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  1. 7 hours ago, Jshep34 said:

    Lilshep set a goal of making allstars and he achieved his goal. Made first team and top 3 vote getter out of 60 kids. Super proud dad. Has hit 7 hrs this year. Played some really great first base. Turned a unassisted double play in todays playoff game to seal the win

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    Congratulations! This is a great accomplishment. I was recently at my son's high school playoff games and sitting with a couple of dads that I coached with throughout the Little League journey.

    One of the dad's pointed out that the lineup looked just like our Little League All Star lineup from 5 years earlier. It was cool to see these kids that had a great run in All Stars together end up still playing together for the community.

     

    7 hours ago, Player said:

    Lilshep is living the dream! Congrats to him for being an allstar. 

    This. The pride those kids have sporting the All Stars hat and shirts and the support of the local community is amazing.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


    The core belief and joy of the MAGA crowd is inflicting pain on others: “sweet lib tears,” “he’s hurting the wrong people!” etc. If other people aren’t being made to suffer (yeah, show those wetbacks! All lives matter, you f’n thugs! Fuck your feelings!), then Trump is failing.

    So, forgive us if we experience smiling schadenfreude when those who gleefully cheer other people’s suffering actually experience some suffering themselves.

    Reaping what you sow and all that.

    I understand the reasoning of the schadenfreude, I just don't agree with it and believe it's harmful due to it's dehumanizing effect. It's the same reason I despise Trumpism.

    Mayor Pete recently touched on this topic when he said people in Indiana voted for Trump despite their dislike for the man because they just wanted to wreck shop. Not all Trump voters are MAGA enthusiasts, some are just raging against the machine. Trump benefited and continues to thrive off of class tension, I worry that the spite from many Democrats will continue to feed that tension the feeds Trumpism.

     

     

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  3. 8 hours ago, Helobious said:

    I was today-years old when I put together the fact that the three of them go 10-11-12.

    Same here.

    This is the prophecy of the Champion.

    "The child shall grow into the man that bears the mark that unites the great ones, he will return the people to the age of the Champion of Roses and deliver them from the age of the One that stares in disbelief."

     

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  4.  Mayor Pete speaking the truth. Trump was elected because of something that is wrong within our country and returning to normalcy (Biden) isn't going to make that underlying problem go away.

     

     

  5. 15 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

     


    Because a lot of us don’t believe their words.

    They say they are done with Trump but when the rubber hits the road they’ll fall for the same Fox News bullshittery that the Democrat nominee is a scary socialist and when they’re alone in the voting booth they’ll vote straight ticket Republican.

    Because at this point it’s not just Trump. All Republicans are complicit. They’re shielding him and defending him and protecting him and backing his asinine policies.

    I’ll welcome these farmers and others with open arms when their actions actually match their words.

    Until then I don’t believe them. And I hope they continue to suffer and hurt. Because their selfishness is their main motivator.

    I want them to pay for what they voted for. They relish in the thought of lib tears so fuck em.

    Yeah, this makes sense.

     

  6. 18 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    It's going in this thread, because might as well.  Hackers, the door is unlocked, windows are up, etc:

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/department-of-homeland-security-urges-cybersecurity-staff-to-deploy-to-border-instead?ref=home

     

     

     

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    “It is never easy to ask colleagues to take on extra challenges, but as DHS employees, serving the needs of the homeland is the cornerstone of what we do,” wrote Matthew Travis, CISA deputy director, to agency employees.

    “If it is in your capacity to deploy, please give serious thought to volunteering,” he added.

    Earlier this spring, top officials asked employees from all DHS entities to go volunteer at the border, according to a DHS official. The email went out because CISA is still working to send as many people as DHS Headquarters has asked for, the official added. In other words, not enough CISA employees want to step away from their cybersecurity work to focus on border security—at least, not yet.

    “As we have consistently said, the Department is considering all options to address the humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border,” said Tyler Houlton, DHS acting assistant secretary for public affairs, in a statement. 

