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Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Jetrell Fo said:

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Hahahahaha.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.

The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails.

Making use of separate political email accounts at the White House is not illegal. In fact, they serve a purpose by allowing staff to divide political conversations (say, arranging for the president to support a congressional re-election campaign) from actual White House work. Commingling politics and state business violates the Hatch Act, which restricts many executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on government time.

But after then-candidate Donald Trump and the Republicans repeatedly called for “locking up” Hillary Clinton for handling government work with a private server while secretary of state, the new White House staff risks repeating the same mistake that dogged the Democrat’s presidential campaign. They also face a security challenge: The RNC email system, according to U.S. intelligence, was hacked during the 2016 race. “They better be careful after making such a huge ruckus over the private email over at the State Department,” says former Bush administration lawyer Richard Painter.

Is this not the exact reason many people claimed to not be voting for Hillary? Am I wrong?

Donald Trump, the man who ran an entire campaign on how Hillary shouldn’t be president because of her private email server now has his very own private email server. But now it’s suddenly okay? Can anyone defend this?

Why am I not even a tiny bit surprised?

How can anyone be happy with how this presidency has been so far? It’s not even about policy anymore, this dickwad has been objectively bad in so many ways. The fact that those on the right will still defend shows how blindly partisan some are.

As far as I know, no-one has stated or found that this private server is in his home. They have to follow the Disclosure Rules set out in 2014 which is something that Hillary Clinton did not do so until something actually happens they are within the Governments own regulations on such matters.

Yeah, they’re just using the same system that “lost” twenty-two million emails during the Bush administration.

I was already aware of this when I made the comment. Since nothing has been “lost” yet, there isn’t much of a story here, LOL.

Yet.

That is also why I used the word yet, because it’s too early in the game, LOL. By the law they get 20 days to copy over each months worth of communications. They haven’t even done their first month in office at this point.

Everything they haven’t deleted, right.

Also, the password resets for the POTUS and PressSec Twitter accounts go to Gmail addresses. That’s pretty great.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexican-president-cancels-visit-to-washington-as-tensions-with-trump-administration-intensify/2017/01/26/ececc3da-e3d9-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html

But that decision changed after a Thursday morning tweet from Trump saying that if Mexico is not willing to pay for the wall, “then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.”

We officially have our first instance of the President mouthing off on Twitter and affecting global policy.

If people miss the Missed The Joke thread, all the better.

By the way, those “rogue” Twitter accounts everyone loves so much?

https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer/status/597086051245654019

Why did a bunch of park rangers and scientists just rename an account of some Scottish guy?

Jetrell Fo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Jetrell Fo said:

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Hahahahaha.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191

Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.

The system (rnchq.org) is the same one the George W. Bush administration was accused of using to evade transparency rules after claiming to have “lost” 22 million emails.

Making use of separate political email accounts at the White House is not illegal. In fact, they serve a purpose by allowing staff to divide political conversations (say, arranging for the president to support a congressional re-election campaign) from actual White House work. Commingling politics and state business violates the Hatch Act, which restricts many executive branch employees from engaging in political activity on government time.

But after then-candidate Donald Trump and the Republicans repeatedly called for “locking up” Hillary Clinton for handling government work with a private server while secretary of state, the new White House staff risks repeating the same mistake that dogged the Democrat’s presidential campaign. They also face a security challenge: The RNC email system, according to U.S. intelligence, was hacked during the 2016 race. “They better be careful after making such a huge ruckus over the private email over at the State Department,” says former Bush administration lawyer Richard Painter.

Is this not the exact reason many people claimed to not be voting for Hillary? Am I wrong?

Donald Trump, the man who ran an entire campaign on how Hillary shouldn’t be president because of her private email server now has his very own private email server. But now it’s suddenly okay? Can anyone defend this?

Why am I not even a tiny bit surprised?

How can anyone be happy with how this presidency has been so far? It’s not even about policy anymore, this dickwad has been objectively bad in so many ways. The fact that those on the right will still defend shows how blindly partisan some are.

As far as I know, no-one has stated or found that this private server is in his home. They have to follow the Disclosure Rules set out in 2014 which is something that Hillary Clinton did not do so until something actually happens they are within the Governments own regulations on such matters.

Yeah, they’re just using the same system that “lost” twenty-two million emails during the Bush administration.

I was already aware of this when I made the comment. Since nothing has been “lost” yet, there isn’t much of a story here, LOL.

