Donald Trump's national security adviser, Mike Waltz, reportedly used his personal Gmail account for government communications.
  • Optional@lemmy.world
    901·
    1 year ago

    Jesus fucking Christ is everyone a complete idi- . . . oh.

    Yes. Yes everyone is a complete idiot.

    Shit.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        I think her response was literally “Jesus Christ are you serious?” About the signal thing, if they do nothing here she can sue for malicious prosecution and probably succeed under ftca.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    33·
    1 year ago

    Nazis don’t give a shit about being hypocrites.

    They’re open and proud about it, they fundamentally believe that they’re right because they believe they’re right, and you’re wrong because you don’t. Shouting buttery males or pointing out leopard face eating is like throwing a cucumber at the terminator and expecting a reaction. They don’t give a shit. They absolutely will not stop ever until The Right Peopletm have all the power to the exclusion of everyone else.

    What matters is consequences. What are we going to do about it? We’ve had nearly two decades of high roading and it’s gotten us to a demonstrably worse place. Neither leftists nor the people the republicans intend to harm can afford for us to take the high road off a cliff. Stop expecting anything but hypocrisy or trying to show them how wrong they are. Stop letting them lead you around by the nose with reactions. Start focusing on what we’re going to do, start focusing on leading us somewhere new.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      133·
      1 year ago

      A weather report can be classified. Something that’s been published in the NY Times might be classified.

      Something the Secretary of State writes themselves might be classified. Even saying “I was talking to Prime Minster whoever last week” could be classified even when there’s a photo of the Sec State standing next that Prime Minister on the front page of that country’s biggest newspaper.

      There is no risk if someone stamps something innocuous as classified, but there’s hell to pay if something that’s sensitive doesn’t get stamped classified. So a lot of shit is labelled classified when it doesn’t need to be.

      Not all classified information is about a military operation that’s set to kick off in a few hours.

      Hillary Clinton was very thoroughly investigated and the classified information was a big nothing-burger. Or do you honestly believe the Trump administration gave her a pass because they’re benevolent?

      running her own shady-ass server away from the prying eyes of FOIA

      It’s illegal to use government property for campaign purposes. Obviously Clinton was working towards a presidential campaign (she was working towards it her entire life) so the laws necessitated her to have emails related to that not be on a government server (government property).

      Sorry, Hilary’s emails wasn’t anything. You were just told that over and over again until it started to sound like there might be something to it. But it was nothing.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 year ago

          Classification aside, is it really too much to expect her to know the difference between work related vs private communication?

          There can be information that’s classified, then a reporter finds out about it and it gets printed in the NY Times. But that information is still classified. So you can simultaneously be discussing something that’s public knowledge and also classified.

          But you’re upset about things like that happening because you were on active duty and probably getting Fox News blasted at you 24/7 in the mess hall and you got suckered by it. You don’t want to admit you’re a sucker (as your President says you are), so you’re going to go on pretending that you have some special knowledge that no one else has.

          Hilary Clinton is a smart woman and Trump and his gang are a bunch of morons. Your country is fucked and it’s not going to get any better until y’all can start admitting that you got scammed.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Anyone who mentions Hillary and her emails after signalgate and this fucking shit needs to have their ass whooped.

    • CrowbarSwingingIdiot@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      This admin is such a bunch of amateurs. School kids in mock governments would take their jobs more seriously and do a better job.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
      24·
      1 year ago

      Hilary managed her own server and wiped the contents after getting a subpoena. Unless I’m missing something major, these are very different things

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    1 year ago

    Given that Google probably trains their LLMs based on the content of people’s Gmail inboxes, how long until a prompt convinces Gemini to spit out Waltz’s emails verbatim?

    Or, could use this profile:

    • Former military officers
    • Graduates of Virginia Military Academy
    • Married men in their early 50s
    • Men Living in Washington DC
    • Fathers of teenage daughters
    • …

    Then microtarget ads that will be shown only to him. I can guarantee that a guy this bad at OPSEC doesn’t know how to use an ad blocker.

    (And if you’re a North Korean hacking group, you make sure the ad has a malicious payload that gives you control over his computer.)