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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 12:26pm On Mar 25, 2025
Maeve7:
They should have ALL known better what to post and what not to post. No excuses, please.
True, so what happens. An investigation by democrats or Hegseth resigns.
Never mind that they are not bothered by the attacks , the reasons ..
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 12:23pm On Mar 25, 2025
bemeruca:
I said it's a deliberate leak to the press. I don't understand how the guys from the other side don't see this.

It's simply to send a message that Europe is free-loading on the US, a useless continent killing itself
Exactly that's what thinking wrt Europe.
When you get an email not meant for you, immediately most people delete Or a text, you simply reply ask whether it's a mistake..
But this guy got added on 13th , continued reading messages he knew he shouldn't have , then published the info. Who does that?
Which predictably has raised a storm with democrats pouncing on Hegseth specifically.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 11:57am On Mar 25, 2025
Maeve7:
Today’s scandal is on the front page of every news outlet. Focus Basilico, focus. cheesy

Your side is not better. Lock him up!
That's how it goes. Media amplifies this hoping Hegseth will go yet it was Waltz who "sent the group invite".
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 11:40am On Mar 25, 2025
GloriousGbola:
i see you have already received your marching orders cheesy cheesy cheesy
That leaves a backdoor you fool.
Do you know that Telegram founder had been asked by France to give them backdoor access to Telegram but he refused. They indicted him instead for the scams found on telegram.
In other words it's possible. A rogue staffer is all it takes.
Find out the biggest concern at the WEF last week.It was to prevent misinformation, disinformation, malformation, deformation , degradation, oxidation etc. How you think they want this to happen.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 11:35am On Mar 25, 2025
CNN reported that Kash Patel as acting Head of ATF was cutting it's staff, moving 1000 to FBI.

This story in it's entirety is completely fake and made-up.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fbi-director-kash-patel-sends-memo-calling-cnn-report-atf-cuts-entirely-false

Fake news media again . Why didn't they call his office to confirm.
I honestly hope it's a suspected leaker who was fed that BS then ran off to fake news CNN.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:56am On Mar 25, 2025
ono:
Hegseth has come out boldly to deny any convo on signal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Responds to Atlantic Report: ‘Nobody Was Texting War Plans’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/24/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-responds-atlantic-report-nobody-texting-war-plans/

That should calm people with TDS down.
Methinks it has something to do with protecting the leakers. A red herring.As long as Jerry was in on the chat ,he can claim that anything was discussed, including how to fund transgender mice in India. It's already bad enough there was Jerry in on the chat.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:52am On Mar 25, 2025
GloriousGbola:
you are talking absolute bs as usual

the attraction of these apps is they are end to end encrypted [when they are not hacked]

only the users can save records. there is no central database. i am responsbile for backing my chats, not whatsapp /facebook

if you are in a meeting on an app like Ms teams - there is an official record within company archives. a chat on WhatsApp only has the record if a user choses to save it. and a user can tweak the saved record

this is SOP for your heroes. they dont want any record of their fuckery so they can deny down the line when it all goes sideways

it is not a bug, it is a feature of a gang of corrupt, incompetent, inexperienced dui clowns
You didn't notice that I used the word 'telco" ,SMS and call records.

On WhatsApp or telegram. You think a staffer can't hack you. You can setup Whatsapp on a desktop that will be simultaneously receiving every message sent to you. Does Whatsapp tell you how many devices are online on your account?
Keep that mind as we await more details. Keep Friday in mind also, the day a memo was sent out about rooting out leakers.
In the meantime throw mud at Hegseth in order to discredit him.
Ono already has it that no war plans were discussed.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:21am On Mar 25, 2025
GloriousGbola:
polygraph tests have long been discredited as un reliable

this is a direct soundbite from your movie president - made for the rubes to swallow. how soon before they move to actual waterboarding?
They are discredited. Yet they believed that Kavanaugh accuser polygraph test, who was a psychology professor and had once instructed someone how to beat a polygraph.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kavanaugh-accuser-christine-ford-releases-results-of-polygraph-test-but-key-detail-appears-to-contradict-past-statements
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:51am On Mar 25, 2025
GloriousGbola:
the backstory is obvious

these clowns did not want an official record.

