Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

Good grief…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

Hmm, no headline showing:

Head of the U.S. cyber defense agency CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT, triggering a DHS security review

This is mindboggling ineptitude - just one more nail in the coffin of Five Eyes. You can’t share sensitive secrets with a sieve

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CISA - the cyber security and infrastructure security agency :joy::joy::joy:

To be fair, it is a fantastic looking coat.

Unfortuantely, of course, it has certain connotations. I wish that was all that was controversial with him. That he owned a good looking coat. Alas…

As for the coat, I have a really good looking one too, which I bought on Wacken Open Air in 2002.
This one:

I specifically did not want to buy a nazi era coat, and asked for a West German one. However, 2 year after I did some repair on it at a shoemaker (because it is specialised clothing), and he looked at me and told me uncertainly that “yes, it’s a nice coat this. They sure made quality”, before he gave me another odd look. I then found the emblem in the inside and it is of course a Waffen SS coat.
Mine had belonged to some Major Manfred Schmidt, according to the stamp on the inside (the reason I some how missed that is that there is a name tag and stamp with the Reichsadler and year of making, in the chest pocket on the inside of the coat, so I was blissfully unaware for quite some time, as I had been told it was a motorcycle coat from the West German army).

Then came Der Untergang on the cinema, I used to wear the coat back in those days. Heavy Metal and Rock n’ Roll you know. However, as I sat there in the cinema in the coat, I noticed that the SS doctor (the symapthetic one) had the exact same coat, which was super embarrasing for me.

So I haven’t really worn it since Der Untergang. Maybe once since 2003. But yeah, stopped wearing it in public.

But it is a for sure nice coat. 3 silk layers on the inside (several layers of leather too) and I payed almost nothing for it. Absolutely amazing coat but it’s been in my mothers closet for decades now. I am kind of too old to get away with wearing it in public anymore I reckon.

But…I still like it. And I always will. Shrug.

Just a peculiar personal anecdote. Nothing important. Carry on :slight_smile:

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https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/2016692607250800837

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Performative bullshit done on purpose to create outrage and to cue faux ‘did I do that’ in return. An administrative version of Karen all across the board.

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https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2016544391754633339

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That is so totally childish,probably straight from the Orange ones catalogue of kids stuff.
Turf the embassy out.

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Do you have a link?

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Only if he was ‘threatening’ a right wing/republican/deplorable. As Trump himself said, you can shoot any other people on 5th avenue. I mean that’s what Kim Jong Un can do in the DPRK.

Anyone know what this is about?

Looks like a scam.

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Remember, Trump is a populist who cares about the working man. Every once in a while he has to say some half-brained, low-commitment thing that offers something to his working class support to bolster that idea, and this is one of those things he’s been spitballing for a while.

That’s absolutely chilling - its only a tiny step to go from there to a ‘do X or ICE will come and track you down’. And thats nominally what he’s allowing to be said to his supporters.

Get out of the US, TANites!

With him, yes. It sounds quite similar to the Child Trust Funds that Gordon Brown set up in the UK when he was chancellor. They weren’t exactly the brightest idea but they were intended to be an ongoing thing although were ended by George Osborne, whereas the Trump ones end with his presidency. Looks like an attempt at bribery on that basis.

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If it involves Trump, I think it is safe to say it most probably is a scam

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So, everything about this is really bad

  • A raid on the election office in the heart of the Dem strong hold in Georgia related to supposed 2020 election fraud.
  • Being run as clownishly as expected by this FBI - issues with the original warrant and identified chain of custody issues
  • Trump’s head of intelligence, completely unrelated to the FBI, was captured on site
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Senate Democrats seem to be eager to find a compromise on the spending bill to allow the White House to put lipstick on the pig.

Stories like this really drive home how the immigration debate is based on one side having no idea how the world actually works

https://x.com/CarolLeonnig/status/2016656866592338362?s=20

Many on the right think they are simply supporting an attempt to end an Open Borders policy. But no Dem actually operates with any such policy and the idea is only a fringe one even on the left. The problem is when you put such energy into rhetorically opposing an immigration policy that doesnt exist, and use lies to justify a crack down it was only ever going to go in one direction. This lawlessness and lack of regard for constitutional protection, not to mention the lack of humanity was entirely predictable and is what the opposition from the left has always been about. Situations where deportation and border enforcement metrics are indistinguishable between an Obama admin and a Trump admin only looks hypocritical if you live in the make believe world of what Dems actually believe about immigration and the border. It is entirely reasonable to believe in robust border protections and effective enforcement of immigration laws while also supporting the sort of humane statutory updates present in the Dreamer Act.

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Just as the above
https://x.com/DC_DeWitt/status/2016510877109719328?s=20

This has nothing to do with addressing illegal immigration or open borders. It is just wanton cruelty and a show that America’s promises mean nothing.

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Law Enforcement as PR via twitter
https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/2016845244482924999?s=20