Don’t know what’s going on in the UK, But it’s got to stop!

Uk police commissioner.png.The Washington Post reports that the UK government is demanding Apple provide them backdoor access to users encrypted iCloud data.

This is nothing particularly new for government. The FBI has been famously turned down by Apple when it came to their demands for decrypting lock codes of alleged criminals iPhones.

What is disturbing is that the UK is making this demand under cover of its “Investigatory Powers Act“. This sneaky, slimy, law makes it a criminal offense for the company under demand to say anything about being under notice, demand, or request.

0_MI5 MI6 headquarters London.So the UK government knows that they’re doing something shady, and they want to do it in complete darkness.

They do allow an appeal to a secret panel and judge. In other words the appeal process is just for show.

This demand for a back door doesn’t just apply to British citizens, the UK government wants the ability to spy, snoop, violate privacy, of anyone in the world who is using Apple iCloud.

Their justification is, as it always is with totalitarians, that they need this access to insure public safety and they can be trusted not to abuse this ability.

We can bet that they’re making, or have already made similar demands of all other encrypted cloud services. But we will never know if that’s true, and we can never know who complied, because of the double super secret provisions of “Investigatory Powers Act“.

So the continuous assault on Personal Privacy goes on. This is important because in the Apple ecosystem, iCloud is sort of a central piece. It’s so central to Apple device functionality that Apple gives everyone a little iCloud storage space when they buy their first iPhone. At that low level, it’s mostly about iPhone backups and settings.

Most people increase the amount of iCloud storage available because if you have several devices it’s convenient to have access to your all of your data from every device.

Chamber House of Commons Houses Parliament London.Do you want someone, without your permission, looking at your backup data? How about documents, text messages, photos, movies, or literally anything you’ve stored in the cloud? 

I don’t. I could live without iCloud. In fact I could live quite nicely with local storage and not have anything in the cloud. But that’s just me.

A lot of people can’t.

Most people, due to Apple’s marketing of User Privacy being one of Apple’s top concerns, have a reasonable expectation that their data will be encrypted and that no-one including Apple can access that data.

If Apple gives the UK backdoor access. Then privacy is gone. China will next be demanding their own access to user data, then it’ll be Interpol. All the while the US government will be quietly taking data dumps from “Five Eyes” member nations. Using that data to spy on its own citizens but being able to deny that they are. Our intelligence agencies will shrug their shoulders and say they can’t control what information is shared with them in a data dump from other intelligence agencies.

The UK government has become the ultimate representation of a “KAREN” and their surveillance and free speech, or rather, their definition of hate speech, policies are the biggest reasons that I have no desire to visit.

You know what? I’m good with that too. 

Even if Apple were to turn off encryption for all phones operating, or purchased in the UK, it still wouldn’t meet the requirements set forth in the “Investigatory Powers Act”.

I’m fine with the UK, UKing all over their own people. Their people apparently like this stuff.

I draw the line at them potentially expanding their bullshit beyond their little islands. I’m not impressed or interested in helping the UK assuage its feelings of inadequacy by invading my privacy. In fact, to the best of my knowledge I don’t have contact with any UK citizen or business. I believe that is true for at least the past 20 years. So why would they have any remote need to access my encrypted iCloud data?

The iCloud data they want backdoor access to may include heath data (from my watch), location data from all my devices, frequented location data, digital ID, private journal data, financial data, and via my contacts application, all my business associates and / or friends.

Notavlecase cover20 1400x775.But what they’re really interested in are my mean tweets, or off color Facebook posts, they want to know if I’m twerking on tictok, or have appeared in blackface on instagram. (After all I’m not Justin Trudeau)

Remember, authorities in the UK have repeatedly, and quite boldly, said they’ll come for Americans on American soil if we speak poorly of their muslim invaders, their shitty leaders, or their insane transsexual, transvestites, from Transylvania, on social media.

Like all “KARENS” the UK government seeks totalitarian control over everything and everyone. They want a Utopia. There’s only one catch. 

Utopia requires a mechanistic homogeneity of thought, and pesky humanity is renown for individuals that refuse to comply.

