Trump administration 2024-2028

[OldSolduer]

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.

You can't substantiate "Unreported Crime" because its unreported. There is unreported crime but no one knows how much.

 

[GR66]

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.

 

[McG]

You can't substantiate "Unreported Crime" because its unreported. There is unreported crime but no one knows how much.

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]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915512545110040746

Oh boy it just keeps getting worse

 

[OldSolduer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915512545110040746

Oh boy it just keeps getting worse

FACEPALM - my apologies to King Arthur.....

 

[ModlrMike]

"What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."

-Attributed to Shakespeare (but there's no evidence he wrote it)

 

[daftandbarmy]

"What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind."

-Attributed to Shakespeare (but there's no evidence he wrote it)

Nice one!

It's actually from King Lear apparently:

Glouster: “Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.”

 

[OldSolduer]

Nice one!

It's actually from King Lear apparently:

Glouster: “Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.”

Or as my dad used to say "there are none so blind as those that do not wish to see"

 

[Brad Sallows]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915512545110040746

Oh boy it just keeps getting worse

Subverting good security practices and regulations with a private system. A first, I'm sure.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Naughty Judge...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915542422651642322

 

[brihard]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1915512545110040746

Oh boy it just keeps getting worse

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.

 

[RangerRay]

A big problem down there, and increasingly more so here, people in information silos where they receive incomplete information.

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.

mattklewis.substack.com

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.