Everything is on fire - the US politics thread

The reportedly fired her because she was filling the library with inappropriate books that could influence kids. The Library of Congress recieves a print or digital copy of every single book printed in the US. It’s literally how they hold copyright

The library is also there for members of Congress to do research. It’s not like they have storytime Tuesday for preschoolers.

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Trump is reportedly accepting a luxury jet from Qatar to use as Airforce One. There’s also suggestions that it’s personally being signed to him to allow him to use it after the Presidency is up. I mean holy shit, a foreign government giving them a jet to use as official government transport is bad enough, but giving it to him to use after is just absolutely fucked…

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I’d say this is how she was reportedly fired

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/hayden-library-of-congress-dei.html

There’s now suggestions that Trump is looking at suspending Habeas corpus (essentially the right to stop unlawful detention). They’re basing this on their ability to suspend this in times of war/invasion.

On top of that, the Department of Defence and Departments of Homeland Security are completely utterly flouting the law. DoD has not yet presented their budget requests and there’s no timelines as to when these will be given to Congress. Something that’s a legal requirement for them to do. DHS is refusing to implement budgetary spending that was approved by congress. On top of that, they’re shifting money internally, cutting spending from approved projects, all to shift more “defences” to the border, while weakening other defences. The kicker though, is that they’re looking like DHS will be out of money in the next month or two…

All of that is actually breaking the law, with zero repercussions

Klobuchar dismissed the threat, saying Trump has to follow the Constitution, “And in that Constitution there is the right of habeas corpus.”

Jesus they are feckless.

I think that’s all well and true, but the fact of the matter is that they’re already ignoring it in any case. So saying it’s just a smokescreen isn’t exactly true if ICE agents are allowed unfettered access to all households, anyone seen assisting migrants or hindering ICE agents can be arrested, and they’re sending arrested individuals to random prisons to ensure that they’re impossible to track down.

They’re already ignoring court orders all the way up to the Supreme Court, which is currently too much up Trump’s arse, to enforce the constituation that they’re meant to defend.

I wonder what USAF and the NSA, not too mention fucking Boeing think of this

Morbid yes, but fuck itd be funny if it crashed.

4th fighter has now been lost, again fell overboard. At this stage, you’d be safe to think they’re trying to emulate the Russian Navy in making underwater assets

Best part of 300 million for those 4. On top of whatever ordinance is being fired.

Turns out all those autistic dei hires were the only ones that knew how the mechanism works

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This probably should belong in the weird thread, but a lot of stuff from the US recently should be in there as well

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A daughter called Kick and a grandkid called Bobcat. FMD he needs a mental health intervention, an utter cooker.

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Two more additions to our list of illegal names

Plot twist, it wasn’t actually polluted until he jumped in

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He doesn’t believe in germ theory… Imagine not believing in something that you can literally see under a microscope

Logical progression

Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on New Reality Show

They’ve just accepted a whole bunch of South African Refugees… They’re apparently escaping the South African genocide that’s occurring there. I’ll give credit to RSA, carrying out a genocide with only Trump being aware of it is pretty amazing…

And one of them has a history of anti semantic views which is interesting considering that is a reason for deportation.