Random Politics & Religion #18

It's all a show to distract from discussing the details of the raid in al Bayda, Yemen where we lost a Navy SEAL and killed something to the tune of 59 people (depending on who's count you go by).

I already have a platform in mind to claim the coveted FFXI demographic.

Republican president? Oh hey I guess it's cool to hate on the military again.

Trump lied 8 year olds died.

In a message to staff today, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler wrote about covering President Trump the Reuters way:

Alex Jones announced that WorldNetDaily reporter Jerome Corsi will be Infowars.com’s new Washington bureau chief. The appointment is fitting for the discredited pro-Trump website: Corsi was instrumental to the false claim that former President Barack Obama supposedly has a fake birth certificate, and he has a long history of producing shoddy reporting in service of bizarre conspiracy theories.

Corsi Will Head Infowars DC Bureau And Apply For White House Correspondent Position

Covering Trump the Reuters Way
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Infowars And New DC Chief Jerome Corsi Are A Perfect Match To Cover Donald Trump

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Mediamaters

Alternative facts anyone?

You know what would really help out these protesters?

Throwing rocks and bricks at police.

Trump supporter suggests violent protests on obscure gaming website.

Come on fone you can't cut off the explanation in that clip.

Immigration lawyers are scrambling to understand the meaning of a letter first disclosed late Tuesday.

The policy, laid out in a State Department letter filed in court and previously noted by Politico, has sowed yet more confusion about President Donald Trump's executive order.

While the president’s order suspended the entry of all citizens from seven Muslim majority countries for 90 days, the State Department letter appeared to go much further, taking away visas rather than delaying their use.

”I hereby provisionally revoke all valid nonimmigrant and immigrant visas of nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen,” states the letter, which was signed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Edward Ramotowski.

It’s not clear how many people are affected. In addition to immigrants, students as well as workers in the U.S. with long-term visas may also be impacted by the policy. If they travel and their visas have not been reinstated after the ban, they would have to apply again to come back.

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Lawyers around the country are scrambling to get clarification. The confusion centers on what the letter means by the phrase “provisionally revoke.”

“Will visas automatically be reinstated? Or do you have to go back to the embassy and re-apply?” asks Denyse Sabagh, the head of the immigration practice at Duane Morris in Washington.

It is not a minor detail. In one case ProPublica reported last week, it took over five years for a young Yemeni girl with U.S. citizen parents to secure an immigrant visa.

The State Department declined our requests to clarify what “provisionally revoke” means. Instead, a spokesperson offered the following statement:

“At the request of the Department of Homeland Security, and in compliance with the President’s Executive Order, the Department of State provisionally revoked relevant visas as defined under the EO. Those visas are not valid for travel to the U.S. while the Executive Order is in place.”

Inb4 USA at war with Australia.