Hypocrisy? Or idiocy? So hard to tell…
Got a few headshakers today. Kind of a Chesty Puller day, so many targets we’re surrounded. Got ’em right where we want ’em.
Let’s open up with one of our favorites, Jasmine Crockett. Ms. Crockett likes to talk of her ‘street’ cred, which given her high-dollar upbringing in posh St. Louis schools is a bit of a joke. But she is getting some notice – for stiffing her condo association. Is that ‘street’? Are there ‘street’ condos?
A notice of a lien filed on April 11, 2024, which is publicly available on the Dallas County Clerk’s website, shows that Crockett owes the Westside Condominium Association a total of $3,047.79.
The notice said that Crockett “is in default in her obligation for payment of assessments and has failed and refused and continues to fail and refuse, despite demand upon her, to pay the Association assessments and related charges properly levied against the Property.”
to be fair, maybe she just doesn’t have access to the funds to pay.
Crockett recently raised eyebrows over her Federal Election Commission filings that showed she spent nearly $75,000 of donor money on luxury hotels, transportation and security this year in cities across the U.S.
Crockett’s filings show luxury hotel and transportation expenses in Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, among other major cities, despite representing Texas’ 30th Congressional District, which includes Dallas. Fox News
Nope, she’s just stiffing them.
Let’s elevate our sights. President Trump is conducting a campaign sinking suspected drug smuggling boats more or less out of hand. Cocaine to Europe, fentanyl to the US – no matter, they’ll be with the fish tonight, right? ‘Cuz drug smugglers need to go away, and go away in a style which will convince other potential drug smugglers that it just isn’t worth it. Right?
Trump has faced criticism for pardoning former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking. The pardon comes as Trump wages a deadly campaign against alleged Venezuelan drug boats — including one strike in which the survivors were ordered to be killed.
The president has claimed that Hernandez’s imprisonment was the result of a political prosecution by President Joe Biden’s administration. But the lead investigator on the case that resulted in the conviction, Emil Bove, went on to become Trump’s personal lawyer and then a Trump judicial appointee.
Seems a little odd to pardon a high profile drug smuggler during an anti-smuggling action, right?
Why are you overshadowing with these other pardons? Why is he pardoning a drug trafficker? Why is he pardoning somebody that his own DOJ just prosecuted? Why is he pardoning somebody who was convicted of $1.7 billion in fraud? Mediaite
Might want to read more about Hernandez here at BBC or Factcheck . Doesn’t sound much like a candidate for a pardon. Too, many of Trump’s pardon’s don’t.
And the investigation over Pete Hegseth’s communications over Signal this spring before and during US military operations has concluded. Mr. Hegseth says he was exonerated. CBS News
The report, which was dated Dec. 2 and publicly released Thursday, found that Hegseth has the authority to decide whether information should be classified, and he determined the details he shared in a March 15 Signal chat “were either not classified or that he could safely declassify and use to create an ‘unclassified summary’ to provide to the Signal chat participants.”
Sounds relatively benign, right? Let’s go further.
In the chat, the IG said, Hegseth disclosed the “quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory over an unapproved, unsecure network approximately 2 to 4 hours before the execution of those strikes.”
“Using a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives,” the report said. Air Force Times
Exonerated? Not sure I would use that description.
And we’ll close on a Christmas – well, sorta – note. JD Vance’s office sent out invitations to a Hanukkah celebration at the VP’s place on December 15th.
The invite states: “The vice president & the second lady request the pleasure of your company for a Hanukkah reception at the vice president’s residence.” The event is scheduled for December 15.
Above this, in large cursive lettering, it reads: “Golden Noel,” followed by “Celebrating 50 years of Christmas at the vice president’s residence.”The Independent
Just for fun, might maybe oughta check this sorta thing before it’s sent? “Quality control by customer feedback” is not a successful way to do things.
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So? What’s the problem?
The VP is being “all inclusive” with Hanukkah AND Christmas.
“Diversity is our strength”, don’cha’know?
Don’t forget Festivus for the rest of us.
I just don’t do the “Feats of Strength” like I once did. I’ve gotten really good at the “Airing of Grievances”, though!
What is the plan for Kwanzaa? Probably should avoid having Kwanzaa and Hanukkah guests at the same time for unspecified reasons.
Probably a bad idea, but also very entertaining if you have a safe vantage point.
Ahhhh, not when the Repubs do it.
Hardly exonerated. I don’t think he can spell OPSEC. How many hours have been wasted training folks on OPSEc and things like Controlled Unclassified Information. (CUI). Different spanks for different ranks.
Well, at least the dress wearing military “commanders”, or the muzzle wearing enlisted aren’t in charge anymore. And this guy shows up for work instead of taking a leave of absence without telling anybody so he could go get colon(?) surgery. Isn’t that considered AWOL any longer? The media was all ho hum on that shit.
And this guy = old sec of defense. Lloyd Austin?
It never made sense that the “Signal” app was approved as a means of official communication. All the subsequent fuckups flowed directly from that one.
I’m not sure that Signal was approved, per se.
It just sort-of filled a valid communications need and worked well. And nobody said no.
The mobile solutions DoD offered were either separate devices (which fell by the wayside as budgets tightened) or clunky ways to access a sort-of virtual desktop on your phone.
Problem with the clunky ways was that they installed software on your phone (a FUCK NO! from many, me included) and forced you onto the latest-device and latest-updates model, which also didn’t work for some users (again, me included).
It took SecWar’s fuckup to get DoD to acknowledge that people do use personal devices to communicate non-CUI information and deploy an app that merged text-like convenience with end-to-end security and required data-retention policies.
DoW, not DoD….I have to get with the fucking times.
According to news reports when this whole Signal clusterfuck happened, it was approved by whatever agency is in charge of that sort of thing. I would assume DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), but that approval doesn’t account for bad OPSEC on the user’s part. “Approved” ain’t the same as “Secure”. Especially when the access list in completely uncontrolled.
Could have been DISA, I may just be remembering that on the Army side we never operated like Signal was approved for official use. It was just a convenient tool for disseminating non-sensitive info.
“Especially when the access list in completely uncontrolled”
That’s where they fucked up too, because you absolutely can control group access. Fuckers got sloppy and got bit in the dick.
Found this on teh Interwebz yesterday:
That’s fookin’ evil but I can’t stop laughing! Thank God my coffee was cool!
O-M-G!!!
FROFLOL!!
A friend of mine once bragged to me about his Great Uncle who was responsible for the downing of at least 45 Nazi Aircraft during WWII, turns out he was simply the shittiest Mechanic in the entire Luftwaffe!
A bunch of us were telling “My Daddy” stories about WWII. I told what little I knew about my uncle who was in the infantry in Europe. One of my troops said he had an uncle who was in the Air Force in Europe. I asked which one, he turned a bit pale and replied, “the Luftwaffe”. Just goes to show one never knows.
“Hypocrisy? Or idiocy?“
I think the natural order would be that idiocy leads to hypocrisy.
After the 44 and 46 administrations, I am willing to cut the 45/47 administration a fairly large chunk of slack.
And for preventing an HRC admin? A very large pile of slack.