Current American administration has to be the most incompetent in the entire history of the USA. I'm just gonna throw some popcorn into microwave for tomorrow because surely they'll fuck something new up for sure.
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Current American administration has to be the most incompetent in the entire history of the USA.
I was going to say something about 2016, but no, 2016 at least had the patina of comptetence from all the republiQan retreads who were slobbering MAGA tools like Jefferson Beauregard the Perjurer and Dr. Pyramids-are-Grain-Storage.
Idk… I feel like shitcanning the then 15 year old pandemic response team just 2 years before the largest pandemic in a century was pretty fucking incompetent.
Oh, they were incompetent as fuck - no one had seen such incompetence before. Many people were saying it was the most incompetent administration anyone had ever seen, they couldn't believe it. They got sick of all the incompetence.
Idiocracy now?
It’s almost as if Trump shouldn’t have waived the mandatory FBI background checks for cabinet members. Y’know, the ones that would’ve caught all of these vulnerabilities?🤔
national security adviser Mike Waltz
lol
just do the opposite of whatever he advises I guess
Do we have a list? Have any of these girls turned 18? Daddy needs some sugar, and Mike will have to deny knowing these girls. 🤣
Ok that's stupid af, but also why is that even an option?
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It says none of their actual transactions was visible, just their friends lists. And Venmo has a long history of trying to be the "social media" of paying people.
So, like, I'm no fan of the guy, but ik confused why this is news? I can probably see his followed people on Twitter too, but that's not a scandal. If there aren't any sketchy payments or anything, what's the issue?
Other accounts carry the names of a wide range of media figures, from on-air personalities like Bret Baier and Brian Kilmeade of Fox News and Brianna Keilar and Kristen Holmes of CNN to a cable news producer, a prominent national security reporter, local news anchors, documentarians, and noted conspiracy theorist Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself the “the secretary of retribution” and once created a deep state target list. (Fox News declined to comment; CNN did not respond to a request for comment.)
Think of it as a fascism map
Sure, but that's not a scandal. You could call Trump's Twitter follower list the same thing.
Twitter followers don't imply monetary interaction. Venmo does.
Right? Maybe I'm missing it.
Nah, Venmo contacts are often based off of your phone contacts. So that's probably just a list of people he has saved to his phone (who also have Venmo).
And even if you did have to pay someone for them to show up, it still doesn't seem like much of a scandal. It's not like someone in the contact list was "drug dealer" or something. Who cares if he venmo'd a coworker $20 for lunch?
Idk man. Like, leaking your phone's contact list probably isn't the best thing ever, but it's hardly a huge deal imo.
Like, leaking your phone's contact list probably isn't the best thing ever, but it's hardly a huge deal imo.
For the ~~national defense secretary~~? (Edit: sorry, "national security advisor") It really kinda is, though.
Idk man, he's a public figure. Like, would we be this mad if Kamala accidentally leaked her phone's contact list (names only, no numbers)?
And to be clear, it'd be another thing entirely if he had, like, secret government sources in his contact list or something. But I don't see anyone saying that as far as I can tell. It's just his personal friends and contacts.
I mean - yes?
This is the kind of opsec you should have if you're an executive at a mid-level company. Much less Vice President or anywhere related to the decision making body of the military.
Shit, I'd harrangue my friends and famliy for this by default. There are lots of attack vectors you open by having a list of "close friends" or whatever you want to call it. We just saw a self-own with the Signal stuff. But a malicious actor could social-engineer one of these pinheads in no time to set up some kind of phishing or other attack.
It got this from his phone contacts, so while some are totally expected, one wouldn’t necessary expect/want to see that he has some of those contacts.
Fair, but I didn't see any contacts that were terribly surprising or concerning.
I think it would be reasonable to want the country's national security advisor to the president to keep up with best practices. Or at least not be technologically inept.
I mean, I think most people on Venmo have it set this way. It's the default. I wouldn't call it inept.
It's not privacy focused for sure, but then, using social media in any capacity isn't. I'm unconvinced this is crazy worse.
I'll get the popcorn