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Bumping channels on Sirius XM. Stop for three seconds on MSNBC. The sentence fragment I hear is "... the Trump administration's plans to eliminate FEMA". 

Sigh. On to music. 

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3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Am I the only one who still cares about her goddamned emails?!

I’ve moved on to the price of eggs. I can’t sustain the rage on two separate issues.

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3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Am I the only one who still cares about her goddamned emails?!

And to think, we have been visited by this horror show because she didn't want to look like a dork and have two phones. 

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17 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

The idea of being an Eskimo brother with Donald Trump Jr. would be enough to sicken the normal person. 

 

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Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

Donald Trump, Jr.

Tiger Woods

 

she kinda seems like a ho.

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These people are monsters:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dhs-sec-noem-says-move-193625920.html

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the department would move to “eliminate” the government’s disaster relief agency, days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing state and local governments to “play a more active and significant role” in responding to such catastrophes.

Noem, whose department oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has previously vowed to “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today”; Trump has said he would close the agency entirely, but that would require an act of Congress.

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4 minutes ago, yoladu said:

Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

Donald Trump, Jr.

Tiger Woods

 

she kinda seems like a ho.

What's Arabic for "no gag reflex"

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Promising not to drink if you’re allowed to be SecDef is one of the top three most “problem drinker” things ever said. 

preceded only by "hold my beer" and "she said she was 18"

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3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Can't get over the emojis.  They're texting about war like me and my buddies text during a Longhorn football game.

This contains multitudes. My favorite is JD Vance telling them all he’s praying and then others sending the praying hands emoji. You know they were rolling their eyes. 

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2 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

There will absolutely be a nuclear weapon accidentally launched at some point during the next 3 years 

 

the nuke button, and diet coke button are both red !!!!

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7 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

There will absolutely be a nuclear weapon accidentally launched at some point during the next 3 years 

Yeah, at us.  "Accidentally."

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I need David Cross to do something related to this administration.  I don't know what, but something. It's fucking slow Donny. But without the faking. Its very real.

 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

the nuke button, and diet coke button are both red !!!!

from the Economic Times...

US President Donald Trump pushed "the nuclear button" in his Oval Desk, during an interview on Fox News. But, interestingly, instead of leading to widespread devastation, the red button ordered him a Diet Coke. Trump proudly showed off his Diet Coke button to Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview.

"Where the Coke button?" the interviewer asked, to which Trump - who is said to be improving his diet - responded, "It's right here." He went on: "Everyone thinks that a nuclear weapon, they say if I press this it's the end of the world."

 

hardy har har har

 

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-diet-coke-button-nuclear-button-if-i-press-this-its-the-end-of-the-world-trump-tells-fox-news-laura-ingraham-in-oval-office/articleshow/119264775.cms?from=mdr

 

 

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7 hours ago, bolverk said:

fry from futurama is shocked with his mouth open

The White House invites a new guest to its Easter event: corporate sponsors.
The White House wants to recruit corporate sponsors to contribute to its Easter Egg Roll next month, raising ethical and legal concerns that President Trump is allowing companies to profit from the 147-year-old tradition by turning it into a showcase for their brands.

The financial backers of the April 21 event would be able to choose from three options that cost between $75,000 and $200,000, according to a nine-page guide for potential sponsors that was reviewed by The New York Times.

The most expensive package includes a corporate booth, logo placements, branded snacks or beverages, exclusive tickets to brunch with the first lady, Melania Trump, a chance to engage with the White House Press Corps, a private White House tour and 150 tickets to the event.

“Be a part of history,” reads the guide, which was written by Harbinger, an event production company founded by Republican aides in 2013. It invites sponsors to “provide financial support, activities and giveaways to enhance the event while gaining valuable brand visibility and national recognition.”

As in the past, any money raised through the event will go to the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit educational organization founded by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961. The event is largely held without taxpayer dollars, with the American Egg Board, a marketing group for the egg industry, sponsoring thousands of eggs for the event — but without the kind of visibility laid out by Harbinger’s guide.

