Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 06:03 AM

EPA to increase pollution

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 06:57 AM

Being reported on BBC News Channel this morning that Poland have requested the US to supply them with nuclear weapons to counter the threat from Russia.

Oh Donald, what have you started - WW3 looms ever closer thanks to your amateur meddling.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 10:20 AM

From The Bulwark (I subscribed because the NY Times and Washington Post are falling down on digging into Trump misbehavior): “Our Company Could Not Coexist” with Trump as a Partner
Will the Republican party ever learn the lesson that people in the business world learned long ago?

(Hopefully this is readable, I used their share link since this is a subscription site.)

Call it the boomerang presidency. Or the whiplash or rug-pull presidency. The bottom line is the same, whether we’re talking about tariffs, Ukraine, Social Security, immigration, or anything else: You cannot count on Trump. You cannot trust him. Also, he knows nothing about the economy.

“I don’t have a changed view of him,” Satre told me in a phone call this week—the first time we’d ever talked. “His whole approach during the periods that I was involved with him in a partnership were examples of somebody who talked a lot about himself with a great deal of bombast. And there was no regard to accuracy of what he said or truthfulness. And as a consequence, ultimately, our company could not coexist with him as a partner.”

Negotiating with Trump then sounds a lot like negotiating with him now. “What was negotiated in those days was his name and how valuable his name was. We had lots of disagreements about that,” Satre said, deadpan, and we both chuckled. Were they resolved? “No, they weren’t,” he said.

In a way, though, they were. Satre and the rest of the Harrah’s team decided to sell their half-interest in the project back to Trump. They didn’t lose any money in the transaction, Satre said, but Trump nevertheless claimed it was “a great deal for him.” . . . .And furthermore: “I am convinced he simply does not have the temperament to be president, or more importantly, commander in chief: His hair-trigger temper, bluster, racial rhetoric and divisive domestic and international views will endanger our democracy and risk permanent damage to our society.”

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 01:49 PM

When the tattered remains of what is left of necessary American institutions there will be a fire sale to the highest privatized bidder. Oligarchs have lusted after the Post Office for years.

UNLESS Courts, Congress or we the people prevent Trump from allowing his national and global meltdown to continue as the POTUS.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 03:00 PM

aka the COTUS-POTUS (Centre of the Universe Syndrome-Prez of the US).

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 03:02 PM

Or should that be: COTUS-POTUS, hocus pocus, lack of focus. :-D

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 05:22 PM

The President is not constitutionally allowed to accuse, adjudicate and punish individuals or organizations. It goes against the freedom of speech and the freedom to associate, It goes against the separation of powers in the 5th amendment. To attack lawyers who he doesn't like with impunity would be the end of the rule of law. I can not imagine the SCOTUS ruling in favor of Trump.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 05:27 PM

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.
John Locke

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 06:54 PM

Ok, I'll add to my list of rhyming words for the song or poetry writing challenge. Here are some rhyming words for inspiration:

POTUS, COTUS, SCOTUS, circus, very stable genius, minus (i.e. IQ score), not cautious, endless, vicious, worthless, bogus, cactus, no locus of control, notorious, outrageous, previous, suspicious, jealous, office, injustice, anti-justice, embarrass, hideous, no moral compass.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 07:06 PM

As long as he doesn't stop having cetre of the universe syndrome. That would be COTUS interuptus...

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 07:09 PM

> The President is not constitutionally allowed to
> accuse, adjudicate and punish individuals or
> organizations.

But the President can do *anything* while in office, then say he's doing it in pursuit of said office, and the Supremes will say he's Diana Ross.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 07:12 PM

I have a feeling most of them are regretting that decision. A couple of them need to retire, but their replacements would be even worse.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 08:20 PM

That's for sure. Trump would install Alex Jones to replace Barrett.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Mar 25 - 08:39 PM

It's an old saying but the President is throwing his dirty underwear against the wall in hopes some will stick.
Going after lawfirms however, is an all-time first by a POTUS.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 05:26 AM

Trump administration asked to explain after Australian universities told to justify US-funded research grants The federal government is asking the Trump administration for more information after Australian researchers were sent questionnaires asking them to justify American research grants.

