Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[nycfan]

Ummm,

 

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[Duke Mu]

Trump is taking it raw from Putin. Adhering excessively to "keep your enemies closer" adage, except America's adversaries are not Trump's.

 

[Duke Mu]

He and apprentice Hegseth are selling out Zelenskyy and the Ukraine. Trump undoubtably made a deal with Putin to build Trump Towers in Odesa.

 

[HandsonFire]

Clear as day he is compromised. Pubs elected a traitor twice. And now they stand there like a toddler with their fingers in their ears screaming I can’t hear you when you say anything negative about dear leader. We are fucked they will never change, damn sure never compromise..

 

[Duke Mu]

NATO really needs to cut the US loose. They have the military strength to do it.

If we won’t step up to defend NATO that will give others an excuse to not do so. They need an alliance of reliable partners.

And as others have pointed out, we are an intelligence threat to NATO.

NATO nations are not going to share intelligence with US, making the US even more susceptible to a terrorist attack.

 

[Duke Mu]

Yeah, I can see Trump in a three-way with Xi and Putin...because he's selling the US down the river.

Ukraine? Taiwan? Bootsraps.

 

[Duke Mu]

Clear as day he is compromised. Pubs elected a traitor twice. And now they stand there like a toddler with their fingers in their ears screaming I can’t hear you when you say anything negative about dear leader. We are fucked they will never change, damn sure never compromise..

Their girl Tulsi is selling our secrets to Putin and Chyna now.

...while bizarrely Trump is hurtling toward another M.E. conflict.

...then I remembered Trump is an orange, crazy, senile Manchurian Candidate.

 

[Duke Mu]

He's a big Rocket Man now. Kim got what he needed from Trump 1.0.

 

[Duke Mu]

Agreed. It’s sickening to even consider the possibility of a world where we are lumped in with the axis of evil that includes Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, etc. but we are perilously closer to it than we’ve ever been.

Abandoning our allies while we are more susceptible to inflation, terrorism, attacks from foreign enemies.

 

[Duke Mu]

China understands that soft power will enhance its quest to supplant the USA as the premier global superpower.

Trump and his minions have no clue.

Trump is a nihilist. He doesn't care what shape the US is in, and even if it is a democracy (democratic republic) when he's gone.

 

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[1moretimeagain]

Right under your nose, DOGE. After this weekend we’ll probably be approaching $50 million spent on Donald Trump’s recreation in the past month.

 

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[nycfan]

Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense​

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“President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon defense contract that was awarded during Trump’s first presidency.

The $9.1 million contract was awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services, a company that provides “data-driven solutions” to the federal government and other clients, to work on defenses against “social engineering” cyberattacks, which use “social deception” tactics to trick humans.

In a Wednesday social media post that didn’t explain what the contract was actually for, Musk insinuated that the Reuters news agency, which has the same parent company as Thomson Reuters Special Services, was paid by the government to engage in deception.

And neither Musk nor Trump, who made a Thursday post amplifying Musk’s claim, noted that the contract began under Trump in 2018.

Asked for comment, Thomson Reuters Special Services chief executive Steve Rubley said in a Thursday statement to CNN that “recent public discourse” has “inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense,” and has incorrectly conflated Reuters News with TRSS, a separate legal entity that has its own board of directors and “operates independently from Reuters News.”

… Musk has previously criticized the Reuters news agency over its coverage of his business ventures. He wrote on his X social media platform on Wednesday night: “Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for ‘large scale social deception’. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.”

… detailed information about the contract has long been publicly available on the US government’s spending disclosure website.

… The nature of the contract was described, in the brief and vague manner typical of federal contract descriptions, as “ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD).”

… DARPA explained on its website that it was seeking to develop technology to “automatically identify, disrupt, and investigate social engineering attacks” – attacks known as “social engineering” because they try to deceive or “engineer” humans into performing certain actions, like clicking on links to malicious software, divulging sensitive information or giving up money. …”

 

[nycfan]

Nobody could have predicted Hegseth would make such an obvious error, amirite guy who just voted to confirm the clearly unqualified guy for the job?



You don’t say?

 

[nycfan]

“… Judge Amir Ali issued the order in a lawsuit brought by two nonprofit organizations, the Global Health Council and the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition. He said they had provided evidence of “devastating effects” that the administration’s decision has had on businesses and organizations, including layoffs and closures.

He said the administration hadn’t “offered any explanation for why a blanket suspension of all congressionally appropriated foreign aid, which set off a shock wave and upended reliance interests for thousands of agreements with businesses, nonprofits, and organizations around the country, was a rational precursor to reviewing programs.”

Ali ordered administration officials to file a status report by Tuesday regarding compliance with the ruling. He stopped short of barring Trump’s executive order in its entirety, which included an internal review of government programs.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. …”

 

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