Which leaves totalitarian Utopias only one viable option. Their elites must be content to rule over a graveyard.

I personally think there can be no Utopia without it being a totalitarian state. But I’m nobody of interest.

I’m hoping that since this has been exposed and is appearing in news reports in main stream media that the idiot “KARENS” in the UK will back down. They probably will, for at least 9 months to a year.

When they think the average Joe isn’t paying attention they’ll issue another slimy “technical capability notice” and this time, they’ll make sure they gag anyone who might blow the whistle.

The UK is trying out the George Orwell path right now. They’ll move on to the mass graves anytime, and then finally will have the Utopia they’ve always wanted.

We’ll have to see what Apple does. I think perhaps it’s time to reconsider using any cloud storage media for anything.

Why make it easy for some bored fucker with nothing better to do, issue you tickets or screw your social credit score because you, at one time, 20 years ago said the “N” word, or called a bunch of Iraqis “Sand N****rs”.

I admit I think it would be interesting for the Metropolitan Police of London to show up at someone’s door here in the US to attempt to arrest them for a mean tweet.

I’m honestly not sure if that would result in body bags draped with the British flag, or that we’d find our law enforcement folks are willing to violate the US Constitution, specifically the First Amendment.

Given some of the videos of the Metropolitan Police asking nicely to enter someone’s home to arrest them of a violation of their morality and speech codes, and the potential arrestee hanging out the window saying “No! Bugger off, you gits!”

I think the Metropolitan Police would be quite shocked at the way Americans handle such things. 

British people are way more polite than we are.

Might be worth having some popcorn ready for that show.

He’s been right about a lot, wouldn’t be surprised if he’s right about this.

President Trump.Trump said he’s going to be weeding out illegal immigrants from the Social Security system.

Since then, X has been alive with people telling us very seriously that Illegals can’t get Social Security benefits. Then acting like Trump is dumb or crazy or whatever.

Hmmm. Really? So if one of these folks is using a stolen SSN to work, you think that somehow they’re not going to use that SSN to do other things? Apply for credit cards perhaps? Mortgage loans? Bank Accounts?

Really? Nobody is that naive.

The other half had his identity stolen on a couple of occasions. Once, it was just a couple of debit card numbers, but the other time it was his whole credit history. He wasn’t aware there was a problem until he tried to get a loan for an instrument, then he found out that there was someone else running around using his social security number.

How ever did this bad person get the other half’s SSN? Oh that was due either to a medical insurance company breach, or a doctor’s office closing. We later found out that all the medical records had simply been dumped in the dumpster out behind the office.

It didn’t matter. It cost us a lot of time and money to get everything sorted out. 

If someone has your SSN, name, and date of birth, they could possibly start collecting on Social Security too.

That’s called stealing you know. Not that any of the liberals care about little things like stealing, or crime in general.

Unless it disturbs them.

When drugs come to the rentals in their neighborhoods, or an HOA socialite is mugged for her earrings in a common area.

Then liberals who previously wanted to defund the fascist police, while being kind to the poor immigrants seeking a better life, will hire a mercenary goon squad to patrol and harass everyone walking through a neighborhood.

We know that a lot of those liberals manage to look the other way, & pay under the table dirt cheap wages to illegals too. Liberals don’t seem to understand that paying someone 10 cents an hour is essentially slavery. Say that out loud to a liberal and they’ll lose their shit.

I’ve long been annoyed that everything is tied to a SSN. Credit applications, Tax filing, Mortgages, Car Loans, Medical records, Insurance, and God knows what else. 

It wasn’t supposed to be that way.

Back at the dawn of time when I got my SS card, the accompanying paperwork said specifically that this number wasn’t to be used as ID.

Yet that’s exactly what it’s been used for. Lots of people forget that SSN is an account number, to your forced contributions to a retirement savings account, that doesn’t pay a particularly good interest rate.

At this point we might as well use the number as our phone number, drivers license, and car plate number. Everyone knows our account numbers.

I’d bet we’ve all received at least 10 notices of security breaches where our name, address, SSN, and phone number has been dumped out on the internet for sale.

