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So uh, Trump pulling off a Monday Afternoon Massacre on the DHS is... something else.  That’s not in my “Trump Hell World Vol. 1” script, but let’s see where he runs with it.
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We should encourage Trump to keep going and fire the entirety of the DHS. Shut the whole thing down--nothing of value will be lost. Good Donny! Keep firing!
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Apr 8, 2019 22:56
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STAC Goat posted:I don't think these two narratives/stories are mutually exclusive. One story says that they were anticipating firings for weeks, the other story going around is that Trump demanded Nielsen close the borders weeks ago and got angry when she said she couldn't. Both narratives fit together into one narrative where Trump has been getting angrier and more frantic about the border, demanding things that are illegal and/or impossible, and getting ready to fire those who he sees as standing in his way. I'm just saying he's totally consolidating power.
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Ripoff posted:So uh, Trump pulling off a Monday Afternoon Massacre on the DHS is... something else. I sorta expected this kinda poo poo earlier in his presidency. it feels like its kinda too late now.
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/ The Yang "$1,000 to play video games" thing is in there as well. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1115371268864450562
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The Glumslinger posted:Did I miss this one earlier?
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Apr 8, 2019 23:03
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Chilichimp posted:I'm just saying he's totally consolidating power. Sure. But he's been trying to do that since he fired Reince Priebus or sometime around then. But he still has his back against laws and reality, and more importantly everyone else does from his underlings to the grunts who have to act out orders. So he's not necessarily any closer to closing the borders with someone other than Neilsen because the roadblock isn't as simple as someone who wants to happen (again, I doubt Nielsen had any moral qualm with closing the borders or refusing asylum claims).
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Apr 8, 2019 23:03
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STAC Goat posted:Sure. But he's been trying to do that since he fired Reince Priebus or sometime around then. He's also massively incompetent, and that gets in his way a lot.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:05
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I mean, on the plus side I suppose it does make it easier to pick those for the guillotines.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:06
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pseudanonymous posted:He's also massively incompetent, and that gets in his way a lot. Case in point, he wants to defy his own Executive Order to restart family separations. Even the most racist, evil bastard in the White House can see that's going to be tough to spin.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:06
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Krispy Wafer posted:We should expand legal immigration while continuing to discourage illegal immigration. Trump's trying to get rid of both because he doesn't want foreign poor brown people here regardless of how they arrived. Our system is so broken there's really no sensible or ethical way to "continue discouraging illegal immigration" without completely overhauling the whole thing. Most "illegal immigrants" are people who the legal immigration and/or asylum system has utterly failed.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:08
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This is the most incompetent Night of the Long Knives shaningans right now No one is going to agree to shut down one of the busiest economic borders in the world and destroy major industries overnight How is this not a red alert for the 25th?
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Apr 8, 2019 23:09
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FilthyImp posted:So is this a Marbury v Madison thing or does Congress step in and tell him to stop slamming his dick in the door? Well Republicans aren't going to do anything to restrain their leader, much less on an issue that has been the favorite conservative propaganda topic for at least a decade, so realistically there's nothing that's going to restrain Donald. Maybe something would change if the judiciary starts making noise about prosecuting the border police for violating civil rights, but let's be honest - they've been cheering on police excess for decades.
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TulliusCicero posted:How is this not a red alert for the 25th? Because they can just ignore his dumb poo poo and seize the actual power and money that he doesn't even understand, let alone use, and leave him as a figurehead. Like they have been.
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Trump is 100% going to try to close the border soon. Hopefully it happens Friday to coincide with Brexit so we can get all the dumbest poo poo happening on the same day.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:16
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TulliusCicero posted:This is the most incompetent Night of the Long Knives shaningans right now Trump will never be 25th Amendment'd because his cabinet consists mostly of vacancies, Mick Mulvaney running in and out of the room putting on different hats to try and trick Trump into thinking he's 8 different people, and Ben Carson (who needs to be checked on every other day to make sure he's not dead or something). You need to have a cabinet in order for the cabinet to invoke the 25th on you. also they're all loyal bootlickers who wouldn't sign the letter even if Trump were roaming the halls of the White House shooting them in the head with a shotgun at point blank range one by one.
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Lightning Knight posted:Absolutely incredible. I work at a 3 star hotel and they covered this in my training, I am aghast at how stupid cops are. This is because basically every company has been burned by having user data compromised at this point and some aspects of the best practices (ahaha who am I kidding, at least basic not terrible practices) are filtering through as the settlements and brand damage are pretty substantial. Secret service doesn't have that pressure so yeah outside of some bureaucrat deciding that good information security practices are suddenly super important things that all employees under them should be paid to get trained in, they're not going to get any training
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Apr 8, 2019 23:17
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Bugsy posted:http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalists-adopt-clowns-as-their-next-racist-symbol-yes-seriously/ "Unremarkable white people have so little culture of their own they're adopting clown culture" is a dystopian future I didn't see coming.