it is that simple

today engineers in nigeria run and coordinate multiple projects off whatsapp groups

there is just one problem with this. whatsapp is not a corporate messaging service. and there is no way of integrating it to date

so records of conversations are not available

it is even debatable as to whether one can admit whatsapp convos if shit goes sideways

can an instruction given on whatsapp count as a legal instruction?

back then i tried to see how we could use apps taht were designed for this - but it went nowhere

on a whatsapp group people can add others without asking you unless you lock it down. you can be hacked. if my memory serves, it was through whatsapp that MBS hacked jeff bezos

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



now you have a bunch of clowns running americas miliary policy off an insecure app. i will not be surprised if they have already been hacked to by multiple non state actors and someone leaked this to stop it before these clowns actually get people killed

this is enigma levels of fuckery right here

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



MAGA!!!
now take this and multiply it. this is what happens when obsequiousness [if you believe vance is loyal, you are on a long thing] is the sole driver for engagement in this administration
Let's say it's very easy for a compromised Signal staff to tap into every conversation.
It's not the way to transact business , that I already said.
Every chat, DM, Text, call record is saved somewhere by the providers .. Mostly incase of backups and govt regulations. Some telcos are required to keep 7 years of texts preserved. Text messages are usually small, I know telcos do their own backups , but still hire independent providers to keep a backup of every SMS sent to and fro for a period of years. In other words there are third parties or contractors who have access to these encrypted chats. They also record calls of specific people if so authorized.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:24am On Mar 25, 2025
GloriousGbola:
i am sure you think he and his gang of teeny bopper are supposed to be involved in national security

dangote is the richest man in africa - but even a third world country has leaders with enough sense to keep businessmen with their personal agenda out of government

i guess this logic is way above your pay grade - as a maga matter

don't try to deflect from reality while waiting for the masters from your echo chamber tell you how to spin this. you have been flailing around for the past three hours trying to deny this happened. don't worry - i can read out your instructions . it is not a big deal. America biggest country in the world. doesn’t matter.

now start parroting that instead of humping the nuts of leon musk
Recently media went wild with a leak that said Elon Musk was at the Pentagon to be briefed on how Trump was planning to bomb the Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Beijing, Peking and Shanghai with 15 MegaTon hydrogen bombs.
Turns out he was only there in the contract award to Boeing of building the 6th Generation fighter F-47. Obviously he would be there if Starlink would be part of it's encrypted communication system.

Pentagon announced on Friday they would be investigating leaks. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-announces-investigation-leaks-which-could-include-polygraph-tests

The Pentagon said it would investigate what it claims are leaks of national security information, saying that the probes could include polygraph tests for employees in the Defense Department......

Note the day. On Friday.. Before Jerry Goldberg's thunderbolt from the sky .
Now you are free to use your head.
cococandy copied in.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:06am On Mar 25, 2025
cococandy:
Very unserious set of people.

Pete Hegseth immediately denied before he knew others had already admitted it happened. As a former Fox News host that he is, you can tell he’s programmed to automatically lie.
He is a liar, just like CNN hosts and their Biden mental fitness lie they spread for 4 years until the presidential debate?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 9:02am On Mar 25, 2025
cococandy:
👍🏾 Cool

Although you can choose to wait for backstory but I don’t think anything is going be an acceptable excuse for why they chose that medium of communication when they have more secure options.
They could opt to use that if it's apparent that Biden orphans infest Pentagon and WH.
It's not rocket science. Or it was a trap to catch a leaker . Who knows, but it does seem weird how every media house is turning their guns on Mike Waltz ,his DUI & his tattoos, you included , yet it wasn't him who invited perennial anti Trumper Jerry Goldberg of the Atlantic to the chat.
Who owns the Atlantic? ,Billionaire activist Laurene Powell Jobs ex-wife of Steve Jobs. Who is a major democrat donor. She also owns Axios , another anti Trump outfit .
No coincidences at all .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:54am On Mar 25, 2025
Indivisible is a non profit that's reimbursing protesters to Tesla premises. It's among 4 others that Musk named as part of the group funding protests. Indivisible is funded mainly by George Soros.