I’ve been informed that my personal data was leaked by the Office of Personnel Management of the United States government. You know what they said? Too bad, so sad, perhaps you should invest in a credit counseling service.

At least corporations provided credit monitoring services for a few years!

Given all of this.

Is it that far a stretch to entertain that some number of illegal immigrants might be getting social security payments they’re not entitled to?

Illegal Immigrants, as Tom Homan said, are all criminals. He’s right, and I fell out of my chair when he said it directly to someone questioning him about deportations.

Until I heard him say it, I thought I was some kind of idiot that just didn’t understand the issue.

The moment a person crosses our border without permission, or overstays their Visa, they are, by definition, a criminal because they committed a criminal act. If they’re willing to start out committing a crime, what’s to stop them from stealing someone’s identity?

Liberals would justify even that, as okay (as long as it wasn’t their identity,) because the poor illegal is just trying to work and feed their family and they needed a SSN to work. Or retire.

Here’s something few people ever find out.

If you claim unemployment benefits, or assistance for medical costs, or disability payments, all of which are tired to your SSN. The state sends you a 1099 form. 

YES! Boys and Girls, you have to pay Federal taxes on that “Income” If you’re in a state with income tax, you get to pay them too.

So some illegal running around with your SSN can do a whole lot of damage, before they even begin to fuck you out of your tiny assed social security check.

All of this is to say, it’s very possible that some 87 year old grannie, or someone who’s contacting the Social Security office on Monday morning ready to retire, may find out they’ve got nothing because someone else got there before they did.

Trump saying that he’s ordering it to be looked into is a good thing. Even if they find nothing, at least the American People can have faith in the Social Security Administration. 

If an audit does find fraud, then booting the fraudsters out of the system means people who deserve the funds will likely get them, and perhaps Social Security will last a bit longer.

I question the Democrats screaming about Doge looking into Social Security.

We know over the years, both the Democrats and Republicans have raided SS funds. We the People assume that the money has been paid back. What if it hasn’t? Worse yet, would be finding that money is still being siphoned off for stupid projects like those at USAID.

I’ll tell you what. If all the retirees eating tuna, cutting their medications in half, and paying taxes on their SS income were to find out they’d been spending a billion a year for something like “Condoms for Convents”, or half a billion on “Feed a Jihadi for Jesus”…

The old folks (myself included) would tear down the Capitol and smash every stone to dust with their walkers & canes.

I envision exchanges like this between the Capitol police and the old folks;

“Yeah sonny, that’s a pretty badge, so what? I’m on my last legs here, I’ll be dead in 6 months from cancer. I can’t feel anything on my left side… This here is a kamikaze run for me! Tear gas? That’s all ya got? I’ve been smoking Lucky’s for 65 years! I could huff that canister & chase it with straight bourbon! So bring it, ya pussy!”

(Thanks to Grok for generating the image.)

FUCKING BIDEN!

The the words of David Lo-Pan from “Big Trouble in Little China” 

“NOW this shit really pisses me off!”

President (I shit myself again,) Biden a.k.a. sniffer in chief, apparently issued preemptive pardons for the J6 Committee, General “Treason is my second job” Miley and that scum bag rabid little weasel Anthony Fauci!

FUCK!!!!!

The article is here

I’d hoped that finally after 40 years I’d get to watch Fauci get what’s coming to him. As I’ve written elsewhere in these pages that little fuck is responsible for pain and suffering clearly enumerated by all the panels of the AIDS quilt. Then that little weasel fucked us all again with COVID and what is starting to look like illegal gain of function research.

Biden issues pardons 640x480.Biden is too dementia ridden to stand trial, but not too demential ridden to issue pardons for crimes that have not been proven to have occurred? 

President poopy pants, just gave a bunch of mother fuckers a get out of jail free card for shit they’ve not been tried for. The Biden administration has got to be the most corrupt illegal administration in the history of this country.

Good riddance to bad rubbish! 

This really may spell doom for the Democratic Party I wouldn’t shed a tear about that either. The party of the KKK and unbelievable corruption needs to be dispatched.

