Why would the Administration be upset that she is planning a Presidential run?

Unless they already have plans either to steamroll a Trump 3rd term, or have something like Don Jr. run on a transparent platform of “Vote for me, get my dad too”.

Or, maybe it’s the fact that there’s only so far a woman can go in MAGA. So they’re really more upset that she might aspire to being more than a Secretary…

That much money to protect one person? Something smells fishy. The article mentions that he has a detail of a dozen Federal Marshals protecting him. Even if that is warranted, I doubt those Marshals are costing over $1M/yr each.

This is a grift, pure and simple, just like everything else this administration does. Poke into this further, and I guarantee you will see that a lot of his personal friends and relatives are all getting a piece of that money through no-bid contracts and no-show consulting gigs.

I bet there’s also a huge budget for private jets, because only Antifa flies commercial

Maybe that’s the long-term plan, Democrats simply refuse to fund DHS at all. Take a page from the Republican playbook and drown it in the bathtub, or force Republicans to kill the filibuster ahead of an election which may put Democrats in the majority in the Senate.

Nice try, but the popular vote doesn’t mean anything in primaries, because the elections are held over a period of time and many candidates drop out mid-way through, so we will never know how many Joe Biden or John Edwards voters would have voted for Obama over Clinton. Clinton did not win a majority of votes, after all.

Obama won a majority of pledged delegates, even before taking the undemocratic Super Delegates into account, and it’s delegates that count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Democrats don’t need to mess with the counting of votes to “fix” primaries. They do it the old fashioned way, by manipulating the primary calendar to make certain candidates inevitable.

I don’t know about that. I was kind of hoping this would make it to a military tribunal.

Now, I was never in the military and don’t have my inside knowledge of how it all works like some of you do. But if they claim to have the authority to recall a sitting congressman to active duty and demote him, can’t the tribunal do the same thing to the SecDef? If I were writing the script, I would have the tribunal haul Major Hegseth in and give him the lecture on illegal orders that he obviously missed while in the Army National Guard.

That company’s name? Plock. No, it’s not just Flock with a Sharpie mark over the “F”, trust us!

As compared to some of the other candidates that might have run if the Democratic Primary were an actual primary and not a coronation.

The last time Democrats ran an actual primary ws 2008, when a young, generational candidate beat out the (kinda boring) establishment choice. Democrats learned their lesson to never let something encouraging like that happen again!

Gavin’s gonna win the Primary, as his right as the Next One Up, and we’re all gonna vote for him, because as awful as he is, he is objectively better than whoever the MAGA party will run.

I am a bit optimistic. This administration is a bully, and bullys win through intimidation. They prey on the weaker kids, demanding their lunch money precisely because they know no one will stop them.

Until that one kid gets the balls to actually do it. And maybe that kid gets beat up in the process. But then all the other kids understand that the bully can be fought, and they are more likely to resist.

Trump has captured the Republican Party by threatening anyone who stands in his way with primary challenges (and, in some cases, implied threats of stochastic violence). Once some Republicans start bucking him, and surviving, it gives more Republicans permission to do so.

It’s always the ones you most expect

I think even if we take them at their word, and there really was a drone that went over the border and this closure was due to new anti-drone tech posing risks to other traffic, it is clear that the tech isnt ready, since it can’t tell the difference between a drone and a commercial airliner.

I wonder if this is some shit tech from Elon that doesn’t work as advertised…

Did you read the articles attached to the headlines?

They found that ski jumpers can get a measurable advantage if thier suits are loose fitting even a little bit, because it increases drag. As a result, their suits are carefully regulated and they are made based on a full body 3D scan.

It’s been speculated that some ski jumpers may have been taking injections meant to increase the size of their flaccid penis before that scan, so that the larger size will be included in the scan, and then if they are back to normal size before the competition, it has the effect of their suit fitting more loosely and increasing drag.

It is a specific town with a specific army base that has a specific ICE detention center on its grounds…

Sorry, posts here need to link to articles, so this will probably end up getting removed . And besides, that’s not the cartoon Stephen takes his inspiration from

Yeah, he was the guy who kept singing about how he likes 'em underage, right?

… Wait, no? That was the other guy? Why isn’t Andy Ogles looking into that, instead?

(We all know why. Not only were those female dancers hot, they looked like they were having a great time, and Republicans can’t have that…)

The only reason this shutdown would target only DHS is that the funding bills for all the other agencies were passed and signed by the President. DHS is the only entity that isn’t funded for the fiscal year yet. (Although Republicans have ensured that ICE has plenty of money, any DHS shutdown won’t affect their operations at all.)

So, maybe there was a plan all along to maneuver Republicans into leaving the DHS bill as the last one to pass, so that a targeted shutdown can happen? That doesn’t fit the narrative of Schumer and Jeffries being incompetent, though.

Except it’s a Democrat doing it, so nothing will happen

How can you show you’re not an immigrant without due process?

There’s an App for that!

I’ve seen whistles with the number for the local rapid response hotline printed right on them. Must have been one of those fancy multi-filament printers.

The article was quite clear that they were told by a particular someone in the “Republican Establishment”, which right now is a subsidiary of Trump.

No, they don’t need to be told to hold the partisan line, but I wouldn’t put it past Trump (or even Stephen Miller) to treat them like employees. Which must be a bit humiliating for a Member of Congress…

Instructed by whom, exactly? The article doesn’t say. It just says “a source in the Republican establishment”. That could be anyone.

My money is on Stephen Miller. It sounds like a thing he would say…