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[brickhistory]

I see the deportation numbers, I see the number of border encounters, then I see posts like those above and I think:

 

[Lord Ratner]

1 hour ago, SurelySerious said:

Extorted into pro bono work. You should really read what happened before you support dear leader.

"No thank you sir, we are not willing to work pro bono as part of a contract with the federal government." That's the Wonder of living in a free country, you can say no.

 

All the other progressive law firms are furious that they didn't do exactly that to save their DEI agendas. 

 

Again, Twitter is not a good news source.

[SurelySerious]

"No thank you sir, we are not willing to work pro bono as part of a contract with the federal government." That's the Wonder of living in a free country, you can say no.
 
All the other progressive law firms are furious that they didn't do exactly that to save their DEI agendas. 
 
Again, Twitter is not a good news source.

You’re ignoring the quid pro quo, but go on believing in your cult.

Also, Twitter is the vehicle, not the source. That’s how I can tell you’re just Trump fan-boying. The source is that left wing rag the Wall Street Journal…oh wait

[Lord Ratner]

4 hours ago, SurelySerious said:

You’re ignoring the quid pro quo, but go on believing in your cult.

Also, Twitter is the vehicle, not the source. That’s how I can tell you’re just Trump fan-boying. The source is that left wing rag the Wall Street Journal…oh wait

 

 

 

 

Bud, this isn't that complicated. And you can't just throw quid pro quo around like it's some sort of all-covering Boogeyman. If I pay you to build me a fence, that's a quid pro quo. If instead of giving you money I decide to offer you flying lessons, that's still a quid pro quo. You don't have to like it, but the government is well within its rights to include a certain amount of charity work in exchange for a contract. As long as the law firm has the option to say no, which all the articles you're citing have plenty of examples of law firms that are refusing, then it's not extortion. 

 

Where was all the righteous indignation from these law firms when the government was requiring vendors to have a certain number of women or minorities as founders or executives? Suspiciously silent.

 

I have every confidence that a law firm as prestigious as Weiss can survive without federal cheese. And if they can't, like so many other vendors that are about to be DOGE'd, they will adapt or die. This firm chose, voluntarily, to accept the president's offer. His quid pro quo, if you will. 😂

 

Of course it's not good for the country, but it's just fun watching the progressives roll around on the ground like they're on fire now that their own tactics of the last couple decades are being used against them. They got so comfortable with this one-sided game that they forgot how to lose, and the meltdown has been spectacular. 

[SurelySerious]

Bud, this isn't that complicated. And you can't just throw quid pro quo around like it's some sort of all-covering Boogeyman. If I pay you to build me a fence, that's a quid pro quo. If instead of giving you money I decide to offer you flying lessons, that's still a quid pro quo. You don't have to like it, but the government is well within its rights to include a certain amount of charity work in exchange for a contract. As long as the law firm has the option to say no, which all the articles you're citing have plenty of examples of law firms that are refusing, then it's not extortion. 
 
Where was all the righteous indignation from these law firms when the government was requiring vendors to have a certain number of women or minorities as founders or executives? Suspiciously silent.
 
I have every confidence that a law firm as prestigious as Weiss can survive without federal cheese. And if they can't, like so many other vendors that are about to be DOGE'd, they will adapt or die. This firm chose, voluntarily, to accept the president's offer. His quid pro quo, if you will.
 
Of course it's not good for the country, but it's just fun watching the progressives roll around on the ground like they're on fire now that their own tactics of the last couple decades are being used against them. They got so comfortable with this one-sided game that they forgot how to lose, and the meltdown has been spectacular. 

Good to see ethics isn’t your strong suit, but writing volumes off topic like nsplayer is. Glad someone is continuing the trend.

[Lord Ratner]

31 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:

Good to see ethics isn’t your strong suit, but writing volumes off topic like nsplayer is. Glad someone is continuing the trend.

Off topic? You don't really read much here do you? Is this just somewhere you feel less helpless, because you can say the things you wish you could shout at your coworkers? It's gonna be ok. Promise.

[SurelySerious]

Off topic? You don't really read much here do you? Is this just somewhere you feel less helpless, because you can say the things you wish you could shout at your coworkers? It's gonna be ok. Promise.

