Karoline Leavitt Says She Is Taking Back the Power to Decide Who Enters the WH Press Room From the Far-Left Propaganda Organization the WHCA

They were given this role with the understanding that they would be neutral and objective. They have violated this understanding.

The White House said Tuesday that it would take over which outlets are allowed into the press pool covering the president, wrestling such control from the White House Correspondents' Association.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said moving forward, the White House press pool, a small group of reporters that travels with and cover the president's daily activities, will now be determined by administration officials. Traditionally, the press pool is coordinated by the Correspondents' Association, which White House officials across multiple administrations have traditionally given deference to.
"It's beyond time the White House press pool reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025," Leavitt said during a briefing with reporters.
The goal, Leavitt said, is to give new or alternative media companies greater access to the administration while still keeping certain "legacy" outlets in the rotation.
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Leavitt's announcement comes as the White House continues to bar The Associated Press from access to President Trump in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and in other spaces where typically only the pool gathers, due to lack to space.
The barring came in response to the news organization indicated it would not change its influential stylebook to reflect Trump's renaming of the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America."

In related news, a DC judge finally turned down a lefty for a temporary restraining order against the President:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday declined to restore The Associated Press's access to certain spaces open to the media at the White House, saying AP failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits and emphasized that additional briefing on the matter is necessary "given the stakes" for both parties. The judge set an expedited schedule and ordered arguments on a preliminary injunction for March 20.
Leavitt celebrated the judge's ruling Tuesday and said the White House wants "more outlets and new outlets to cover the press pool."

The WHCA -- the same people who put on the savage Trump-bashing "Nerd Prom" for "journalists" and their leftwing celebrity guests every year -- complained that they weren't being treated fairly.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the WHCA said the White House "did not give the WHCA board a heads up or have any discussions about today's announcements."
"This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said.
"For generations, the working journalists elected to lead the White House Correspondents' Association board have consistently expanded the WHCA's membership and its pool rotations to facilitate the inclusion of new and emerging outlets."

🚨 HOLY SMOKES.

Karoline Leavitt just announced that the White House will cut power from the “White House Correspondents Association” and make their own press pool.

This is huge. pic.twitter.com/KR4VANmgwM
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) February 25, 2025

Ahead of Karoline’s first ever press briefing, I overheard some WH correspondents whispering: “They don’t have the power to change anything, right?”

Today there were gasps when Leavitt announced the change to the press pool. https://t.co/mgj5MbaHPR
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) February 25, 2025

The NPC Talking Points Update has gone out.

Bonus: The Washington Post has solid reporting out that criminals deported to Guantanamo Bay are complaining and lodging typical prisoner beefs.

The Washington Post’s @JaxAlemany: “I wanted to get your response to some Washington Post reporting of the migrants who stayed over at Guantanamo Bay for the last two weeks. They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages, and… pic.twitter.com/qsbMdLWa5n
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 25, 2025

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Posted by: A dude in MI at February 25, 2025 04:21 PM (/6GbT)

2
Hi.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 25, 2025 04:22 PM (Xwngz)

3
Now here's the money line from the content:

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Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (Xwngz)

4 I'd kinda sorta like to see Joe Rogan at a press conference smoking a gigantic spliff.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (kTd/k)

5 How will we know when to update our talking points now?

Posted by: Leftist NPCs at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (UpGHA)

6 Not 1st.

Posted by: RI Red at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (xpM9w)

7 If they're in Gauntanamo, they're bad people. They're not your run of the mill criminal type illegals.

For all I care, put up a thirty foot wall and toss rations into the prison yard and let the inmates fight for their meal.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

8 >> Today there were gasps when Leavitt announced the change to the press pool.

Life comes at you hard, smacks you in the face and then you look like Joy Reid. Oof.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2025 04:25 PM (2gvXb)

9 >>> they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages, and alleged that they were not treated as human beings.

Yes, that is a fair description of a prison. The men are in prison. Locked in cages, rarely let outside, and often times shackled. I too would not feel like a human being under those conditions, which is why I try not to do anything that will land me in prison.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:26 PM (uCjyK)

10 Yeah, this is interesting but Texas is set to tighten rules for Botox!

Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2025 04:26 PM (y9ksN)

11 Shorter Leavitt

Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 25, 2025 04:26 PM (u73oe)

12 Prisoners don't like being in prison! Shocking.

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:26 PM (KQk9m)

13 7 If they're in Gauntanamo, they're bad people. They're not your run of the mill criminal type illegals.

For all I care, put up a thirty foot wall and toss rations into the prison yard and let the inmates fight for their meal.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

I would rather be locked up in Gitmo than sitting in jail on Rikers.

I suspect Gitmo is much safer and has fewer crazy schizophrenics

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:27 PM (uCjyK)

14 Hooray and all of that.

This said, something bothers me about Leavitt, and not the fact that she won't return my phone calls. It's just that in the announcement about removing WHCA as a factor, it sounded like she was giving a speech.

Me being a bit cantankerous maybe, but it does seem odd to my ears.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 04:27 PM (DJPFk)

15 I hope they put John Solomon and Miranda Devine in the front row so they can fart and waive it at the MSM.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2025 04:27 PM (2gvXb)

16 >>>"For generations, the working journalists elected to lead the White House Correspondents' Association board have consistently expanded the WHCA's membership and its pool rotations to facilitate the inclusion of new and emerging outlets."

Oh, NOW they're conservatives.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:27 PM (v0TzN)

17 That reporter asking about GTMO didn’t even realize she was throwing Leavitt a softball

Posted by: kallisto at February 25, 2025 04:27 PM (twjRB)

18 hope they put John Solomon and Miranda Devine in the front row so they can fart and waive it at the MSM.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2025 04:27 PM (2gvXb

Don't forget Julie Kelly!

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (MGB5H)

19 Oh Noes!

Criminal and violent illegals are being treated like illegal violent criminals!

What ever shall we do?

Posted by: Beartooth at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (UpGHA)

20 Live by the judge, lose your chair at the briefing room by the judge.

It is quite delicious that this wouldn't have happened if the AP hadn't had a hissy fit about the Gulf of America and went running to court about it.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (fujDt)

21 Since all leftwing reporters are part of the same borg hivemind is there any reason to have more then one of them in the press pool?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

22 So refreshing to hear "this was a promise that was made" and "committed heinious crimes against women and girls. .. these are criminals you are talking about". in response to that question instead of some weak sauce wordage that the conditions are within the Geneva conventions or whatever. Go team Trump. We the people are loving this.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (CKOCg)

23 Good. They need to invite that Jap fella who despises everyone and maybe the editor of "Screw" magazine.

Posted by: Zombie Al Goldstein at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (NAF5O)

24 "You'll regret this when we don't allow Breitbart in the WH briefing room next time!"

"Like...last time? How would that be different?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

25 The NPC Talking Points Update has gone out.

Bonus: The Washington Post has solid reporting out that criminals deported to Guantanamo Bay are complaining and lodging typical prisoner beefs.

Pffffffft!!! What is this SWILL!!!

Posted by: Gitmo illegal trying the wine at February 25, 2025 04:29 PM (xCA6C)

26 The un-included press outlets should be given buggy whips on the way out the door.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at February 25, 2025 04:29 PM (bNf8H)

27 21 Live by the judge, lose your chair at the briefing room by the judge.

It is quite delicious that this wouldn't have happened if the AP hadn't had a hissy fit about the Gulf of America and went running to court about it.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (fujDt)

Trump was threatening to do this in his last term and was talking about it during the campaign, too.

It is pretty wild that tiny group of people, DC insiders all of them, get to decide who does and who does not have access to the president as a reporter.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:29 PM (uCjyK)

28 Still not tired of winning.

And their whining is music to my ears.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (aPBRN)

29 >>> "migrants who stayed over at Guantanamo Bay for the last two weeks. They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages, and alleged that they were not treated as human beings. Does the White House have any response to those conditions?”

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Now to do J6'ers.

Oh, too late.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (JfxgE)

30 With the use of the word "migrants" the Post managed to affirm why the White House should control who has access.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (tT6L1)

31 7 If they're in Gauntanamo, they're bad people. They're not your run of the mill criminal type illegals.

For all I care, put up a thirty foot wall and toss rations into the prison yard and let the inmates fight for their meal.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 04:24 PM (tT6L1)
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I prefer the Turkish Prison approach. "Sure, you will have all the drinking water you can stomach. Provided it rains the night before."

Posted by: Orson at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (dIske)

32
I'd like to see a list of the Gitmo detainees and their crimes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (Xwngz)

33 I wish the WH would go back to doing a transcript of the daily press briefing. Same with the State Dept.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (mB6WH)

34 Shorter Leavitt

F*** you, f*** you, and f*** you.

Also, did any of you ride a horse in?

Posted by: Karoline Leavitt at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (xCA6C)

35 The WHCA -- the same people who put on the savage Trump-bashing "Nerd Prom" for "journalists" and their leftwing celebrity guests every year -- complained that they weren't being treated fairly.

A link to the official FAFO video would be great.

And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)

36 The "independent" WHCA Leadership board has 2 from CBS, 1 from Reuters, Politico, Bloomberg, Getty Images, BBC, ABC, and one from Fox (their token).

Posted by: lurkersquirl at February 25, 2025 04:31 PM (+TUCK)

37 To be fair, if they get rid of that fat slob, Jonah, the breakfast buffet will be more plentiful.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2025 04:31 PM (2gvXb)

38 The Antiamerican Propagandists can go horsefuck.

Posted by: And continue tonguing Hamas' taint at February 25, 2025 04:31 PM (5TbUi)

39 Hopefully the Gitmo gits are being forced to hear The Pina Colada Song, 24x7.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (mH6SG)

40 >>>"It's beyond time the White House press pool reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025," Leavitt said during a briefing with reporters.

>>>The goal, Leavitt said, is to give new or alternative media companies greater access to the administration while still keeping certain "legacy" outlets in the rotation.

In addition, she continued, "there will be a balcony upon which Trump will stand and view the legacy media press pool driven before him each day."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (i24o9)

41 21 Since all leftwing reporters are part of the same borg hivemind is there any reason to have more then one of them in the press pool?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

Yeah, like they're all gonna ask different questions. Right.

Posted by: look whats not at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (nakGR)

42 Why are you so mean to the rapists and murderers at Gitmo?

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (n2swS)

43 How are WaPo gaining access to GTMO prisoners anyway? Are they friends on FB?

Posted by: kallisto at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (twjRB)

44 It really is quite astonishing that the MFM seem to have no idea how they're viewed by most people. You say you're in pain and being treated badly? We say GOOD!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (xCA6C)

45 Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (v0TzN)

46 Whelp... it's nice to see the administration has figured out the axiom about "owning the narrative." Feed these leeches exactly what you want them to regurgitate and nothing more.

