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<https://www.koi.security/blog/spyvpn-the-vpn-that-secretly-captures-your-screen>

Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified
badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a
safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.

Think about your own daily browsing like opening a Google Sheet with
sensitive company information, logging into your bank account, browsing
a dating app, or viewing private family photos.

Every one of those moments, captured as screenshots and shipped away
without your consent.

And yet, in its privacy policy, the developer states: “The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.”

The reality? Exactly the opposite.


(... continue reading at the link, if desired)


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Cheers, Carlos.

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On 22/08/2025 14:09, Carlos E.R. wrote:

And yet, in its privacy policy, the developer states: “The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.”

All privacy policies state this in their own way! These policies are as reliable as Donald Trump's statements about tariffs. They're here today
and gone tomorrow.

You can't trust anyone these days. They always have a get-out clause.
Ukraine was promised security by the West (including NATO) in the early
1990s in exchange for stopping its nuclear programme. Now you can see
what happened to that promise!

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"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

<https://www.koi.security/blog/spyvpn-the-vpn-that-secretly-captures-your-screen>

Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a
safe choice. But once it�s in your browser, it�s not working to keep you safe, it�s continuously watching you.

Think about your own daily browsing like opening a Google Sheet with sensitive company information, logging into your bank account, browsing
a dating app, or viewing private family photos.

Every one of those moments, captured as screenshots and shipped away
without your consent.

And yet, in its privacy policy, the developer states: �The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.�

The reality? Exactly the opposite.

(... continue reading at the link, if desired)

Report the privacy violation to Google. Obviously their testing was insufficient to catch this goodware-turned-malware extension. Likely it
was goodware back when first submitted for inclusion as an extension
available by Google, but does Google retest every extension for every
update of all extensions? Once in, an extension can turn malicious with subsequent updates.

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On 2025-08-22 16:59, VanguardLH wrote:

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

<https://www.koi.security/blog/spyvpn-the-vpn-that-secretly-captures-your-screen>

Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified
badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a
safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you >> safe, it’s continuously watching you.

Think about your own daily browsing like opening a Google Sheet with
sensitive company information, logging into your bank account, browsing
a dating app, or viewing private family photos.

Every one of those moments, captured as screenshots and shipped away
without your consent.

And yet, in its privacy policy, the developer states: “The developer has >> disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.”

The reality? Exactly the opposite.

(... continue reading at the link, if desired)

Report the privacy violation to Google. Obviously their testing was insufficient to catch this goodware-turned-malware extension. Likely it
was goodware back when first submitted for inclusion as an extension available by Google, but does Google retest every extension for every
update of all extensions? Once in, an extension can turn malicious with subsequent updates.

I suppose Google is reading that article.

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On Fri, 8/22/2025 2:22 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-08-22 16:59, VanguardLH wrote:

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

<https://www.koi.security/blog/spyvpn-the-vpn-that-secretly-captures-your-screen>

Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified >>> badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a >>> safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you
safe, it’s continuously watching you.

Think about your own daily browsing like opening a Google Sheet with
sensitive company information, logging into your bank account, browsing
a dating app, or viewing private family photos.

Every one of those moments, captured as screenshots and shipped away
without your consent.

And yet, in its privacy policy, the developer states: “The developer has >>> disclosed that it will not collect or use your data.”

The reality? Exactly the opposite.

(... continue reading at the link, if desired)

Report the privacy violation to Google.  Obviously their testing was
insufficient to catch this goodware-turned-malware extension.  Likely it
was goodware back when first submitted for inclusion as an extension
available by Google, but does Google retest every extension for every
update of all extensions?  Once in, an extension can turn malicious with
subsequent updates.

I suppose Google is reading that article.

My following item:

Settings : Privacy & Security : Screenshots and apps 23H2 Not working
Settings : Privacy & Security : Screenshots and screen recordings 24H2 working

Clicking the first one, gives busy cursor for one second, then "nothing".

The second one exhibits a bit of a dark pattern, and the limited slider choices are "All or Nothing". I would switch it all off, seeing as that
is the logical choice they offer us. Then see if the "Recent Activity" can sense that you used FFMPEG.exe gdigrab option like in some test cases.

ffmpeg.exe -framerate 30 -f gdigrab -i desktop -q:v 1 -vcodec h264 out.mp4 # Screen video, no sound

snippingtool.exe # Built-in application. Check and see if it gets blocked by your settings choice.

