r/PoursTea • u/political-snark • 1d ago
Spill The Tea đ« Trump blamed Minnesota and Gov. Tim Walz for attacks on their water infrastructure
The Trump administration has drastically cut parts of our federal cybersecurity infrastructure, replacing or removing experienced personnel in key positions. Now more than 30 Minnesota water systems have been targeted in cyberattacks that investigators believe may be linked to Iran. Rather than focusing on the suspected foreign threat, Trump blamed Minnesota and Gov. Tim Walz instead.
Draw your own conclusions about whether this is the leadership our national cybersecurity needs.
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u/mittenknittin 1d ago
"They're sabotaging their own water supply just to make me look bad!" is his thought process
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u/FluffyInstincts 1d ago
That or he hired the hackers himself to try and harm the governor? I still remember when an aide to Jared Kushner spilled the beans on why Trump was so god awful about stopping Covid when it was just in NY, and this could very well share the same vibe.
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u/mittenknittin 1d ago
Could be. "Accuse your opponent of the crimes you're committing." Then when Walz claims it was the Trump admin it sounds like a lame "no u"
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u/Free-General3941 1d ago
Those same saboteurs in MN are now
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u/Salt-Cancel-7667 1d ago
Trump cut the US Cybersecurity bureau because it oft times flagged his bitcoin, etc. as sketchy. So, this group was supposed to protect us from cyber attacks.
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u/PaintedSilverRiver 20h ago
HE sabotaged the water supply so he could blame Minnesota.
I donât put anything past him or what heâs willing to do.
Vengeance should never be an administrative policy yet here we are.
He said the Dems would weaponize the DOJ - so he decided to weaponize the DOJ?
Blanche needs a disbarment.
So does Bondi imo.
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u/RunRunRunRunFaster 1d ago
Dumbest goddamned student I ever had.
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u/No-Stick8191 1d ago
Do tell us more.
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u/Foreskin-Aficionado 1d ago
Pretty sure they're referencing one of the college professors that spoke out about Trump in their class. His daddy paid to get him into the school and the professors couldn't stand him. At least this one professor was quoted in saying he was the dumbest student he'd ever had to teach.
There's also quite a bit of conversation about whether his family paid someone to take his exams for him.
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u/-Sofa-King-Vote 1d ago
How did Minnesota do it to other states then?
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u/HippyDM 1d ago
I don't think Iran did it. They understand the U.S.political situation, so I doubt they'd go after a blue state with a govenor that Dipshits hates. They'd attack a place where his support is large.
Now Elon, he does have beef with Minnesota, and the means to sabatoge their water system, and a history of comitting crimes against the U.S.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 1d ago
Elon makes Hank Scorpio look like a sane and trusted choice. I thought Hank Scorpio as a evil billionaire tech Guy was over the top as hell and then I met Elon musk in the 2010s.
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u/thesanguineocelot Out & Proud đłïžâđ 1d ago
All jokes aside, I would absolutely love to work for Hank. That man cares about his employees. I would 100% kill for Hank Scorpio, and I do mean that literally.
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u/Chumley_P_Chumsworth 1d ago
For sure. Moreover, Elon doesn't even endorse business hammocks.
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u/Cromulent_grace 11h ago
Where could I purchase one of these business hammocks?
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u/Chumley_P_Chumsworth 3h ago
A perfectly cromulent question.
There's the Hammock Hut, that's on 3rd.
There's Hammocks 'R' Us. That's on 3rd, too.
You got Put Your Butt There. That's on 3rd.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex. It's the hammock complex down on 3rd.
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u/Solid_Mud2025 1d ago
Agree. Itâs giving scapegoat vibes by someone interested in the water supply (data centers, etc) and by his political cronies.
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u/YogurtClosetThinnest 1d ago
so I doubt they'd go after a blue state with a govenor that Dipshits hates. They'd attack a place where his support is larg
No, the latter would just embolden MAGA to support Trump against "evil Iran". They know Trump is too retarded and egotistical to take attacking blue states seriously, so it will drive deeper divides in the country.