Oh.. and use small words.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (Q4IgG)

47 And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.
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Ace absolutely should! Ace *IS* "Legacy Media", since this place is now 2 decades strong at this point!

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (TN0g+)

48 Trump is committing total war on woke leftards. Long time coming.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (pohLc)

49
During Trump 1.0, you might recall when the Entire WH press corps of faggots & cucks acted like Mean Girls and treated little Emerald from One America News very badly.

They went as far as the remove all the extra chairs in the Briefing Room so Emerald had to stand...in the back of the room...behind all the cameras & microphones.

One day, Kayleigh McEnanny let Emerald carry in a tiny chair into the room, but none of the Fake News cockscuckers made room for her, so she had to sit off to the side in her little chair. All this because the Fake News Shits said One America News wasn't a "real" news org and didn't belong at the briefings.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (UZWy2)

50 Next thing you know the prisoners will complain about eating meals at the same time every day!

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (qm5Wv)

51 Hopefully the Gitmo gits are being forced to hear ~~The Pina Colada Song~~ Yoko's Greatest Hits, 24x7.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (mH6SG)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (YqDXo)

52 Cernovich claims this announcement is a direct result of AP's lawsuit to be included in the WH press pool.

During argument, the judge asked what was the foundation of the theory the WHCA had power to control access. The White House realized they don't have the power, so they took it back.

http://tiny.cc/hrab001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (lIio7)

53 Bet the MREs are great.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (pLaQB)

54 Whelp... it's nice to see the administration has figured out the axiom about "owning the narrative." Feed these leeches exactly what you want them to regurgitate and nothing more.

Oh.. and use small words.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (Q4IgG)
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Wait until they see the new and improved newspeak dictionary!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (BpYfr)

55 Since all leftwing reporters are part of the same borg hivemind is there any reason to have more then one of them in the press pool?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 25, 2025 04:28 PM (t0Rmr)

Yeah, like they're all gonna ask different questions. Right.

Posted by: look whats not at February 25, 2025 04:32 PM (nakGR)

Make them Thunderdome for who gets the right to go the pool each day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9)

56 In addition, she continued, "there will be a balcony upon which Trump will stand and view the legacy media press pool driven before him each day."

While he throws lawn darts into the air. Where will they land? Who knows?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (xCA6C)

57 47 And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.
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Ace absolutely should! Ace *IS* "Legacy Media", since this place is now 2 decades strong at this point!
Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (TN0g+)

Ace's application should just be links to some of the classic hq posts. Nothing else is necessary.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (B9Prs)

58 Caroline should dress in black leather with riding boots and a crop.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (pohLc)

59 The Washington Post has now reported more extensively--and sympathetically--on the conditions of criminal illegals at Gitmo, than it has on the American citizens who lost their homes in North Carolina.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (IIsq3)

60 47 And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.
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Ace absolutely should! Ace *IS* "Legacy Media", since this place is now 2 decades strong at this point!
Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (TN0g+)
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Do it, Ace! Or deputize AlextheChick!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (kpS4V)

61
In fact, one of the Fake News fags said "WE [the mainsteam fake "news" outlets] decide who has a seat in the press briefing room."

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (UZWy2)

62 So do you think ace of the Moron Horde at Ace of Spades will ever get a chance to ask Levitt a question?

And what would that question be?

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (QB+5g)

63 One day, Kayleigh McEnanny let Emerald carry in a tiny chair into the room, but none of the Fake News cockscuckers made room for her, so she had to sit off to the side in her little chair. All this because the Fake News Shits said One America News wasn't a "real" news org and didn't belong at the briefings.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM (UZWy2)
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Karma - how do it work?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (YqDXo)

64 Now to do J6'ers.

Oh, too late.
Posted by: Turn 2 at February 25, 2025 04:30 PM (JfxgE)

Are they all out yet? Well, at least the ones who weren't part of the op?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (Sf2cq)

65 I still think they should make a $250 bill for the 250 anniversary next year.

Also it would be nice if parade the shackled criminal bureaucrats down the Mall in DC on July Fourth as part of the celebrations.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (BUhak)

66 The Winning.

It amuses me still.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (pIfcn)

67 Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
1h
The WHCA willingly went along with the Biden administration demanding reporters submit their questions ahead of time so they could formulate a response for a senile president. The idea they are playing the "Strong independent press" role is laughable. It's beyond parody.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (v0TzN)

68 Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Yeah, that one irritates me.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (xCA6C)

69 Twitter : I'm old enough to remember when the Biden White House revoked 442 reporters' press credentials

...and the WHCA responded with an "officially noncommittal stance"

https://tinyurl.com/26dddqlx

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (zvgda)

70 "Left side of the room for people to the left of this administration. Right side to the right."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (lEahz)

71 When the Ewok stands to ask a question no one will notice...

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (KQk9m)

72 "In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps."

Actually, in a FREE country, the people should choose. Not the press.

Posted by: El Mariachi at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (nLFEI)

73 57 47 And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.
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He would have to get up early and go to work everyday. I don't see this as Ace's life calling.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (pLaQB)

74 > One day, Kayleigh McEnanny let Emerald carry in a tiny chair into the room, but none of the Fake News cockscuckers made room for her, so she had to sit off to the side in her little chair. All this because the Fake News Shits said One America News wasn't a "real" news org and didn't belong at the briefings.

Bring back Emerald Robinson! She's a savage Conservative.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (lIio7)

75 You have to appreciate the irony of the MSM calling heinous criminal aliens “migrants”, acting as their advocates instead of decrying what they’ve done to American citizens and then having the balls to wonder out loud why the WHCA is being curbed stomped.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (2gvXb)

76 >>Next thing you know the prisoners will complain about eating meals at the same time every day!

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2025 04:34 PM

What about vegan selections? Probably some of them are vegans.

Posted by: Zzzz at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (n2swS)

77
John Hasson
@SonofHas
1h
I'm old enough to remember when the Biden White House revoked 442 reporters' press credentials

...and the WHCA responded with an "officially noncommittal stance"

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (v0TzN)

78 Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (v0TzN)
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It's very British to put the acCENT on the second sylLABLE.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (YqDXo)

79 The Leftist courts are all the Dems have now to try to stop Trump . Oh and the whiny House Republicans who are there because they got 2500 people to vote for them in their podunk district.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (VofaG)

80 Trumpmas! Every Day!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 25, 2025 04:38 PM (RP0h0)

81 47 And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.

I believe they do background checks.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 25, 2025 04:38 PM (zvgda)

82 I don't think you can fully judge an association without looking at the positive qualities of the people in it. The White House Correspondents Association has a long-standing tradition of existence to its members and to the political left at large.

Posted by: Jim Acosta at February 25, 2025 04:38 PM (Aqu9a)

83 Make them Thunderdome for who gets the right to go the pool each day.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 25, 2025 04:35 PM (i24o9)
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THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Posted by: Highlander at February 25, 2025 04:38 PM (BpYfr)

84 Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (v0TzN)
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It's very British to put the acCENT on the second sylLABLE.

Yeah, well, if you pronounce it Glass'-ee-ur, you get what you deserve.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

85 I've never understood how the press thinks IT can decide who gets to talk to the president. As opposed to the president deciding who gets to talk to HIM.

Posted by: El Mariachi at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (nLFEI)

86 I want to hear Ms. Leavitt call on CBD for a question.

"Yes, Mr. CBD ? By the way, that's a rather odd name. Does it stand for something?"

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (rj6Yv)

87 So do you think ace of the Moron Horde at Ace of Spades will ever get a chance to ask Levitt a question?

And what would that question be?

Boxers or briefs?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (mH6SG)

88 It's so sad that the libs have made it come to this.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (KbCG3)

89 So, how many members of the WHCA have flounced out of the White House Press Pool as a result? Taken their ball and gone home?

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (VNX3d)

90 >>>Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (v0TzN)

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Used to work with a woman who said in duh' stry.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (LxER7)

91 Also it would be nice if parade the shackled criminal bureaucrats down the Mall in DC on July Fourth as part of the celebrations.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2025 04:36 PM (BUhak)
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Go full-on Roman, and strangle them after the parade.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (YqDXo)

92 So Ace should get a seat...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (VE6XX)

93 79 The Leftist courts are all the Dems have now to try to stop Trump . Oh and the whiny House Republicans who are there because they got 2500 people to vote for them in their podunk district.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:37 PM (VofaG)

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The courts are inept and ineffectual and impotent at this point.

Trump's admin is pretty much ignoring TROs left and right, and the courts are just letting the TROs expire without fanfare.

Why? Because the legal basis for the TROs are generally trash and word has definitely come down that any injunction stuff over legal executive power wielded by the chief executive is going to end nationwide injunctions by SCOTUS, who have been signaling for years that they want to end it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

94
Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Yeah, that one irritates me.
Posted by: Archimedes

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She could lose half her adjectives anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (Xwngz)

95 86 I want to hear Ms. Leavitt call on CBD for a question.

"Yes, Mr. CBD ? By the way, that's a rather odd name. Does it stand for something?"
Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (rj6Yv)

I'll bet he's got a backup answer.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (v0TzN)

96 47 And Ace should put in an application for WH press credentials.

I believe they do background checks.
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Does anybody read them though? Sam Brinton? The guy in the dress that was 70 or so, whatever his name was? Hell, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for that matter?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (TN0g+)

97 85 I've never understood how the press thinks IT can decide who gets to talk to the president. As opposed to the president deciding who gets to talk to HIM.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (nLFEI)

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Imagine their credulity at how the WH was run in the early 19th century.

Regular people just showing up and waiting for an opportunity to meet with a president or a member of his staff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

98 I liked the part where she responded, "My briefings have been clear enough" to the one whining about Musk's tweets causing confusion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (IIsq3)

99 We all thinkls that Presdent Obamar dew something abouts this !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (G3151)

100 Bloggers and Podcasters Lotteries FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (56peP)

101 @ 65, yeah, both of those!

maybe Sojourner Truth on the bill, with her Colt Navy revolver ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (RP0h0)

102 Ace at the White House press briefing " is it true Jake Tapper has slivers in his nut sack because he builds shelves while naked?"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (cMcMn)

103 I want to see a White House Press Pass that reads - Charlie Brown's Dildo...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (akmNW)

104 Karoline, it's sub´stantive, not sub stan´ tive.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (v0TzN)
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It's very British to put the acCENT on the second sylLABLE.