The tertiary education union called it "blatant political interference" and the Group of Eight representative body said it was "extremely concerned".

Major research positions within the Trump administration are yet to be filled, but may be in a position to provide further clarity once installed ...

... Now researchers and academics at Australian universities and institutions working on projects jointly funded by American agencies have been swept up in the chaos.

Last week US agencies sent some of those Australian researchers what appears to be a global notice, asking them to justify their funding, as well as a questionnaire grilling them on a host of issues — including their links with China and the Trump administration's edicts recognising only two sexes.

The document also asks them to confirm if they've received "ANY funding from the PRC" or Chinese state actors, and asks what steps they've taken against "Christian persecution" or to "protect women and to defend against gender ideology." ...

... The Group of Eight, which represents Australia's major universities, said the freeze had already had a major impact, and the US had now "suspended or terminated research grants with six of the eight member universities." ...

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 05:34 AM

Not sure about F*Elon Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ nonsense, but ‘Make America Respectable and Respected Again’ would be a far more appropriate and admirable ambition.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 06:36 AM

Trump is playing blackjack with the economy by doubling down on each hand, hoping for a five-card Charlie. This strategy is guaranteed to fail.
If he was serious about incentivising government workers to retire, he should not have wiped out their retirement portfolios with a stock market crash because of tariffs. 401 K mutual funds are down across the board no matter how diversified they are.

His coup is some dumb bumbling mess. I get the feeling that whoever laughed out loud regarding Trump's insurpassable ignorance and vanity he now seeks to punish. They could have been at his UN speech or on his European tour, but if they laughed at him, he can't forget it.
He was really damaged at the White House Correspondents' Dinner when Obama told a joke about Donald. He never attended again.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 07:21 AM

Bingo:

CISA: We didn't fire red teams, we just unhired a bunch of them

Agency tries to save face as it also pulls essential funding for election security initiatives

[ ... ]

Among the many cuts DOGE claims total around $20 billion are key information sharing and analysis centers (ISACs), some of which have operated for decades.

The Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC) is one of these. Its website now states that the DHS pulled funding and the Center for Internet Security, which oversees the initiative, no longer supports it.

The EI-ISAC's role was to advise election officials and voting machine makers about cybersecurity risks that could impact the integrity of elections. It isn't the first move made by the current US administration to loosen oversight on election security.

Also confirmed this week to be shut down is the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), which was similarly tasked with informing responses to threats against local and national elections.

It was reported by a few select media outlets, and CISA confirmed this week that the news was indeed true.

[ ... ]

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 07:57 AM

And for an encore:

Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly

Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail

House Democrats have sent letters to 24 federal agencies asking for assurances that Elon Musk's DOGE team is not feeding sensitive government data into "unapproved and unaccountable" AI systems.

The letters [PDF], penned by Gerald Connolly (D-VA), the most senior Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, refer to several national newspaper reports claiming the Trump-blessed cost-trimming job-cutting DOGE unit has whipped out commercial AI tools at federal agencies to analyze projects, staffing, and other data without first carrying out appropriate safety and security reviews. The lawmakers say it would be inappropriate for the personal information of Americans to be sifted through by such systems.

[ ... ]

The first entries in the Comments section are appropriately hilarious.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 08:03 AM

Just spotted the PS to the above:

PS: A small bipartisan group of Congressfolk, including Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), has urged the UK not to, for the purposes of surveillance, force Apple to disable the end-to-end encryption of certain iCloud data stored at rest. This follows earlier political pressure from the group to change the minds of the British government.

.... never mind that decrypting the data at rest is actually impossible, unless the encryption has already been sabotaged.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 11:29 AM

Pushback:

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments

I particularly liked the deadpan punchline:

[ .... ]

The Register contacted all six government agencies and the Department of Justice for comment. Defense, Veterans’ Affairs, and the Department of the Interior all said that they don't comment on pending litigation. The other three did not respond. Maybe they need more staff?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 25 - 07:17 PM

The ruling by the 2 Maryland judges is good news.
OPM can not fire anyone. One judge even ruled from the bench and spelled out that the fired people must be rehired TODAY!
I have no word if there is a delay or not.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 15 Mar 25 - 01:51 PM

This is a fairly short article and it is worth reading, I think.

