Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

Impeach the world, don't ask me for shit

Posted this on the previous thread but ILX.usa was still asleep - Biden impeachment articles to be submitted the day after he's inaugurated (in an attempt to further unite the country, I suppose?) :

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-impeachment-marjorie-taylor-greene-b1787055.html

there's a couple new bonkers names that non-US ilxors may soon come to know:

boebart
marjorie taylor green

they're both fucking bonkers, Qanon people who got elected, and they will likely be trying to get in the news as much as possible (a la trump) until they are evicted from their positions in congress by one method or another. then they're going to newsmax

lol fuck these people

these fucking PEOPLE https://t.co/aXYUyOXcRt pic.twitter.com/R9NcFf3yOv

— taber טבור (@taber) January 14, 2021

jfc

incredible

Wtf are they eating that they need a toilet fortress

Fresh babbies.

When you are in a position such that you require 'round-the-clock protectors, it's probably best to go out of your way to erode the goodwill of your would-be protectors.

Oh, you got shot? Sorry, I had to take a shit. Whoopsy!

Tbf, when your dad is Donald Trump you're probably going to be pretty cautious about who you let use your toilets.

Touché

On Wednesday, 31 members of Congress sent a letter to the acting House Sergeant of Arms, acting Senate Sergeant of Arms and Acting Chief of the US Capitol Police asking them to investigate the issue of tours further.
Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, one of the co-signers of the letter, confirmed to CNN that she saw groups of tours of people in MAGA apparel one or two days before the attack.
"I had seen what appeared to be tour groups of folks dressed in MAGA attire, in the halls, in the tunnels," Scanlon told CNN.
"I don't know exactly what day it was. It was just surprising to see that happen because since Covid the building's been shut down. There aren't supposed to be any tours. So I kind of assumed it must be a new member who didn't know the rules or something. But, I mean, I can verify that it happened. There were people who were roaming around in the halls, apparently under the guidance of congressional staff."
Scanlon told CNN she saw a group of 6 to 8 people.
"Many of the Members who signed this letter, including those of us who have served in the military and are trained to recognize suspicious activity, as well as various members of our staff, witnessed an extremely high number of outside groups in the complex on Tuesday, January 5," the letter states.
It says the tours were "unusual" and "concerning" and were reported to the Sergeant at Arms on January 5. The letter says the groups "could only have gained access to the Capitol Complex from a Member of Congress or a member of their staff."
Also: more about insider help: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/capitol-insurrection-insider-help/index.html

Golden toilets are not for Commoners, and never will be.

https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokbrownchick/video/6916548081022422278

impressive display of scraping prowess

https://t.co/4QcGlttRxz

— crash override (@donk_enby) January 13, 2021

thank u based donk_enby

'White House advisor Peter Navarro leaves the West Wing of the White House with a photograph of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2021.'

📷 by @erinscottphoto pic.twitter.com/0KtzMgvrCF

— Michael B. Kelley (@MichaelBKelley) January 14, 2021

Parler's cardinal security sin is known as an insecure direct object reference, says Kenneth White, codirector of the Open Crypto Audit Project, who looked at the code of the download tool @donk_enby posted online. An IDOR occurs when a hacker can simply guess the pattern an application uses to refer to its stored data. In this case, the posts on Parler were simply listed in chronological order: Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site. Parler also doesn't require authentication to view public posts and doesn't use any sort of "rate limiting" that would cut off anyone accessing too many posts too quickly. Together with the IDOR issue, that meant that any hacker could write a simple script to reach out to Parler's web server and enumerate and download every message, photo, and video in the order they were posted.

https://t.co/qgGy7f3kVh

— crash override (@donk_enby) January 13, 2021

Xxpost They'll be stealing all the furniture, silverware, etc.. anything that's not bolted down.

