ANOTHER (potential) whistleblower?  Damn.  Is there ANY one in D.C. who isn't ready to dish the dirt on this administration?

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/politics/second-trump-whistleblower.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

We're back to "Freaky Fridays" with these Friday evening news dumps (the announcement of Bernie's heart attack, now this).

59 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

We're back to "Freaky Fridays" with these Friday evening news dumps (the announcement of Bernie's heart attack, now this).

 

The media really do love their Friday cliffhangers, don't they? 

14 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

The media really do love their Friday cliffhangers, don't they? 

 

Yeah, that and I do think that the Sanders campaign intentionally broke the news of Bernie's heart attack when they thought it would garner the least attention.

If this new policy had been in effect in 1972, when Papa Khan immigrated here on a visa from the British Virgin Islands, he would have been denied entry. And if he had been denied entry into the U.S., he and Mama Khan never would have met, and yours truly never would have been born. (Which could be good or bad, depending on how one feels about me.)

 

I'm just saying.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/immigrant-visas-health-care.html?fbclid=IwAR14MtY-bth1jVv8O8rXcobbNHLYe233vJzuxgrjD-Jegpxgm91jOn-mqi8

 

Hey @Khan I never knew you had some island heritage.  Dap! 

I mean, most immigrants who come, even the ones who already have jobs, rarely had their health insurance already in place. And frankly, most wealthy and comfortable people are not emigrating anywhere, let alone the U.S.-- even less so, with these onerous policies being put in place.  Trump wants to attract the wealthy immigrants who are not even interested in coming. 

 

Immigration has trickled almost to a halt.  If this continues, we're all looking at a future of economic stagnation similar to Japan.

I'll keep my thoughts about what this means for the primary to myself as it's distasteful IMO, but I do hope Bernie recovers.

 

Meanwhile, at the White House:

 

 

2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Hey @Khan I never knew you had some island heritage.  Dap!

 

Well...lol...that's where he lived, I think, after he was discharged from the Guyana Defence Force.  (He was living in Tortola with his then-wife and my half-sister, whom I've never met.) 

 

Papa Khan was born and raised, though, in Kitty Village, which remains one of Georgetown's (British Guyana) roughest neighborhoods.  As he told me many times over the years, everyone he grew up with either died or ended up in jail; and even though he never renounced his Guyanese citizenship -- in fact, he'd finally applied for his green card when he died unexpectedly seven years ago -- he never held any desire to return there either.

 

Frankly, I don't think Trump has anything to worry about when it comes to slowing immigration.  He and the rest of his administration have done a bang-up job in deterring anyone from coming here for generations to come.

 

2 hours ago, Vee said:

I'll keep my thoughts about what this means for the primary to myself as it's distasteful IMO, but I do hope Bernie recovers.

 

LOL!  Oh, @Vee!

Edited October 5, 20196 yr by Khan

2 hours ago, Vee said:

Meanwhile, at the White House:

 

 

 

The nerve of Trump to use the image of Pinocchio! Someone who was told that being brave, truthful and unselfish would make him a real boy.

Those are three words I doubt Trump can even spell.....

Unfortunately, Sean Hannity, who obviously wants to be Trump's BFF, has taken to calling him "Shifty Schiff" as well.  In fact, he repeats it so often -- and so awkwardly -- that if it were a drinking game, you'd be sloshed before his first commercial break.  (Which isn't a bad thing, since you probably NEED to be intoxicated to watch his show on Fox News.)

Edited October 5, 20196 yr by Khan

13 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

Well...lol...that's where he lived, I think, after he was discharged from the Guyana Defence Force.  (He was living in Tortola with his then-wife and my half-sister, whom I've never met.) 

 

Papa Khan was born and raised, though, in Kitty Village, which remains one of Georgetown's (British Guyana) roughest neighborhoods.  As he told me many times over the years, everyone he grew up with either died or ended up in jail; and even though he never renounced his Guyanese citizenship -- in fact, he'd finally applied for his green card when he died unexpectedly seven years ago -- he never held any desire to return there either.

 

Frankly, I don't think Trump has anything to worry about when it comes to slowing immigration.  He and the rest of his administration have done a bang-up job in deterring anyone from coming here for generations to come.

 

Big up, Guyana!  I have a good friend who is Guyanese.  

 

 

Well, I guess coming up with insulting nicknames for adversaries is better than admitting that your diplomatic ventures are all failures and you got played by North Korea.

 

JUST IN: US, North Korea break off nuclear talks after months of negotiations: report https://t.co/M6FecLBKAH pic.twitter.com/2KgIWKS34u

— The Hill (@thehill) October 5, 2019

 

I mean, Kim basically got the clout that he was seeking at the U.S.' expense.

LOL:

 

 

 

 

How could that be a good idea? Won’t that make Perry turn on him and be more willing to cooperate? If the alternative is taking the fall, he has no choice but turn on Trump. 

1 minute ago, Chris B said:

How could that be a good idea? Won’t that make Perry turn on him and be more willing to cooperate? If the alternative is taking the fall, he has no choice but turn on Trump. 

 

Perry has always been an idiot (there's a reason Molly Ivins called him "Governor Good Hair.") He'll do as told. 

How Perry would be involved makes no sense. The Energy Department has little to do with foreign affairs that don't involve heavily oil producing countries. Even if the call was his idea he didn't make Trump say what he said on the phone.