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Trump administration 2024-2028

McG said:
And yet, @Eaglelord17 has provided nothing but anecdote to support his assertion that unreported crime is way up. Your report doesn’t substantiate that claim. He hasn’t substantiated that claim. As I said, it is easy to argue a point if you feel no shame in made-up stats.
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You can't substantiate "Unreported Crime" because its unreported. There is unreported crime but no one knows how much.
 
So...either one side or the other is lying or someone is delusional:

from CNN:

Trump says his admin met with China this morning.​

President Donald Trump said today that his administration had meetings with Chinese officials regarding trade earlier in the morning, countering earlier statements from China representatives that they have not been meeting with the US.

“They had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China,” Trump said at a bilateral lunch with the Prime Minister of Norway.

Trump said they may reveal who was in the meeting later, but did not specify with whom they met with from China. Chinese officials have denied they are engaged in direct talks with the United States, calling suggestions otherwise “fake news.”

“To my knowledge, China and the United States have not engaged in any consultations or negotiations on the tariff issue, let alone reached any agreement,” Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, said earlier Thursday.

Trump said yesterday that his administration was talking to China “every day” as a trade war between the two countries drags on.
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OldSolduer said:
You can't substantiate "Unreported Crime" because its unreported. There is unreported crime but no one knows how much.
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I was responding to a post by @daftandbarmy where he asserted the opposite of your statement, and provided some evidence to support that. You can take-up your concerns with him, unless the purpose of your post was to argue that made-up & unverifiable stats are a legitimate foundation on which to base an argument.
 
MilEME09 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1915512545110040746

Oh boy it just keeps getting worse
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FACEPALM - my apologies to King Arthur.....

Monty Python Ugh GIF
 
MilEME09 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1915512545110040746

Oh boy it just keeps getting worse
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Probably shady but not necessarily a breach. I don’t imagine they simply ran an unapproved open internet line in. Normal internet access is still a thing in secure environments, even within a full SCIF if set up properly. Some organizations will have a completely justified need for low- or no-attribution open internet machines inside secure spaces, for open source work, other cyber stuff… I expect he just got the Pentagon IT staff to run one of these. Or even just an UNCLASS corporate network line plugged into a computer that can run Signal.

Hesgeth is an absolute joke, but COMSEC nerds know the right way to do just about anything.
 
A big problem down there, and increasingly more so here, people in information silos where they receive incomplete information.

mattklewis.substack.com

Trump Wants to Deport 'Homegrowns.' Fox News Forgot to Mention It.

Maxwell Frost said the quiet part out loud — and exposed just how airtight the conservative media echo chamber really is.
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Take Monday’s Will Cain Show on Fox News. Rep. Maxwell Frost came on to talk about Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who, through a bureaucratic miracle of incompetence, was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Frost, a Democrat, used the moment to raise a bigger red flag: Donald Trump, he said, has floated the idea of deporting “homegrowns” — i.e., American citizens.
Cain, befuddled, hit pause. Deporting Americans? That’s quite a claim.

He asked Frost for a quote, a source, anything concrete.
Frost said Trump made the comment in the Oval Office, standing next to El Salvador’s president, and invited viewers to do a little Googling: “Trump homegrown deporting.”

Now, full disclosure: I like Will Cain. When my book Filthy Rich Politicianscame out, he was one of the few high-profile conservatives willing to talk to me about it — and he was fair, even gracious.

And that’s exactly why this moment matters. Because if someone as smart and capable as Cain hadn’t heard Trump say this — and I believe he sincerely hadn’t — that tells us something deeply broken about the information ecosystem he’s operating in.

This isn’t about Cain. It’s about the epistemic closure that lets a national news host plausibly miss a former president suggesting that we ship U.S. citizens to a foreign prison system better known for gang tattoos and extrajudicial beatings than due process.

I'm willing to bet that until Frost appeared on the network, your average Fox viewer honestly had no clue.

And if that kind of thing can slip through the cracks, what else is being filtered out?