South African ambassador 'no longer welcome' in country, US Secretary of State says

"In short: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says South Africa's ambassador to the United States 'is no longer welcome' in the country, accusing him of hating US President Donald Trump.

"Both Mr Trump and his ally Elon Musk have criticised South Africa's Black-led government over a new land law they claim discriminates against white people.
What's next?

"Neither Mr Rubio nor the state department gave any immediate explanation for the decision."

...

"Marco Rubio, in a post on social media platform X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a 'race-baiting politician' who hates US President Donald Trump.

"Mr Rubio then declared the South African diplomat 'persona non grata'.

"Neither Mr Rubio, who posted as he was flying back to Washington from a Group of 7 foreign ministers meeting in Canada, nor the state department gave any immediate explanation for the decision.

"But Mr Rubio linked his post to a story by a right-wing Breitbart news site about a talk Mr Rasool gave earlier Friday local time."

...

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Mar 25 - 05:44 PM

How checking facts got political Fact checking has been described as cleaning up a sewage spill with a teaspoon. What happens to truth when someone takes the teaspoon away?

From Time magazine’s pioneering research department in the 1920s to the New Yorker’s renowned and rigorous fact-checking department, verifying facts is as old as journalism itself. The rise of the 24-hour news cycle, ubiquity of social media and subsequent spread of online misinformation and disinformation have since demanded more from journalists and editors. It has forced newsrooms to improve their internal verification processes but has also led to the proliferation of specialised fact-check outfits like AAP FactCheck in Australia or AFP Fact Check, which now has a network of 150 journalists across 26 languages publishing checks on everything from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to COVID-19. (read on)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 07:33 AM

What Trump does is pretend it's wartime and declare an emergency that enables the president to exercise many wartime emergency powers. This is true for his tariffs and obscure, never-used-before deportation powers.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 10:02 AM

Quoth Donuel (on the Weather thread):

> DOGE has shut down the AK volcano assessment office,
> but it might be re-funded after a big eruption like
> in 1992.

If they shut it down, how will they know? ah: if it's big enough, it could knock out one of SpaceX's satellites.

This all reminds me of one of the AI Koans, which ends (from memory):

The teacher closed his eyes.
"Why are you closing your eyes?" the student asked.
"So that the room will be empty," said the teacher.
The student was enlightened.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Mar 25 - 10:48 AM

There was a photo of Trump stumbling to the big helicopter with Musk's little X. Relegated to babysitter? I wouldn't trust him around my children if I still had little ones. (That said, they're adults in their 30s now and I'd love to hear them tell him what they think these days!)

A Saturday Executive Order to kill off a bunch of other agencies (worded to strip them down each to their most basic legal standing, and next week each head is to send a list of what they're cutting to the REAL boss - Russell Vought. Head of OMB. Writer of the 2025 plot against America.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 05:43 AM

Finger on the pulse, here’s Simon Tisdall in The Guardian, 15/3/25.

Much of this stuff was foreseeable by anyone with at least two working grey cells, yet the muppets still voted for the Orange Buffoon. And we thought that BrexShit was the biggest self-inflicted wound in living memory!

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 07:12 AM

Six Trump commercials, made by Americans for Prosperity, are shown here. Their big brother themes are peace and strength, school choice, saving the tax cuts, etc.

Some Walmart prices have almost doubled on items such as Chinese shoes. Wegmans sells eggs for $5 dozen. Spending around here has dropped around 2%.

