Stephen Miller named deputy chief of policy in new Trump administration

submitted 3 weeks ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world

www.pbs.org/newshour/world/stephen-miller-named…

Miller was a senior adviser in Trump’s first term and has been a central figure in many of his policy decisions, notably his move to separate thousands of immigrant families as a deterrence program in 2018. Miller helped craft many of Trump’s hard-line speeches and plans on immigration.

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3 weeks ago

America's Hitler, Meet America's Goebbels.

It's a pity that Dondalph Shitler didn't spend time in prison, he could have written Mein Kräp.

Mein Art of the Deal.

3 weeks ago

This totally stable man?

Great.

Dear every journalist: here's how you make this twat shit bricks.

Imagine north American mainstream journalists not letting someone pivot.

That was a masterclass.

3 weeks ago

I was just asking for figures and you have not answered my question.

Why are you yelling? I've been very respect.

....so you're trusting Maduro numbers.

3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

The "journalists" and media wanted this. Sadly, it'll be ratings gold for another four years. They jusy don't realize they're all screwed anyway.

Also fuck this xenophobic piece of shit.

Dudes literally upset of who he is.

3 weeks ago

Hey I've seen those facial expressions before at around 2 AM at some raves.

3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

I can't be sure he isn't also wearing a diaper.

What do the "Trump won't actually be that bad" people that I've been seeing on Lemmy in the last few days have to say about this?

3 weeks ago

"Um, aktually, this is business as usual for the United Snakes of Amerikkka."

I haven't seen that one yet, but I won't be surprised, since this is the "both parties are the same" crowd.

One of them actually said yes to me not too long ago when I asked if Hillary Clinton would have picked SCOTUS justices that would have struck down Roe v. Wade. That's how invested they are in this nonsense.

Right now though, they seem to be focused on "Harris lost because she ran a bad campaign and it doesn't matter that I helped enable fascism by not voting for her because I share none of the responsibility or blame" and "Trump won't be that bad because he just lies all the time."

That’s the majority of them all right, but don’t forget the accelerationists that hope a Marxist-Leninist system will rise from the ashes. The ones who don’t realize the damper the associated climate change acceleration will have on their plans.

Would those be the same ones that say that, despite the stock market and the private property and all the billionaires, China is a communist country because you have to go through capitalism to get to communism? They amuse me.

For the first time I read this as “Americ-kuh-kuh-kuh”

This is how I know aggressive instance bans for bigotry work: I haven’t seen any of that. Sincere condolences to everyone who has to see the open sewer.

"Whose Steven Miller?"

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3 weeks ago

He was in a pretty good band?

*Checks notes*

Oh... That's Steve Miller... Fuck...

Disclaimer: The views represented in the bad joke do not necessarily represent the views of the commenter. At no time have they uttered the words "Trump won't actually be that bad" in that order.

Trump won't actually be that bad

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Sorry, I had to

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3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

Well, gotta burn this account to the ground! I'ma see you all under a new moniker!

Incidentally, other than Jet Airliner, which was a cover, I have noticed that none of the Steve Miller Band's songs make a lick of sense.

3 weeks ago

Apparently all Steve Millers suck lol

3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

You don't have to like his music, but Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band is one of the realest dudes in the music industry.

3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

Yeah, and also his music is awesome. It makes no sense (like I said) but it's awesome.

My manager when I worked at the sweet factory at the mall when I was a teenager, would play that fucking album over and over and over and over and over. I can’t listen to that shit ever again. On the plus side, he let me take as much candy as I liked anytime which in hindsight was probably not very good for me, but at least back then I could metabolize fucking anything.

3 weeks ago

That's good to hear, but I definitely don't like his music.

3 weeks ago

They are Stephen Miller fans.

3 weeks ago

I haven’t seen anybody say that so far.

3 weeks ago

There’s been a few. Not many. They seem like they’re the type that’s just in denial, not maliciously trying to smokescreen his ill intent.

3 weeks ago

Yeah that’s what it seems like to me.

3 weeks ago

Something, something, land doesn’t vote…

And that people live in cities.

3 weeks ago

I wonder what he will have to do before Americans are willing to admit that he is a fascist.

