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  #2950157 3-Aug-2022 12:30
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FineWine: ... Revelations anyone:

 

"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

 



 

10 Commandments anyone:

 





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  #2950161 3-Aug-2022 12:41
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My inexpert opinion: There are two possible outcomes for the USA. The rule of law prevails, institutions withstand attempts to undermine them, the country carries on intact, though maybe wounded. A conservative majority does not necessarily have to mean the crazies in charge of the asylum. There are plenty of conservatives who see the dangers and want to do the right thing.

 

The alternative is that the crazies do succeed, in which case the USA will disintegrate, either with or without civil war, as progressive states seek new alliances and go their own way. What was one country may become two or three. Maybe there will be new underground railroads transporting handmaidens to sanctuary in the free states. Maybe one of the new countries will incorporate Canada, or become part of it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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  #2950182 3-Aug-2022 13:36
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Sorta like The Man in the High Tower? Where the USA was divided a little like that?


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  #2950246 3-Aug-2022 15:27
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freitasm:

 

Only if it was standard SMS. Some people might have been using other tools like RCS/iMessage/WhatsApp, etc and the telcos (or anyone else) won't have access.

 

 

I have seen Liz Cheney has referenced Signal a couple of times during the hearings. It could also be on Telegram, it seems it is popular among Q-Anon and Q Adjacent groups.


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  #2950292 3-Aug-2022 16:34
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Rikkitic:

The alternative is that the crazies do succeed, in which case the USA will disintegrate, either with or without civil war, as progressive states seek new alliances and go their own way. What was one country may become two or three. Maybe there will be new underground railroads transporting handmaidens to sanctuary in the free states. Maybe one of the new countries will incorporate Canada, or become part of it.

 

 

Sort of like the alternate US map that's been circulating for awhile where the US is reincorporated as the People's Republic of California (western US), the United States of Canada (northern US), and Jesusland (the rest).

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  #2950295 3-Aug-2022 16:42
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kingdragonfly: With Trump, it's always what you suspected, but always far worse.

Axios: A radical plan for Trump’s second term

Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his "America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios.

 

 

As with a lot of the stuff the US far right comes up with, there's already a specific term for this, the 1930s German word Gleichschaltung which overall means something like coordination or unification but more literally means switched or changed to do things in unison (there's no actual equivalent term in another language when used in the social context). This is an image that's been labelled "gleichgeschaltete Justiz", the justice system under Gleichschaltung:

 

 


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  #2950323 3-Aug-2022 17:25
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kingdragonfly: The Strategic Air Command (SAC) in Omaha quietly decided to set the “locks” to all zeros in order to circumvent this safeguard. During the early to mid-1970s, during my stint as a Minuteman launch officer, they still had not been changed. Our launch checklist in fact instructed us, the firing crew, to double-check the locking panel in our underground launch bunker to ensure that no digits other than zero had been inadvertently dialed into the panel. SAC remained far less concerned about unauthorized launches than about the potential of these safeguards to interfere with the implementation of wartime launch orders. And so the “secret unlock code” during the height of the nuclear crises of the Cold War remained constant at 00000000.
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Like the clickbait headline in the nuclear threat thread, this is rather misleading. You can't just type in a string of zeroes on a keypad strapped to the side of a bomb somewhere (with obligatory large 7-segment LED display) and cause a detonation. The full explanation would go on for several pages but US weapons are based on a weak link/stronglink design where the weak link is designed to fail easily to prevent an accidental detonation and the stronglink is designed to require a large number of specific steps to be taken to cause a detonation. Monkey with it in any way and at best you'll get a dirty bomb that disperses plutonium locally. For example, since the above refers to ICBMs, the warhead needs to experience a set amount of high-G acceleration, then a set amount of zero gravity, and then reentry stress, before it'll allow a detonation. If you try and detonate it on US soil, it won't. The code referenced above is a PAL (permissive action link) code to replace earlier sort-of security systems that required a large number of explicit steps to get the thing to fire by automated systems, which meant you needed some sort of safety mechanism since everything else was now automated. The launch systems were supposed to be under two-person control so it didn't matter that the PAL code was all zero, however frequently one of the two people were asleep so it wasn't two-person control any more, which is why they changed it in 1977 to require an externally-supplied PAL code. If you want the full details on the Minuteman (NB: you probably don't), here's the manual.

