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Post by lainey on Apr 14, 2023 8:06:24 GMT
Congratulations for caring about much more important stuff than the rest of us silly women
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 14, 2023 10:14:33 GMT
Actually I knew about several days ago and from twitter. Widely reported but here and since it is kind of a big deal I thought surely someone would mention it here but nada. I guess it’s not as important as tinted moisturizer or do you use paper or cloth napkins. So I finally did. Because, like I said, it’s kind of a big deal Personally I just don't want to discuss every single thing that comes across the news waves... I mean, there's so much awful stuff that we might all sink into darkness if we thought about it all. Some days the cloth vs. paper napkin discussion is just what I need. It's why I play video games. But to answer your question...of course I've heard of it. It's been all over the news for days.
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lesley
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Post by lesley on Apr 14, 2023 10:35:43 GMT
Maybe the reason people don’t respond to you is that the vast majority have you on Ignore. 🧐
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 14, 2023 11:21:54 GMT
I thought this was an interesting point about the similarities to Trump's case and the Republican response to defend Trump and the young man heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-13-2023“Today the Justice Department arrested Jack Douglas Teixeira in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information.”
In a press conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement that the FBI had arrested Teixeira, a 21-year-old employee of the United States Air Force National Guard. Teixeira allegedly is the source of more than 100 classified U.S. documents that surfaced on social media gaming channels and then spread across the internet over the past several months.
Friends who spoke anonymously to reporters say Teixeira showed them the documents to impress them. They described him as a Christian libertarian who is worried about the direction the country is going. Materials from Teixeira online also reveal racist and antisemitic behavior.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) immediately took to Twitter to defend Teixeira. He is “white, male, christian [sic], and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime,” she wrote. She went on to attack U.S. support for Ukraine.
But there is likely more here than her usual attacks on the Biden administration and support for Russia. Removing, retaining, and transmitting classified national defense information sounds an awful lot like what it appears former president Trump did (recent reports suggest that federal investigators seem to be building a case that he showed at least one document to people, although removing and retaining documents are crimes by themselves). Now a young man has been arrested for that behavior, unceremoniously arrested by armed FBI agents with an armored vehicle as a news helicopter caught the arrest on film.
It makes sense that Trump supporters who are concerned about the former president’s similar behavior will do their best to downplay Teixeira’s case. As the media begins to talk about just how serious espionage is and makes people aware of its legal perils, they will want to disparage the charges against Teixeira in case the former president ends up with the same problem.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 14, 2023 14:42:08 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/14/jack-teixeira-military-leaks-court-appearance/Leak suspect charged with retention of defense information, willful control of classified documents BOSTON — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected of leaking a trove of classified military intelligence, was charged by the federal government Friday with retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents.
Teixeira, 21, appeared shortly after 10 a.m. Eastern before Magistrate Judge David Hennessy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston.
The two criminal charges carry a maximum of 15 years in prison. Teixeira did not enter a plea and is detained pending a hearing on Wednesday. The government is seeking continued detention.
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Post by MichyM on Apr 14, 2023 15:19:47 GMT
Maybe the reason people don’t respond to you is that the vast majority have you on Ignore. 🧐 Bingo. Though I do see these threads on my phone. If one wants to discuss something (political or not), that’s one thing. Years and years of other people’s tweets bores me and IMO doesn’t generally encourage discussion.
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Rhondito
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Post by Rhondito on Apr 14, 2023 15:38:14 GMT
I don't like when I open a post only to see a page filled with tweet after tweet after tweet. An occasional one is one thing, but it's off-putting when it's basically all that's being posted.
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Apr 14, 2023 15:54:39 GMT
I don't like when I open a post only to see a page filled with tweet after tweet after tweet. An occasional one is one thing, but it's off-putting when it's basically all that's being posted. Same. An occasional tweet, no problem. But dozens upon dozens daily, non-stop, year in, year out? It really is like spamming. Yikes. My tendency is to just exit the thread instead of participating.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 14, 2023 16:15:39 GMT
I like the ignore feature. But I wonder if there is a limit on how many people one can put on ignore. Hope not.
What is interesting is how wondering why no one had started a thread about this subject translated to no one wants respond to you and “I don’t like tweets”.
I must have ruffled some feathers with my reference to frivolous threads. Kind of reminds me of little children striking out because they don’t like what they are hearing. Oh well.
