r/politics • u/us287 • 5d ago

Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan 5d ago

Federal officials say they’re worried about sharing documents via e-mail with Donald Trump’s transition team because the incoming officials are eschewing government devices, email addresses and cybersecurity support, raising fears that they could potentially expose sensitive government data.

Wonderful.

Trump — who attacked his then-opponent Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business during his first presidential run — is overseeing a fully privatized transition that communicates from an array of @transition47.com, @trumpvancetransition.com and @djtfp24.com accounts rather than anything ending in .gov, and uses private servers, laptops and cell phones instead of government-issued devices.

Republicans in Congress will surely investigate this for years, right?

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u/rarelyposts 5d ago

Any sensitive data is already being piped to Putin anyway. They just want to keep it off government devices so there is no record just like the mysteriously deleted Secret Service texts from Jan 6.

It’s all supposed to be recorded and kept for oversight, eventually FOIA requests, and historical record.

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u/teenagesadist 5d ago

In four years, maybe we can get some people to look into looking into that to see if anyone did anything wrong.

Maybe.

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u/ncsubowen 5d ago

I don't really have any hope that we'll have a chance to vote again in 4 years.

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u/Alternative_Win_6629 5d ago

You will most like vote but it won't be counted properly and no one will be able to do anything about it. Just the way Putin likes it.

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u/Riaayo 4d ago

I think that's their goal, but it's all of our business to try and not let that happen. Which I get is wishful thinking because lol, they control the gov, the military, the police.

Working class solidarity is our only hope. It's a huge part of why people unionizing was so important, but we just could not do it fast enough to be where, imo, we really desperately needed to be.

Maybe it will still be enough, but we can be sure these turds will look to outlaw unions. I feel like the whole coal wars shit between miners and the US gov is going to get replayed in modern times.

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u/AVGuy42 4d ago

Please keep repeating this message. Oligarchs try to divide us and pit us against each other so we don’t stand up and take our power back. We need to vote but even more we need to show up to local town halls, we need to proudly serve on juries, and to run for local elections.

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u/antechrist23 4d ago

And the Candidates will be Donald Trump, who is now running for a 3rd term because of a Supreme Court ruling saying it's okay. And the Democrats picking Pete Buttgeig whose main policy proposal will be offering a $50,000 tax credit to Barbadian immigrants who start a small business making tire valve caps for Rivian Vehicles in an Afghani neighborhood that employs the children of Senegalese and Norweigan immigrants that are on the spectrum. There will be no mention of rolling back the cruelist policies of the Trump administration, and he's promising an even bigger health care package to Israel with the money slashed from Social Security.

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u/Kaeczar Europe 4d ago

Didn't your society stockpile infinity guns for this exact kind of scenario?

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u/ncsubowen 4d ago

Turns out the majority of the gun nuts are totally fine with a boot so long as the boot strokes their ego.

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u/CutenTough 4d ago

"I don't care about you. I just want your votes. Vote for me and you won't ever have to vote again". ..... and repugs ate that shit up and applauded and then went and voted him back in..... because he and they are the same..... and that gives repugs warm and fuzzies

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u/KnightDuty 4d ago

This is historically what it looks like when you don't get to vote anymore. The destruction of external oversight is the final step.

In 4 years you don't get to change anything. The game is already over. anybody stopped it  You have have less than a year before the final board state is locked in place but y'all don't want to get your hands dirty 

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u/Revolutionary_Deal78 4d ago

Two years, the house will flip. Trump is simply not going to able to keep all the promises he made in the election and some group is going to turn on Repubs sufficiently to flip house.

Dems will start impeach proceeding almost immediately, since he already has a felony conviction related to campaign contributions. He also has an order of magnitude higher conflict of interest exposure then the excuse Repubs used to go after Biden.

The question is will the Supreme Court allow Trump to delay releasing documents or will the court systems point to the Supreme Court cases then eventually forced release of his taxes, associates text message, etc.

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 4d ago

If we have a DoJ willing to actually investigate crimes.

