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NYT: Refugees and immigrants being detained at US airports right now.

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Wulfric

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Combine that with this;
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https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/825483105620332545

This is fucking terrifying. He's a snake. A treasonous, racist piece of shit.

So basically these motherfuckers are seizing as much power as possible so the harder it'll be to stop their fascist and racist fantasies?

Out with the old, in with the new? It sure seems like it.

Anecdotal, but: of my veteran friends, 100% of them are absolutely appalled at what's going on. I was (and am) an Air Force JAG. Commitment to the rule of law is the very objective for which we were literally trained to fight.

No one is above that. Not even the President.

*sigh*

I hope you're right. I think we'll see soon enough.
 
what specifically does this mean

So, the Principals Committee (PC) of the National Security Council (NSC) is basically -- well, it's the main forum the President uses to discuss matters bearing on, wait for it, national security. It was established in the National Security Act of 1947.

Per law, the PC is attended by the President, VP, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of Energy (he has nukes, remember?). Additionally, the National Security Advisor and Secretary of the Treasury are also members.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence provide counsel to the NSC. Their roles are enshrined by statute, but they are not "statutory attendees" like the VP and Secretary of Defense.

The more shocking announcement is that Steve Bannon "may" attend all meetings.
 
Fight this hard.

Not one inch.

This are the moments that not only define a nation, for decades to come, but they define what type of people YOU truly are.

This isn't hyperbole. This isn't exaggeration. This is when the moment comes where a hateful demagogue declares that basic human rights and law are beneath him, and we either stand proud against it, or snivel away into the dark.

I'm going to be proud to tell my kids and my grandkids that I stood defiant in the face of tyranny.

This is not just. This is not lawful. This is not humane.

And I WILL NOT TOLERATE IT.

This was beautifully written. Sharing this across my networks.
 

Game-Biz

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As far as I can tell, Bannon is by far the most intelligent man in Trump's administration ( a very low bar, I know haha), which makes him very dangerous. He has some really strange ideas on politics and when he gets going he sounds like a complete fucking lunatic who watches Fox News all day. Scary guy. Still can't believe his slimy paws are in the white house.
 

Tron 2.0

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It's almost like Trump's administration is still far from fully staffed, and the people there right now are completely inexperienced and shit at their jobs.

But hey, at least they can write executive orders quickly and with little thought
Chaos plays into their hand. They do not care about the turmoil the EOs produce.
 

BinaryPork2737

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You assume most people who didn't vote for Trump give enough of a fuck to break their daily routine for something that does not directly affect them. You'd get more of a response if you took away one of their guilty pleasures. For now they'll just keep watching this on the TV while conversing with their coworkers in their "Oh shit, he really did that" state, while continuing about their merry way.

Some of you give the intelligence and the selflessness of the average human being way too much credit. I mean, we're talking about the same people you share the road with daily here.

Trump talked about going after porn at some point during the election and signed some sort of pledge from what I recall. That would almost certainly piss off a few of them if he actually decided to keep that promise.
 
Supported Trump and was friendly to him during his campaign.

That is minimising his role.
- defined trump speech strategy to divide people and inflame the left to build the rights anger
- heavily associated with data analytics firm that boasts it creates profiles on voters and pavlovian issues that trigger them
- ran unofficial neo-nazi fake news site, Brietbart
- a nexus to neo-nazi figures operating on the fringes.
- and probably a whole lot more we don't know.
 

daveo42

Banned
the fact that more than like twenty people want a military coup at all speaks volumes about the administration

It's not something I want it to come to, but at some point we have to remove Trump and everyone involved out of office entirely. 2018 can help to make sure we severely cut back on the number of GOP seats in both houses of congress, but I'm not sure if we can survive as a nation for four years with Bannon and Trump at the top, especially after the week we've already had.

Jesus Christ, we're a little over a week into this shitshow and it's already insanity....4 years of this??? My God....

Hopefully he'll be out before Christmas. Pence is bad news, but we can at least guess he'll walk back pretty much everything of Trump's outside of stricter abortion rules and an anti-LGBTQ stance. While not ideal, it's far far better than what we have now.

Edit: i feel sick even considering that.
 

StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
As far as I can tell, Bannon is by far the most intelligent man in Trump's administration ( a very low bar, I know haha), which makes him very dangerous. He has some really strange ideas on politics and when he gets going he sounds like a complete fucking lunatic who watches Fox News all day. Scary guy. Still can't believe his slimy paws are in the white house.

I'm sure there were some smart Nazis.
 
I imagine the area is reaching capacity, but there has got to be a better way than that

He should tell people that the area can't handle more people but keep protesting
 
we need John McCain to step up.

many Iraqis aided US armed forces and intel officers are now in denied entry because the Orange turd wants to make show of smoke n mirros
 

Garlador

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This was beautifully written. Sharing this across my networks.

Hopefully you fix my grammar.

Heat of passion. My blood is boiling and I am livid.

And I saw that as a Republican who loathes what the GOP has become, as a man who resents everything Trump encourages in masculinity, as a Christian who cannot believe we'd violate our Muslim brothers and sisters' guarantee right to freedom of religion, and as a human being who felt this disgusting, racist, xenophobic, grossly inhumane treatment of others was left back in the dark ages where it belonged.

This is not okay. It is not normal. And I will not accept it or let the anger and cry for justice in my heart fade as I'm sure Trump and his cronies hope it does.

Quite the opposite; Trump is going to be quite upset to learn that the real patriots of the nation and the world are only getting started fighting back against his regime of bigotry, ignorance, and intolerance.

I only hope more people in positions of power grow a spine. Call your congressmen. Call your representatives. Remind them of their oaths of office. Have them recite their pledge to preserve and guarantee the rights and liberties of the constitution for all peoples - even Muslim ones. Shame them into action if you must.

But do not - I repeat - do not sit back idly and watch this circus play out. You are not in the stands. You are not bystanders. Citizens of the USA, you are on the center stage of the world right now, whether you want to be or not.

And what you do - or choose not to do - will determine the fate of your nation and millions of lives.

No pressure. Don't disappoint us.
 

Diancecht

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This whole thing reminds me of my own country, Turkey.

Fight for the love of God. Fight! First they will come for muslims, then they will come for your neighbours and in the end they will come for you.
 
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