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    The football board had the very useful Daily Trump Tracker thread, which was a good place to briefly discuss the latest ridiculous thing that might have ended 97% of prior Presidential administrations even if it didn't necessarily justify an entire thread devoted to it in 2017-2019 (because of the sheer volume of these things). Since I don't see anything like that here already, I'll add one myself.
     
    www.factcheck.org

    Fact-Checking Trump's Defense for Removing Vindman - FactCheck.org

    President Trump defended removing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council by claiming that Vindman's "superior ... publicly stated that Vindman had problems with judgement, adhering to the chain of command and leaking information." But the latter claim leaves a false...
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    Pretty good read on the Vindman situation.
     
    Hope Hicks needs to be able to assert executive privilege.

    That’s what our tax dollars used to pay her salary will be buying us. Not a big thing, just another thing.
     
    .......Yolanda, a Guatemalan in her 40s, is undocumented. She’s been living in the shadows for more than a decade. But Congress created a program intended to encourage immigrants like her to come forward about heinous crimes like this one: the U-visa, for crime victims who assist law enforcement.

    Even so, for several months after her assault, she still agonized about whether to apply, which would requiring turning over information not just to local police but to the Trump administration. But lawyers said she had a slam-dunk case.

    Then, unexpectedly, the feds rejected her application. Why? Because … her youngest son doesn’t have a middle name.

    If that sounds arbitrary and irrelevant, that’s probably by design. Over the past few months, the Trump administration has quietly been rolling out a Kafkaesque new processing policy for select categories of visas: If any fields on a form are left blank, it will automatically be rejected. Even if it makes no sense for the applicant to fill out that field.

    For example, if “Apt. Number” is left blank because the immigrant lives in a house: rejected. Or if the field for a middle name is left blank because no middle name exists: rejected, too.

    It’s not clear what problem this new policy was intended to solve. In response to a detailed list of questions about the purpose behind the processing change, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent only a vague statement saying applicants “must provide the specific information requested and answer all the questions asked.”

    It’s hard not to see this as a preposterous new layer of red tape designed to deny visas to legally eligible applicants such as Yolanda..........

     
    thehill.com

    Trump floats halt to officials listening in on calls with foreign leaders

    President Trump said Thursday he may end the practice of having national security and foreign service staff listen in on his calls with foreign leaders after a July call with the president of Ukrai…
    thehill.com thehill.com

    What's to stop a foreign leader from making untrue, claims about conversations with Trump?

    There won't be anybody who could back him up.

    What would stop the Saudis from claiming that Trump was conspiring with them to eliminate Israel, or vice versa?

    What's to stop North Korea from extorting Trump by threatening to make claims that Trump mentioned backing them vs. South Korea?
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    .......Yolanda, a Guatemalan in her 40s, is undocumented. She’s been living in the shadows for more than a decade. But Congress created a program intended to encourage immigrants like her to come forward about heinous crimes like this one: the U-visa, for crime victims who assist law enforcement.

    Even so, for several months after her assault, she still agonized about whether to apply, which would requiring turning over information not just to local police but to the Trump administration. But lawyers said she had a slam-dunk case.

    Then, unexpectedly, the feds rejected her application. Why? Because … her youngest son doesn’t have a middle name.

    If that sounds arbitrary and irrelevant, that’s probably by design. Over the past few months, the Trump administration has quietly been rolling out a Kafkaesque new processing policy for select categories of visas: If any fields on a form are left blank, it will automatically be rejected. Even if it makes no sense for the applicant to fill out that field.

    For example, if “Apt. Number” is left blank because the immigrant lives in a house: rejected. Or if the field for a middle name is left blank because no middle name exists: rejected, too.

    It’s not clear what problem this new policy was intended to solve. In response to a detailed list of questions about the purpose behind the processing change, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) sent only a vague statement saying applicants “must provide the specific information requested and answer all the questions asked.”

    It’s hard not to see this as a preposterous new layer of red tape designed to deny visas to legally eligible applicants such as Yolanda..........

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    shirt like this makes me sick.
     
    Eeyore said:
    thehill.com

    Trump floats halt to officials listening in on calls with foreign leaders

    President Trump said Thursday he may end the practice of having national security and foreign service staff listen in on his calls with foreign leaders after a July call with the president of Ukrai…
    thehill.com thehill.com

    What's to stop a foreign leader from making untrue, claims about conversations with Trump?