It happens that the wife of Matthew Graves who led the prosecution of 1500 J6 protesters sits on the board of Indivisible.

A judge is ordering a J6;protester back to jail on April 2 despite the pardon. When he was raided FBI found him in possession of a firearm he wasn't supposed to own , stemming from a prior conviction on an unrelated matter..
Which means Hunter Biden can be indicted for any crime that wasn't explicitly stated. Democrats shooting themselves in the foot.

And the wife of Judge Boasberg. Founder & board member of MEADOW REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS, an ABORTION CLINIC in McLean, VA that opened in JUNE 2024.

These DC swap critters are all progressives

Musk epic troll. If DOGE wants to shutter a federal building they only need to park a Tesla outside.

Laura Loomer points out that Indivisible is mass deleting.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:47am On Mar 25, 2025
GloriousGbola:
Those were the known people on the chat. How many bad actors were there on a unsecured app?
I know you'll blow a gasket if this guy was in the chat, with the hat as his avatar.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:43am On Mar 25, 2025
cococandy:
Are you waiting to see if the sensitive communication was taking place on a commercial messaging app or not? Because I think that has been established. And that’s what the whole problem is. Can we agree on a simple thing like the fact that classified information shouldn’t be exchanged via such media? If we can’t agree on that, what are we even talking about?
Of course I agree. This to me is not a random mistake. There is a backstory that's not been exposed .
That's my opinion , I may be wrong
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:32am On Mar 25, 2025
Maeve7:
They are Trump‘s DEI picks = dumb entitled/erratic incompetent

But Hillary’s emails cheesy
Hillary's emails were a scandal that was buried by Obama. For 4 years she never used state. gov to transact official business .In one email she is on record telling her aide either Huma Abedin ( wife of Alex Soros) or Cheryl Mills to print out a classified doc from state.gov and send it to her via fax or email to her home. Cheryl Mills was her attorney in the FBI investigation of her emails.Get that.Her lawyer is the one who also broke the laws with her full knowledge.
Worse most people who secured an appointment with her as Secretary of State donated to Clinton Foundation.
https://apnews.com/article/5d63315e296f49668a0d50a3dc4e9576
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:28am On Mar 25, 2025
cococandy:
there’s nothing to unravel. He was having classified conversations on a messaging app. Epic failure of security responsibility.
I always adopt a wait and see attitude to stories like these which smell fishy.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 7:03am On Mar 25, 2025
IjeBos:
Residual Alcohol effects.

On the chat were the
The Director of the CIA
The Director of National Intelligence
The Secretary of Defense,
The Secretary of State
and the Vice President of the United States.

None of them knew how they were supposed to handle classified info.
And this doesn't seem to be the first time.
Residual Alcohol blah blah .

Goldberg published a piece detailing how he was added to the 18-person chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal earlier this month by an account sharing the name of White House national security adviser Mike Waltz.

You are accusing Hegseth of being drunk, yet it's not him who added Jerry Goldberg to the group.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 6:59am On Mar 25, 2025
cococandy:
the point is not if someone intentionally added the journalist so that there will be a leak. the point is that they should know better than to have such sensitive communication using a messaging app. Even if such app promises them privacy. It’s not guaranteed. That’s why there have always been proper channels in place for these kinds of information.

