US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[CEO of Gay]

Ugh, I don't want to bring up forum decorum but is it really necessary to use an archive site if you both link the tweet and do a screen shot of it? Archiving tweets is a real pain in the ass.

It is entirely possible that I am being an autistic ass this, and overly fixated on archiving.

When I was in my initial lurking phase, I noticed a number of links in threads on the site were dead, but the archives were still good. I very much enjoyed that. I could see with my own eyes what was being talked about, even though the original source had been deleted in an attempt by the lolcow to conceal his faggotry. Even when one has screenshots, having an external archive gives a secondary source of the screenshot, letting someone see for themselves that screenshot is a faithful copy of what is/was at the original link, and has not been significantly altered to make a false representation.

When Eliot Fong-Jones pulled Keffals' puppet strings to get Drop Kiwifarms going, that only increased my paranoia about links going dead to conceal things.

Elsewhere on the site, it seems common to provide archive links in addition to screenshots and the direct link, but less so here in the Thunderdome. That bugs me, because in getting caught up on a thread, I've clicked on a link, only to find the tweet has since been deleted.

So I harp on taking archives, and take archives of links where I can.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

About the Signal chat leak, is the journo behind in in jail facing execution, or it's yet another case of journos betraying national security for clicks and suffering no penalty?

 

[CarlosDanger]

The UAW head praising Trump after calling him a scab wasn't on my bingo card.

 

[mlanguishi]

So I harp on taking archives, and take archives of links where I can.

Yeah I get it, but if it's just some news tweet I think the screenshot is enough, and the link to it helps to get to the replies. If the screenshot goes, then this site's dead, and so will the archive link. I'm just going to do link+screenshot on tweets and archiving for urls to news sites on here, and especially starting threads as always. I don't particularly think these archive sites are end all of reliability either. To me at least, if you have the screenshot of the tweet that is the archive of it.

I'm seeing a lot of fuck the UAW on leftwing sites for daring to support Trump lol

ETA: I did get bit hard on here for not archiving a NY Post article about the first Trump shooter being Chinese, I cut and paste that and linked, but didn't archive it and the bastards took it out without any notice and got a thread ban for a bit, and had to prove it was changed and I didn't fake it. That was fair, so anything not screenshotted needs an archive for sure.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

The UAW head praising Trump after calling him a scab wasn't on my bingo card.

He's not really praising Trump. Literally yesterday he spoke about how much of a piece of shit union busting faggot Trump is. He just happens to agree with auto tariffs and tariffs on auto parts in order to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States.

 

[404JesterNotFound]

Apparently, a fatwa has been issued to MAGA shill accounts on behalf of BIG SODA to post in favor of keeping soda in food stamps—for seemingly no reason. Some pretty big accounts are involved (and also Ian Miles Cheong, too), and allegedly, they're paying up to $1,000 per shill
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Lol, yeah, you should see what they’re handing out at food shelves nowadays—cinnamon desserts and cookies. Lol. Not that I go to one, but my church hands out food at the end of each month, and it’s always the same people showing up. They claim they have six mouths to feed just to get extra cookies, donuts, and other junk food. They’re basically handing out diabetes, and it’s all funded by medical companies who profit from selling insulin and other medications. The more diabetes there is, the more money they make.

And the crazy part? It’s all donated by huge corporations like Walmart and Target for us to distribute in our local neighborhoods. The thing is, none of us even agree that we should be feeding people this kind of garbage—it’s just not right. But these people make the church, and the church itself goes along with it because, at the end of the day, it’s just a tax write-off for something.

It’s all a sick, evil plan when you really think about it. But I try to see the light at the end of the tunnel. At the end of the day, I’m just a guy trying to catch up with God, that’s all. GOD IS KING.

 

[Ghostse]

Digitize into what format and how do you guarantee those digital files will be readable 100 years from now? I was around when gov't had the bright idea to preserve records forever on CD-R's that had degraded to an unreadable state 10 years later. Paper still has it's place and salt mines are proven as the perfect place to store them long-term. They didn't just decide one day to hide shit in mines for no reason like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

tl;dr: Gold CDs

The CDRs become unreadable because the metal foil oxidizes and changes the reflective index. this happens because they are made using cheap substances that oxidize. If you use a non-reactive metal like gold, this isn't an issue.