Yeah, your post(s) was entirely ignoring the ethics and just whitewashing it with fluff because apparently you’re so enamored with DJT that you’re ok with it, or you don’t have the knowledge/capability to recognize it. Either way, you wrote a lot of words with no substance.

[Lord Ratner]

7 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:

Yeah, your post(s) was entirely ignoring the ethics and just whitewashing it with fluff because apparently you’re so enamored with DJT that you’re ok with it, or you don’t have the knowledge/capability to recognize it. Either way, you wrote a lot of words with no substance.

I answered your questions and addressed your points. Every single one. Any lack of substance is your inability to make a point to respond to 🤷🏻‍♂️.

 

Anyways, this is boring now. Next crisis please. 

[SurelySerious]

I answered your questions and addressed your points. Every single one. Any lack of substance is your inability to make a point to respond to .
 
Anyways, this is boring now. Next crisis please. 

You did not address it, but agree, next topic since your writing was nsplayer boring.

[SurelySerious]

Some funny damage control. Probably just a fake news SecDef memo.

[busdriver]

Purses at dawn!

[disgruntledemployee]

I'll bet Hilary did it as retribution for losing her security clearance.

[SurelySerious]

“The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M


Probably fake news

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic.pdf

[17D_guy]

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.

Edited yesterday at 08:05 PM by 17D_guy

[SurelySerious]

Texted, not even a secure messaging platform. What an absolute failure of...everything.

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.

To be fair, it was on Signal, but the headline “signaled me their war plans” doesn’t translate as well.

https://y.yarn.co/67018d3b-731d-479a-aa96-dee85ccf4562_text.gif

^It’s Monty Python Jane Eyre in Semaphore, definitely not Rick Astley link

[uhhello]

“War plans”

Great optics the day after ranting about leaks from within DOD and govt.  

Edited yesterday at 08:27 PM by uhhello

[disgruntledemployee]

1 hour ago, uhhello said:

“War plans”

Great optics the day after ranting about leaks from within DOD and govt.  

I know. 

Trump hires only the best, top notch.... clowns.

Ironic that Pete says OPSEC in the texts, via a texting app.  Those dudes are a treasure trove for the PRC.

 

[Stoker]

On 3/22/2025 at 11:12 PM, SurelySerious said:

 

Some funny damage control. Probably just a fake news SecDef memo.

We aren't even going to point out that they spelled it "secertary?"

[Day Man]

are we great yet?🙃

[Standby]

To be fair, the previous admin was never at risk of leaking any secret war plans because none were made.

[StrikeOut312]

A part of me wonders if it was intentional. Or if the reporter has a similar name as someone that was supposed to be added to the group chat.

[brickhistory]

A.  If true, a massive fcuk up.

B.  Goldberg is a massive never Trumper who has written false stories before (suckers and losers fame)

C.  Given that, odd that he'd be on such an e-mail chain (never mind that classified being on such a unclass system)

D.  https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-revoking-legal-status-002259448.html

So, a potential, but not confirmed, mistaken leak of a classified plan, which can be redone.  Which we do all the time, or,

500,000 more illegals getting their 'get outta here' notification.

LFG!!

[SurelySerious]

A part of me wonders if it was intentional. Or if the reporter has a similar name as someone that was supposed to be added to the group chat.

He could totally be making it up, but I’ve also been on an email exchange between three and four stars where everyone was first naming it that a no-name captain definitely wasn’t supposed to be on.

[17D_guy]

55 minutes ago, brickhistory said:

A.  If true, a massive fcuk up.

B.  Goldberg is a massive never Trumper who has written false stories before (suckers and losers fame)

C.  Given that, odd that he'd be on such an e-mail chain (never mind that classified being on such a unclass system)

D.  https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-revoking-legal-status-002259448.html

So, a potential, but not confirmed, mistaken leak of a classified plan, which can be redone.  Which we do all the time, or,

500,000 more illegals getting their 'get outta here' notification.

LFG!!

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?

[BashiChuni]

why the fuck would you invite a journalist to join a signal chat? i'd fire Waltz immediately