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Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

If we are at war with drug gangs from Venezuela, the Trump is not revealing the truth.

The Trump administration told Congress this week that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.

The average American knows vanishingly little about what its government seeks to accomplish in this fight. Citizens aren’t in possession of the metrics by which to judge the administration’s pursuit of those goals.

We haven’t been told which specific drugs they seek to stop. We haven’t been told much about which specific groups they seek to destroy. We haven’t been told much about what legal authorities they are acting on.

Withholding this information from the American public is the administration’s way to escape scrutiny. At the very least, the country deserves some evidence of whether the military operation is working.
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But remember that the Trump administration claims to be the most transparent in history. Which means that they are the least transparent in history.

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Opinion | Trump’s Boat Strike Cartel War Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense So Far

From what little we do know about the airstrikes in the Caribbean, the operation doesn’t make much sense.
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Yeah, as we've seen, the Appellate Courts are ruling how the law was before 2025. SCOTUS will take out the whiteout and fix this ruling as they have most of the others, to let us all know what the law now is.
 
Swammerdami said:
Do other old-timers here remember the good old days? I speak of 2024 when many Americans were saying "So what if the Doddering Dolt is re-elected? We endured him for 4 years with the only big problem being a million unnecessary Covid deaths." A few of us warned "No, no, with Agenda 2025 coming this will be much MUCH worse." I and similar nay-sayers were ridiculed on message-boards. After barely nine months things are already much worse than even we pessimists imagined. DoJ, HHS, NASA etc. etc. are all being decimated.

Trump is literally stealing money from states that voted for Kamala. And stealing from states that dare to elect two Democratic Senators. During Trump-45, he effectively destroyed millions of dollars worth of scientific experiments. Now he's taking the wrecking ball to whole departments; the irrevocable damage is already tens of billions and climbing.

We have 4 or 5 Trumplickers right here on this message-board. Few if any of them will admit to being Trumplickers, but I wonder if ANY of them will dare comment on the on-going tragedies. Nah, they'll just keep warning about "caliphates" and babbling about the "need" for 17 different genders of bathroom.

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When on vacation or furlough, government workers are encouraged to create an auto-reply "I am on vacation" for their government e-mail account. Supervisors may suggest wordings, but the actual message is set by the employee.

What do you think of this one? :--
Furloughed worker's auto-reply said:
Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democratic Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate, which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations, I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once the government functions resume.
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The partisan wording in this message is a violation of the Hatch Act. The employee sending this message can be fined up to $1000, suspended or removed and/or barred from government employment for up to five years.

So, are millions of federal employees now in violation of the Hatch Act? These messages were forced upon the e-mail accounts without the consent or knowledge of the "I/me" ostensibly blaming Democrats. Some employees tried to revert the illegal message to their previous "I am on furlough" message, but the illegal message was quickly restored.

What do our Trumplickers think of all this? I know what they'll say: -- Something more or less like "Of course we disapprove but isn't it wonderful that the Voodoo worshippers in Ohio have stopped eating the cats and dogs."
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What? How? By whom? Only the employee can access this. The employee has to enable access permission for admin to get into their account. Unless Microsoft made Outlook for Authoritarian Regimes that I'm not aware of.
 
TV and credit cards said:
Swammerdami said:
... The partisan wording in this message is a violation of the Hatch Act....

So, are millions of federal employees now in violation of the Hatch Act? These messages were forced upon the e-mail accounts without the consent or knowledge of the "I/me" ostensibly blaming Democrats. Some employees tried to revert the illegal message to their previous "I am on furlough" message, but the illegal message was quickly restored. ...
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What? How? By whom? Only the employee can access this. The employee has to enable access permission for admin to get into their account. Unless Microsoft made Outlook for Authoritarian Regimes that I'm not aware of.
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It is well-known that e-mail accounts at a company domain can be controlled by the company, though perhaps a super-user password may be needed. This control bypasses Outlook. Is your claim specific to the vacation message? Maybe then, but I'd guess that for that Outlook can be usurped by the "owner."
 
The administrator of an MS Exchange Server or MS 365 system can configure Out of Office in Outlook for any user:

To set an out of office message for a different mailbox using the Exchange Admin Center (formerly known as the Exchange Control Panel or ECP), simply open the tab Recipients -> Mailboxes, then click on the mailbox you want to modify in order to bring up the right-hand menu. Here, you can find the option to set an out of office message under Others -> Manage automatic replies. You can also find this setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center under Users -> Active users. Simply click on the user you’d like to enable the OOF message for and switch to the Mail tab.

However, you can only use this method if you have been assigned the Exchange admin role in your organization.

An adminstrator can also configure "permissions" in Exchange Server to allow any user to access any mailbox with various levels of permission, for example to allow a group to read or send mail from a shared account; It would be trivial to configure permissions to allow the senior managers to manage Out of Office replies, and to write a very short PowerShell script that those managers could run to set a new OoO message for a user, group of users, or entire organisation.
TV and credit cards said:
Unless Microsoft made Outlook for Authoritarian Regimes that I'm not aware of.
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Yeah, all MS products are the "for Authoritarian Regimes" edition; It's so all pervading in their philosophy that they don't bother to mention it.
 
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