no, i didn't know that the June 2019 US Politics thread was nasty

Just in to say this thread title is sublime

good morning!

Mr. Sotosyn if you're nasty

Trump thinking of nominating a major lunatic to the Fed, who thinks it's Gosplan. She wants to hold a new Bretton Woods conference at Mar-a-Lago and create a gold-linked monetary system. Let's see how this flies with the big boys. https://t.co/MPEAN1DVes via @financialtimes

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 1, 2019

says it right there on the money though

ron paulbots should be pleased?

ha I thought that said God! Something now totally plausible

weren't stephen moore and herman cain also gold standard fans?

idk its hard to keep with all this bullshit and i have a masters in poli sci

Ron Paul is/was a fan.

A return to the gold standard's never going to happen. The economy would throw a piston.

Trump has pretty much been a daily illustration of what would happen if your crazy loud uncle at Thanksgiving were to become president.

Yep. And mine is dead

skim milk burn!

The Hill reports:

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Sunday said Democrats who support impeaching President Trump should “buy a spine” and do it. But he also said they’d regret it, pointing to polls that show a minority of voters back impeachment.

“Impeachment polls right up there with skim milk with the American people. But my advice to my Democratic friends is, if you want to do it, go hard or go home,” Kennedy said CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “Go to Amazon, buy a spine. If you’re not going to do it, let us get back to work.”

That's not a bad angle of attack.

Amazon has body parts now?

Only for Ultra-Super Prime subscribers.

Introducing Prime (TM) Rib

Skimmed milk is unamerican?

You can't drink skimmed milk and expect to have a functioning backbone everyone knows that.

o fuck trump is hot now, libs completely destroyed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8HCpCZUEAAmuCd.jpg

he’s wearing Eric as a skinsuit

The new visa application forms list a number of social media platforms and require the applicant to provide any account names they may have had on them over the previous five years.

https://www.apnews.com/c96a215355b242e58107c2125c18fc4a

sure fine totally okay

good morning!

Platform: I Love Music
Username: t✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧

tim AT kfc.edu

how are the visa folks gonna know if i choose not to list a social media account? are they going to undertake a forensic search of every social media platform? how are they gonna know that in addition to my regular twitter handle under my own name i also have an alt where i share my detailed manifestoes on how best to cook and serve every member of trump's cabinet?

i'm sure google and facebook will be happy to help however they can

they just want an excuse to jail you when they find out you've an unreported ilx sockpuppet to 51 the usual suspects

I read that as Visa credit card. There is almost no way they can do a timely search for your social media unless you just suck at using the internet and have everything on full display. They are hoping you will give it all to them voluntarily.

i think this is probably intended more as a means to expand ways to later deport someone for submitting supposedly misleading/false documents or whatever bullshit.

exactly

or even remove your citizenship later

how are the visa folks gonna know if i choose not to list a social media account?

having talked to people who use a bunch of different data sources to aggregate potential customer data, I really assume anyone with enough money to buy bulk data can throw this stuff together

I guess if you've used a different account on a different device that doesn't use wifi, isn't paid for by any account linked to your name, doesn't have gps, has never logged into any website whatsoever other than that account, and uhhh maybe has never opened a web browser to go to anything other than the one site, you may be in the clear

This is why I tell people to never put their dob, pob or even full name on any type of social media website.

can't believe i'm gonna be denied entry to the states because the opsec around my marxist naruto slashfic tumblr wasn't watertight, smdh

Are they expecting to get links to all my long-forgotten livejournal accounts? even TSA don't deserve having to look through that

I had to work with Palantir once who was trying to gain access to a bunch of our databases of which I was one of the owners. They just wanted a datadump per the wishes of our company but there was absolutely no rationale about why they needed it or what they would use it for. We refused and eventually, eventually they were like "oh, we don't need it." It was kind of absurd.

i think the elephant in the room is whether or not we have to reveal our Ello accounts

I'm depressingly fatalistic about identity privacy because for every good actor like Yerac there's another company that's just handing crap over, or opportunistic services just selling metadata as their entire business model :/

it is with a heavy heart that i must inform you that jared kushner has stepped in front of a camera once more

Jared Kushner deflects when asked if he disapproves of Donald Trump's promotion of birtherism, saying he wasn't involved with it. @dctvny @hbodocs pic.twitter.com/D2wINVHLIx

