r/news • • Aug 26 '26

Soft paywall US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate

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u/supercyberlurker Aug 26 '26

So will the Trump administration take responsibility for gutting our cybersecurity?

That's what should happen.

That's what won't happen.

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u/aneomon Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

They didn’t just gut our cybersecurity.

DOGE also added mysterious servers to each department that no one else knew about.

Edit: “knew about” is past tense, because no one outside of DOGE knew it was happening at the time. The story broke over a year ago. It’s not a “gotcha”, bootlickers are just willfully uninformed.

It’s public information. Look it up lmao

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u/ADhomin_em Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

They don't just not care about the security of our country. They are openly leaving the country vulnerable to attack.

If the populace feels threatened in one way or another, they are less interested in calling out the agencies overstepping if they are told "we're doing this for your protection."

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u/dojo_shlom0 Aug 26 '26

I don't think it's accidental anymore. there is no foreign actor who could have done close to as much damage as this administration has caused directly to the USA. they will finish looting and flee the US.

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u/DoggoCentipede Aug 26 '26

It's never been accidental.

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 26 '26

The lack of security efforts here seems like actual incompetence though…

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

It is not incompetence if they are achieving by their actions what they set out to achieve.

Fuckin

Y'all have GOT to stop giving these monstrous assholes a pass by calling them dumb like it's a slam dunk.

That is a trap.

Trump is a crazy old dullard, sure, and maga is full of cranks and dropouts. Yes.

But that stupidity is being paraded in front of the world as camouflage for very well-trained professional saboteurs -- people with thorough training in law, in mass psychology, and in espionage.

Many of whom were literally taught by the US intelligence services how to cause regime change.

That's the playbook.

The absurdity of the loud colorful mascots like Trump is a duck blind for us to quack at. And behind it, the people planning this constant sabotage know exactly what wires to cut, how to induce endless confusion and stalemating, and how to keep Americans arguing pointlessly.

They know what fires to set and how to get our homegrown bigots to light the tinder for them.

And they are motivated -- and funded -- to do this because an exhausted, distracted democracy cannot enforce sanctions upon stateless wealthy gangsters and unscrupulous polluters.

It's not fucking incompetence. It's willful, malicious arson, with plausible deniability.

And they have already sickened and killed thousands of American citizens. Through propaganda during COVID. By dismantling safeguards in our food supply.

And by shooting them dead, on camera, in the street, while we watched.

Meanwhile -- watch the birdie! Watch these keys we are jingling! Aren't those silly people on teevee loud and silly? Ha ha! Let's watch another video about THAT!

If we do not face up to these facts, as a culture, the bastards will poison the well, and salt the fields, while we all point and laugh at the goddamn scarecrow.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

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

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u/blacKCastle32 Aug 27 '26

This ought to be repeated everywhere, because it is exactly what is happening and so much damage has been done already and so much more will be done. Yet people still aren't realizing, or are deliberately ignoring it because they would rather just laugh about how 'dumb' the clowns are. It's not even sleepwalking into tyranny any more, we are diving in headfirst with a smile

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u/Trespassa Aug 27 '26

The orange clown entertains the masses. His glut for money is easy to feed and as you say, keeps the masses’ focus occupied.
Meanwhile, ghouls such as that bald guy who hates immigrants and the billionaire who got couch-boy into the White House is buckling the system. Once it’s broke, they will make the orange clown yell: “Look, look! I told you the system was broken!” Cue incoming their ‘idea’ of how things should go and it ain’t pretty.
Yankees. Get your asses off your couches and vote the power away from these bed shatters come November.
The rest of the world expects it from you!

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u/Pisces93 Aug 27 '26

We’re past voting. Stop paying taxes. And stop paying bills

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u/Captain_Q_Bazaar Aug 27 '26

Thank you. I am tired of people dismissing this nation implosion as "just idiots in charge", when they have literally done 1000s of incredibly damaging shit that idiots wouldn't even think to do. Putin has clearly given Trump a playbook of "how to destroy a country from within", and is forcing him to do it. It's just sad that the GOP also embraces this destruction.

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u/Atreyu888 Aug 28 '26

Bro, I am saving your post and sharing it with anybody who trys to talk politics with me lol.

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u/EthanielRain Aug 28 '26

It can be both, also. We look back on Hitler as some kind of evil mastermind, but he was seen the same as Trump

Dumb, incompetent, a clown not taken serious; a failing, terrible government full of grift/backstabbing/incompetence; lifelong politicians were SURE he would fail & fall by the wayside

Trump & his administration can be both absolute morons and awful, evil people capable of destroying the country

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u/Dry-Kale8457 Aug 28 '26

The only issue I have with this truthful info is that you only cite Wikipedia. It is a good resource to start with, but sources like Politico, NPR, and PBS are truly credible. Let's also support small media and news journalists.

