Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
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The only reason this is happening is that someone successfully convinced him not to make them all feature his portrait.
 

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
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It's illegal for living persons to be depicted on paper currency. That's the only reason his portrait isn't on the bills already. Presidents can't have their image on coinage until they've been out of office for a least two years, also by law.
 

KidTDragon

Now with hi-res avatar!
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I feel bad for all the bank tellers who'll have to deal with people who didn't get bills with the signature they wanted from the ATM.
 

KidTDragon

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Iran-linked hackers on Friday claimed they had accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the ‌director and other documents to the internet.

On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." The hackers published a series of personal photographs of Patel sniffing and smoking cigars, riding in an antique ⁠convertible, and making a face while taking a picture of himself in the mirror with a large bottle of rum.

A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel's email had been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic. The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The hackers did not immediately respond to messages.

I hope we learn how easily-guessable his password is. My money's on "Ka$hpatel1980".
 

Dekafox

Fabulously Foxy Dragon
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It's not anything recent unfortunately... from what I heard from someone looking through it, it's mostly 2010-2019, and he so far has only found one e-mail from 2022, which was a airline reservation for economy class. Though that could be because Handela(IIRC that's who it was) is holding onto the recent stuff themselves, tbf.
 

wonko the sane?

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You'll also note: they corrected themselves entirely when prompted. So while they WANT impeachments: they aren't willing to stand up for it yet.
 

abates

unfortunate shark issues
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It doesn't say anything there about the crowd correcting themselves though? Schlapp asks if anyone wants impeachment hearings, gets cheers, asks again, gets cheers again.

I'm undecided on whether they genuinely wanted Trump impeached, misheard Schlapp, or thought he meant impeaching Joe Biden. It's possibly a mix.
 

wonko the sane?

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Yeah, I saw the video: Schlapp asks if they want impeachments, and the crowd cheered. Schlapp said "Wrong answer" and asked again. This time the crowd booed kinda half heartedly. Schlapp then said "Can we get some coffee for..." and waved at the crowd. I think one dude behind him snickered.

My take away was: they want impeachments, and they're having a hard time filling room with sycophants these days.
 

Pocket

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I'm undecided on whether they genuinely wanted Trump impeached, misheard Schlapp, or thought he meant impeaching Joe Biden. It's possibly a mix.
It's a crowd; cheering for whatever's being said by an official speaker is the norm. They also could have interpreted "hearings", plural, as impeachment hearings for the Democrats in Congress. Hasn't that been a popular topic among Republicans lately?
 

KidTDragon

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I dunno, those boos after he repeated the question seemed less than enthusiastic. Not "HELL NO!!!" so much as "Eh, yeah, we guess not.".
 

wonko the sane?

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Right? it wasn't so much confusion as lack of crowd control and peer pressure. They don't even have the energy for their own bullshit.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
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FB friend:
Of all the stupid things Trump has said, I do believe the one about reducing the price of medications by 1200% was the very stupidest. And the media gave him every opportunity to walk that back and say that's not what he meant, but he just kept saying it.

We've heard of greenwashing and sanewashing, but we need to talk about smartwashing. I am really tired of the way the media reacts to every idiotic thing Trump says by pretending it's actually something a smart person might say. NO IT'S NOT. He keeps saying stupid things, and the media keeps pretending that he's not stupid, he's just misunderstood.

They'll insist that he didn't really mean it, or it was a creative exaggeration, or there were a bunch of extra words that belonged in there which would have made it make sense, so we should assume those words. Anything to avoid the normal human reaction of saying "OMG that may have been the single dumbest thing a world leader has ever said on record".

Even accusing him of lunacy is a kind of smartwashing, when you think about it. It's kinder to assume he's a formerly smart person who lost his mind than to realize he's a lifelong moron who's been allowed to fail upwards for decades by a profoundly un-meritocratic society.
 

wonko the sane?

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But please acknowledge WHY they do it. Yeah, part of it is just sane washing... but the other part is trumps constant threats, his active litigation, and an entire team dedicated to ensuring mainstream media is compliant in his authoritarianism. He LITERALLY installed a compliance officer at CBS, is deliberately pushing the FCC to endorse mergers and sell offs to his donors, and is openly taking bribes from broadcasters to stop him threatening to pull their licenses and bullying their reporters.
 


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