President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[DanOregon]

RIP Mark Twain Prize …

Conan O'Brien accepts Mark Twain Prize for humor as politics roils the Kennedy Center

O’Brien accepted the award for lifetime achievement in comedy Sunday night while acknowledging the backstage turmoil that hangs over the future of the cultural center in Washington.

apnews.com

Love these grafs : " Once the festivities began, Stephen Colbert joked that the Kennedy Center had announced two new board members: Bashar Assad, the ousted president of Syria, and Skeletor, a fictional supervillain.

John Mulaney quipped that the entire building would soon be renamed "the Roy Cohn Pavilion" after one of Trump's mentors. And Sarah Silverman made multiple Trump jokes that were too vulgar to print."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Constitution? fork that!

 

[DanOregon]

Trump Appoints ‘Alina Habba, Esq.’ to Top DOJ Job: ‘She Will Fight Tirelessly’

Trump said Habba would serve as the interim US Attorney for the District of New Jersey – a role currently filled by John Giordano.

www.mediaite.com

Trump names Hababa US Attorney for New Jersey. Previous interim - a Trump guy apparently - is appointed Ambassador to Namibia.

NAMIBIA??

Step up from Jersey. Bada-BING!!!!!

 

[HanSenSE]

If the fine folks in Greenland don't want Mrs. JV and her posse there, why can't they just say no?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Operational security? fork that!

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

 

[HanSenSE]

Operational security? fork that!

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

The best people!

 

[SixToe]

If the fine folks in Greenland don't want Mrs. JV and her posse there, why can't they just say no?

I thought about that, too.

Unless Denmark said something like, "Nah, let them visit and don't cause a kerfluffle" or someone in the Greenland semi-maybe-sortaguvermint said the same, couldn't they just deny entry to the country outside the military base?

You want to tour the base? Fine. You want to visit a dogsled race or other sites that y'all don't give two shirts about, just to preen and pose? Nope.

 

[sgreenwell]

Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher

Whatever happens to USAID, it will apparently “leverage blockchain technology.”…

arstechnica.com

This feels like a headline from 2 or 3 years ago. Like back then, every video game company was looking into blockchain, and after burning X dollars trying to do it, pretty much all of them have abandoned it.

 

[DanOregon]

JD Vance Criticizes Trump in Leaked War Plans Group Chat: ‘Not Sure the President Is Aware How Inconsistent This Is’

Vice President JD Vance criticized the judgment of his boss, President Donald Trump, in a leaked national security groupchat.

www.mediaite.com

I actually found the exchange interesting. Behind the public bluster, there is some "thought" put into various actions. Love the worries about "opsec" and the plan leaking. Whoops!

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I'm disappointed Goldberg left the group chat. He should have sent a message that said "Thanks for including on this" and dropped a link to the story he published.

 

[Webster]

Trump Appoints ‘Alina Habba, Esq.’ to Top DOJ Job: ‘She Will Fight Tirelessly’

Trump said Habba would serve as the interim US Attorney for the District of New Jersey – a role currently filled by John Giordano.

www.mediaite.com

Trump names Hababa US Attorney for New Jersey. Previous interim - a Trump guy apparently - is appointed Ambassador to Namibia.

NAMIBIA??

Step up from Jersey. Bada-BING!!!!!

Just staggering. She has never practiced in federal court. She is not a criminal defense lawyer. She has never supervised any group of lawyers. But she's hot, servile and shameless.

I'm quite sure her examination by the GOP senators will be rigorous.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Just staggering. She has never practiced in federal court. She is not a criminal defense lawyer. She has never supervised any group of lawyers. But she's hot, servile and shameless.

I'm quite sure her examination by the GOP senators will be rigorous.

So she should be serving in the 6th Circuit?