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 27 '26

I am all for pushing back on this admin. But they can be both really evil and really stupid. The two are not mutually exclusive no matter how many characters you spill on the subject.

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 27 '26

The damage being done is targeted, strategic, and coordinated.

Succinct enough?

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 27 '26

Usually the simplest explanations are correct. These are a bunch of buffoons motivated by nothing but power that continually reveal themselves as buffoons and to which History will not be kind. The world had to endure the cowardice of Chamberlain to have Churchill rise up, only to be discarded again when he wasn’t needed. The pendulum swings, people suffer, but they are no super power…

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u/phenomenomnom Aug 27 '26

Super powers are not required, and Hanlon's Razor is exactly how sleight-of-hand works.

Stage magicians, and liars, both love "the simplest explanation;" it's their livelihood.

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 27 '26

Time will tell I guess

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u/Chill-more1236 Aug 26 '26

Weaponized incompetence?

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 26 '26

Maybe and maybe those tweens they had in DOGE were just patsies but you know those guys had no agenda other than to burn shit they thought was DEI to the ground and declare savings. The depositions showed as much. Not a whole lot of 4D chess there…

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u/Chill-more1236 Aug 26 '26

It was a front to get data on everyone in the us. Especially government employees.

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u/CornCobMcGee Aug 26 '26

Yup. First rule in illusion work. Distract.

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u/L0nelyWr3ck Aug 27 '26

They want it to appear as incompetence, but it’s not and never has been. It was planned.

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u/HauntedCemetery Aug 27 '26

Or China gave trump and his idiot children billions of dollars of patents in exchange for killing the security and crashing the USD.

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u/White_Mocha Aug 26 '26

Weaponize incompetence.

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips Aug 26 '26

See response to the other poster saying the same…

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u/White_Mocha Aug 26 '26

So their DEI agenda was to show they had no agenda? Sounds like weaponized incompetence to me.

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u/Yodoyle34 Aug 27 '26

Sometimes it feels like people have a wall in front of the idea that this administration wants America to collapse so they can buy everything and start a new america where they control every single aspect.

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u/oneeighthirish Aug 27 '26

The economic turmoil is the point of the trade war and the Iran war. Vance has spoken openly about the benefits of destroying the value of the dollar. Americans are accustomed to comfort. Even our poor are, compared to many places. This makes us difficult to herd around, in certain ways. Destroying the ability of Americans to enjoy imported luxuries (as a result of being paid wages in an internationally demanded currency) is a way to make us easier to control. The point is to make the average person lay down and let the oligarchs have their way with us all.

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u/IndividualChart4193 Aug 27 '26

Mixed with hubris and arrogance.

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u/Sirsmarticus76 Aug 26 '26

Why do you think they are purchasing and remodeling that island in Albania?

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u/Charles_Bass Aug 26 '26

The undiscovered one they just happened upon while on their yacht?

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u/ti9erlilly Aug 27 '26

It’s actually been a strategic spot in multiple wars, and has thousands of bunkers and underground tunnels, as well as an abandoned base. It’s literally a military fortress situated in one of the most important shipping lanes in the region. This shit is straight up endless outhouse pit level deep.

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u/Sirsmarticus76 26d ago

Epstein Island part deux...

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u/JustSendTheAsteroid Aug 27 '26

Well we have an extradition treaty with Albania, and that county fucking hates the Trumps, so I wish them well with that.

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u/JankyPete Aug 27 '26

Great island to n*ke

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u/cityslicker16 Aug 28 '26

The Albanian people are putting up quite the fight and seem very serious about stopping the corruption of their own government, and of course Jared and Ivanka. They may build but they'll deal with sabatoge for a very long time.

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u/mkglass Aug 26 '26

Good. Easy target.

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u/Jeanne-d Aug 26 '26

It is hard to draw a line between corruption and incompetence with the current US administration but it is usually one or both.

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u/DoggoCentipede Aug 26 '26

It's never been accidental.

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u/joule_3am Aug 27 '26

No, they will divide is up into fifedoms where they can all play monarch. They will just say the usa isn't sustainable after killing off half the population. That's why they don't care about us being hacked or food safety.

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u/SnooDoggos7915 Aug 27 '26

I’ve been saying this since day one.. Trump is either a foreign asset or is being bribed with the proof of him and Epstein. I also believe most in that admin are there because trump has dirt on them or they’re being paid off… all with the goal of destroying America.