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nine-gear crow posted:Trump will never be 25th Amendment'd because his cabinet consists mostly of vacancies, Mick Mulvaney running in and out of the room putting on different hats to try and trick Trump into thinking he's 8 different people, and Ben Carson (who needs to be checked on every other day to make sure he's not dead or something). Yeah pretty much. This stuff isn't getting met with resistance because the system basically just doesn't work very well.
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Kaal posted:Yeah pretty much. This stuff isn't getting met with resistance because the system basically just doesn't work very well. Turns out a system of government created within the ranks of "polite society" doesn't hold up too well against a shameless sociopath and cancerous egotist like Trump.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:30
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Main Paineframe posted:Without the 1996 law, which drastically expanded deportation authority and detainment requirements, many of these people wouldn't even have been detained at all. I wonder what it was about 96 that would have resulted in poo poo laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_United_States_Congress oh yeah the loving Republican contract on America.
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I was hoping it would be a case where someone sues him and there's basically an email going "FIRE EVERYONE I WANT GUY ON THE CASE NOW! DIET COKE TOO" because they're too incompetent to cover their bullshit.
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InsertPotPun posted:"Unremarkable white people have so little culture of their own they're adopting clown culture" is a dystopian future I didn't see coming. We've had the juggalos for quite some time already.
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The Super-Id posted:We've had the juggalos for quite some time already. Juggalos are surely flawed but one juggalo is worth 300 billion clown nazis. Watch out spies and hackers, if you get caught the Keystone Cops are on the case
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Stickman posted:Our system is so broken there's really no sensible or ethical way to "continue discouraging illegal immigration" without completely overhauling the whole thing. Most "illegal immigrants" are people who the legal immigration and/or asylum system has utterly failed. We need to drastically expand legal immigration and probably look at amnesty or current undocumented immigrants. So yeah, an overhaul is probably necessary. Republicans should have embraced Latinos. After 2012 their own internal research showed that was their best bet to stay relevant. Instead they went full Trump. Heck, I think Asian immigrants trend even more conservative than Latinos and Trump has done his level best to screw them too.
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The Super-Id posted:We've had the juggalos for quite some time already. That is the future that liberals want.
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Krispy Wafer posted:We need to drastically expand legal immigration and probably look at amnesty or current undocumented immigrants. So yeah, an overhaul is probably necessary. Yeah, Bush 2 tried to do that but Adelson and the other wealthy donors threw a loving fit and that strategy got shitcanned pretty quick.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Republicans should have embraced Latinos. After 2012 their own internal research showed that was their best bet to stay relevant. Instead they went full Trump. Heck, I think Asian immigrants trend even more conservative than Latinos and Trump has done his level best to screw them too.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:45
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mod sassinator posted:That thumb drive was almost certainly using an exploit called BadUSB (https://hackaday.com/tag/badusb/) that's an issue that can own pretty much anyone no matter how careful they think they're being--even plugging it in to an airgapped PC and trying to attach it to a VM will own the host computer. The issue is that 20-30 years ago when USB was added to operating systems they made the brilliant design decision that of course all hardware like keyboards and mice should always be trusted and immediately accessible to the user. Surely no one would create a nefarious keyboard that quickly types in commands to open a terminal and install a rootkit! Would this pwn me if, say, I were to stick this into my Linux Mint dualboot instead of my Win10 install? What if I had loaded up a LiveDVD session instead and never gave it Wifi credentials?
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Nowadays you can cram a BadUSB attack into a tiny microcontroller that's small enough to hide directly in the USB connector itself, so you literally cannot trust any USB cable you plug into your computer.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:47
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Lycus posted:Suddenly imagining a gang of alt-rightist clowns fighting a gang of Juggalos. Project Supervisor: What's happening now? Programmer: Well, now a horde of clowns are fighting one another... Should I shut it down? It's keeps just generating even weirder stuff. Project Supervisor: No. I want to see where this goes.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:I don't think the USSS head is in the succession order since it's not a cabinet level position. Sorry. To clarify, I mean within Homeland for the acting head position. It's looking a lot like he's tearing apart Homeland so that only the ones he wants are left to get the "acting" head job when he's done. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but this whole thing smells REALLY bad. He's planning something horrifying and is building the cover to attempt it.
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Lycus posted:Suddenly imagining a gang of alt-rightist clowns fighting a gang of Juggalos. Suddenly imagining those clowns in the White House! Haha, I slay me. But yeah, it doesn't seem like life could get any weirder at this point. Something less viscerally disquieting than usual going down would be a pretty pleasant change of pace.
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Angry_Ed posted:Secret Service Agent Coleman Francis Trump does sound like he's narrating "The Beast of Yucca Flats" at times...
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