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14 minutes ago, royiv said:

The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials.

2 + 2 = 5. Water is dry. Down is up. 

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18 minutes ago, royiv said:

I know it gets said all the time, but imagine if this had happened in the Obama or Biden administrations. 

Frankly, Even in Trump's 1st term this would have been a major deal.  Now, it will be forgotten- or upstaged- by the end of the week.

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20 minutes ago, royiv said:

Say what you will, but these guys are incredible at spinning bullshit.

 

"The fact that I didn't crash the car is proof that there was no risk to driving blindfolded with my hands behind my back and my balls draped over the steering wheel."

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8 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

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gernblansten on Jessica Alba not sleeping with him.

"I don't know anything about her. I'm not a big fan of Jessica Alba. To me she's a woman that's not attractive. But I know nothing about her. You're saying that she won't sleep with me? I don't know anything about her."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/trump-alina-habba-new-jersey-us-attorney.html

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President Trump on Monday said that he was appointing a spokeswoman and former personal lawyer as New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, continuing a pattern of placing his former legal representatives in top law enforcement positions.

The appointee, Alina Habba, defended Mr. Trump in civil trials that stemmed from lawsuits brought against him by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, and the writer E. Jean Carroll, before serving as a spokeswoman for him during the 2024 campaign. Both trials resulted in heavy financial penalties for the president, who has appealed the results.

Though Mr. Trump has named several of his other former lawyers to high-ranking positions in the Justice Department, Ms. Habba will be the first of the group to serve as an interim U.S. attorney. Her appointment is another example of Mr. Trump’s tight grip over the Justice Department in his second term.

“I am honored to serve my home state of New Jersey as interim U.S. attorney and I am grateful to President Trump for entrusting me with this tremendous responsibility,” Ms. Habba said in a statement. “Just like I did during my time as President Trump’s personal attorney, I will continue to fight for truth and justice.”

Ms. Habba, who has no prosecutorial experience and previously ran a small firm specializing in civil litigation, will oversee the work of about 150 federal prosecutors in New Jersey. The position, a political and legal launchpad, has previously been held by prominent conservatives including Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will move to install Ms. Habba to permanently run the office as he has with other interim prosecutors. Speaking outside the White House on Monday, Ms. Habba did not answer questions about how long her interim appointment was expected to last. She did not respond to a question about whether she would seek the position permanently.

She will take over from John Giordano, who Mr. Trump said Monday would be nominated as the new ambassador to Namibia.

Ms. Habba is the daughter of Iraqi immigrants who fled their home country in the 1980s to avoid persecution as practicing Catholics. She was little known until 2021, when she began to work for Mr. Trump, whom she met through his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. That year, she filed a $100 million lawsuit against The New York Times and Mr. Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump, accusing them of plotting to gain access to his tax records. A judge dismissed the lawsuit.

But Ms. Habba, who stood apart even from Mr. Trump’s other lawyers with her pugilistic, openly political style, continued to represent the former president. She helped lead his defense team in two civil trials stemming from the lawsuits by Ms. James and Ms. Carroll.

In the first case, Ms. James accused Mr. Trump of fraudulently inflating his net worth by billions of dollars. A judge found against Mr. Trump and fined him more than $450 million. The case is now with an appeals court.

Ms. Habba’s co-counsel in that case, Christopher M. Kise, applauded the choice of Ms. Habba as U.S. attorney, saying that she would be a “zealous and tireless advocate for justice in the District of New Jersey.”

In the second case, Ms. Carroll accused Mr. Trump of defaming her in response to her allegation that he had raped her decades earlier. A jury found in favor of Ms. Carroll, awarding her $83.3 million. That case is also on appeal.

Ms. Habba was penalized for filing a 2022 lawsuit against a wide array of Mr. Trump’s political enemies, including Hillary Clinton, the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the Democratic National Committee. The judge in that case, Donald M. Middlebrooks, fined her and Mr. Trump close to a million dollars.

“This case should never have been brought,” Judge Middlebrooks wrote. “Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it.”