Federal regulations prohibit government employees from using their public office for private gain. Richard W. Painter, who served as chief ethics lawyer in the White House Counsel’s Office under President George W. Bush, said that the White House was clearly breaking that code by allowing private enterprises to use an official event to showcase their brands and letting the proceeds flow into a private nonprofit.

“I’m shocked that they are doing this to raise money,” Mr. Painter said, adding that his team under Mr. Bush did not even allow public schools to be named after Mr. Bush. “You can’t use the power of the United States government to favor one nonprofit over another.”

Mr. Painter said that some in Mr. Trump’s White House have argued that the ethics laws technically do not apply to the president, but most presidents have complied with some sort of ethical guidelines since President Richard M. Nixon resigned in 1974.

The White House did not comment on the sponsorship plan, which was reported earlier by CNN. Harbinger and the White House Historical Association did not respond to requests for comment.

Mr. Trump and the first lady have been widely criticized in recent months for blurring the ethical line between their official duties and powers and leveraging it for private gain.

Earlier this month, the president hosted an exclusive car show for Tesla at the White House with Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive who also leads the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal work force and spending.

And just days before Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump announced his own cryptocurrency, which he has promoted on social media — including on Sunday, writing on his Truth Social site that it was “SO COOL.” Mrs. Trump also announced her own memecoin the day before her husband took office.

The White House Easter Egg Roll first took place in 1878 under President Rutherford B. Hayes, two years after Congress passed a law prohibiting children from rolling eggs — and themselves — down Capitol Hill. Tens of thousands of attendees congregate each year on the South Lawn as children try to roll hard-boiled eggs to the finish line without cracking them.

White House Easter Egg Hunter, sponsored by Carl's Jr.

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on the bright side, the next time one of the super red gulf states gets decimated by a Cat4, they can take solace in the fact their demise was heightened by the too warm waters of the the Gulf of AMERICA 🇺🇸 

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12 minutes ago, mchookem said:

on the bright side, the next time one of the super red gulf states gets decimated by a Cat4, they can take solace in the fact their demise was heightened by the too warm waters of the the Gulf of AMERICA 🇺🇸 

Sure as shit aint gonna be destroyed by a uh, Gulf of Mexican- uh-  hurricane!

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17 minutes ago, mchookem said:

on the bright side, the next time one of the super red gulf states gets decimated by a Cat4, they can take solace in the fact their demise was heightened by the too warm waters of the the Gulf of AMERICA 🇺🇸 

If it’s Mississippi they can just ask Brett Favre for money. 

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We’re gonna be 9/11’d again real soon, absolutely guaranteed. Probably give it another year or so to let the incompetence really set in but it’s gonna happen. Good luck everyone.

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Just now, 'stache said:

We’re gonna be 9/11’d again real soon, absolutely guaranteed. Probably give it another year or so to let the incompetence really set in but it’s gonna happen. Good luck everyone.

And the chances of that attack being domestic....and against some "den of evil wokeness," like a high-value target in California, are rather high.

Fuck, I'm not kidding about the chances of Trump ordering the use of military force (like airstrikes) against US territory being a real number.  It's a thing that you absolutely cannot rule out happening.

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9 minutes ago, 'stache said:

We’re gonna be 9/11’d again real soon, absolutely guaranteed. Probably give it another year or so to let the incompetence really set in but it’s gonna happen. Good luck everyone.

Why?  Everyone in the world, including the terrorists, see that we're 9/11-ing ourselves right now.  Why put themselves out when we're doing a smash-up job of fucking up the country on our own?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.uZAk.kerz8O4-LVCG&referringSource=articleShare

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Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation

Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

 

The timeline in her complaint is pretty wild.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187.1.0.pdf

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49. Nearly simultaneously, at approximately 7:02 p.m., Ms. Chung received a text
message from a number previously unknown to her, saying: “Hi, Yunseo. This is Audrey from the
police. My job is to reach out to you and see if you have any questions about your recent arrest
and the process going forward. When are [sic] available for a phone call?”