 

 

In contrast to the above, the UK at the time used bike locks to secure their nuclear weapons. Of course to get at where the they were stored was another matter. Even the interview process to get the job was designed to screen out unsound people, for example if you couldn't explain what silly mid-off was or recite the Parrot Sketch, you were out.

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  #2950400 3-Aug-2022 19:02
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Business Insider: Trump 'deserves life in prison,' says daughter of January 6 rioter who was sentenced to 7 years behind bars


Guy Reffitt, who was reported to authorities by his teenage son [who he threatened to kill], was the first person to be convicted at trial for taking part in the riot.

...His seven-year sentence is the longest yet received by a January 6 rioter. At least 884 people have been charged in connection with the violent effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

...After Reffitt was sentenced, his daughters spoke with the media and said it wasn't fair for their father to receive such a long prison term while more powerful people remained free.
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kingdragonfly: Business Insider: Trump 'deserves life in prison,' says daughter of January 6 rioter who was sentenced to 7 years behind bars


Guy Reffitt, who was reported to authorities by his teenage son [who he threatened to kill], was the first person to be convicted at trial for taking part in the riot.

...His seven-year sentence is the longest yet received by a January 6 rioter. At least 884 people have been charged in connection with the violent effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

...After Reffitt was sentenced, his daughters spoke with the media and said it wasn't fair for their father to receive such a long prison term while more powerful people remained free.
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She needn't worry. They'll all be pardoned when Mein FooRah returns to power.





'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' Voltaire

 

'A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.' Edward Abbey

 

 

 

 

 

 


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  #2950561 4-Aug-2022 10:37
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geekIT:  She needn't worry. They'll all be pardoned when Mein FooRah returns to power.

 

 


... and given a medal :

 





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  #2950903 5-Aug-2022 12:41
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The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix: The smoke around missing Jan. 6 texts

 

today

 


The Secret Service. Top military officials and top homeland security officials. 

 

In recent days, we’ve learned that phones have been wiped of information from around Jan. 6, 2021, spanning two agencies and a number of Donald Trump loyalists.

 

The agencies involved all say their phones were wiped as part of a changing of the guards between the Trump and Biden administrations, which is plausible ...

 

But ...

 

What could these missing texts reveal - or what might their erasure be hiding? We don’t know what we don’t know. 

 

But we do know that the Secret Service was involved in trying to keep Trump from going to the Capitol alongside the insurrectionists on Jan. 6. 

 

Top officials at Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, were Trump loyalists. 

 

A watchdog at Homeland Security has come under criticism for mishandling or even hiding the missing texts from Congress. 

 

And military officials were deep in the fray of figuring out how to respond to the attack. It’s still murky why it took so long to organize a response ... and the texts of the then-acting defense secretary, Christopher C. Miller, are among the missing.

 





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  #2951046 5-Aug-2022 15:14
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The Washington Post - Cheney calls Trump a ‘coward’ in campaign ad for his daughter

 

04 August 2022

 


Former vice president Dick Cheney, in a campaign ad for his eldest daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), said former president Donald Trump is a “coward” and the greatest threat to the nation in its 246-year history.

 

He is a coward,” Cheney says in the ad, which was released Thursday. “A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it.”

 

Liz Cheney faces a tough primary on Aug. 16 for Wyoming’s sole congressional seat, with Trump-backed Harriet Hageman favored to win.

 

 

 





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  #2951063 5-Aug-2022 16:06
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Good ad but holy Christ Dick Cheney looks old now.


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  #2951077 5-Aug-2022 16:19
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quickymart:

 

Good ad but holy Christ Dick Cheney looks old now.

 

 

Didn't you say that about Trump? People age, you know. Even bad ones.

 

 





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