…you maybe didn’t catch the Our American Cousin reference?
Thought people might appreciate a legal analysis of the Patel vs. SPLC story:
I’ll stand corrected but I thought the charge was tyranny.
And they have been rather civilised in the near four centuries since.
I suspect he consulted with the “penile implant specialist”, given Ms. Daniels’ description of his little mushroom.
Until I watched that segment I hadn’t realized that I had never actually heard to Ka$h speak. His voice is much higher pitched than I imagined.
(Quoted by Monty)
I’m not sure why he sees this as a threat. Our navy should be able to take out those boats of “foreign invaders” out easy peasy.
(alas I’m not sure I’m joking)
It’s one of the legitimate weaknesses of a democracy. If there are enough people who support the shitshow, it continues to go on.
And we’ve learned over the last decade or so that there’s a shocking number of Americans who will watch a shitshow and claim it’s high art. I don’t think a lot of people, including many Americans, really get this. There are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-100 million Americans who not only do not see he’s a buffoon but actually think he is some type of genius.
And the ones who could toss him won’t do anything until and unless they see actual evidence it would be to their benefit to do so. And those 50-100 million Americans continue making it worth the while of the powers that be to keep him where he is.
Here’s my fantasy: we overthrow the Cuban government and install a friendly (ie, corrupt) right-wing government. (Just like the old days!) All those staunchly anti-communist exiles in Florida give a cheer and jump on a boat for the old country. There are so many RW Cuban-Americans leaving the state that it tips the balance, and Florida turns blue.
I can dream.
Because we are not a parliamentary democracy. It’s times like this that I wish we were. We need to 86 that mother-humper.
Also, the parliamentary democracies have a functioning Parliament. We have Congress.
Dipstick ordered his staff to throw away all the gifts he received from China into the trash before boarding the plane to return to the US. What a class act, except for the C and the L.
At this point, 67 years after Castro’s revolution, the original “staunchly anti-communist exiles” are likely to be mostly deceased. The Republic-supporting Cuban-Americans in south Florida are likely mostly the children and grandchildren of the original exiles, and were born in the U.S.
Wait a minute. What? I thought he was trying to keep everything for himself. Perhaps some dim bulb in his brain went off and realized that China totally dissed/owned him. But he’s not that smart.
Hey, it’s my fantasy. Quit harshin’ my buzz.
Apparently it’s a security concern. They also used burner phones while there to fight against hacking.
Maybe if they hadn’t fired all of the security experts they could have addressed that.
IF there where security issues with what ever trinkets thay had, secure them. Then examine them.
We might actually get some intelligence from them. But this is Trumps admin, so, since there is no intelligence I suppose that can’t happen.
That’s what I think. Put them in lead boxes and take them to the FBI labs, let them see if there are bugs in there.
That makes sense. You never know what is bugged.
I’ve read that CIA employees are not permitted to accept gives from Israel and their Mossad precisely because everything given to them is sure to be bugged.
By the way, I’ve read that at technical conferences in China, everyone gets a USB containing all of the slides and handouts from the conference. And that if you plug that USB into the laptop, their security services then have complete access to your laptop.
I’m of the opinion that when going to any other country, you should leave your cell phone at home and take a burner phone with you. And take only a burner laptop as well.
Do they even have the capability to do that anymore?