    “We will continue to work with our workforce to find dynamic solutions and funding to address this very serious problem. As part of this effort, it is our responsibility to explore fiscal mechanisms that will ensure the safety and welfare of both our workforce and the migrant population, which is also reflected in the supplemental request submitted to Congress.”

    Among the officials who were asked on Friday to assist the federal government at the border are those tasked with protecting the U.S. government’s cyber infrastructure—including election systems considered vulnerable in the run-up to 2020.  

    DHS also said the deployments will not hamper the department’s other work. 

    “DHS is fully capable of deploying more resources to address the crisis at our southern border while simultaneously maintaining our operational capabilities throughout the Department in order to carry out our mission to protect the American people,” said Houlton.

    DHS has been urging its personnel who do not work for Customs and Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement to volunteer at the border because they say those agencies need additional assistance due to the flow of migrants from the south. Roughly 400 employees of the Transportation Security Administration, for example, are expected to arrive at the border soon.

    But DHS has not offered many details on what specific responsibilities these employees will handle. With many migrants traveling in large groups and often with young children, agents are spending much of their time attending to children, DHS officials have said.

    The Border Patrol chief, Carla Provost, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 8 that some agents are serving primarily as “child care professionals, medical caregivers, bus drivers and food service workers.”

    Apprehensions of migrants at the southern border have reached a 13-year high. In the last two months, Border Patrol apprehended over 200,000 migrants; the total for April—109,000—is the highest number for a single month since 2007.

    Trump administration officials are saying they do not have enough resources to handle the influx, and have requested an additional $4.5 billion for their operations from Congress. Democrats on Capitol Hill have signaled a willingness to fund humanitarian assistance at the border, but have scuttled other uses of funding, like increasing beds in ICE detention facilities.

    This isn't any different than 7-11 requiring their corporate employees to spend a week working at a gas station to understand and appreciate the purpose of their business.

    The only difference is 7-11 deals in fountain sodas and snacks and DHS deals in human rights violations.

  7. 32 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

     

     

    RIght.  I get that some folks aren't going to be persuaded by logical arguments.  But then condemning them doesn't really add anything to the "conversation."  It just insures that you reinforce their position and alienate others who may be persuaded.

    Yes, that's pretty much how I see it.

  8. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    You don't get it. I'm done with convincing arguments, because there's no one left to persuade. Those who can be influenced will only change their opinions when the external pain inflicted on their pocketbooks reaches a boiling point that they can no longer tolerate.

    The article interviewed a farmer who stated he will no longer support Trump because of the financial damage that is occurring from the tarrifs. The dude already changed his position. Why would anyone still wish for his financial ruin just because he voted for Trump in 2016?

     

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  9. 3 hours ago, triplehorn said:

    Yes, your logic is backwards. 

    The fact Alfa Bank server was looking up the Trump Tower server establishes the connection.  It doesn't have to appear be anomalous to be nefarious.  An analogous example is Trump campaign officials talking with Russians.  One can draw a conclusion that because a person functions in a capacity associated with government affairs that can involve international relations, any contact by Trump campaign officials with Russians must be innocent.  We know now that it wasn't innocent.

    Furthering that analogy, how many different Americans and at which times did Russians make contact ?  Was it the same pattern and frequency in 2014, '15, and '16 ?  Same question for the Alfa bank/Trump lookups.  

    Again, I think Tea Pain makes a reasonable observation and raises important questions about the server contacts, fully noting that it's not about seeing something anomalous, it's about understanding what's actually happening when something looks normal: The Link

     

    Notice above that the change in frequency of server contacts was variable and suddenly spiked and peaked June and July 2016.  Really ?  Whatever could be the explanation for that ?  Realize also we found out last week that Steele had reported that Manafort was using the Alfa bank server to communicate with the Kremlin.  We also know Manafort was sharing MI/OH/PA state polling data with Russians.  It appears those associations could shed light on the type of information that was being passed in the two-way server exchanges - voter data.  Did Manafort have voter data to give to the Russians ?  Yes, we already know he did.  Did the Russians have voter data to share with the Trump digital campaign ?  Yes, they stole it.

     

    For the record, this is not my logic. I am just referring to established procedures that are part of a digital forensics investigation.

