsrooms to not publish the Vance materials -- a compilation of publicly available records and statements, including Vance's past criticisms of Trump -- appeared to be more straightforward because they also didn't reach a high level of public interest.
"In the end, it didn't seem fresh or new enough," Murray said.
Journalists' primary loyalty is to their audience and to giving them the information they want and need, said Kelly McBride, NPR's public editor and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute. And before 2016, the general thinking was that, even with hacked materials, "if there's something interesting in there, then of course you're going to report it."

But with foreign state actors increasingly getting involved, "it just feels dicier for news organizations to make the decision, because you don't want to be helping another country undermine our democracy," McBride said.

Finally, the Washington Post admits the existence of the Hunter Biden laptop -- but still strains to claim that the laptop may be fake, slapping the word "allegedly" on to the laptop's information.

News organizations have been tested since 2016. Wary of hacked materials since then, many proved reluctant to report on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop out of concerns that they were the result of a hack. As the conservative press latched on to ,b>allegedly incriminating emails found on the computer in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign, more mainstream outlets did not join in a 2016-style frenzy over the material, and Facebook and Twitter limited distribution of a New York Post story about the laptop.
An analysis by The Post nearly two years later confirmed the authenticity of many of the emails on the laptop and found no evidence of a hack.
Now Trump, whose 2016 campaign was boosted by the Russian hack of Democratic emails and the ensuing press fervor over them, could be shielded by the media's evolving reluctance to use hacked documents.
"It would certainly be ironic if Trump, of all people, benefited from the media learning lessons from a situation he exploited," said Ben Smith, Semafor editor in chief. (He was the top editor of BuzzFeed News when it published the Steele dossier, a collection of memos alleging collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign that contained unverified allegations.)

Of course.

It will also be ironic when Ben Smith is hacked and we all delight in his revealed correspondences.

The Washington Post claims they have no set policy on hacked materials -- leaving open the door to publishing them.

Of course, they had a very, very firm Hacked Materials Policy when it came to Hunter posting pictures of his crackpipe, whores, and meetings with foreign clients -- you know, "allegedly incriminating emails."

The Washington Post lays out how they'll launder the documents into the national discourse:

"They will eventually move down the food chain to find someone who will publish them," Tofel said. "And if they fail at that, the internet being what it is, they can just publish it themselves."

And if you don't hate the press enough -- and you don't; none of us do, none of us are capable of the proper level of loathing and disgust -- enjoy PBS' and AP's expose on Elon Musk misusing his platform.

Musk, you see, uses his platform to... "amplify" views from one side of the aisle.

Can you imagine? Can you even imagine such a thing?!

How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views

They said as they ran their thirtieth piece on "Gender Euphoria."

As X's owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used the social media platform as a microphone to amplify his political views and, lately, those of right-wing figures he's aligned with. There are few modern parallels to his antics, but then again there are few modern parallels to Elon Musk himself.
Of course, none of this should come as a surprise.
Back in 2022 when he was trying to buy Twitter, Musk said he was doing so because it wasn't living up to its potential as a "platform for free speech." Protecting free speech -- not money -- was his motivation because, as he put it, "having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization."
Musk often ruminates on the future of civilization. For one, he appears fixated on a coming " population collapse," threatening to wipe out humanity. And he joined prominent scientists and tech leaders last year in warning the world about artificial intelligence doing the same. Musk has framed threats to free speech as yet another existential crisis looming over the world. And he is going to try his best to save it.
"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in an April 2022 post, adding hearts, stars and rocket emojis to highlight the statement.
Two years on, the platform -- now called X -- has indeed become a haven for the type of free speech Musk has come to champion. In the U.S., he's spread memes -- and sometimes misinformation -- about illegal immigration, alleged election fraud and transgender policies, and he formally endorsed former President Donald Trump's presidential bid this summer.

PBS and AP want you to know that Musk is quite unlike the other tech billionaires in using his platform to push a political ideology.

Musk's antics are unlike any other Big Tech leader, and while it may be off-putting to a segment of his X user base, it could also attract eyeballs to his platform. Could this all be part of a broader plan? After all, despite publicly criticizing Musk's antics, those on the left continue to use his platform.
"X has remained surprisingly resilient throughout the recent controversy," Enberg said. "That's in no small part due to consumer fascination with conspiracy theories and Elon Musk himself."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:29 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 16, 2024 01:29 PM (ZUxK6)

2 Not first

Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:30 PM (RFPHU)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Odds it really was Iran (or some other foreign enemy) and *not* the Eff.Bee.EYE (or some other three letter agency)?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:31 PM (FnneF)

5 willowed

412 361 Ras has Trump up 9 today
Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2024 01:16 PM (IyPmt)

Trump is up, but I don't think he's up 9. That's way too high. 9 points is about what HW had over Dukakis in 88.

9 points would mean Trump winning New York. That's wonderful to think about, but it's just not reality in the modern polarized, political climate.

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (pZ0Mr)

6

51 intelligence officers say PUBLISH!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (63Dwl)

7 The FBI is now investigating.
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Rotfl

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (JrF6z)

8 Largely bold post, Ace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

9 They don't admit that, but of course, that's exactly what's going on.
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I think you accuse them of possessing standards they don't have.

If they're not using it, then either:
1. It isn't damning for Trump
2. The Party told them not to, because it involves an ally

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:33 PM (HnUIn)

10 They "curate" our news. Perfectly benign. Not Propaganda or Censorship at all. Why would you think that?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2024 01:33 PM (Syrkw)

11 >>> 7 The FBI is now investigating.
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Rotfl
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (JrF6z)

Like they "investigated" July 13th in Butler PA? With a hose on the super steep roof?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:33 PM (FnneF)

12 Are you seriously going to pretend that away, Washington Post?
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Yes.

It's SOP.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:33 PM (HnUIn)

13 Sounds like the old rope a dope with the press and the FIB. Leak a story, press publishes, FBI investigates, FBI uses press story as evidence.

SMFH

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (NtVYv)

14 Largely bold post, Ace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

If it was fully bold, you'd have to call him Cotton

Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (RFPHU)

15 For now, the decision among the outlets that received the documents has been not to publish them
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But not because theyll be more effective in October. No siree.

The even-handed media, complicit in both jailing and killing Trump, thinks publishing hacked data during an election is "a bridge too far".

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (JrF6z)

16
It is surpassingly strange that the EU pantywaist who warned Elon not to put Donald Trump out there on X used X to convey that message.

I guess Secretary Pantywaist was not in the "EU Purity is Sacrosanct" cabal of the EU.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (xG4kz)

17 The Washington Post claims they have no set policy on hacked materials -- leaving open the door to publishing them.

Of course, they had a very, very firm Hacked Materials Policy when it came to Hunter posting pictures of his crackpipe, whores, and meetings with foreign clients -- you know, "allegedly incriminating emails."
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All rules - *all* rules - are situational.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (HnUIn)

18 I'm getting to the point where should I see a reporter from one of the commie news networks, I'm just going to roll up and punch them in the face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

19
If it was fully bold, you'd have to call him Cotton
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (RFPHU)

I never picked cotton.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

20 >>> 14 Largely bold post, Ace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

If it was fully bold, you'd have to call him Cotton
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (RFPHU)

Cruel!

He's probably searching for that one last incorrectly open bold tag, muttering about shelves...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (FnneF)

21 If it was fully bold, you'd have to call him Cotton
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:34 PM (RFPHU)

I never picked cotton.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

That was Eli Whitney's job, I think

Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (RFPHU)

22
The conservative case for making antics illegal coming soon.

Posted by: Auspex at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (j4U/Z)

23 Elon X Musk > William Randolph Hearst and the left hates it.

Posted by: fd at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (vFG9F)

24 "They will eventually move down the food chain to find someone who will publish them," Tofel said. "And if they fail at that, the internet being what it is, they can just publish it themselves."
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Again, this is SOP and it is how the information laundromat works. This is exactly what happened with Russiagate, albeit in a different context.

Seed it through one, cover it through another, flood the zone, it becomes "common knowledge" and then useful for "open source operations" through the political/IC and media arms of the Party Complex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (HnUIn)

25 The Trump campaign said the documents from a mysterious source came from an Iranian hack. The FBI is now investigating.

--

ace, content ahead:

"Thomas Matthew Crooks' Body Was 'Gone' When Rep. Tried to Examine: Report

"My effort to examine Crooks' body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact … the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13," Higgins wrote in the report. "On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc."

https://tinyurl.com/28u3d8x6

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (5IIoe)

26
That was Eli Whitney's job, I think
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (RFPHU)

That asshole put blacks out of work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

27 The MSM can't DIAF soon enough.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (Q4IgG)

28 PBS and AP want you to know that Musk is quite unlike the other tech billionaires in using his platform to push a political ideology.

PBS and AP can suckle my shiny Moron dick. It's yuuuuge, and girthy.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (MsrgL)

29
"My effort to examine Crooks' body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact … the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13," Higgins wrote in the report. "On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc."

https://tinyurl.com/28u3d8x6
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (5IIoe)

It worked for Ashli Babbitt..

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

30 If they're not using it, then either:
1. It isn't damning for Trump
2. The Party told them not to, because it involves an ally
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Or 3. Its a trap for the Left and Media (BIRM).

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (FmapG)

31
I foresee Ace putting together some bold shelves worthy of any stalwart Ewok this weekend.

Go bold or go 'way!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (xG4kz)

32 Thankfully, Trump doesnt really use email.

Posted by: Blago at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (wMRY8)

33 I don't think they will release the actual hacked documents.

Because we already know what is in them, the background on Vance (and other VP candidates).
Which 1) the media has already dug up and 2) have already lied about anyway.

No, the dark insinuation that there are all these dirty secrets about Vance and Trump that they want to tell but just can't is more valuable to them than the truth.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (Zh5d0)

34 That was Eli Whitney's job, I think
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (RFPHU)

That asshole put blacks out of work.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

I laughed way too much at that

Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (RFPHU)

35 I think it was Chris Cuomo telling us we should NOT be reading the purloined DNC emails.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (krQz2)

36 There is a distinct possibility that the hacked materials make Trump look good. That would give the WAPO such bad cognitive dissonance that they'd crap themselves

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (gXGVH)

37
I laughed way too much at that
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (RFPHU)

I had a modicum of regret after clicking 'post.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

38 If it was fully bold, you'd have to call him Cotton

Do you wish Cotton was a monkey?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 16, 2024 01:38 PM (yrYXr)

39 I never picked cotton.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

I have. Ran a cotton garnett machine that separated cotton mote and linter fibers and formed them into padding for 5 years.

