President Trump and US politics catchall

[Rhubarb & Custard]

And the Supreme Court blocks the deportations

US Supreme Court halts deportation of Venezuelans under wartime law https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd3rdjn81lo

Alito and Thomas dissented, now there's a shock...

I wonder how they'd vote if they knew it was in the balance and their ruling would ensure they were no longer a co-equal branch of government. This time they were able to dodge the bullet because even some of their brethren/sistren were clearly going to vote against Tango Turd

[sefton]

Thomas will do as he is told, he is bought and paid for.

[Biffer]

Good long read in the guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng- ... SApp_Other

[Uncle fester]

Behold the "revamped" US government page on COVID.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru ... -covid-19/

[Biffer]

Fucking hell.

The NASA page will have flat earth as a legitimate theory before long.

[dpedin]

Fucking hell.

The NASA page will have flat earth as a legitimate theory before long.

That'll be in the queue just after the 'Vaccines are bad and cause autism' page and just before 'Donald Trump is 190lbs' and Trump - Champion Golfer 2025' pages!

[Biffer]

Well,

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-harvard- ... 4#cxrecs_s

[Slick]

Behold the "revamped" US government page on COVID.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru ... -covid-19/

How do they have time to micro manage shite like this, it’s insane

[tabascoboy]

Pentagon turmoil deepens: Top Hegseth aide leaves post

“There is a complete meltdown in the building,” one official said.

Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, were placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe. All three were terminated on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter, who, like others, were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

The latest incidents add to the Pentagon’s broader upheaval in recent months, including fallout from Hegseth’s release of sensitive information in a Signal chat with other national security leaders and a controversial department visit by Elon Musk.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/1 ... e-00299508

[fishfoodie]

Pentagon turmoil deepens: Top Hegseth aide leaves post

“There is a complete meltdown in the building,” one official said.

Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, were placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe. All three were terminated on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter, who, like others, were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.

The latest incidents add to the Pentagon’s broader upheaval in recent months, including fallout from Hegseth’s release of sensitive information in a Signal chat with other national security leaders and a controversial department visit by Elon Musk.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/1 ... e-00299508

and this is after one of his party got arrested by the Belgian plod for kicking off when he was told the bar was closed in their hotel ........

Putin must be shitting himself laughing at this fucking clown show

[Slick]

The Pope snubbing Vance because of what he is doing to immigrants is pretty sweet. Apparently multiple attempts were made to make him change his mind

[Niegs]

Does anyone know the details as to what's going on in the voting shenanigans for a place on the North Carolina Supreme Court?

Seemingly after the Democratic candidate won, and won a recount (or two), there has been a push to set aside the votes of over 50,000 legal voters absent them stumping up voting ID inside either 8 or 15 days, and it's a close race so if around 800 voters don't show who voted Democratic the GOP will hold the position.

Are the reasons for discounting votes valid, desirable, or just out and out BS? (And fwiw the move will in particular hit families of US service personnel working overseas)

If you haven't been following, BTC has just interviewed the Dem candidate again and sounds like the challenged ballots are down to about 1600, but could be out of state people (mostly military?) and that the curing process still hasn't started yet while they're figuring out which would be subject to the recount.

AP source: https://apnews.com/article/north-caroli ... add015b839

An interesting point from an opinion piece:

Especially galling is that Griffin himself served in the military and has voted by absentee ballot, which is how service members vote when deployed away from their states of residence. Now he is willing to erase the rights of the very people who defend all our rights to cast ballots in a free country — his former fellow brothers and sisters in arms.

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opini ... 122830007/

[Hal Jordan]

Cunt Republican turns on his alleged own? Claude Rains.

[tabascoboy]

[Rhubarb & Custard]

any which way he was going to get a lot of safe hands comments

[Hal Jordan]

"Just hold this gun for a minute, will you? Make sure you get those prints on the grip."

[Niegs]

[Biffer]

Even Joe Rogan is criticising the lack of due process now.

[Tichtheid]

Even Joe Rogan is criticising the lack of due process now.

