US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'

Hmm, that seems odd, esp. for a guy that never fires anyone.

Don't worry, he didn't this time either.

when guys named "Tex" get fired, it's a paradigm shift

presumably this is because "tex" blamed the maralago security stuff on ... maralago

The statement said: “The Secret Service does not determine who is invited or welcome at Mar-a-Lago; this is the responsibility of the host entity. The Mar-a-Lago club management determines which members and guests are granted access to the property. This access does not afford an individual proximity to the President or other Secret Service protectees.

lolmg

So the Secret Service stuck Zhang's thumbdrive into their computer. https://t.co/0T6LAfOtEl pic.twitter.com/RSfUgw4I4n

— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) April 8, 2019

"I wonder what would happen if..."

hahahahahahaha ok sounds like he maybe deserved to be fired

wow

Trump gonna hire the Best Buy Geek Squad to handle all the cyber.

BARRON

Forgot about Barron. Where's he at?

he's in training to be an adult trump

basically they have him cordoned off, and they ask him what he wants every 2 minutes and then give it to him, and if he doesn't respond with "i have been treated so unfairly" they slap him

That was fast, Trump just hired new head Secret Service guy:

https://hotcorn-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/05/02104734/ToLiveDieLA_S819483_007-758x501.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D3qC0e3WwAExeY8.jpg:large

i gotta say, when the chinese send their agents to mar-a-lago, they're not sending their best

― mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 08:36 (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looks like the agent the chinese sent was a good match for the mission after all i guess

What’s the big deal? If the judge give me you trouble than you just sue, settle the lawsuit and then send a crony to physically threaten whoever opposed you

Prosecutors said they found multiple electronic devices in the Mar-a-Lago intruder’s hotel room including a signal detector that can detect hidden cameras, another cell phone, 9 USB drives and 5 sim cards. Zhang has no ties--no residential, personal - in the US, per prosecutors.

just an obvious spy, spyin about things

they found a certificate of achievement for the completion of online courses at "Spy School"

Once they found this in her hotel room, the jig was up:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91QM26KJqzL._SX425_.jpg

Seems a bit obvious to be a spy, and also a stage beyond the bumbling idiocy that's made up the useful idiot class recently.
Seems to be willing to do something intelligence like but not have the faintest idea how to.
Or was bumbling supposed to be enough of a cover.

How, of all the evil assholes in the Trump administration, has Stephen Miller managed to hang around the longest? Is it just because he never goes out in public?

stephen miller has been hanging around for centuries, in belfries, attics, the branches of dead trees

strange fruit

everything is going to be just fine

https://youtu.be/lcMydq6vGW8?t=75

https://youtu.be/tP8LysGrO1c

I heard that Kirsten Nielsen had gone but not that trump was now going back and doubling down on the family separation policy that I had hoped was a thing of the past.
Just extrapolating, but is he believing his own stooge dervied press where a suppressed report and a refusal to hand over tax returns have meant that he truly is exonerated. Really hoping that pride comes before a fall but that's true of the last 2 years with him.

Point also being that exoneration meant universal support or any and all restrictions to what he wanted done removed.
So headspace must be even closer to megalomania.
Not that he was healthy before but seems like he's totally flipped now.

Just extrapolating, but is he believing Stephen Miller? Yes.

this is not as huge as things generally discussed here, but still pretty fucked

New: Congress is about to *make it illegal* for the government to offer free online tax filing. Thank TurboTax. https://t.co/r2PuLM9lML

— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) April 9, 2019

infuriating

goodness this Barr is an arrogant prick

good guy kris kobach is finally getting his reward

NEW: Kris Kobach said Tuesday he is eager to become @realDonaldTrump's Homeland Security secretary & confirmed he's been in communication w/ White House. https://t.co/YHtvFgj0CD @dcexaminer

— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) April 9, 2019

Or...or...he could crawl into a cave and die

seems like the right guy to head up new dismemberment and child-eating programs

he already knows how to break laws, which is practically written into the job description

I hope Stephen Miller has an aneurysm

Wait, you guys cant lodge your tax returns online via a govt website? That should be the ONLY way you can do it! Geesh they force everyone onto the fucking "eGov" website in this country.

Idiot behaves idiotically.

This piece has the tone of something that would have run in the Washington Post in the early 90s when they were all about pointing out what rubes the Clintons were.

And despite his criticisms, Trump found something to like at Mount Vernon, too. Among the artifacts preserved there is the bed where Washington passed away from a throat infection in 1799. Trump, who is infamously picky about where he sleeps and resists spending nights away from home, felt out the bedpost and told the Macrons and Bradburn that he approved, according to three people briefed on the event.

"A good bed to die in,” Trump said.

don't let us stop you buddy, go right ahead

That piece reads like a parody.

xxp idgi, this doesn't highlight his taste or provincialism, it goes after his stupidity and incuriosity

caught a minute of a pod talking about how the dismissal of nielsen means by statute the deputy is the new director, the admin didnt plan for that and announced the “new director,” leaving nielsen’s final act to be dismissal of her backup. Dunno if that’s how it’ll play out or be styled.

Meanwhile everyone’s walking around like it’s a fucking commercial, i hate these days.

Heard that re Nielsen. & the person went onto joke about the person she fired having to fire somebody as she herself left.

Also hearing that the idea of leaving every official position being filled by an acting official may be as much tactic as mistake.
& it all meaning there would be less actual resistance to any policy trump tried to introduce.

“I don’t know whether Bob Mueller supported my conclusion” on obstruction, Barr says.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 10, 2019

boy the media really nailed it with their "TRUMP FOUND INNOCENT OF ALL WRONGDOING" headlines

Poor Mueller. The only guy who read his 400 page manuscript didn't really understand it.

"A Good Bed to Die In" has to be next thread title

"I am concerned about it," Barr says of spying on the Trump campaign in 2016. "There might be abuses that don't rise to the level of a crime."

He declined to explain the basis for his concern about spying in 2016.

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 10, 2019

This Barr seems a traet

I am reluctantly coming to think that the only way for Dems to win is to get their own WWE-style candidate with about five talking points repeated ad naseum, together with plenty of the bombast and name calling. There is so much noise these days, I am not sure the principled reasoned candidate.

Someone talk me off the ledge, please.

*can win*