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Post by MichyM on Apr 14, 2023 16:20:15 GMT
I like the ignore feature. But I wonder if there is a limit on how many people one can put on ignore. Hope not. What is interesting is how wondering why no one had started a thread about this subject translated to no one wants respond to you and “I don’t like tweets”. I must have ruffled some feathers with my reference to frivolous threads. Kind of reminds me of little children striking out because they don’t like what they are hearing. Oh well. You continue to not come off well here, and appear to think very highly of yourself. I sure hope that posts like these make YOU feel better though, otherwise, what’s the purpose? Cuz ya know, what you think is all that matters. “oh well.”
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Post by monklady123 on Apr 14, 2023 16:42:53 GMT
I like the ignore feature. But I wonder if there is a limit on how many people one can put on ignore. Hope not. What is interesting is how wondering why no one had started a thread about this subject translated to no one wants respond to you and “I don’t like tweets”. I must have ruffled some feathers with my reference to frivolous threads. Kind of reminds me of little children striking out because they don’t like what they are hearing. Oh well. Of course you "ruffled some feathers" with that comment....The way you stated it was rude. "I guess it's not as important..." is a put-down. Of course we all agree that napkins, or moisturizer, or Netflix, or any other random topic isn't as serious as leaking intelligence information. No one is denying that. But maybe everyone is just tired... school shootings, and fascism in the Tennessee state senate, and racism, and anti-semitism, and censorship, and anti-LGBTQ, and the state of our public schools, and old white men who want to tell women what to do with our own bodies, and Trump every time we turn around, and climate change, and Ukraine, not to mention our own personal problems... Maybe it's just that no one wanted to start a thread about leaked intelligence information at this particular moment in time.
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Apr 14, 2023 16:49:53 GMT
I like the ignore feature. But I wonder if there is a limit on how many people one can put on ignore. Hope not. What is interesting is how wondering why no one had started a thread about this subject translated to no one wants respond to you and “I don’t like tweets”. I must have ruffled some feathers with my reference to frivolous threads. Kind of reminds me of little children striking out because they don’t like what they are hearing. Oh well. Good lord. So not only did you put down participants in threads that don’t suit you, you’re compounding the insult by calling those who criticize your MO of turning this board into a parking lot of tweets "little children." You could as easily have made your point without the sarcasm. What makes you think your threads are more important than others? Because yours are always about politics? One of the best features of this board is the variety of topics. Not everybody is monomaniacal like you. A lot of us have a wide range of interests. You’ve done this several times in the past—this putting down of threads you deem trivial. Not only do you suffer from hubris, you suffer from a total absence of self-awareness. Get over yourself. This is a message board for community participation, not your personal blog. If anyone is acting like a petulant child here, it’s you.
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Post by dawnnikol on Apr 14, 2023 17:01:01 GMT
I don't like when I open a post only to see a page filled with tweet after tweet after tweet. An occasional one is one thing, but it's off-putting when it's basically all that's being posted. I post Tweets because it seems the easiest way to do so here for the headlines. It's a quick click so you can see the headline and choose to go from there. It seems a lot of people have issue with it though. I would agree that probably everyone has seen the same Tweets, except now my Twitter feed is a disaster and even FB, for the tiny part of time I have to check their for school crap. Also, totally not singling you out Rhondito, just saw your post most recently to reply to.
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Post by pinklady on Apr 14, 2023 17:14:10 GMT
I don't like when I open a post only to see a page filled with tweet after tweet after tweet. An occasional one is one thing, but it's off-putting when it's basically all that's being posted. I post Tweets because it seems the easiest way to do so here for the headlines. It's a quick click so you can see the headline and choose to go from there. It seems a lot of people have issue with it though. I would agree that probably everyone has seen the same Tweets, except now my Twitter feed is a disaster and even FB, for the tiny part of time I have to check their for school crap. Also, totally not singling you out Rhondito , just saw your post most recently to reply to. I post tweets too. The difference is that you and I don't start a thread and respond to ourselves posting tweet after tweet after tweet. She doesn't want any discussion, doesn't care what anyone says, two peas is just her way of cataloging tweets. It's bizarre, non-sensical and borders on manic behavior.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 14, 2023 17:20:28 GMT
So I haven't been online much (taking DS to visit schools) and I just heard about this last night, but as someone wiht a clearance, AND who has to take a year training about protocols and handling classified materials (which is annoying and a PITA), I am FURIOUS he did this AND also grateful that he was caught pretty quickly.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 14, 2023 18:35:34 GMT