The ones advocating it never think it through to the point when they are charged without evidence and then imprisioned/deported/sent to the chair.

[SaintK]

I do hope we're not sharing any intelligence with this moron!

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information about US air strikes on Yemen in a second private group on the Signal app, the BBC's US partner CBS has confirmed with sources familiar with the messages.
The messages, sent on 15 March, included flight schedules for American F/A-18 Hornets carrying out strikes on Houthi targets. The group included Hegseth's wife, brother and personal lawyer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8r701lrno

[tabascoboy]

MPs And Peers Launch Bid To Stop Trump Addressing Parliament During State Visit

MPs and peers have launched a bid to stop Donald Trump from addressing parliament when he visits the UK.

They say the US president’s attitude toward Britain, Nato, Ukraine and parliamentary democracy means he should not be given the honour.

Trump is set to come to the UK in September after King Charles invited him for an unprecedented second state visit.

Keir Starmer personally handed over the King’s invitation letter to Trump when he visited the White House in February.

Barack Obama addressed both houses of parliament when he had his own state visit in 2011.

But the speakers of both the Commons and the Lords are being urged to follow the example of John Bercow, who blocked Trump from addressing parliament during his first state visit in 2019.

According to The Times, a message sent to Lord McFall, the Lord Speaker, by a group of peers, said: “If it is suggested that he be invited to address both houses of parliament I hope that you and [Commons Speaker] Lindsay [Hoyle] will suggest that would be inappropriate on this occasion because of his attitude towards and comments about the UK, parliamentary democracy, the Nato Alliance and Ukraine.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... fefa27a16c

[fishfoodie]

I do hope we're not sharing any intelligence with this moron!

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information about US air strikes on Yemen in a second private group on the Signal app, the BBC's US partner CBS has confirmed with sources familiar with the messages.
The messages, sent on 15 March, included flight schedules for American F/A-18 Hornets carrying out strikes on Houthi targets. The group included Hegseth's wife, brother and personal lawyer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8r701lrno

[Rhubarb & Custard]

MPs And Peers Launch Bid To Stop Trump Addressing Parliament During State Visit

MPs and peers have launched a bid to stop Donald Trump from addressing parliament when he visits the UK.

They say the US president’s attitude toward Britain, Nato, Ukraine and parliamentary democracy means he should not be given the honour.

Trump is set to come to the UK in September after King Charles invited him for an unprecedented second state visit.

Keir Starmer personally handed over the King’s invitation letter to Trump when he visited the White House in February.

Barack Obama addressed both houses of parliament when he had his own state visit in 2011.

But the speakers of both the Commons and the Lords are being urged to follow the example of John Bercow, who blocked Trump from addressing parliament during his first state visit in 2019.

According to The Times, a message sent to Lord McFall, the Lord Speaker, by a group of peers, said: “If it is suggested that he be invited to address both houses of parliament I hope that you and [Commons Speaker] Lindsay [Hoyle] will suggest that would be inappropriate on this occasion because of his attitude towards and comments about the UK, parliamentary democracy, the Nato Alliance and Ukraine.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... fefa27a16c

Hoyle likes people who wear ties and isn't remotely fussed as to whether they tell the truth, hard to see him having a problem with Trump unless it turns out Hoyle hates an over long tie

[sockwithaticket]

America responds to plummeting tourism by... strip-searching two teenage German girls and then deporting them because they arrived without a hotel booking.

[Flockwitt]

Berkshire and foreign investors dropping US stocks.

[Sandstorm]

America responds to plummeting tourism by... strip-searching two teenage German girls and then deporting them because they arrived without a hotel booking.

Not quite. They had 3 nights booked in Hawaii and nothing after that. They also said they were freelance workers who were working their way around the world. CPE officers became suspicious and deported them.

[Slick]

America responds to plummeting tourism by... strip-searching two teenage German girls and then deporting them because they arrived without a hotel booking.

Not quite. They had 3 nights booked in Hawaii and nothing after that. They also said they were freelance workers who were working their way around the world. CPE officers became suspicious and deported them.

Are you new to this thread?