— Axios (@axios) June 2, 2019

I'm depressingly fatalistic about identity privacy

as a former fed, my personal info (sometimes including SSN) has been stolen at least 7 times, and those are just the incidents i know about. feds make sense as targets, i guess, but also as canaries in the goldmine. everyone should be fully prepared to either become an obsessive data security champion or get used to the idea that soon everyone's information is just going to be...out there

canaries in the goldmine

hmm

i guess the good news is that it's not a typo

(that is my low key way to recruit fellow supervillains to help me collect personal data and profit. it is a veritable gold mine out there)

Trump has pretty much been a daily illustration of what would happen if your crazy loud uncle at Thanksgiving were to become president.

― earlnash, Sunday, 2 June 2019 18:46 (yesterday) Permalink

if only

im pretty fatalistic about any real chances for individual data security too fwiw (almost nothing). and mh is right, bad models and actors do dominate that space.

maybe every space. in this world of “greater fools” (in a nonstandard, nonecon sense), and of trumpy zero-sum transactionalism, maybe the biggest surprise to me is that no non-state bad actors have acquired some reaaaally crazy shit and pulled a ransom extortion using explosive nukes. or like, just used nukes.

*consults DM Guide* the world feels like it’s gone from lawful evil to chaotic evil. or it could be just i’m really aging out, and realizing the world is always chaotic evil, and that my assumption of post ww2 lawfulness, as limited as it was, was even more a fallacy than i suspected.

great now we need to get rid of donny AND end the existence of the two party system. because fuck that idea, pete.

sorry, im playing on the phone and...i’m hanging up now.

a means to expand ways to later deport someone for submitting supposedly misleading/false documents

otmfm. it has a barely plausible connection to counter-terrorism to use as a cover story, but it will only be used as a handy stick to beat anyone they don't like and want to deport, similar to using loitering or vagrancy laws to beat up on homeless people.

jared has spoken!

Dear @FBI @CIA @NSAGov @ODNIgov @DHSgov: I sure hope you don't share any classified information with Jared Kushner.#MondayMorning Thoughts https://t.co/Rb3G9uBlcu

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 3, 2019

go screw, you dusty farmer's almanac

Let he who is without sin

/annoying and inane/

Oh, and I forgot to say "pointless and without redeeming value".

tbh yes they probably are just tolerating her in that video, and she does look awkward but this feels a lot like when we try to pretend Trump is "obviously miserable" in a picture where really he's just winding up for a sneeze or something.

esby = SB, do you see? He's askin' for it!

whatever happened to that guy ephpea?

Ahh good old Ephraim P Gilbert

wow i didn't know that the June 2019 politics thread was nasty

It's like esby is Paul Pierce's ass and we're all Michelle Beadle

One of these men is 5'7". The other claims to be 6'3".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-VIDAcWsAErVwy.jpg

wgas

Kim's on a hoverboard made of bones.

vaguely let down that kim wasn’t like ‘sure, i’ll meet you in the dmz. . . with an artillery shell’

Trump is tall
Kim wears lifts
jpg: who gives a shit

bc it’s funny to imagine the negotiations— sure, you can stand on a box, but you still have to be two inches shorter

i mean the thing he hates most about comey is having to look up at him

it's amazing to me that trump insulting the prince's wife before his visit to britain was only a month ago! the history of this era is gonna have to be like 48 volumes

Trump is good at headline-making, but he is rarely history-making.

Trump insulted the prince’s wife?
Finally something positive about him

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/donald-trump-meghan-markle-nasty-boris-johnson-good-prime-minister/index.html
who's gonna do july

I don't know how safe for work the title has to be, but "At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t" would be good.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t. https://t.co/9YpgVF7qEP

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) June 30, 2019

Fox used to rage about Obama being willing to meet with NK without preconditions. Trump goes for a photo op and he's a fuckin genius.

😐 pic.twitter.com/A8MM7Cxzf1

— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) June 30, 2019

I don't know how safe for work the title has to be, but "At the risk of stating the obvious, this is horse-sh*t" would be good.

yeah, I was going to suggest "You know, there aren’t that many ways you’re going to get people to schools" but this is much better.