This makes me wonder who owns Lindsey Graham

Speech jammer? Really?

Don’t underestimate how disasterous that last debate was for Biden. For many Americans, their last impression of him was a doddering fool who was up past his bedtime. I suspect that if he hadn’t run for a second term, but didn’t change anything else, he would be remembered better.

“There is so much crazy shit, outrageous corruption, and naked, ham-fisted ambition in this WSJ piece about Noem, Lewandowski, and DHS,” she wrote. “Read and take note of the of eye-popping number of sources who have knives out for Kristi and Corey.”

That’s why they are doing all this! They are taking Noem to the gravel pit, and once she is dispatched to that farm Upstate, the rest of MAGA will say “See! She was the problem all along. Let’s Deport some more brown folks!”

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…)

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!

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…

As I recall, though, the Harris campaign raised a shitton of money. What good did it all do? A huge war chest is no guarantee of anything.

Getting out votes always beats fundraising. If you can vote in the US, don’t let anything stop you. (Particularly doomers on Lemmy, hah!) If you have a friend who can’t get to the polls, help them.

"The DHS Inspector General first realized this when he overheard Noem refer to him several times as ‘Cricket’. "

~(not a real quote)~