Jeff Sessions Backs Bump Stock Ban, Trump Names 2020 Campaign Chief, and Jared Kushner Has Security Clearance Downgraded: P.M. Links

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  Jeff Sessions urges a regulatory bump stock ban.

• Trump names Brad Parscale his 2020 reelection campaign head.

• Jared Kushner reportedly had his top secret security clearance downgraded.

• German court permits cities to ban diesel-powered vehicles.

• Slovak journalist investigating corruption found shot to death.

• Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg is fair game for criticism, says National Review's Charles Cooke.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jared Kushner reportedly had his top secret security clearance downgraded.

Anti-Semites.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

[Rat on a train]

Poor guy. TS has all the best porn.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump names Brad Parscale 2020 re-election campaign head.

The strategy? Let the left do all the heavy lifting.

[Citizen X - #6]

It worked in 2016.

[loveconstitution1789]

Among .....

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

your mom's many lovers

[loveconstitution1789]

She's dead, so good luck taking a crack at that.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Past lovers. Also, I am sorry for your loss.

[Horatio]

So THAT'S why she didn't say no to anal this time!

[loveconstitution1789]

THIS time. Unless you like humping sand-like ash.

[Red Tony]

Sand-like ash? That's my fetish!

[Jimbo]

Sand-like ash was my HS nickname!

...wait a minute, I think it was actually "Sounds like an Ass".

[Citizen X - #6]

Jeff Sessions urges a regulatory bump stock ban through.

...YOUR MOM.

[loveconstitution1789]

Among moms.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Hillary would have been worse. As your mom.

[loveconstitution1789]

As president? She was in a wheelchair and I doubt the media would cover for her like they did with FDR.

[Citizen X - #6]

Damn, i sort of wish Winston would come back. That dude was mad shitty at Yo Mama jokes.

[loveconstitution1789]

Yo momma's teeth are so yellow, when she smiled at traffic, it slowed down.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

I think LoveCon89 wants to be the new Epi/Winston.

[loveconstitution1789]

I thought we were doing this....

[Citizen X - #6]

I think he typed "yo mama joke's" into Google and is copy/pasting.

[Red Tony]

Yo mama so fat, John masturbates to her passport picture.

Yo mama so dumb, she inspires Palin's Buttplug.

Yo mama so crazy, the government violates her second amendment rights.

Yo mama so horny, she bought a Subway sandwich and some Astroglide.

Yo mama so ugly, everybody who looks at her says "god damn that's an ugly woman!"

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

He popped in a while back on one thread. I didn't want to scare him off, so I didn't reference his momma, but he disappeared anyway.

[Citizen X - #6]

Just like his daddy did from his mama's house, huh.

[DiegoF]

Should have been more suspicious. Why would he need to go to the corner for smokes when he already has a Winston?

[loveconstitution1789]

Black guys smoke menthols?

[Anomalous]

I might have been Winston's daddy, but some other guy had exact change.

[loveconstitution1789]

Yo momma's so stupid, she put lipstick on her forehead to make up her mind.

[loveconstitution1789]

Yo momma's so fat, it took me two trains, a plane, and a bus to get to her good side.

[loveconstitution1789]

Yo momma's so old, her breast milk is actually powder.

[loveconstitution1789]

Yo momma's so dumb, she went to the dentist to get a Bluetooth.

[Horatio]

As a serial lurker I miss many of those jerks. The great reasonoid diaspora still pains me.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Don't be shy, brother. No comment is too dumb for this lot.

[Horatio]

Kinda my point...

[Rat on a train]

Someday the effects of the Glibbening will subside and the diaspora will return to their domain. Expect a holy war.

[stuartl]

I dunno, the crew that left in the late 2000's never came back

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Yo momma's so fat, she hold up her pants with the Kuiper Belt.

[loveconstitution1789]

But you should see hUranus.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jeff Sessions urges a regulatory bump stock ban through.

"Take this sacrifice and be satisfied."

[DiegoF]

At least with a weed plant you actually need to obtain a particular species seed to make one. Trying to rid America of bump firing through a "ban" is like passing a law to criminalize card counting.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Slovak journalist investigating corruption found shot to death.

What a strange coincidence.

