Trump ends Secret Service protection for Harris

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04r073nxz5o

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ceenote@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 363d (4 replies)

Every headline about actions he takes could be replaced with "Petty Little Bitch Makes Petty Little Bitch Move" and be no less accurate.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 20 pts · 363d (2 replies)

Yeah I was thinking “so much fucking drama each and every day with this piece of shit.”

Seriously I want to stay informed but there’s like, an emotional cost to keep up with US news. I almost feel like my IQ drops some days.

brem@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 363d (1 reply)

That's the point. Overwhelm those who still care.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 4 pts · 363d

I know right? fLo0D tHE z0nE 🥴

brem@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 363d

Calling him a petty bitch doesn't stop him from fucking up the United States forever.

60d@lemmy.ca · 58 pts · 363d (3 replies)

Cool story bro.

Where are the Epstein files?

brem@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 363d (2 replies)

Trump flushed them down his golden toilet.

Ste41th@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 361d (1 reply)

Which one?

brem@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 361d

The one that has a built in Sybian w/ a signed tiny Putin attachment

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 363d (11 replies)

Tbh I'm surprised he let it go to august.

Apparently VPs only get "up to" 6 months of Secret Service protection after they leave office, with the potential for extensions.

Still shitty though.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 363d

He probably didn't realize she had a special extension until now.

marsza@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 363d (7 replies)

That doesn’t really encourage the VP to do much while in office.

Zahille7@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 363d (3 replies)

I mean just compare Kamala's VPresidency to Vance's.

Tbh I can't name one thing she did do, but I do know she wasn't in the news for constantly going on vacations around the world, fucking couches, and generally being a shitty person.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 363d (1 reply)

She didn't kill a single Pope.

mcbenavides85@piefed.social · 7 pts · 363d
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iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 363d

You didn't even say "thank you".

mikesizachrist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 363d (2 replies)

They dont really have the authority to do anything right? Their one job is to be a backup president. It's like saying an actor's second didn't have any lines in the play (because the actor was there to say them all)

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d (1 reply)

Their one job is to be a backup president.

Well, two jobs. Their other job is to cast a tie breaking vote in the Senate.

mikesizachrist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 360d

Three jobs actually. Some administrations will have the VP spread oil or vasaline on satan's asshole. A vital role if the POTUS's penis is particularly small.

brem@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 363d (1 reply)

Better believe they'll make an extension for Mango Musilini after he refuses to leave office and gets ejected (as we all know will happen)

RedC@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 363d

Previous presidents get secret service protection for life

brem@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 363d (5 replies)

Has a previous president ever done this in the history of the United States since the inception of the Secret Service?

tal@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 363d

Trump had ended Secret Service protection for John Bolton in his first term after he fell out with him. In Bolton's case, that's quite significant, due to Iran.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78d7x08j7eo

The US is offering a $20m (£15m) reward for information leading to the arrest of an Iranian man accused of plotting to assassinate Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), is accused of trying to hire criminals in the US to kill Mr Bolton, a vocal Iran critic, in exchange for $300,000.

Biden had reinstated Bolton's Secret Service protection when Biden was in office. As soon as Trump got back in, he cut it off again.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 2 pts · 363d

I'm not sure there's ever been an 12 month extension before (6 standard + 12 extension).

GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 361d (2 replies)
brem@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 361d (1 reply)

"Unavailable due to legal reasons".

List we are on now, friend

GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 360d

Is it safe to say GDPR was a mistake at this point?

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 363d

With any luck Trump won't be needing it for much longer either.