    Asserting a conclusion and then using that conclusion to justify an interpretation of the available evidence is just terrible reasoning. That is not how an investigation is performed. It's the exact opposite of how an investigation works because it leads to confirmation bias.

    It's been a couple of years since I read Tea Pain's database replication theory and after going over it again I have to say it's still complete nonsense. I used to be a product architect for database firewalls so I am more than familiar with what DB traffic looks like and what Tea Pain describes is not it. Why would MX records be involved in database replication or traversing the public internet bouncing off of DNS servers?

    This is the part where I try and avoid sounding like an asshole but this is like a biologist trying to explain why the progeny of a horse and a unicorn are not genetically related to a mule.

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  10. 3 hours ago, bolverk said:

    If they can't be persuaded to vote against Trump through the forfeiture of tangible assets, there's nothing that will convince them at this point.

    They need to learn that Trump is no William Jennings Bryan, at whose alter many of them seem to pray.

    This conversation was based on the article that was about farmers that voted for Trump but have since turned against him because they might lose the farm.

    The attitude of "fuck your face, you voted for Trump" isn't the most persuasive argument to woo disenchanted former Trump voters.

     

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  11. 8 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    That's what I was thinking as well.  I'd hate to see a bunch of bean counters in NYC get involved in what has worked with this company for decades just because a commodity goes up and instead of raising the price( which most of us who frequent Whataburger  accept) , they shrink the product or take shortcuts.  See Mc D's and the crap they went through for years  when the bean counters where ignoring the franchise owners with some of their idiocy.    

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  12. On 5/16/2019 at 8:01 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Hey look, another brilliant plan by Elizabeth Warren that would improve our system of self government instead of being a defense contractor meal ticket. 

     

    This is awesome. We need more candidates to bring this subject up.

  13. 5 hours ago, 406W30th said:

    I understand candidates' hesitancy to call for the abolition of ICE/the Gestapo, so I'm not sure I'm expecting them to verbalize it, but damn if I don't want them to do it immediately once they take office. 

    Yeah, I was being sarcastic about a direct call to abolish ICE. I completely agree with your statement. It's an extreme slogan but hopefully someone does roll back this vestige of the Bush administration.

     

  14. 13 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    I want those that voted for dotard to experience destruction.  The others are in good standing and I wish them luck because they’re going to need it. 

    Yeah, that's a fucked up mindset but whatever floats your boat.

    2 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    There has to be consequences to your actions, or there is no reason to change your actions.

    in this specific case, if there is no economic pain felt for voting for a moron, then they will vote for a moron again.

     

     

     

    Trump's populism thrives off of exploiting the tension of the working class. Further class tension will only exacerbate the problem not solve it. If the majority of Democrats hold this view that white blue collar workers must be punished, how will they ever be persuaded to vote for anything other than a Republican populist?

     

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  15. 10 hours ago, triplehorn said:

    I think your logic is backwards.  An example of anomalous behavior would not be that comms were "only" with an Alfa bank server, but that there was ANY communication with an Alfa bank server.  Corrupt acts by the Trump Admin are part and parcel of normal appearing functions happening in plain view.  Everyone should understand that by now. 

    No, my logic is not backwards. In digital forensics, particularly network forensics, a baseline is established using network data. This is how you understand what normal network traffic looks like and then search for any network activity that deviates from the baseline. Regardless of the organizations involved, you NEVER begin an investigation by drawing conclusions before you understand what normal network behavior and anomalous behavior looks like.

    What you are suggesting is that you draw a conclusion and then seek out theories that prove your conclusion. This is how unfounded conspiracy theories get started.

    10 hours ago, triplehorn said:

    Trump Org not owning the server or having control of it does not mean it wasn't being used by affiliates working on their behalf.  Need more information. 

    Now you are down the rabbit hole of trying to prove a conclusion drawn without evidence. All of the available evidence supports the fact that the mail server in question was owned and  managed by Cendyn/Listrak for the purpose of an email marketing campaign.