[DiegoF]

What, not thrown out of a window? See, this is why I'm alt-right. This global monoculture is destroying all sense of local tradition.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Wasn't there a ghetto Slovak that used to post here? I think he was some kind of goatherder. Probably went glib.

[DiegoF]

Don't know about Ghettoslovakia, but there was a Romanian gentleman.

[Jimbo]

Or Gab, amirite?!

[Rebel Scum]

Slovak journalist investigating corruption found shot to death.

Probably a botched robbery.

[Citizen X - #6]

I think that's the first picture i've seen of Sessions where he didn't look like the Elf on the Shelf having a psychotic break.

[loveconstitution1789]

You forgot something...

[Fist of Etiquette]

German court permits cities to ban diesel-powered vehicles.

You know who else wrecked local economies?

[Citizen X - #6]

Godzilla?

[loveconstitution1789]

The spice trade?

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

The spice must flow.

[Charles Easterly]

The spice must flow.

Many plusses.

/Signed, Mister Late To The Comments

[Rich]

Walmart?

[Rat on a train]

Amazon?

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Silk Road?

[silver.]

Meth?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

The B-17 bomber?

[EscherEnigma]

Natural gas?

[Citizen X - #6]

Slovak journalist investigating corruption found shot to death.

I blame Hillary Clinton.

[loveconstitution1789]

Trump vs Hillary 2.0

[Palin's Buttplug]

Pre-order your Trump troll doll today:

https://goo.gl/dYF7Qr

[loveconstitution1789]

Does it include Obama as a worse president doll as a free gift?

If not, I don't want it.

[DiegoF]

No, Obama got the chia afro. Get your '80s-throwback political novelty items straight.

[Rich]

Too late, Chuck -- 7-Eleven's already got 'em.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Aww, cute!

[Rhywun]

shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg

Didn't know he was parading/being paraded around so much. Is there no depth the left won't sink to.

[Horatio]

Meanwhile, shooting survivor and gun rights advocate Steve Scalise still waiting to be rescued from the memory hole.

[DiegoF]

Makes sense that his granddad would want to move him down to Broward County after he "retired" though. Apparently Sheriff Coltrane's competence and ethical standards ultimately proved too high for his tastes.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Cooke took on the kid. Watch the responses:

http://bit.ly/2EZOJsZ

[loveconstitution1789]

I found the one comment super funny "The gun guys are gonna win."

[Rufus The Monocled]

I love how you're supposed to let the kid talk no matter how erroneous because compassion.

He's 17 and entered the public foray so he's fair game as Cooke contends.

Plus he's doing the kid a favor. The sooner he learns to argue properly, the better his chances he gets people to his side. If not, he'll just be another forgotten voice.

[loveconstitution1789]

Yup. He will learn how good debating is done.

This kid was probably assured it would be cake just acting like a victim and getting some gun control narrative done.

[Rich]

Hey, Rufus -- this is how we argue down here!

[DiegoF]

Ever since I first saw that I have been praying to find out what the Canadian version would be.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Man when I saw that for the first time when it came out I downright clubbed a baby seal it was so infuriating.

The thing I want is the Dean or some other guy connected to the debate took to youtube in defense of these girls after quite the backlash. Problem is, I can't find it anymore. It was quite the ridiculous defence of the indefensible.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

What the fuckety-fuck?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Huh. So, as someone who did debate in HS I have to say that this seems about right.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Though this may be a first for African American women, it is not a real win for women or African Americans, but a loss for collegiate debate specifically and America in general.

Don't give any credit to collegiate debate. It's an inherently bullshit type of competition.

[What's that smell?]

WTF You know that Lilly white prego interviewer has no clue what this "debate" was like. But she'll smile and tell all her "enlightened" friends how smart and polite these girls were next time at Starbuck's adding "See they really are just like us"...only darker...and fatter.

[Horatio]

In the social media age it seems partisans have gotten better at repartee, but I wonder if these transparent tactics (eg kiddie shields) work better, worse, or about the same as they always have on the normies.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Parkland, Florida shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg is fair game for criticism says National Review's Charles Cooke.

Would-be prohibitionists need to be countered.

[Libertarian]

German court permits cities to ban diesel-powered vehicles.

You know who else hated VWs and foul emissions? No, wait, that's not right.

[loveconstitution1789]

Allow me.

You know who loved VWs and hated foul emitters?