Trump personally tells the Justice Dept. that media is coordinated and illegal. I assume he does not mean his media snapshots.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 10:34 AM

Even with a judge's order to return the aircraft deporting a bunch of folks, they did it anyway. This is the constitutional crisis writ large today. Is a judge going to put the pilots and officials in jail for ignoring the order? Is King Donald going to give them immediate pardons?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 11:33 AM

Bingo (again): someone else has spotted it. Excerpted in RISKS Digest 34:58, from an AP News article:

Trump administration cuts $10M funding from CISA nonprofit Center for Internet Security (AP News)

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) budget cuts might give you the impression that the WH knows how to rig elections, and does not want any interference from the federal government.

Trump administration officials cut the $10 million in funding needed by the nonprofit Center for Internet Security, a unit of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that addressed election security. The future of two information sharing and analysis centers—the Elections ISAC and the Multi-State ISAC—is uncertain.

State elections officials have asked CISA for more information and sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem urging continued support for elections security.

The followup comment from PGN, the RISKS Digest moderator, is to the point:

RISKS readers have known since our very first issue in August 1985 that sanctioned commericial election systems have been fraught with easily exploited security flaws. This is not just the chickens or dogs running the chicken coop. It is more like the insane running the asylum.

.... the next five articles in that RISKS issue will be of interest to readers of this thread, too.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 11:58 AM

I know it is not what people want to hear but I said it very early on. This administration will be all about prearing the way to stay in power forever. It is all well and good saying it is only 2 years until the mid-terms but just you watch - The mid terms will result in a massive shift to the right wing. If not, they will be decalred null and void by king turnip and his not so merry men.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 17 Mar 25 - 12:07 PM

Surprise:

FCC stands up Council on National Security to fight China in ways that CISA used to

United States Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr has unveiled plans to form a Council on National Security that will combat foreign threats to American tech and telecommunications infrastructure.

[ ... ]

Carr didn’t say how or if the new Council will work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), whose Cyber Safety Review Board was already investigating Chinese cyber threats, including operations linked to the Salt Typhoon attacks on US telecoms infrastructure, before being disbanded by the incoming Trump administration.

.... Methinks there'll be an acute shortage of suitable applicants, but I can't for the life of me think why.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 05:10 AM

DODGE has begun using armed federal marshalls and armed FBI AGENTS TO GAIN ACCESS to non executive branch federal offices over the last two weeks. When these agencies call the DC police about this armed invasion of government offices the police have so far assisted the invasion. The use of arms to enter these small independent agencies is a sinister use of power that echoes the practices of the German SS.

Since the administration is not answering questions it is not verified if actual federal marshalls are being used.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 05:22 AM

I said it in 2016, in this parish:

"Be afraid America, be very afraid"

Mind you, what I saw was only a game show bufoon wanting the next game show gig. And I still think I was right. What I didn't see was the party he was s(h)itting on. Or their agenda. But in my defence, who could have predicted it?

Just a though but is Xitter pronounced Zhitter?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 05:34 AM

Mr Red. I said earlier that I have heard "Xi" pronounced "Shi" in Chinese, so maybe not Zhitter but Shitter?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 06:09 AM

So far DODGE has only used armed force when a CEO or lawyers have denied entrance to the Elon hackers and lock changers.
The next dire step would be arrests or deadly force if entry to private property is resisted.

Will Trump carry his deliberate ignoring of a judge's orders regarding deportations without any due process go all the way to the SCOTUS?

People see they are dealing with predators who don't care if people are in the houses that are being purposely set on fire.
I am only a messenger here but have been set upon by those with predator preferences for many years. I countered with two strategies, resist and persist. It is now up to most Americans to resist and persist.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 07:27 AM

First they came for the Democrats. I was not a politician, I kept quiet.
Next they came for Quango employees. I'm not employed, I kept quiet . . .

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 07:28 AM

I am only a messenger here but have been set upon by those with predator preferences for many years

You have been set upon by those with a preference for truth and common sense, Don. If you are a martyr at all it is to your own prediliction for talking in riddles and presenting your opinions as fact.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 07:45 AM

”If you are a martyr at all it is to your own prediliction for talking in riddles and presenting your opinions as fact.”