# The following pair, figures out your sound channel name... then does video with sound
# Doing the first example above, is easier than pissing around with this "video plus audio" test case.

ffmpeg.exe -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy # Presumably lists your RealTek...

ffmpeg.exe -framerate 30 -f gdigrab -i desktop -f dshow -i audio="Stereo Mix (Realtek High Definition Audio)"
-c:v mjpeg -af aresample=async=1000 -c:a pcm_s16le out.mkv

*******

"Windows builds from gyan.dev"

https://www.gyan.dev/ffmpeg/builds/

# scroll down a bit, static builds with no DLLs needed

ffmpeg-2025-02-20-git-bc1a3bfd2c-full_build.7z

Win7 could screen capture at 60FPS (async, not frame sync, nothing is frame sync via screen).
Later OSes seemed to be limited to 30FPS.
Current performance is lower-again than these numbers.
Maybe you will get 20FPS, even with NVENC engaged.
Capturing the screen is so 1990's, apparently, must use "gamer interface" instead (has capture).
Historically, disabling Aero improved sampling jitter on async frame capture.

Of the three video planes (desktop, VMR, 3Dgaming), FFMPEG is only desktop class.
The Gaming Interface can capture 3Dgaming at least, not sure about other planes.
NVidia has a 3D capture feature in their wad of software.
You cannot capture things protected by PVP (Hollywood content, totally crypto path).

Paul

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On 2025-08-22, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

Report the privacy violation to Google.

Isn't that a bit like the fox guarding the chicken coop?

--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey

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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

Report the privacy violation to Google.

Isn't that a bit like the fox guarding the chicken coop?

It's more a bit like Google testing an extension to okay it, and never retesting on the assumption the author never becomes untoward. Google
DOES remove extensions when found to violate Google's rules, but how
would Google know without users reporting the abuse?

When you go to a restaurant where the service or food is bad, how would
the manager know unless you told them? Silence or quiescence equate to approval. If you don't vote, don't bitch about who got into office.

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On 23/08/2025 2:42 pm, VanguardLH wrote:

<Snip>

If you don't vote, don't bitch about who got into office.

I like this last comment of yours, Vanguard. How TRUE!!

Unfortunately it doesn't stop them bitching.
--
Daniel70

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Le 22-08-2025, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> a écrit :

Report the privacy violation to Google.

Is there a real way to do it? Because Google send me reports about their servers trying to spoof my email address, but when I try to report them,
the links explain to me how I should configure my emails.

Which is a fucking joke: my servers are well configured because their
servers can't spoof my email without being discovered by themselves.

They shouldn't ask me to report anything but they should be able to
monitor their own servers by themselves.

So, their reports are useless. If it's the same with privacy violation,
it's just about communication more than efficiency.

--
Si vous avez du temps à perdre :
https://scarpet42.gitlab.io

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On 23/08/2025 12:52, Daniel70 wrote:

On 23/08/2025 2:42 pm, VanguardLH wrote:

<Snip>

If you don't vote, don't bitch about who got into office.

I like this last comment of yours, Vanguard. How TRUE!!

Unfortunately it doesn't stop them bitching.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in

--
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain

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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 23/08/2025 12:52, Daniel70 wrote:

On 23/08/2025 2:42 pm, VanguardLH wrote:

<Snip>

If you don't vote, don't bitch about who got into office.

I like this last comment of yours, Vanguard. How TRUE!!

Unfortunately it doesn't stop them bitching.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in

Of course, neglect the voting process is to elect gov't officials.
You're not voting in someone to be a librarian at your local library.

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On 8/23/25 08:47, VanguardLH wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 23/08/2025 12:52, Daniel70 wrote:

On 23/08/2025 2:42 pm, VanguardLH wrote:

<Snip>

If you don't vote, don't bitch about who got into office.

I like this last comment of yours, Vanguard. How TRUE!!

Unfortunately it doesn't stop them bitching.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in

Of course, neglect the voting process is to elect gov't officials.
You're not voting in someone to be a librarian at your local library.