I don't like when I open a post only to see a page filled with tweet after tweet after tweet. An occasional one is one thing, but it's off-putting when it's basically all that's being posted. I post Tweets because it seems the easiest way to do so here for the headlines. It's a quick click so you can see the headline and choose to go from there. It seems a lot of people have issue with it though. I would agree that probably everyone has seen the same Tweets, except now my Twitter feed is a disaster and even FB, for the tiny part of time I have to check their for school crap. Also, totally not singling you out Rhondito , just saw your post most recently to reply to. It's NOT about someone posting a tweet FOR DISCUSSION. We all find all kinds of different avenues that spark a thought and desire to discuss. I'm sure I've posted tweets in the past, although it's not a platform I currently use regularly. THIS particular poster just literally spams the board with tweets. Does not offer their opinion, does not respond to the rare poster who still participates in their threads. It's literally post after post after post of tweets they find interesting. I can only assume they don't have another way to save them as it seems to have no other purpose than historic record. Yes I can and do scroll on by, but this post was just ridiculous as if none of us are actually following what's going on in the world and were just waiting for her tweets about it.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Apr 14, 2023 19:48:03 GMT
For me it's about the fact that there is no discussion. Not everyone posts from their computer here. Probably over 80% of the time I'm on the Tapatalk app. What is see is nothing. No preview, nothing but a link to Twitter. I have absolutely no idea what it is or what it pertains to unless I click on it. I usually have to click repeatedly because they don't like to open. So when I open a thread and it is post with link, no words. And then post with link, no words, over and over again, I don't even want to try to find out what the discussion is supposed to be about. And the OP isn't discussing anything. Just to show what I'm talking about here is a screenshot of this thread from my Tapatalk app on my phone: I don't know how anyone expects to have any sort of engagement with a thread of this going on.
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Post by sabrinae on Apr 14, 2023 19:53:13 GMT
Yes I did know about this several days ago. What I really want to know is why the Washington Post had access to these documents. According to the article they….. “reviewed approximately 300 photos of classified documents, most of which have not been made public; some of the text documents OG is said to have written out; an audio recording of a man the two group members identified as OG speaking to his companions; and chat records and photographs that show OG communicating with them on the Discord server.”
Obviously they’ve been in their possession for at least several days since the article was dated yesterday and the guy was only arrested today. Another member of the discord group provided the documents to the Washington Post and was willing to talk to them. That witness was unwilling to talk to the FBI
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Post by MichyM on Apr 14, 2023 20:04:24 GMT
I post Tweets because it seems the easiest way to do so here for the headlines. It's a quick click so you can see the headline and choose to go from there. It seems a lot of people have issue with it though. I would agree that probably everyone has seen the same Tweets, except now my Twitter feed is a disaster and even FB, for the tiny part of time I have to check their for school crap. Also, totally not singling you out Rhondito , just saw your post most recently to reply to. It's NOT about someone posting a tweet FOR DISCUSSION. We all find all kinds of different avenues that spark a thought and desire to discuss. I'm sure I've posted tweets in the past, although it's not a platform I currently use regularly. THIS particular poster just literally spams the board with tweets. Does not offer their opinion, does not respond to the rare poster who still participates in their threads. It's literally post after post after post of tweets they find interesting. I can only assume they don't have another way to save them as it seems to have no other purpose than historic record. Yes I can and do scroll on by, but this post was just ridiculous as if none of us are actually following what's going on in the world and were just waiting for her tweets about it. I want to add one thing, and you all can correct me if I’m wrong…because, as I said up thread, I’ve got onelasttimes account on ignore and may have missed posts. Anyhow, as far as I can see, part of the issue is also that they appear to have made no effort to connect with this community beyond the threads they start. I don't know if I ever saw a response to someone else’s (non political) thread, a word of kindness shown to a pea, and the like. When someone has only one interest, and posts in the exact same way day to day, year after year, I personally have no interest. Especially when someone feels that they are superior to the rest the group, and take pleasure in sharing that opinion. As to the OP, yes, I was and am aware of the intelligence breach. And I was able to get all the info I needed (thus far) from sources other than than someone else reposting Twitter links <gasp>. Yeah, I’m in a mood today. But it is heartening to know that I’m not the only one who has felt this way, seemingly for quite some time. Thank you for that girls.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 14, 2023 20:55:08 GMT
I think it is disgusting that the right wing media is making this guy a victim and hero.
The tweets don't really bother me, although I do wish I could see them in the text of a response on my phone rather than having to click. However, I am usually too lazy to read a long article that is copied and pasted so often skip over those. I will read an article from the original source, but for some reason they bug me when copied and pasted.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 14, 2023 23:43:46 GMT
It bugs me that the right is making him out to be a hero. Wtf I understand wanting to minimize what TFG did with documents but still.
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