I hope that come midterms every American remembers that preemptive pardons are essentially admissions of guilt and votes accordingly.

On the threshold of World War III

Well, what a lovely Thanksgiving this is going to be.

It’s not that Thanksgiving itself is all that bad. I’ve been invited over to a neighbor’s house so that’s going to be nice, and means that I can drink and I don’t have to worry about driving. The worst that could happen is I’ll fall down in their driveway, then roll down the hill right into my driveway.

Unfortunately, we’re sitting on the verge of World War III. How is that going to play out in dinner conversation? It’s like having the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, we’re back to Cold War era dinner conversations.

At least in the Cold War, we knew we had mutually assured destruction, these days not so much.

President Biden.I am astounded that the Biden administration is poking the bear the way they are with the Vladimir Putin. At the moment he is the only one that appears to be sane. That’s saying something completely strange and I didn’t have this on my 2024 bingo card.

Putin, as I’ve said before has some legitimate issues.

1) Ukraine as a NATO member puts NATO on Putin’s front door step. We didn’t allow it when the old USSR put Nukes in Cuba. Why do we expect Putin to allow NATO to put Nukes in Ukraine?

2) Putin knows as long as he maintains a war footing with Ukraine he stands to gain a couple of things. Land, odds are good that he’ll be able to keep what he’s captured or at least some portion of it. There are people in Ukraine who are ethnically Russian and they apparently want to be part of the mother country. I could see an election being held that allows the Russian portions of Ukraine to decide for themselves where they send their taxes. 

3) The longer Putin keeps the war going, the longer Ukraine is not a NATO member. I’d bet that he’s just going to keep this mess going long enough to get Trump back into office, then he’ll negotiate with NATO & Trump some deal that keeps Ukraine out of NATO for the time being. I say this because Putin knows he can’t negotiate with the Biden administration. 

I believe Putin can’t negotiate with the Biden Administration for a couple of reasons. I suspect that a large portion of the Biden administration actually believes the throughly debunked, disproven, pack of lies about Trump / Russia collusion. You know the lies and rumors started by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

That nasty bitch telling lies and Adam Schiff & the media constantly repeating lies has, I believe damaged world peace.

The other reason is one that has been glossed over a lot. Joe Biden, through Hunter has ties and did favors for the Ukrainian oligarchies and Burisma. There is at least one of the business people who claims to have the receipts on money paid to Joe Biden for favors.

Then there’s evidence suggesting there were the biolabs in Ukraine that are reported to have done work for god knows who, in the United States, prior to COVID-19. These labs were a mechanism for Fauci et al, to get around the restrictions on gain of function research, and keep their hands clean.

It is not in Biden’s or his administration interest to stand down from this shitty little war they’ve been feeding because if loads of hard evidence show up, Biden is toast. 

I suspect that’s why Biden has authorized the use of the long range missiles, which require United States personnel to fire. Meaning, the US military is actually firing weapons into Russia.

You want to tell me again what a bad shit crazy & unreasonable man Putin is? He could have declared war on the US and the UK, but didn’t.

S960 Shadow Storm USE contract   MBDA UK Ltd 2016-960x640-1-960x570.Yeah, the UK for god knows what reason is allowing their StormShadow missiles to be fired into Russia too. The StormShadows, like our missiles require the assistance of HRH Charles III’s military.

Right now, we, the entire world, are skating on the razors edge with Western leaders apparently trying to piss Vladimir Putin off.

President Putin.Lest we forget, there are people in Putins government who have been sharpening their teeth since the 60s & 70s. They’re a lot more nationalistic and war mongery than Putin. I would imagine there are some very contentious meetings happening in The Kremlin every day. 

Yes, I understand that the Russians started this war, (in my opinion because of Ukraine beginning the NATO entry process). However, Western leaders have placed Putin in a very awkward position. That he’s keeping a lid on this bullshit is impressive.

I personally think that we should all send very polite messages to President Putin saying “Спасибо, сэр”(Thank You Sir.) Because after his demonstration of the hypersonic MIRV he put us all on notice. 