Posted by: Auspex at August 16, 2024 01:38 PM (j4U/Z)

40 Will the media quote Trump stating Kamala is a dumb, loose bitch or will they redact the statement because it might get people thinking....

Posted by: Stateless at August 16, 2024 01:38 PM (jvJvP)

41 Gee why would Iran want to help Kamala ...oh right

Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2024 01:38 PM (HJ9BW)

42 This means something very damaging will be coming out about Harris. They will then be able to bury it in the mountain of talking points hacked from Trump.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (7PziG)

43 >>> 35 I think it was Chris Cuomo telling us we should NOT be reading the purloined DNC emails.
Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:37 PM (krQz2)

Specifically because he claimed it was *illegal* for any mere mortals to read them, unlike Important Journalists.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (FnneF)

44 Psychopaths. All of them.

You can’t have a reasonable debate with psychopaths because you have to spend all your time correcting their lies and misinformation. And proving your facts when the Left calls them lies without any proof.

It’s best just to ridicule them.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (B1dzx)

45 Elon X Musk > William Randolph Hearst and the left hates it.
Posted by: fd

Ironically, Hearst may be the biggest factor in outlawing marijuana.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (KAi1n)

46
Swallow that one Kamala, there's modicum!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (yrYXr)

47 How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views
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This isn't subtle in terms of manipulation.

What Musk has done in reality is demonstrated what happens if you don't *suppress* counter-Party views. Not even "right-wing" - whatever the hell that means - just "counter-Party."

They amplify themselves. They amplify themselves because staggering numbers of people hate everything about the ruling class and the disconnected, evil rulers who project dominion from Washington.

"Right-wing views" don't need to be amplified to gain traction, they need to be comprehensively suppressed to prevent traction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (HnUIn)

48 Communism is Democracy !!

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (B1dzx)

49 Odd. The only "hacking" Iranians are known for involve separating body parts.

Oh no wait, there's all those famous Iranian computer hackers like ummmm, and uhhhhhh...

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (JrF6z)

50 I don't have a link but I saw that the Kamala campaign and someone else had had a hack attack too. Probably yesterday.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (i0CiB)

51 PBS and AP want you to know that Musk is quite unlike the other tech billionaires in using his platform to push a political ideology.
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He is. He's pushing the wrong one, insofar as he's pushing one at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (HnUIn)

52 47 "Right-wing views" don't need to be amplified to gain traction, they need to be comprehensively suppressed to prevent traction.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (HnUIn)

=======

This is misinformation. Report to a local commissar for reeducation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

53 Will the media quote Trump stating Kamala is a dumb, loose bitch or will they redact the statement because it might get people thinking....
Posted by: Stateless at August 16, 2024 01:38 PM (jvJvP)

They're up in arms because someone found a pic of Vance in the boy's bathroom in High School with 3 girls standing at the urinals acting like they're peeing.

Someone responded with a pic of Kumswala with Willie Brown and said "Can't wait till you guys get around to THIS picture."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

54 >>> 50 I don't have a link but I saw that the Kamala campaign and someone else had had a hack attack too. Probably yesterday.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (i0CiB)

Well obviously *that* was the Russians.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (FnneF)

55 I never picked cotton.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well The Ocho did.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (krQz2)

56 How the hell do these people live in the world they create for themselves without setting their crotch on fire and jumping through the window?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (k88OO)

57 This is misinformation. Report to a local commissar for reeducation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Eggzaktly

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (HnUIn)

58 "X has remained surprisingly resilient throughout the recent controversy," Enberg said. "That's in no small part due to consumer fascination with conspiracy theories ...
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What 'conspiracy theories', Mr. Enberg?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (XeU6L)

59 How the hell do these people live in the world they create for themselves without setting their crotch on fire and jumping through the window?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (k88OO)
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Self-deceit in various forms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (HnUIn)

60
I wonder how damning the stolen emails will be. Or will it be another "Trumps finished now!!!" for the 1,529th time.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (+oR7L)

61 Or the

"Kamala Harris' campaign team has been subtly manipulating news headlines in Google search results to give the impression that major media outlets support her.

The modified headlines, which were all accompanied by a banner that read “Paid for by Harris for President,” were altered without the news outlets' knowledge, the report stated.

The fake headline campaign involved around a dozen publishers, including well-known outlets including CBS News, PBS, Reuters, The Guardian, and The Associated Press."

https://tinyurl.com/24s4qdru

But that's not misinformation or election interference.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (5IIoe)

62 57 Eggzaktly
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (HnUIn)

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This is the proper, de-colonized way to spell exactly.

-5 days off your 37 year sentence at the gulag.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (GBKbO)

63
Well obviously *that* was the Russians.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (FnneF)

Didn't Debbie Whatshername Schwantz have 2 Iranian IT guys on her payroll that disappeared with some laptops a few years ago?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

64 What Musk has done in reality is demonstrated what happens if you don't *suppress* counter-Party views. Not even "right-wing" - whatever the hell that means - just "counter-Party."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:39 PM (HnUIn)
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It's counter-revolutionary, for which he should be struggled.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (krQz2)

65 WaPo is giving hacks a bad rep.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (Rbu5d)

66 If only we can suppress the Free Speech we don’t agree with we can save Democracy!

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (B1dzx)

67 This 2016 Russian hack they keep referencing.

That's the Seth Rich thing, right?

I didn't miss a real Russian hack, did I?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (KbCG3)

68 I have a feeling there’s nothing compromising or very surprising in the hacked materials; otherwise we would have seen it in Politico or Axios already. The vetting of JD Vance is in there, pro and con, but that’s also been publicly hashed out. The worst JD has done is throw scorn at crazy cat ladies and wear a silly Halloween costume with a wig when he was an undergrad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (gBVkZ)

69 -5 days off your 37 year sentence at the gulag.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
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"-5 days off" is the same as "+5 days."

Losers lose, even when it looks like they might be winning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (HnUIn)

70 The polls are stabilizing in Trump's favor. But the nominal Republican blackpill brigade in X is still dooming in all of their glory. Pining for the days of the wildly successful Romney and McCain campaigns. :eyeroll:

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (vAFOi)

71 I saw Modicum of Regret open for Corrosion of Conformity at The Gorge in 1994

Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (RFPHU)

72 I don't have a link but I saw that the Kamala campaign and someone else had had a hack attack too. Probably yesterday.

-

I guarantee that enormous data breach from the beginning of the week was election related.

They're going to use real names this time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (5IIoe)

73 69 -5 days off your 37 year sentence at the gulag.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (GBKbO)
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"-5 days off" is the same as "+5 days."

Losers lose, even when it looks like they might be winning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (HnUIn)

=======

And your chocolate rations are going up to 20g.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

74 I wonder how damning the stolen emails will be. Or will it be another "Trumps finished now!!!" for the 1,529th time.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (+oR7L)

He IS finished now!

Jessie Ventura has announced he's on Team Kumswala.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

75
Harry J. Anslinger was jealous of J Edgar Hoover and saw his chance with Hearst.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (yrYXr)

76 Someone responded with a pic of Kumswala with Willie Brown and said "Can't wait till you guys get around to THIS picture."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

That's hilarious...

Posted by: Stateless at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (jvJvP)

77
I think it was Chris Cuomo telling us we should NOT be reading the purloined DNC emails.
Posted by: Axeman

Was it those? I thought Fredo gave us the warning wave off about reading the "purloined" climategate emails. Something about us being neither sophisticated enough to grasp their subtle nuances nor intelligent enough to embrace their assertive science. But he was all that, and more(!), because "urinalist"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (xG4kz)

78 Obviously we need to nationalize X or the Russians win or something

Posted by: brak at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (NGHTx)

79 Waiting to see how the DNC and Deep State helped the Iranians do that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

80 I guess we have to end all deals with Iran now, and if the Democrats object we call them pro-Iran or Iran stooges.

... because IRAN ATTACKED OUR ELECTION!!!

It's quite parallel to Russia "stealing" the DNC emails, right?

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (krQz2)

81 PBS and AP want you to know that Musk is quite unlike the other tech billionaires in using his platform to push a political ideology.
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Unlike PBS and AP, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

82 I saw Modicum of Regret open for Corrosion of Conformity at The Gorge in 1994
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (RFPHU)

I bet that was a rip roarin' show!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

83 34 That was Eli Whitney's job, I think
Posted by: Doof at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM

I thought the Cotton Gin was a drink.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (+oR7L)

84 >>> 53
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They're up in arms because someone found a pic of Vance in the boy's bathroom in High School with 3 girls standing at the urinals acting like they're peeing.

Someone responded with a pic of Kumswala with Willie Brown and said "Can't wait till you guys get around to THIS picture."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

From last Saturday, scroll down (a long way) to the second to last:
https://shorturl.at/AKBqv

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (FnneF)

85 X has remained surprisingly resilient throughout the recent controversy," Enberg said. "That's in no small part due to consumer fascination with conspiracy theories ...
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What 'conspiracy theories', Mr. Enberg?
-

Conspiracy theories = people interested in learning what is happening around the nation and world

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 01:44 PM (5IIoe)

86 81 PBS and AP want you to know that Musk is quite unlike the other tech billionaires in using his platform to push a political ideology.
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Unlike PBS and AP, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

True; PBS uses Gov't monies, X doesn't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

87 Iran would have no need to hack anything generated by the Biden administration
I'm sure they're kept well informed

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 16, 2024 01:44 PM (FfSAJ)

88 Trump should have 'wiped' them.

Posted by: Hillary at August 16, 2024 01:44 PM (XeU6L)

89
Trump should have wiped his servers down with a cloth.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 16, 2024 01:45 PM (+oR7L)

90 I saw Modicum of Regret open for Corrosion of Conformity at The Gorge in 1994
Posted by: Doof

I had a CoC (I think it was CoC) shirt in college that was white with black skulls all over it.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 16, 2024 01:45 PM (KAi1n)

91 25...On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc."

https://tinyurl.com/28u3d8x6
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 01:36 PM (5IIoe)

They can work fast when they want to, can't they.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 16, 2024 01:45 PM (Rbu5d)

92 >>> 63
==
Didn't Debbie Whatshername Schwantz have 2 Iranian IT guys on her payroll that disappeared with some laptops a few years ago?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

No.

