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April LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of April?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 4.84%

John Kelly

13 20.97%

Jared Kushner

1 1.61%

Ty Cobb

6 9.68%

Ben Carson

4 6.45%

Ryan Zinke

1 1.61%

Scott Pruitt

18 29.03%

Kellyanne Conway

7 11.29%

Rod Rosenstein

6 9.68%

Write-in

3 4.84%

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04-02-2018 , 10:19 AM

#26

Trolly McTrollson

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Who's going deep and picking JBSIII?

04-02-2018 , 10:20 AM

#27

simplicitus

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After reading the summary page on that website, I'm kinda in favor of the CLOUD Act.

04-02-2018 , 10:23 AM

#28

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TrollyWantACracker

I am not voting for anyone. I really feel that they finally have the team locked in.

Yup, well-oiled machine in place now.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...99183425802240

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/stat...11757726810112

(Contract would be illegal in Calif, BTW)

04-02-2018 , 10:26 AM

#29

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Amusing article from Politico: A Safari to Clinton Country

Pretty sure this is April Fools, but some or all of the quotes may be real.

04-02-2018 , 10:33 AM

#30

Namath12

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Originally Posted by Gizmo

I’m going with Conway. Seems like rumored leakers get the stinky boot before too long. Plus that **** with her husband.

I went Pruitt but Conway is probably the safer choice

04-02-2018 , 01:34 PM

#31

DudeImBetter

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I'm disappointed that creative over at Homeland have just rebranded Trump's shenanigans as their arc this season.

04-02-2018 , 03:14 PM

#32

Huehuecoyotl

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Thew whole article is good about the transparently terrible ideas Conservatives have and then complain that they take heat for expressing them

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Some liberal commentators learned of and expressed shock at a few of Williamson’s fringier opinions, including that women who have abortions should be executed. Reason’s Cathy Young rose in defense, claiming liberals had Williamson all wrong — he “was talking about what he believes should happen (both to women and to medical staff participating) after abortion is outlawed and declared a homicide. Laws don’t apply retroactively.” See, Williamson only wanted to kill women who have abortions in the future.

Why were liberals getting all worked up over that? Young’s explanation was that they were censors, as she explained later in a Medium essay called “The Kevin Williamson Two-Minute Hate” — liberal “outrage mobs” wanted to “excommunicate people” and get them “declared ‘beyond the pale’ ” just because of their challenging, counterintuitive death-to-women-who-abort beliefs.

Young’s whine was taken up by others, including the New York Times’ Bret Stephens, who addressed Williamson directly, as one conservative victim of liberal censorship who somehow still had a six-figure major-media contract to another: “You had the right to remain silent. Now every word you’ve ever uttered, and every one you ever will, can and will be held against you.” It’s like Soviet Russia, only the cells have park views and maid service.

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But the biggest woe-is-me-I’m-being-persecuted of the conservative week was over Fox News scold Laura Ingraham, who joined the goons and bots of deep Trump Twitter in making fun of David Hogg, one of the Stoneman Douglas shooting survivors, for not getting into the schools he applied to. But — here’s a switch! — Ingraham actually suffered for it, losing a bunch of sponsors. She then made an obviously insincere apology, which Hogg treated with appropriate contempt; she is still leaking sponsors and “on vacation” at this writing.

Conservatives insisted the Fox News star was the real victim here, as Hogg had unfairly exploited his power as a popular Florida high school student over her.

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I can’t say with certainty this is the craziest conservatives have been since I started paying attention; their Iraq War froth, and their rage at a black president, were pretty nuts. But I will say that the Age of Trump has had a weird effect on them. It’s as if they’ve taken a lesson from their constantly lying, bloviating Leader: Not only is it OK to say the quiet parts out loud when it comes to bigotry and authoritarianism, it’s also OK to ditch the tedious intellectual efforts (like the “Reformicon” scam) with which they used to dress up their cruelty and cynicism. Who needs that hassle anymore?

Since they’ve stopped trying, one needs less labor to scrape the veneer off their ridiculous ideas and lay them bare. That’s good for me, of course, and who knows, maybe good for the Republic too — because maybe more voters will catch on.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/04...-in-pizzagate/

04-02-2018 , 04:57 PM

#33

Max Cut

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https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/980907169330712576

meh, I got all excited thinking they were preventing website pages from using your cpu to mine crpto. I think it's just banned from browser extensions, which I almost never use.

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04-02-2018 , 05:15 PM

#34

Max Cut

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wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=Jefferson+Beauregard+Sessions+III&c2= John+Kelly&c3=Jared+Kushner&c4=Ty+Cobb&c5=Ben+Cars on&c6=Ryan+Zinke&c7=Scott+Pruitt&c8=Kellyanne+Conw ay&c9=Rod+Rosenstein&c10=Write-in&time=5

04-02-2018 , 05:45 PM

#35

Huehuecoyotl

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Nevertheless, this the occasion on which the FBI and Department of Justice decided to try out a novel and aggressive legal tactic: They sought and (initially) obtained an order under the All Writs Act of 1789, compelling Apple to assist the Bureau in executing a lawful search warrant by writing and authenticating a custom version of the iOS operating system that, once installed on the deceased shooter’s phone, would allow investigators an unlimited number of attempts to guess his passcode. Conspicuously, the government opted not to file its application under seal, as they routinely do, and as one might expect if they were attempting to conceal the state of investigation from potential co-conspirators. When Apple exercised its legal right to push back, DOJ ratcheted up the rhetoric, blasting the company for putting its “brand marketing strategy” above the public interest in preventing lethal terrorist attacks. There was no subtlety here: DOJ lawyers clearly hoped to leverage an emotionally charged, high-profile case to set a friendly legal precedent, garnering sympathy from legislators and the public in the process

Of course, for the government to propose pressing Apple’s engineers into involuntary service, it had to establish that such conscription was the only feasible means by which they could access the phone. The Justice Department asserted as much repeatedly, claiming in their initial application that “the assistance sought can only be provided by Apple” because the company possessed “the exclusive technical means which would assist the government in completing its search.” Variants on that claim would recur in each of the increasingly hostile legal briefs Apple and DOJ exchanged over the following month until, abruptly, the government dropped its suit, announcing that one of their outside vendors had developed an exploit that would grant them access to the iPhone after all.