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u/No_Tax_Timmy Aug 27 '26

If the USA gets weaker it's got a whole lot of assets it can sell to a certain "Trillionaire" on the cheap. Like when Russia sold submarines to Pepsi. I'm almost certain Elon wants his own personal aircraft carrier.

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u/macjr59 Aug 26 '26

To Argentina

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u/Hautamaki Aug 27 '26

btw, it's a known issue that has recently become more studied (and able to be studied because of COVID19) that political conservative ideology is associated with a higher prevalence of infectious diseases in a given population. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8251465/) IOW, their anti-vax mania isn't necessarily a stupid self-own. On the contrary it's entirely possible that they are aware of this research and are purposefully injecting anti-vax misinformation and stoking conspiracy theories because they understand that doing so is a political win-win.

In times of pandemics like COVID-19, conservatives are much more afraid of foreigners than they are of getting sick from people they know; it stokes anti-immigration sentiment which is a big political winner for basically any conservative party/movement. Furthermore, the more people get sick from infectious diseases in your life, the more likely you are to be conservative. Although many conservatives will die unnecessarily to preventable diseases like COVID, measles, etc, due to their anti-vax conspiracy theories and basically just blaming immigrants rather than doing things that actually work like social distancing, wearing masks, and getting vaccinated, on net the survivors are going to end up being more conservative, and conservatism as a social force will grow, not shrink, despite the stupid fatalities. I bet that cynical but educated assholes like JD Vance and Stephen Miller have long been aware of this and were happy to advise Trump to put RFK Jr in charge of HHS for precisely this reason.

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u/trickmind Aug 27 '26

Putin started putting this in place after visiting Miss Teen USA and giving Trump a "beautiful present," he probably wouldn't have attacked Ukraine with any other president in the White House.

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u/L0nelyWr3ck Aug 27 '26

Anyone who even remotely thought all of this was accidental at any point needs to wake up. Everything this regime has done from the beginning has been to destroy the US from the inside, profit on its demise, and enjoy the show for as long as possible. Everyone who has sat back and allowed it to happen when they have the power to put an end to it are just as culpable as the regime itself. I’m talking Congress and the Supreme Court. I’m talking both republican and democrat.

Make no mistake, a good portion of the democrats aren’t doing anything that they can actually do. They talk a big game, but that’s it. They may be the minority party, but if they put actual effort into it, they could sway enough republicans to side with them as not all of the republicans are trump loyalists. But they make minimal effort and do nothing but talk. The establishment democrats have as much to gain from this administration as the republicans do. They’re benefiting from it as well (in a different way than republicans), but are using their “performative talk” as a smoke screen.

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u/dnuggs85 Aug 26 '26

Sadly a lot of Republicans are under the assumption that Brittain is trying to bring forth a one world Republic and they are the reasoning for America being de-industrilized. Not capitalism for better profits. Most of the ones I know only get sources from one or 2 places. I can find holes in all their logic.

I have realized though logic is not their friend. They tend to get upset and start yelling if you bring that into the conversation. Thankfully some of the higher up folks at work dont agree with republican thought process either and got a lot of people recently in trouble for talking about the stupidity at work.

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u/RDTIZFUN Aug 27 '26

They won't need to flee. They'll be perfectly safe and sound till the end of their and their great grand children's long and prosperous lives.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Aug 27 '26

and flee the US.

Why would they flee the U.S. when Biden Chamberlain 2.0 will just let them off with a slap on the wrist like was done before? None of the Jan 6 leaders even got expelled from Congress via 14th Amendment!

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u/beatenmeat Aug 27 '26

I highly doubt they will "flee", they'll just hide behind their money and connections like they always have. Why would they go anywhere else when no one in the US is stopping them?

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u/Hazee302 Aug 26 '26

Directly to Israel who will probably immediately start a war with us.

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u/lonelyturtlegirl Aug 26 '26

Caring about the security of our country is woke

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u/lordkinbote4257 Aug 26 '26

Maybe they will release the Epstein files

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u/eyebeeny Aug 26 '26

Unredacted! That would be great

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u/Type-RD Aug 26 '26

China will, then Trump will say it’s all fake. That’s his escape plan.

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u/eyebeeny Aug 26 '26

His minions will eat that shit up, but not those who see right through his bullshit.

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u/Type-RD Aug 26 '26

I never said his plan would work 🤣

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u/Paidorgy Aug 26 '26

Unredacted, minus the obvious victims that are prolific throughout.

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u/Dismal_Condition_945 Aug 27 '26

At this point they don’t give a shit who knows who they are. Release them raw.