Well not voting because you are incapable of distinguishing between competent persons and incompetent persons is why the Democratic candidates
lost against Reagan, Bush and Trump. Unfortunately people seduced by the
lies of the right wing of the Republican party and their own racism out-numbered
those of us who vote for competence.

Even before Reagan lies were told about the Federal Government but fear of Stalilnist and Maoist Communism held the people who would teart down the Federal Government at bay. Why do they want to tear down the Government
for and by the people? They don't like the restrictions the peoples'
goverment
imposes on their enterprises.

The Government he is referring to are the employees of the Federal
Government which is a ideally a meritocracy the values of which are
embedded in the Civil Service. In a good government those employees
leave only at the end of their careers.
But you vote for the Elected Officials who were formerly bound by
the Constitution and good sense to honor the decisions of former
elected officials as to the agencies and employees require to furnish
services to the electorate and control industries which were not good
for the Electorate.
With Reagan came a lot of folks who think that the Government
Agencies should not have been enlarged from a past time such as
their childhood when everything seemed perfect to them ignoring
the roughly 2.5X increase in population. I compare the population
in 1940 (when I was 3 yoa) to 2020 (when I was 83) in this next
line: 1940 -132,164,569 to 2020 - 331,449,281.
Now looking at the Federal Employees it seems clear to me
that you would need a considerable increase in Federal employment
to deal with the services required by a larger population.
1940 - Federal executive employees 699,000
2024 - Federal executive employees 3,000,000

Besides the increase in population we also have to factor in services now provided dealing with pollution, agency oversight and other
legislatively
mandated positions. This leaves out the Department of Defense and
the Veterans Adminstration I believe at both ends of the measurement
period. Most people making an issue of this are industrialists affected by tighter regulation of the by-products of their operation which might cut
into the profitabilty of the enterprise such as the Mine Owners/Operators
who are reluctant to provide the proper safety equipment to their
workers.
These are the people who want to reduce the income from taxes
until the Federal Government "is small enough to drown in a bathtub"
as they say.

So you want to change the way the country is run?
You do that by voting for people competent to make the changes
not for incompetent people who have exploited your ignorance
and prejudices.

bliss - living in a future that never happened in my lifetime...



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On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:09:20 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

Think about your own daily browsing like opening a Google Sheet with sensitive company information, logging into your bank account, browsing
a dating app, or viewing private family photos.

Every one of those moments, captured as screenshots and shipped away
without your consent.

Isn't this what Microsoft's Recall wants to do? And just recently I
learned about smart TV's ACR.

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On 23/08/2025 18:10, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

   So you want to change the way the country is run?
    You do that by voting for people competent to make the changes
not for incompetent people who have exploited your ignorance
and prejudices.

So basically don't vote Democrat OR Republican....

--
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
kind word alone.

Al Capone

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On 2025-08-23, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 23/08/2025 18:10, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

   So you want to change the way the country is run?
    You do that by voting for people competent to make the changes
not for incompetent people who have exploited your ignorance
and prejudices.

So basically don't vote Democrat OR Republican....

"Don't vote, it only encourages them."

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so.
There may be no candidates and no measures you want
to vote _for_... but there are certain to be ones
you want to vote _against_. In case of doubt, vote
_against_. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

If this is too blind for your taste, consult some
well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and
ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This
enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your
wish) without spending the enormous amount of time
on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise
requires.
-- Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey

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On 23/08/2025 19:14, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

So basically don't vote Democrat OR Republican....

"Don't vote, it only encourages them."

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so.
There may be no candidates and no measures you want
to vote_for_... but there are certain to be ones
you want to vote_against_. In case of doubt, vote
_against_. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

If this is too blind for your taste, consult some
well-meaning fool (there is always one around) and
ask his advice. Then vote the other way. This
enables you to be a good citizen (if such is your
wish) without spending the enormous amount of time
on it that truly intelligent exercise of franchise
requires.
-- Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

All sound advice.


--
"Corbyn talks about equality, justice, opportunity, health care, peace, community, compassion, investment, security, housing...."
"What kind of person is not interested in those things?"

"Jeremy Corbyn?"