And they *certainly* didn't have access to dozens of other congresscritters' laptops.

Posted by: This... is XiNN at August 16, 2024 01:45 PM (FnneF)

93 Let me simplify this. If newsrooms are not publishing this hacked material it is probably because the material just lays out the Trump campaign plan to spotlight how the commiecrats have hurt american families and the FNM doesn't want to publish those facts. I jumped in 15 minutes late so this point has probably already been made by multiple horde members.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (xNAmg)

94 He's probably searching for that one last incorrectly open bold tag, muttering about shelves...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:35 PM (FnneF)

This reminds me of one of my original burning questions: Can someone refresh my memory as to bold, italic, underline codes?

I haven't used them since "reveal codes" in WordPerfect, in like 1995.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (JCLJi)

95
From last Saturday, scroll down (a long way) to the second to last:
https://shorturl.at/AKBqv
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:43 PM (FnneF)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Zz0t1)

96 In about 1 Hour.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Transporter 11 -
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 16
New T-Zero: 11:56 a.m. PDT, 18:56 UTC, 20:56 CEST. Launch window is open to 12:13 p.m. PDT.
Targeted Orbit: SSO (Sun-Synchronous Orbit)
Launch Inclination: South

https://www.youtube.com/live/7WVENEaFvvw

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, il gabinetto non e ancora sporco #19 at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (qfLjt)

97 I would love it if "Robert" is actually a Trump operative and this is a giant op designed to mind-f*ck the media and the left (BIRM). It would make me very happy if there is a very devious and skilled team deep within the campaign that knows how to slice and dice.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (bNf8H)

98 This 2016 Russian hack they keep referencing.

That's the Seth Rich thing, right?

I didn't miss a real Russian hack, did I?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 01:42 PM (KbCG3)
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I read something that said that no intelligence report from a Russian asset corroborates that the Russians even *had* the DNC emails.

And the MiSinforMation is pretty big on things alleged "without proof".

Despite running a slur campaign on Trump for 4+ years, the MiSinforMation gang DEMANDS PROOF about stuff.
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Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (krQz2)

99 FIB investigating = FIB covering up

Period

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (Bujdo)

100 I agree it's quite possible the emails make Trump look good, since they've never been able to come up with anything that unequivocally makes him look bad, despite 9 years of relentless effort.

"He brags a lot and is mean to us" just hasn't resonated.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 16, 2024 01:47 PM (OLqcY)

101
I had a CoC (I think it was CoC) shirt in college that was white with black skulls all over it.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 16, 2024 01:45 PM (KAi1n)

They were a really good band.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

102 99 FIB investigating = FIB covering up

Period
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You left out extortion instead of investigation. They get that wrong all the time.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (FmapG)

103
Didn't Debbie Whatshername Schwantz have 2 Iranian IT guys on her payroll that disappeared with some laptops a few years ago?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Pakistani

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (xG4kz)

104 For some reason I am not worried about the JD Vance's alleged vulnerabilities, or some reports and emails. No one knows about JD Vance's vulnerabilities better than JD Vance hisself ! He wrote a book about them. So, some stolen campaign research on him won't do anything. And as far as other "campaign" material, it is always old and never valuable anyway. Now , the hack of all our SS# - that is a big deal.

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (V13WU)

105 Cannibal Corpse > Corrosion of Conformity

...

But not by much.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (k88OO)

106 >>>
==
This reminds me of one of my original burning questions: Can someone refresh my memory as to bold, italic, underline codes?

I haven't used them since "reveal codes" in WordPerfect, in like 1995.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (JCLJi)

[ B ][ / B ] ... but without spaces, I for Italicans, U for Underline, and S for Strikethrough

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (FnneF)

107 This reminds me of one of my original burning questions: Can someone refresh my memory as to bold, italic, underline codes?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (JCLJi)
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Open: square-open + letter + square-close
Close square-open + / + letter + square-close

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (krQz2)

108 @63 as I recall the guys were Pakistani.
They quickly bleed and the whole thing was memory holed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (gXGVH)

109 "He brags a lot and is mean to us" just hasn't resonated.
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He make people laugh. He's literally Hitler!

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (FmapG)

110
Pakistani
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 01:48 PM (xG4kz)

Meh.....potato potato.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

111
"Iranian hackers" and "Russian hackers" are the same U.S. government hackers.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (++ijt)

112 >>> 100 I agree it's quite possible the emails make Trump look good, since they've never been able to come up with anything that unequivocally makes him look bad, despite 9 years of relentless effort.

"He brags a lot and is mean to us" just hasn't resonated.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 16, 2024 01:47 PM (OLqcY)

HE SAID PUSSY!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (FnneF)

113 Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (JCLJi)

[ b ]
[ i ]
[ u ]

But without the spaces. Then you close them similarly without spaces

[ / b ]

etc

Make sure you close them.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)

114 Thank you very much. I'll be using all caps less often now.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:50 PM (JCLJi)

115
Make sure you close them.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)

Wait, what?!?

Posted by: Ace Daring Lamont To Show His Face at August 16, 2024 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

116 63...Didn't Debbie Whatshername Schwantz have 2 Iranian IT guys on her payroll that disappeared with some laptops a few years ago?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

We're working on it, we're working on it...
--three-letter-agency,probably

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 16, 2024 01:50 PM (Rbu5d)

117 >>> 113 Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (JCLJi)

[ b ]
[ i ]
[ u ]

But without the spaces. Then you close them similarly without spaces

[ / b ]

etc

Make sure you close them.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)

Or not. Not is fine.

Posted by: the Barrel at August 16, 2024 01:50 PM (FnneF)

118 Would Roger Stone really be that privy to the important campaign docs? Open-source Vance material sounds like the high school bathroom picture.

Posted by: EveR at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (Z/h4+)

119 Make sure you close them.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)

Put all the close tags in your signature. Guaranteed barrel prevention.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (WTFYU)

120 [ B ][ / B ] ... but without spaces, I for Italicans, U for Underline, and S for Strikethrough
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And always check the close tag before you hit 'Post.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (IG4Id)

121 I'll be using all caps less often now.
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 01:50 PM (JCLJi)

Too bad. All caps is sexy.

Right Ben?

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (JrF6z)

122 Make sure you close them.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)
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That's one of the rules of life:

If you open it, close it.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (krQz2)

123 >>> 119 Make sure you close them.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)

Put all the close tags in your signature. Guaranteed barrel prevention.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (WTFYU)

*glares*

Posted by: the Barrel at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (FnneF)

124 True; PBS uses Gov't monies, X doesn't.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 01:44 PM (ynpvh)
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X does not receive taxpayer money directly, but it does indirectly through cross-subsidization in Musk's other enterprises. SpaceX is a government contractor and Tesla has benefited from subsidy schemes. The market capitalization required to fund the Twitter acquisition and conversion into X was made possible thanks to financial benefits provided by the US government.

Public interest requirements should be made explicit and mandatory across the board. "X is independent" is nonsense. It isn't. Musk's actions would not have been possible without taxpayer money in other enterprises. Laundering taxpayer money to work against public interest should be forbidden. Any interaction with state finance in any conglomerate or mutual/common ownership network should come with strings to prevent action against the public good.

Musk's dodge with X courtesy of what amounts to money laundering demonstrates a significant gap in the current regulatory environment, and one that the Harris Administration needs to comprehensively and promptly close.

Posted by: Your Kid's Public Policy Professor at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (HnUIn)

125 Put all the close tags in your signature. Guaranteed barrel prevention.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (WTFYU)

And it looks way funnier when your post makes it to the main page sidebar.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

126 I suspect there is nothing there there, and that is why they ddid not immediately run with it. Sucks to be an "Iranian Hacker"....

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (V13WU)

127 That's one of the rules of life:

If you open it, close it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (krQz2)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (JrF6z)

128 I read something that said that no intelligence report from a Russian asset corroborates that the Russians even *had* the DNC emails.

And the MiSinforMation is pretty big on things alleged "without proof".

Despite running a slur campaign on Trump for 4+ years, the MiSinforMation gang DEMANDS PROOF about stuff.
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Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (krQz2)

I believe it was confirmed that the FBI outsourced the entire investigation to Crowdstrike and never once looked into the alleged Russian hack.

They just took Crowdstrike's word.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (KbCG3)

129 too bad we don't have the [blink] tag so the comments could look like a mid-90s geocities page

Posted by: brak at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (NGHTx)

130
He make people laugh. He's literally Hitler!
Posted by: Pudinhead

You are stealing my schtick!

-- Vic Hitler, the Narcoleptic Comic

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (xG4kz)

131
If you open it, close it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (krQz2)

I don't understand these words in the arrangement you have them........

Posted by: Kamala's Legs at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

132 X is unlike other platforms.... they never attend the early morning talking points meetings with the other tech platforms

Posted by: bang-a-gong at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (PGROF)

133 129 too bad we don't have the [blink] tag so the comments could look like a mid-90s geocities page
Posted by: brak at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (NGHTx)

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I want spoiler tags, blockquote tags, color tags, and all sorts of font tags. Also, for each comment box to have it built in to close all open tags.

And a pony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

134 I don't understand these words in the arrangement you have them........
Posted by: Kamala's Legs at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)
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Good thing. Even if you understood, you'd be unable to do it.

Posted by: Kamala's blown-out hips at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (HnUIn)

135 And it looks way funnier when your post makes it to the main page sidebar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Some of us aren’t top tier commenters, so hasn’t really a problem.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (WTFYU)

136 Turns out Roger Stone was the campaign official who got the email from his colleague's compromised account and clicked on the link it contained.

Why does Roger Stone leave a wake of chaos behind him everywhere he goes? He's like a walking disaster area.

The only thing I've seen mentioned from the hack is a campaign prep document on J.D. Vance's vulnerabilities as a VP candidate.

We should be expecting that part to leak out after the DNC Convention I'd imagine. Timing and all that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (6ydKt)

137
This entire story stinks of Steele Dossier II.

I find it hard to believe ANY of it, starting with the "Iranian hackers" and the contents/details of the "hacked" material.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (++ijt)

138 >>> 128 I read something that said that no intelligence report from a Russian asset corroborates that the Russians even *had* the DNC emails.

