Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Dekafox]

ha, there goes all their Red Team materials. And a good chunk of any security documentation.

The NSA's "Big Delete"

Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "Big Delete," according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular...

open.substack.com

Meanwhile Vance apparently hasn't heard of checks and balances: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx3j5k63xo

 

[Axaday]

Meanwhile Vance apparently hasn't heard of checks and balances: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx3j5k63xo

His line is great, actually.
"Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power," he wrote on X.

We know. That's not the part you gotta worry about.

 

[Dekafox]

Also this may come in handy if it stays updated: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

 

[Axaday]

Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.

apnews.com

I want to know if Trump knows that pennies are not intended to be a profitable product of the Treasury Department. The loss on making them costs every American 25 cents and what we get for it is being able to make change.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

He wouldn't know about change. He writes checks or uses big bills. Or just doesn't bother paying at all.

 

[Pocket]

There has been a bipartisan push to get rid of pennies for a long time for exactly the same reason Trump has cited. So long, in fact, that thanks to inflation we could probably get rid of nickels too and still have a currency as granular as nickels were when the push first started.

But of course Trump is going about this the wrong way. There would need to be an official act requiring all prices and account balances to be rounded to increments of five (or ten) cents, and I doubt he gives enough of a crap to put in that effort.

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

If you watch the SuperBowl, you will see the commercials. The most expensive commercials all year. And you'll buy all of the stuff. I'm surprise you didn't know that.

Problem is, I'll either buy a lot of those products whether or not I've seen those commercials, and/or I won't buy the products, even if I had seen the commercials.


(I'm not saying commercials don't drive sales. I'm saying it's really hard to tie sales to any specific commerical(s).)

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

(I'm not saying commercials don't drive sales. I'm saying it's really hard to tie sales to any specific commerical(s).)

Especially after a campaign such as this one from a few years ago:

 

[Paladin]

So the tariff pause was less than a week.

Trump places 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports

The move comes a week after Trump promised to suspend tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

www.nbcnews.com

raising material prices and simultaneously confirming no other deals anyone tries to broker will actually be respected or acknowledged.

 

[Dekafox]

Trump signs executive order to establish a White House Faith Office

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to establish the White House Faith Office as part of the Domestic Policy Council.

www.pbs.org

 

[Axaday]

Trump signs executive order to establish a White House Faith Office

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to establish the White House Faith Office as part of the Domestic Policy Council.

www.pbs.org

A friend shared on Facebook where Franklin Graham said he was privileged to be involved and I was impressed to hear that he understood about privilege. That apple fell off the tree and rolled down big steep hill.

 

[KidTDragon]

I don't think you're both talking about the same kind of privilege.

 

[NovaSaber]

But then, neither were the computer-related documents that DOGE purged for containing the word.

 

[Axaday]

I don't think you're both talking about the same kind of privilege.

It actually IS the same kind of privilege. Just in a narrow context where people feel good about acknowledging it.

 

[Pale Rider]

Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science, technology, engineering and math.

www.military.com

"It's f---ing racist," one active-duty Army general told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "For the Army now, it's 'Blacks need not apply' and it breaks my heart."

 

[Ungnome]

Given how the military has been having recruitment issues over the past decade, not only is it racist, it's stupid from a strategic point of view too.

 

[Pale Rider]

It makes sense from a paranoid white supremacist perspective, though. How can they rely on black service members to go along with their violent takeover when Trump finally declares martial law?

 

[Paladin]

FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."

www.nbcnews.com

Laws are meaningless & the checks and balances on things no longer exist.
They will do whatever they want no matter who says they cant.

 

[Axaday]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/europe/ukraine-russia-trump-zelensky-intl/index.html

With Trump we always know where the buck stops, but I didn't realize how. Looks like the deal in the works is that Ukraine can give us $500 billion in mineral rights in trade for continued aid.

 

[Cybersnark]

Given how the military has been having recruitment issues over the past decade, not only is it racist, it's stupid from a strategic point of view too.

Only if you want to preserve America's ability to defend itself. That's obviously not the goal here.