During the 2024 campaign, Ms. Habba made frequent television appearances on Mr. Trump’s behalf, and addressed the audience during the last night of the Republican National Convention, calling herself a “feisty Jersey girl who is fed up with far-left corruption in Washington.”

“President Trump championed my journey, empowering me to be who I became today,” she said.

Though U.S. attorneys are traditionally nonpartisan, Ms. Habba on Monday did not appear inclined to pare back her attacks on Mr. Trump’s political enemies. Just minutes after she was named, in her remarks outside the White House, she criticized New Jersey’s Democratic leaders.

“There is corruption, there is injustice, and there is a heavy amount of crime right in Cory Booker’s backyard and right under Governor Murphy, and that will stop,” she said. Ms. Habba added, in an apparent reference to her former client, that she would be “going after the people that we should be going after, not the people that are falsely accused.”

 

 

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15 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

“Shit on the floor” -Trump 2.0 electric boogaloo

 


 

Cool that we're operating concentration camps now.

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10 minutes ago, bolverk said:

If there was someone serious around Trump.

"Mr. President, let me try again in language you mind understand a little easier. Say you owned a McDonald's and you had to speak with a cook that was not performing well. The equivalent of what you're doing here would be something like this: 'Hey cook, you burned the burgers to hockey puck consistency, the fries you served are literally frozen, and instead of 6 nuggets you served 600. I think I'll name you head chef at my Michelin star restaurant.' Do you see the problem here?"

Trump: "Tits."

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33 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

this reporter should probably disappear before he actually does

He's the editor-in-chief and, as far as I've been able to tell, gives zero fucks. 

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1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

 

This is SOOOO worth a listen.  My favorite part is here:

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"I think bicep, prayer hands, American Flag, American Flag [emoji] speaks for itself really ... President Camacho would have responded that way."

So fucking spot on - we really are living Idiocracy.  Just waiting for Elon to unveil "Brawndo for plants" and mandate that it be used on all U.S. farms once we burn all of our trade relationships to the ground.

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3 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Just waiting for Elon to unveil "Brawndo for plants" and mandate that it be used on all U.S. farms once we burn all of our trade relationships to the ground.

That's preposterous.

He'll call it "XJuice," not Brawndo.

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Bumping channels on Sirius XM. Stop for three seconds on MSNBC. The sentence fragment I hear is "... the Trump administration's plans to eliminate FEMA". 

Sigh. On to music. 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Am I the only one who still cares about her goddamned emails?!

I’ve moved on to the price of eggs. I can’t sustain the rage on two separate issues.

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3 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Am I the only one who still cares about her goddamned emails?!

And to think, we have been visited by this horror show because she didn't want to look like a dork and have two phones. 

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17 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

The idea of being an Eskimo brother with Donald Trump Jr. would be enough to sicken the normal person. 

 

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Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

Donald Trump, Jr.

Tiger Woods

 

she kinda seems like a ho.

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Posted
1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Guess this didn't happen.

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Promising not to drink if you’re allowed to be SecDef is one of the top three most “problem drinker” things ever said. 

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These people are monsters:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dhs-sec-noem-says-move-193625920.html

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the department would move to “eliminate” the government’s disaster relief agency, days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing state and local governments to “play a more active and significant role” in responding to such catastrophes.

Noem, whose department oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has previously vowed to “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today”; Trump has said he would close the agency entirely, but that would require an act of Congress.

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4 minutes ago, yoladu said:

Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

Donald Trump, Jr.

Tiger Woods

 

she kinda seems like a ho.

What's Arabic for "no gag reflex"

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Promising not to drink if you’re allowed to be SecDef is one of the top three most “problem drinker” things ever said. 

preceded only by "hold my beer" and "she said she was 18"

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Posted
3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Can't get over the emojis.  They're texting about war like me and my buddies text during a Longhorn football game.

This contains multitudes. My favorite is JD Vance telling them all he’s praying and then others sending the praying hands emoji. You know they were rolling their eyes. 

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