And the MiSinforMation is pretty big on things alleged "without proof".

Despite running a slur campaign on Trump for 4+ years, the MiSinforMation gang DEMANDS PROOF about stuff.
---
Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:46 PM (krQz2)

I believe it was confirmed that the FBI outsourced the entire investigation to Crowdstrike and never once looked into the alleged Russian hack.

They just took Crowdstrike's word.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (KbCG3)

What's your problem with that?

Posted by: ClownStrike at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (FnneF)

139 [ you ]

was really the best

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (JrF6z)

140 I want spoiler tags, blockquote tags, color tags, and all sorts of font tags. Also, for each comment box to have it built in to close all open tags.

And a pony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)
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You mean like in newer versions of the platform that we've used during major outages?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (HnUIn)

141
Roger Stone? This flake? Back in politics? Involved in the 2024 campaign??

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (++ijt)

142 Defund NPR and the National Endowment for the Arts. If they are so wonderful, let the leftist, commie, scumbag, shit-eating, civilization destroying, George Soros types kick in the funding.
Thinking people have a fundamental aversion to their tax dollars being used to propagandize against them.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (JNTt1)

143 140 You mean like in newer versions of the platform that we've used during major outages?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (HnUIn)

=======

Oh, the gif days...

CBD got SO mad at me...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

144 I suspect there is nothing there there, and that is why they ddid not immediately run with it. Sucks to be an "Iranian Hacker"....
Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (V13WU)

This. If there was anything there, they would've bought billboards in Times Square.

Now, we're supposed to buy that they have morals and aren't publishing what they have because of how it was obtained?

MAN it's getting deep in here.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

145 "ClownStrike" is perhaps the most apt description of the US Government that I've read recently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (HnUIn)

146 I doubt we'll even see the result of this hack. The primary result will be identifying those individuals advising him covertly and supporting Trump under the radar so as not to draw the unwanted attention, and ultimate pressure of "law enforcement" intimidating tactics.

I suspect you will see some 3am raids in the not too distant future on people you never even heard about before. I, also, suspect bringing Cori Lewandowski back in the fold is to fill a void of someone who's about to get one of those FBI visits, or just decided it wasn't worth the risk.

Posted by: Ford Pinto at August 16, 2024 01:55 PM (dIske)

147 Always been afraid to try tags. I don't want to go in the Barrel!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 16, 2024 01:55 PM (LxER7)

148 Crowdstrike found no evidence Russia hacked the DNC

RealClearInvestigations
https://tinyurl.com/2jur5yf2

Posted by: Wodun at August 16, 2024 01:55 PM (JQ/OL)

149
I want spoiler tags, blockquote tags, color tags, and all sorts of font tags. Also, for each comment box to have it built in to close all open tags.

And a pony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

Hey man......Keep that shit up and you'll hurt Minx 0.8 beta's feelings.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Defund NPR and the National Endowment for the Arts. If they are so wonderful, let the leftist, commie, scumbag, shit-eating, civilization destroying, George Soros types kick in the funding.
Thinking people have a fundamental aversion to their tax dollars being used to propagandize against them.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (JNTt1)
++++
Not good enough. NPR - and PBS - don't get all *that* much taxpayer money and could operate comfortably without it because that's not where the real benefit comes from.

The real benefit is in-kind. They get *spectrum* on the cheap, with mandatory allocations. If they had to bid for it against the other nets, they'd be dead in the water.

Defunding isn't enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:56 PM (HnUIn)

151 >>> 148 Crowdstrike found no evidence Russia hacked the DNC

RealClearInvestigations
https://tinyurl.com/2jur5yf2
Posted by: Wodun at August 16, 2024 01:55 PM (JQ/OL)

Why don't you trust us? We are SMAHHHHRRRT!

Posted by: ClownStrike at August 16, 2024 01:56 PM (FnneF)

152 I can never hate the press enough.
Speaking of that, has anyone watched the new OTA news network The First. O'Reilly is the main 'draw.'

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 01:56 PM (/U5Yz)

153 Each comment box already has close tags which is why the barrel is far less frequent these days.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JrF6z)

154 I suspect there is nothing there there, and that is why they did not immediately run with it.
Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 01:51 PM (V13WU)

More fun to imply there is something there and let folks use their imagination.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (VGRuw)

155 Speaking of that, has anyone watched the new OTA news network The First. O'Reilly is the main 'draw.'

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 01:56 PM (/U5Yz)

My lawyers will be in touch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

156 >>> 153 Each comment box already has close tags which is why the barrel is far less frequent these days.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JrF6z)

Yeah, go with that.

Posted by: the Barrel at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (FnneF)

157 Each comment box already has close tags which is why the barrel is far less frequent these days.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (JrF6z)

I've experienced this only on occasion.

Same with ampersands.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

158
Also, lol @ "antics"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (++ijt)

159 Just throwing it out there, but typewriters don't get hacked.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)

160 & & & & &

Posted by: &&&&& at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (FnneF)

161 158
Also, lol @ "antics"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (++ijt)

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Shenanigans > antics

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

162
I believe it was confirmed that the FBI outsourced the entire investigation to Crowdstrike and never once looked into the alleged Russian hack.

They just took Crowdstrike's word.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 01:52 PM (KbCG3)
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8 page report.

They're doing more looking into it now. The FIB can't give out certain information on FOIA. Apparently, that only binds the government, it's not meant to expose "trade secrets of private companies".

So, the FIB out-sources a key part of its "investigation" to a private firm with ties to the DNC, and it can't disclose just exactly how they *knew* it was "Russian hacking" because "trade secrets" aren't covered by FOIA laws.

So the government has a lot of ways to hide information from us. But here's the thing your basically saying that THE RUSSIANS ATTACKED OUR ELECTIONS! relies only on a private company who gave an 8-page summary to the FIB, and whose methods cannot be reviewed, because the DNC only allowed Crowdstrike to examine the servers.

And if you have some questions about all this haze THEY put in the way YOU ARE A PUPPET OF PUTIN!!

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (krQz2)

163 Just throwing it out there, but typewriters don't get hacked.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)
++++
Yeah, about that ...

Posted by: Enigma Machine at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (HnUIn)

164 How they get in this time? Hacked into the coordination "efforts" for the rallies?

Patch: Philly To Host First Debate Between Kamala Harris And Donald Trump
Philadelphia will once again take front and center on the national political stage.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — The first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will take place in Philadelphia next month, once again bringing the city and the state of Pennsylvania to the forefront of the national political stage.

The event will be held at 9 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the National Constitution Center and will be broadcast on ABC, ABC News announced.

It's not yet clear if there will be a live audience for the event, according to the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

News anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis will moderate the event.

It comes as Harris has stormed back from a significant lead which Trump held over President Biden in the polls. Harris now leads Trump by one point nationally, according to an aggregate of polls from RealClearPolitics.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (NFX2v)

165 Just throwing it out there, but typewriters don't get hacked.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)

Neither do voting tabulation machines.

Posted by: Dominion Voting Machines at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

166 >>> 161 158
Also, lol @ "antics"

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (++ijt)

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Shenanigans > antics
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

Escapades > Shenanigans > Antics

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (FnneF)

167 Y’all want to get really, really mad? Go to America’s Digital Shield and see in realtime how google et al is deciding our elections for us.

https://tinyurl.com/mry9uk5e

Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (pZEOD)

168 Just throwing it out there, but typewriters don't get hacked.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (lTGtQ)
++++
I am not a spook and so don't know, but I would be *shocked* if things like one-time pads and dead drops haven't made a significant comeback in covert operations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (HnUIn)

169 166 Shenanigans > antics
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

Escapades > Shenanigans > Antics
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (FnneF)

=======

Janet Jackson was overrated!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

170 More fun to imply there is something there and let folks use their imagination.

==

right, psy ops !

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (V13WU)

171 Another Russia hoax? Bring it on, you soy dick, carpet munching child molesters media whores.

You just tried to assassinate Trump and he gave you the finger. Keep trying shitheads.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (7ydyJ)

172 Did Steele change his MO and is now pretending to be Iranian?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (lTGtQ)

173
Hijinks?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (++ijt)

174 Y’all want to get really, really mad? Go to America’s Digital Shield and see in realtime how google et al is deciding our elections for us.

https://tinyurl.com/mry9uk5e
Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2024 01:59 PM (pZEOD)

Just another reason I avoid google wherever possible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)

175 Make sure you close them.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:49 PM (JrF6z)

Wait, what?!?
Posted by: Ace Daring Lamont To Show His Face at August 16, 2024 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

I love this plaice.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (MsrgL)

176 167 Y’all want to get really, really mad? Go to America’s Digital Shield and see in realtime how google et al is deciding our elections for us.

https://tinyurl.com/mry9uk5e
Posted by: Piper

You're welcome.

Posted by: SCOTUS at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (/U5Yz)

177 Just throwing it out there, but typewriters don't get hacked.

fake but accurate

Posted by: Dan Rather at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (NGHTx)

178 >>> 164
==
It comes as Harris has stormed back from a significant lead which Trump held over President Biden in the polls. Harris now leads Trump by one point nationally, according to an aggregate of polls from RealClearPolitics.
Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 16, 2024 01:58 PM (NFX2v)

I thought storming was bad. Madison Cornbread said so!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (FnneF)

179 I don't know but it seems like karma that Ron Howard made a campaign movie for JD Vance.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 16, 2024 02:00 PM (dDSBl)

180 WAPO--*democracy dies in darkness* as the header.

True statement 'journalism died in the media'. Reflecting the actual truth.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (hKoQL)

181 141 Roger Stone? This flake? Back in politics? Involved in the 2024 campaign??

