what do you want obama to do during his last month in office?

the code

the dougie
the worm
the robot
the stanky leg

get das racist to reunite and book them as the headliner for Trump's inaugural ball

Send Trump to Guantanamo.

appointing Garland isn't asking much, not really a stretch imo compared to pardoning Snowden, that'll never happen

Huh

Burn down the White House

it's been done before

dab

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YOURE MISSING A LINE THAT SHOULDVE SAID "AND THAT'S WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA LISTENED TO YOU AND RECESSED-APPOINTED THIS GUY"

*sigh*

hey, everybody slept on this one

Joe Cirincione
‏@Cirincione
Oh good! @POTUS approved $350Billion nuke sub program we don't need before leaving. #ThanksObama

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-05/new-nuclear-armed-subs-win-pentagon-approval-before-obama-leaves

the military industrial complex is truly running this country, which is why I hope they find a way to murk trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/chelsea-manning-obama-commute-prison-sentence

that better not be a tease. but i'm betting it is

ditto

the audacity of hope

hope he does something about the waiting lists on death row tbh

anyone you have your eye on in particular?

i dunno i missed the draft this year

give the NSA expanded latitude on intercepted metadata

DONE

nobody cares about your phonecalls

if you don't care about the NSA conducting expanded domestic surveillance under Trump, then you haven't thought about it

it's not really at the top of my list of concerns, no

but then maybe I'm just cynically resigned to it since this all seemed inevitable following the Patriot Act. The combination of gov't interest and available technology was never going to be realistically constrained by legal barriers so I've just accepted it.

Go back and view Citizenfour again. Trump is just as vindictive as Nixon and if anything is less constrained by any trace of morality, which is really saying something. You may not be able to stop domestic surveillance abuse on your own or very quickly, but it is important to encourage more Snowden-like leakers and ACLU challenges. Just rolling over is no good.

Snowden is basically a traitor and an idiot imo and no I will not be watching CitizenFour again

That's one answer, I suppose.

wow dude

I don't think there is a legal solution to this tbh. and there isn't really a technological one either, as long as everybody wants phones that are connected to everything else and developed and sold to us by giant megacorporations.

xp

If you accept that the PATRIOT Act created a legal framework that changed the boundaries of the problem, why do you conclude there is no legal solution? Making a law is not impossible. What's harder is creating a political atmosphere where observing the law is demanded and enforcement is seen as a duty. You don't get there by 'just accepting' the abuse of privacy as inevitable.

because there is no broad support for repealing the legal framework established by the Patriot Act, and there isn't going to be. Generally speaking, powers granted to (or assumed by) the state are never curtailed or removed or given up, barring a total collapse of the state.

That generality has a grain of truth, but it is far from an ironclad rule.

the federal government has been gradually accruing greater and greater power since the republic's founding, that trend isn't going to be reversed, especially by an increasingly cowed and ignorant populace that prizes safety over the much more abstract "privacy"

Predicting the future by observing the present trend and drawing a straight line out to the horizon is almost always going to result in wrong conclusions.

xxp:
The DoD didn't have much choice in the matter of the Ohio-class replacement. The present ones are scheduled to start retiring in 2029, after a 45 year service life, so the contracts on who would do detailed engineering and building actually should have been signed last year.

Snowden Obama is basically a traitor and an idiot imo

hiyioooooo

we're having challops for supper again?

Someone who posted recently is pathologically sick, and I'm not sorry for him.

Snowden is basically a traitor and an idiot imo

ACTOR ANALYSIS: rightwingers say this cuz they mean it and leftwingers say it cuz they want everyone to know they themselves were alarmed as far back as 2002

btw it's not morbs' phonecalls one would prefer the incoming fascist government not have access to but the phonecalls of all the BLM activists and leftwing democrats and DSA kids and people who don't particularly like donald trump and other assorted traitors and idiots shortly to be part of the vast ISIS conspiracy

but i agree that, and w yr reasons that, this isn't going away

dlh otm

ftr I didn't really consider Snowden a traitor (or an idiot) til he went to Russia

man c'mon

But you do consider him a traitor and or idiot now? What was he supposed to do, wait for the Feds to show up on his doorsteps? Xp

putin is for sure using him, but you've seen what we've done to whistleblowers. or chelsea manning.

a hero would have gone to jail. totally cowardly to conclude that "hmm, yes allowing myself to be used as a pawn in a geopolitical power struggle on behalf of an autocratic murderous regime is preferable to accepting punishment for knowingly breaking the law", he's Putin's toy now. Embarrassing tweets during the election too.

What was he supposed to do, wait for the Feds to show up on his doorsteps

yup. own yr shit.

retweeting peoples vile tweets is a crime

i know that in the court of public wokepinion that is evidence enough to convict greenwald of being worse than trump, but believe it or not journalists (even the "good" ones) mock/hate RT other people all the time. i didn't think disavowing the racist BS that random people spew was necessary on ilx but if it makes you happy, fred, then here you go

no kev, you misunderstand freddy b, gg specifically retweeted willis because he wanted a racist pile-on, but he is cunning enough not to be explicitly racist himself, because he is crafty

i find it quite troubling that fred, posting from a continent currently experiencing increased right-wing and anti-semitic sentiments, seems to always find a way to have unkind words for this particular gay jewish journalist. but that's none of my business

willis works for media matters, which is damning enough w/o the dumb tweets

xp

get that Fred's a punching bag, but c'mon.

These Europeans are all the same.

The sensitivity surrounding Greenwald and his #Putincept...

Which is a hashtag used by Oliver Willis. Yeah, he can be pretty tiresome. And he's definitely wrong about Chelsea Manning. People have flaws, some are way too soft on the IC, and some turn a blind eye to racist/sexist harassment from their followers. I didn't bring up what happened to Oliver Willis, I just pointed out it was instigated by Greenwald, and that he must have expected this kind of thing would be happening. Both things accurate. Calm down guys.

obviously i was being facetious with my post. i think even fred got that

Also, #EuropeisNotaCountry.

i said continent. my joke post is airtight

Obama also pardons Oscar Lopez Rivera

https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-right-chelsea-manning

Paul Ryan and Bob Menendez both blasting the Manning commutation, so let's commend Obama for uniting them in bipartisan shitheadism.

Judith Miller
‏@JMfreespeech
Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning. How many people died because of manning' leak?

@tinyrevolution
It's not that Judith Miller thinks it's BAD to publish things that get people killed. It's that she's competitive.

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2017/1/17/14303388/willie-mccovey-pardon-president-obama

Big surprise, because I don't really remember this ever happening in the first place.

Lol: Lol: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/314783-assange-lawyer-conditions-not-met-for-assange-manning-extradition-offer