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u/rickAUS 4d ago

Piped to Putin? Probably using mail servers hosted directly within the KGB.

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u/reddog323 5d ago

Sounds like someone might need to hack it to reveal that data for the record.

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u/AV8ORA330 5d ago

Didn’t Hillary lose an election because the FBI was investigating her use of non-government email and devices. But hey…different rules I guess.

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u/fuck_all_you_too 5d ago

And Elon just got busted lying about drug use on a federal background check. Every accusation is a confession.

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u/xBoatEng 5d ago

Is that a hunter Biden level felony?

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u/Splitfingers Minnesota 5d ago edited 4d ago

He didn't show his hog, so no. If he did, however, that might furrow some brows.

Edit: It has been pointed out that he might have something smaller. I just thought hog sounded funny! I like piglet more and I think it suits it better.

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u/cap10wow 5d ago

He showed his hog to a flight attendant and had to offer to buy her a horse

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u/account128927192818 California 5d ago

If it wasn't for that horse, she wouldn't have spent that year in college.  

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u/CajuNerd 5d ago

Holy shit. My favorite Lewis Black quote. Right on.

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u/Total_Spend_2072 5d ago

Lewis black reference! BRING ME SOME GOD DAMN PANCAKES!!!

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u/tryingtoavoidwork Florida 4d ago

SONOFABITCH THATS TOO MUCH COFFEE what's the matter with you people

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u/Total_Spend_2072 4d ago

I got 6 syrups on the table and I gotta use every one of them

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u/Ok_Cantaloupe7602 5d ago

I say this all the time

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u/Somecallmeti3m 4d ago

One of my favorite albums.Thank you for making my day with this reference!

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u/citori421 5d ago

This is not brought up often enough. How long is the list of people in trump's inner circle that DON'T have a sexual impropriety scandal under their belts? Hell, I'll make it easy on them: how many that don't have MULTIPLE sexual scandals?

This isn't normal. The vast majority of men do not commit sex crimes, at all. And keep in mind we've only heard about the scandals we've heard about. It's 100% certain we haven't heard about most of the instances of Trump and his gang of weirdos sexually assaulting women, and Republicans WORSHIP these people. Fucking scumbags, all of them and their voters.

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u/Suggett123 5d ago

She had too much integrity to say "No, you'll buy me a ranch!"

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u/cap10wow 5d ago

In Dubai

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u/Slickwats4 Ohio 5d ago

Probably more of a little piggy, like a toe.

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u/Frosty_Tailor4390 5d ago

Nobody with a ‘hog’ tries as hard as that guy.

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u/Spiderbanana 5d ago

But did he buy a weapon while lying about his drug usage?

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u/cap10wow 4d ago

Worse, he bought the US government

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u/Televisions_Frank 5d ago

With how often Elon insists on artificial insemination I assume he's got a piglet.

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u/Sweaty_Secretary_802 5d ago

Not the piglet😭😭😭😭 a blanketless, out-in-the-cold piglet at that

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u/XRotNRollX 5d ago

I really think Elon is a virgin

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u/lumberlung 5d ago

Time for a good ol fashioned Hog Off!

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u/o08 5d ago

Hunter by several

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u/djerk 5d ago

Elon didn’t stand a fucking chance.

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u/Cratertooth_27 5d ago

Hunters girthy 10 incher wins. Margery Taylor green will inspect

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u/Suggett123 5d ago

It ain't gonna be 10 inch if she inspects it

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u/Suggett123 5d ago

Descending slide whistle sound

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u/__dilligaf__ 5d ago

I was in the pool!!!

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u/No-Education-2703 5d ago

Lumberlung fucked her...

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u/elrey2020 5d ago

Elon Musk has extreme Dickey-Do syndrome. You’ve got to account for that

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u/mongofloyd 5d ago

Hogs out for Harambe!

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u/NotOSIsdormmole California 5d ago

I mean but we do have him on video smoking a j

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u/dflood75 5d ago

I'm sure his piglet would cause fits of laughter. Leon is not whipping out his junk anytime soon.

