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I thought Lincoln was the one who set that in motion, insisting the South not be punished. In fact, that was the real reason why Johnson was impeached, because they were pissed he insisted on following Lincoln's policy.
I don't disagree.
What are you going to do about it Gimpy?
Lincoln was for parole and peace, but would have done it a different way. One of the reasons Johnson was chosen as Veep iirc is that he was a bit more sympathetic to Democrats in the South (as he was a Southern Democrat himself) and made Lincoln look like the uniter. Lincoln would have been too lenient as well, but he would have been a much better arbiter of it than Johnson was, who looked like a traitor letting the Southern Democratic States off the hook. I don't think Lincoln would have pushed to have the Southern States admitted as quickly as Johnson did and he certainly would not have allowed them to take political office so soon after the War. (Johnson did nothing to stop that) Lincoln would have also been able to unite the Republican Party on Black Suffrage which obviously Johnson could not do. Lastly, Johnson was not keen on making the South admit that they lost, Lincoln would have likely demanded that for re-admission.
Has the mainstream media even made a big deal out of it? Follow up, if the President had been Harris or Biden would the media have acted the same way?Michael Waltz: *adds contact to Signal*
*text chain ensues*
Jeffrey Goldberg: "Hey, so I was added to a super unsecured group chat that disclosed some very serious critical details about a campaign."
Internet: *collective gasp*
Pete Hegseth: *slurring* "He's a goddamned liar! He never was in the chat, and we never discussed anything of the sort!"
Karoline Leavitt: "No war plans were discussed on an unsecured group chat. Never happened."
Donald Trump: "Well, I hope Michael Waltz learned his lesson and doesn't invite random people into the group chat any more."
Once again, no one in the entire administration can get onto the same page with their talking points.
Dan Crenshaw says it’s time to move on
Social media seems to show it making the nightly news shows on cable last night (except FOX News, quelle surprise), and CNBC has touched on it and couple times (but moved on).
I'm pretty sure Signal's encryption has been cracked before. About 12-18 months ago, they issued a statement that going forward their app would no longer receive & process SMS/MMS protocol messages because they are insecure. At the time this caused a lot of people, myself included, to stop using Signal altogether because otherwise I would've had to ask all of my family members to switch texting apps, and I wasn't going to explain why to each of them. However, I always suspected the real reason was that they discovered some hacker backdoor via SMS/MMS in their RCS encryption algorithm at the time.
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