Can't make this shit up!

[Simon of the Playa]

"CULTure"

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Conservative activist Steven Hotze on Wednesday was indicted on two felony charges related to his alleged involvement in an air conditioning repairman being held at gunpoint in 2020 during a bizarre search for fraudulent mail ballots that did not exist, according to his attorney, Gary Polland.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/20 ... ter-fraud/

[lucky420]

Conservative activist Steven Hotze on Wednesday was indicted on two felony charges related to his alleged involvement in an air conditioning repairman being held at gunpoint in 2020 during a bizarre search for fraudulent mail ballots that did not exist, according to his attorney, Gary Polland.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/20 ... ter-fraud/

Fuck pistol Pete! Hope this moron gets time

[Elorrum]

“She’s a snowflake and a sociopath at the same time — a ‘snowciopath.’” — JIMMY KIMMEL
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/arts ... immel.html

“This woman is one mood swing away from being naked in a Target.” Bill Mahr

[Simon of the Playa]

The Satanic Panic never went away, and its concerning influence on politics in the US makes sense. In a seminal 1964 essay, historian Richard Hofstadter delineated what he called “the paranoid style of American politics” — a tendency toward hypervigilant, alarmist belief born from a combination of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.”

"It’s also important to note the evangelical aspect of these tropes in the modern era, where the line between allegory and literalism gets especially muddy. Millions of evangelical Christians have been taught to think of themselves as engaged in a metaphysical war, for which they must “put on the full armor of God” to root out evil in their midst. It doesn’t help that decades of “Christian fantasy” writing have transformed real-world social issues into matters of angelic and demonic warfare, and taught Christians to see themselves as battling directly for souls against evil liberals."

https://www.vox.com/culture/23025505/le ... -explained

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/governmen ... 022-05-05/

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Loving It

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The panel made the case that Trump's false claims about voter fraud dovetailed with his campaign's fundraising effort -- resulting in $250 million being donated to Trump and his allies, including solicited requests for an "official election defense fund," that did not exist.

"The 'Big Lie' was also a big rip-off," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said during Monday's hearing.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/13/politics ... index.html

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“Would you want to give him the nuclear codes?” Graham said of Trump, laughing. “If he had a bad day, maybe he’d put ‘em on the internet!”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-e ... wn-n396796

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https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/m ... rue-story/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... ry-228144/

[unjonharley]

It's all bbullshit. Until we are told by the DOJ.

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THE GRIFT iS STRONG IN THIS ONE.

from today's emails...

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[lucky420]

It never fucking stops ^^

[Savannah]

Wow . . .

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[Elorrum]

Yeesh. A good little toy to pass those lonely hours in icu.

[Simon of the Playa]

the above came from a satire account so i guess you can make this shit up...

[some seeing eye]

Sorry for diverting this topic from its appointed rounds, but I don't see another thread for it and it isn't worth its own.

Our little city narrowly avoided unwanted publicity when it was not included as the climax of a biopic.

https://www.eonline.com/news/1341770/hu ... urning-man

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[some seeing eye]

Gilded Age 2.0

Wealthy industrialists and financiers such as John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Flagler, Henry Huttleston Rogers, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, Meyer Guggenheim, Jacob Schiff, Charles Crocker, and Cornelius Vanderbilt would sometimes be labeled "robber barons" by their critics, who argue their fortunes were made at the expense of the working class, by chicanery and a betrayal of democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Gilded_Age

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Tesla.Sexy LLC controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market. While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review.

"Foreign connections, whether it's foreign contacts with friends or domain names registered in foreign countries, would be flagged by any agency during the security investigation process," Joseph Shelzi, a former US Army intelligence officer who held security clearance for a decade and managed the security clearance of other units under his command, tells WIRED.

A longtime former US intelligence analyst, who requested anonymity to speak on sensitive topics, agrees. “There's little chance that he could have passed a background check for privileged access to government systems,” they allege.



https://www.wired.com/story/edward-cori ... orks-doge/

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Krebs on Security is a long time respected public source of cyber security failures

This is an expansion of the Wired article

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/tee ... m-the-com/

The US, like every country, has a security clearance system. Sometimes the FBI is part of that. Without a security clearance and counterintelligence system that works, our friends and adversaries will know secrets which can be very destructive. I'm not a military veteran, but every veteran knows this.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGErluURw7J/

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