You’d think a whole defense secretary would know that.
This is who was picked in place of a four star general? It’s a shame
Just my hunch. Every media house is calling out Hegseth. He had earlier said he is using polygraphs to root out leakers.
On another media , I saw it's Mike Waltz who added him. If that's the case then why you saying it's Hegseth + DUI which is the current talking point by democrats.
As I said , it will unravel soon I'm quite sure there is a story behind it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:03am On Mar 25, 2025
cococandy:
Explain the sabotage. Did someone force them to use an inappropriate messaging system for such high stakes communication?
It's my opinion. Let's see what happens I might be wrong though. There are many disgruntled elements within the administration
DC voted 93% Kamala.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:49am On Mar 25, 2025
IjeBos:
Levels of incompetence by the DUI hire.
The reporter who got it at first thought it was fake because it was too crazy to be real.
I believe it was sabotage Trump admin is facing onslaught from judges . Any case before these judges will be thrown out. Why would he publish them without first seeking to find out if those were real people. It was a leak to the media, deliberate and in a few days I predict the story will take a new twist.
He is a journalist . He is well aware that he can't publish child porn photos found on Hunter Bidens laptop for instance . But he can publush classified info without consulting people whose phone numbers he most likely has ?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 3:47am On Mar 25, 2025
IjeBos:
The more you talk, the more your story unravels.

First it was a 3 year gap, now it's 2.
And first she was 18 when you knocked her up, now it's 19.
You gave the age range because of course people would wonder when you met her to get her pregnant by 18.
And now you trying to change the age gap to make it more palatable.

So first it was 18 when she got pregnant and you had a 3 year gap.
Now, she was 19 and it was a 2 year gap.
Given how much you lie, I assume both of those are lies to obfuscate the fact that she was much younger than that and the age gap is greater.

If you use the original 18 years old when she was pregnant with a 3 year gap.
It means you probably met her at 16 or 17.
So if it was 16, you were 19 and out of Secondary School.
Imagine dating a 16yo at 19.
So, you literally rolled up to a SS with lollipops to pick up women.
No matter how much you shine it up, you're a creeper.
Many girls are raising their children without the father.
Bemeruca did the right thing He took responsibility. That's what a man does. Seems it's too hard to explain that to a neutered person.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 2:46pm On Mar 23, 2025
feedthenation:
---U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley hosts town hall with heated Iowans in Franklin County---


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8NeyYlhEyU
Are you not aware that democrats have been paying protesters to go republican town halls to jeer them.
They have also been amplifying any Trump voter who has been affected by doge cutoffs. They were also showing off a trump voter whose wife is facing deportation.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:13pm On Mar 22, 2025
cococandy:
Like I said, perception.

But the facts are showing us our perceptions are wrong. So instead of digging in our heels and keep lying to ourselves that religious leaders are safer than any other group of people, we should apply the same precautions we would around others to them.

So if you wanna be vocal about kids being in danger around industry folks or rainbow people or “leftists”, keep the same energy with right wing religious leaders. Otherwise it all falls apart as hypocritical under the tiniest scrutiny .
I'm still on this Asking AI Grok shows that most if the analysis between democrats and Republicans are mainly by democrat leaning sources like guardian or Reddit..

I'll continue digging for more conclusive data, I don't believe more religious people (xtians) have been caught abusing children than the secular.
It's simply not possible and the maths don't add up
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:42am On Mar 22, 2025
raumdeuter:
The reason the conservatives and the religious people make the news is that the hypocrisy of not practicing what they preach. How many people are shocked when a drug head rock star or a rapper is the one involved?

In Nigeria for instance which one will make the news, A priest/ Imam sexual crimes or A yahoo boy/ Area boy sexual crimes
Yeah , actually had not thought that way . A supposedly holy person being caught will likely gain more attention
At high school there was a student who was gay, was caught in the act . He was luring other boys with words , gifts and whatever mostly fresh students. Many years later, I personally saw him in a medical school training as a nurse I still cringe at the thought of him being a care giver. He had said he was of course abused as a kid ,the shower rooms were quite hard for him , he could never get attracted to girls.
Such cases are bound to get plenty of publicity and attention. The hypocrisy. A famous media person.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:29am On Mar 22, 2025
IjeBos:
Doocy (Reporter): The judge wants to know why the proclamation [Alien Enemies Act] was signed in the dark
Trump: I don’t know when it was signed. I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it.:

shocked shocked shocked shocked
Given Trump's signature is on it. If Trump didn't sign it, who did?
Trump has an autopen.,Good Lord.
The left accusing you of doing what they do.
One sentence taken out of context has your panties in a wad.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 4:26am On Mar 22, 2025
cococandy:
Basilico I tried my best to summarize but you can search each of those names and read extensively about their individual cases and what sentences they’re currently serving or have served.