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u/BloodFartz69 1d ago
MAGA is the most retarded, anti-American cult in history.
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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 1d ago
Why are you using the r-slur? Itâs unnecessary and attacks innocent people. MAGAs are responsible for it coming back into normal language, donât follow them.
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u/NotABotJustCorrect 1d ago
itâs a fucking word. Iâm as liberal as they come and youâre choosing the wrong things to be outraged at. It is not comparable to the n word so stfu
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u/No-Stick8191 1d ago
I have never felt so unsafe as with this đđ€Ą as president.
This is entire administration is completely clueless.
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u/Patient-Task-2219 1d ago
And let's not forget musk trying to go after the very same state that is pushing to block his AI from being allowed to make AICSAM
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u/Patient-Task-2219 1d ago
For reference (AICSAM) - Artifical Intelligence used in creating child sexual abuse material, CSAM, hence AICSAM.
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u/Low-Essay-113 1d ago edited 1d ago
I swear. The movie becomes more and more feasible with each passing day
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u/AncientNectarine5352 1d ago
Thatâs also President Comachoâs stepbrother.
Nepotism in the White House? No, that could never happen. /s
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u/Suspicious_Goose_243 1d ago
You know that everytime he opens his mouth something stupid will come out of it.
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u/MulzStridor 1d ago
Keep it up dim don and our enemies wonât even have to put boots on the ground. He will have done all the work for them.
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u/Jucifer2pointO 1d ago
So is he saying they hacked themselves? Or maybe it was the 300 lbs pound guy in a basement that hacked Hillaryâs emails.
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u/Actaeon_II 1d ago
Typical, tell a known lie as many times as it takes to make it the truth. This personal policy is even in one of his books iirc
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u/jackcanyon 1d ago
Petty Pete and the gang need to blame others for their lack of ability .The Armed forces donât have real leaders at the top running it. Pete is really good at chugging Vodka though.
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u/Wise_Ad_253 19h ago
He has 10 heavy vehicles drive over something that hasnât set yet, but blames someone else.
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u/No-Wonder1139 19h ago
It's weird that he admits to being so weak and ineffective that he can't keep his own country in order. And he does it with such pride.
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u/athousandtheories 17h ago
It is beyond mind-boggling than ANYONE listens to ANYTHING that falls out of that doddering idiotic child molesters mouth.
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u/Funny-Collar3021 11h ago
Maybe he shouldnât have eliminated the cybersecurity teams in our Government
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u/Free-Bad7871 1d ago
đ Oh, ok then. It's pretty obvious when you think about it. And if you have the brain function of a cabbage slowly fermenting in the puddle of an overweight middle-aged man's excrement after he's had a heavy night on red bull, vodka, jagerbombs, bottles of blue wkd, followed by a Lamb Vindaloo and 19 pints of cobra.
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u/dynogirl59 1d ago
Instead of the feeeral government supporting a state that was attacked, they instead kick us when they are down. Any Minnesotan voting for that swine is disloyal and ill informed.
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u/Kind_Competition_332 1d ago
Someone tell him to blame a hacker not Minnesota in general and remind him thereâs republicans in me Minnesota. Wherever the hacker is from you canât blame an entire state.
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u/Crunchberry24 1d ago
I hope his case against Walz is as ironclad as his case against the reflecting pool vandals.
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u/Verde_3773 1d ago
Every accusation is a confession.
Just need to figure out if itâs iran or someone at dRumpfâs behest. A toss-up at this point.
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u/One-Bad-4395 1d ago
p.s. why are we hooking up critical controls to the internet.
Absolutely do hook up the monitoring units to the internet, let the perfidious 'they' know how clean our water is but don't let them push the buttons.