Yet.

TV’s Frink said:

What the heck is even going on here?

http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/trump-chelsea-mannings-an-ungrateful-traitor/

President Trump blasted Chelsea Manning as an ingrate on Thursday for having the gall to criticize the former Commander in Chief, who commuted her lengthy prison sentence.

“Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader,” Trump said in a Thursday morning tweet. “Terrible!”

Fox News had literally just called her those exact words minutes before.

In other news:

https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/824615628212428800

Spicer tweeted what appears to be a password. Great.

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/26/in-his-first-major-tv-interview-as-president-trump-is-endlessly-obsessed-about-his-popularity/?utm_term=.2ee1e3fd9389

I’m not going to quote any of it because the entire thing is full of insanity and I’d have to quote it all. The man is a legitimate psychopath who has disconnected his brain from reality to protect himself from it. And we elected him president.

I came to post the exact thing with almost the exact words. Let me pull some choice quotes here:

“That speech was a home run,” Trump told ABC News just a few minutes into his first major television interview since moving into the White House. “See what Fox said. They said it was one of the great speeches. They showed the people applauding and screaming. … I got a standing ovation. In fact, they said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl, and they said it was equal. I got a standing ovation. It lasted for a long period of time.”

So his speech at the CIA with 350 people was the biggest standing ovation since February 2016 at a game with an attendance of 71,088.

“I would’ve won the popular vote if I was campaigning for the popular vote,” Trump said. “I would’ve gone to California, where I didn’t go at all. I would’ve gone to New York, where I didn’t campaign at all. I would’ve gone to a couple of places that I didn’t go to. And I would’ve won that much easier than winning the electoral college.”

Then why didn’t you do that?

“You have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals,” said Trump, who has called for an investigation. “You have people registered in two states. They’re registered in New York and New Jersey. They vote twice. There are millions of votes, in my opinion.”

You’d think we’d be able to find more than 4 or 5 an election when the people who are paid to find these things look. And that they wouldn’t mostly be Republicans.

“You know,” Trump continued, “I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear, but not necessarily millions of people want to hear, or have to hear.”

That’s not what groveling is.

“We’re going to launch an investigation to find out,” Trump said. “And then the next time — and I will say this: Of those votes cast, none of them come to me. None of them come to me. They would all be for the other side. None of them come to me.”

Millions of fraudulent votes, and none for him? If they do an investigation and find that there was this huge fraud and EVERY SINGLE VOTE was for Hillary, its a scam designed to restrict minority voting perpetrated by his people.

“We had a massive crowd of people. We had a crowd. I looked over that sea of people and I said to myself: ‘Wow.’ And I’ve seen crowds before. Big, big crowds. That was some crowd. When I looked at the numbers that happened to come in from all of the various sources, we had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches."
…
“Here’s a picture of the crowd,” the president explained to the nation he now leads. “Now, the audience was the biggest ever, but this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive. And I would actually take that camera and take your time [scanning the crowd] if you want to know the truth.”

So Trump is doing what I said Spicer should have been more clear on; he’s making an important distinction between worldwide audience and the crowd that was gathered there. Of course, he is still harping on it when the media was complaining about Spicer’s half-truth, no one is going to deny that the crowd that did show up showed up.

JEDIT: From the VF piece:

“I think he has to say that. I’m just telling you there will be a payment. It will be a form, perhaps a complicated form.”

It could be any form. “Choose your Destructor” style? Or maybe it’ll be in the form of POG’s. I miss POG’s.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

It’s weird going onto WaybackMachine and checking out old OT.com posts from 2003. Everyone seems so nice, as opposed to the depressing, sarcastic and smart ass comments most people give today. I wish I was a member back then.

I’m not sure we don’t have toddlers posting now, nothing would have stopped you back then! 😉

But a few months ago Gareth Edwards had to grab the alternate takes of Rebel pilots to have them scanned for use in R1. If they had already digitally archived them all, it would have been something he’d already have had at his disposal.

Lord Haseo said:

Sougouk said:

WHAT?! Really? Some people are quite clueless. It was probably one of the people who was playing with their phone while at the movie theater.

Or someone who didn’t see the film at all. People not seeing the film and shitting on it by rehashing other people’s recycled arguments is getting to be a thing these days.

Rehashing arguments? Don’t be ridiculous.

Jay said:

Watch the personal attacks, everyone. This is starting to look like the old politics thread.