[Sandstorm]

America responds to plummeting tourism by... strip-searching two teenage German girls and then deporting them because they arrived without a hotel booking.

Not quite. They had 3 nights booked in Hawaii and nothing after that. They also said they were freelance workers who were working their way around the world. CPE officers became suspicious and deported them.

Are you new to this thread?

[dpedin]

This is to keep Trump happy and probably part of ongoing discussions re any 'deal'! It means a lot to Trump to get Turnberry onto the rota, as I said some weeks ago. I suspect the R&A feasibility study and projected works required would take c4 years to complete?

[Biffer]

This is to keep Trump happy and probably part of ongoing discussions re any 'deal'! It means a lot to Trump to get Turnberry onto the rota, as I said some weeks ago. I suspect the R&A feasibility study and projected works required would take c4 years to complete?

Think you meant to put a link in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/c78jvg2x8vqo

But yeah, good move from the R&A, it's probably in the long grass for a few years, which means the next couple will be named, taking us out to 2030 or so, we'll beyond his presidency unless he fucks the constitution which he's likely to have a shot at assuming the dementia hasn't descended completely.

[dpedin]

This is to keep Trump happy and probably part of ongoing discussions re any 'deal'! It means a lot to Trump to get Turnberry onto the rota, as I said some weeks ago. I suspect the R&A feasibility study and projected works required would take c4 years to complete?

Think you meant to put a link in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/c78jvg2x8vqo

But yeah, good move from the R&A, it's probably in the long grass for a few years, which means the next couple will be named, taking us out to 2030 or so, we'll beyond his presidency unless he fucks the constitution which he's likely to have a shot at assuming the dementia hasn't descended completely.

I did - cheers!

[Uncle fester]

America responds to plummeting tourism by... strip-searching two teenage German girls and then deporting them because they arrived without a hotel booking.

Not quite. They had 3 nights booked in Hawaii and nothing after that. They also said they were freelance workers who were working their way around the world. CPE officers became suspicious and deported them.

It's a mark of first world countries that authorities need to be able to track your movements for the entire duration of your vacation.

[Tichtheid]

America responds to plummeting tourism by... strip-searching two teenage German girls and then deporting them because they arrived without a hotel booking.

Not quite. They had 3 nights booked in Hawaii and nothing after that. They also said they were freelance workers who were working their way around the world. CPE officers became suspicious and deported them.

It's a mark of first world countries that authorities need to be able to track your movements for the entire duration of your vacation.

Especially when they are on a gap year travelling holiday from one of the richest nations on the planet.

[Uncle fester]

RFK wants to create a register of all Americans with autism including access to private medical records.

Totally normal and absolutely nothing to worry about here.

[Guy Smiley]

Al Gore makes a comparison to Nazi Germany that carries some weight...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/2 ... r-00302348

“I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” Gore said to an audience of roughly 150 climate advocates and policymakers gathered at a science museum on San Francisco’s waterfront. “It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it. But there are important lessons from the history of that emergent evil.”

Gore, for his part, cited German philosophers’ “moral autopsy on the Third Reich” in the aftermath of World War II.

“It was [Jürgen] Habermas’ mentor, Theodore Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,”’ Gore said. “He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, ‘attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false.’ End quote. The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.”

[Sandstorm]

RFK wants to create a register of all Americans with autism including access to private medical records.

Totally normal and absolutely nothing to worry about here.

1) Elon Musk

[Blackmac]

RFK wants to create a register of all Americans with autism including access to private medical records.

Totally normal and absolutely nothing to worry about here.

1) Elon Musk

[Uncle fester]

RFK wants to create a register of all Americans with autism including access to private medical records.

Totally normal and absolutely nothing to worry about here.

1) Elon Musk

Self diagnosed so pretty questionable.

[Uncle fester]

Interesting interview with the founder of American Giant.
https://www.businessinsider.com/america ... ack-2025-4
He's certainly more aware of the problems that the guys in the white house.

[Hal Jordan]

RFK wants to create a register of all Americans with autism including access to private medical records.

Totally normal and absolutely nothing to worry about here.

He is an irredeemable cunt of the highest order.