     

    11 hours ago, triplehorn said:

    And at this point, the repeated use of "conspiracy theory" strikes me as an antiquated jab given that Trump's campaign manager, former personal attorney and fixer, and former NSA are set to serve prison time, Trump's long time friend and campaign affiliate Stone is teed up for felonies related to his Russia collusion, and that Mueller's report defines massive collusion with a hostile foreign power in Volume 1, and a rolling avalanche of obstruction of justice committed by Trump in Vol. 2.  Take those jabs while you can, I guess.   

    I use the term conspiracy theory because the theories that have been floated are not evidence based but driven by the assumption of a conspiracy between the Trump organization, Spectrum and Alfa Bank.

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  16. 3 hours ago, Ozzman said:

    Policies

    https://peteforamerica.com/issues/

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    Criminal Justice reform looks pretty solid. The Immigration policy looks a little vague and seems more like a call back to the status quo before Trump. It's not that I want someone to call for the abolition of ICE but I want someone to call for the abolition of ICE.

     

  17. 2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

     


    Elections - and how you spend your vote - have consequences.

    I was addressing the desire for another person to experience misfortune not the unintended consequences of a supported policy by that person.

  18. 15 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    No you don’t. You just pick one subset of those who use government as a means to trample  civil liberties. You are willing to give a pass to many institutions, government and otherwise, as well as ideologies, that undermine individual civil liberties. 

    Btw. This is intended not personally towards you as a poster but in a more general rhetorical sense. There are few that actually consistently advocate broadly for civil liberties. Most pick narrow issues to frame their advocacy around, and ignore the vast many others that don’t fit their political perspective. 

    I think we are in agreement on this matter.

    It boggles the mind with how partisan both sides can be and then act in lockstep regarding issues of civil liberties.

    The Patriot Act passed 98-1 in the Senate. The FISA amendment passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority as well as CISA.

    I will give a shout out to Bernie, he has consistently voted against this shit.

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  19. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Makes perfect sense.  I mean, if you were the coach of a team, and you had information that the mob was buying off all the refs for your next game....but they were paying them to throw calls your team's way....you would totally not call the FBI, and that would absolutely be the right thing to do.  Totally legal, totally cool.

     

     

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  20. 1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    I don’t know which is more annoying, “Why don’t you support the troops?” or this notion that I give a flying crap about the hayseed Iowa farmers.  Fuck the farmers that voted for this jackass.  I hope every one of them loses their farm.

    Wishing financial ruin on working class people is kind of fucked up. Wishing it on the Enron guys I get but people that perform manual labor to break even at the end of the year?

    Besides, an increase in the loss of local farms will result in an increase in big agriculture. That isn't something that you really want to happen is it?

     

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  21. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Can you distill the errancy down to where a lay person could understand?  I use computers to run massive simulations on a daily basis, but I couldn't tell you my IP from my DNS from my SSN.

    In other words, how does the the implication that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian interests fail the proof test given the "evidence" cited?

    The 3 things that cause the conspiracy theory to fail.

    1. The DNS activity wasn't unique to Alfa Bank and Spectrum. One of the first things you need to identify in a digital forensics case is to identify anomalous activity. DNS queries are fairly ubiquitous activities on the internet so if the DNS logs showed only activity between the Trump mail server and Spectrum and Alfa Bank that would be a little suspicious. However, this wasn't the case. 

    2. The Trump organization did not own or have control of the Trump mail server. Cendyn confirmed this fact. The DNS changes that took place matched the behavior of Cendyn's business model where ethereal mail services are quickly established and then removed for temporary marketing campaigns. They operate similar to SPAM servers so most corporate mail systems will validate their origin via a DNS query before letting the email through their mail gateway. This would explain all of the DNS queries of the Trump host name by other organizations including Spectrum and Alfa Bank. Remember this was not unique to to those organizations.

    3. The source of logs is unknown and the accuracy is very questionable. Going back to point #1. An investigation needs to identify anomalous behavior which requires a baseline of normal activity. In order to establish a baseline of normal activity one needs the entire set of data. In this case, it would be the full set of logs from an authoritative source like Dyn which is something no one that supports the conspiracy theory has been able to show.

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