17D_guy

Depends if you think everyone deserves due process or just the people you want to have it. Also an independent but co-equal branch of the government exercising its power as it sees appropriate. Pretty sure I heard about some guy that was a founding father saying something along the lines of "I disagree with what you say but defend you right to say it," as a right or something.

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If this dude got bounced because Laura Loomer...wtf is even this administration. Holy shit, is this real life? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/national-security/3370237/trump-fired-nsa-director-tim-haugh-laura-loomer/ or https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/04/04/democrats-attack-discredited-conspiracy-theorist-laura-loomer-as-nsa-director-and-deputy-are-reportedly-axed/

Representation has generally meant the Congress, which is my argument. These powers should not run unchecked for any administration, much like the War Powers Act.

Worked for him when I was in CYBERCOM. Good dude, mostly good ideas and really cared about the mission and the people. His bad idea(s) were trying to solve a problem he was put in, and the didn't ever take effect. I can't speak on the CSAF, CNO, VCSAF getting fired with a personal anecdote. But Haugh knew his shit, was a cyber "operator" (stop laughing), and cared about his people. This is a massive loss for warfighing in the "new" domain. And if this is because he wouldn't co-sign splitting up NSA and CYBERCOM then whoever replaces him to do that is setting back our capes at minimum a decade, if not more.

Love the whataboutism, I thought you guys were the party of values except now two wrongs make a right? Curtis, one of our senators held a "virtual townhall" no questions, just a 30-min lecture via zoom then 5-min spots to privately ask him questions which all just happened to be full when signups were released. Mike Lee's phone doesn't even get answered. Nope, not a fan of the lack of press events, not a fan of him running again, not a fan of Harris not going through a primary, not a fan of their lack of a message to resonate with actual people, not a fan with the centralization of electoral and fundraising processes, not a fan of their stupid "political talk" they always start doing, not a fan of them abandoning the states. Next question. Paying for townhall agitators, lol. How's the Qanon posts doing these days? You think all the townhalls have paid agitators? Like there aren't people who're upset with what's happening and the Congress abdicating their responsibility as a co-equal part of the gov't. We had one here for Blake Moore, and two down in SLC. No paid agitators, just pissed off people. My area the large employers are the Base, IRS, BLM/Interior. CDC on base just closed due to funding cuts, the probationary job cuts, IRS had the return to work order (that failed and they've stopped), AF DOD employees are taking a cut to locality pay on top of the hiring freeze and promotions being halted. That's on top of them all being told their lazy leeches. But I guess "someone" has got to pay people to show up at townhalls and be upset? Most logical of you. That Kansas senator who went out into the boonies to do his meet-and-greet, yea those looked like a lot of "paid agitators" as well. But if it makes you feel better to imagine a deep "Soros funded anti-townhall army" go ahead. I know nothing will convince you otherwise anyway. Besides, people are just acting the same way your God-King has showed us to act since 2016. Why should we be civil and respectful if that consideration is never returned? Next. Acting like Sleepy Joe didn't have injunctions against him as well. No other president has tried to magnify executive power in our history, no shit there's going to be a lot of injunctions. That's cause and effect and the whole point of having a judiciary that isn't beholden to the executive: to determine if what they do is legal...looks like a lot of it isn't, or if it is it needs to be proven and not taken at face value.

With the R reps dodging town halls and refusing to pick up the phone when asked to do just that...highly unlikely while Trump is a supposed king maker. Never mind what happened mid-terms in 2018 I guess.

"The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody." Guess the DOJ lawyers have TDS? "oops, our bad. There was a court order... oops. We can't do anything about it...oops." Or I guess we could just got with, "there are 3 co-equal parts of our government but some are more equal than others." https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html

Link to all so far. I'm ok with him not releasing the active Intel portions, but I know some on this board won't agree . https://imgur.com/a/breaking-below-is-entire-transcript-of-messages-from-signal-group-chat-just-released-by-jeffrey-goldberg-atlantic-hkD7Cdm Edit - much like the tweet above, the title sucks.

That's exactly what they want, otherwise it's all a TDS deranged journalist. The article clearly said the author was not releasing information because it would put intel & other operations at risk, but I guess that needs to be put out as well. The bias to believe what you want to believe is always strong.

It's been confirmed - https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-trump-hegseth-atlantic-230718a984911dd8663d59edbcb86f2a Not sure what the "or" is and saying "which we do all the time" somehow alleviates this issue, or concern around what happened. But I guess if we talk about deportations instead it's ok?

Texted, not even a secure messaging platform. Thanks @SurelySerious for correcting. What an absolute failure of...everything still stands. Oh, in case you didn't know China's all up in the telecom shit. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/joint-statement-fbi-and-cisa-peoples-republic-china-prc-targeting-commercial-telecommunications BTW, one of the first things killed was the CISA's ability to investigate these giant breaches with subpoena power and name/shame where necessary. They did really good work on the State Dept's breach that Microsoft allowed to happen because MS didn't follow their own guidance - https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/CSRB-Review-Summer-2023-MEO-Intrusion The CSRB (Cybersecurity Review Board) was patterned after the NTSB, and was doing really great work. They were in the middle of investigating the China breach of telecom, but now that'll never finish or if it does it'll be years from when the findings will be impactful. They've also killed the coordination groups for headed by DHS/CISA for coordinating among states/counties the threats to critical infrastructure - utilities, elections, etc. This is a legitimate weakening of our nations ability to respond to attacks by nation states on critical infrastructure that is not federally controlled and fun fact: most of it isn't federally controlled. Cyber is very much a team game and losing this guidance and oversight is really crippling. It's hard for me to articulate how much we're losing as a nation with this neutering of CISA. No proof opinion - I think it's because Trump and his cronies are upset DHS/CISA didn't parrot the stolen/hacked election from 2020 bullshit. Edit - at work, just saw the byline and un-paywalled bit. Corrected the messaging platform, everything else is correct about the loss of CISA's capes.

So, the administration is ignoring judges orders now. Guess we all cool with that too since they're not orders we agree with?

I know I'm one of the few liberals on here, but if you watch what Portland does to the rest of Oregon, it's the same thing. "We want a high speed rail line from the rich part of town to downtown Portland." Rest of OR - "WTF, no." Portland (and the leftists): "Too bad, it's green so here's a state tax on it." I don't have time to read the article, plus I'd need to find something on the other side and/or more balanced, but paying for illegal adults who aren't enrolled in some kind of citizenship program and making progress on it...wtf? Doubly so if they're getting paid in cash so those taxes don't even get to come out. I say all that and I was stationed at Vandenberg and had an apartment right across the street from the strawberry fields in Santa Maria. I'd wake up when those dudes had been out there for hours and watch them run to pick fruit. Hardest working people I've ever seen in my life. I was in little Mexico (west side of town) and never had any issues. Even the roughest looking punks were generally nice. Lots of families in my area. YMMV.

https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/13/portugal-f-35-plans/ We'll see if they follow through.