Yeah, well, if you pronounce it Glass'-ee-ur, you get what you deserve.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (xCA6C)
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ConTROVersy and noMENclature used to really irritate me. Or should I say irriTATE me?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (YqDXo)

105 liked the part where she responded, "My briefings have been clear enough" to the one whining about Musk's tweets causing confusion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (IIsq3)M

She wears clear briefs?

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (MGB5H)

106 Yeah, this is interesting but Texas is set to tighten rules for Botox!
Posted by: Josephistan at February 25, 2025 04:26 PM (y9ksN)

Botox is a bigger threat than illegals.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

107 I want to hear Ms. Leavitt call on CBD for a question.

"Yes, Mr. CBD ? By the way, that's a rather odd name. Does it stand for something?"
Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (rj6Yv)

I'll bet he's got a backup answer.

I direct that question to my colleague, Masturbatin' Pete. After that, there will be a followup from Asscheeks of Saturn

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (xCA6C)

108 leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps

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I thought they believed in democracy

I can vote for president but I cant vote for who will be in the White House Correspondent

So... go fuck yourself, your pico dicked sand in vagina asshos

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (HYKHz)

109 We know GITMO Marine guards hand out Koran and prayer rugs so why doesn't that reporter as Karen what the heathen throat cutters get?

Posted by: torabora at February 25, 2025 04:41 PM (0Gnoc)

110 I remember Hitler restricting press access to supportive goons only and look how that turned out.

Posted by: Margaret Brennan at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (zvgda)

111 White House should put a jumbotron on a building in the worse part of town for the 'not invited' press. Set up some folding chairs in the alley so they don't get too tired from standing. Occasionally offer the let the back benchers down in Cracktown Alley ask a question.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (/lPRQ)

112 We have had some great nicknames at the HQ. Masturbatin'Pete, Mary Poppins Perfectly pierced Clit

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (KQk9m)

113 liked the part where she responded, "My briefings have been clear enough" to the one whining about Musk's tweets causing confusion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 04:40 PM (IIsq3)M

She wears clear briefs?
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I thought I read right here at this site that they're popular in France?

Posted by: Crusader at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (TN0g+)

114 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

The courts just unfroze all the fed money that Trump had stopped until they follow his executive orders. The courts are what the Dems are counting on but you know that .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

115 A Catholic Pope? Nooooooooooo!

J+@HausOfDemi9
im not even catholic but Pope Francis can't die right now, they are gonna try to elect a very extremist and full conservative pope (very different from Francis). and with the world going full fascism and the influence the Church has, it's not gonna be cute.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (L/fGl)

116 Ted Kennedys Gristle Encased Head was another...

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (KQk9m)

117 52 Cernovich claims this announcement is a direct result of AP's lawsuit to be included in the WH press pool.

During argument, the judge asked what was the foundation of the theory the WHCA had power to control access. The White House realized they don't have the power, so they took it back.

http://tiny.cc/hrab001
Posted by: bonhomme
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Arguably, all the other presidents since the WHCA were unconstitutionally delegating to a private organization the power to pick and choose who was accredited and who had access.

See Schecter Poultry aka sick chicken case regarding unconstitutional delegation of government power to private individuals.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (ctrM5)

118 Did Jake Tapper furrow his brows?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (kTd/k)

119 I'm sorry, Mr. CBD. I didn't hear your question. Something about maple syrup.

Posted by: dantesed at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (qm5Wv)

120 I've never understood how the press thinks IT can decide who gets to talk to the president.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (nLFEI)
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They really needed their pee-pees knocked down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (YqDXo)

121 I don't think you can fully judge an association without looking at the positive qualities of the people in it. The White House Correspondents Association has a long-standing tradition of existence to its members and to the political left at large.
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And 16 years of perfect attendance without any reprimands in their official record.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (IIsq3)

122 >>> They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages

AKA "Jail"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (/lPRQ)

123 114 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

The courts just unfroze all the fed money that Trump had stopped until they follow his executive orders. The courts are what the Dems are counting on but you know that .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

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1. The courts have no ability to unfreeze money. They have ordered Trump to unfreeze the money.

2. Trump has not unfrozen the money.

3. The order was just for the plaintiff, not for every dollar frozen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

124 In fact, the government's lawyers are in court asking for clarification because the order was literally incomprehensible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

125 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages

I bet there's bars on the windows too

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (KQk9m)

126
Some dumbfuck in a small jet crossed the runway at OHare, today, in front of a LANDING Southwest 737.

This dummy caused what is called a "runway incursion."

The Southwest flight acted IMMEDIATELY and aborted its landing and did a "go-around." Thank Christ.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (UZWy2)

127 Ted Kennedys Gristle Encased Head was another...

Objection!
-Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (xCA6C)

128 Safest bet ever.

>>@DailyCaller

>>🚨BREAKING🚨 The man arrested for plotting a 'mass casualty' event in Texas was allegedly 'transitioning' genders, a law enforcement source has exclusively told the Daily Caller.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (LkLld)

129 the WHCA said the White House "did not give the WHCA board a heads up or have any discussions about today's announcements."

Wow, you must be real pieces of shit to be treated like that. Anyways...

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (OqC0L)

130 I've never understood how the press thinks IT can decide who gets to talk to the president.
Posted by: El Mariachi at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (nLFEI)
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They really needed their pee-pees knocked down.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (YqDXo)

On it.

Posted by: Bailiff at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (5TbUi)

131 >> So, how many members of the WHCA have flounced out of the White House Press Pool as a result? Taken their ball and gone home?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM

Trick question. They have no balls.

Posted by: huerfano at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (n2swS)

132 Did the pope really express support for Gaza while not saying a single word about the Christians beheaded in The Congo?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (kTd/k)

133 Remember when Trump I tried to do the "new media" thing with the press corps? The remote, VBloggers on a big screen?

The effort went down in flames. A really horrible attempt at controlling the narrative. Sean Spicer took a lot of heat for that debacle and was relegated to political Siberia.

Hope the White House has learned something from that disaster.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (Q4IgG)

134 Leavitt: "Yes?"

CBD: "I have a question about a First World problem .."

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (rj6Yv)

135 OT
Adam Carolla with video of his trip to assess damage at his Malibu home. Interesting car and drone footage.

Unfortunately, he does not mention if Jim's trailer survived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7w4fmr4MQ4

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (P153Y)

136 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages

How did you treat your victims? Sorry, it's a question an actual journalist may ask you.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2025 04:46 PM (OqC0L)

137 Safest bet ever.

>>@DailyCaller

>>🚨BREAKING🚨 The man arrested for plotting a 'mass casualty' event in Texas was allegedly 'transitioning' genders, a law enforcement source has exclusively told the Daily Caller.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (LkLld)

Don't they use chainsaws for male "gender transformations" in Texas?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2025 04:46 PM (VNX3d)

138
>>🚨BREAKING🚨 The man arrested for plotting a 'mass casualty' event in Texas was allegedly 'transitioning' genders, a law enforcement source has exclusively told the Daily Caller.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2025 04:44 PM (LkLld)

This will never make the news

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:46 PM (VE6XX)

139
Imagine a cardinal being accused of being too much of "an extreme Catholic" and therefore not suitable to be pope.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:46 PM (UZWy2)

140 "In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said.""

Might be a good time to give a slide presentation to remind the press of Biden's "Free Country" handling of the press with his notes complete with pictures of press people he was to call on, pre-selected questions, supplied answers, etc.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (oiNtH)

141 Glory, glory hallelujah!

Nicholas Fondacaro@NickFondacaro
Ignoring Hillary Clinton's "reset" button with Russia, Whoopi opines about how "our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought these wars to make sure that we were not chummy."
She also asked "are we forgetting who these guys are?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)

142 Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (KQk9m)

if you're talking about Mary Poppins it was/is "Mary Poppins Practically Perfect Piercing." MPPP

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (42Vb+)

143 These judges are literally teeing up a Supreme Court decision to limit TROs. Clarence Thomas is salivate about now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (cMcMn)

144 The courts are inept and ineffectual and impotent at this point.

Trump's admin is pretty much ignoring TROs left and right, and the courts are just letting the TROs expire without fanfare.

Why? Because the legal basis for the TROs are generally trash and word has definitely come down that any injunction stuff over legal executive power wielded by the chief executive is going to end nationwide injunctions by SCOTUS, who have been signaling for years that they want to end it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Pretty much and a ruling of contempt for violating a TRO would send that asap to Scotus. They are picking TROs because these are not immediately appealable due to the assumed very limited time between that and a permanent injunction which is appealable.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (ctrM5)

145 I didn't see her mention that the current WH Press are the ones who covered up Biden's dementia and that we did not know who was running the country for four years.
She should have.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 25, 2025 04:48 PM (P153Y)

146 141 Glory, glory hallelujah!

Nicholas Fondacaro@NickFondacaro
Ignoring Hillary Clinton's "reset" button with Russia, Whoopi opines about how "our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought these wars to make sure that we were not chummy."
She also asked "are we forgetting who these guys are?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)

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Let's be honest here: We've never been at war with Russia, the left argued against every proxy war with Russia, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for more than 30 years.

But okay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

147 142 iirc the one I wrote was an earlier version

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:48 PM (KQk9m)

148 123 114 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

The courts just unfroze all the fed money that Trump had stopped until they follow his executive orders. The courts are what the Dems are counting on but you know that .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

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1. The courts have no ability to unfreeze money. They have ordered Trump to unfreeze the money.

2. Trump has not unfrozen the money.

3. The order was just for the plaintiff, not for every dollar frozen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO

Judicial overreach… it was common with Democrat Regimes, and also the flaccid Republican tenures.. Trump et al are just calling them on their legal abuses.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

149 Shee it we were allied with Stalin!

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:48 PM (KQk9m)

150 Nicholas Fondacaro@NickFondacaro
Ignoring Hillary Clinton's "reset" button with Russia, Whoopi opines about how "our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought these wars to make sure that we were not chummy."
She also asked "are we forgetting who these guys are?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (L/fGl)

Not chummy with Russia? We've never fought a war with Russia.

I mean, I guess in the big picture view, you could argue much of our foreign policy was dictated by cold war views that led to proxy wars of sorts around the world. But I dont think that's what she's arguing about. And also that was well after my great grandfather's fighting age days.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

151 1. The courts have no ability to unfreeze money. They have ordered Trump to unfreeze the money.
_________________

Trump can't cut the judges' salaries, but he can cut their budgets for everything else. He should do that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

152 The WHCA doesn't have to actually ask questions of MS. Levitt... They pretty much make up what they want to write about what she said anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (VE6XX)

153 I think there's a compromise to be had here. Put the MFM fossils in the very back of the room, and never, ever call on them.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (xCA6C)

154 These judges are literally teeing up a Supreme Court decision to limit TROs. Clarence Thomas is salivate about now
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 04:47 PM (cMcMn)

I would not be surprised if he had a draft decision ready for final editing.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (rj6Yv)

155 Ace Cub White House reporter:

Ginger: check
Turned up front pork pie hat: check
Earnest, innocent questions: check
Bumbling, clumsy mannerisms: check
Willing to do really dirty gay shit for scoops: Hey, what tha?

