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Loved this bit:
"On Saturday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the papers as a "multi-page lunch menu" and suggested leaving the information on a public printer was not a security breach."
Followed by:
"Pages 2 through 5 of the documents listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members"
"So if we started calling these three people for comment, that's totally cool with you?"
It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial present.
"POTUS to President Putin," the document states, "American Bald Eagle Desk Statue."
Pages 2 through 5 listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members as well as the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The list provided phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including "Mr. President POO-tihn."
Pages 6 and 7 in the packet described how lunch at the summit would be served, and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that the luncheon was to be held "in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin."
What a worthless traitor. When can we start saying the things we can’t say?
“American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”
Trump does love his desk eagles.
Is that the picture of him and his best buddy Epstein back there?
Uhh... don't a lot of modern printers have onboard storage where they keep previously printed documents? If so you could probably get a lot more from that printer. Or am I thinking of copiers?
"Reprint job".
Both
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Here's a conspiracy theory. They were left there by Russians, not Americans.
Oh yeah this kind of clumsy incompetence is not something this administration is capable of. Ffs.
That or they are such traitors that they were given to the Russians. Or so incompetent they were stolen by the Russians. No matter though, when the best case scenario is mere incompetence, the outlook is very grim indeed.
It could also just be the reporters trying to protect their sources. Wasn't left by anyone that's just what the article says.
Imagine the howling from every Republican in congress if this had happened during a Democratic presidency.
“Imagine how much worse this would have gone if we had a democrat president.”
— Fox News probably
We are currently clear on OPSEC.
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I didn't think anyone actually used those business centers.
You lug your own printer around on trips?
He travels in a hotel with wings. I'd be astounded if there's not a printer onboard air force one.
As if he'd ever use computer. That's scut work for proles.
Exactly, so they'll need a printer so they can hand him physical copies of new memos/documents while in-flight.
You don’t?
You dont have a fax machine?
You use a printer?
What do you use, quill and ink?
How often are you printing things? I don't even own a printer. I spend maybe $0.50 a year printing things at the library.
Often enough that having a laser printer at home is vastly more convenient than having to make a special trip to the tree pulp store every time I want a physical copy of a document.
Tax forms, manuals & documentation, tickets & passes, shipping labels, markable documents, patterns ...
Tax forms
Those are digital
manuals & documentation
Also digital
tickets & passes
Also digital
shipping labels, markable documents, patterns
These are the couple times a year thing that I print. Well, not patterns. Even "markable documents" I usually do digitally with a stylus. How often are you needing to do these things at a hotel?
Physical backups are not digital. Also, worksheets are easier done with pencil.
Paper manuals are easier to flip through, dog-ear, and move around.
Paper copies of tickets don't need batteries or wireless service.
The last few times I recall that I needed to print things at a hotel, they involved marriage license forms, credit reports and checklists. Most other times I'm visiting a facility that has a printer should I need anything printed.
Oh, I've also had to print out plenty of hardcopy documents for mailing to various government services over the years, including the IRS and SSA.
Physical backups are not digital
Not needed, you can backup digitally
Paper manuals are easier to flip through, dog-ear, and move around
Digital is much easier to search with ctrl+f and can be fed to a RAG so you can ask your favorite LLM questions about it
Paper copies of tickets don't need batteries or wireless service
Traveling with a power bank is normal and you can save tickets to your offline wallet on your phone
The last few times I recall that I needed to print things at a hotel, they involved marriage license forms, credit reports
There is zero chance I'm trusting the security of hotel equipment with those sorts of paperwork.
Oh, I've also had to print out plenty of hardcopy documents for mailing to various government services over the years, including the IRS and SSA.
Right, the once every other year sort of thing and why most people don't need a printer. I've only needed physical print outs for the IRS once. I gather all those forms digitally, encrypt them, and send them to my tax guy.
Digital backups work until your provider decides you don't matter as a customer. Paper backups are also easier to flip through. Glad you agree with me about worksheets, though.
I neither need nor want to slopify information. I don't need to search a dozen-page document that I can flip through and move to various benches and worksites.
A sheet of paper takes up much, much less space than a powerbank.
All of your credit information has been leaked by Equifax ten times over already. A hotel printer ain't shit.
Does your "tax guy" handle every single interaction between you and every government agency?
Digital backups work until your provider decides you don't matter as a customer
Don't rely on a provider. And I have no idea what you even mean by worksheets, so I have zero opinion.
I neither need nor want to slopify information. I don't need to search a dozen-page document that I can flip through and move to various benches and worksites.
This strongly depends on what you're doing. I wish the papers I have to reference were only 12 pages.
A sheet of paper takes up much, much less space than a powerbank.
I'm carrying the power bank when traveling regardless
Does your "tax guy" handle every single interaction between you and every government agency?
How much do I need to interact with the government? Taxes probably are by far the most I interact with the government. Wither it is the IRS, Secretary of State, or DNR. All of which do digital or have the physical forms at their office, no printer required.
Look, it's obvious some people need a printer. Wither they actually need or just want the convenience like you do. I would bet most people don't and I think fewer and fewer people do have them these days. That's all kind of irrelevant to the use of a hotel business center anyway. It's even more irrelevant when talking about the president who has an entire team of communication people that do bring the equipment they need with them. It's vanishingly rare to need that business center, even if you do trust it, and it's completely inexcusable for a government official. It's also weird how hung up on a joke you've become.
Something something only the best people?
Nah, is just that hegseth likes to Share Intel with the world. Such a good guy
*hic*