Never a truer word, Dave. TBH, I seldom read any of Don’s meaningless, meandering nonsense - it’s the best way to stay sane.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 11:14 AM

From the PS on an ElReg article (Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud):

Speaking of AI... Under the direction of President Donald Trump and his US government standards body NIST, scientists linked to the federally funded Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute have been told to talk less about “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness,” and focus more on “reducing ideological bias, to enable human flourishing and economic competitiveness,” in machine-learning research, WiReD magazine reports.

Now even articial incompetence will be suspected of thought crime.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 11:48 AM

Here we go .... security sweep fails Security 101:

Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit

A now-former DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people's private information to two Trump administration officials, according to a court document filed Friday.

That filing pertains to a February lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state AGs challenging DOGE's access to the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS), which disburses trillions of dollars annually to US households, federal employees, and contractors including Social Security and Medicare benefits, tax credits, and grants and payments.

DOGE being the Trump-blessed unit, operated by the President's éminence grease Elon Musk, that has been going around the federal government looking for costs to trim, projects and programs to cancel, and thousands of civil servants to lay off. DOGE had been poking around inside the Treasury's systems ostensibly to find evidence of fraud and to flag up transactions the Tesla tycoon disapproved of, which New York et al in their lawsuit argue was digitally insecure and legally unsound.

The latest filing contains sworn testimony of David Ambrose, the chief security and privacy officer at the BFS, who told the court that then-DOGE operative Marko Elez violated Treasury rules by sending the unencrypted database including personally identifiable information and by not obtaining prior approval for the transmission.

[ ... ]

Read in full, please; the original is, as usual, full of links to supporting evidence elsewhere. It also appears there was less than full access given to the offender DOGE aide in question .... so there *were* grown-ups present in the room after all, trying to uphold the law by being sneakily careful.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 12:47 PM

Trump says he rules with common sense and goes with his gut.

The problem with artificial incompetence is that it is very real.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 01:07 PM

Donuel, I do read your posts. Sometimes I don't understand everything you are saying but most times I do and I appreciate your opinions and point of view.

My only suggestion is to provide links to facts or news articles to which you refer, and some explanation for non-experts in a field in which you have in-depth knowledge, just as a back up for your comments. (This advice is based on my previous experience as a teacher at adult colleges for many years and also a class tutor at university for a few years.)

My suggestion for others is to keep it civil, please. In-fighting among the allies does not contribute positively to the big fight against the enemy, i.e. Trump's attack on US democracy and the foundation of the country.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 05:29 PM

Trump continues to use war emergency power. He claims we are being invaded. What is missing is a declaration of war and a required due process hearing to determine if a person has allegiance to a foreign power like we did for Germans in the US during WWII.

Chief Justice Roberts rebuked Trump for calling for the removal of the judge who ordered Trump to bring back deportees suspected of being MS 13 because they had no due process.

My source is everywhere that is not in the MAGA ECHO CHAMBER.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 06:43 PM

The enormous mass street protests in Serbia and Hungary against their Putin puppet governments went completely under my radar until I saw them on the Rachel Maddow show. Hello US TV news, are you scared to cover this?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 06:54 PM

Being succinct and to the point is what I prefer. You can say what the point is in 10 seconds. I think economy in social media is a good thing. Most people won't fully appreciate superfluous detail unless they are sophisticated in the genre of knowledge.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 18 Mar 25 - 09:44 PM

That's ok DtG, I don't read what you write. I did read the quotes you posted which were written by journalists or other commentators.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Helen
Date: 19 Mar 25 - 05:00 AM

I'm just following your advice: "I have said before, if you do not like my posts, don't read them."

I don't read what you write, but if someone copies and pastes an article or quotes from an article written by someone else then I read the C&P.

End of discussion. Don't read my posts.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President/ Musk Coup
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Mar 25 - 05:38 AM

I cannot help but read them, and reply, when they begin "Well, DtG..." but I give all posts a skim anyway.

However, if you do not read my posts, as you said, you are in no position to criticise them. How about you continue to ignore me and stop commenting on things you have not read? Best all round in my opinion.