Expressing disdain over someone’s opinion or 4th-grade-level humor is fine, but just calling them an asshole doesn’t cut it.

Thanks Jay, I was having fun with this thread until I started catching up with the last couple pages.

Tyrphanax said:

AP News said:
BREAKING: Trump administration mandating EPA scientific studies, data undergo review by political staff before public release.

Because that’s not a totalitarian move at all.

I guess the justification is that if you help pay for it, you should be able to make sure it’s something you agree with? Because that’s how science works now?

I know a bunch of us were all doom and gloom leading up to this (Warbler), but I honestly never expected this much drastic shit would come down in the first week. The Republican Party must be pleased, they can pass all of their extreme ideas using Trump’s executive orders as a scapegoat. “What, I didn’t think bringing back torture was a good idea, TRUMP did!” “I honestly didn’t think Mexico would pay us to build a wall keeping their people out, TRUMP did!”

Editroid said:

When will suggestions for Return of the Jedi: Revisited be open?

When ESBR is out.

Next question. points

doubleofive said:

Lord Haseo said:

Tobar said:

I suspect they might even open it with a scene depicting Hux delivering Kylo to Snoke.

I could have sworn Rian said that the first scene would pick up exactly where TFA left off.

This movie is going to start right where the last one left off.

Could be interpreted however you like. Also, we’re 11 months away, the edit could change a lot. Rogue One was a completely different movie at this point last year.

New Star Wars Show has the presenters flat out say that the movie begins “right where TFA left off, with Rey presenting Luke Skywalker his long-lost lightsaber.” So that’s canon.

SilverWook said:

TV’s Frink said:

This is wrong, plain and simple.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/24/protester-sets-trump-supporters-hair-on-fire/

I misread that as someone setting Trump’s hair on fire, so I’m going back to bed now.

It’s “liar liar, pants on fire” anyway.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14386524/trump-unsecure-android-phone-report

Yeah, apparently Trump still has his precious Android, using it for god-know-what.

Look, my state is shitty even without Pence!

https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/285#document-79282dd2

A responsible public official shall, not later than fifteen
(15) minutes after first learning that a mass traffic obstruction
exists in the official’s jurisdiction, dispatch all available law
enforcement officers to the mass traffic obstruction with directions
to use any means necessary to clear the roads of the persons
unlawfully obstructing vehicular traffic

Yeah, that’s a bill to let local law enforcement have free reign over protesters that may be blocking traffic! It literally uses the phrase “by any means necessary”!

Surely that won’t be used if traffic slows down near protesters or a rally near a road to violently disperse them. Surely not!

Ok, that was from yesterday, but still. Every day he gets in front of the press and presents utterly false information gleaned from debunked sources if sourced at all.

OK, Spicer just said that 14% of the votes in 2008 were illegal. FOURTEEN PERCENT.

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

This hatred or complete misunderstanding of journalism is probably the scariest part of this new world we live in now.

Well, maybe you could become a writer, and use your abilities for the actual truth instead of these places printing half-truths like they’re the gods-honest, hand on the holy book gospel.

The FIRST time the PRESS SECRETARY got in front of the PRESS, he LITERALLY told them a half truth. It’s not hard to NOT say “the biggest numbers in person” UNLESS the President flat out told you to go out there, say this, then leave WITHOUT TAKING QUESTIONS.

The fact that this was even the topic of a press conference, let alone the FIRST ONE, is complete insanity. IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE SAW IT.

This hatred or complete misunderstanding of journalism is probably the scariest part of this new world we live in now.

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

It’s also the media’s job to point out that the guy who’s supposed to be telling them the truth is telling them lies about easily observable things.

They make the assumption that he’s lying without bringing any of their facts about “around the globe” and the only part of the numbers they used were the photo of the mall as proof.

You’re saying the Washington correspondents for every major news outlet weren’t looking out their windows or actually at the Inauguration and could PHYSICALLY SEE that it wasn’t the biggest crowd ever?

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

It’s also the media’s job to point out that the guy who’s supposed to be telling them the truth is telling them lies about easily observable things.

NeverarGreat said:

The one thing I never noticed was that the dish bisected the equatorial trench in the plans. I wonder if that is something Ady will fix for his new Star Wars Revisited project.

He did that almost 10 years ago now:

But he is changing it back thanks to Rogue One, I believe with the argument the Story Group came up with that the plans contain all of the variations and each one had the exhaust port.

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.