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (j4U/Z)

156 Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 25, 2025 04:45 PM (kTd/k)

I think that the Pope may be beyond having these kind of conversations.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (42Vb+)

157 Trump can't cut the judges' salaries, but he can cut their budgets for everything else. He should do that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

Nope

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (VE6XX)

158 Did y'all see the news that the UK government ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud? They'll be able to see your messages, camera roll, etc.

How long after the backdoor is created will China and other countries take advantage and get full access to your iCloud? Even if you're not in the UK, the code will likely be dormant on your device.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (lIio7)

159 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages
_________

And they weren't even given harmonicas.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (YqDXo)

160 Obama's only redeeming feature was that he consistently kept the press whores waiting for pressers to start.

That was hilarious.

And really, what was the press going to say?

Posted by: Stateless...51% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (jvJvP)

161 158 Did y'all see the news that the UK government ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud? They'll be able to see your messages, camera roll, etc.

How long after the backdoor is created will China and other countries take advantage and get full access to your iCloud? Even if you're not in the UK, the code will likely be dormant on your device.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (lIio7)

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Apple responded by turning off end to end encryption completely for its devices in the country.

They're not giving Britain the back end access.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

162 But now that I think about it, we HAVE always been at war with eastasia. I was wrong, Whoopi was right. carry on.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (uCjyK)

163 And really, what was the press going to say?
Say " Thank you Mr President ,may I blow you again?"

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (KQk9m)

164 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages, and alleged that they were not treated as human beings.

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Oh noes, first it was kids in cages on DogEater's watch and trannies dying in a cage-matches genocide on F. Joe's watch ... and now terrorist illegal aliens in cages?

Anyway ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (56peP)

165 I think there's a compromise to be had here. Put the MFM fossils in the very back of the room, and never, ever call on them.

Ooooh, better still, put them in chairs over fire pits or sharks, a la James Bond. If you ask a question, and then interrupt while she's answering, off you go!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (xCA6C)

166 159 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages
_________

Why is the media allowed to speak with them ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (VE6XX)

167 165 Ooooh, better still, put them in chairs over fire pits or sharks, a la James Bond. If you ask a question, and then interrupt while she's answering, off you go!
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (xCA6C)

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"We can improve on this..."
-Dr. Evil

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

168
"This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said.

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If the WHCA chooses journalists, it's really the Obama administration choosing.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (Ijbq0)

169 Not chummy with Russia? We've never fought a war with Russia.

I mean, I guess in the big picture view, you could argue much of our foreign policy was dictated by cold war views that led to proxy wars of sorts around the world. But I dont think that's what she's arguing about. And also that was well after my great grandfather's fighting age days.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

They were pretty sympathetic in ACW, even sent a fleet to the West coast for a vacation/show of support..

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

170 The courts have no ability to unfreeze money. They have ordered Trump to unfreeze the money.

2. Trump has not unfrozen the money.

3. The order was just for the plaintiff, not for every dollar frozen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

22 states were part of the lawsuit. The judge blocked Trump from freezing the funds.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (VofaG)

171 Ooooh, better still, put them in chairs over fire pits or sharks, a la James Bond. If you ask a question, and then interrupt while she's answering, off you go!
Posted by: Archimedes at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (xCA6C)

Someone like Jim Acosta getting the Will Ferrell in Austin Powers treatment would be a delight.

Posted by: I'm alive but very badly burned! at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (5TbUi)

172 Did y'all see the news that the UK government ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud? They'll be able to see your messages, camera roll, etc.
________________

The Brits really need to be put in their place. WTH do they think they are? First it was wanting American citizens extradited for not following ridiculous British laws against saying unkind things about our dusky friends. Then this outrage. WTF?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (YqDXo)

173 166 159 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages
_________

Why is the media allowed to speak with them ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (VE6XX)

yeah that shit needs to stop…PDQ…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (PCK5/)

174 This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said. - WHCA

If this pack of wolves over the last 10 years had behaved like actual journalists instead of the Democrat's propaganda squad or hadn't acted as chief insulters to the face of the president they wouldn't have this problem. Besides, all these so-called journalists can still cover the president, they'll just have to pay for their own air fare from now on. You cannot hate these people enough. Let them burn.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 25, 2025 04:53 PM (Q8Bj8)

175 Son do you think ace of the Moron Horde at Ace of Spades will ever get a chance to ask Levitt a question?

And what would that question be?
Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 04:33 PM (QB+5g)

Is it pronounced Leave It, as in, To Beaver?

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 25, 2025 04:53 PM (NMT5x)

176 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages

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El Salvador said they will take them, they have real nice facilities.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (BUhak)

177 This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.

Having Communists choose the press wasn't working.

Posted by: t-bird at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (KtPtl)

178 In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said.
______________

Right. Only communist sympathizers should be able to choose.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

179 The courts have no ability to unfreeze money. They have ordered Trump to unfreeze the money.
_________________

Trump can't cut the judges' salaries, but he can cut their budgets for everything else. He should do that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

======

Offer Congress a (close enough) balanced Executive budget (break out into smaller chunks as desired) with separate funding bills for the Legislative and Judicial branches. Veto until you get what you want in the Executive budget.

Sure, they'll override the veto for the Legislative budget which will be a crowd pleaser with the voters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

180 Handling the Press in 2025:

Low IQ reporter: “Why did you select an underqualified retired Lieutenant General to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?”

Pete Hegseth: “I’m going to choose to reject your unqualified question. Who’s next?”

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (oiNtH)

181 The closest we came to war with Russia (outside the Cuban Missile Crisis) was in Korea, where it was known that there were Russian pilots in the new Mig-17's that astounded the USAF of the time with their speed. But the Russians denied that, so it didn't escalate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (wyMQY)

182 I really wish she had ridiculed them for their captured regime media behavior for four years.

Trump takes questions constantly. He is violently responsive and transparent. They have is *soooo good* as reporters under his administration, and still they bitch.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (P153Y)

183 They haven't lost access; they're just not at the "big boys" table anymore. I mean, if they're such adult folks, why did they allow themselves to be shut into Obama's and Biden's closets while business was conducted elsewhere? (Somehow they thought that that was an honor.)

When the entire WH media are uniformly simpering dolts for the DNC, then why do they even need more than one seat in the briefing rooms or on Air Force One? They all just parrot each other, anyway - often using the same phrasing.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (bufu1)

184 The Hillary Clinton who as Sec of State sold Uranium One to the Russians?

That Hillary Clinton or is there another?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (akmNW)

185 Some dumbfuck in a small jet crossed the runway at OHare, today, in front of a LANDING Southwest 737.

***********

Was it Harrison Ford again?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (HYKHz)

186 170 22 states were part of the lawsuit. The judge blocked Trump from freezing the funds.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (VofaG)

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And Trump hasn't unfrozen them.

(There are a couple seeing action right now, it seems.)

Also, expect malicious compliance, if at all. Slow responses, turning on funds to things like rice for poor people and not others like ricebowls for rich oligarchs.

It's the pattern over the past month.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

187 The Brits really need to be put in their place. WTH do they think they are? First it was wanting American citizens extradited for not following ridiculous British laws against saying unkind things about our dusky friends. Then this outrage. WTF?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (YqDXo)

To be fair -- how much do we want to bet that US spy agencies do have backdoor access to iMessages? And aren't always so willing to share with the Brits?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (uCjyK)

188 Obama's only redeeming feature was that he consistently kept the press whores waiting for pressers to start.

That was hilarious.

And really, what was the press going to say?

Posted by: Stateless...51% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 25, 2025 04:50 PM (jvJvP)

---------------

Heh. Remember when he had them all put in a closet for I can't remember how long?

Good times, good times (not really) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (56peP)

189 73 166 159 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages
_________

Why is the media allowed to speak with them ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:51 PM (VE6XX)
________________

As long as the media are right there in Gitmo ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

190 Was it Harrison Ford again?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Unemployable Due to Lack of Wagshambas at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (HYKHz)

I thought he landed on a taxiway.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:56 PM (uCjyK)

191 El Salvador said they will take them, they have real nice facilities.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (BUhak)

And they accept Visa and Discover Card!

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)

192 I would go one step further and give a time out card to any presstitute that asked a stupid "gotcha" question. No more questions for a month.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 25, 2025 04:56 PM (e5NfL)

193 Frankly Jax, nobody in the White House gives a damn!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 25, 2025 04:56 PM (P0UMu)

194 >> Did y'all see the news that the UK government ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud? They'll be able to see your messages, camera roll, etc.

Yeah, but Apple refused. They actually stood up for their customers, which is a shock.

Now what about Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 04:56 PM (kaEOr)

195 How is WaPo getting access to the illegal alien criminals at Guantanamo Bay?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (hoCmQ)

196
So Star Trek actess Daisy Ridley was in a bad version of Die Hard, called "Cleaner." This bad movie is called Cleaner because Daisy Riddle plays a character in a sky-scraper who is, get this, a window cleaner.

But wait, there's more. Dasey Riley's character is, get this, a former special ops SEAL green beret.

DEI Hard

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (UZWy2)

197 Tom Servo

Gen Wesley Clark, SACUER, during the NATO Peacekeeping in Yugoslavia almost started a war with the Russians in Pristina. Clinton quickly retired him and next thing he was running as a Democrat for President with some Chinese candy on the arm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (akmNW)

198 Awww....those poor widdle criminals are being treated like criminals?

Cry harder, WaPo.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (SRRAx)

199 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages
_________

Why is the media allowed to speak with them ?
Posted by: It's me donna

=======

Well... We was in cages then and free now?
- Deportee in Venezuela (in Monte Python voice)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (/lPRQ)

200 As far as privacy matters go, Apple has really been better than a lot of companies…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

201 Even FoxNews people are pushing back!
@JacquiHeinrich This move does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House. The WHCA is democratically elected by the full-time White House press corps.

WHCA has determined pools for decades because only representatives FROM our outlets can determine resources all those outlets have - such as staffing - in order to get the President's message out to the largest possible audience, no matter the day or hour.

Anyone who takes that job will forever be known as an acceptable Trump sycophant. They will not report news that will be trusted. They will be listening to lies and fabrications. Their reporting will, therefore, be fabrications of lies.