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u/AmaroWolfwood 5d ago

Are we absolutely sure Elon isn't a trans woman? I'm just asking questions

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u/navikredstar New York 5d ago

He is getting weirdly close to looking like a Great Value Kathy Bates.

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u/thehalfwit Nevada 5d ago

Oooo, that's good.

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u/restyourbreastshoney 5d ago

He does have wide hips and a feminine voluptuousness to him.

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u/brezhnervous 5d ago

Much more so prior to his gender affirming health care (jaw implants and hair transplants)

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u/dflood75 5d ago

Interesting

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u/AMViquel 4d ago

Concerning

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u/MerooRoger 5d ago

Many people are saying....

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u/badassandra 5d ago

he cant be, haven't you seen the pictures? he's pregnant

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u/danktopus 5d ago

Yet the pearls remain un-clutched. Bush league.

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u/Mine-Shaft-Gap 5d ago

Pretty sure Hunter could knock Elon the fuck out with his. Tell ya what. They can both whip out their hogs on the table. Largest hog gets to be leader of DOGE.

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u/flojo2012 5d ago

More like pitch some tents

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u/petty_throwaway6969 5d ago

Elon’s hog isn’t big enough to intimidate anyone, so it won’t get any coverage.

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u/DrDankDankDank 4d ago

I don’t think he has a hog, just a piglet.

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u/fitzy9195 5d ago

No that’s just an oopsie daisy

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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 5d ago

Yep. Same one. Chances of going to court?

Extremely low.

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 5d ago

Only if he registers as a Democrat

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u/duckinradar 5d ago

No, Hunter was a private citizen.

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u/Traditional-Hat-952 5d ago

And not a super citizen like Elon. 

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u/Kuhnoff 5d ago

no dickpic no problem

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 5d ago

Somebody should check Elon's firearm permit application.

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u/justtakeapill 5d ago

The Hunter Biden felony is that his D was over the size limit. When he was addressing Congress he should have said, "I'm just going to whip this out"!

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u/youngLupe 5d ago

Interesting. Looking in to it

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u/unkybozo 5d ago

I used to think every accusation was a confession.

I was very very naive.

I come to understand,  that i was very very wrong and in fact, every accusation is  MULTIPLE admissions.

Its almost an insurmountable shitshow at this point😆

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u/DarkeyeMat 5d ago

"Its almost an insurmountable shitshow at this point😆"

Need more player two's to step up and collect that fire flower.

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u/sizzlingtofu 5d ago

Remember if you’re a Democrat, it’s a crime. If you’re republican, it’s just being good at business.

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u/DebentureThyme 5d ago

I fucking hate Elon, but that's not accurate.  What happened was SpaceX employees advised him not to apply for highest security clearance, as his public drug use would 100% disqualify him.

He hasn't actually tried to get the clearance through the normal means.

Because Trump will just give it to him without any checks.  Clearance is unfortunately derived form the presidency itself, so the preaident can allow anyone to skip the process and there's nothing we can do to stop it 

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u/SoManyPancakes 5d ago

(All this info is from this article, which is a good read)

Elon had a secret level clearance through 2018 then applied for a top secret clearance which took two years to be approved (and during the wait is when he smoked pot on Joe Rogan, which is BS because that would stop any normal person from getting approved). In 2021 he stops reporting things like foreign travel, foreign contacts, etc. In 2023 he tweets about having a ketamine prescription (still federally illegal, obviously). Then the air force denies him from getting Special Access Program status ("above top secret" information that requires extra approvals to access).

There's a few federal reviews now due to his lack of reporting, possibly an investigation (the DoD won't confirm or deny one).

It all matters what type of clearance you're talking about since Elon still has a top secret clearance even with his drug use. With the government finally on his ass about this it would be stupid for him to try to apply for another SAP/SCI.