50. Shortly thereafter, before 8:00 p.m., an attorney, Nayantara Bhushan, called the
number from which the text had been sent and spoke with an individual who identified herself as
“Audrey,” an agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a sub-component of ICE. She
advised Attorney Bhushan that, “due to the situation with the protesting, the State Department was
at liberty to revoke [Ms. Chung’s] LPR status.” The agent stated that there was an administrative
warrant for Ms. Chung’s arrest.

 

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24 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Yeah they're looking to punish Columbia eliminate any and all higher education in the US that does not teach unquestioning loyalty to the regime.

FIF accuracy.

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On 3/22/2025 at 7:01 AM, TexasHooch said:

The actual quote:

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Brutal.  

 

the reverse Stringer Bell

7 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

I will donate to get Surly in on this!  I wanna see who ends up bangin Melania.  

@Steel Shank it's your time to shine!

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Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time

Spoiler

Trump's "Team of Amateurs" Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way

This afternoon, just before 1 pm ET, The Atlantic posted what is, hands down, the wildest and most insane story I have ever read about US national security: The White House National Security Advisor added the editor of The Atlanticto a group chat with nation’s most senior leaders — including the vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, director of national intelligence, and CIA director — to discuss classified war plans and a weekend military operation targeting the Houthis in Yemen. 

Read the article yourself. 

No, really — if you haven’t — please stop here and just go read the article. I promise you the headline and whatever summary you’ve heard is way less weird, way less troubling, and way less eye-popping than the reality. 

Please go read it and then come back here. 

An actual screenshot from The Atlantic editor’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s accidental group chat 

Now that you’ve read the whole piece (you did, right?), I wanted to share six quick reactions worth thinking about: 

1) Imagine the other foot. I know it’s exhausting to think about the “but her emails!” comparisons, but I’d like you to imagine for a minute what would have happened if Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had accidentally added Tucker Carlson to a group chat about classified war plans? It’s impossible to imagine Sullivan lasting a single hour in office before resigning — this would be the biggest scandal of the Biden administration full stop. There would be Republican congressional hearings, the ole flurry of subpoenas, and calls across Capitol Hill for multiple officials to resign. And here’s the thing: They would all be right. Here’s a whole thread that Matthew Gertz pulled together of all the same officials from the group chat previously damning the mishandling of classified intel. And yet it seems all but impossible to imagine any of the Trump officials facing any punishment for this egregious violation of multiple federal laws. There is no shame in this administration — and that, in and of itself, should deeply deeply concern us as citizens. A functioning democracy requires public officials capable of shame and embarrassment and accountability. 

2) Our allies are watching. It’s worth also considering how our allies will read this story too. The first Trump administration had plenty of its own problems protecting valuable national security information — remember Trump telling the Russian foreign minister about a classified Israeli operation? — and Trump out of office famously kept all manner of classified intel in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. Now add to that troubled record the worrisome appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Now add to that the recent Trump rhetoric raising concerns about US reliability as an ally or defense partner. Now add to all of that two new stories from just the last 100 hours: The idea that Elon Musk was going to be briefed on secret China war plans and now, the very next business day, a stunning example of the Trump principals mishandling sensitive operational war plans. Put all of that together and ask yourself: Is this a government and group of people you’d want to share your own sensitive intelligence with? Is this a government and group of people you’d be willing to share intelligence that put lives of your operatives or agents at risk? The CIA director posted an active undercover intelligence officer’s name in the group chat for pete’s sake. There are already moves to isolate the US from international intelligence sharing — and surely this story will only accelerate those conversations, to our detriment and our allies’ detriment. 

3) The White House just doesn’t believe the rules apply to it (Part 1). 18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, “through gross negligence permit [classified intelligence] to be … delivered to anyone in violation of [that] trust.” 

