“By partnering with vetted United States companies subject to the direction and oversight of the Federal Government, we will enhance our ability to counter [transnational criminal organizations’] threats and combat transnational cybercrime, fraud, and other predatory schemes against American citizens,” the memo said.
Are you seriously defending Mitch McConnel now!? I mean it was obvious from the start you were acting stupid but you really went over the top here.
I don’t think it’s defending the man to say he’s not dead or a vegetable. He’s an abhorrent human being, but so are a lot of people who aren’t dead or vegetables. And denying reality by saying they are isn’t exactly the flex you seem to think it is.
What are you saying!? The dude is incapable of fulfilling his position. From the very start people were saying he had a stroke and that he was unable to function. The joke was that he was dead. The fact that you so grossly misrepresent this is concerning and makes me seriously doubt your honesty.
Look man, maybe you missed the literal hundreds of posts a few weeks ago saying that they’re secretly hiding the fact that he’s dead and that they’re going to announce it at 12:01 on August 3rd. It was “established fact” that the pictures of him were photoshopped, and that his wife was writing all of his messages for him, and that he was either already dead or in a vegetative state. None of that was true.
Should he retire? Obviously. Is he able to do his job right now? Obviously not. Is he gonna return after the summer is over anyway? Probably. He’s been going blank on camera for years now. He’s been unfit for years now.
But that’s not what people were claiming or what I was referring to. People were spreading obvious conspiracy theories that they were “weekend at bernies”-ing him to get past some imagined deadline. If need be, I’ll happily scroll back a few weeks in any politics related community and get you a few hundred people saying exactly that.
It was a fucking joke. We knew he had a medical emergency and that he can no longer fulfill his role. Not sure why you would say he could return after summer. Once again you give so much deference to absolute garbage it is ridiculous.
You took a joke and some conspiracy theories seriously and then try to make a point that is absolute nonsense. I won’t even go into how ridiculous your pretend there is a silver lining to this administration is. You remind me of that dumbass Andy Yen.
You want to read through this thread and see what percentage of people think it’s a joke? https://vger.to/piefed.social/c/politicalhumor@lemmy.world/p/2235683/10-more-days-until-mitch-mcconnell-is-allowed-to-die
Some do certainly, but there’s a preponderance of people who are very much convinced we were gonna get an announcement on 8/3 that he was dead or in a coma.
My point with that wasn’t to defend McConnell. It was that people wanted him to be dead/braindead so badly that it made them accept things at face value that were almost certainly not true.
He’s 84. Regardless of any official statement or anything, the wildly most likely thing that happened was that he fell. That’s what 84 year olds do. They fall. That’s what I assumed happened before we had literally any information, and then every single piece of information since then has pointed to that being the most likely explanation. The only evidence for stroke/dead/vegetable has been “because I really want it to be true.”
So you think it was a bad thing when Trump signed an executive order raising the salaries of all the federal government employees by 3.8%?
So you are saying people who hate someone or something so bad they can’t see the benefit of it. Like hating Hitler so much but not seeing what he did to help the Germans!? I am sorry, you crossed the line of reasonable in your pursuit of being a devil’s advocate.
Then, so desperate to be right or perhaps get your point across, you come up with with your own conspiracy theory that is not evidenced in any way shape or form. If Mconnell had just fallen they wouldn’t be hiding him. Give me a break. The conspiracy is obviously he can no longer conduct his position, the conspiracy theory is he died or just fell.
I think that Trump is a fucking disaster and a complete disgrace and no, Trump signing an increase in no way makes up for haphazardly gutting the federal government with the help of AI idiot 20 year old hackers and the pedophile Muskrat.
Chinese outnumber US cyber security by 50 to 1 according the rhetoric/propaganda and the solution is to attempt to deputize US companies to engage in cyber warfare!? The solution is obvious. Hire and train more cyber security experts. Instead this administration has done just the fucking opposite.
Instead of working with Congress on a supposedly bipartisan issue his solution is an EO, just like every time because his administration thinks they rule instead of govern. Just stupidity and inability to govern properly is the reality of this administration. They are just as corrupt and inept as the last time. To believe anyone is dumb enough to carry water for them without knowing the truth is beyond me. That is why you are so sus.
This is another obvious hamfisted attempt to privatize important military operations to enrich the private sector and take power away from the government and hand it to the same psychopaths pushing AI. If you can’t see this it is because you are either obtuse or fucking blind.
There’s a difference between being morally against the Nazis and being the kind of person who refuses to drive on the Autobahn because the Nazis built it. You can say the Autobahn is a good road system without endorsing the group that made it or the methods used to do so.
I don’t think they’ve been especially hiding him any more than Obama was hiding his long form birth certificate. He’s been discharged to his home. He’s had multiple communications at this point. But every time he sends a message or uploads a picture, people call it AI or his handlers doing it. There’s no point in engaging with conspiracy theories because every time you jump through a demanded hoop they just demand another one.
I didn’t say Trump increasing the federal salaries made up for anything. And we agree that he’s a disaster. I in no way am saying that the administration is good just because they did one good thing. I’m just also willing to acknowledge the evidence of my eyes. They did a good thing. It in no way diminishes all the evil they’ve done. But if you can’t be honest about when they do a good thing, you’re not engaging with reality.
With regards to the actual bill at hand, I’d like to see the government scale up its in house cyber capabilities as well. That is something they have a poor track record of however.
Congress is broken at this point. You can’t get it to pass a bill that says the sky is blue. That doesn’t excuse all the executive orders, but there’s a reason every president since Obama has leaned so heavily on them. Congress can’t figure out how to pass even the most broad appeal bills anymore. That’s a whole separate problem that needs fixing.
And to be clear, these are not military operations. These are not valid military targets. We don’t mobilize the army to target theives. We don’t send in aircraft carriers in response to fraud. These are criminal investigative proceedings. This is the same as a police department hiring bounty hunters. Maybe a little scummy. Maybe something that I’d in general be against. But in this case, where we have a known criminal element that the police aren’t equipped to deal with it, maybe hiring some bounty hunters is the best solution. It’s certainly better than continuing to do nothing.