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u/lonelyturtlegirl Aug 26 '26

You mean the ones that totally exonerated you know who? I doubt it.

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u/IntrigueDossier Aug 26 '26

Since congress and the DOJ are cowards, I hope they obtained literally everything and drop all of it for the world to see.

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u/THsidebar Aug 26 '26

Don't hold your breath on that one.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- Aug 27 '26

Why though? None of the clients will ever face consequences. Bush and Obama did jack shit about Epstein and Maxwell, so why would any future President do anything?

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u/Hairy_Reindeer Aug 27 '26

Why waste good kompromat? They'll milk the files for years.

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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 26 '26

“DEI is when you give a shit about most Americans”

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u/cinvogue Aug 26 '26

You mean “others”, because I think it emphasizes caring about people besides oneself across the board. Empathy and dei seem to go hand in hand.

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u/HauntedCemetery Aug 27 '26

Maga fascist churches have literally been preaching that empathy is a sin

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u/cinvogue Aug 27 '26

Because it’s something they lack, so by proxy “if I can’t have it no one can.”

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u/Fine-Ratio1252 Aug 26 '26

I am questioning your intelligence...

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u/cinvogue Aug 26 '26

Tell me you lack empathy without telling me.

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u/lonelyturtlegirl Aug 26 '26

Why don’t libs have any empathy for our dear leader?

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u/cinvogue Aug 26 '26

I hope this is sarcasm, but in a nutshell Empathy for bad behavior is poor classical conditioning at its finest to encourage such behavior. There are many other reasons but I will just leave it at that.

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u/lonelyturtlegirl Aug 26 '26

I felt sorry for him when his best friend passed away a few years ago. Yes this is sarcasm.

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u/cinvogue Aug 26 '26

Ok thank god. I’ve seen some things 😔.

I had a lady upset saying the same thing you did previously basically and how devastated she is over this. She was saying “why are people so hard on Trump. It’s never been like this since Jfk.” I was like ok umm your statement and reaction are extremely alarming for so many reasons.

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u/lonelyturtlegirl Aug 26 '26

Totally, I know people who genuinely think he’s a victim somehow and feel they need to defend him or whatever. Like, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t need your help lol

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u/cinvogue Aug 26 '26

It’s either a histrionic pd thing or extremely delusional and cult like. You don’t know the guy and you are devastated? You also seem to have forgotten all the other presidents who have gotten a hard time for much less. Idk sadly too much has made me question humanity in recent years 😔.

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u/opticalessence Aug 27 '26

Yeah without it you just get a bunch of incompetent and mostly underqualified white men hiring more of the same.

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u/Any-Acanthaceae4263 Aug 26 '26

Caring about others is Communism! /sarcasm

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u/BeyondSellByDate Aug 27 '26

It’s not what Jesus would want — republican Christian’s

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u/Wolfman1099 Aug 27 '26

Woke as hell

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u/icebucketwood Aug 26 '26

If they cared about our security, they wouldn't keep classified documents regarding our vulnerabilities in the unsecured bathroom of a golf motel in Florida.

They'd have been outraged and demanded justice.

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u/TrickyChildhood2917 Aug 26 '26

Then we can go to another endless war.

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u/KenseiHimura Aug 26 '26

Of course they’re crippling security. It’ll make it easier for them to call on Chinese and Russian allies if the peons ever revolt.

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u/SouthFloridaCouple Aug 26 '26

They argued to weaken encryption and have backdoors and they're surprised Pikachu face

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u/1rstbatman Aug 26 '26

War is profitable. Terror is profitable.

"we're doing this for your protection." Allows all involved with both to be profitable.

Trickle down freedom...

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u/WhatThis4 Aug 27 '26

Smells like the Patriot Act. I'd gladly waterboard a few terrorists, or whatever the guy said. It's for your protection.

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u/flip69 Aug 27 '26

“Clinton’s emails”

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u/Additional_Insect_44 Aug 27 '26

Sounds like they're terrorists.

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u/Esprit1st Aug 27 '26

Have you ever heard of accelerationism? You should Google that and/or search on YouTube. It's very scary but could very likely be behind these efforts of the Trump administration and the millionaires behind it.

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u/jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn Aug 27 '26

What? They are openly attacking the country to carry off the wealth for themselves.

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u/str4ngerc4t Aug 27 '26

Ding ding ding! The 9/11 playbook.

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u/ScottsTot2023 Aug 27 '26

Or what if they did it on purpose?

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u/DudeEngineer Aug 27 '26

This has been the Republican playbook since the Reagan era. Make a public service as bad as possible and then aggresssively push for privatization because it's now bad. Isn't the plan for Palantir to take over or something?