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@Axtremus said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

Gmail ...

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/mike-waltz-signal-gmail-security

Much ado about nothing.

@AndyD said in "It's a bloodbath".:

It's just more savings to pay for the wall.
You remember Trump(CF) back in 2016 saying he'd make Mexico pay for it?

He's the worst deal maker, but an excellent snake oil salesman.

Thou sayest.

@kluurs said in "It's a bloodbath".:

It's just the beginning of what will be happening worldwide though from a different cause. Bill Gates says that the accounting and legal professions - along with many others will be decimated by AI. Even now, all of us could be graphic artists with a half dozen hours of experience with AI. I asked AI for help with tax questions. A lot of the make work things of government will be dealt with more efficiently via AI. Computer Sci majors are noting that the infinite well of need is drying up.

We could use a lot less lawyers. For a lot of mundane legal work...A will, a succession, a deed transfer, etc., why do we need an attorney if we have AI?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-private-schools-use-ai-tutor-rockets-student-test-scores-top-2-country

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/health/staff-cuts-at-federal-health-agencies-have-begun/index.html

MATT TAIBBI
MAR 31, 2025

A new expose reveals years of official lies about the U.S., NATO, and Ukraine
From “The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” in the New York Times:

At a hastily arranged meeting on the Polish border, General Zaluzhny admitted to Generals Cavoli and Aguto that the Ukrainians had in fact decided to mount assaults in three directions at once.

“That’s not the plan!” General Cavoli cried…

Fifteen months into the war, it had all come to this tipping point.

“We should have walked away,” said a senior American official.

But they would not.

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the White House nearly a month ago, the New York Times packed its pages with stories denouncing Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for abandoning Ukraine, and the impolitic “dressing down” of a friendly foreign leader. The Times like most Western news outlets for years suggested that anything short of a full-throated expression of support for war was a betrayal of the “democratic world order” that would lead to instant battlefield deaths.

Now that the war appears lost, and newspapers abroad (conspicuously, not here) are full of news about an apparent bombing of Vladimir Putin’s motorcade, and the future of NATO hangs by a thread, the Times has run a 13,000-word “Secret History” that shows the same U.S. officials who denounced Trump and American voters for saying it out loud long ago concluded that they, too, should probably “walk away.”

The piece is also an extraordinarily comprehensive betrayal of Zelensky and Ukraine, exponentially worse than the “dressing down” by Trump. Authored by longtime veteran of controversial intel pieces Adam Entous, it’s sourced to 300 American and European officials who seem to be responding to their apparent sidelining via a shameless tantrum, exhibiting behavior that in the field would get military men shot. Not only do they play kiss and tell with a trove of operational secrets, they use the Times to deflect blame from their own failures onto erstwhile Slavic partners, cast as ignorant savages who snatched defeat from the jaws of America-designed victory. It’s as morally abhorrent a piece of ass-covering ever as I’ve seen in print, and that somehow is not its worst quality.

The people who quarterbacked the NATO side of the Ukraine war are so pleased with themselves, they can’t keep from boasting about things that will make the average American want to pitchfork the lot of them. Entous describes a tale told “through a secret keyhole” that reveals how America was “woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.” (Translation: it was hidden from us.) Sources not only make it clear that the public was lied to on a continuous basis from the outset of the conflict, but they describe how we were lied to, apparently thinking the methods clever. Some are small semantic gambits the idiots wrongly believe exculpated their actions, but the main revelation involves one gigantic, inexcusable deception. From Joe Biden down, they all lied about the risk of World War III.

They risked our lives and our children’s lives, knowingly, repeatedly, and for the worst possible reason: politics. Afraid to admit a mistake, they planned individual excuses while letting bureaucratic inertia expand the conflict. Worse, as was guessed at on this site late last year, the Biden administration after last November’s election increased the risk of global conflict by “expanding the ops box to allow ATACMS and British Storm Shadow strikes into Russia,” in order to “shore up his Ukraine project.” If you check this “secret history” against contemporaneous statements of American and European leaders, you’ll find the scale of the lies beyond comprehension. Heads need to roll for this:

Russia! Russia!.........

Link to video

What's your excuse?

@Deep-Fakes said in Biden lied. Imagine that ...:

Matt Taibbi is a tool.

I read that here.

I'm sure it was quoted from a NYT piece.🥱

You may not have talked about it, but the East Coast press was cutting daily cartwheels over it.

Not now.

@Horace said in Just one fuckup after another:

He tacked on an "I'm not joking" after he said there are ways to serve another term.

The most charitable explanation is that he's trolling, but anybody who wants to attempt any good faith support of the man is then put in a position to be part of his troll.

I don't have a problem with him trolling. Anybody who follows Trump knows that's what he's doing.

There is a way for him to serve another term. He may even explore the possibility, but at the end of the day, it ain't happening.

Yet, here we are, tied into knots over the nonexistent. And we quit talking about Signal, every other breath.

And back to the article... It states that things have quited down at Harvard, but it doesn't say exactly why ...

A corollary to the research fund statements...

In the DOGE interview with FOX the other day, the people reviewing HHS made a point of talking about allocation of research dollars. Under the current system, they said only about 66% of the research grants actually made it into the research at the various universities. The schools have been taking one-third of the money.

They have proposed an 85/15 split.

A novel maneuver...

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-republican-proposes-alternative-method-remove-bad-judges-bypass-senate

EPA museum.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/us-news/epa-shuttering-museum-that-cost-315-per-visitor-to-stay-open/

The Trump administration said on Monday that it was reviewing roughly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard, claiming that the university had allowed antisemitism to run unchecked on its campus. In a statement on Monday, the administration said that it was examining about $256 million in contracts, as well as an additional $8.7 billion in what it described as ‘multiyear grant commitments.'”

That's from a NYT story that's paywalled.

If you are unaware of her story ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/doxxed-by-rolling-stone-utah-s-datarepublican-tells-us-what-she-s-discovered/ar-AA1AJEr4

With Trump, you separate the wheat from the chaff and watch what he actually does. Don't get caught up in the light show.

Some things I think he's committed to:

1. A continuation of the tax cuts from his first term.
2. Cutting the size of the government.
3. Reformation of the DOJ.
4. Border security.
5. An end to the Ukraine War.
6. Tariffs, as a spur to manufacturing and middle-class jobs
7. A return to the original Title IX, with gender defined at birth.
8. A revitalization of the military ethos.