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 01:54 PM (++ijt)

I got it backwards.
Stone's email account was compromised and the colleague received it.

https://tinyurl.com/287pjccz
(CNN)

I actually don't know if Stone is part of Trump's campaign.
He's always been an informal advisor to Trump.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (6ydKt)

182 I am not a spook and so don't know, but I would be *shocked* if things like one-time pads and dead drops haven't made a significant comeback in covert operations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Numbers station transmissions have picked up in the last year or so.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (/U5Yz)

183 This mountainous bikini blonde hates the press and its operators:
http://tiny.cc/355hzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (HnUIn)

184 despite publicly criticizing Musk's antics
_______________

Nice smear there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (slRS9)

185 I actually don't know if Stone is part of Trump's campaign.
He's always been an informal advisor to Trump.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (6ydKt)

I thought he was in prison.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (WTFYU)

186 Numbers station transmissions have picked up in the last year or so.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (/U5Yz)
++++
It wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (HnUIn)

187 Hey man......Keep that shit up and you'll hurt Minx 0.8 beta's feelings.......
Posted by: Sponge

It's a beta. Betas are meant to be abused.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (MsrgL)

188 >>> 183 I am not a spook and so don't know, but I would be *shocked* if things like one-time pads and dead drops haven't made a significant comeback in covert operations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Numbers station transmissions have picked up in the last year or so.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (/U5Yz)

istr seeing a link to a numbers *ew tub channel* a few years ago.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (FnneF)

189 Can't stop the signal, Mal!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (tT6L1)

190 Probably sent it immediately to Kammunist hq

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 02:03 PM (zedJg)

191 186 I thought he was in prison.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (WTFYU)

Nah, Trump pardoned him.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:03 PM (6ydKt)

192
I thought he was in prison.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 16, 2024 02:02 PM (WTFYU)

He was released.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

193
This pbs hack used "antics" twice in the same very short paragraph!

Musk's antics are unlike any other Big Tech leader, and while it may be off-putting to a segment of his X user base, it could also attract eyeballs to his platform. Could this all be part of a broader plan? After all, despite publicly criticizing Musk's antics, those on the left continue to use his platform.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:04 PM (++ijt)

194 So the deep state is using Iran as a cutout to release Trump’s emails. Great.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump Vance 2024 at August 16, 2024 02:04 PM (wGerL)

195 184 This mountainous bikini blonde hates the press and its operators:
http://tiny.cc/355hzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Her nipples would provide a good finger hold on the ascent.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:04 PM (/U5Yz)

196 This pbs hack used "antics" twice in the same very short paragraph!

Musk's antics are unlike any other Big Tech leader, and while it may be off-putting to a segment of his X user base, it could also attract eyeballs to his platform. Could this all be part of a broader plan? After all, despite publicly criticizing Musk's antics, those on the left continue to use his platform.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:04 PM (++ijt)

Democracy dies in media bias.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

197 Seriously, it’s a very interesting project. As everyone here knows I am as good at IT stuff as…um…someone else is building shelves and even I get this. It’s crazy- they did targeted outreach via landing page reminders to register to vote twice as often to democrats as republicans.

Posted by: Piper at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (p4NUW)

198 Damn Intel processor. Still waiting for Bios update for my new PC. Locked up again. Intel should be sued up the wahoo if they don't replace the processors their micro-code damaged due to over-voltage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (ynpvh)

199 http://tiny.cc/355hzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Very mountainous mountains in that......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

200
Oh, the gif days...

CBD got SO mad at me...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles

I definitely remember that someone had a string of blinking colored lights as their signature.

I am less sure of this one, but someone (else?) had a moving choo-choo train as their signature, too.

Then, one day, things somehow got out of hand and that nascent renaissance of signature line artistry was crushed like an egg.

** sniffles **

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (xG4kz)

201 Democracy dies in media bias.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)
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And discourse dies in semi-literate blathering by Party apparatchiks who control most means of publication.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (HnUIn)

202 Numbers station transmissions have picked up in the last year or so.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:01 PM (/U5Yz)
++++
It wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
+++
What's the frequency Kenneth?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (Lo97M)

203 199 Damn Intel processor. Still waiting for Bios update for my new PC. Locked up again. Intel should be sued up the wahoo if they don't replace the processors their micro-code damaged due to over-voltage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (ynpvh)

Locked up again, meaning another over-voltage event for the µP. More damage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 02:06 PM (ynpvh)

204 I saw Musk's Antics open up for Trump's Buffoonery back in 86

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:06 PM (JrF6z)

205
Using "antics" twice in two sentences, without a sentence apart.

That's some Shit Writing by a frustrated leftist with a small lexicon.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:06 PM (++ijt)

206 Not good enough. NPR - and PBS - don't get all *that* much taxpayer money and could operate comfortably without it
_______________

Good. Then they won't miss it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:06 PM (slRS9)

207 OT, math a retarded troll *might* be able to follow (remove space):
https://instapundit.com /667283/

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:06 PM (FnneF)

208 All in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State~!

@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Libs of TikTok has obtained insider training material from @AdvanceAuto detailing a complete DEI takeover of company policy & culture.

It includes race-based hiring practices discriminating against White people and encouraging employees to snitch on fellow workers who don't follow the DEI policies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 16, 2024 02:07 PM (IG4Id)

209 Good. Then they won't miss it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:06 PM (slRS9)
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Of course they would. Every penny must be defended. But the *real* risk is that defunding could threaten those extremely lucrative spectrum allocations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 02:07 PM (HnUIn)

210 I didn't know this and it's hilarious.

May 2021:

"Vice President Kamala Harris to lead National Space Council under Biden administration"

https://tinyurl.com/yej7es6k

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:07 PM (5IIoe)

211 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Libs of TikTok has obtained insider training material from @AdvanceAuto detailing a complete DEI takeover of company policy & culture.

I don't know that I've ever seen an actual Advance Auto Parts store in real life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

212 Calling Kamala a communist made the Left mad because most of them don’t know what a communist is . They only think it’s an unsavory insult from long ago.

They are communists and don’t even know it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:08 PM (B1dzx)

213 How many times is the n word used in those emails? Oops

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:08 PM (BaG4F)

214 "How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views"

yeah, the left does "amplify" leftist views 24/7 on their multiple BigPlatforms, but they go much further. They censor/punish opposing views, and they lie constantly about every conservative position.

And of course the "right" does not have lawfare power -- both huge law firms and much of the judicial system, along with Garland/Wray and all of DeepState.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (Cus5s)

215 They are communists and don’t even know it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:08 PM (B1dzx)
++++
That's what real victory looks like.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (HnUIn)

216 Oh look! That didn't take long.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (FnneF)

217 200 http://tiny.cc/355hzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Very mountainous mountains in that......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Will ya'll be yodeling climbing those alps?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

218 Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:08 PM (BaG4F)

#BarrelMouthTrigger

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

219
They don't imply but explicitly say the Trump campaign has verified these leaked docs as genuine.

I don't even believe that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (++ijt)

220 CNN, August 13, 2024, 'Suspected Iranian hackers breached Roger Stone’s personal email as part of effort to target Trump campaign, sources say'

In part, "The FBI also briefed the Biden-Harris campaign about Iranian hackers targeting that campaign, one of the sources said.

“In July, the campaign legal and security teams were notified by the FBI that we were targeted by a foreign actor influence operation,” a Harris campaign official said in a statement on Tuesday. “We have robust cybersecurity measures in place and are not aware of any security breaches of our systems resulting from those efforts. We remain in communication with appropriate law enforcement authorities.”

Lucky them

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too. at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (NFX2v)

221 Democracy dies in media bias.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)
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You could have left off that last word.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (krQz2)

222 #BarrelMouthTrigger
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

His mouth is busy

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:10 PM (JrF6z)

223 istr seeing a link to a numbers *ew tub channel* a few years ago.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

They are infrequent on the HF radio spectrum, usually in the 25 and 31M bands. You can listen on the web if server covers these short wave bands at http://websdr.org/ Mode is USB or AM.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:10 PM (/U5Yz)

224
Will ya'll be yodeling climbing those alps?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (ynpvh)

I'm not a doctor, but I'll gladly take a peak.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

225 I don't know that I've ever seen an actual Advance Auto Parts store in real life.

-

They're pretty common down here in the South. Wildly overpriced, and prices are different if you order pickup or just go in the store.

I've gone for a part and compared prices to Amazon while the lesbian behind the counter waits. Unless you're pressed for time 99% of the time you'll be better off letting Amazon deliver it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:10 PM (5IIoe)

226 215 "How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views"

yeah, the left does "amplify" leftist views 24/7 on their multiple BigPlatforms, but they go much further. They censor/punish opposing views, and they lie constantly about every conservative position.

And of course the "right" does not have lawfare power -- both huge law firms and much of the judicial system, along with Garland/Wray and all of DeepState.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2024 02:09 PM (Cus5s)

Naw, they don't amplify at all... /sarc
Anyway, quashing opposing views is not amplification.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2024 02:10 PM (ynpvh)

227 I'm going to have to be convinced this was actually Iran and not the CIA and/or FBI. Is everybody else just assuming it was actually perpetrated by the accused?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 16, 2024 02:11 PM (Ij2uN)

228 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d

Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)

229 Only reason I believe it might be Iran is because they definitely don’t want Trump as President.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (B1dzx)

230 Is everybody else just assuming it was actually perpetrated by the accused?
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser a

Narratives must be maintained at all times, tovarisch.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 16, 2024 02:13 PM (IG4Id)

231 Only reason I believe it might be Iran is because they definitely don’t want Trump as President.
Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (B1dzx)
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Plus, Iran is an allied power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2024 02:13 PM (HnUIn)

232 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)

She can suck it.

No protection for you, twat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

233 Communism sucks.
Communists? A whole lower level of suckitude.

Legacy media delenda est.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at August 16, 2024 02:13 PM (gxokI)

234 >>> 230 Only reason I believe it might be Iran is because they definitely don’t want Trump as President.
Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (B1dzx)

Returning the favor of *somebody* allegedly giving them names of Jooo spies in their country?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:13 PM (FnneF)

235
I don't know that I've ever seen an actual Advance Auto Parts store in real life.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

We had one in town until it closed a couple of years ago. I went in there once for a taillight bulb and the owners, who looked like Ben and Jerry pissed me off when I asked them a question. I left the taillight on the counter and left. Fuck them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (/U5Yz)

236
"Vice President Kamala Harris to lead National Space Council under Biden administration"

There is a mountain of evidence for Kammie's predilection for "under" positions.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (xG4kz)

237 They are communists and don’t even know it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:08 PM (B1dzx)
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Using "communism" without communes just obscures the fact that what is called "Communism" as was implemented in Russian and China, is really a brand of fascism.

