U.S. Politics

[bobzy]

On 25/05/2021 at 12:46, stuart_75 said:

Texas about to pass an open carry handgun law, no need for a permit. Why oh why?

They ain't top pal:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/811541/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-state/

[KenjiOgiwara]

 

[AXD]

This made me chuckle

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green demands COVID-19 answers from President Biden... by June 31, 2021

...

The one problem for her, the date she demanded to get answers does not exist.   She wanted answers by June 31, 2021.  June, as always, only has 30 days.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/rep-marjorie-taylor-green-wants-covid-19-answers-from-biden-by-june-31-2021

[Shaw_nuff]

On 04/06/2021 at 03:02, maqroll said:

Trying not to cave an axe into my head over what these Republicans are doing to the country.

Like what? telling the migrants to go home. Oh sorry, that's CamelToe. Maybe it's trying to bring jobs home? No? You're right - feck em.

Senile Beijing Biden has it covered with the NWO jabathon.

Still, you'll own nothing and be happy!

C'mon man.

[sharkyvilla]

9 minutes ago, Shaw_nuff said:

Like what? telling the migrants to go home. Oh sorry, that's CamelToe. Maybe it's trying to bring jobs home? No? You're right - feck em.

Senile Beijing Biden has it covered with the NWO jabathon.

Still, you'll own nothing and be happy!

C'mon man.

I don't think this post will go down very well at all.

[maqroll]

57 minutes ago, Shaw_nuff said:

Like what? telling the migrants to go home. Oh sorry, that's CamelToe. Maybe it's trying to bring jobs home? No? You're right - feck em.

Senile Beijing Biden has it covered with the NWO jabathon.

Still, you'll own nothing and be happy!

C'mon man.

I'm with you on the vaccine. I got my jab and I can feel the actual microchip that George Soros is using to harvest my bone marrow.

[TheAuthority]

3 hours ago, Shaw_nuff said:

Like what? telling the migrants to go home. Oh sorry, that's CamelToe. Maybe it's trying to bring jobs home? No? You're right - feck em.

Senile Beijing Biden has it covered with the NWO jabathon.

Still, you'll own nothing and be happy!

C'mon man.

Please tell me about the Bildeburg manufactured moon-landing.

Your prose is so evocative.

[nick76]

9 hours ago, Shaw_nuff said:

Like what? telling the migrants to go home. Oh sorry, that's CamelToe. Maybe it's trying to bring jobs home? No? You're right - feck em.

Senile Beijing Biden has it covered with the NWO jabathon.

Still, you'll own nothing and be happy!

C'mon man.

Got to be trolling for reactions!

[HanoiVillan]

lol

 

[villakram]

If you like your democracy, you can have your democracy!

[bickster]

55 minutes ago, villakram said:

If you like your democracy, you can have your democracy!

Strange that she works for the Washington Post who only yesterday posted this on Youtube (no idea why they didn't edit out the first 1hr 50 odd minutes when absolutely nothing happened)

So the White House staffer for the WP claims she learned that Biden was at a NATO meeting from a tweet by the Turkish President (thats how that tweets reads,) yet her own paper posted a 25 min presser on Youtube only that day?

Seems like she's pissed she didn't get called for a question. Trump rarely did direct questions, he just sent out his Press Secretary to abuse journos on a very regular basis

[HanoiVillan]

2 hours ago, bickster said:

 

 

Seems like she's pissed she didn't get called for a question. Trump rarely did direct questions, he just sent out his Press Secretary to abuse journos on a very regular basis

Not to disagree with the whole of your post, but it wasn't 'a very regular basis' at all, they barely had a single press conference for the last 18 months of his presidency, apart from the brief period when he himself was doing the daily one at the start of Covid. 

[bickster]

1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said:

Not to disagree with the whole of your post, but it wasn't 'a very regular basis' at all, they barely had a single press conference for the last 18 months of his presidency, apart from the brief period when he himself was doing the daily one at the start of Covid. 

Yes they did get less frequent towards the end of the Presidency but the whole Sean Spicer & Sarah Sanders period was just an exercise in abusing journalists

[HanoiVillan]

6 minutes ago, bickster said:

Yes they did get less frequent towards the end of the Presidency but the whole Sean Spicer & Sarah Sanders period was just an exercise in abusing journalists

Yeah there was a big shift after the mid terms. As you say, before that they were frequent and aggressive, after that pretty much crickets. 

[maqroll]

One of the press secretaries never even held a single presser!