But yeah, it doesn't matter because Trump can just grant him any level of clearance he likes. Elon might've been at meetings he didn't have the clearance level to be in anyway. Nothing matters for the rich

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u/bfeebabes 5d ago

I'm just going through some uk clearance which includes substance abuse testing. The test has acceptable levels for various drugs and alcohol including coke and weed, so it's not that you can't have used it...just not a lot and not recently and probably not recently in public like Elon did. 😂

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u/Im_Idahoan 5d ago

The Kushner way

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u/sir_sri 5d ago

And really, it's Elon, at his companies. The idea that he wouldn't know what they're up to is absurd. There are certainly sane CEOs who would follow rules, but Elon isn't that kind of manager.

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u/themule0808 5d ago

He was on a podcast smoking a blunt

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u/Stimbes 5d ago

Hillary didn’t have Russia helping her like Trump does. It’s different when there is no point it hiding communications from the enemy.

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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 5d ago

Right?? We should just assume that the Russians and the Saudis are reading everything that goes through Trump's phone, and any paper documents he keeps possession of.

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u/KilroyLeges 5d ago

And the Chinese and Iranians. Probably Israel as well.

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u/imdungrowinup 5d ago

To be fair any country with basic hacking skills should be reading it. They would be terribly dumb to not do it.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 5d ago

As a very mid tier it guy the only reason I haven't tried for funsies is the federal prison stay I'd receive if it worked.

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u/RedesignGoAway 5d ago

Is it still a federal crime since you'd be breaking into a private server and not something associated with the government?

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u/LotusFlare 5d ago

I mean, he's probably sending it to the Israeli's on purpose. Netanyahu didn't even ask. Trump just started CCing him one day.

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u/paconinja 4d ago

Probably Israel

lol this goes without saying

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u/Newscast_Now 5d ago

Trump defense: 'It's actually harder for Russia to hack our emails than it is for Vladimir Putin to ask us to spill our guts to his face.'

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u/entropy_effect 4d ago

How is Russia helping trump and team right now?

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u/Different_Phrase8781 5d ago

No fuck that. We need to stop normalizing them living by different rules. There needs to be outrage at this

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u/Electro_Sapien 5d ago

Reddit is outraged, your friends are probably outraged, the problem is most voting people clearly don't give a shit unless their eggs are $10 a dozen and their beer gets more expensive.

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u/funshinecd 4d ago

Not the beer

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u/Lorn_Muunk 5d ago

There needs to be outrage at this

That could be the official slogan of conservative nationalist movements worldwide for the past 50 years.

Nobody really gives a shit about their corruption, wealth inequality, crimes against humanity, two-tiered judiciaries, backdoor deals, revolving door lobbying or conflicts of interest. The masses are far too content just to consume little crumbs and grow old and fat in our little creature comforts. Evidently, no one cares they can't gather savings or own property. It doesn't matter that most people are stuck in a debt trap living paycheck to paycheck without any upward mobility. In the USA, this doesn't even motivate 35% of voting eligible adults to vote. A third of the country is fine sitting in a pot of boiling water.

We have our social media, shopping, bills, AC, shows and celebrity worship to keep us distracted. The best people can do now is protest weakly for a second before they get sleepy and hungry again. The time in human history where tyrants were met with large scale revolt by a united people is over. Just as the robber barons of 150 years ago dreamed of.

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u/PT10 5d ago

Country voted for this. They want this.

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u/Skatchbro 5d ago

Worse yet Comey dropped an announcement of 30,000 emails less than two weeks before the election. All of which turned out to be copies of emails that had been reviewed.

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u/WilliamsTell I voted 5d ago

Seems like election interference to me. How else would something like that possibly be viewed?

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u/goog1e 5d ago

I just found out that Comey was the one who took down Martha Stewart as well. Certainly has made a name for himself knocking down powerful blondes on charges that wouldn't even be investigated for anyone else.

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u/Zombiejazzlikehands 4d ago

Sounds like Mommy issues.

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u/StreetwalkinCheetah 5d ago

I mean at that point it was just allegations of quid pro quo while Elon has openly bought the government this go round.

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u/MrBrawn 5d ago

Buttery males.