Mossad's source in Yemen was compromised due to Pete Hegseth's carelessness with Signal; source was likely executed.
"erm erm erm based soyseth" lol ok hegseth is getting fired because he upset Israel

"anonymous source"

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

Within 3 months of relocating back to the USA I was back to 230lbs again.

Goy slop is no joke.

You fucking serious? The only joke here is your self control. Fix your shit.

 

[Gregis]

About the Signal chat leak, is the journo behind in in jail facing execution, or it's yet another case of journos betraying national security for clicks and suffering no penalty?

Seems like everything went fine for the US; if you mean the Mossad guy who got killed, no, I don't think the former IDF US citizen journo is in Israeli prison for compromising Israeli national security. Anyway, you can't be mad at a journo when you leak shit to them. They publish info, it's what they do.

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

You fucking serious? The only joke here is your self control. Fix your shit.

Naaa there's a lot of fucked up shit in our food. I took a vacation to Europe for a few weeks, ate over there exactly like I do here and I dropped 10 lbs.
All that shit RFK is railing against, especially the toxic petroleum based food colorings we use, really fuck our systems up.

I'm well aware of the more gonzo stuff they eat, but surely there's a middle ground.

We had a Chinese exchange student when I was a kid and she would make pretty good stuff I'd never seen before for us from time to time. The first time we brought her to a "Chinese restaurant" she was in hysterics about the food lol. "We don't eat this!".

Also, we sent her back home like 20lbs heavier lol.

One time I was doing some writing / producing for a prospective Jpop singer. Sony Japan sent her to my house in America to live with me for like 3 months while we worked on the songs. While she was here, she went nuts. She was especially enamored with how ethnic food here is cooked by the actual nationality and how they all have their own neighborhoods. For example, in Japan, if you want greek food, the chef is most likely a Japanese guy who went to Greece to learn how to cook and then returned home whereas, if you want Greek food in NYC, you just hit Astoria, which is about as close to Greece as you can get outside of the country itself and the food is cooked by an actual Greek. Similar for other ethnicities - Jackson Heights for South American, Flushing for Asian, Ozone Park/Howard Beach for Italian, etc.

Anyway, by the time I sent her back to Japan, she had gained about 15 lbs and Sony dropped her immediately. I always felt bad about that.

Hey, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Using a new account since my main one for KF I'd prefer to keep WELL away from his work but. Well, On Sunday my dad @Gehenna passed away. He had been having heart issues for a while and he took a bad turn over the weekend. he had, rather playfully, mentioned the "Nutters and secret geniuses" in the thread and had fondly mentioned a few of you guys by username. So I thought to tell you all who held a special place in his jaded heart.

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Very sad news. Gehenna was good for this board because even though his predictions weren't always spot on, he was one of the more calmer posters. He had a good talent for tempering everyone's expectations by showing why things aren't as good as they appear, yet he had a great ability to pull doomers back from the edge by showing how everything isn't as bad as it appears. He will be missed around here as he brought a sense of calm and evenness to all the craziness. His autism no longer grows with every step. My deepest condolences. May Lord Jesus be near to those who are broken hearted and comfort those crushed in spirit during this difficult time.

I'm always going to remember @Gehenna for how much he loved lasagna and for how much he hated Mondays..

That's why he died on a Sunday, I guess.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

I disagree, I think every athelete, actor, musician, and politician should get minimum wage and the jobs like scrubbing bathrooms should make big money. It's funny to shit on the janitors until there are no janitors anymore because they deserve more money from their work and the bathrooms are regular biohazards that no one wants to clean. Your precious shift managers sure as hell won't do it most of the time (the ones that do are great though).

I think most of the backwards thinking in America would fix itself if we actually paid people what they deserve instead of what we do today which is the opposite. Dirty jobs that are essential for society to function deserve the money that the childish jobs like acting and playing sports get. You want to play sports for a living? You shouldn't have ever left high school then.

some dumb fuck pushign a mop or scrubbing a toilet shouldn't be paid a lot... Thats just retard logic. I can literally train a monkey to do those jobs. Necessary != complicated job

 

[S.C.U.D.]

My recent blood tests show my testosterone in healthy ranges.

 

[Merry]

The line subhumans are parroting over the Nikolai guy is "HE WUZ PERSECUTED FOR SUPPORTIN TRUMP!!!!"

