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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, according to three people familiar with the matter.

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Reagan is rolling around in his grave now. WOWSERS

#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-28 06:10 PM | Reply

BOHICA

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-28 06:11 PM | Reply

@#2 ... BOHICA ...

List of military slang terms
en.wikipedia.org

...
BOHICA

BOHICA stands for Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there is not much else one can do other than just endure it.

The Log, the humour magazine written by and for Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, featured a series of comics entitled "The Bohica Brothers", dating back to the early 1970s.[citation needed]
...


[brackets commentary theirs, except for this one :) ]


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 06:20 PM | Reply

So, Sec Hegseth seems to be welcoming Russian hackers into our systems?

That makes an earlier question of mine more important ... is DOGE placing backdoors in Federal software to make the job of the Russian hackers easier?


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 06:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Krasnov Fats is a surrender dotard.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-28 07:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band (1971)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why
He said "You look like a fine upstanding young man
I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat, I said "Imagine that
Huh! Me workin' for you!"
Whoa-oh-oh

[Chorus]
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?

[Verse 2]
And the sign said anybody caught trespassing
Would be shot on sight
So I jumped on the fence and I yelled at the house
"Hey! What gives you the right?
To put up a fence to keep me out
Or to keep Mother Nature in

If God was here he'd tell you to your face
Man, you're some kinda sinner"

[Chorus]
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?

{In album version only}

[Bridge]
Now, hey you, mister, can't you read?
You've got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can't even watch, no, you can't eat
You ain't supposed to be here
The sign said you got to have a membership card to get inside
Ugh!
...




#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 08:14 PM | Reply

What...the...hell!...is going on up there??

#7 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-02-28 08:28 PM | Reply

@#7 ... What...the...hell!...is going on up there?? ...

Simple, imho ...

Pres Putin is taking control of the United States, with Pres Trump's apparent acquiescence to that.


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-28 08:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Trumpf is dismantling US national security and Bibi is not going to like this at all: www.cfr.org

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-01 02:58 AM | Reply

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5b/9b/3f/5b9b3fbdda863b4033b9c21e58943157.jpg
The post-war trial of Vidkun Quisling. Look at the Norwegian MP on the left eyeball the traitor. Quisling would be executed later that year in Oct 1945.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-01 03:05 AM | Reply

'Putin is on the inside now': Trump team doesn't consider Russia a cybersecurity threat

www.alternet.org

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-01 09:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

'Putin is on the inside now': Trump team doesn't consider Russia a cybersecurity threat
www.alternet.org
#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Here's a link to The Guardian article:

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: Putin is on the inside now'

www.theguardian.com

#12 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-01 10:26 AM | Reply

Always knew the MAGA s^%*bag "patriots" would be the death of this country.

If only they would listen to those of us informing them how abysmally stupid they are and how everyone would benefit immensely if they'd STFU and let their betters handle things.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-01 01:30 PM | Reply

This should make FishPawn and Boaz and the rest of the Russian loving morons extremely proud.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-01 01:40 PM | Reply

#10

I do a lot of work with the Norwegians. A few months ago they hosted us at a party in Akershus fortress that serves as a bar for some of the units that trace their lineage back to Gunnar Snsteby and the Norwegian resistance in WWII. The area the bar is in was once a Gestapo interrogation center and it has a bunch of cells where prisoners were held before being take out and shot. It was also the last place Quisling was held before he was executed.

It was pretty cool.

#15 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-03-02 02:44 AM | Reply

The Trump administration is loaded with traitors, with Trump himself being the traitor in chief. Anyone who doesn't see it is delusional or is OK with treason. It's probably already too late to save the country from disastrous consequences.

#16 | Posted by cbob at 2025-03-02 08:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#15 | Posted by madbomber

I failed to congratulate you for making Lt. Colonel.

Nice going.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-02 08:46 AM | Reply

Here's another thread MAGAts are actively avoiding.

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-02 11:09 AM | Reply

Imagine not thinking this is treason.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-02 11:15 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"I failed to congratulate you for making Lt. Colonel. Nice going."

That you. It was a long time ago. I retired in the summer of 2023.

#20 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-03-02 11:20 AM | Reply

Is the thread about stopping offensive digital actions against russia, or is it about replacing insubordinate military personnel who were planning to work against their commander-in-chief?

#21 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-03-02 11:47 AM | Reply

It's your child-raping hero surrendering to Moscow.

#22 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-02 11:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

It is presumed that when Trump visited Moscow in 1987 he was presented with something so compelling he is aligned with Russian intelligence.

"President" Trump; Russian "asset".

#23 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-02 03:23 PM | Reply

Helping the enemy used to be called treason. Now it's just called being a repug.

#24 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-02 03:23 PM | Reply

It appears that the U.S. no longer considers Russia a significant cyber threat, according to multiple new reports on a drastic policy reversal that has taken hold under the new Trump administration."

"The policy shift represents a complete 180-degree turn from America's posture over the past decade, which has consistently considered Russia one of the top cybersecurity threats. Credible reporting and government investigations have shown that Russia has hacked into U.S. systems countless times."


gizmodo.com

Trump has shown on numerous occasions he likes to leave his back door wide open for Putin.

#25 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-02 04:49 PM | Reply

Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.

You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall -- you need me on that wall.

We use words like "honor," "code," "loyalty." We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.

I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think you're entitled to!


Actually, nevermind. None of that is true. We were lying this whole time.
Signed,
Republicans

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-02 04:54 PM | Reply

@#25 ... Trump has shown on numerous occasions he likes to leave his back door wide open for Putin. ...

Which makes me ask ...

What computer-system backdoors are the DOGE kids installing (and leaving behind) in the Federal computer systems, and for the benefit of what entities?


#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 05:55 PM | Reply

Moon Taxi - Two High (2017)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
When you feel the world around you
Spinnin' out of control
You can find someone around you
To bring you out of the cold
But you don't ever have to hide
What you really feel inside

[Chorus]
So put 'em up
Two high
We can walk together with our hands up in the sky

So put 'em up
Tonight
We can come together
We won't give up on the fight

[Verse 2]
Sometimes it's hard to tell
What we're really living for
Hear the voices calling out from the streets
Singin' get ready
Get ready for more
Singin' get ready
Get ready for more now
...


#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 06:00 PM | Reply

Holy ----. That is all I can say.

#29 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-03-02 09:05 PM | Reply

@#29 ... That is all I can say. ...

About what?

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-02 09:21 PM | Reply

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