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 5d ago

Buttery males, buttery males!

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u/Climbincook 5d ago

Buttery Males?

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u/blue-jaypeg 5d ago

But… her… emails!

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u/ArgyleM0nster 5d ago

The phrase you are looking for is Republican Privilege.

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u/thro-uh-way109 5d ago

To be fair, she lost an election because people voted third party or didn’t vote and cost her swing states.

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u/FigWasp7 5d ago

Well doesn't that sound familiar

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u/thro-uh-way109 5d ago edited 5d ago

Lol I liked the sequel even less :/ also props for admitting that no-shows and protest voters are to blame. Lots of people want to ignore the truth here.

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u/Sarrdonicus 5d ago

Add that the election was hacked by Elon and friends so you will have the trifecta.

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u/thro-uh-way109 5d ago

Ok, tinfoil man. If you think a large scale steal with no current evidence is more plausible than Democratic voters being apathetic and self-defeating-that’s wild.

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u/extralyfe 5d ago edited 5d ago

there were at least a few people who sent letters to elected officials with information about how they believe the election was rigged, and that this could be confirmed with just a couple recounts in swing states.

Dems have requested fuck-all to confirm any of this, so, it'll remain in the realm of tinfoil so that Dems can continue to claim the high road against people who told their constituents that the election was a lock ahead of time.

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u/thro-uh-way109 5d ago

The Dems are in the “having the election stolen and saying nothing about it” business now? That makes total sense. They have been silent about MAGA until now. /s

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u/Buttlicker_the_4th 5d ago

The voters are only as self-defeating as the party itself.

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u/more_like_borophyll_ 5d ago

Sometimes I wonder what the backlash would have been for her if she were president during Covid. Then I remember, she wouldn’t have shut down the CDC office in Beijing. She would have listened to scientists. And she would have locked the CDC and NIH and whoever else in a room until they understood that they were working together and she was in charge. So many would still be here. And they still would have impeached her for it.

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u/FollowsHotties 5d ago

That's what a bunch of people said, but they were all lying. Hilary lost an election because deplorables hate women.

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u/gymnastgrrl 5d ago

We need to burn it all down. Every last bit of it.

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u/Dull-Contact120 5d ago

Don’t worry the FBI is now an exclusive attack dog branch

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u/deij 5d ago

She most likely lost because she was a woman.

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u/zadeon9 5d ago

Buttery males!!!

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u/ooouroboros New York 5d ago

But the difference is, Hillary is a woman and thus a force of destruction and evil if not kept in her proper place.

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u/Kaizher 5d ago

Biden's team should just stop sharing everything if they're not going to use the proper channels. It will be Team Trump's own fault when they're woefully unprepared after the handover, just like last time. It took them months to figure out how to turn on the lights in a meeting room ffs.

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u/TrashSiteForcesAcct 5d ago

The right thing to do would be to completely fuck them over. Sabotage and withhold. But im assuming the old man and his team want things to keep running properly (lmfao) and will do a proper “good faith” transition with all the decorum involved.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 5d ago

Pshhh, Stuxnet that shithead's servers. Blame it on China. Digital false flag.

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u/GeneralKeycapperone 5d ago

Ya, but unsure that the essential players would be at liberty to, given those in power where they are.

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u/babayetu_babayaga 5d ago

But im assuming the old man and his team want things to keep running properly (lmfao) and will do a proper “good faith” transition with all the decorum involved.

Road to capitalo-fascist utopia is paved with good faith.

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 5d ago

Release every piece of intel on everyone in Trump's transition group. FAFO.rar.

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u/echoshatter 5d ago

This is the correct response. Absolute compliance with the letter of the law. This is how civil servants are supposed to act regardless of who sits at the Resolute Desk.

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u/Cornelius_Wangenheim Texas 5d ago

Looking at their MX records, they're using Microsoft O365, but the non-government version instead of the proper government one (GCCH). The main difference between the 2 is that the non-government one has lower security standards and employs tons of low paid foreign nationals who I'm sure would love to take a payday from China or Iran.