Russia wanted to get to Marx's state-less communes. But the first phase is Marx's "Dictatorship (In The Name) Of the Proletariat", which would be a cleansing first step, but still a dictatorship.

A dictator has a state, there's no getting around to it, so to the extent that state practices socialism, it is a national socialism, the term Mussolini invented for the economic system of fascism.

It's fascism. China is a fascist empire.

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (krQz2)

238 Neither the CIA, FBI or State want PDT back in power. I can see the aforementioned giving Iran an assist.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (tT6L1)

239 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)
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It would be a bit of a "tell" if she rejected it because she didn't trust them to do the job...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (7fElN)

240 CCP Troll's a racist and doesn't know it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (JvZF+)

241 Communism is fascism that pays lip service to "really one day going international--just wait".

Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 02:15 PM (krQz2)

242 The FBI is now investigating.
----------

Rotfl
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 01:32 PM (JrF6z)

Pretty much.

Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2024 02:15 PM (rj6Yv)

243 @libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Libs of TikTok has obtained insider training material from @AdvanceAuto detailing a complete DEI takeover of company policy & culture.

It includes race-based hiring practices discriminating against White people and encouraging employees to snitch on fellow workers who don't follow the DEI policies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 16, 2024 02:07 PM (IG4Id)
_______________

They're getting on the DEI bus just as it is about to wrap up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:15 PM (slRS9)

244 >>> 240 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)
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It would be a bit of a "tell" if she rejected it because she didn't trust them to do the job...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (7fElN)

Well, if she dies unexpectedly, she can rest assured that her family won't need to worry about funeral expenses as the Eff.Bee.EYE will make sure she's cremated within a couple weeks.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:15 PM (FnneF)

245 CCP Troll's a racist and doesn't know it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (JvZF+)

He knows it. He just plays for the correct team, so it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

246 And for those that point out the positive of Trump not starting any new larger conflicts ( he had a number of tiny ones) it may not be possible to avoid this time. I hope so though.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:16 PM (B1dzx)

247 What? The troll is Kamala Harris???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:16 PM (FnneF)

248 N word in emails is a given. What about the k word? Double oops.

And the best will be when he calls his rube voters dummies or something. And still the rubes will stick with him.

This is gonna be so good.

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:16 PM (sQhK7)

249 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)
____________

She's doomed.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:16 PM (slRS9)

250 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)

May her detail be as competent as Trump's was.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 16, 2024 02:17 PM (JCLJi)

251 WTF is he talking about?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

252 It would be a bit of a "tell" if she rejected it because she didn't trust them to do the job...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (7fElN)

On the contrary, it would be a tell if she did.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:17 PM (JrF6z)

253
According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster

The Powers That Be insisted that when Cheatle's time to be shuffled off this mortal coil comes, they are the ones choosing the time and place.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 02:18 PM (xG4kz)

254 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster

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And her choice of the good agents from Trump's detail.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:18 PM (5IIoe)

255
Something stinks in Denmark, and it's this whole story.

Nobody else thinks this stinks?

The story starts off with the claim that the Trump campaign verified the veracity of the entire story. I really find that hard to believe.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:18 PM (PtCPU)

256 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)
_________________

So Cheatle can "socialize" with Agent Fupa. For some values of "socializing."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (slRS9)

257 Suspected Iranian hackers breached Roger Stone’s personal email as part of effort to target Trump campaign, sources say'
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Iranians are working for the CIA now?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (fs1hN)

258 Posted by: Axeman at August 16, 2024 02:14 PM (krQz2)

The venn diagram is a perfect circle in my opinion.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (B1dzx)

259 I buy from Advance a lot and dump my old oil there. If I'm not in a hurry though rockauto or ebay will be cheaper.

Usually the tattooed dyke will be standing outside smoking, or will be glaring from behind the counter, daring you to challenge her on the wrong part she just brought up from the back.

Posted by: fd at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (vFG9F)

260 CoMMunIsT

You people have a one note band. Even “communists” don’t believe in communism. But in your boomer mentality anyone slightly to the left of Reagan is a communist. Obama was a communist, Biden is a communist, Kamala is a communist. And yet all 3 led booming capitalistic economies tht benefited everyone.

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (sQhK7)

261 Cheatle resigned, right? She's no longer an employee?

So what type of system of government do you have when unelected employees get SS protection, and retired unelected employees get SS protection?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:20 PM (5IIoe)

262 Usually the tattooed dyke will be standing outside smoking, or will be glaring from behind the counter, daring you to challenge her on the wrong part she just brought up from the back.
Posted by: fd at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (vFG9F)

Spot on !

I have had good luck with rock auto

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 16, 2024 02:20 PM (NtVYv)

263 Am I the only one who suspects Cheatle eats at the "Y?"

Wiki page makes no mention of husband, etc.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:20 PM (slRS9)

264 Usually the tattooed dyke will be standing outside smoking, or will be glaring from behind the counter, daring you to challenge her on the wrong part she just brought up from the back.

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The whole DEI thing makes a lot more sense now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (5IIoe)

265
Posted by: I Suck Cock at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (sQhK7)

Jettison this cunt.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (PtCPU)

266 Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (sQhK7

You're not not a communist. You’re just a dick sucker.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (B1dzx)

267 Insty has a hilarious tweet links.

Some stuffy, out-of-touch leftie gets fact-check on the real-world price of groceries and repeatedly embarrasses himself by telling the replies they are lying.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (7oyRZ)

268 According to Redstate, Biden just gave Cheatle SS protection. https://tinyurl.com/348jyd6d
Posted by: beckster at August 16, 2024 02:12 PM (GbGY3)
____________

I'd love to hear RFK Jr.'s reaction to this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (slRS9)

269 266 Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (sQhK7

You're not not a communist. You’re just a dick sucker.
Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (B1dzx)

Cock consumist = Communist?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KbCG3)

270 Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:16 PM (sQhK7)

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If the Trump campaign was using the N word in their emails you'd be seeing it blasted all over every screen in the country.
The corporate media would be jumping all over themselves to get that story out.

Trump doesn't use email, never has, so you won't see him calling anybody anything in any email.

The more you type the more you expose yourself as an ignorant, delusional, child.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (6ydKt)

271
I too use Rock Auto.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (PtCPU)

272 Peter Marshall, host of Hollywood Squares dead at 98. That's a helluva run.

"It was the easiest thing I’ve ever done in show business,” Marshall said in a 2010 interview for the Archive of American Television. “I walked in, said ‘Hello stars,’ I read questions and laughed. And it paid very well.”

The first joke would set the template for the years that followed:

Marshall: “Paul, why do motorcyclists wear leather?”

Lynde: “Because chiffon wrinkles.”

Loved this show.

Posted by: Cheri at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (oiNtH)

273 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (KbCG3)

Damn I wish I thought of that.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (B1dzx)

274 We had a Carquest near us that I like a lot but they merged with Advance not too long ago and now there's no difference.

I do still prefer the old style counter if I know they're going to have to get the part from the back, though. Something nostalgic about that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (5IIoe)

275 Obama was a communist, Biden is a communist, Kamala is a communist. And yet all 3 led booming capitalistic economies tht benefited everyone.

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (sQhK7)

My grocery and health care bills would like to have a word with you.

Posted by: pookysgirl cringes every time at the checkout at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (dtlDP)

276 When the votes are counted (yes, counted) and Trump/Vance wins and the GOP makes significant gains in the House and Senate, what then?

Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2024 02:23 PM (rj6Yv)

277 >>> 267 Insty has a hilarious tweet links.

Some stuffy, out-of-touch leftie gets fact-check on the real-world price of groceries and repeatedly embarrasses himself by telling the replies they are lying.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (7oyRZ)

Link in my #207. Math-challenged retards hardest hit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:23 PM (FnneF)

278
btw, try to avoid chinese aftermarket parts, if possible

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:23 PM (PtCPU)

279 And yet all 3 led booming capitalistic economies tht benefited everyone.

IF there was something that was completely opposite of the truth, this would be it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

280 I don't know that I've ever seen an actual Advance Auto Parts store in real life.

==

they are real...been to one recently...the staff was nice actually...so why not ruin it !

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 02:23 PM (V13WU)

281 If Trump doesn’t use email then you have nothing to worry about. Why are you freaking out over this?

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (6K2yZ)

282 We have an AutoZone. One day I saw Justice Scalia on his way home from work stop and go in to get something.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (LxER7)

283 Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:21 PM (B1dzx)

It's a sock. They admitted to it a thread the other day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (dTTBf)

284 Obama was a communist, Biden is a communist, Kamala is a communist. And yet all 3 led booming capitalistic economies tht benefited everyone.

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:19 PM (sQhK7)

My grocery and health care bills would like to have a word with you.
Posted by: pookysgirl cringes every time at the checkout at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (dtlDP)

Obama was endorsed by the local communist organizations. His mentor was an outspoken communists. And his mother was a whore communist.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (B1dzx)

285
The failure rate of aftermarket parts and "rebuilt" or "remanufactured" parts are like biden's inflation: at an all-time high.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (PtCPU)

286 279 IF there was something that was completely opposite of the truth, this would be it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

I remember when Obama made fun of the idea that Trump had a magic wand to make the economy better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

287 >>> It's a sock. They admitted to it a thread the other day.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (dTTBf)

Sock for whom? Do you recall which thread? It's impressively stupid, especially when math is involved.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (FnneF)

288 Maga is Weird is Banana Splits Guy !

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (V13WU)

289 I too use Rock Auto.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:22 PM (PtCPU)

My garage fridge is covered in magnets.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

290 Yeah, "booming"

@WallStreetApes
Results of 3 1/2 Years in the Kamala Harris’ Economy

UPDATED: Stores Closing In 2024

- Rue 21 closing all 540 remaining stores after filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Foot Locker is closing a total of 400 stores in mall locations (20% of their locations)
- Rite Aid has already closed 231 locations this year (13.5% of their total locations)
- Best Buy are closing 15 of their locations
- Family Dollar is closing 600 stores
- CVS is closing 900 stores by the end of the year (10% of their locations)
- Bed Bath & Beyond closing all 360 remaining stores after filing for bankruptcy
- Christmas tree shops is closing all 73 of its remaining stores
- Charters closing all stores as part of a shift to online retail
- The 99 Cent Store all 371 locations makes sense considering the economy
- Express closes 95 of its stores as part of its bankruptcy restructuring (20% of store locations)
- Walgreens is closing 150 stores by August
- H&M is planning to close 240 stores globally
- David’s Bridal closing all locations
- Tuesday Morning closing all locations

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (IG4Id)

291
Indeed, the failure/defect rate of re-manned alternators are, like, 50%.

Never buy the cheapest part. Do your research.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (PtCPU)

292 I wish our side engaged in this kind of subterfuge. Beg, borrow, cheat, steal to win. They know they've got to energize their base to make the steal less obvious.

