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

More like the rantings of a raving lunatic.

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The man who would be king

There are now some reports that Kash is preparing to release the file on a Chinese espionage op in which Eric Swalwell was a target

There was a Chinese student who was active in local California democratic politics, running fundraising and other organizing activities who the FBI came to suspect was actually a spy. They approached Swalwell because she had done some fund raising for him and a contact of hers had been taken on by his staff as an intern, but there was no suspicion of wrong doing and he was by all accounts completely cooperative. The woman fled back to China seemingly after being tipped off the Feds were on to her.

No one knew about this until the story of Swalwell’s involvement was leaked to Axios in 2020, which the right then used as a smear against him. Insinuating he was honey trapped (there no actual suspicion of any relationship between them) into giving away secrets. It is to this day the only thing the right will ever say about him. Now he is well positioned in the CA governor race it appears they are going to try to smear him with a selective release of the investigation. It’s a strange target because ultimately WTF cares who the governor of California is and I dont think it makes a meaningful different to Trump if he or any of the other leading Dem candidates win. But they are so petty and vindictive that they have been holding a grudge since Trump’s first term when he was a loud supporter of the implications of the Mueller investigation.

Even Hoover would look at this and think it was gross

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If they think it was bad, it is going to be a hell of a lot worse with how the current administration giving everything out to buddies or who can pay more to line the pockets of the toxic orange and family.

How did it come to this?

The Government Accountability Office found the OCX program was marred by “poor acquisition decisions and a slow recognition of development problems” before it exceeded cost and schedule targets in 2016, triggering an automatic Pentagon review for potential cancellation. The problems included difficulties with the software’s cybersecurity features and a “persistently high software development defect rate.”

At the time, defense officials blamed the troubles on the government’s lack of software expertise and Raytheon’s “poor systems engineering” practices. The military restructured the program and continued development, only to encounter further delays and cost overruns.

“There have been problems in program management, problems with contractor performance, problems in systems engineering, both on government and on the contractor side, over a number of years. It’s a very stressing program,” Ainsworth told lawmakers last week. “We are still considering how to ensure we move forward.”

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‘‘The reality is that the rest of the world is paying a Trump tax as a reward for the American people having voted an unstable, not very clever sociopath into the White House..’’
Stumbled over this in Craces column in the Guardian and thought it was a succinct answer to a question many are asking around the world/

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https://x.com/yashar/status/2038778439067677046

Golden escalators, jeez :face_with_spiral_eyes:

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Fascists love bling.

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more like The toddler not allowed to to stick a fork in the power socket.

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Would he know how to do that?
Might be challenging to the poor dear!!

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https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2038939688946311321

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Every time he does this adds a few opinion poll points to Starmer.

Every time article 5 has been implemented we joined in even if the joining in started to get messy over time.

This is the same USA who threatened Denmark, frankly he can fuck off and die the waste of oxygen.*

*Apologies if anyone feels out of kind with this comment, I don’t think my mum will be with me much longer and this shit continues to breath and cause tremendous agony to the world.

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Fair play MH :+1:

There are children dying because war criminals like him and Netanyahu are allowed to steal oxygen. So fair call

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Yeah I can’t think why someone wouldn’t want to get involved in a 4 day war thats gone on for a month or so now. Actually calling it a war is a bit …

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There is a school of thought that one shouldn’t wish death on someone. I think the logic is that it is poor form to want lethal retribution for past crimes, but most people who are saying this want to prevent him committing future atrocities.

Having said that, most people wishing death usually mean that they wish the individual had never been born, and let’s face it, the world would have been a much happier place if Donald Trump had ended up as a blow job.

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https://x.com/pelositracker/status/2038726761157194118

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https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2039010335449850085

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