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:10:32 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Well not voting because you are incapable of distinguishing

between

competent persons and incompetent persons is why the Democratic
candidates lost against Reagan, Bush and Trump. Unfortunately people
seduced by the lies of the right wing of the Republican party and their
own racism out-numbered those of us who vote for competence.

Joe Biden was incompetent the best day he ever had and he did not improve
with age. I believe Obama said something about underestimating Joe's
abilities to screw things up.

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On 23/08/2025 20:11, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:10:32 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Well not voting because you are incapable of distinguishing

between

competent persons and incompetent persons is why the Democratic
candidates lost against Reagan, Bush and Trump. Unfortunately people
seduced by the lies of the right wing of the Republican party and their
own racism out-numbered those of us who vote for competence.

Joe Biden was incompetent the best day he ever had and he did not improve with age. I believe Obama said something about underestimating Joe's abilities to screw things up.

The best presidents IMHO have been republicans smart enough to listen to experts.
Reagan for example. Who actually destroyed the USSR.
But sadly, not the oligarchs behind it.




--
"First, find out who are the people you can not criticise. They are your oppressors."
- George Orwell

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On 8/23/25 12:11, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:10:32 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Well not voting because you are incapable of distinguishing

between

competent persons and incompetent persons is why the Democratic
candidates lost against Reagan, Bush and Trump. Unfortunately people
seduced by the lies of the right wing of the Republican party and their
own racism out-numbered those of us who vote for competence.

Joe Biden was incompetent the best day he ever had and he did not improve with age. I believe Obama said something about underestimating Joe's abilities to screw things up.

If that is your honest opinion of Joe Biden then you were not paying close attention. Obama was not the worst but he ignored the Russian
aggression against Ukraine in the takeover of the Crimean peninsula.

Joe Biden provided the world with the intelligence on the Russian
moves against Ukraine and promoted arms to the Ukrainian democracy.
Besides that foresighted moves on Infrastructure and moving industry
back to the USA were undertaken as well as climate aware changes.
One place Joe messed up was keeping Trump's dates to end the
Military intervention in Afghanistan.

Trump has tried to reverse all of Biden's initiatives while attempting to
copy them with re-industrialization plans and horrible tariffs which are a sales tax on consumers. Because Elon Musk contributed to his campaign
in excess of $200 million dollars he was given free reign in a group called DOGE to reduce what a billionaire considered government waste, fraud and corruption disrupting vital services with no considerations of the possible outcomes. If DC had a dog catcher I would point him at DOGE members.

bliss

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:49:56 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 23/08/2025 18:10, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

   So you want to change the way the country is run?
    You do that by voting for people competent to make the changes
not for incompetent people who have exploited your ignorance and
prejudices.

So basically don't vote Democrat OR Republican....

I often vote for the Libertarian candidate in federal elections. Chase
Oliver was a bridge too far however. The LP in this state became strangely quiet when he was nominated.

I pay more attention to local issues like library mill levies or funding
for open spaces.

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On 2025-08-23 20:57, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    If that is your honest opinion of Joe Biden then you were not paying close attention. Obama was not the worst but he ignored the Russian aggression against Ukraine in the takeover of the Crimean peninsula.

    Joe Biden provided the world with the intelligence on the Russian moves against Ukraine and promoted arms to the Ukrainian democracy.
Besides that foresighted moves on Infrastructure and moving industry
back to the USA were undertaken as well as climate aware changes.
    One place Joe messed up was keeping Trump's dates to end the Military intervention in Afghanistan.

But he only ever gave them enough to hold Russia more or less at bay,
not enough to let them win a quick victory. Thus, he unnecessarily
prolonged the war.

Trump has tried to reverse all of Biden's initiatives while attempting to copy them with re-industrialization plans and horrible tariffs which are a sales tax on consumers. Because Elon Musk contributed to his campaign
in excess of $200 million dollars he was given free reign in a group called DOGE to reduce what a billionaire considered government waste, fraud and corruption disrupting vital services with no considerations of the possible outcomes.  If DC had a dog catcher I would point him at DOGE members.

