The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[McParadigm]

The chief information security officer for the White House's Executive Office of the President has been removed from his position, sources have confirmed.

Cory Louie was appointed to the position by former President Obama in 2015, charged with keeping safe the staff closest to the president -- including the president himself -- from cyber-threats posed by hackers and nation-state attackers.

But circumstances surrounding his departure, weeks after President Donald Trump took office, remain unclear.

It's thought he was either fired or asked to resign last Thursday evening, and he was escorted out from his office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across the street from the West Wing.

Since then, there has been a near-absolute wall of silence from the White House -- from both the staff, which up until last week worked for Louie, and spokespeople for the Trump administration.

However, one source said it's because the remaining staff have "targets on their back" and are afraid of speaking out, calling the actions a "witch hunt" for former Obama appointees. Accusations of poor management were said to be reasons or excuses for his forced departure amid what was described as a "toxic" working environment.

[BurtReynolds]

The climax out this crazy story is going to be epic.

[ABNorman]

A preview for the US: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-38923598

[Strat]

I can't wait till - anybody who wants to - hacks his phone, and launches our own nukes at us.

what a time to be alive!

[doug rr]

some good tweets should be coming out soon

[McParadigm]

WH CISO is not seen as a particularly prestigious position, within the cybersecurity world. Who on earth would take this on from scratch, for the Trump administration, without any transition arrangements?

[McParadigm]

some good tweets should be coming out soon

Maybe Donald will be the first ever presidential rage quit.

[Strat]

Ban remains on hold

https://apnews.com/1d68613554f140a49cff ... _medium=AP

[Green Habit]

[Strat]

[McParadigm]

RAGE QUIT

[Strat]

RAGE QUIT

So much losing.

[Jorge]

[McParadigm]

SEE YOU IN COURT

[Strat]

we're gonna be doing so much winning you wont believe how much winning is going to be do

[digster]

I think, in an odd way, this is good. This is a guy with a nasty authoritarian streak who's probably never heard the word 'no' a day in his life, and he blinked when the courts told him he couldn't do something. It gives hope to the possibility he's not beyond the means of an actual check on his power, at least one he'll adhere to.

Of course, we're three weeks into a four-year term, so who knows.

[Green Habit]

Primarying can backfire on Republicans, too.

[wease]

NYT: California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field Workers

MERCED, Calif. — Jeff Marchini and others in the Central Valley here bet their farms on the election of Donald J. Trump. His message of reducing regulations and taxes appealed to this Republican stronghold, one of Mr. Trump’s strongest bases of support in the state.

As for his promises about cracking down on illegal immigrants, many assumed Mr. Trump’s pledges were mostly just talk. But two weeks into his administration, Mr. Trump has signed executive orders that have upended the country’s immigration laws. Now farmers here are deeply alarmed about what the new policies could mean for their workers, most of whom are unauthorized, and the businesses that depend on them.

“Everything’s coming so quickly,” Mr. Marchini said. “We’re not loading people into buses or deporting them, that’s not happening yet.” As he looked out over a crew of workers bent over as they rifled through muddy leaves to find purple heads of radicchio, he said that as a businessman, Mr. Trump would know that farmers had invested millions of dollars into produce that is growing right now, and that not being able to pick and sell those crops would represent huge losses for the state economy. “I’m confident that he can grasp the magnitude and the anxiety of what’s happening now.”

Mr. Trump’s immigration policies could transform California’s Central Valley, a stretch of lowlands that extends from Sacramento to Bakersfield. Approximately 70 percent of all farmworkers here are living in the United States illegally, according to researchers at University of California, Davis. The impact could reverberate throughout the valley’s precarious economy, where agriculture is by far the largest industry. With 6.5 million people living in the valley, the fields in this state bring in $35 billion a year and provide more of the nation’s food than any other state.

Farmers are also anxiously awaiting the administration’s plans to alter longstanding trade agreements. Mr. Trump has said he will pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement if he cannot negotiate better terms for the United States. Growers would benefit if Mr. Trump negotiated more favorable terms. But backing out of the agreement entirely could provoke retaliation from Mexico that would hurt California’s agricultural industry, which earned $21 billion from trade last year.

Fucking dumbasses. What the fuck did they think they as going to happen? God DAMN!

[Strat]

I think, in an odd way, this is good. This is a guy with a nasty authoritarian streak who's probably never heard the word 'no' a day in his life, and he blinked when the courts told him he couldn't do something. It gives hope to the possibility he's not beyond the means of an actual check on his power, at least one he'll adhere to.

Of course, we're three weeks into a four-year term, so who knows.

THis is exactly why i think he'll end up having a stroke or something. The guy wont last.

[digster]

Or, he'll just say fuck the courts. Then we're in a pickle.