Which brings us to the Inspector General’s report released last week. It is the result of an inquiry opened at the urging of a senior FBI official, Executive Assistant Director Amy Hess, who “became concerned” that the head of FBI’s cryptanalytic unit “did not seem to want to find a technical solution, and that perhaps he knew of a solution but remained silent in order to pursue his own agenda of obtaining a favorable court ruling against Apple.” That should, in itself, seem rather extraordinary. And what the IG found suggests her concerns were well founded: The FBI unit tasked with breaking into the San Bernardino iPhone had made only halfhearted efforts to solicit help from other units, stressing that the information was sought for a criminal investigation—which was internally perceived as discouraging other units from offering up classified intelligence tools that might be exposed in a criminal court proceeding. It was only days before DOJ filed its request to compel Apple’s assistance that a broader request for “any” method—classified or unclassified—was circulated

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Technically, DOJ lawyers had not lied to the court, and then–FBI Director James Comey had not lied in testimony to Congress, when they claimed that the FBI had no method to access the phone absent Apple’s help. But the inescapable impression left by the report is that they did not know because they did not care to. Here, finally, was the ideal case: Not some petty drug dealer, but a terrorist shooter who’d left stacks of bodies in his wake. The courts, cowed by the invocation of national security, would be at their most deferential; the public at its most skittish. Legislators of both parties would dutifully lambast Apple for placing corporate profits over the need to prevent terrorist attacks. It was a public relations opportunity too perfect to squander by finding some mundane technical solution—and so only the most cursory effort was made to do so. If the government had considered it as urgent to access the iPhone as it pretended in its court filings—urgent enough to put out a clear request for methods at the outset—it seems likely they could have had their solution well before the date they first turned to the courts.

https://www.justsecurity.org/54350/d...-crypto-fight/

04-02-2018 , 08:47 PM

#36

simplicitus

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Been a bit light on coin news lately.

https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/...88706621661184

04-02-2018 , 08:55 PM

#37

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

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I did not know this was possible.

04-02-2018 , 08:59 PM

#38

Trolly McTrollson

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The Bitcoin market continues to fascinate me. It's different from Beanie Babies in that there's a hardcore evangelical contingent of unshakable enthusiasts that are going to keep buying all the way down. Maybe during the silver bubble there were a few of those kinds of guys, but the Bitcoin Reddit makes me think this is going to follow a long, drawn-out death spiral.

04-02-2018 , 09:00 PM

#39

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I did not know this was possible.

How is this not a sport on ESPN2, I would watch the **** out of elite-level Jenga.

04-02-2018 , 09:07 PM

#40

Yuv

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,940

I just spent 20 minutes in line at cvs followed by 20 minuted at the cashier trying to buy sudafed only to be denied because people with non-us passports are all meth dealers.

**** this 3rd world country i hope putin makes u his ***** 4 life goddamn opiod junkies

04-02-2018 , 09:10 PM

#41

Yuv

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Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4,940

I cant get cold medicine and there's a 50 car line in wendy's drive thru. Just burn this place the **** down

04-02-2018 , 09:18 PM

#42

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

pruitt is a sucker bet. it'll be tough to find someone more tenacious in their support of fossil fuel capitalists over the future of the planet. and someone who's more hooked up with the industry lobbyists, i mean that's literally his job, to sell out our future to billionaires and he's great at it

you're gonna fire him for doing what he's supposed to do? he's bog standard republican; safe af

04-02-2018 , 09:21 PM

#43

Chips Ahoy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Yuv

I cant get cold medicine and there's a 50 car line in wendy's drive thru. Just burn this place the **** down

bless your heart!

04-02-2018 , 09:22 PM

#44

ScreaminAsian

For President

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christie acting all high and mighty as if he wouldn't pick an industry stooge lmao get ****ed christie you're a piece of ****

04-02-2018 , 09:23 PM

#45

ScreaminAsian

For President

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Chips Ahoy

bless your heart!

ouch

04-02-2018 , 09:58 PM

#46

simplicitus

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Don't undersell Pruitt.

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/980966422846328833

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/sta...88235596910592

04-02-2018 , 10:02 PM

#47

Huehuecoyotl

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04-02-2018 , 10:05 PM

#48

well named

poorly undertitled

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Originally Posted by Yuv

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yuv

I cant get cold medicine and there's a 50 car line in wendy's drive thru. Just burn this place the **** down

A+ rant would read again. Also would watch Extreme Jenga.

04-02-2018 , 11:06 PM

#49

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

"champstark, dth123451, Dutch101, fatboy8, GermanGuy, Loden Pants, Louis Cyphre, Money2Burn, simplicitus, suzzer99, Trolly McTrollson, uDevil, zikzak, guys, john kelly removed jared's security clearance last month lol. it would be absolutely maniacal to keep jared in the white house as senior advisor.

it would be beyond maniacal, it would be downright bonkers to fire the 4 star general who took away your son in law's security clearance to do his job. way too far. no way no way"

- awval999

04-02-2018 , 11:09 PM

#50

ScreaminAsian

For President

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i only voted for ty cobb because it's more obvious than ever that trump is guilty of major crimes and it would probably look bad to be the lawyer that lost the biggest court case of all time, so if he's doing this for the publicity he should probably get out now

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