Increase a value in a Parler post url by one, and you'd get the next post that appeared on the site.

this is how i found the hidden ilx boards lol

crut hacking thought leader

does that indicate hacker probably not the first to hack the site?
Guess that makes little difference if nobody else tried to do anything with info found.

i mean they werent really hacked as far as having their security compromised, their public data was just downloaded, but they were hacked in the sense of someone used their systems in a way they didnt design them for

if someone had done this one weird trick before id think we would have heard about it, tho who knows there could be someone out there sitting on a big pile of parler posts

the worst thing parler did was post images with all the metadata still on there, which is an actual security issue in that their users were effectively sharing their locations without intending to, the rest of it is like yeah you let yr site get scraped too easily but it was all public and prob couldve been scraped anyway with a lil more effort and time

Fascistnating

lmao jim jordan lost 7% of his followers in the twitter purge

GOP officials lost thousands of followers after Twitter banned QAnon accounts. @angelareplica figured out which ones lost the most: https://t.co/PE1gnywvVL

— Keenan (@jktrotter) January 14, 2021

SevenPercentSolution.jpg
#TwoThreads

the worst thing parler did was post images with all the metadata still on there, which is an actual security issue in that their users were effectively sharing their locations without intending to, the rest of it is like yeah you let yr site get scraped too easily but it was all public and prob couldve been scraped anyway with a lil more effort and time

I saw some MAGA lady on FB talking about how with Parler's soon-to-be-glorious-victory over Amazon in court, now is a great time to buy shares of Parler. (Of course you can't actually do that becz it's not a public company, but we can dream.)

Ronan Farrow with an Oath Keeper interview. It doesn't go well for said dude:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-former-marine-stormed-the-capitol-as-part-of-a-far-right-militia

In an eighty-minute interview, during which Crowl acknowledged that he was drinking, he confirmed to me that he had entered the Capitol, saying that he had gone to Washington to “do security” for “V.I.P.s” whom he declined to name. He said that his intentions had been peaceful and that he had never been violent, claiming “we protected the fucking Capitol Hill police.” He declined to substantiate the claim.

ok so he stormed the Capitol because he had t pee

*to pee

He repeatedly denied that he harbored racist views or had made racist comments, but he said that he believed in phrenology, the discredited pseudoscience that infers intellectual ability from skull shape, and told me that he had responded to The New Yorker’s request for comment after examining pictures of my head.

To be fair, the Farrows have have shapely skulls.

xpost "Anyone ever tell you that you ssortta ressemble Frank SSsinatra?"

With DC and 50 statehouses to choose from, it's hard to imagine that Maganauts won't participate in further violent insurrectionist activity before Biden has even been sworn in. Trump started signalling his intentions to hang onto power whatever the election results at least a month before Nov. 3.

I don't discount the likelihood of more violence, but I do think — hope — that these demonstrations are going to be mostly notable for being small and pathetic looking. I'm sure they can pull together a few hundred people here and there, but I don't think it's going to be some militia army emerging from deep cover.

In 2016 he said he'd "totally accept election results…if I win". Lol oh that wacky Donnie what a card.

I do think they overplayed their hand with the Capitol storming... kinda like the "blood & soil" march in Virginia. Many will probably lay low for awhile, afraid to lose their jobs, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYFq7ZJg4c

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/20/498713509/donald-trump-says-hell-accept-the-results-of-the-election-if-he-wins

Still barred from twitter, Trump releases a statement on Afghanistan that’s more like a tweet. pic.twitter.com/6w6C60OmhJ

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

love always finds a way

"For weeks, Trump has been claiming the race is rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor, in part because of deceased individuals and immigrants in the country illegally casting votes and election officials throughout the country colluding against Trump."

At least then he woulda had no federal resources to abuse

He thinks in tweet length now, clearly.

never thought in anything else. It's why he's such a natural at it.

All new White House press releases to include the words "haters" and "beautiful"

_He repeatedly denied that he harbored racist views or had made racist comments, but he said that he believed in phrenology, the discredited pseudoscience that infers intellectual ability from skull shape, and told me that he had responded to The New Yorker’s request for comment after examining pictures of my head. _

One time a friend made fun of my foreign language jones and said "James Redd knows lots of languages but it only comes out in Trump-like tweets."

He thinks in tweet length now, clearly.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:15 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the worst thing about being a twitter user.

And, in any case, Blofeld is named after Henry Blofeld's father.

New thread is “It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021, thanks Raymond.