The U.S. Immigration Catch-All Thread [R]

This is my issue with elevating political outsiders. Legislating isn’t easy. It takes work. It creates a record you need to defend. Publicly bloviating about what politicians are doing wrong is easy. That’s why we all do it here part time while keeping our day jobs. Proposing legislative solutions that are both workable and can actually get passed is the hard part. Fetterman’s pre senate career was as a mayor of a town with less than 2000 people. He positioned himself as sweatshirt wearing redneck man of the people to the Pennsyltucky crowd and parlayed that into a Lt Governor role with zero real responsibility. He then got those same people to elevate him to a senate role. I still maintain he hasn’t changed. This was who he always was. A contrarian dickhead.

 

I don’t know. As a Pittsburgher, as I don’t think there was any reason to doubt Fetterman’s progressivism before he got to the senate. My sister, a lesbian, has a picture with him at the Pittsburgh Pride parade from before same sex marriage was legal in the state. And he ran for senate before in 2016 and lost because he was seen as too far left. You’re right that he didn’t have a packed CV, but in today’s political world, being a mayor and then lieutenant governor is reasonably substantial.

I think his stroke/depression really did fry his brain a bit, and he has some weird idea that being a Manchinist Democrat is the path to reelection (it’s not).

 

(unconfirmed) Apparently Markwayne Mullin found out he was taking over as DHS Director via the press. I am surprised he found out this way, but somehow completely expected it from this administration.

Now that the first top-level dismissal has occurred, I assume that other major positions will start falling like dominoes, much like his first term. Honestly, I am surprised Kegstand wasn't let go after the signal fiasco.

IIRC there were a lot of "acting directors" at the end of the first Trump term. I looked it up and Trump went through 4 AGs in his first term.

 

Sarah Longwell ( The Bulwark ) astutely posited that Noem's one reason for getting the ax was that during the last congressional hearing she claimed that Trump was aware of the self-promotion scam she was perpetrating with DHS money. She was not cutting Trump in on the grift and when he heard that on TV, he decided to get her out.

 

Here’s a 2 1/2 year old article about Markwayne in which a former Republican congressman says Mullin tried to pick the noses of people sleeping on a plane.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/m...ues-and-their-spouses-during-visit-to-israel/

 

The in-flight meal too insubstantial?

 

Good call. Ties in with a comment I made in the last couple of days where I observed all of his psychophants (tm) publicly state things like “at president trumps direction I…..”. Trump eats that shit up until the point it starts hurting him. Then he drops them.

As bad as Trump is…it is inconceivable to me that he is down into the details of all the shit people like Hegseth and Miller are doing. Not only because I think he is not mentally capable of doing so. He’s not. And he’s too stupid to allow in people who will speak to the downside risks of things his psychophants want to implement.

Take this Iran shit as an example. There is zero chance anyone told Trump if this doesn’t go well we’re looking at a disaster and you’ll be blamed. So what’s gonna happen is once the disaster becomes unavoidable….hegseth is gonna end up in the leopards thread. Sure…some he may send some generals there first…but they’ll all eventually end up there when the damage gets too great.

And it will be bad for them. To his cult…he is incapable of making bad decisions. It will obviously be he was poorly advised or lied to…because he is prefect. None of his cult will acknowledge he’s the one that chose his advisors and spent the entire time chasing out and firing anyone who didn’t tell him exactly what he wanted to hear.

 

God did the funniest thing to Markwayne last night

Thunderstorms ripped across Oklahoma prairies Thursday night as severe weather was expected to intensify Friday and bring the threat of powerful tornadoes to multiple states in the nation’s heartland.

https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3mgg7friilb2z

 

As much as I'd like to protest, I would not be surprised if he got rid of a woman (Bondi and Tulsi G are my picks) or POC (Kash Patel) first. Sec Kegstand can and will do more damage but since he has better camera experience, he will more likely stay. If this operational strike/war/targeted strikes/whatever you want to call/ start to go past a month, Kegstand will find himself in the hot seat. Right now, they can't even tell us what our goals are or give us a unified message for why we are bombing Iran.

Trump did get rid of the person in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a high profile spat last year.

I just realized I missed on more than a few interim guys. I remember the Keebler elf, someone between Sessions and Barr, and Rosen or Rosensten, who was there long enough to take a full spin through the revolving door.

 

Jesus.....
(I did laugh though)

 

Ya gotta love ze good in ze Schadenfraude
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why, oh why, didn;t someone shout it at her!!!

Blistering in the Sun missed....

 

Freedom of the press…

Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for a Spanish-language outlet in Nashville, was covering immigration raids. The next day, ICE agents arrested her without a warrant. Read @carolabbottg on the case. https://t.co/CY8NkOFoGL

— Columbia Journalism Review (@CJR) March 6, 2026

 

Hypocrite. The left thinks colonialism is bad. Yet here we have evidence of Spanish speakers taking over the Country Music Capital of the Universe. That. Can. Not. Stand.

[/MAGA]

 

I would say aggressively stupid.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/us/nashville-journalist-detained-by-ice

“A pending green card application and work authorization does NOT give someone legal status to be in our country,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN.

At the rate things are going, ya gotta wonder if it's just a matter of time until they deport athletes.

 

The NY Post says Cuck Noem stayed in the marriage due to his Christian faith.

https://nypost.com/2026/03/06/us-ne...to-her-through-corey-lewandowski-humiliation/