Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

you could refer to that dept. as DOGE,

but it might be mistaken as Donald’s Official Grift Earnings,

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That last sentance…

The sole prosecutor who defense lawyers say presented the case to the grand jury was Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience who was appointed to the job just days earlier.

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How to Make America Great Again? Tell Grandma to get fucked, the consumerist bitch

https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1990525517880070574?s=20

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What was the presenter going to say?
‘… your a …’
I’m going with a bitch, I mean not even a card which does cost over €6 with postage.

In the last week Trump has issued a second pardon for someone he’d already pardoned for his involvement in Jan 6th to get him out of jail for his unrelated gun charges
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/15/nx-s1-5609943/trump-two-pardons-jan-6-investigation

And now this

Tina Peters was convicted for giving unauthorized people access to the CO voting machines she was overseeing, leaking data from the machines (to insinuating abnormalities), and obstructing the investigation of it, and was subject to scathing criticism by the judge in the case over her lack of remorse.

He is telling you everyday that his opinion is that the law is only real to the degree that it exists to protect the people already in power.

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I dont expect any will get this, but this whole Nuzzi story has me so twisted
https://x.com/dhaaruni/status/1990586941923078573?s=20

She is a disgrace to the profession, clearly an utterly broken person, and the continued support she gets from an industry who keep excusing her awfulness is an affront to the real journalists who are struggling in this media environment. But worst, she is just an absolutely terrible writer. Even if she had ethics and a PoV that was worth hearing from, this shit is just laughable

I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.

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When I was in Uni we’d get back our dorm drunk and call the pizza place and make up absurdly low numbers for a coupon we had and try to convince them to sell to us at that price. I feel these Arab leaders are doing that with Trump in reverse with the amount they are pretending they are going to invest in the US. I bet before he left, MBZ called him and dared him to say it will be $1t
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1990862943232168079?s=20

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https://x.com/atrupar/status/1990839006171472256
https://x.com/peterbakernyt/status/1990886643100717221

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‘You don’t have to embarrass our guest’…in the Oval Office that has shown no decorum whatsoever, leading to the creation of the verb ‘to Zelinski’ someone

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what an absolute Pos.
He’d suckhole to anyone where $$$ are involved.

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Due process, habeas corpus, innocent until proven guilty, fair trials and the rule of law are all woke.

Extra judicial murder is where it’s at!

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For fuck’s sake

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The actual comments are somehow even worse than that summary of them.

I’m lamenting the grammar.

Predictably, MAGA defenders have all hopped on the same predictable excuse that he really said “Peggy” and then went and found the existence of a reported with the name Peggy to validate that. But the comments were made to a Bloomberg reported called Catherine Lucey.

There is no executive in the country who could be caught saying that to someone in a work situation and stay in a job. Yet now days later we still have no official statement from Bloomberg or from the White House Correspondents’ Association condemning this. Back in the Obama admin he referred to Fox News as not a news org but a communications arm of the Republican party. The entire WHCA rallied en masse around the Fox News colleagues condemning (the very clearly correct) comments and criticizing Obama for damaging the first amendment.

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https://x.com/shannonrwatts/status/1990956048232956244?s=20

Dallas area reporter gets swatted. He is informed it was initiated after the FBI shared a tip with the Dallas police about a domestic abuse allegation (which seems fishy in the first place because why would that go through the FBI, and its a situation the police are notoriously slow to act upon), but his FOIA request has shown the Dallas police made it up. The only conclusion is this was a threat related to a story he was about to break about Nazi groups within the department

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Holy shit
https://x.com/BetoORourke/status/1990859306720264636?s=20

This was the whole thing that kicked off the rush for the controversial partisan mid-cycle redistricting all over the country, including the big retaliation CA just passed by referendum. If this holds and Texas have to go back to their current maps Dems will have somehow ended up ahead and gaining seats.

Yes it is shit and this is not how democracy should be done, but the Dems as a party put big resources into non-partisan, independent redistricting in the Obama era and were opposed all the way by the GOP and ultimately lost in court. If the GOP wanted to stop this there are already incredibly well developed plans to do this more fairly and there would be the partnership available to them to get it done.

EDIT: Lol I also just saw the the Utah GOP made administrative fuck ups and missed their deadline to submit their new maps so are stuck with the current ones as well.

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