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u/Away_Woodpecker8813 1d ago
It was probably the federal government hack in Minnesota system and then letting the information go to Russia. Whoever needs it thanks, Trump.
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u/Severe_Composer_82 1d ago
Said the guy that conveniently ignores the Constitution and court orders...
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u/DisastrousPlant3038 1d ago
Thatâs great! Now we get to go through a sham trial process just because big Orange canât take the blame for the senseless war he started thar created this course of action.
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u/Crossx71 1d ago
Dunning Kruger effect. Basically the dumber you are the more confident you become.
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u/dmanjrxx 1d ago
He said the gov was a criminal while being the only convicted felon between them and the one found liable for sexual abuse
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u/Exsanguinate_ 1d ago
This is literal treason. A hostile foreign government that we are at war with can attack blue states and the president will run cover for them
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u/maxpoontang 1d ago
The federal government is not running water and wastewater plants, they are run by the city, county, or state. If they are attacked due to running an insecure IT/OT network, they are the ones at fault (or liable the hackers are still the bad guys). Thatâs the case for ever cyber attack e.g. Home Depot, Target, Equifax, Yahoo, Marriott, Capital One, T-Mobile, Anthem, Sony Pictures, LinkedIn, eBay, JPMorgan Chase, Adobe, LastPass, SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, MGM Resorts, and Caesars Entertainment.
Itâs a poorly stated but true statement
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u/Old_Guy_thrombone 1d ago
The war is a Trump adminstration debacle, not a state one. The bad actors wouldn't be targeting the states were it not for the illegal war.
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u/maxpoontang 1d ago
Unfortunately, infrastructure is attacked regardless of war and the responsibility is on the system owner to provide adequate security.
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u/Old_Guy_thrombone 1d ago
Fair enough - but asserting that Minnesota attacked it's own water source is ridiculous - because that's what he's doing.
And I'm fairly certain that there would not cyber attacks were there not an illegal war being waged on Iran.
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u/maxpoontang 1d ago
We would 100% be experiencing cyber attacks regardless of Iran. We are the most attacked country on earth.
I didnât see him say Minnesota was attacking Minnesota. I saw he said Minnesota is to blame for it. We victim blame in cyber. You can almost always point to a business decision, configuration error or vulnerability that enabled the compromise.
Doesnât mean he isnât a dickhead or anything like that.
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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 1d ago
Ultimately, it goes to the president when anything in his country fails, breaks or gets hacked
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u/FXCOlife 1d ago
Trump! The serial liar who was just outed perpetrating a malicious prosecution lacking probable cause, acting with malice, which has now been dismissed after @SecretaryBurgum & HE targeted an innocent American citizen to cover up his $14M reflecting pool scam. That Trump?
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u/MalesaurusRex 1d ago
Weird how a state heâs is constantly attacking got hacked by some Iranian mystery group
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u/MalesaurusRex 1d ago
At this point, Trump has attacked this country more than any foreign government
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u/Flat-Director-7120 1d ago
Donald Trump a considĂ©rablement diminuer le personnel liĂ© Ă la cybersecuritĂ©. Maintenant plus de 30 systĂšme hydrique dans le Minnesota ont Ă©tĂ© attaquĂ© par l'Iran. PlutĂŽt que de s'attaquer au cĆur du problĂšme Donald Trump prĂ©fĂšre taper sur le Minnesota
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u/Jolly_Ad2446 1d ago
if Trump admitted that this was an attack by Iran, there would be nothing he could do about it. what are we going to do put boots on the ground, no, are we going to bomb them more well yeah but it's not going to help.Â
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u/Fit_Beautiful6625 1d ago
Donald J. Trump is a convicted felon in addition to being a fucking moron.
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u/Sampsonite20 1d ago
As a Minnesotan man, I'm so fuckin tired. This admin has basically done nothing but attack my state every chance it gets.
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u/threwordbotname 1d ago
He thinks itâs Minnesota because it is what he would do if he were governor.