Something he gave 0 indication of until it was convenient for his case, cute. Indefensible corruption, on both sides of American politics. Burn the shithole down. Btw, his attorney is AG Bondi's brother lol

Keep in mind, the faggot lied about a fake truck for years to grift billions from investors of all sizes

 

[Ghostse]

The line subhumans are parroting over the Nikolai guy is "HE WUZ PERSECUTED FOR SUPPORTIN TRUMP!!!!"

Something he gave 0 indication of until it was convenient for his case, cute. Indefensible corruption, on both sides. Btw, his attorney is AG Bondi's brother lol

Nikolia guy needed to rot. Its not like Dems don't sell pardons for favors, but I did think Trump would be above that.

 

[Merry]

Nikolia guy needed to rot. Its not like Dems don't sell pardons for favors, but I did think Trump would be above that.

If you can purchase a pardon after making billions off of scamming, you have effectively legalized scamming

The robber barons of the 19th century will look like benevolent capitalists from an Ayn Rand novel compared to what's coming

 

[(°▽°)]

It'd be different if they actually did anything about actual spam. The way the Jeets and Chinks running the spambot networks currently get around the automated system is to make accounts, do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can report, but put a porn site in their bio and hit like / follow on an infinite number of accounts/tweets to try and draw your attention to their account (and the bio). But since they never tweet, not once, you can't report them outside of reporting their main profile, which does nothing, because they haven't posted any spam. There's no report option for "blatant porn spam malware aids site in bio." We've had technology that could detect this since the WWIV BBS and IRC era, but that's too much for the Web 4.0 AI Techbros to figure out, apparently.

>not taking the SAAR PLEASE HELP I AM INDIAN gambit
I'm sure you have your reasons, but if I were you I'd deploy the nuclear option

 

[Mullet Man]

It'd be different if they actually did anything about actual spam. The way the Jeets and Chinks running the spambot networks currently get around the automated system is to make accounts, do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can report, but put a porn site in their bio and hit like / follow on an infinite number of accounts/tweets to try and draw your attention to their account (and the bio). But since they never tweet, not once, you can't report them outside of reporting their main profile, which does nothing, because they haven't posted any spam. There's no report option for "blatant porn spam malware aids site in bio." We've had technology that could detect this since the WWIV BBS and IRC era, but that's too much for the Web 4.0 AI Techbros to figure out, apparently.

They absolutely could crack down on spam, it’s just that they don’t give a damn.

 

[(°▽°)]

Digitize into what format and how do you guarantee those digital files will be readable 100 years from now? I was around when gov't had the bright idea to preserve records forever on CD-R's that had degraded to an unreadable state 10 years later. Paper still has it's place and salt mines are proven as the perfect place to store them long-term. They didn't just decide one day to hide shit in mines for no reason like in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I sure fucking hope that 1) no federal retirees live 100 years after retirement and 2) computer systems that are of any importance get upgraded more than once in 100 years

Celebrated the death of an American citizen

The guy is based. Some fucking Turk was trying to get away with terror lite and got called on her shit. Oh no! A muslim Turk living in Gaza should never have been an American citizen in the first place. Give this guy a fucking medal for all I care.

 

[ZMOT]

Better than damn pineapple.

>not both
NGMI

I think the screenshot is enough

if the source is gone a simple screenshot doesn't suffice. a screenshot doesn't even need a source.

that's why you want a screenshot with an archive link in it for ease of distribution and reproducibility/integrity

What's telling is that nobody remembers it anymore. People bringing it up ITT just reminded me of it, but before that, I hadn't thought of the game in several years. It has no lasting fanbase, not even anyone still bringing it up as some profound thing. It is probably the peak of the Soy Era, because all the soybeard guys were all over it.

late reply but it it's a singleplayer game from 2013, everything that has been said and meme'd about being a divisive sequel is long over.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

There's an excellent book called "The Day after WWIII," which was published in 1984, and meticulously detailed the (publicly available) civil defense plans of the United States, and how even seemingly obsolete and cumbersome civil defense plans could be vital for COG and winning a nuclear war. These deep storage sites are part of those old school plans to help rebuild America after a national disaster. I have similar issues with the plan to integrate Starlink while divesting ourselves of things like landlines

I can see the argument for preserving some hard copies of things, but I'm pretty sure if WWIII occurs, the most vital thing we need to rebuild is not ensuring the pension continuity of retired Federal workers, which is what that cave in PA stores...