What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Sheilbh]

Who has the power to accept or reject that proposal?

I think it's a DHS rule by the looks of it:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/09/24/dhs-proposes-change-admission-period-structure-f-j-and-i-nonimmigrants

Also cutting the stay for international students.

[celedhring]

Who has the power to accept or reject that proposal?

I think it's a DHS rule by the looks of it:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/09/24/dhs-proposes-change-admission-period-structure-f-j-and-i-nonimmigrants

Also cutting the stay for international students.

Yeah under the old system it was 6 years of visa tops IIRC (5 years of degree + 1 OPT).

Also, the wording of "until the end of the program" makes me wonder if they have banned spending one extra year under a student visa doing OPT, once you finish your degree (which is what I did).

[Oexmelin]

Also, the wording of "until the end of the program" makes me wonder if they have banned spending one extra year under a student visa doing OPT, once you finish your degree (which is what I did).

Yep, that's the plan, under the pretext that it makes visa holders too difficult to monitor during that year.

[Sophie Scholl]

Doing a drive-by Census 2020 interesting information update. So as previously mentioned, I worked for the Census in 2010 and 2020 and this year's effort has been... not ideal. On many levels. Most have been reported by the media or mentioned by me earlier. One closing comment on things: not only does the red voter/territory numbers being low and participation minimal seem to just be an anecdotal note from me, but when the Census was closed down early, there were efforts underway, including the paying of $500 bonuses, for people to go to roughly a dozen states that needed additional help in finishing. All of them were red in 2016. These pleas were still being sent out when the Census was shuttered prematurely by decree of Trump and friends. I honestly think this Census could be an absolute disaster for red states and areas nationwide.

[Valmy]

So the red states will lose Congressional seats and electoral votes because their supporters refuse to be counted in the census?



I do like having that one Democratic representative representing those states though, it helps make sure the Democrats have somebody speaking out for those constituencies.

I didn't do my part in shrinking Red State representation by voluntarily submitting all my census information.

[Sophie Scholl]

Interestingly, it seems that red leaning states like Arizona and Georgia were only taking people for certain counties. All of which were rural upon looking them up. So even those states might come out pretty heavily purple after all is said and done.

[celedhring]

You know, I feel a bit sad about finally coming off the US Census (I was there during the last one and filled the form) 

[Syt]

[Tamas]

Pandemic engineered by the Clintons confirmed!!!

[Syt]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/21/rudy-giuliani-faces-questions-after-compromising-scene-in-new-borat-film?CMP=share_btn_tw

Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film

Trump's personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat's daughter in hotel room during pandemic

The reputation of Rudy Giuliani could be set for a further blow with the release of highly embarrassing footage in Sacha Baron Cohen's follow-up to Borat.

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat's daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.

Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras.

After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: "She's 15. She's too old for you."

Representatives for Giuliani have not replied to the Guardian's requests for comment.

Word of the incident first emerged on 7 July, when Giuliani called New York police to report the intrusion of an unusually-dressed man.

"This guy comes running in, wearing a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit," Giuliani told the New York Post. "It was a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top, it looked absurd. He had the beard, bare legs, and wasn't what I would call distractingly attractive.

"This person comes in yelling and screaming, and I thought this must be a scam or a shakedown, so I reported it to the police. He then ran away," Giuliani said. The police found no crime had been committed.

Giuliani continued: "I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn't get me."

Viewers may be less convinced that Baron Cohen, reprising his role as the bumbling reporter Borat Sagdiyev, and Maria Bakalova, who plays his daughter, Tutar, had no success.

In the film Borat is dispatched by the Kazakh government back to the US to present a bribe to an ally of Donald Trump in order to ingratiate his country with the administration. After the monkey earmarked for the gift is indisposed, Borat's supposedly underage offspring becomes the replacement present.

Even before he reaches into his trousers, Giuliani does not appear to acquit himself especially impressively during the encounter. Flattered and flirtatious, he drinks scotch, coughs, fails to socially distance and claims Trump's speedy actions in the spring saved a million Americans from dying of Covid. He also agrees – in theory at least – to eat a bat with his interviewer.

Giuliani has become a key figure in the late stages of the US presidential election after obtaining a laptop hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden and left at a repair shop in Delaware.

His efforts to unearth political dirt on Trump's rival for the White House mean that the film's mortifying footage can be seen as an attempt to undermine Giuliani's credibility. The film, released on Amazon Prime less than a fortnight before the election, ends with an instruction for viewers to vote.

Although unfortunate, the circumstances of the setup appear consensual, with Giuliani led to believe he was being courted. Bakalova, 24, is highly plausible in the sting, despite also having to pretend, for the benefit of viewers, to be a feral child posing as a far-right journalist.

As with the first film, which made $262m on release in 2006 and won a Golden Globe for Baron Cohen, the most troubling scenes are those which reveal deep-seated prejudice among the American people.

Baron Cohen's real-life broadsides against platforms he feels enable antisemitism are echoed in the film, in which Borat learns through Facebook that the Holocaust "was nothing but a fairytale".

He is corrected following a conversation with two elderly Jewish women, one of whom, Judith Dim Evans, died after filming, aged 88. Last week her estate filed a suit against the film-makers, claiming that she was "horrified and upset" upon learning "the movie was actually a comedy intended to mock the Holocaust and Jewish culture".

However, Deadline suggests the film-makers did appraise Dim Evans of the film's true targets after her scenes were shot, and that there is footage of this. They are also said to be hopeful her family may reconsider once they have seen the film, which ends with a dedication to Dim Evans and the link to a website set up in her honour.

[Syt]

From Trump's Twitter:

[Habbaku]

[Barrister]

Spoilers!

[Syt]

Spoilers!

[grumbler]

Okay, we've had four years of trump and nothing could still qualify as Peak Trump because we've had so many competitors that nothing could still make the list this late... but, wait!  There's more!

No, not the fact that Trump repeatedly confused hypersonic (missiles) with hydrosonic (tooth brushes).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39F-lAOFuE  Which, by the way, he referred to for a while, after being informed by his staff that they were "hypersonic" and not "hydrosonic" as "super duper."  He reverted to "hydrosonic" because he thought it sounded more technical.  He doesn't apparently have the language skills to distinguish between hypersonic and hydrosonic. No surprise there.

No, I am talking about his claim (or, properly, retweeting of a claim, and his verbally supporting it) that the Obama administration assassinated Seal Team Six to prevent them from revealing that they didn't assassinate Osama bin Laden, but, rather, a "double."  When the dead men (including one mega-supporter that broke with him over this) posted that they were alive and Trump was full of shit, and Savannah Guthrie challenged him on this at his town hall meeting, he was all "I don't take a position."

This might be Peak Trump.  His moronic desperation has never been so nakedly on display.

I wonder if even his last two supporters here (who are too ashamed to admit that they are) can stand for this.