Some reports say that weapon exceeded the speed (Mach 10), President Putin said it operated at. To me that suggests that perhaps they didn’t open it up all the way. That would make sense because the distance between Russia and the target was relatively short.

Uhhhh, we can’t shoot down something moving at MACH 10. 

We really need to applaud and thank president Putin for showing restraint.

Instead idiots in the West, The Biden administration among them, went to a higher nuclear readiness level, which Russia has no choice but to answer with a higher level on their part. Do we see a pattern here?

This shit has got to stop! If it doesn’t, we’re going to have a misfire, then a horrific accident, then all out war. Nukes, tactical or otherwise are not an option. Yes, I’ve joked about stopping global warming by Nuking our enemies.

I never considered the possibility that someone would be reckless enough or foolish enough to push us to the brink of another war. Then along comes Biden… And NATO.

I really had high hopes that all the nukes would be dismantled and their fission cores used to fuel power plants bringing free energy to everyone. Why free? Because every citizen in nuclear capable countries has already paid for the R&D on nuclear weapons. They should see a peaceful return on their investment. Free electricity seems like a great start!

It doesn’t look like peace or any other good things are in the cards, near term. 

Thanksgiving it is, with conversations steered away from religion and politics.

Whooo Wheee! Pete Hegseth is in the target of the media. (Or I could title this; We don’t hate the media enough.)

The view cast season 26 239202356.Last week in one day “The View” got 4 legal notes. Throughout the week they’d been getting them once or twice a show, but they topped their week off getting 4 in a single day.

These legal notes are essentially on-air retractions for slander by the ladies of “The View” (or is it libel since “The View” is a kind of recorded media?)

Slander is orally saying something that damages a persons reputation or casts doubt upon their character. Libel is essentially the same thing only in print. I honestly don’t know how that works for televised media. It’s an interesting question though.

Sunny Hostin.

The View” is always funny because when they have to read legal notes, the ladies sound like they’re reading a political prisoner’s recitation of their crimes prior to being sent to the gulag.

The ladies called Hegseth a rapist, they called Matt Gaetz a pedophile and I believe on one occasion said he was a rapist. Then they had to apologize for it. That was fun.

Once Gaetz bowed out, the more generalized media targeted Hegseth. Wikipedia paints a terrible and slightly fictitious account of the sexual assault allegations against him from 2017.

Pete Hegseth by Gage Skidmore 3.

The media minimizes that he’s a veteran, holds a BA from Princeton, and a Masters Degree from Harvard. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was awarded 2 bronze stars, is an author, and also a television personality on FOX.

They like to boil all that down to he’s a newscaster who paid off a woman that accused him of rape.

So much for “nuanced” reporting.

The October 2017 police report (just released) the accuser filed makes for very interesting reading. He was drunk, she was not. She escorted him to his room, there are video surveillance tapes to prove that. There are witnesses who say he was very intoxicated.

This was in 2017 when he’d arguably been less than honorable regarding his second wife. He & his second wife were divorced in August of 2017. He’d had an affair with another woman, a child was born of that affair in August 2017. This alleged assault happened in October of 2017.

I’m speculating, but I see it like this. He was “newly single”, had a hell of a mess in his life, was at a hotel, then did what men do sometimes. He went to the hotel bar, had a few too many drowning his sorrows.

I’ve done it. I’d bet almost every man alive has drown their sorrows at least once in their life. We know getting drunk isn’t helping while we’re doing it. We also know that alcohol is likely to set us up for more trouble. But we just want to numb whatever pain we’re feeling for a little bit, so we have the bartender pour us another one…

The police report details a woman flirting with & leaving the bar with Hegseth. The woman in question was there with her husband and children, but she’d been downstairs with her female work friends in the bar & had been texting her husband about this hot man in the bar that all the girls were drooling over.

At 1:15 they leave the bar, at 1:30 a hotel employee tells them to move along from the pool area due to disturbance calls from other guests. (Talking / laughing too loudly?) The hotel employee noted Hegseth was very intoxicated and that the female companion appeared to be unimpaired. They leave the pool area together. In the police report there is mention of her asking if Hegseth has a condom.

