The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Innula Zenovka]

No Person Shall Be Deprived...

"Except If We Say So"

www.unpopularfront.news

 

[Free]

Hey everyone, remember all that shit about Hillary's emails and her personal email server we had to hear about for YEARS?

Trump Regime Used Gmail Accounts to Discuss Sensitive Plans: Report

But her emails.

gizmodo.com

Top national security officials at the White House, including national security advisor Michael Waltz, have sometimes been using regular Gmail accounts to discuss highly sensitive military operations, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Gmail is not end-to-end encrypted like more secure government systems available to officials like Waltz and can be intercepted by foreign adversaries.

The Gmail accounts were used to discuss “sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict,” according to the Post, citing three unnamed government officials and emails reviewed firsthand by the newspaper. Personal email accounts of any kind are not considered a secure way to communicate sensitive information, though National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes told the Post that no classified information was transmitted over insecure channels.

 

[Dancien]

We were having a super good laugh about this bozo during the daily IT Team Huddle today. Absolute Clownshow over there.

 

[Free]

This administration is at the top of their game. </SARCASM>

'We were lied to:' Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out

On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 men onto three planes bound for El Salvador, where they were to be locked in its notorious CECOT prison. A video of the men being marched, head-down, into police vehicles and into the facility ricocheted around the world, a symbol of the United States’ position on immigrants it accuses of having gang ties.

But not seen by the camera were eight women who were also on the planes but never got off. Shortly after they landed, according to court filings, El Salvador apparently refused to take them. So they were shipped back, to be locked up again on American soil.

Apparently, no girls allowed at the El Salvadoran concentration camp.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Hey everyone, remember all that shit about Hillary's emails and her personal email server we had to hear about for YEARS?

Trump Regime Used Gmail Accounts to Discuss Sensitive Plans: Report

But her emails.

gizmodo.com

Gmail? GMAIL? Did they at least use either GnuPG or S/MIME encryption?

 

[Sid]

Trump liberated inflation and maybe even recession today.
What a genius.

 

[Free]

Gmail? GMAIL? Did they at least use either GnuPG or S/MIME encryption?

I think we'd be lucky if they weren't reading their emails off a library computer.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally

U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The messages delivered by Washington in recent weeks come as the EU takes steps to boost Europe's weapons industry, while potentially limiting purchases of certain types of U.S. arms.

Stop treating our allies as a dependable partner and see what happens.

 

[Sid]

Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited islands near Antarctica

Brilliant, what a genius.

A group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica, covered in glaciers and home to penguins, have been swept up in Donald Trump’s trade war, as the US president hit them with a 10% tariff on goods.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which form an external territory of Australia, are among the remotest places on earth, accessible only via a two-week boat voyage from Perth on Australia’s west coast. They are completely uninhabited, with the last visit from people believed to be nearly 10 years ago.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Not surprisingly Trump's tarriffs seem to be calculated by ChatGPT.

 

[Free]

I'm not sure "we can blame AI for Trump's tariffs" is the best way to move forward.

 

[Sid]

If he really sticks with his tariffs plans, within a few months even the most determent Trump fans will have found out through their wallets, that the genius isn't the solution but the problem.

It is really sad that this is all happening though. 77,302,580 American citizens are to blame, they voted for this mentally hampered person. And of course those who could not be arsed to go and vote Dem. They screwed the whole world (minus Russia and Israel).

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Not surprisingly Trump's tarriffs seem to be calculated by ChatGPT.

No. It's even more stupid.

Matching countries’ tariffs dollar for dollar is an incredibly difficult task, involving poring over each country’s tariff schedule and matching a complex array of products, each of which has a different charge for any variants.


Instead, the Trump administration used quite a simple calculation: the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2. That’s it.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dubious-way-trump-appears-calculated-121358356.html

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally



Stop treating our allies as a dependable partner and see what happens.

It's a real problem, I think. Interoperability of NATO equipment is obviously very important, but even more so is the related question of whether the US is, in fact, any longer a dependable NATO ally.

Similarly, and in some ways more importantly, the UK has to consider whether it's really such a good idea to rely on US-made Trident nuclear missiles for what's supposed to be our "independent" nuclear deterrent.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Not surprisingly Trump's tarriffs seem to be calculated by ChatGPT.

Link to Guardian article

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Also worth pointing out that the formula used value of goods. It did not include services where the US often runs a surplus, although not enough to cancel out trade in goods.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Link to Guardian article

I really don't want a crashed economy; but it has been delightful to see how many of the die hard free-marketers, who always vote Republican, scratching their heads about Trump's dumbass trade war.

If we get a big crash, I need to press my dad on exactly what he thought Kamala was going to do that would be as bad as the trade war for the economy.

 

[Sid]

It's a real problem, I think. Interoperability of NATO equipment is obviously very important, but even more so is the related question of whether the US is, in fact, any longer a dependable NATO ally.

Similarly, and in some ways more importantly, the UK has to consider whether it's really such a good idea to rely on US-made Trident nuclear missiles for what's supposed to be our "independent" nuclear deterrent.

Looking at how easily the US made lots of missiles in the Ukraine unusable by switching some features off remotely. I'm all for starting to build and develop as much as possible our own stuff. And it can be a great impulse for our European economies.
A few miles from where I live The Netherlands will start to produce it's own drones soon in a former car factory.
Infrastructure and workforce are available. It is a good start IMHO.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time "we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years"

I hope that's the ouitcome now, too!

 

[Dancien]

Honestly, the only bright side I have now is that the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act lead to Roosevelt getting elected down the road.