I hope the press pool pushes back as a group. How hard would Trump cry if he held a presser and no one showed up?

As TJ said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1786

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (JCZqz)

202 22 states were part of the lawsuit. The judge blocked Trump from freezing the funds.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Doesn't work that way because that particular court held the TRO hearing ex parte and did not go through proper judicial channels to do that. When confronted with Trump admin ignoring the order, states requested the judge to hold Trump in contempt. The judge muttered something about not being ripe to do that. Effectively moot.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ctrM5)

203 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

Why are you always so obtuse. My original post just stated the Dems are only relying on the courts at this point. That’s exactly what happened here. Will they eventually prevail. Doubtful because of the SCOTUS make up but it has to get there first. Shapiro seems to think the money will be available.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (VofaG)

204 The illegal terrorists have NO civil rights…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (PCK5/)

205 The closest we came to war with Russia (outside the Cuban Missile Crisis) was in Korea, where it was known that there were Russian pilots in the new Mig-17's that astounded the USAF of the time with their speed. But the Russians denied that, so it didn't escalate.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 25, 2025 04:54 PM (wyMQY)

A fellow I worked with in the 80s was in the AF and said only once did the aircraft get loaded up with live nukes in the Carribean and it was not the Missile crisis, but later. No idea what it was.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

206 Not a Ryan PT-19?

Then not Harrison Ford.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (akmNW)

207 I'm getting a little f*cking tired of Biden/Obama judges "scolding" us and blocking our attempts to audit this filthy corrupt government.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (ZlOcj)

208 You'd think the MSM would be grateful that they get any access to the President after dealing with Mopsy and an impaired Joe Biden. But, no.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (rj6Yv)

209 201 As TJ said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1786
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (JCZqz)

=======

And then Thomas Jefferson's press sycophants lied their pants off about John Adams' junk.

If we want to go back to that, I'm fine with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

210
I hope the press pool pushes back as a group. How hard would Trump cry if he held a presser and no one showed up?

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (VE6XX)

211 Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ctrM5)

Are we talking about what just happened a couple of hours ago?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 05:00 PM (VofaG)

212 196
So Star Trek actess Daisy Ridley was in a bad version of Die Hard, called "Cleaner." This bad movie is called Cleaner because Daisy Riddle plays a character in a sky-scraper who is, get this, a window cleaner.

But wait, there's more. Dasey Riley's character is, get this, a former special ops SEAL green beret.

DEI Hard
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (UZWy2)

Apparently Rey Palpatine-Skywalker is so stronk and independent that she can just bypass the compressor between US military branches and be an elite member of both the US Navy and the US Army.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2025 05:00 PM (9Ovst)

213
Any other Old Timers here thinking of Dave In Texas, right now?

If you know, you know.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (UZWy2)

214 >> Apple responded by turning off end to end encryption completely for its devices in the country.
———
Introducing iPrivacy. For only $9.99 per month, Apple will encrypt your iCloud data with our new Worldwide Privacy Umbrella*. It’s twice as secure as 256-bit RSA encryption.

*subject to local decryption upon request of local officials or rageheads on BlueSky.

Posted by: electronic means at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (OrDr0)

215 Will the chewing gum supply ever recover? Need we establish a national chewing gum reserve? How do we close the chewing gum supply gap?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (QSrLX)

216 LOL:

@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: President Trump signs an order stripping security clearances for Covington & Burling LLP employees who assisted corrupt Jack Smith in weaponizing the government. Then tosses the sharpie to a reporter: “Send that to Jack Smith.”

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (CwhoI)

217 Yeah, but Apple refused. They actually stood up for their customers, which is a shock.

Now what about Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 04:56
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I thought Apple caved? No?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (hoCmQ)

218 So Star Trek actess Daisy Ridley was in a bad version of Die Hard, called "Cleaner." This bad movie is called Cleaner because Daisy Riddle plays a character in a sky-scraper who is, get this, a window cleaner.

But wait, there's more. Dasey Riley's character is, get this, a former special ops SEAL green beret.

DEI Hard
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (UZWy2)

Star Trek Daisey Ridley. Everyone knows its :Rings of Power where she plays Sauron.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (n7h9X)

219 187 The Brits really need to be put in their place. WTH do they think they are? First it was wanting American citizens extradited for not following ridiculous British laws against saying unkind things about our dusky friends. Then this outrage. WTF?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (YqDXo)

To be fair -- how much do we want to bet that US spy agencies do have backdoor access to iMessages? And aren't always so willing to share with the Brits?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 04:55 PM (uCjyK)

I thought it was common knowledge at this point that the US government has access to all of our communications, either directly or indirectly.

Posted by: Mass warrantless surveillance is the rule not the exception at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (5TbUi)

220 "The WHCA ... complained that they weren't being treated fairly."

Agreed. They've been treated far too kindly. Fair would be banishment for several decades if not some outright prosecutions for political interference, fraud, and libel.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 25, 2025 05:02 PM (aXxgO)

221 @JacquiHeinrich This move does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House. The WHCA is democratically elected by the full-time White House press corps.
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Yeah, Jacqui. It's democratically elected in the same sense that the United Nations has a democratic process, and GASP, it always leads to the UN condemning Israel and the US. Gee, I wonder why that is.

Posted by: ballistic at February 25, 2025 05:02 PM (oy0fT)

222 217

I thought Apple caved? No?
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (hoCmQ)

They did not cave.

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:02 PM (PCK5/)

223 We be finds out twoday that the Governer opf Vermont will be suiting the Federil Governmint over cutting funds fore the FART Tube Progrim. This is be an importint prgram to fights Globil Warming.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at February 25, 2025 05:02 PM (qTDvI)

224

"They told The Post "

Oh yeah, how'd they do that?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 25, 2025 05:02 PM (et1vG)

225 It's just now that we're being told that not only did Hunter Biden receive a presidential pardon from his dear old Dad, Hunter was also deciding who got access to Slow Joe and presided over executive meetings. So, good job, MSM bootlickers. FAFO.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (rj6Yv)

226 > Yeah, but Apple refused. They actually stood up for their customers, which is a shock.
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Which ones?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (Q4IgG)

227 So Star Trek actess Daisy Ridley was in a bad version of Die Hard, called "Cleaner." This bad movie is called Cleaner because Daisy Riddle plays a character in a sky-scraper who is, get this, a window cleaner.

But wait, there's more. Dasey Riley's character is, get this, a former special ops SEAL green beret.

DEI Hard
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 04:57 PM (UZWy2)

Jan McClane

Posted by: Shoot zee glass! at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (5TbUi)

228
"I hope the press pool pushes back as a group. How hard would Trump cry if he held a presser and no one showed up?"

...and whores won't show up at nightspots 'cause of their principles.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (j4U/Z)

229 she can just bypass the compressor between US military branches and be an elite member of both the US Navy and the US Army.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2025 05:00 PM (9Ovst)

She maxed out and dual classed. Special case of badass

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (/6GbT)

230 I thought it was common knowledge at this point that the US government has access to all of our communications, either directly or indirectly.
Posted by: Mass warrantless surveillance is the rule not the exception at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (5TbUi)

Most big tech companies claim that is not the case. WhatsApp, iMessage, etc. are end to end encrypted. So while NSA can grab the packets as they float around the internet, allegedly they cannot decrypt the contents, and neither can the big tech companies.

I don't buy it, personally, but that's their story.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (uCjyK)

231 Trump can't cut the judges' salaries, but he can cut their budgets for everything else. He should do that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

======

Offer Congress a (close enough) balanced Executive budget (break out into smaller chunks as desired) with separate funding bills for the Legislative and Judicial branches. Veto until you get what you want in the Executive budget.

Sure, they'll override the veto for the Legislative budget which will be a crowd pleaser with the voters.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Doesn't seem like it but that is Congressional power regarding the budget. Doesn't matter what the president (or for that matter the courts) say as the power to tax, spend, and borrow is plenary other than to spend to violate the Constitution.

Even previous laws do not apply because one Congress cannot legally bind another Congress as spending, appropriation, and tax bills are all technically laws themselves so they automatically amend previous laws to the contrary.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (ctrM5)

232 Things could get spicy

@realchrisrufo 1m
SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

233 I hope the press pool pushes back as a group. How hard would Trump cry if he held a presser and no one showed up?

LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (VE6XX)

They'd just expand the non MSM invitees to fill the room and give the MSM one or two spots.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (n7h9X)

234 Awesome news for the whole post. Only complaint... Sometimes (not always) Trump admin backslide into calling violent felonious illegal immigrants "criminals". ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE CRIMINALS! These are *violent* criminals... They often clarify that they are all criminals, but Leavitt slipped up a bit in saying "these are criminals, by the way"... They're more than that...

Posted by: bearski at February 25, 2025 05:04 PM (Bhsk7)

235 Speaking of people needing to Cry Harder

Warner Bros has shut down Monolith Studios and killed their Wonder Woman game.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:04 PM (akmNW)

236 "This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps," the organization said.

You can still cover him. You can't continue to get up in his grill and verbally assault him though. Go post some questions and commentary on the doors of churches and civics buildings like they used to do.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (aXxgO)

237 I hope the press pool pushes back as a group. How hard would Trump cry if he held a presser and no one showed up?

No problem. Hold direct briefings from the oval office to the American public like a fireside chat. People can ask questions through a WH portal online which are then selected and the POTUS answers or in a townhall fashion that is televised.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (oiNtH)

238 >>As TJ said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1786

From Things Thomas Jefferson Said Vol. III

Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (LkLld)

239 >> in order to get the President's message out to the largest possible audience, no matter the day or hour.

It’s 2025. You don’t need pressitutes to get a message out.

>> How hard would Trump cry if he held a presser and no one showed up?

The whole point of the pressers is to allow “journalists” to as idiotic gotcha questions and for Leavitt and Trump to dunk on them. These people need a fucking reality check. Just because you get to be in the same room as important people, does not make you important.

Trump can find an endless parade of Youtubers and bloggers who’d gladly cover him, including lefties. The legacy media is largely just fodder for social media anyway.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (kaEOr)

240 "The WHCA ... complained that they weren't being treated fairly."

Agreed. They've been treated far too kindly. Fair would be banishment for several decades if not some outright prosecutions for political interference, fraud, and libel.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 25, 2025 05:02 PM (aXxgO)

Sic the IRS auditors and RICO investigators on the organization and the individual members.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (VNX3d)

241 Daisey Ridley as Mary Sue?

She already did that role.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (akmNW)

242 Things could get spicy

@realchrisrufo 1m
SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

Speaking of National Security Risks...