    There won't be anybody who could back him up.

    What would stop the Saudis from claiming that Trump was conspiring with them to eliminate Israel, or vice versa?

    What's to stop North Korea from extorting Trump by threatening to make claims that Trump mentioned backing them vs. South Korea?
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    That's not the scariest part....those are fairly unlikely....something that WILL happen? Trump will have discussions with foreign leaders, and he will have to make decisions on policy without anyone able to properly advise him (not that he listens to advisers), since there will be no one who was able to listen to the call. Trump will have to interpret on his own, whether or not the foreign leader is being honest with him, since there will be no one listening who can tell him that a statement a foreign leader just made is demonstrably false.
     
    First he will need to brush up on why Peal Harbor is a big deal, then we can move into more difficult international nuance, like that Georgia is both a country and a (failing) state.
     
    .......The person who had signed it: A therapist at a government shelter for immigrant children who had assured Kevin that their sessions would be confidential.

    Instead, the words Kevin spoke had traveled from the shelter to one federal agency and then another, followed him through three detention centers, been cited in multiple ICE filings arguing for his detention and deportation, and now, in the fall of 2019, were about to be used against him once more.

    This kind of information sharing was part of a Trump administration strategy that is technically legal but which professional therapy associations say is a profound violation of patient confidentiality.

    To bolster its policy of stepped up enforcement, the administration is requiring that notes taken during mandatory therapy sessions with immigrant children be passed onto ICE, which can then use those reports against minors in court.

    Intimate confessions, early traumas, half-remembered nightmares — all have been turned into prosecutorial weapons, often without the consent of the therapists involved, and always without the consent of the minors themselves, in hearings where the stakes can be life and death.......

    But professional organizations including the American Psychological Association, National Social Workers Association, and American Counseling Association say that while it may be legal to share these notes, it’s not ethically defensible.

    “The idea of going to therapy is not trying to solicit confessions for other uses. Even if your patient is being accused of a crime, you don’t just share your notes,” said Lynn Bufka, a senior director for the American Psychological Association.

    Some shelter therapists say they are aware of the policy and take steps to protect children’s privacy by keeping two sets of clinical notes, or by leaving things out entirely.

    At MercyFirst shelter in New York, for instance, therapists try to protect minors by keeping disturbing artwork that might be misunderstood — gory red masks or contorted bodies undergoing violence — out of official files.........,

     
    Trump just said that he views the Daytona 500 as a "patriotic thing" - so I presume all y'all good Americans are watching it.
     
    "The Beast" is in da house!

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    www.foxnews.com

    Trump, Melania rev up Daytona 500 with historic lap in presidential limo, ‘The Beast’

    President Trump revved up NASCAR’s Daytona 500 on Sunday, becoming the second-ever president to deliver the Great American Race's iconic command, "Gentlemen, start your engines!" and the first of any president to take a lap in the armored presidential limo, dubbed "The Beast."
    www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
     
    superchuck500 said:
    Trump just said that he views the Daytona 500 as a "patriotic thing" - so I presume all y'all good Americans are watching it.
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    It normally wins. I use to be a huge Nascar fan back in the dale Bill Elliott days. After Mark Martin retired I don't have anyone I pull for.

    Mardi gras

    Breaking bad marathon

    Not a chance.
     
    FullMonte said:
    That's not the scariest part....those are fairly unlikely....something that WILL happen? Trump will have discussions with foreign leaders, and he will have to make decisions on policy without anyone able to properly advise him (not that he listens to advisers), since there will be no one who was able to listen to the call. Trump will have to interpret on his own, whether or not the foreign leader is being honest with him, since there will be no one listening who can tell him that a statement a foreign leader just made is demonstrably false.
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    Already kind of happened. When he had that private meting with Putin (and then I believe came out and said he took the word of Putin over his own US intelligence agency)
     
    FullMonte said:
    My takeaway from everything that has happened over the past few months....

    i'm just so glad that I'll never have to hear Trump supporters talking about the Clinton Body Count, or how scandalous the tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton was.
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    That won't stop them. We keep hearing about all these crimes Hillary committed and she isn't in office.
     
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