[BestUsedCarSales]

The Unabomber?

[Rebel Scum]

Parkland, Florida shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg is fair game for criticism

No shit. You enter the debate, you can be debated. And was this little, smarmy weasel even in the same building as the shooting?

Also, I have a feeling we are going to have to listen his nonsensical and unconstitutional claptrap for a long time.

[Palin's Buttplug]

There is a button or knob on your TV/PC to turn him off.

I have no interest in what he has to say myself.

[loveconstitution1789]

Or gun rights supporters can criticize him so much that he goes home to his mom's basement to cry.

[Red Tony]

Among lefties.

[Libertarian]

"I have a feeling we are going to have to listen his nonsensical and unconstitutional claptrap for a long time."

Why are you dragging Bernie Sanders into the gun discussion?

[SIV]

Does Charles C. Cuck think he's giving us "permission " to criticize the crisis actor kid?

[Crusty Juggler]

lol

[Rebel Scum]

Jeff Sessions urges a regulatory bump stock ban through.

It's a plastic sleeve with a spring. Anyone who wants one can make one.

[Rich]

Hey, now -- Jeff Sessions is at least a plastic *suit*.

[Brendan]

There's no spring. It's just a plastic sleeve.

[John]

What is a regulatory bump stock? Is that one of them automatic weapon thingees?

[Citizen X - #6]

I think it's the shoulder thing that goes up, but i might be wrong.

[Rebel Scum]

Chainsaw attachment?

[loveconstitution1789]

Cue Ash vs Evil Dead.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Surprisingly, there have been no chainsaw massacres since that one time in Texas. Let us be thankful for that.

[Horatio]

CRISIS ACTORS I TELL YA!

[Horatio]

So long as the damn thing doesn't fold I'm ok with it. Everyone knows it's the foldy-thingies that drive people to mass murderer.

[John]

It is not the bullets that kill you. That is a myth. It is the stock that kills you.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Here is a new low for gun grabber stupidity. The jackass says

2,182 miles per hour. That's how fast the bullets were moving when they came out of that AR-15 at Marjory Stoneman-Douglas High School last week. 2,182 miles per hour. 3,200 feet per second. That's what those kids were trying to outrun. That's three times the speed of a bullet leaving a 9mm handgun.

It's so fucking wonderfully dumb.

[Rich]

Isn't it like a laughing stock?

[loveconstitution1789]

Something only stock boys can handle.

BOOM! Two in one.

[John]

Is there anyone claiming the Hogg kid should be above criticism?

[loveconstitution1789]

This kid is too dumb to realize he's advocating infringing on the 2nd Amendment and people might not take that sitting down.

He's fair game.

[SIV]

Journalists, progs, and some NeverTrumpers.

[John]

So no one who isn't retarded.

[DiegoF]

Are NeverTrumpers actually saying this? Like actual anti-Trump conservatives, as opposed to the ones who are or have become professional "house Republicans" for the Left?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Trump: I would have run into school during shooting even without a gun

https://goo.gl/prS1LC

Of all the lies this Con Man has told I find this one the most despicable.

[John]

WAAAAA But he is still your President and will be for at least another three years and perhaps more. Your misery and whining are so delicious. Thank you so much for not depriving us of your misery.

Tell us more about how Hillary is going to win in a landslide. Your new stuff is good but sometimes you just want to hear the hits.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Says the guy who dodged the draft 5 times.

[John]

I never dodged the draft. Stop responding to the voices in your head. Focus shreek Focus.

[Rufus The Monocled]

You're being roasted by a guy who squelched on a bet.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I thought it was 'welched' on a bet.

[Citizen X - #6]

I mean, you joined the army voluntarily, right? You can't be drafted if you're already serving, so shreek is technically not entirely wrong.

[John]

Sure, but I didn't do it five times. How does one dodge the draft five times anyway?

[loveconstitution1789]

Butt the dumb dumb considers deferments draft dodging.

Deferments were legal. Draft dodging was not.

[Eidde]

With your five different personalities?

I kid, I kid!

[BestUsedCarSales]

Well time cartwheels.

[Charles Easterly]

Sure, but I didn't do it five times. How does one dodge the draft five times anyway?

Is the correct answer "Ask Dick Cheney".?

[Rufus The Monocled]

I'm a PROG DODGER.