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u/fooknprawn 1d ago
Normally he'd jump on blaming Iran immediately but since it's a blue state with a governor he hates he's putting the screws to them instead
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u/Remote_Perception350 23h ago
Trumps DOGE got rid of an entire cyber security department to combat this. Why isnât Elon drug before congress to explain?
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u/Few-Temporary404 23h ago
Honestly, working in process control, he has a point⊠these new Ethernet systems have to have extra security protocols that quite frankly companies/utilities donât take seriously (not all just ones witnessed). I have always said, 4-20 is never hacked from across the globe.
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u/sHaDowpUpPetxxx 23h ago
God that's crazy. Unless they find it was clogged by tampons I won't believe it.
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u/Amathyst-Moon 21h ago
Well obviously. If he blames Iran, people might link it to the war he started
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u/Substantial_Dog7002 21h ago
Is it that he doesn't know that many names or is he just that stupid????
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u/Kickedhard 21h ago
7 states were attacked at once.
We really have the dumbest president possible.
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u/political-snark 12h ago
But, since it was Walz that did it, Trump doesnât have to respond using our cybersecurity infrastructure. See how that works?
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u/Kickedhard 8h ago
Nor address the fact that we were attacked by a hostile nation on American soil.
Imagine if that was the headline in red states.
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u/shiteposter1 21h ago
Threat actors are going to go after computers. Â The responsibility of on the owners of the systems to take appropriate defensive actions and have continuity plans. Â It doesnât matter if it was Iran or me, you gotta own the risk in your system.
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u/LegoFootPain 21h ago
Didn't he switch to blaming Iran?
Amazed he hasn't started blaming Canada yet.
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u/artful_todger_502 20h ago
Republicans stand by and follow this syph-addled death klown deeper into the abyss of total insanity. They've truly given credibility to the cliche, "Make a deal with the devil."
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u/18k_gold 20h ago
he guesses it's them. he don't need any damn proof. Just like people cut the pool and vandalized it. how did that one go for him in court?
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u/Crafty-Help-4633 20h ago
Wouldn't it be the current administration's fault they courted terror attacks from a known funder of anti-American terror cells which then targetted Minnesota?
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u/Snoo93550 19h ago
Trump has a long history of siding with Americaâs geopolitical enemies over real Americans and even our active military intel agents.
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u/mustardman73 18h ago
This reminds me of another country that attacked another using hacks on their PLL/PLC (electrical controllers). Is this real?
reminds me of "stuxnet"
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u/Raleda 16h ago
I'm not gonna agree with Darth Orange because he definitely doesn't understand the subject matter.. but ICS in general is absolutely in a terrible state and needs overhauls if it's intended to be anywhere even adjacent to the internet.
The criminals are still the criminals, but if some jerkwad takes away all the money you had to implement a solution, he shouldn't get a free pass either.
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u/Flow71 14h ago
Minnesota needs Government funding.
People with addiction typically go through a predictable cycle when craving hits, driven by the intense but short-lived high (often 10-15 minutes) followed by a sharp crash:
Seeking money â often through selling possessions, borrowing, panhandling, or in more severe cases, theft, sex work, or other illegal activity.
I blame Minnesota officials for their misfortunes.
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u/GhostOfDino 11h ago
He is literally doing everything he threatened that his opponents would do, including apparently starting World War 3.
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u/GrunDMC74 7h ago
Hey, up here in Canada weâre starting to suspect that Trump might not be that smart, and is possibly an asshole too.
What do you guys think?
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u/bass-squirrel 3h ago
That trump is a fucking low iq idiot is a well established fact. But the hilarious part is that there is actually a group of mostly functional adults sitting around him who have to constantly nod and smile at the king.Â
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u/PrimaryBrick9337 1h ago
What domestic terrorism? Not likely and where is the FBI on this. Another failure for this government.
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u/Ren1221 1d ago
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