There’s no reality in which this many drag queens or LGBTQ people would be sexually assaulting children to this degree that you people wouldn’t have marched in the streets with pitch forks.

But you look the other way when it’s a man of God. I’m sick of it.
Thank you. That is no reason to abandon going to church though. What comes from the mouth of the preacher is supposed to the holy spirit speaking through the servant.
As long as I don't know their personal lives, I'll listen to a preacher . I'm not preaching to you idon't get me wrong.
As I pointed out many of the sick perverts hide in churches.
At the same time there is more exposure of them by the left. This has obviously resulted in declining numbers of church goers. Don't forget that the left has a near monopoly of media, the clergy cases are amplified in comparison to the other faith.
Let me dig up my own data , I'll leave this open.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 11:09pm On Mar 21, 2025
Trump talks to Putin. Putin agrees not to attack energy infrastructure and sends orders to his generals to comply.
Zelensky is also for the idea. He then orders the gas metering station in Kursk to be bombed . It's the only metering station for Russian pipeline to Europe through Ukraine .
Next Zelensky says he wants more money from America and that Putin should hand over territory captured from 2014.

Zelensky wants a forever war simple.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:57pm On Mar 21, 2025
raumdeuter:
This is BS and you know it. The only reason the right wing ones make news is because of the apparent hypocrisy of claiming to worship God while engaging in such despicable things

The fact is that perversion doesn't know any political party

If we are to stick to real facts, Didn't we see Democrats and Liberals go in uproar about a legislation that says "You cannot teach children about sexuality with parental approval"?
Didn't Liberals throw a fit nationwide about not putting sexually explicit contents in children schools
Didn't we see liberals hosting drag shows for children where they expose themselves to children?

Where do children get taken advantage of more than in the entertainment industry? And who controls the entertainment industry from Disney to The Harvey Weinstein, The R Kelly, The PDiddy, the numerous rock musicians

There are more people taking advantage of minors in the entertainment industry than any church can ever do
I totally agree with you.
Those who vigorous want to impose new social rules certainly have something to hide
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:53pm On Mar 21, 2025
cococandy:
I grew up very religious (still a believer) but can see the first for the trees after so many years of propaganda.

They will hide and transfer a priest/pastor who sexually abuses children before they will soil the name of the church.

And then they come to church on Sunday and tell you this right wing party is on the side of Christians. If you’re interested in messing with children, tell me which side you’d rather support? They feel safe amongst the Republicans.

The women won’t protect the children from sexual predators among them. They are either too afraid of stepping out their role as submissive partners or they outrightly believe it’s male nature and that the children or their parents have the sole responsibility of ensuring they don’t get abused.

Then they try to get ahead of it by spreading stories about how drag queens are a danger to kids when the danger lives and flourishes amongst them.
I'm not sure whether you intentionally gaslight because you actually argue that white colour is really black , naming is just a convention.
Logically, who is most likely a paedophile . Someone pushing to ban abortion or someone pushing to enshrine it and make it so easily available even without parental consent.
Guessing you have around a 7 - 10 year old kid you'd be more worried if kid goes to a bible study than to a drag show.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 10:49pm On Mar 21, 2025
bemeruca:
Where I make much of AI is on visual studio. But grok is perfectly integrated with twitter
It draws it's logic from what users are tweeting. According to xAI it's training is not biased.
Chatgpt can never admit there are only two genders,it takes you to Mongolia , then Australia then Brazi then North Pole before admitting the obvious
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: 2026 Midterm Elections Live! by basilico: 8:48pm On Mar 21, 2025
Bemeruca. I've seen Grok giving a very lengthy response about whether Boasberg should recurse himself owing to his daughter involvement in an NGO that advices illegals. The response covers very many aspects of that particular argument.
You'd think it's a lawyer ,actually no lawyer here would give such a response.
Ill switch to Grok.

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