[loveconstitution1789]

But have you PROG dodged 5 times?

[loveconstitution1789]

I didn't know we were talking about Bill Clinton and his fleeing to Canada to escape the draft.

[Horatio]

Wait, dodging the draft is a bad thing now? I thought successfully avoiding dying in some far flung ditch as a slave was a win.

[loveconstitution1789]

They hate Trump so not dying in Vietnam is bad now.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

^this

[loveconstitution1789]

Of course Trump would run into to help those kids. He has a secret service detail protecting him.

Funny, you call an opinion a lie from Trump.

You call lies coming from lefties facts.

[Rebel Scum]

Trump is a shameless self-promoter. News at 11.

But seriously, being told that I could keep my doc that I had had for my entire life and then losing him as a result of the ppaca was actually consequential to my life. So I'd say that was way worse.

[mad.casual]

You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

[What's that smell?]

Well there is this
https://www.snopes.com/trump-stops-mugging-1991/

And everyone dealt with that war differently some went and fought, many went to college on deferment, Those in the privileged class either went and "sustained" 2 minor injuries to boost their resume and get sent home, or went to Oxford with his hag of a girlfriend to protest the war, America, and not inhale weed.

[John]

http://www.rasmussenreports.co.....rack_feb27

Trump approval even with Obama at this point in his administration. So every journalist who opines on the subject gravely informs me that Trump is "deeply unpopular". Okay, so I guess Obama was too? The horror!!

[Jerryskids]

Trump names Brad Parscale 2020 re-election campaign head.

Jesus, Trump's really not even trying any more with the names. "Little" and Lying" and "Loser" are getting pretty threadbare, but they're not as demeaning as naming somebody "2020 Re-election Campaign ...... oh, wait, I guess it is worse. Nevermind.

[Citizen X - #6]

How many re-election campaign managers do you think he'll go through between now and 2020? I'm'a say at least 6.

[John]

He will change managers whenever he wants the media to not pay attention to something. Its like George Steinbrenner running for President. If Billy Martin were still alive Trump would have to hire him for something.

[Rich]

All White House aides working on the highest-level interim clearances ? at the Top Secret/SCI-level ? were informed in a memo sent Friday that their clearances would be downgraded to the Secret level, according to three people with knowledge of the situation

and unknown clearances.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Wonder how much was spent on the TS investigations before this decisions was made. The ones for Secret are basically an ordinary background check, but TS ones aren't cheap to conclude.

[Eidde]

What level of clearance do you need in order to know the truth about Roswell?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The cost of those clearances are the real reason the national debt is so high.

[loveconstitution1789]

Trump doesn't even know and his clearance is pretty much the highest.

I once heard of a need to know type of clearance but never saw any proof it exists. Need-to-know is more rolled into compartmentalized TS clearance or special mission.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Need-to-know is a requirement for viewing classified material regardless of level (Confidential-Secret-Top Secret). You're probably thinking of specific designators that require their own read-ins; they're generally found at the TS level, but I've seen certain ones at the Secret level as well.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

All clearances are need-to-know. Just because you have a TS clearance doesn't mean you can casually browse all TS files looking for interesting things.

There is SCI (secure compartmented information), where even if you have a need to know, you can't see it unless you're in the right group.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

It's a city in New Mexico where NOTHING EVER HAPPENED.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I stopped for gas there a few times. Seems like a nice enough town.

[Haha, charade you are]

"Parkland, Florida shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg is fair game for criticism says National Review's Charles Cooke".

Not to sound crass and cold-hearted, but was this Hogg kid an actual victim in that he was shot, or was he just in the school at the time? And at 17 years old, we he even in the freshman building where, if I'm not mistaken, the POS open fired?

[John]

He wasn't shot or harmed. So, yeah, he wasn't a victim. That is a good catch.

[Rich]

You monsters!

[John]

If I see a car wreck on the way home tonight, am I a victim of that wreck? I don't think so.

[Rich]

It depends on whether or not you see a grief counselor afterwards.

[John]

What if I use it to get sympathy sex?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Were you delayed by the wreck? If so, you're a victim and will by psychically scarred for the rest of your life.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

I don't claim to be a victim of 9/11 even though I live in NYC. To me, that would be a slap in the face to those who really harmed.

[John]

I agree.