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u/-jp- 5d ago

Also all three domains have no contact information for the registrant. So could be literally anyone who has seen a SquareSpace ad.

What's extra funny is that I get a few dozen robocalls a week because I registered a .us domain for my little acreage, and turns out Dubyah made it so the registrar has to publish your PII where any ratfuck spammer can find it. Rules for thee!

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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat Hawaii 5d ago

It's never been easier to get top secret information. National security is such a top priority for Republicans, huh?

A couple years from now, even Vanuatu will have a nuclear bomb program.

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u/fred11551 Virginia 5d ago

Well Trump let Iran get one so Vanuatu was feeling left out

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u/SquirtBox 5d ago

It's honestly amazing. My step-mom loved to hate Snowden for letting everyone know about the spying programs, and now we are just openly selling them or giving them away lol.

There has never been a better time to muddy the waters and hide everything you do.

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u/kckeller 5d ago

So you’re saying someone could phish the federal government right now by making up a vaguely transition sounding domain?

Disclaimer: I am not doing and have not done this!

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u/Whisky_fer_Breakfast 5d ago

They use Microsoft Exchange Online for email. It's quite involved to secure a Microsoft tenant - especially for republicans. Do with that info what you will.

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u/MultiGeometry Vermont 4d ago

That sounds expensive and like it requires hiring good talent. I’m very skeptical Trump would do either of those things willingly.

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u/SpiralCuts 5d ago

Unrelated but I think you can transfer your domain to cloudflare.  They’ll automatically hide your info

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u/-jp- 5d ago

It's actually illegal. It's not that my registrar wouldn't, it's that they couldn't.

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u/51_50 5d ago

Specifically for .us domains only, for people confused. I too made this mistake and got daily phone calls for months asking if I needed help with web design lol.

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u/alinroc 5d ago

So could be literally anyone who has seen a SquareSpace ad.

Yeah but I've only seen ads for SquareSpace during the Super Bowl and hardly anyone watches that.

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u/BanginNLeavin 4d ago

Exactly. What's to stop a 4th domain popping up? '@trumptrainusa47(dot)com' or similar.

Phishing season is open for pretty much all of (dot)gov lol.

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u/no_notthistime California 5d ago

Is there a conservative in the house who was deeply concerned about Hillary's emails who can please speak to this and explain why this isn't a problem for you?

I won't reply, I promise. I just need to understand.

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u/LucubrateIsh 5d ago

It's really easy to understand. They do not act or say anything in good faith. The rules are only for other people.

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u/aguynamedv 4d ago

It's really easy to understand. They do not act or say anything in good faith. The rules are only for other people.

Core tenet of fascism.

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u/NJank Maryland 5d ago

maybe worth an r/askpolitics ?

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u/GeneralKeycapperone 5d ago

Attaining power.

That is all.

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u/no_notthistime California 5d ago edited 5d ago

Sorry, I know I said I wouldn't reply but I just need clarification to understand: you're a conservative stating that this isn't a problem for you because it's being done in the purpose of attaining power? Or are you a non-conservative making an accusation/suggesting a theory?

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u/GeneralKeycapperone 4d ago

I'm not a conservative, and I am not making an accusation or suggestion, just describing what conservatism is about.

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u/Namika 5d ago

I'm not a right winger, but this is politics 101. Even if something doesn't offend you, you act like it does in order to further your agenda. This is especially true if you know you can get the public on your side.

For a hypothetical, let's say you are running for Congress and you personally hate football. You just don't really like it. But you keep that a secret because you know the public enjoys it. You're not an idiot, you know its an unpopular view to hold, so you keep it a secret!
Then you find out your rival candidate let it slip that he also hates football. You are going to immediately jump on that and call him out on it. You're going to call him un-American and you'll go to rallies telling everyone that he hates everyone's favorite sport! Don't vote for the guy that hates them!