As I've posted before, there are many tolerably convincing lines of
evidence that Trump is a Russian asset; whatever the actual truth of
that - we'll probably only ever know in the distant future, if ever -
certainly his behaviour is, to all intents and purposes, exactly what
might be expected of a Russian asset in the highest position in the
land. He is weakening US soft power by dismantling overseas funding
such as USAID, he is causing divisions in NATO, the West's primary
defence alliance, he is failing adequately to support Ukraine, Europe's
best defence against increasingly aggressive Russian encroachment, and
he chose security risks such as Tulsi Gabbard as the DNI to fill his
executive. He is also weakening the American economy through his
obsession with tariffs, which so many leading economists and politicians
have told him is a really dumb policy that his continued adherence to
them against all the evidence must come from somewhere else, perhaps
indeed from Moscow.

Meanwhile, there is also very convincing evidence that he's Putinising
the American democratic system, turning it into a dictatorship via
increasing autocracy. His policies are enacted by dictatorial
Presidential Executive Orders rather than democratic Acts of Congress.
He has politicised the entire executive by selecting yes-men to fill key
roles, such Pam Bondi as AG and Kash Patel at the FBI. He has put
troops on the streets under bogus pretexts so as to acclimatise the
population to the idea of living under military control, so that, if he
should lose the mid-terms, which at current polling rates seems certain,
though they are still some time away, he will declare some sort of bogus
crisis and and try again to overturn the election, as he tried
unsuccessfully to do on Jan 6th, only this time he will have the yes-men
in position so that he as better chances of success. He's bringing
bogus prosecutions against a raft of political enemies, while the GOP in
a number of red states is trying to redraw electoral boundaries to
guarantee that there will be Republican majorities in Congress for
evermore [*]. These are all the actions of a dictator, not a democratic politician.

Watching all this happening from overseas is like watching a train wreck
in slow motion, there is a helpless and impotent fury at the dangerous
and exasperating stupidity of it all. Americans have to ask themselves
some very searching questions as to how it happened that they have
elected a rapist, convicted felon, and wanna-be dictator to the highest
office in the land, despite all this being publicly known about him from
well before the election.

* Unfortunately, Americans have a history of such gerrymandering, with
both parties having been guilty of it in the past, but at this moment in
time those trying to do it in its most extreme form are the Republicans
in states such as Texas, which in turn is forcing the Democrats to
counter balance the threat by threatening to do it in states such as California. Clearly there needs to be some sort of effective legal
prevention of such activities, but the last time Congress tried to pass
some sort of binding legislation, the GOP refused to vote for it, and it
fell.

--

Fake news kills!

I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website:
www.macfh.co.uk

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:57:50 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

If that is your honest opinion of Joe Biden then you were not

paying

close attention. Obama was not the worst but he ignored the Russian aggression against Ukraine in the takeover of the Crimean peninsula.

My honest opinion of Biden, or I should say his handlers including Jill,
is that he was the worst president in my lifetime. That's saying a lot
since that includes that Texas son of a bitch Johnson.

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On 24/08/2025 3:49 am, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 23/08/2025 18:10, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    So you want to change the way the country is run?
     You do that by voting for people competent to make the changes
not for incompetent people who have exploited your ignorance
and prejudices.

So basically don't vote Democrat OR Republican....

Never have, Never will.
--
Daniel70

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On 24/08/2025 05:28, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:57:50 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

If that is your honest opinion of Joe Biden then you were not

paying

close attention. Obama was not the worst but he ignored the Russian
aggression against Ukraine in the takeover of the Crimean peninsula.

My honest opinion of Biden, or I should say his handlers including Jill,
is that he was the worst president in my lifetime. That's saying a lot
since that includes that Texas son of a bitch Johnson.

Mmm.

I dont think so.

But every bad president does *some* good.

Remember these guys have no idea what they are actually doing. At their
best they don't do *anything* and let events unfold.

Occasionally something *needs to be done* and they grab onto whatever
half baked economic social or geopolitical theory seems popular with the
plebs and implement it.
Usually its a total clusterfuck and the electorate votes in the other
guy who reverses it.

Trump is plainly completely at sea with everything. He just does stuff
because it seems like a good idea at the time. I think 25% will do some
good, 25% will make no friggin difference and 50% will be very very bad
for America, though not for the rest of the world who at least are
isolated from much of his rampant idiocy.

Whether this makes him 'good' or 'bad' is up for debate...



--
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the
gospel of envy.

Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

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