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

Hefferman is a loon.

Possibly it's just prudish centrists—formerly "Americans"—who think any of l'Affaire Russe is a disgrace.

I'm with them, but I definitely see the fun of the lefty thing; I'm just too old for a romance with Russia and a rebel inversion of American values & common sense.

— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) March 31, 2019

jesus

https://news.yahoo.com/why-im-a-creationist-141907217.html

^ Reading that does not inspire my confidence in Heffernan's ability to think through complex ideas.

Wow that was a waste of bandwidth.

whoa that is awful. my question remains as to legit summaries of kushner. the person she interviewed was ward, the author of the recent book, ahe seemed credible but ay the company you keep...

Kirstjen Nielsen quits.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen submitted her resignation to President Donald Trump Sunday night, in an unexpected move that appears related to the president’s ongoing rage over the number of Central American families and asylum-seekers coming into the United States.

Kevin McAleenan, the head of Customs and Border Protection, will serve as acting DHS secretary. It’s not yet clear whether Trump will formally nominate a successor to Nielsen in the near future.

Nielsen, the sixth head of the Department of Homeland Security and Trump’s second appointee (she was confirmed in December 2017 after mentor John Kelly left to become White House chief of staff), has arguably been the most aggressive secretary in the department’s short history in cracking down on immigration — with her legacy likely to be defined among progressives by the “zero tolerance” prosecution policy of late spring and early summer 2018 that resulted in the separation of thousands of families at the US/Mexico border.

None of it appears to have been enough for Donald Trump.

Seems timed to coincide with T. torpedoing his own ICE head nominee to go "in a tougher direction."

Okay, Don, good luck finding the reanimated Vlad the Impaler who would be tough enough to signal manliness to your base.

Was reading in Washington Post that 45 said he relies on Stephen Miller for all immigration matters. Miller was reportedly unhappy with Nielsen and the Ice Director nominee.

Seems like whoever it is that runs against him in 2020 needs to focus some of their campaign reaching out past Trump and putting advisors/appointees like Miller/DeVos/Bolton on blast.

looking out for the little guy

New: Trump overtime pay rule will cost workers $1.2 billion a year in wages they would have made under a more expansive Obama proposal stalled in court, @EconomicPolicy says. https://t.co/DeeQApFCot

— Chris Opfer (@ChrisOpfer) April 8, 2019

good morning!

well, yeah

Hi. The president wants to shoot people at the border. pic.twitter.com/nV6ZLjr9GA

— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) April 7, 2019

Well, not JUST at the border, tbf.

BREAKING: President Trump fires director of Secret Servicehttps://t.co/EocncAVWhY

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) April 8, 2019

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

should never have caught that Chinese lady, there’s your big mistake

he should fire the whole secret service

so basically Stephen Miller is just running the entire government by himself now, right?

xp During a parade, from the backseat of a convertible

xp j kush is co-running it with him

buddy comedy with kush and miller but it's only funny because they die painfully.

in Maine, it's 2001 anthrax nostalgia

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/04/08/burlington-woman-charged-with-mailing-threat-powder-to-susan-collins/

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