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

243 I had a Big Fish sandwich today (for the first time) at BK.

Not bad, I think it tasted like penguin ...

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (56peP)

244 Finally, Trump is doing something worthwhile.

POLITICS · FEB 25, 2025 · 26
Trump Signs New Order That All Female Video Game Characters Must Be Hot Now

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (L/fGl)

245 232 Things could get spicy

@realchrisrufo 1m
SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

I sure do hope our Bob is clean here ...

Hate to break in a new guy this late in the game.

Posted by: browndog digging at the carpet at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (TTAGa)

246 22 states were part of the lawsuit. The judge blocked Trump from freezing the funds.
----
in addition to the responses above, then why are they all back in court demanding the judge force Trump to act, if the judge "blocked Trump from freezing the funds?"

There's a thousand miles between a judge's order and action.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (IIsq3)

247 Stellar Blade hot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:07 PM (akmNW)

248 So Star Trek actess Daisy Ridley was in a bad version of Die Hard, called "Cleaner." This bad movie is called Cleaner because Daisy Riddle plays a character in a sky-scraper who is, get this, a window cleaner.

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Hillary! at February 25, 2025 05:07 PM (JCZqz)

249 Put Rey Skywalker and Michael Burnham in the same show...

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 05:07 PM (ld07g)

250 No problem. Hold direct briefings from the oval office to the American public like a fireside chat. People can ask questions through a WH portal online which are then selected and the POTUS answers or in a townhall fashion that is televised.
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (oiNtH)

I've been advocating for fireside chats for years. Why do we put up with lying corrupt interlocutors?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2025 05:07 PM (ZlOcj)

251 241 Daisey Ridley as Mary Sue?

She already did that role.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (akmNW)

Daisy Ridley wasn't a Mary Sue.

She was a Ma-Rey Sue. Big difference - one can bypass compressors, the other cannot.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (9Ovst)

252 > SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
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She might want to see about the deletion of terabytes of data first.

But, whatever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (Q4IgG)

253 Speaking of National Security Risks...
Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

You know, it's weird. I know a guy who couldn't get in to the army during the height of the iraq war because of some previous mental illness diagnoses he had. I don't know the extent of his mental illnesses, but he seemed normal enough to me.

and yet we have people who think it's totally rational and normal to sever their own penises that have security clearances in our intelligence agencies. And also apparently in our armed services.

What a world, huh?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (uCjyK)

254 Crap, guess I will have to search who is “ Daisy Ridley”…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (PCK5/)

255 Things could get spicy

@realchrisrufo 1m
SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (rj6Yv)

256 Posted by: Ordinary American at February 25, 2025 04:59 PM (ZlOcj

And you're certainly not alone in this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (42Vb+)

257
btw, the latest Marvel movie FLOPPED as hard as everyone expected

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (UZWy2)

258 Inmates complained to the press about their lack of communication with the outside world.

Wait ...

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)

259 It's just now that we're being told that not only did Hunter Biden receive a presidential pardon from his dear old Dad, Hunter was also deciding who got access to Slow Joe and presided over executive meetings. So, good job, MSM bootlickers. FAFO.
Posted by: mrp

With zero security clearance to sit in on those meetings.

Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (oiNtH)

260 Most big tech companies claim that is not the case. WhatsApp, iMessage, etc. are end to end encrypted. So while NSA can grab the packets as they float around the internet, allegedly they cannot decrypt the contents, and neither can the big tech companies.

I don't buy it, personally, but that's their story.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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The NSA can decrypt most if not all traffic but it cannot be used in evidence for civil or criminal actions because its acquisition violates the 4th Amendment. Under FISA and bad decisions by the FISA court, there are all sorts of loopholes, caveats, etc. that have basically allowed the government to pick any particular target and do wholesale data gathering on that person.

Sometimes, they leak the info in order to charge people but if challenged, sometimes retreat back into states secrets doctrine mode to cover means and methods of acquisition.

Stingray fake cell phone tower information is one such where the company selling these services demand that it not be used in court if revealed as to source. LEOs thus put it under informant label and try not to get questioned by judges too much about it.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (ctrM5)

261 The WHCA is democratically elected by the full-time White House press corps.
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This is an amazing worldview, unintentionally.

that word "democratically"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (IIsq3)

262 All these TRO's are just pissing in the wind.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (mB6WH)

263 Crap, guess I will have to search who is “ Daisy Ridley”…

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Daisy Ridley is a great director. Just awesome.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (ld07g)

264 Speaking of National Security Risks...

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

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I told this story before:

Had a neighbor and friend who was receiving a promotion in the Army Reserve around the mid-90s.

I was called and interviewed by someone from the DOD; all I could think of afterwards from all the questions about behavior and character was that no way the Commander-in-Chief at that time could have passed a security background check.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (zSkjq)

265
I guess the DEI "star" of the movie telling people to "chill the fuck out" right before the release didn't help much.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (UZWy2)

266 Put Rey Skywalker and Michael Burnham in the same show...

With Stacey Abrams.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (akmNW)

267 Go get em Karoline

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (fwDg9)

268 SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
Posted by: mrp
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Misuse of government computer resources is a firing offense. Warnings about that particular vice everywhere.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (ctrM5)

269 And then Thomas Jefferson's press sycophants lied their pants off about John Adams' junk.

If we want to go back to that, I'm fine with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison... February 25, 2025 04:59
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What was wrong with John Adams' junk? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:11 PM (hoCmQ)

270 I keep seeing 'WHCA' and thinking 'White House Communications Agency', which has nothing to do with the press. Maybe they should change the name of White House Correspondents Association, so no confusion.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 25, 2025 05:11 PM (sAmhv)

271 > They did not cave.

Apple turned off ADP for new UK users. Possibly in the future it'll be for all users in the UK.

No ADP means no end to end encryption where only the privately owned device has the decryption key. That means the apple device falls back to standard data protection where apple holds the decryption key. That means they can hand over the encryption key if law enforcement asks for it. This is a massive decrease in security for apple users.

Apple caved.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (lIio7)

272 With Stacey Abrams.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:10 PM (akmNW)

Gravitas?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (/6GbT)

273 No problem. Hold direct briefings from the oval office to the American public like a fireside chat. People can ask questions through a WH portal online which are then selected and the POTUS answers or in a townhall fashion that is televised.
Posted by: Cheri

A Trump livestream with him reading superchats would be amazing lol

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

274 Stellar Blade hot?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:07 PM (akmNW)

I love that when the idiots were calling her unrealistically modeled, it turned out that she was modeled after thier art director or somesuch.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

275 Okay, so Daisy Ridley is 32, and married… to a man, funnily enough.. Semi- cute, tiny, to small to be a kickass girlboss fighter though..

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

276 Caroline should dress in black leather with riding boots and a crop.
I second this motion.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (XMwZJ)

277 Trump signed an EO to block security clearances for co employees that worked with Jack Smith; a reporter asks him what about targeting and he says "I was targeted for 4 years and then for 4 beyond that; don't talk to me about targeting".

TL;DR: lol gf

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (zSkjq)

278 259 It's just now that we're being told that not only did Hunter Biden receive a presidential pardon from his dear old Dad, Hunter was also deciding who got access to Slow Joe and presided over executive meetings. So, good job, MSM bootlickers. FAFO.
Posted by: mrp

With zero security clearance to sit in on those meetings.
Posted by: Cheri at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (oiNtH)

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My working assumption is that Hunter either approved or wrote all the pardons while Joe was busy filling his own diapers.

I will be happy if I'm proven wrong.

Posted by: jc at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (P3EVa)

279 states were part of the lawsuit. The judge blocked Trump from freezing the funds.
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in addition to the responses above, then why are they all back in court demanding the judge force Trump to act, if the judge "blocked Trump from freezing the funds?"

There's a thousand miles between a judge's order and action.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 25, 2025 05:06 PM (IIsq3)

The judge issued the order. Again all I previously said is that all the Dems have left to fight Trump are the Lefty Courts. And that’s exactly what’s happening.

TMJ is the one who took a straw man response.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (VofaG)

280 Stingray fake cell phone tower information is one such where the company selling these services demand that it not be used in court if revealed as to source. LEOs thus put it under informant label and try not to get questioned by judges too much about it.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:09 PM (ctrM5)

Yeah, I'm aware of the craziness around stingray and the parallel construction scams.

But Stingray, particularly, is interfacing through the cellular system. Which is not end to end encrypted. Apple, for example, claims that if you and I imessage, there are only two devices on this planet that can see what those messages say: yours and mine. On apples servers (and anything NSA or cops would see), it's encrypted.

I don't believe them. But that's the claim for almost all texting services other than regular old SMS texts.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 25, 2025 05:13 PM (uCjyK)

281
I think Dasey Riddle is quite tall, no? For a girl, I mean.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:13 PM (UZWy2)

282 262 All these TRO's are just pissing in the wind.
Posted by: Ben Had
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One of Bob Dylan's lesser known songs before he revised the lyrics.

Sample:
The ruling my friend
Is pissing in the wind
The ruling is pissing in the wind.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:13 PM (ctrM5)

283 So Star Trek actess Daisy Ridley was in a bad version of Die Hard, called "Cleaner." This bad movie is called Cleaner because Daisy Riddle plays a character in a sky-scraper who is, get this, a window cleaner.

But wait, there's more. Dasey Riley's character is, get this, a former special ops SEAL green beret.

She was tired of killing bad guys and took a window cleaner job for the Zen of it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 25, 2025 05:14 PM (jc0TO)

284 identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms

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Dictators Trump and Musk ordered employees back to their offices but they could've done this just as well at their homes. Maybe better!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 25, 2025 05:14 PM (L/fGl)

285 I thought Apple caved? No?
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:01 PM (hoCmQ)

They disabled the end-to-end encryption feature in the UK. The UK gov’t wanted a global backdoor, which Apple refused to supply. So now data stored on iCloud in the UK will be available to the UK gov’t, which is pretty much the way things have always been for cloud-based services.

I wish there were stronger privacy guarantees, but no company can operate in a company and refuse to comply with its laws. Cloud providers in the US have to comply with warrants (including sweeping FISA warrants.) However, end-to-end encryption is still legal here, so you can hide your data from the gov’t (in theory.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 05:15 PM (kaEOr)

286 GSA cutting power to Federal building's EV charging stations and selling off government owned EV's.
I'm still not tired of winning.