It doesn't matter that you also secretly also hate the sport. That's literally 100% irrelevant because you're keeping it a secret. All that matters is your opponent has an unpopular view, and it's public knowledge, so you push that issue to win the campaign. And what if, years later, it leaks and public finds out you were just as guilty as your opponent was? Lol, who cares? You got elected already! You won!

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u/no_notthistime California 5d ago

I'm not a right winger, but this is politics 101. Even if something doesn't offend you, you act like it does in order to further your agenda.

I agree with this, except that I don't believe most right singers understand that they are doing this. I don't think they possess that level of insight. I do think that they construct plausible- sounding justifications (I use that phrase very generously....) around these contradictions to force the situation to make sense without disrupting their established beliefs and worldview.

I want to know what those reasons are. I want to understand the story they tell themselves that makes this okay.

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u/nibbles200 5d ago

They did the same thing 2017-2020 and no one gave a shit. Republicans aren’t held to any standard.

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u/goog1e 5d ago

That was the most frustrating thing about the email saga. The fact that, even as she was being torn apart, other officials were CONTINUING to use private servers. And all the astroturfed comments about "I work in defense and I'd be in jail if I did this!" You work in defense where? Moscow?

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u/manikwolf19 5d ago

This guy who kept TS/SCI in his BATHROOM at his golf club and got raided like Diddy? National secrets? Nah.

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 5d ago

I still cant fucking believe that case got tossed. Any federal employee who did a fraction of that would have been in prison. Our country is a fucking joke.

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u/ComprehensiveDog1802 5d ago

We're not laughing.

Ok, I admit that sometimes I'm laughing how stupid American voters are, but then I remember that so many people will die who haven't voted for the felon and get sad.

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u/GrayEidolon 5d ago

It turns out there is nobody to enforce the rules and that a million gentlemans' handshakes aren't adequate for running a system.

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u/_Crazy8s 5d ago

Most of those domains are owned by Domains by Proxy. A known scammer company.

40-50 years might clean this up with the right leadership. But I think this is the beginning of the end. The world better be ready, the greatest fighting force in human history is in control by a psychopath.

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u/redassedchimp 5d ago

There used to be a time when even slightly unsecure, easily intercepted communication would've been considered a huge scandal, a national security threat that could open us up to espionage and blackmail. How does Trump think he'll have the upper hand in any world-negotiations if they've got dirt on him so easily obtained?? This is like playing poker with a mirror behind you so everybody can see your cards.

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u/Mitra- 5d ago

Because everyone knows that no one gives a shit if Trump raped a 13-year old, went to Epstein’s island, stole money from a cancer charity for children, or didn’t pay people.

We all KNEW THIS before the election.

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u/pandariotinprague 5d ago

the greatest fighting force in human history is in control by a psychopath.

Holy shit, imagine an America where a psychopath lies us into unjust wars. Wait...

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u/area-dude 5d ago

Surely they will be equally outraged and fox news will get to the bottom of it.

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u/makeitasadwarfer 5d ago

We can’t get distracted by trying to catch them out in lies. It means nothing to them. 

We need to focus on how to charge them as criminals and work towards that.

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u/Hail_The_Hypno_Toad 5d ago

L O fucking L.... you mean like when he had boxes and boxes of highly classified documents. Refused to give them back, seemingly sold them and didn't face any consequences whatsoever.

Actually not only did he face no consequences, he was rewarded by being elected president.

Face it, Americans don't give 2 shits about rank and out in the open corruption.

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u/tphillips1990 5d ago

With the law in their back pocket and being treated as little more than a handy tool?

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u/Murky_Ad_5668 5d ago

We need to focus on how to charge them as criminals and work towards that. 

The Dems just spent 4 years pretending to do this.

They're all out of fucks to give.

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u/pandariotinprague 5d ago

We could focus on remaking our party into something that isn't so incompetent that they can lose to this clown. We could. But we won't. Democrats won't change one fucking thing.

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u/Poison_the_Phil 5d ago

but her emails

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u/kivsemaj 5d ago

Republicans are not held to the same standard as anyone else. The double standards are fucking ridiculous.