[villakram]

15 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Yeah there was a big shift after the mid terms. As you say, before that they were frequent and aggressive, after that pretty much crickets. 

Trump would liberally stop and chat with the media all the time on his way to/from the WH. This was after a pretty media friendly Obama presidency too. The regression here for regular DC media is stark.

Biden is straight up hiding/being hidden from the media, and for a very good reason.

[sne]

Gotta love the god ol' US of A.

This is from an actual military ceremony.

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Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt was recently sworn in to the Space Force in a ceremony attended by cosplayers who were dressed as Imperial Stormtroopers, an Imperial Guard, Boba Fett, and Darth Vader, according to pictures of the May 7 event at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 

U.S. Space Force spokesman Mike Pierson explained that the Star Wars reenactors were volunteers from the local community who were helping to celebrate International Space Day at the Combined Space Operations Center.

Calling cosplayers “reenactors” takes the whole thing a bit too far. What historical event were they meant to be recreating? The time the U.S. government got together with the Empire to crush the rebel scum? The time we nuked Alderaan?

https://jalopnik.com/are-we-the-bad-guys-1847026910

As mentioned in the article it's also fun they had people dressed as the Empire. Fit's perfectly for me but not sure it's how they see themselves   

[sne]

Gotta love the god ol' US of A. Pt 2

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US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets Via Flashcard Apps

For US soldiers tasked with the custody of nuclear weapons in Europe, the stakes are high. Security protocols are lengthy, detailed and need to be known by heart. To simplify this process, some service members have been using publicly visible flashcard learning apps — inadvertently revealing a multitude of sensitive security protocols about US nuclear weapons and the bases at which they are stored.

While the presence of US nuclear weapons in Europe has long been detailed by various leaked documents, photos and statements by retired officials, their specific locations are officially still a secret with governments neither confirming nor denying their presence. 

However, the flashcards studied by soldiers tasked with guarding these devices reveal not just the bases, but even identify the exact shelters with “hot” vaults that likely contain nuclear weapons.

They also detail intricate security details and protocols such as the positions of cameras, the frequency of patrols around the vaults, secret duress words that signal when a guard is being threatened and the unique identifiers that a restricted area badge needs to have. 

Military jargon is full of terms and abbreviations, and this also goes for the safekeeping of nuclear weapons. However, online articles, government tender documents and even Wikipedia entries detail some of the key terms.

For example, on bases with nuclear weapons, protective aircraft shelters (PAS) are equipped with Weapons Storage and Security Systems (WS3) made up of electronic controls, sensors, and a vault that is built into the floor. These vaults can each store up to four B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs.

Simply searching for “PAS”, “WS3” and “vault” on Google together with the names of air bases in Europe quickly led to free flashcard platforms such as Chegg, Quizlet, and Cram. 

One example is Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands. Although the presence of US nuclear weapons at Volkel has been detailed in leaked documents and statements by retired officials, the Dutch government still considers it a secret.

But a set of 70 flashcards titled “Study!” on Chegg appears to go a step further by noting the exact shelters containing the weapons:

Two flashcards created on Chegg in 2019. The numbers refer to the protective aircraft shelter which the vault is in. The last two digits have been censored by Bellingcat.

As can be seen in the image above, five of the 11 WS3 vaults at Volkel are designated “HOT”, and the other six “COLD”. 

A different set of over 80 flashcards that apply to Aviano Air Base in Italy, another location where US nuclear weapons are reportedly stored, reveals yet more sensitive details.

A flashcard created on Cram in 2019.

“WS3 response order” appears to refer to the order in which a soldier has to respond to different alarms coming from the WS3 system that is protecting the vaults. For both “Level 1” and “Level 2” alarms, the priority lies with “hot (loaded vaults)” – likely meaning vaults loaded with nuclear weapons. Other cards also use “loaded” and “hot” vaults interchangeably, one did so in context with “nuclear weapon”. 

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/

[TheAuthority]

On 16/06/2021 at 06:08, villakram said:

Trump would liberally stop and chat with the media all the time on his way to/from the WH. This was after a pretty media friendly Obama presidency too. The regression here for regular DC media is stark.

Biden is straight up hiding/being hidden from the media, and for a very good reason.

You mean "Chopper Talk"? When he'd stand in front of an idling Marine One and scream at the gathered pool of reporters 

[sharkyvilla]

Probably one for the cheer you up thread but I've barely heard Trump mentioned in months.  In fact I'm glad I've hardly heard anything from Biden either.