Posted by: torabora at February 25, 2025 05:15 PM (0Gnoc)

287 I keep seeing 'WHCA' and thinking 'White House Communications Agency', which has nothing to do with the press. Maybe they should change the name of White House Correspondents Association, so no confusion.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 25, 2025 05:11 PM (sAmhv)

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Or shorten it to WW for Washington Whores.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 05:15 PM (zSkjq)

288 286 GSA cutting power to Federal building's EV charging stations and selling off government owned EV's.
I'm still not tired of winning.
Posted by: torabora at February 25, 2025 05:15 PM (0Gnoc)

Not so fast

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 25, 2025 05:16 PM (VE6XX)

289 SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 05:08 PM (rj6Yv)

I can't wait for the elimination rounds as she culls down the 59 agencies to, like, two or three.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:16 PM (n7h9X)

290 Sometime in the near future....

Ms Leavitt! Ms Leavitt!

...

Thank you, Ms Leavitt. Ace of Ace of Spades HQ.

Ms Leavitt...how do you feel about Ewoks? Esp, Ms Leavitt, Ewoks who build quality shelving?

...

Uh huh. Yes, I see. Well, then Ms Leavitt I'd like to ask a follow-up question.

In that case, how would you feel about joining me this Friday night in the Ace Cave for Ice Cold Val-U-Rite Vodka Martinis and Fresh Hobo Fricassee?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 25, 2025 05:16 PM (iJfKG)

291 I personally use a book code for all of my texts.

Kind of slow though.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 25, 2025 05:17 PM (fqEzO)

292 285

I wish there were stronger privacy guarantees, but no company can operate in a company and refuse to comply with its laws. Cloud providers in the US have to comply with warrants (including sweeping FISA warrants.) However, end-to-end encryption is still legal here, so you can hide your data from the gov’t (in theory.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 05:15 PM (kaEOr)

Thanks for elaborating… I personally have no shits to give over the UK…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:17 PM (PCK5/)

293 @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03 PM (mlg/3)

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
Posted by: mrp

Uh-huh. And what's she going to do when they ignore the order? Or give her the names Michael Hunt, Ivana Mann, and I.C. Spotz?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2025 05:17 PM (hB7mE)

294 Or shorten it to WW for Washington Whores.
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 25, 2025 05:15 PM (zSkjq)

We shouldn't sully the good name of Wonder Woman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2025 05:17 PM (zZu0s)

295 Upon being called old, bald, blind, toothless, crippled and querulous in the press, John Adam's replied, I'm not toothless.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:18 PM (mB6WH)

296 SCOOP: @TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 25, 2025 05:03
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That reminds me... HHS Sec Noem said they found the leakers regarding ICE raids and gonna fire them. My first thought was "they aren't fired already?" Second thought was "when?"

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (hoCmQ)

297 238 >>As TJ said, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1786

From Things Thomas Jefferson Said Vol. III
Posted by: JackStraw at February 25, 2025 05:05 PM (LkLld)

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too lazy to look it up -- "press" as a group of people receiving a certain type of paycheck, or "press" as a machine used to print up pamphlets such as "Common Sense?"

Posted by: jc at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (P3EVa)

298 Karoline needs to tell the press pool: "Row well, and live"

Posted by: Roy at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (z+ik4)

299 I haven't heard any White House reporters or their bosses thank PDT and Leavitt for taking infinitely more press questions per day than Decrepit Joe did. Have any of you?

PDT takes more questions in more locations than Joe's Handlers permitted. Joe never answered press questions in the Oval Office. Joe never talked with reporters on-board Air Force One.

I also haven't heard any reporters remark that PDT doesn't read every word he says from note cards when speaking with foreign leaders on TV from the Oval Office. Or remark that in press conferences, PDT does not need a reporter photo/name book and a list of who to call on, nor does he or read his answers directly from pages in a binder.

They can't say these things because it would remind everyone how much they covered-up for Joe. And because Orange Man Bad can never, ever be complimented or given props by the MSM.

Posted by: Gref at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (aBgBM)

300 But Stingray, particularly, is interfacing through the cellular system. Which is not end to end encrypted. Apple, for example, claims that if you and I imessage, there are only two devices on this planet that can see what those messages say: yours and mine. On apples servers (and anything NSA or cops would see), it's encrypted.

I don't believe them. But that's the claim for almost all texting services other than regular old SMS texts.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Supposedly the information is stored on telcom servers and can be acquired as needed by nat sec agencies which certainly have the computing power to decrypt most encryption used commercially. The two California jihadi murderers had apple phones that the FBI could not crack allegedly--when apple refused to decrypt them, they turned to an Israeli based company that did it for them.

But in practical terms, man in the middle attacks are an easy way to intercept whatever you want in the midst of transmission. There is no reason in particular to view something as Signal which claims to be end to end encrypted as safe from these attacks.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (ctrM5)

301 > identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms
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On the priority scale... this isn't near #1.

Or #25.

Find the leakers, the spies. The ones deleting terabytes of data. The ones claiming to be ready to out our secrets to our enemies.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (Q4IgG)

302 Dylan song:
Trump is just a five letter word.

Posted by: torabora at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (0Gnoc)

303
Cleaner might be better than Viola Davis' new version of Olympus Has Fallen.

Ace should review it for us.

Viola Davis plays the new black president. But wait, there's more. She's a former special-ops green beret SEAL mixed-martial-arts fighter. And she does it all in heels and a dress!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:19 PM (UZWy2)

304 >>> 172 Did y'all see the news that the UK government ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud? They'll be able to see your messages, camera roll, etc.
________________

The Brits really need to be put in their place. WTH do they think they are? First it was wanting American citizens extradited for not following ridiculous British laws against saying unkind things about our dusky friends. Then this outrage. WTF?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 25, 2025 04:52 PM (YqDXo)

Maybe, if we do leave NATO, we should also consider invading the UK and making it a colony.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 05:20 PM (Vqx30)

305 Daisy Ridley in DEI Hard
(I think Nerdrotic called it DEI Hard first or maybe Ryan Kinel)

Posted by: steevy at February 25, 2025 05:20 PM (KQk9m)

306 However, end-to-end encryption is still legal here, so you can hide your data from the gov’t (in theory.)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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There are ways as going analog in a digital world helps.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:21 PM (ctrM5)

307 > So now data stored on iCloud in the UK will be available to the UK gov’t, which is pretty much the way things have always been for cloud-based services.

Fun fact: If you have stored passwords on your apple device, they're likely backed up to iCloud. So if the gov't gets your iCloud, they get everything. This is true for 99.9% of the apple userbase who aren't super paranoid about their data security.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 05:21 PM (lIio7)

308 I just listened to the Leavitt smackdown of the reporter who mentioned migrants and inhumane.

Karoline deftly turned it back around on the reporter and made sure to highlight "brutal crimes against women and children."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 05:21 PM (tT6L1)

309 Uh-huh. And what's she going to do when they ignore the order? Or give her the names Michael Hunt, Ivana Mann, and I.C. Spotz?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 25, 2025 05:17 PM (hB7mE)

I presume she already has access to the chat room logs. If she doesn't, that means there are even bigger problems on a national security level. She's essentially giving them a firing order and she wants the firing to start tout de suit.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (rj6Yv)

310
Imagine sitting around a Georgetown apartment this afternoon passing the joint and moaning, "Dude?!"

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (j4U/Z)

311 >>> 172 Did y'all see the news that the UK government ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud? They'll be able to see your messages, camera roll, etc.

Apple should tell the limeys "Hey, remember that bottom that was getting ass-raped on the Senate floor last year? Yeah, there's your backdoor."

Posted by: Roy at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (z+ik4)

312 And then Thomas Jefferson's press sycophants lied their pants off about John Adams' junk.

If we want to go back to that, I'm fine with it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison... February 25, 2025 04:59
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Upon being called old, bald, blind, toothless, crippled and querulous in the press, John Adam's replied, I'm not toothless.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:18 -
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But what was wrong with his junk? Was it working?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (hoCmQ)

313 I will be happy if I'm proven wrong.
Posted by: jc at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM

As soon as heard Hunter ran meetings that's what I thought

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (fwDg9)

314 In a statement issued on Tuesday, the WHCA said the White House "did not give the WHCA board a heads up or have any discussions about today's announcements."

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I thought they were reporters and correspondents so why weren't they on top of this particular story? After all, this was something of importance to them. I call gross incompetence which proves that they should not have any influence or power in the media.

Posted by: Decaf at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (unUNN)

315 Okay, so Daisy Ridley is 32, and married… to a man, funnily enough.. Semi- cute, tiny, to small to be a kickass girlboss fighter though..
Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

You might have done a decent "Home alone" like fight where the woman uses stealth and strategy and her knowledge of the arena to put a twist in the derived story.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (n7h9X)

316
@TulsiGabbard is preparing a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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I wish she's publish the chatroom content. It would make a great juxtaposition with a compilation of all the lefties' warnings about the dangers of a Tulsi directorship.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 25, 2025 05:23 PM (Xwngz)

317 All we are is piss in the wind

Posted by: Enuresis at February 25, 2025 05:23 PM (Aqu9a)

318 I thought they were reporters and correspondents so why weren't they on top of this particular story? After all, this was something of importance to them. I call gross incompetence which proves that they should not have any influence or power in the media.
Posted by: Decaf at February 25, 2025 05:22 PM (unUNN)

I mean I heard that these things were in the works weeks ago...from a press conference.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (n7h9X)

319 Fun fact: If you have stored passwords on your apple device, they're likely backed up to iCloud. So if the gov't gets your iCloud, they get everything. This is true for 99.9% of the apple userbase who aren't super paranoid about their data security.
Posted by: bonhomme

Some services actually have password vaults that are separately encrypted and require a password to open aside from the general cloud datastorage.

To the extent possible, I am getting away from passwords to other secure sources such as security hardware keys, authenticators, etc.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (ctrM5)

320 tout de suite.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (rj6Yv)

321
remember the movie with Lesbian McFrownyface who hid in her safe room?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (UZWy2)

322 Whig, IIRC the use of the Stingray without decryption is to identify who is calling who, and building a relationship web from there.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (D7oie)

323 I wish she's publish the chatroom content. It would make a great juxtaposition with a compilation of all the lefties' warnings about the dangers of a Tulsi directorship.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 25, 2025 05:23 PM (Xwngz)

They were right about the dangers, tho.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (n7h9X)

324 Didn't they call John Adams a hermaphrodite?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (cMcMn)

325 321
remember the movie with Lesbian McFrownyface who hid in her safe room?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (UZWy2)

You need to narrow that down…

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (PCK5/)

326
Lesbian McFrownface.

I just invented that. I like it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (UZWy2)

327 247 Stellar Blade hot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 25, 2025 05:07 PM (akmNW)

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I haven't played it, but I've seen vids/pics of the girl character and she's pretty hot.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (6ydKt)

328 tout de suite.
Posted by: mrp
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Well, at least tout de suit rhymed the way I read it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (hoCmQ)

329
Lesbian McFrownyface = jodie foster

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (UZWy2)

330 324 Didn't they call John Adams a hermaphrodite?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (cMcMn)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (VE6XX)

331 329
Lesbian McFrownyface = jodie foster
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (UZWy2)

Ah, yes, I see it now.. very apt..