If the test for a criminal investigation is “gross negligence,” I guess it would be slightly more grossly negligent to add Dmitry Peskov or Vladimir Putin himself to a principals’ committee Signal chat about classified war plans, but only barely. In fact, there are two separate but important parts of this mishandling that would be worthy of follow-up investigation: Waltz’s original action adding Jeffrey Goldberg to the group chat, but then, after Goldberg left the chat, no one bothered to see who “JG” was in the chat group in the first place. It doesn’t appear that the Trump administration even realized Goldberg had been in the chat until he went to the National Security Council for comment. Did anyone realize that Goldberg was in the chat? If so, that’s a separate violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(f), which requires anyone “having knowledge that [classified intelligence] has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust … fails to make prompt report of such loss.” If no one is monitoring who is leaving these group chats nor paying attention to who is added and who is in one conversation vs. another, that’s a recipe for even more counterintelligence failures going forward. 

4) The White House just doesn’t believe the rules apply to it (Part 2). All sorts of corners of the US government use encrypted Signal chats in ways both it should and shouldn’t. But the fact that Mike Waltz “set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four” should raise all sorts of alarms for us as citizens and particularly for us journalists and historians. This is clearly not a Signal thread that anyone had any intention of preserving — as they are legally required to do! — under federal records law. So: How many other Signal group chats are underway right now where people in the Trump White House are ignoring federal law? What decisions are being made right now with no records or future accountability? To be clear, this is itself a violation of federal law — and not only did no one on the group chat object (“Hey, maybe we shouldn’t be having policy discussions on a group chat!”) but they all participated casually and deeply enough to make clear that this is routine SOP in the Trump administration today. 

5) This is not a smoothly functioning government (Part 543,651,690). Lost amid the headline-grabbing insanity of the classified details is what the principals were discussing on the group chat. It doesn’t take reading too deeply between the lines to see that the principals weren’t entirely clear on what Trump had ordered — someone, apparently Stephen Miller, says, “as I heard it, the president was clear: green light” — which raises some troubling questions about how much White House staff and Cabinet leaders are interpreting or reading the tea leaves on vague presidential directives or desires. When the president of the United States commits US military forces to operations overseas there shouldn’t be any “as I heard it” ambiguity. Moreover, the principals here were having notably pointed policy discussions in the group chat — which, under a normal functioning government, would be handled at the interagency level by staff and sorted out long before it got a point where the vice president and defense secretary are texting back and forth. The idea that the highest-ranking officials of the US government are just texting each other in the same group chat you use with your college roommates from a decade ago should raise dizzying questions about how policy is being thoughtfully decided and road-tested inside the federal government right now. This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles — the most unqualified vice president, the most unqualified secretary of defense, the most unqualified director of national intelligence, the most unqualified FBI director, and on and on and on. This will surely not be the last time we see Trump’s “Team of Amateurs” stumble into messes. 

6) Democrats are still not up for this moment. Criticizing the Trump administration for this spectacular foul-up should be one of the easiest calls for Dems on Capitol Hill. And while there were plenty of snide social mediacomments from Democratic members of Congress, notably missing was, you know, the actual outrage. Senators went with memes: 

Where were the calls for a special prosecutor? Where were the calls for resignations? Where were the calls for impeachments? If Democrats can’t muster the energy to be outraged about this — the world’s easiest outrage! — how are they possible up to this political moment? Every Dem should be hanging this albatross about the Trump administration and forcing every GOP member of Congress to defend or condemn this clown show of amateurs. 

Really, if you’ve made it this far and not read the underlying article, I beg you: Go read it. 

As I said to a friend this afternoon — here’s the crazy part: This would be an epochal career-ending scandal in any other modern presidential administration. It broke at 1 pm on a Monday, though, and so I’m not even sure it’ll be the biggest Trump scandal of today or this week….

 

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The only time he seems remotely happy is when he’s talking shit about celebrities. For the good of the nation we should have made Robert Pattinson keep dating Kristen Stewart to distract him from trying to be president. 


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