.......and NO, I don't say this to give up or depress people from voting. Drag people, kick them in the ass to get MF'ers to the polls because these pricks are positioning to steal this again.

Posted by: JROD at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (IlL6s)

293 A lot of the Marxist "doc" releases and dirty tricks will be centered around Trump's Sept. 18 sentencing hearing.

Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (rj6Yv)

294 >>> 288 [troll] is Banana Splits Guy !
Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (V13WU)

Unpossible. No comments about 'more than 10 miles away', let alone drooling over Winona Ryder.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:26 PM (FnneF)

295 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (FnneF)

No; I didn't see it. Someone else reported it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 16, 2024 02:26 PM (dTTBf)

296 I am stealing "krunky". It describes my mornings of krunky.
But, unlike Fat Joney Goldberg, I will attribute it to Mr. Ace-of-Spades.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (00fnD)

297 292 I wish our side engaged in this kind of subterfuge.

Posted by: JROD at August 16, 2024 02:25 PM (IlL6s)

Funniest part is, even when dems are the victims it's their own that are doing it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (KbCG3)

298 btw, try to avoid chinese aftermarket parts, if possible

also factory chinese parts

Posted by: brak at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (NGHTx)

299 btw, try to avoid chinese aftermarket parts, if possible

-

Or buy straight from GM and get three thermostats in a row that stick open from the get-go.

I think it's more a sign of post-2020 (2012?). NOTHING is built worth a crap anymore. No one cares.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (5IIoe)

300 Give the media time to fake up some emails and weave them into the real ones they have, then they'll release the "damning details" close to the election.

Posted by: Coki at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (Wkrcf)

301 Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:26 PM (9jRls)

You don’t know what logic is retard.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (B1dzx)

302 I got some oil and a filter from Advance recently. It was an online special with a discount, so about $30 for full synthetic with a filter. Went and picked it up and got all the way home before discovering they gave me the wrong weight.

I've been dealing with parts people for over a half century and should know better. Always check. Sometimes you get a good parts guy who knows his shit and can tell a Chevy starter from a Ford, but 80% or more don't know much beyond what the computer tells them.

Posted by: fd at August 16, 2024 02:27 PM (vFG9F)

303 It's a sock taking over every single thread which is less like a sock and becoming more like an actual troll.

ParisParamus was a regular in good standing who became Average Joe who was like this and he (PP) eventually just became an actual hated person, hated worse than his own troll creation, and left crying.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (JrF6z)

304
My garage fridge is covered in magnets.
Posted by: Sponge

I got sick of saving them on my toolbox so I just toss them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (PtCPU)

305 304 It's a sock taking over every single thread which is less like a sock and becoming more like an actual troll.

ParisParamus was a regular in good standing who became Average Joe who was like this and he (PP) eventually just became an actual hated person, hated worse than his own troll creation, and left crying.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (JrF6z)

========

People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

306 It's a sock taking over every single thread which is less like a sock and becoming more like an actual troll.

--

Dang, maybe it is BSG

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Remember when womens jobs were genuinely important? at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (5IIoe)

307 If the sock's purpose is to annoy rather than amuse then mission accomplished.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (JvZF+)

308 Unpossible. No comments about 'more than 10 miles away', let alone drooling over Winona Ryder.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:26 PM (FnneF)

xzhi is in disguise !

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (V13WU)

309 281 If Trump doesn’t use email then you have nothing to worry about. Why are you freaking out over this?

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (6K2yZ)

It's well known to anybody who has any idea about politics the last decade that Trump doesn't use email.
If you're weren't an ignorant child you'd know this.

Nobody is freaking out.
You are delusional.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (6ydKt)

310 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
====

I can't stop.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:29 PM (JvZF+)

311 "Antics." About the world's richest and one of its smartest men; a guy NASA turns to to bail them out. That's some serious reporting right there.

Posted by: LASue at August 16, 2024 02:29 PM (llS7k)

312 Obama was endorsed by the local communist organizations. His mentor was an outspoken communists. And his mother was a whore communist.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:24 PM (B1dzx)

The rise of Obama was when I learned the term "red-diaper baby."

Posted by: pookysgirl, all edumacated and such at August 16, 2024 02:29 PM (dtlDP)

313 I go the O'Reilly around me - it's fun having a Land Rover btw - anyway they are all Mexican and they are great! super helpful. great prices and they help me out with questions and never talk down to me, not even a "your fault for owning a Land Rover" like I always get

I just think it's funny the Irish name - Mexican staff combo. it's like my favorite restaurant when I was a kid - Binni and Flynn's!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 16, 2024 02:30 PM (s3qiR)

314
Went and picked it up and got all the way home before discovering they gave me the wrong weight.
Posted by: fd

Did you go through a Drive-Thru??

Always Check Your Order Before You Leave!

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:30 PM (PtCPU)

315 That list of stores closing is brutal.

Biden-Harrisnomics is working!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2024 02:31 PM (7oyRZ)

316 312 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
====

I can't stop.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:29 PM (JvZF+)

=======

Really, it's a self-defeating argument from me.

I've never denied the charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

317 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

What? There's a troll?

Posted by: Proud Boomer at August 16, 2024 02:31 PM (JCLJi)

318 Trump freaking out -

https://tinyurl.com/yhebst2j
(X)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:31 PM (6ydKt)

319 Iranian hackers?

Sure.

This was 100% internal.

Posted by: Kestrel.987 at August 16, 2024 02:31 PM (dtX/B)

320 we need a thread on the conservative women bikini shots thing

apparently this dickwad from X (Hanania) baited them into posting "your best bikini pic" and way too many didn't know he was a douche leftist and did so

they do look good tho! worth thread?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 16, 2024 02:32 PM (s3qiR)

321 Harris is on stage explaining how she is going screw up the economy even further. "Lowering Costs" means DEI giving of money to some while saddling everyone else with cost. Plus printing money and more inflation.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 16, 2024 02:32 PM (LrWnf)

322 Closing stores is a good thing! All those choices mean one is burning a ton of fossil fuel driving around to find a good deal or your preferred brand!

Why do you hate Gaia when store closings obviously help the planet?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:32 PM (tT6L1)

323 @298 The Central Scrutinizer-Yeah, I don't believe for a second its the Iranians hacking the Trump campaign. I'm sure the Iranians are cozy enough with the regime to run cover the leftists here in our own backyard doing this shit.

Posted by: JROD at August 16, 2024 02:32 PM (IlL6s)

324 "Always Check Your Order Before You Leave!
Posted by: Soothsayer "

I know. Went in and the order was sitting behind the counter. Signed for it and left without even looking at the bottle. Completely my fault for not catching their screwup.

Posted by: fd at August 16, 2024 02:32 PM (vFG9F)

325 There is only one reason the press haven't published the hacked documents...

Finding out Trump's internal polls give him a 50-50 chance in NY, is not something the press wants out.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 16, 2024 02:33 PM (Da7Vv)

326 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

Never happen. Inevitably, some errant commenter, absent for some time and unaware of current events, will stumble into the comments stinking of valurite and hobo pelts and immediately engage the troll.

Posted by: Indian Call Center Drone at August 16, 2024 02:33 PM (P3jvJ)

327 "Antics." About the world's richest and one of its smartest men; a guy NASA turns to to bail them out. That's some serious reporting right there.
Posted by: LASue at August 16, 2024 02:29 PM (llS7k)

The MSM isn't "reporting" anymore. It's all propaganda, 24/7/365.

Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2024 02:33 PM (rj6Yv)

328 meh, the troll tends to shut up for a bit if you start posting how Biden was 8 points ahead this time in 2020.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2024 02:33 PM (7oyRZ)

329

LOL!

Chris Gore just mentioned something in tv/movies that I noticed, too: the forehead touching between characters being the new hug.

NOBODY DOES THIS!

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:33 PM (PtCPU)

330 Everyone knows Goldman Sachs is controlled by the WEF and the Trilateral Commission.

And Lyndon LaRouche.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (JvZF+)

331 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I second that. You are giving it the attention it craves. I guess the daily sponge baths from his "dad" aren't cutting it. Never punch down no matter how tempting.

Posted by: Cheri at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (oiNtH)

332 "X has remained surprisingly resilient throughout the recent controversy," Enberg said. "That's in no small part due to consumer fascination with conspiracy theories and Elon Musk himself."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:29 PM

No, you dummy (Enberg, not Ace). X is resilient because of network effects. As the #1 network of this type on the internet, it is now so powerful that even the people that swear to never use it again can't help themselves - you need to be on it if you want to remain relevant in the MSM. In a network, #1 is far, far more valuable than #2; just look at Facebook, Google, etc.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (sjkMN)

333 Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (JrF6z)

I was just thinking of ParisParamus yesterday and wondering what had become of him. Didn't realize he was Average Joe.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (s9EYN)

334 A quick story. Several years ago my son and I were at an art museum looking at a photograph that was printed (or more likely P-shopped) into a very skewed perspective. We were crouching near the floor trying to find a view point that would unskew it enough to tell what it was a photograph of. My son says "I think we're giving it what it wants." Guys, you're giving the troll what it wants.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (JDzkd)

335 What can ya say...
Communists have always liked to live off of other people's money.
Goldman gave, Obama accepted.

Don't forget the Netflix payoff after he left office.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (6ydKt)

336 The clapping seals are going crazy at everything Harris says.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (LrWnf)

337 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
====

I can't stop.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2024 02:29 PM (JvZF+)

Preaching to the choir is boring. If you can’t address the opposition in a political discussion either with ridicule or facts then what’s the point.

Movie and gun threads for the win.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (B1dzx)

338 328 There is only one reason the press haven't published the hacked documents...