Posted by: tubal at February 25, 2025 05:26 PM (PCK5/)

332 remember the movie with Lesbian McFrownyface who hid in her safe room?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:24 PM (UZWy2)
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Yeah. Shockingly, Dwight Yoakam made a passable bad guy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 05:26 PM (tT6L1)

333
Daisy Ridley could kick my ass, sad to say.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2025 05:27 PM (j4U/Z)

334 Well, at least tout de suit rhymed the way I read it.
Posted by: olddog in mo at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (hoCmQ)

LOL

I even re-checked the spelling and still spelled it wrong.

Posted by: mrp at February 25, 2025 05:27 PM (rj6Yv)

335 Identify and fire the employees involved in the chatroom.

Talk about a walk of shame.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 05:27 PM (tT6L1)

336 Upon being called old, bald, blind, toothless, crippled and querulous in the press, John Adam's replied, I'm not toothless.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:18 -
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He's one of my favorite Presidents.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 25, 2025 05:28 PM (BFmLd)

337 > Some services actually have password vaults that are separately encrypted and require a password to open aside from the general cloud datastorage.

Sure, and if you set that up, you're part of the 0.01% that's super paranoid about data security.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 25, 2025 05:28 PM (lIio7)

338 322 Whig, IIRC the use of the Stingray without decryption is to identify who is calling who, and building a relationship web from there.
Posted by: Kindltot

Little more to it than that. Can intercept texts, supposedly phone calls in progress, etc. Basically anything that security services want as it is a man in the middle attack.

The public facing arguments when it has surfaced in court is that it only is a pen register as to call length, location, numbers called, etc. Stingray is far more than that as it was originally developed for places like Iraq for sigint.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:28 PM (ctrM5)

339 Pskanki got a 9pm MSNBC gig

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2025 05:28 PM (fwDg9)

340 is that black guy from africa, simon ateba, there? he was a fun guy in the biden days

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2025 05:28 PM (CWTWj)

341 blake, Dwight was a real sleaze in " Slingblade" too.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (mB6WH)

342 @308

>>Karoline deftly turned it back around on the reporter and made sure to highlight "brutal crimes against women and children."

As was mentioned way up top, these are all the hallmarks and trappings of prisons and being a prisoner.

The is apparatchiks and f**king retarded apparatchiks to boot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (XV/Pl)

343 Maybe, if we do leave NATO, we should also consider invading the UK and making it a colony.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 05:20 PM (Vqx30)

We don't want them that's why.

There is a reason that the limits of our sphere of influence to the east is Marjorie Taylor Greenland.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (n7h9X)

344 My husband John is everything a man should be, could be, and more!

(sotto voice to John) Supper's a-waitin' hon. Don't be late!

Posted by: Abigail Adams at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (Aqu9a)

345 "
I haven't played it, but I've seen vids/pics of the girl character and she's pretty hot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 25, 2025 05:25 PM (6ydKt)"

I love that the dangerhair shrews screamed the character was unrealistic and sexualized only to find they literally laser scanned an actress. Who is in fact that hot. Will google again when bored, for science.

Meanwhile - who the fuck do these so called journos think they are, to think they get to run WH press conference attendee lists? Talk about delusional

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (koh6z)

346 >> which certainly have the computing power to decrypt most encryption used commercially

They almost certainly do not have the computing power to break commercial crypto. However, the intelligence agencies have a long history of finding or creating backdoors. Either by subverting standards or by finding flaws in implementation.

>> But in practical terms, man in the middle attacks are an easy way to intercept whatever you want in the midst of transmission. There is no reason in particular to view something as Signal which claims to be end to end encrypted as safe from these attacks.

I wouldn’t agree. They’re not necessarily backdoored. Also, end-to-end encryption relies on the same primitives as at-rest encryption. Man-in-the-middle against proper end-to-end encryption is usually harder to pull off because you need to know ephemeral data that only exists for the duration of the connection.

Conversely, at-rest encryption is easier to attack because the data must be accessed so you have to keep the keys around in some form.

The San Bernadino shooters were a good example of this. That was at-rest encryption. It wasn’t using Apple’s state-of-the-art encryption tech.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (kaEOr)

347 WHCA -- FOAD.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 25, 2025 05:30 PM (u82oZ)

348 🚨 JUST IN: Democrat Andrew Yang runs poll about the Trump administration - it horribly BACKFIRED.

"How are you feeling about the Trump admin thus far?"
🔴 Great: 70% (+56)
🔵 Terrible: 14%
🟡 Okay: 11%

Wow.

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2025 05:30 PM (xwuaK)

349 GOOD! Maybe the news media reporters will be investigative journalists instead of stenographers. They can talk to woodword and bernstien on how you do it.

Posted by: raimondo at February 25, 2025 05:30 PM (1DSoi)

350 identify the employees who participated in the NSA's "obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit" chatrooms
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On the priority scale... this isn't near #1.

Or #25.

As priorities go, this identifies RIF candidates very quickly.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at February 25, 2025 05:30 PM (wVNP5)

351 gnats. He was invited back.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:30 PM (mB6WH)

352 Good. LONG past time conservatives stopped with this farce of 'neutral' and 'nonpartisan' organizations.

There is NO SUCH THING.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (lCHt6)

353 blake, Dwight was a real sleaze in " Slingblade" too.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 25, 2025 05:29 PM (mB6WH)
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Dwight, early in his career, was told by the late Buck Owens, to "keep his hat on."

Evidently, Dwight started losing his hair at a young age.

If I remember correctly, Dwight told the story at Buck's funeral.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (tT6L1)

354 >>remember the movie with Lesbian McFrownyface who hid in her safe room?

Being John Malkovitch?

Posted by: garrett at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (oa1NA)

355

nooooood

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (UZWy2)

356 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

357 BREAKING: Chairman James Comer kicks out Rep. Maxwell Frost from an Oversight hearing after a meltdown over Elon Musk and President Trump.

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (xwuaK)

358 @352 agree 100%

Posted by: raimondo at February 25, 2025 05:31 PM (1DSoi)

359 "Maybe, if we do leave NATO, we should also consider invading the UK and making it a colony.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 05:20 PM (Vqx30)"

Why on earth would we invade them? Shithole colony full of third worlders is bad enough, it's even worse if you add Britons, lousy food, and TV license culture.

Posted by: heya at February 25, 2025 05:32 PM (koh6z)

360 NOOD

derp state smackdown

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2025 05:32 PM (Vqx30)

361 337 > Some services actually have password vaults that are separately encrypted and require a password to open aside from the general cloud datastorage.

Sure, and if you set that up, you're part of the 0.01% that's super paranoid about data security.
Posted by: bonhomme
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I tend to be anal that way simply because hassles from identity theft are a pita to fix and passwords are effectively dead as a security measure. Biometrics and security keys along with authenticators are probably the way going forward.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:33 PM (ctrM5)

362 The AP is icing on the cake!

Last week, a federal judge knocked down the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) attempt to force continued funding for its refugee programs. They didn't demonstrate "irreparable harm."

These lawsuits just draw attention to the problems with funding, not the freeze.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 25, 2025 05:33 PM (fxCK2)

363 re 311: the europeans really are circling the drain.

germany? ficken sie sich

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 25, 2025 05:34 PM (CWTWj)

364 The federal agency responsible for overseeing government-owned buildings has directed all properties under its management to shut down electric vehicle charging stations.

Posted by: SMOD at February 25, 2025 05:34 PM (xwuaK)

365 I don't think there press has access to the Gitmo prisoners, I think it's the guards talking to the press, which seems worse.

Posted by: Megthered at February 25, 2025 05:34 PM (oYePG)

366 349 GOOD! Maybe the news media reporters will be investigative journalists instead of stenographers. They can talk to woodword and bernstien on how you do it.
Posted by: raimondo at February 25, 2025 05:30 PM (1DSoi)

==

Take part in an op where "ex" CIA/FBI employees intentionally botch a burglary, and then act as a stenographer for Mark Felt?

Bonus question -- do it as a remake or as a sequel?

Posted by: jc at February 25, 2025 05:35 PM (P3EVa)

367 They almost certainly do not have the computing power to break commercial crypto. However, the intelligence agencies have a long history of finding or creating backdoors. Either by subverting standards or by finding flaws in implementation.
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I would disagree with this assertion. The whole field of supercomputers has basically went radio silent other than those used directly in science.

Given they cracked and backtracked crypto during the Silk Road investigation, they certainly have better and faster computers nowadays.

Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:36 PM (ctrM5)

368 I tend to be anal that way simply because hassles from identity theft are a pita to fix and passwords are effectively dead as a security measure. Biometrics and security keys along with authenticators are probably the way going forward.
Posted by: whig at February 25, 2025 05:33 PM (ctrM5)
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My bank uses a hardware based authenticator. However, it must be purchased. I didn't hesitate and bought one as soon as it was offered.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 25, 2025 05:38 PM (tT6L1)

369 Trump should just direct whoever to hand out IOUs written in crayon to whoever they were supposed to pay.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2025 05:41 PM (QB+5g)

370 166 159 They told The Post they were rarely led outside, shackled and placed in what they described as cages
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Put the press in cages !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 25, 2025 05:42 PM (NtVYv)

371 366

==

Take part in an op where "ex" CIA/FBI employees intentionally botch a burglary, and then act as a stenographer for Mark Felt?

Bonus question -- do it as a remake or as a sequel?
Posted by: jc at February 25, 2025 05:35 PM (P3EVa)

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Wow. I should be a lot more careful with my wording. Their role in the op was limited to the stenographer part, not the burglary part.

Pretty good reasons to suspect that Woodward always knew it could have been an op, not sure Bernstein was ever that smart.

Posted by: jc at February 25, 2025 05:44 PM (P3EVa)

372 Why on earth would we invade them? Shithole colony full of third worlders is bad enough, it's even worse if you add Britons, lousy food, and TV license culture.
Posted by: heya

But the teen aged girls are easy.

Posted by: Auspex at February 25, 2025 05:54 PM (j4U/Z)

373 My old girlfriend , who I guess had first hand experience unbeknownst to me, thought Dwight Yoakam had to be abusive in real life because he played the part in Sling Blade too well.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 25, 2025 06:09 PM (cwGMH)

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