• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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    “If that’s all that was discussed, we already know all that,” he told the Times. “We have had Australians serving with Americans on U.S. submarines for years, and we share the same technology and the same weapons as the U.S. Navy.”

    This is such bs. If a dem had revealed classified information like this rep’s would be frothing at the mouth.

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      They’re frothing at the mouth to imprison Hunter Biden for a gun crime that’s pretty much never prosecuted that they’re actively trying to get taken off the books.

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    We may never know the full extent of the damage to our national security and that of our allies Trump caused. All because of Trump’s inability to just shut the fuck up.

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      He also causally revealed exactly how incredibly good the visual fidelity of our geosynchronous surveillance satellites are because he wanted to brag about it on Fox.

      Outside of the NRO, nobody even knew that that level of optical fidelity was even possible with modern technology. That shit is amongst the most classified stuff in the country. Right up there with, you know, exactly how close one of our SSNs can get to various types of Russian subs without getting detected.

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            Clicked the link. It said check if you’re a robot. I checked and I’m not a robot. What do I do next?

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            Why when I can wait for you to do this for me? Don’t be mad I used you like a tool maybe just don’t be one. If you weren’t so eager to show off your “intellectual prowess” (lmao) you wouldn’t get used so, tell me again, who is the stupid one here?

            Thanks for the link, I got to be productive while you did my work for me.


            In reality my comment was more to shame someone for posting a paywalled article that not everyone can access. Take yourself righteous bullshit elsewhere. Information should be free especially when being shared in a public forum.

            Byebye now, kisses

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        The image was cleared for release and redacted before release, hence the black square in the top left.

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          You’re not getting what I’m saying.

          Even in redacted form, the imaging capabilities are quite far beyond what commercial satellites can do. Trump insisted that he was going to publicly release the image (and thus implicitly reveal the optical fidelity and orbital dynamics of what’s probably considered a top-5 intelligence gathering device in the world - and we also likely have the other four, too) simply because he is a man-child with no self control who wanted to troll on Iran for a bit. There was zero strategic gain to be had from revealing that. The effectiveness of the satellite is now substantially reduced, because now state actors know precisely how big a thing can be before it can detect them, as well as the exact angles that you’d need to deploy visual obfuscation to hide a thing.

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    People who hang around him have said - multiple people, many accounts - he’ll just say the same thing over and over, for the entire conversation, for hours.

    He ain’t right. Not that it matters a whit to his cult.

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      Maybe he has dementia. We’re just so used to him talking shit that he’s getting away with it.

      I wonder if that’s why he’s avoiding the debates?

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        Yeah, I don’t think there’s any way he could handle 7-8 other people on the stage at once anymore. That’s way too much going on for his dementia addled mind to keep up. But he’s also just a cowardly little shit so he’ll refuse to debate Biden next year too.

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        From how he’s spoken through his campaigns until now, I wouldn’t be surprised. He has a tremendous difficulty remembering the topic of a conversation and veers off wildly, often cutting off his own train of thought.

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    If there really was a deep state even half as hostile to donnie as his cultist apes think there is, they would have found a way to dispose of him a while ago.

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      This thought has never crossed my mind but now that I’ve read it, I can’t imagine it isn’t the truth

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      That reminds me of a tweet I saw about about the 2016 release of John Hinckley Jr. from the psych hospital. It went something like this:

      “JH Jr to be released from custody”

      “Well I hope he’s ready to go back, because we need him again.”

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      Playing for team trump, riding in lil rascals with their ar’s in each bloated sausage fingered hands.

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    Well no shit. If there’s one thing consistent with this orange baffoon, it’s that he’s constantly spiling whatever beans there are to spill. Whether it’s self-incriminating blabbermouthing in one of his zillion law suits or casually discussing nuclear secrets with whoever wants to hear them, this sorry excuse for a human being doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up.

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    lol at the “former Australian ambassador to the US” angling for that trump admin 2 job, good job lapping it up salon

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      Murdoch political media machine started in Australia, but found its home in America.

      Because of mandatory voting laws, Australia has voted out the right wing Murdoch endorsed party in every Australian state and federal government (except one, and that state government looks set to be thrown out soon too).

      This “former Australian ambassador” is pretending his party is still relevant, maybe it is in America.