Finding out Trump's internal polls give him a 50-50 chance in NY, is not something the press wants out.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 16, 2024 02:33 PM (Da7Vv)

This. If it was bad news for Trump, it would be out already.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (sjkMN)

339 There's no better way to not talk about the fake troll than to talk about not talking about the fake troll. I for one refuse to talk about him and I refuse to talk about not talking about him.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (JrF6z)

340 Chris Gore just mentioned something in tv/movies that I noticed, too: the forehead touching between characters being the new hug.

NOBODY DOES THIS!

omg yes!

they did it a ton in Dark too

btw that ended ok. but I had basically scripted out the ending (out loud, my husband was like "you'll probably be right") in the middle of season 2 so

it was fine. long and dull in spots. better than The Bear by like a million percent tho lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (s3qiR)

341 NEW: Harris will propose providing up to $25K in down payment support for 1st time homeowners, with more generous support for 1st generation homeowners, according to campaign official
____

Great, now my property taxes will go up even more. Also, given that my kids won't be 1st generation home owners, I doubt they'll get anywhere near the amount stolen from taxpayers as their illegal immigrant competitors will get for the subsidy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2024 02:36 PM (fs1hN)

342 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah....that's like telling people to move along, nothing to see here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

343 A halfway decent midwit troll gives one a chance to hone arguments.

The current troll doesn't qualify.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:36 PM (tT6L1)

344 I try to ignore the Trolls

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 02:37 PM (fwDg9)

345 This. If it was bad news for Trump, it would be out already.

correct

Ackman on X is saying that his pals still D-leaning aren't writing checks. they need reassurance that Kammie the Commie won't go commie.

they're not getting it.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 16, 2024 02:37 PM (s3qiR)

346 with more generous support for 1st generation homeowners, according to campaign official
-------

Read: Illegals

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:37 PM (JrF6z)

347
Ace should ban anyone who copy/paste's the troll's name without altering it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:37 PM (PtCPU)

348 "The email Trump is afraid of is the one that says the old man has no chance.
Posted by: MAGA is weird"

What makes you say that, MiW?

Posted by: AI fd at August 16, 2024 02:37 PM (vFG9F)

349
We've always been Best Buddies with East Irania

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 02:37 PM (xG4kz)

350 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:36 PM (tT6L1)

I probably will have to agree with that.

Posted by: polynikes at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (B1dzx)

351 Harris keeps harping about "lowering costs" without once addressing that prices are up because she and shit-pants blew up the economy by printing trillions of money. Instead she is blaming evil corporations for gouging...oh please make it stop.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (LrWnf)

352 Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (sjkMN)

Same as with YouTube. Nice that this network hates us less than that one does.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (s9EYN)

353
Yeah....that's like telling people to move along, nothing to see here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1

Or:
Calm down.
Why are you so hysterical?
That time of month?
...All work equally well!!

Posted by: LASue at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (llS7k)

354 That list of stores closing is brutal.

Biden-Harrisnomics is working!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

That's just half of the list:
x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1824401052097188021

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (IG4Id)

355 @290 with all those stores closing the line "you'll have nothing and you'll like it" might just come true

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (gXGVH)

356 351 Harris keeps harping about "lowering costs" without once addressing that prices are up because she and shit-pants blew up the economy by printing trillions of money. Instead she is blaming evil corporations for gouging...oh please make it stop.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (LrWnf)

Slam dunk for Trump.

"Weird. They weren't gouging when I was in office. What gives?"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (KbCG3)

357 >>> 351 Harris keeps harping about "lowering costs" without once addressing that prices are up because she and shit-pants blew up the economy by printing trillions of money. Instead she is blaming evil corporations for gouging...oh please make it stop.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 16, 2024 02:38 PM (LrWnf)

Why *hasn't* she made it (inflation) stop at any time in the past 3 1/2 years?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (FnneF)

358
There's no better way to not talk about the fake troll than to talk about not talking about the fake troll. I for one refuse to talk about him and I refuse to talk about not talking about him.
Posted by: ...

That was Kamala-esque

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (xG4kz)

359 Eh, Harris is vulnerable to the "why can't you fix it now?" argument along with, "If inflation is over, why does it still need to be fixed?"

Stuff a real press corp should be asking Kamala about.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (tT6L1)

360 Drop a nuke on Kharg Island for this election interference.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (9xzST)

361
they did it a ton in Dark too

btw that ended ok. but I had basically scripted out the ending (out loud, my husband was like "you'll probably be right") in the middle of season 2 so

it was fine. long and dull in spots. better than The Bear by like a million percent tho lol
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 16, 2024 02:35

I've never noticed that but I bet from know on I will see it everywhere but in real life.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 16, 2024 02:39 PM (CmlIW)

362
Now You Get It!

Fake News talking about how "bad" it will be for Trump is ALWAYS worse than it actually is.

That's why the Fake News had to spent months, 24/7, talking up the fake trial and then the fake "conviction."

In reality, it didn't ruin Trump, it made him more popular.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:40 PM (PtCPU)

363 She wants to pass a law banning food price gouging. This sounds strangely like the 1930s Soviets going after wreckers.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 16, 2024 02:40 PM (LrWnf)

364 This. If it was bad news for Trump, it would be out already.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (sjkMN)

If the Trump electronic security team learned anything from the 2015-2016 campaign, it is that the campaign's electronic communication systems were deeply penetrated by not-friendly services, domestic and possibly foreign. I'm hoping they are cognizant that the same is likely happening now.

Posted by: mrp at August 16, 2024 02:40 PM (rj6Yv)

365 >>> 339
==
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 02:35 PM (JrF6z)

How about Prometheus?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 16, 2024 02:40 PM (FnneF)

366
NOOD

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 16, 2024 02:40 PM (PtCPU)

367 you need to be on it if you want to remain relevant in the MSM. In a network, #1 is far, far more valuable than #2; just look at Facebook, Google, etc.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 16, 2024 02:34 PM (sjkMN)

The MSM can't be bothered to get off their duffs and actually go to events, they just hang out on Twitter and hope they can be the first ones to spot something.

Posted by: pookysgirl at August 16, 2024 02:40 PM (dtlDP)

368 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Next you'll be telling us to not mention the war in front of the Germans...

Posted by: Basil Fawlty at August 16, 2024 02:41 PM (7fElN)

369 Stuff a real press corp should be asking Kamala about.
_____

To be fair, they don't want to listen to her ramble on like a 5th grader giving a book report on a book she hasn't read.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2024 02:41 PM (fs1hN)

370
So, my $200k college loan forgiven and another $25k toward a new house.

Daddy, democrat Mommy loves me more than you do!

Posted by: Auspex at August 16, 2024 02:41 PM (j4U/Z)

371 They know how to pick them !

"The House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over his numerous connections to China, which include a student exchange program funded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Chinese secret police station operating in the Twin Cities, and much more."

Posted by: runner at August 16, 2024 02:41 PM (V13WU)

372 368 People, just stop engaging with the troll or talking about the troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
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Next you'll be telling us to not mention the war in front of the Germans...
Posted by: Basil Fawlty at August 16, 2024 02:41 PM (7fElN)

======

No, you can do that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 16, 2024 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

373 I’m old enough to remember when the media lectured that it was illegal to even read hacked documents.

They are all a bunch of lying, partisan $&@?!$ers.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2024 02:42 PM (Hkcdp)

374 @349 Krebs v Carnot-someone in the regime is buddies with someone over in Iran or are we just kissing their asses by lifting sanctions and allowing them access to money to fund terrorism and proxy wars? Either way I don't believe it was Iran that hacked the campaign and if they didn't and the regime is accusing them WTF are they going to say about it? Deny it and not be believed anyway? Who knows, I sure don't and we're all guessing with these bastards and what they're doing.

Posted by: JROD at August 16, 2024 02:43 PM (IlL6s)

375
Bidenomics, explained:

"Middle Out!"
(You'll get fat eating way more lower priced carbs!)

"Bottom Up!"
(Typo; it was supposed to be "Bottoms Up!")
(You'll spend your days being shit-faced drunk!)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2024 02:43 PM (xG4kz)

376 So…. Julian Assange, Snowden, Kim Dotcom or Seth Rich(rip) comment on this strange new respect for the news value of hacked documents????

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2024 02:44 PM (Hkcdp)

377 I just think it's funny the Irish name - Mexican staff combo.

You had forgotten Bernardo O'Reilly?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 16, 2024 02:44 PM (zdLoL)

378 I've not paid much attention, but, it appears the Kamala campaign has dropped the "convicted felon" line of attack.

Has the Kamala campaign realized a lot of American understand we've a two tier justice system and what they're doing to PDT reminds voters of that fact?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 16, 2024 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

379 I bought an Advanced Auto Parts battery nine months ago. Still under warranty. Looking at the then and now receipts, the same battery increased in price by $50.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 16, 2024 02:44 PM (wBaIH)

380 The Ho is supposed to be telling us about her great sinking the economy plan now

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2024 02:46 PM (fwDg9)

381
Chris Gore just mentioned something in tv/movies that I noticed, too: the forehead touching between characters being the new hug.

Vulcan mind meld

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2024 02:57 PM (63Dwl)

382 It is curious how a country the regime sent billions of dollars to in return hacks the emails of the opposition leader during an election.

What a coincidence!

Notice our enemies are not hacking regime emails or trying to assassinate our current leader. And our allies are not threatening social media companies for talking to regime apologists.

The whole world is telling us who they think will best represent our interests over their's.

Posted by: Thatch at August 16, 2024 03:11 PM (oEcOb)

383 Obama's "soaring rhetoric" was light on details

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2024 03:23 PM (JrF6z)

384 The M.S. Media Bottom Feeders lead by the New York Slimes(Times)will spew their typical leftists propaganda and Americans should just be totally skeptical about it all

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 16, 2024 04:30 PM (wGqjj)

385 228 I'm going to have to be convinced this was actually Iran and not the CIA and/or FBI. Is everybody else just assuming it was actually perpetrated by the accused?
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser
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Iran, well known for its High Tec computing industries, extremely competitive with Nigeria.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 16, 2024 04:48 PM (lCWOD)

386 It is not close enough to the election to dump them. They will wait until a week or two before to cause maximum damage. Getting all the media on board.

Posted by: MDD at August 16, 2024 06:06 PM (N1MD9)

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