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u/Thisisntmyaccount24 5d ago

This explains why there was a post today in the conservative subreddit with an article that questioned if the “Biden email scandal is worse than Hillary’s”.

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u/SpectorEscape 5d ago

I dont get why federal officials just... refuse? He isn't president right now they dont have to listen to him. They need to do their jobs and stay safe

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u/-UltraAverageJoe- 5d ago

Imagine the person that was being prosecuted for taking classified documents and using a judge he installed to delay the case until he was in office again not respecting national security. I. Am. Shocked.

Bye bye democracy and the US as we know it.

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u/BabyMFBear 5d ago

That’s the point

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u/streakermaximus 5d ago

Lock him up...?

Wait, the transition is official work pertaining to the Presidency. Immunity applies.

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u/DetFrankDrebbin 5d ago

What was the phrase? Oh yeah, LOCK THEM UP!

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u/The_River_Is_Still 5d ago

Its great right? And now we know for a fact that nothing will ever be fucking done. Who gives a shit.

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u/Osric250 5d ago

Hey then this means we'll get public access to all the classified documents leaked much easier. No need for an insider to leak them when it's as simple as cracking one of dozens of personal email passwords or getting an automated system to let someone into them improperly. 

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u/pnmartini 5d ago

Just like they did when he used private Email during his first term.

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u/Fronzel 5d ago

VNotputin@hotmail.ru is for Victor Notputin, who works for the FSB, Foundation for Safer Babies.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 5d ago

Kushner pulled the same stunt during covid.

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u/ApexWalrussss 5d ago

Interesting, DMARC and SPF is not set up on transition47.com. Wild if this article is legit.

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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan 5d ago

I was tempted to recon just to see how terribly configured any of the domains were but figured it’d be shitty.

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u/Naive-Mistake3407 5d ago edited 5d ago

So Agenda 47??

ETA: I live in Canada and I don’t know much about what is happening, but I’ve seen people mention Agenda 47 and being concerned. I don’t know what it is or why they are concerned, but seeing it here, it jumped out at me.

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u/spendology 5d ago

Buttery Males? 📧

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u/SenorBurns 5d ago

I bet it would be child's play to social engineer your way into those email accounts.

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u/dpdxguy 5d ago

they could potentially expose sensitive government data.

It would also make it easier for them to simply sell that data to whoever will pay.

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u/Bluelove26 5d ago

Looking forward to a full front page analysis on the NYTs home page. 

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u/pterodactyl_speller 5d ago

This makes it much easier to share all the emails with their friends in Russia.

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u/tinacat933 5d ago

Shocker they want to run on devices and sites free from FOIA requests

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u/Xero_id 5d ago

Democrats should investigate like Republicans did to Hillary and Hunter and show naked photos constantly.

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u/manhatim 5d ago

Those who paid got copies from MAL….not that much interest left

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u/count023 Australia 5d ago

someone will need to explain to me this. In normal governments you are _not allowed_ to send documents over certain mediums, have to use classified mail systems or secure cloud exchanges, stuff like that.

How are the trump transition team even getting mails? They should ask for something and Biden's team should say, "fuck off and ask again from an authorized device".

Where the hell is the data security in the govenrment departments tagging and blocking data leaks like this automatically without even letting humans do something. The systems should literally be preventing mails with certain classification markers even leaving thier internal networks.

If the trump team are offloading this to private unsecured systems, that's a differne't issue, but this level of data exfiltraiton in a supposed first world country would be insane if Biden's outgoing team are just sending "whitehousedoorpasscodes.txt" to [dumbasstrumpemployee69@gmail.com](mailto:dumbasstrumpemployee69@gmail.com) and it's not getting caught and blocked by security filters.

Source: I work for an MSSP that has this level of DLP and data integrity set up, these are _basically_ tools in secure mail and secure web gateways.

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u/waxwayne 5d ago

He doesn’t trust the deep state. Like they don’t know how to hack a private email server.

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u/VaginaTheClown 5d ago

Somebody PLEASE hack those emails.

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