All the President's Men

Cooke · February 12, 2025, 7:32pm

I guess he is viewed as exceptional.

vjvj · February 13, 2025, 1:41am

But I’d bet that he made sure her confirmation would go through before voting against. He’s spent years being a Trump pussy and I’m extremely skeptical that he’s got any bit of a spine now.

Maphistos_Sidekick · February 13, 2025, 5:07pm

52-48.

colonelsmoothie · February 13, 2025, 10:02pm

The weird thing is he might have done OK as the head of the EPA.

But now, brain worms for everyone!

The_Polymath · February 15, 2025, 1:45am

This makes things a bit clearer.

It was not just Musk driving Trump’s proclamations about South Africa (which was really odd as Trump doesn’t care about these issues). There seems to be an entire SA posse operating around Trump’s orbit, and they feed him this sort of thing.

Gary Player. Also from South Africa. And pro-Apartheid.

Plays golf with Trump. Trump gave hin the Medal of Freedom.

Trump also plays golf regularly with Gary Player, the renowned South African golfer who in the 1960s declared his support for apartheid and its architect, Henrik Verwoerd. Player also described the country’s Black population as “alien barbarians”. Trump awarded Player the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.

In December, Player took a South African mining entrepreneur, Reon Barnard, for a game with Trump where they were photographed with Musk.

Joel Pollak, editor of Breitbart, the alt-right publication, was also born in South Africa and has been tipped as a possible ambassador to the country. Pollak told the South African site, News24, that Trump’s attack on the ANC government was not unexpected and “that the new president has a coherent and long-standing desire to force change” in South Africa.

Mathman · February 15, 2025, 6:26pm

You know what we need in a country with like 500 million guns? Getting rid of drugs to treat mental health.

twig93 · February 15, 2025, 6:42pm

Dear God, make it stop!!!

Maphistos_Sidekick · February 15, 2025, 6:46pm

It’s only 1435 days until 20 January 2029.

mavvj · February 15, 2025, 11:07pm

Feel like there is an implicit assumption in that day count that can’t be relied upon anymore.

ArthurItas · February 16, 2025, 2:23am

ArthurItas · February 17, 2025, 10:04pm

Last year RFK Jr said he wanted black kids to be “re-parented”

knoath · February 17, 2025, 10:26pm

That what they did in Australia between 1905 and 1967 - the stolen generations. It did not go well

Rastiln · February 19, 2025, 4:33pm

Katie Arrington, the former South Carolina state lawmaker who helped steer Pentagon cybersecurity contracting policy before being placed on leave amid accusations that she disclosed classified data from a military intelligence agency, announced that she is the Defense Department’s new chief information security officer.

The National Security Agency suspended her clearance in 2021. The exact reasons that led to the suspension and her subsequent leave were classified.

mavvj · February 19, 2025, 4:54pm

Is anything classified in the US anymore?

dr_t_non-fan · February 19, 2025, 5:00pm

“Classified for me, not for thee!”

ArthurItas · February 19, 2025, 10:18pm

NumericalNeuroticism · February 19, 2025, 10:23pm

ArthurItas · February 20, 2025, 3:28am

Judge that hung a picture of Hitler in the courthouse is exactly the kind of guy this administration wants.

now_samantha · February 20, 2025, 11:24am

Meanwhile, RFK Jr., who was confirmed last week as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), appeared in Texas on Tuesday. He did not address the burgeoning measles crisis. Instead, he continued his anti-vaccine advocacy, falsely suggesting that childhood vaccines like MMR may be linked to chronic illnesses. He said he would convene a new panel to study the childhood vaccination schedule and other “formally taboo” issues.

colonelsmoothie · February 20, 2025, 8:35pm

Literally insane person gets confirmed