ChiGoose

Wonder if we’re gonna see some more money pouring into NC

Once I saw Doctorow’s theory of enshittification, I couldn’t unsee it. It’s truly everywhere

This is the perfect clickservative post. 10/10. No notes.

Big get

Very cool that a gullible and deranged man is a coin flip from being president

If a Harris campaign member was bragging that Iran had a bunch of hacked Trump campaign materials and was going to provide them to the Harris campaign to help them, the FBI opening an investigation would obviously be a hoax designed to hurt the Harris campaign, right?

Question for the MAGAs / Trump curious / Anti-Dems on the board: If someone claiming to be a representative of the Iranian government reached out to the Harris campaign, telling them that they wanted to meet because they had dirt on Trump, and the Harris campaign responded with “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer” and then had a meeting, you’d all be perfectly cool and chill with it, right?

We’re not dealing with the brightest bulbs here

We received internal Trump documents from “Robert”. The campaign just confirmed it was hacked. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some of its internal communications had been hacked. The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation. The campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report on Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the campaign targeted by the email and declined to comment Saturday. POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation, and a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, declined to say if they had further information substantiating the campaigns’ suggestion that it was targeted by Iran. “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Cheung said. “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.” Cheung declined to say whether the campaign had been in contact with Microsoft or law enforcement about the breach, saying it would not discuss such conversations. On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official. A research dossier the campaign had apparently done on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, which was dated Feb. 23, was included in the documents. The documents are authentic, according to two people familiar with them and granted anonymity to describe internal communications. One of the people described the dossier as a preliminary version of Vance’s vetting file. The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” The person also sent part of a research document about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also a finalist for the vice presidential nomination. The person said they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.” Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.” The scope of the information obtained by the hacker is unclear. But it represents a major security breach for Trump’s campaign. Last month, reports emerged of the U.S. intelligence community receiving increasing evidence suggesting Iran was working on plots to kill Trump in retaliation for his decision to order the assassination of Iranian military officer Qassem Soleimani in 2020. There is no indication that the shooter who targeted Trump at a rally last month was connected to the plot. In his statement Saturday, Cheung pointed to those reports, saying, “The Iranians know that President Trump will stop their reign of terror just like he did in his first four years in the White House.” Iranian government officials could not immediately be reached for comment. In 2016, top Democratic Party officials were hacked ahead of the presidential election. The breach resulted in the leak of embarrassing emails documenting the inner workings of the party and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign. National security officials later blamed Russia for orchestrating the hacking effort. Many of those emails were later disseminated to WikiLeaks, a website that publishes leaked documents, and were published in the run-up to Election Day with an eye toward embarrassing Clinton’s political operation. In 2017, the Justice Department launched an investigation into Russian interference in the election and what role Trump associates played in the hacking effort. Special counsel Robert Mueller ultimately found no evidence that Trump or his campaign conspired with the Russians.

Yikes! Go touch some grass buddy, the internet is rotting your brain.

Let me know when the Democratic Party organizes a multi-state campaign of fake electors, pressures election officials to commit crimes, and whips up thousands of people to attack the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election

You seem to be confused. It was the Republicans who didn’t accept an election result, tried to overturn it, and attacked the Capitol. Will they accept the results if Harris wins?

Starting to wonder if their advance staff hates them.

Extracting eggs for IVF is a tough process with lots of shots and medication. To maximize the chance of a successful pregnancy, you’re given meds to produce more than one egg during a menstrual cycle. My wife used to have a printed spreadsheet just to track all of the meds she needed. The eggs that are produced are combined with the partner’s ***** (dudes seriously have the easiest job in this process), frozen and stored until ready for transfer. Transfer is not always successful, so in the event that the embryo does not attach, there are hopefully other embryos ready for implant without needing another round of egg harvesting. That’s why they use the meds to create extra eggs. To accommodate for the potential of embryos not implanting, it is not uncommon for multiple embryos to be used in the transfer. If multiple embryos successfully attach, it can lead to a scenario where they endanger each other and the removal of one would ensure the safety of the other. This is an unfortunate reality of the IVF process. If the transfer is successful and leads to a healthy pregnancy and birth, there may still be embryos in storage. The couple can pay to keep them for a while in case they want more kids. Or they can donate them to science or have them destroyed. But ultimately, the successful process of IVF routinely results in embryos that will not be implanted. For those who believe that life begins at conception, this is a problem. They appear to believe that the life of the embryos we still have in storage is equal to the life of my son. I vehemently disagree. If embryos cannot be destroyed or used for science, then it’s hard to see how IVF would actually work.

Are you ok?

I imagine anyone who has had to go through IVF can relate to this