The problem? Millions of Americans are forming opinions and making political decisions based on (I’m being generous here) incomplete information.
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brihard said:
Probably shady but not necessarily a breach. I don’t imagine they simply ran an unapproved open internet line in. Normal internet access is still a thing in secure environments, even within a full SCIF if set up properly. Some organizations will have a completely justified need for low- or no-attribution open internet machines inside secure spaces, for open source work, other cyber stuff… I expect he just got the Pentagon IT staff to run one of these. Or even just an UNCLASS corporate network line plugged into a computer that can run Signal.

Hesgeth is an absolute joke, but COMSEC nerds know the right way to do just about anything.
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It’s a breach, and he abused his authority to make it occur.

He had a camera equipped unsecure phone on an unsecured network inside a secure location.

Unsecured WiFi isn’t allowed in a SCIF, neither are unsecured recording or transmission devices.

NIPR (unclass) network computers exist in SCIF’s but they are still restricted as to programs
 
KevinB said:
It’s a breach, and he abused his authority to make it occur.

He had a camera equipped unsecure phone on an unsecured network inside a secure location.

Unsecured WiFi isn’t allowed in a SCIF, neither are unsecured recording or transmission devices.

NIPR (unclass) network computers exist in SCIF’s but they are still restricted as to programs
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Absolutely. I was only talking about running a separate line in that can access normal internet. Obviously any hardware brought in must be compliant. If he brought a phone into a SCIF, or a laptop with unapproved capabilities, yes that’s a breach. Based on the limited info at hand, I simply said having another line run in, if done by the appropriate authorities, is not ind of itself inherently a breach.

Also- if it was his office, is his normal office a SCIF or does he go to a SCIF as needed?

Like I said, Hesgeth’s junk and a colossal information and operational security liability, but fairness compels me to ask what’s the actual fact set in this case?
 
Navy_Pete said:
Are they making yet another empty accusation the guy was part of TDA?

The pictures of him posing with guns was at a shooting range with someone from the family, which is Merican AF.
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I read three different reports and they all said he was an alleged member of TDA? The guns were owned by the judges daughter April. According to the Newsweek article he was handling firearms which is, "[a]n offense that is prohibited for noncitizens in the United States."

And why were the judge and his wife arrested? Are they suspected of being members of TDA or facilitating TDA in some way? Seems like overkill.
 
Retired AF Guy said:
I read three different reports and they all said he was an alleged member of TDA? The guns were owned by the judges daughter April. According to the Newsweek article he was handling firearms which is, "[a]n offense that is prohibited for noncitizens in the United States."
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Handling firearms by an alien isn’t illegal as long as the lawful owner has ‘Care and Control’ (I.e. is there to monitor). Furthermore legal resident aliens can buy firearms - so Newsweek is out in left field.

Retired AF Guy said:
And why were the judge and his wife arrested? Are they suspected of being members of TDA or facilitating TDA in some way? Seems like overkill.
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They thought he meant TVA, and they were trying to prune our timeline.
 
Retired AF Guy said:
I read three different reports and they all said he was an alleged member of TDA? The guns were owned by the judges daughter April. According to the Newsweek article he was handling firearms which is, "[a]n offense that is prohibited for noncitizens in the United States."
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Sure, but how many people on here have gone to a range in the US, rented a gun and tried it out on the range? There is a handgun one in Boston in walking distance of the jetty we normally tie up at that usually has a lot of visitors from the ship, and I can't remember if they wanted to see the passport or a driving license. I think I tried out a few glocks in 9mm and .4, but they also had things like classic movie guns (like the Dirty Harry 45) and the Browning .50 that people played around with. Similarly folks in Las Vegas can go try out full machine guns and all sorts of insanity.

Sounds like he was an illegal immigrant, that had filed relief papers that listed the Judge's family as a reference, and was living in some kind of poolhouse type thing doing the kind of odd handyman jobs that seemed to be pretty typical across the US. Them taking him to a shooting range to try out some guns they legally own is very different from being a gangbanger posing with illegal weapons. They seem to be throwing the accusation of TDA, MS-13 etc on everyone with no evidence as an excuse to override basic constitutional rights and legal protections, so more PR than justice.
 
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