There are other details, The police in a separate interview with Hegseth note that he didn’t know the woman’s name, but he did accurately describe her clothing and that he remembered being confused that she’d escorted him to his room but then didn’t leave promptly. 

It’s at this point that the police consider charging the accuser for sexual assault. (Personally I think they should have.)

Hegseth remembers the woman saying something about telling someone that she’d say she fell asleep on a couch in one of her friends rooms.  This is exactly what the woman told her husband who was worried about her, but couldn’t leave their children alone in the hotel room.

Hegseth chose to pay the cunt off rather than adding to the difficulties he was facing at the time.

Yes I’m calling her a cunt. She cuckolded her husband, practically raped Hegseth, then decided that she’s going to cover it all up, by filing a police report accusing Hegseth of what she herself did. And to top it off, she got a momentary reward for being a lying, duplicitous, cunt.

That’s the definition of a rancid fucking cunt in my book. If society treated her like they do men, her husband would divorce her, she’d be paying alimony and child support, she’d lose her house, be living in a shitty apartment paycheck to paycheck after the alimony payments, and she’d lose her children.

But it gets better, because of this fucking police report, Hegseth will forever be subject to the assumption of guilt because he paid the cunt off. I get why he didn’t go to court but I wish he’d dragged her skanky ass through the very mud she’d stirred.

The woman, in my less than humble opinion should be tossed in jail for making a false statements to the police. She wanted Hegseth’s dick, then she took what she wanted. This situation is a prime example of the bullshit women get away with.

If a guy had escorted a drunk woman back to her room, they had consensual sex, and she felt guilty about it, she’d claim she was raped, she was in no condition to give consent, “boo hoo, I’m a victim of the bad man who only wants one thing.” 

Then the dude would be serving 10 years, & be on a sexual predator list for the rest of his fucking life. You’re never going to see that happen to a woman.

This isn’t new, women have been doing this shit for centuries. History is filled with women using their bodies and beauty to get what they want and they’ve started a few wars in the process to boot.

There’s no way to win these situations if you’re an average guy. Men are always the villain especially white men.

If you’re a dude who is on TV, runs for office, or is selected for a position by the freaking President you’re screwed six ways from Sunday. The media will sweep shit under the carpet if they like you (Hunter’s laptop,) and if they don’t like you, or the person you’re working for then they’re going to keep digging up this same old shit for your entire career.

In the case of Hegseth he gets to carry additional burdens;

Oh shit! He’s a good looking man!”, “Oh My God! He’s got a big assed Jerusalem Cross tattooed on his chest, he must be a white supremacist!”, “Arrrggghhh, In his book he doesn’t suck Islam’s cock! He says that Islam is not a religion of peace!” (That latter one is really funny because Thomas Jefferson also had a very dim view of Islam.)

All of this adds up to a bunch of smoke, mud & shit that the media is throwing at Hegseth. All of it is nothing more than a distraction from Hegseth’s actual qualifications which are what we should be looking at in the first place.

I personally like that he’s not some desk jockey general, admiral, or whatever. I like that he’s been in the shit and will have an appreciation for all the reasons to not be in a war.

I also like that he’s probably not going to have a lot of patience for fat assed desk jockeys worrying about what to call the genderfuck drag queen sailor who can’t report to battle stations in less than 20 minutes because she/he/it had to put on their makeup.

But my feelings are not reason enough to give someone like Hegseth a job as Secretary of Defense. Is he qualified? To determine that, he should be vetted based on his experience, & education. The salacious rumors spewed by the media and most certainly not the blatherings of the harpies on “The View” have no place in this process.

I do wonder in the case of “The View”, is there a point when apologies and retractions no longer have merit? Isn’t there some point where the obvious intent, regardless of what’s said in a “correction” is to cause harm to someone’s reputation and it becomes actionable in court?

How many times can I call Sunny Hostin a fat rancid cunt then say “Correction: Sunny Hostin is not fat and has no vaginal diseases” before I’m sued?