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Chapter 98 of The Shit Show.
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President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.

The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.

“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
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One just stops knowing how to respond to such... I don't even know what you call this.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Chapter 98 of The Shit Show.
article said:
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.

The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.

“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
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One just stops knowing how to respond to such... I don't even know what you call this.
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A plausible deniability Fail.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Chapter 98 of The Shit Show.
article said:
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.

The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.

“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.
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One just stops knowing how to respond to such... I don't even know what you call this.
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Brings to mind:
I wonder what must it be like to live unencumbered by reality, truth and morals? Seriously.
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Every department head should be fired by now for failing a performance review.
 
www.yahoo.com

New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy

Both Medicaid and SNAP would suffer hundreds of billions in cuts, according to the analysis
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An analysis by Yale University has found that a budget plan being considered by Republican lawmakers would ultimately transfer wealth from the poorest 40 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent.

Researchers Harris Eppsteiner and John Ricco of Yale's Budget Lab found that the proposed GOP budget whose framework was supported last month in a vote by the House would include $4.5 trillion in tax cuts that would largely benefit the wealthy, along with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, including to benefits for the public, including the poorest.

Approximately $230 billion of those cuts would come from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — often shorted to SNAP — which helps poor families afford food.

Another $880 billion would come from cuts to Medicaid, which provides assistance for individuals with limited resources to pay for healthcare. It’s also the program that covers most costs for 60 percent of elderly Americans in nursing homes.

Both cuts would occur over a 10-year period.

"The overall effect of these policy changes would be regressive, shifting after-tax-and-transfer resources away” from households at the “bottom of the distribution towards those at the top," Eppsteiner and Ricco wrote in their analysis.
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ZiprHead said:
www.yahoo.com

New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy

Both Medicaid and SNAP would suffer hundreds of billions in cuts, according to the analysis
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An analysis by Yale University has found that a budget plan being considered by Republican lawmakers would ultimately transfer wealth from the poorest 40 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent.

Researchers Harris Eppsteiner and John Ricco of Yale's Budget Lab found that the proposed GOP budget whose framework was supported last month in a vote by the House would include $4.5 trillion in tax cuts that would largely benefit the wealthy, along with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, including to benefits for the public, including the poorest.

Approximately $230 billion of those cuts would come from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — often shorted to SNAP — which helps poor families afford food.

Another $880 billion would come from cuts to Medicaid, which provides assistance for individuals with limited resources to pay for healthcare. It’s also the program that covers most costs for 60 percent of elderly Americans in nursing homes.

Both cuts would occur over a 10-year period.

"The overall effect of these policy changes would be regressive, shifting after-tax-and-transfer resources away” from households at the “bottom of the distribution towards those at the top," Eppsteiner and Ricco wrote in their analysis.
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Anyone who's shock by this hasn't been paying attention.
 
More woo from Trump administration. This time threatening to use a polygraph tests to find leakers.

From AP
At the Homeland Security Department, Secretary Kristi Noem pledged this month to step up lie detector tests on employees in an effort to identify those who may be leaking information about operations to the media.

While polygraph exams are typically not admissible in court proceedings, they are frequently used by federal law enforcement agencies and for national security clearances. In 1998, the Supreme Court ruled they were also inadmissible in military justice proceedings.

They are inadmissible because they are unreliable and often result in false positives, said George Maschke, a former Army interrogator and reserve intelligence officer who went on to found AntiPolygraph.org. Mashke failed a polygraph himself when applying to the FBI.

But they have been intermittently used since the 1990s to intimidate and scare sources from talking to reporters, Maschke said. A 1999 Pentagon report said it was expanding the program to use polygraphs on defense personnel “if classified information they had access to has been leaked.”
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As everyone should know, the polygraph is pseudoscience and unreliable. But not everyone knows that so this is just meant to create fear.

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Polygraph - Wikipedia

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apnews.com

Pentagon is the latest agency to announce a leak investigation that could include polygraphs

The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information.
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As everyone should know, the polygraph is pseudoscience and unreliable. But not everyone knows that so this is just meant to create fear.
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Well, that's the way polygraphs work - they cause ignorant subjects to fear being caught if they lie. The fear is always both an essential element, and the objective, of the exercise.

That is, they are a placebo - they work if, and only if, the subject expects them to work, and fears that they will.

The embrace of this kind of pseudo-scientific claptrap, and the weaponisation of fear, by the Trump administration should surprise nobody.
 
Trump appointing Alina Habba as Interim US Attorney for New Jersey? Alina Habba is best known as the lawyer that helped screw over a "friend" to help out Trump in an employee dispute. She has been with Trump since. Is it common for legal lightweights to be named US Attorneys?
 
blastula said:
Sigh. Defense Secretary is drunk texting.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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'A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. '

They don't even know how to spell principals... sigh. I know that this is the least wrong thing in all of this, but still...
 
Ehh, my spelling sucks because my brain works differently than other people.

It takes a serious effort on my part to get words and sentences correct. Lots of rewrites. I'll mispell a word I spelled correctly in the same sentence.

But numbers, are easy. I remember numbers from days, weeks, or years ago.

Unless they are dates like birthdays. Go figure.
 
Shadowy Man said:
blastula said:
Sigh. Defense Secretary is drunk texting.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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From article:
'A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. '

They don't even know how to spell principals... sigh. I know that this is the least wrong thing in all of this, but still...
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This is all over the news right now and in the NYTimes and I think WaPo. Looks like the idiot appointed in charge of defense is still drinking. They need to get him out of that position ASAP, but will they? :mad:

Stupid Republican assholes!
 
southernhybrid said:
Shadowy Man said:
blastula said:
Sigh. Defense Secretary is drunk texting.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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From article:
'A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. '

They don't even know how to spell principals... sigh. I know that this is the least wrong thing in all of this, but still...
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This is all over the news right now and in the NYTimes and I think WaPo. Looks like the idiot appointed in charge of defense is still drinking. They need to get him out of that position ASAP, but will they? :mad:

Stupid Republican assholes!
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WashPo shared link.



I'm certain that the solution in the Trump Admin is to send The Atlantic reporter to El Salvador.
 
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Jimmy Higgins said:
southernhybrid said:
Shadowy Man said:
blastula said:
Sigh. Defense Secretary is drunk texting.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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From article:
'A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. '

They don't even know how to spell principals... sigh. I know that this is the least wrong thing in all of this, but still...
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This is all over the news right now and in the NYTimes and I think WaPo. Looks like the idiot appointed in charge of defense is still drinking. They need to get him out of that position ASAP, but will they? :mad:

Stupid Republican assholes!
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WashPo shared link.



I'm certain that the solution in the Trump Admin is to send The Atlantic reporter to El Salvador.
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You beat me to it. I had just copied that same link. :)
 
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