There were Nazi apologists in Germany after WWII that did not think the Nazis did anything bad. Literally nothing will make them admit they were wrong.

3 weeks ago

Nah but I bet they will be willing to admit that he’s fascist and claim that’s a good thing

3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

Lucky you.

Edit: Also, see the comment from tal below.

Don’t forget they’ll all be fired for gross incompetence after a month or so

3 weeks ago , edited 3 weeks ago

I think that Trump Term 2 is likely to look a lot like Trump Term 1.

Whether-or-not one calls that "that bad", of course, involves some matter of perspective. The article here is about a Term 1 guy coming back for Term 2, which is pretty much in line with things being like Term 1. I expect a lot of the same stuff that I didn't like the first time. I expect him to make outrageous statements, violate a lot of Presidential norms, probably do some questionable things legally to try to benefit himself. I expect him to play into conspiracy theory where he thinks it might benefit him. I expect him to make a lot of self-contradictory statements. I expect him to bluster and make crude statements. I expect him to be constantly in the news for doing something outrageous.

I expect that a lot of his outrageous statements are going to just be political theater, the same way they were the first time around. A lot of very firey talk about immigration and free trade agreements, making sure that he's seen by supporters saying things, not a lot of dramatic actual effective change in most policy.

I don't expect some of the predictions that are often thrown around here about the end of democracy or the free press or a long list of other things to come true.

One of the points that I want to see is what happens on Ukraine policy. This isn't a major popular issue for Republican voters the way policy on Israel is. Vance has been pretty vocal about opposing support for Ukraine, but I also don't know (1) the degree to which that is an actual concern for Vance, (2) the degree of influence that Vance will have, as the VP's power is usually almost entirely dependent on what the President wants to delegate to them and listen to them, and (3) the degree to which the bureaucracy will affect this, as politicians don't simply go craft foreign policy on their lonesome, and there are going to be a lot of the same domain experts that were present under Biden. It's possible that there could be very material impact for Ukraine, but I could also believe that the impact is muted.

My guess is that four years from now, I'm probably going to be pretty happy to see the last of him. But that was pretty much the case in 2020, and I remember no shortage of dire predictions in the opposing press and social media all through his first time through that didn't pan out.

3 weeks ago

We'll be lucky if term 2 is just like term 1. That would mean the ACA would survive, no detention camps would be built, and they don't find a way to deploy the US military to go grab the immigrants and put them into camps.

3 weeks ago

We’ll be lucky if term 2 is just like term 1. That would mean the ACA would survive, no detention camps would be built, and they don’t find a way to deploy the US military to go grab the immigrants *and any effective political opposition* put them into camps.

Fixed that for you.

Oh, it’s going to be a A LOT different.

3 weeks ago

You have deluded yourself. You have not seen anything yet. A human piece of shit has been unleashed on this country with no checks or balances.

oh great, so we can look forward to another horrifyingly mismanaged pandemic!

absolutely batshit crazy how nobody at all
mentioned that not laid it at Trump's doorstep during the campaign

3 weeks ago

Goebbels 2

Only the best and brightest. Out of all of the turds in the bowl, he really stands out. What a gigantic piece of crap.

Like the cream of the crop, the loftiest turds float to the top.

Elon Musk is paying his salary…in hair plugs

Anyone else here who had to do a double take, twice, at the headline, wondering why Trump would need a chief of police?

3 weeks ago

Fredo Corleone

3 weeks ago

I would comfortably bet my life that this man is a sexual sadist who would tear up if he were tutted at by an elderly bus driver for trying to pay a $1.30 fare with a ten dollar bill.

3 weeks ago

Thanks, Harris. If you had run a better campaign, then I wouldn't have had to vote for Trump.

3 weeks ago

Nah, you're too stupid if that's why you didn't vote for her.

this is an insult to the concept of stupidity

Weak rage bait

I think this is intended as satirical but given the multitude of illogical reasons some give for supporting Trump it's hard to tell.

3 weeks ago

Yes, satirical. Which is different from rage bait by intent, but Poe's Law got me again.

3 weeks ago

We really should make using "/s" or "/j" a thing here