'Indecipherable Gobbledygook.' Wonkagenda For Tues., April 9, 2019

Everyone is getting You're Fired, there's SPIES at Mar-a-Lago, and hey hey hey it's Fat Jerry! Your morning news brief!

Morning Wonketariat! Here's some of the things wemaybe talking about today.

In a move to clear out all the non-loyal DEEP STATE bureaucrats keeping the country from falling apart, Trump has "You're Fired" the director of the Secret Service, and is rumored to be "You're Fired"-ing senior Homeland Security officials. The decapitation stems from Trump's shitfits over immigration and his inability to stop the taco truck invasion at the southern border. Over on the Hill Republicans are freaking out , and Chuck Grassley is actually telling WaPo that Trump's done nothing but fuck up for two years, adding of that little viper Stephen Miller, "I think it would be hard for him to demonstrate he's accomplished anything for the president ... It's pretty hard to elaborate on it when there hasn't been any accomplishments."

The Chinese woman caught snooping around Mar-a-Lago with malware, a laptop and cell phones hasn't been called a spy (yet), but prosecutors say she "lies to everyone she encounters." A search of her Florida hotel room turned up fat stacks of cash, a handful of SIM cards, nine more USB drives, and a slew of off-the-shelf hardware that could be easily used in spy craft, like signal sniffers that can find hidden cameras.

A federal judge has temporarily stopped a Trump policy forcing asylum seekers to fart around Mexico while hoping and praying for their day in immigration court. In a 27-page ruling, the judge avoided making a political statement, arguing that the policy clashes with the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Administrative Procedures Act and other things that protect immigrants from being deported back to "shithole countries" where they could be murdered.

CNN has the final days of Kirstjen Nielsen at Trump's White House before she was quit-fired. A few weeks ago Trump tried to shut down the port of El Paso, but Nielsen opened her mouth and told Trump it was a bad idea. Trump then continued to throw a tantrum about asylum-seeking Mexican Muslims invading the southern border with their taco trucks, and Nielsen had tosuggestit would be (very) illegal to deny asylum-seekers entry -- even after Trump instructed Border Patrol agents to tell immigrants, "Our country is full," and to disobey the rulings of judges who say otherwise. Everything finally came to a head on Sunday when Trump tried to reinstate his family separation policy, and the two finally agreed that "This isn't working out."

Politico has a retrospective of all the best peoplein the Trump administration who've been "You're Fired," quit-fired, or sent home with a lovely parting gift. Apparently The Mooch "did something fireable," but he still is upset about being ejected "like an Austin Powers villain."RRRIIIIGGGHHTTTT... 

In yet another perceived EFF-UUUU to the former Obama administration, Trump World is killing a program to let Cuban baseball players into Major League Baseball because -- according to them -- it amounts to "human trafficking." Seriously.

GOOD NEWS! We're not exactly sure how this happened, but Trump re-nominated Mary Rowland to the federal bench. Rowland is the first openly gay woman to be nominated -- let alone re-nominated -- to a federal court. She'd been nominated during the last congressional session, but the judicial bottleneck has forced all the unconfirmed judges to start the whole process again. You can thank senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin for this one!

BAD NEWS! Dozens of new cases of measles have been confirmed by US health officials. Even though it was practically eradicated, anti-vaxxers have brought the number of confirmed outbreaks up to 465, with 78 new cases in the last week alone.

NASA, the DOD, NOAA, and several other federal agencies are signaling they have no intention of participating in an initiative to deny climate change. Later today the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing with former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel where they're expected to testify about the national security threat posed by an angry Mother Nature. In a related story, the Trump administration told McClatchy that it's interested in so-called carbon capture technology, which is ... better than nothing ... I guess.

Republican reps Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows have sent letters to 12 major pharmaceutical companies telling them not to comply with House Oversight chair Elijah Cummings request for documents. The Freedom fuckers argue that Cummings is attempting to nuke stock prices of big pharma by leaking mean things to the press like a common Nunes. The letter Jordan and Meadows have sent out selectively misquotes old remarks made by Cummings where he states his interest in "saving the taxpayers money."

WaPo gossips that Trump and House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler have been beefing since the 1980s when Nadler began squashing Trump's shady land deals. Back then, Trump tried to screw poor people in Nadler's district with some sketchy real estate deal but Nadler killed it in the crib. Trump tried to claim victory by calling Nadler "fat," to which Nadler's office noted that he himself, "never went bankrupt and had to spend his father's fortune to keep his family's business afloat."

Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted that Stephen Miller is a white nationalist, and now all the white nationalist snowflakes are melting into puddles of salty tears.

California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (officially) announced #HesRunning   on Colbert . Later today he'll hold a town hall near Parkland, Florida, with a survivor of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as he seeks to make gun control a major policy plank.

TONIGHT: California Representative @EricSwalwell announces on @colbertlateshow that he is running for President!… https://t.co/3M2uBPMeMT

— The Late Show (@The Late Show) 1554764400.0 

Georgia Republicans introduced a bill in the state legislature to create a state "Journalism Ethics Board" that would effectively spy on journalists, forcing them to turn over notes and recordings or face steep fines and jail time. LOL, fuck you, Georgia, #LockMeUp!

A very pregnant woman in Augusta, Georgia, was given a ticket after her three-year-old peed in the parking lot of a gas station. The officer cited the woman for disorderly conduct, writing, "I observed the male's genitals and the urination," after the woman tried to explain that she's due to give birth any day, and the kid is three.

Former Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez cut a deal with outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make Gutierrez's daughter a city alderman, but things didn't exactly work out the way either expected, according to Block Club. Gutierrez's daughter, Jessica, declined to take the kickback and opted to run for the seat during the recent elections as a DSA candidate. Jessica ultimately lost, but not before she pissed off The Machine, scared the incumbent alderman, Ariel Reboyras, and ruined his chance at a cushy retirement job. This is some brilliant reporting if you ever wanted to know the ins and outs of #ChicagoPolitics.

 Airbnb has banned people attending a white nationalist rally in Tennessee from using its platform due to violations of its terms of service that explicitly state Nazi punks can fuck off.

 UK conservatives are shitposting anti-Muslim garbage all over social media, leading to the suspension of at least 50 Tory members. Buzzfeed reports that these Islamophobes are attempting to nuke Brexit, and the rise of Sajid Javid, an Islamic MP poised to take over the conservative Tories who currently serves as the Home Secretary.

 Facebook and Google will head to the Hilltoday and tomorrow to get bitched out for promoting white supremacy. Today Democrats on the House Judiciary are expected to ream empty suits from the "morally bankrupt" Facebook, while Republicans cry with Candace Owens about getting banned for blowing dog whistles and making death threats. Tomorrow they'll do it all again in the Senate with a Twitter exec.

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