[loveconstitution1789]

I would not even consider someone who was shot at but was unscathed a victim.

[Chipper Morning Baculum]

Really? So if someone were to shoot in your general direction, you would be fine with that.

[Horatio]

Victim? Yeah, I'd say he qualifies.

Survivor? Nope. This is yet another word being stretched to the point of meaningless. But, after all, it's just a label so who really gives a shit.

[Libertarian]

No catch. He's being called a "survivor" not a "victim." At least in the link.

[DiegoF]

Thought that he would fail without you? But he's on top.
Thought it would be over by now? But it won't stop.
Thought that he would self-destruct? But he's still here.
Even in his years to come, he's still gon' be here.
Hogg's a survivor.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I don't mind granting that he went through a traumatic experience, even if he wasn't actually in the building at the time. If anyone thinks they're not going to be affected in such a situation, they're kidding themselves. With that said, if he wants the attention that comes with being a political advocate, hopefully he prepared himself to take the criticism as well as the praise.

[John]

I knew a woman whose husband was the only guy in his office not to be in on the morning of the Murrah bombing and thus was the only guy who survived. Was he a victim? I suppose. But I think it takes more than saying I happened to be there to call yourself a victim.

[SIV]

BATF...FBI...?

[Griffin3]

Victim != lucky fucker
I mean, it's almost the dictionary opposite of victim.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

German court permits cities to ban diesel-powered vehicles.

huh, I thought that Diesel was like the bread and butter of the European car market, far more so than the US. I don't even know if the US sells diesel models any more.

[loveconstitution1789]

The European car market is all fucked up.

The EU has high taxes on engine size, so V-6s are mostly out for cars. Audi, Mercedes are pushing V4 with turbos to get around the taxes and to push environmental dogma on Americans.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Not to mention the high number of diesels, which aren't exactly environmentally friendly.

[DiegoF]

It actually got more so over time, because the governments all moved very hard for diesel--huge subsidies, disincentives and timetables for gas phaseouts--until recently. Since diesel is so much more efficient it is better for carbon, and Big Environmentalism's increasingly myopic focus on global warming led them to ignore how incredibly more filthy it is for every other pollutant. If not for the VW "scandal" we'd probably be hearing about impending bans on gas by this point.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Exactly, that's what I thought. It was my understanding that Diesel was a popular option for the European car market because... government wanted it to be so. Or created policies driving it to be so. So now cities want to ban it? This is gonna be fun.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I don't even know if the US sells diesel models any more.

Chevy has a diesel Cruze, but it's not a very high seller; it was really just implemented as CAFE-raiser. With the emissions restrictions that require a complicated DEF setup, it's basically impossible to develop one without cheating the system, as VW found out.

[Sigivald]

The new Wrangler is available as a diesel, as naturally are many US light trucks and vans and a handful of SUVs.

I think the Cruze is, as stated, the only domestic-make diesel sedan - but in context it was "US market", not "US marques", and BMW still does.

(Per above claims, note that diesel is "more efficient" (output per gallon, thus MPG) than gasoline because it's more energy dense.

If we're going to pretend to care about carbon, note that it also emits more CO2 per gallon burned for exactly the same reason; it's all just carbon chains being combusted, either way.)

[CatoTheChipper]

This is true. The US exports diesel to and imports gasoline from Germany.

[Sigivald]

As much as I despise Sessions' positions as a drug warrior, this is the first time I can recall seeing him wanting to straight-up ignore the letter of the law.

New low, imagine that.

[DiegoF]

Maybe he really does believe in 2A rights, unlikely as that seems in the light of his views on every other, and this is part of the plan. Seems to be that, for whatever reason, the DC GOP is not willing to challenge the call for bump stock bans on its face since Vegas. They've mostly "excused" their not passing a law by declaring themselves to be in favor of a regulatory solution "using existing law" as they say. "Justice has the power to do so." So perhaps the best solution is to play for time, to draw out the process. Say, "No, we're not going to do that," and you kill Congress's dodge narrative. Instead, say you favor it. Then feed it to the machine--studies, panels, publication, public input period, etc. Then throw together something typically shittily constructed. Then a lawsuit, which I've heard they might lose. How long will this all take? Could easily be the better part of a decade.

[Trigger Warning]

Somebody find Slovak on a map!