WE ARE EXTORTING BILLIONS FROM US IMPORTERS, AND WE'RE CALLING IT 'REVENUE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.' THIS BEATS EVERY OTHER SCAM I'VE EVER PULLED OFF.
WE ARE EXTORTING BILLIONS FROM US IMPORTERS, AND WE'RE CALLING IT 'REVENUE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.' THIS BEATS EVERY OTHER SCAM I'VE EVER PULLED OFF.
From their perspective, they probably think they're being asked to hear an unreasonable number of frivolous cases and the only appropriate response is is to issue summary opinions in as little time as possible.
Indeed. The meritocracy is alive and well in professional sports.
I was there during the upper house election in July and was struck by how few seats Sanseito actually won, and how that contrasted with the American media's depiction of the party as some kind of far-right juggernaut.
Well, my spouse is Japanese and I’ve spent a lot of time there. Take it for what it’s worth.
The US press views everything through an American lens, but Japan has a fraction of the nativism that the US and Europe have and a whole host of genuine problems with wealthy Chinese treating the country as their personal playground. Apples-to-oranges.
Fuuuuuuuuuuck
The countries of "the West" will be fighting to attract migrants in just a few short years. You can only resist economic incentives for so long.
Self-deportation!
Fuuuuuuuuuuck
Maybe he has realized he's shit at diplomacy and tariff-bullying is the only tool in his statecraft toolbox?
And the agent will have an exciting story to tell in The Hague.
I believe it has been reported that there’s an attractive young woman who follows him around taking dictation.
2026 primaries will be... interesting.
That makes sense.
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I've not been following this story about Trump's health. What's going on?
Democratic backsliding typically takes years, or even decades, doesn't it? And we've been backsliding for that long.
Sounds like a really nice guy.
So funny that all they're doing is clearly stating the facts and not doing the usual New York Times euphemism thing.
Next week it'll be September. So far no sign of Republicans standing up to Trump in any meaningful way.
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Government Efficiency in action 👍
Bill Cassidy voted to confirm RFK Jr. knowing full well what was going to happen. Fuck him.
He has the arrogance of someone whose entire Harvard application essay read "Robert F. Kennedy Jr." (a true story).
Primaries next year are going to be... interesting.
Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a school without a single screen and class sizes of 14
I genuinely think part of the current political dynamic is that a lot of Dems -- especially your typical educated, affluent city-dwellers -- simply can't believe what's going on. Even though it's right there on the TV, right there in the streets, it's hard to shake the feeling of unreality.
Because it's the stuff of the dystopian fiction we've been reading and watching for our entire lives, or because we're simply in denial, or... ?
*sometimes, not something
I something think that people make the whole thing too complicated. She's a great musician. I mean, that's not the whole story, but it's a big — maybe the biggest — part of it.
I don't get it.
Can someone explain what I'm looking at?
I disagree. The US has been on this path for a long time, even if the person leading the way wasn't always Trump.
I wonder if the United States has itself been closer to the edge a few more times than we realize, and the history books don't really emphasize it.
Does Chile count? It took decades...
This kind of thinking makes a lot of sense to me but it hasn't predicted market moves in... decades?
I always wonder how much the reliance on polling is an excuse by Democratic lawmakers who just don't want to do anything and how much they really believe it's the end-all-be-all...
Kitchen table issues like the ones Zohran Mamdani is talking about? Oh wait, not THOSE kitchen table issues...
Which would make sense, because there won't be 'ongoing' tariff increases...
I thought the smart money was saying that there would essentially be a one-time price increase due to tariffs, not ongoing price increases.
Perfect. Those words the consultants say Dems should stop using? They don't use them. *Republicans* use them... in the process of saying that Dems use them.
I've heard that this is the historical average lifespan of a democracy 👌
A Trump surrogate called Puerto Rico an island of garbage a week before the election. Maybe language policing isn't what moves voters?
Does he have an editor or... ? I mean, even ChatGPT...
Do you think progressives dream of having an autocrat with the power to take ownership of private companies when he wants to? Seriously?
You don't gotta hand it to Trump
Because it's so easy to redesign a system completely from scratch — so much easier than preserving an old one where half of it or most of it is functioning.
Also somehow popular positions like "tax the fuck out of rich people" are never discussed by said center.
X: death and rape threats for liberals especially liberal women Bluesky: close-minded scolding 🤔
They want to make an example out of him. Because he's innocent.
But they admitted the mistake almost immediately. I feel like it's more, they just want to show that they can do this — to anyone, especially the innocent.
They just decided to torment this man in one way after another for no apparent reason — pure Kafka.
Indeed. The average Republican thinks democracy is in danger because the 2020 election was stolen.
Politicians like AOC, Bernie, Mamdani — these people are operating out of genuine ideological conviction in a way that Harris and Newsom and other "establishment" politicians just aren't. That's a genuine advantage.
I basically think nobody knows what the fuck will happen with the economy or the stock market and the New York Times just writes clickbait headlines because they need to eat too
I'm glad I toured it when Clinton was president. They let us hang out in the Rose Garden for as long as we wanted to. We chatted up a friendly Secret Service agent. I could see Clinton sitting at the Resolute Desk through the window of the Oval Office. It was truly a different America then...
A soft-spoken one 🤡
WTAF
I mean, they have to compromise on slavery in order to preserve... wait, what are they preserving exactly?
Got to cover your tracks, you know, if you accidentally forgot to switch to your burner account once.
More realistically, will it give people pickup lines in bars? Snappy comebacks in meetings? The use-cases abound...
What a charmer
I miss Twitter (Twitter, not X).
They’re parasites, basically.
1. They are paid exorbitantly 2. They do very little that's actually useful, and instead foist bullshit busywork on everyone else, thus making everyone less productive 3. They hire an army of additional administrators to enforce 2 (and to do their work, such as it is, for them)
I work in a university and I can tell you from experience precisely how administrators are the biggest financial liability of the institution:
Revenge for the Civil War. (And World War II.)
Sociopaths are charming. And in other news, the sky is blue.
"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."
I used to think GWB was a worse president, because more people died as a result of his decisions. COVID changed that, of course. And now? The USAID closure alone is expected to kill millions.
And head injuries (further down in the article) are caused by bombs.
Not sneering. Respect for them. They still have time to get it right.
Bruenig is one of the best writers when it comes to left wing economics. I’m always glad to see him given a platform.
I mean, Nazis marching is not new in the United States. In fact, that activity is protected by the First Amendment. The chilling part about this story is not that they marched, it's that they had "police escorts" (did I read that right?).
Hitler would be so proud.
Opinion polls show a collapse in Trump's support among Gen Z Americans. Fickle bunch, those young voters. Soft as clay.
This is a book review? Seems like the writer went way outside their lane.
These fuckers have terminal both sides brain. Their article template requires it.
This behavior is indistinguishable from the worst secret polices of fascist regimes of the 20th century.
Basically every mainstream news outlet has demonstrated, through their actions, that they disagree. But not a single one of them has publicly acknowledged or defended their judgment.
[watching a black man have the shit kicked out of him for existing] this is a stunt
Is there any issue with calorie deficits and metabolic health?
"Concentration zones." My god...
I don't know, man. Doesn't seem like an analogous situation to me. Kind of reductive to compare the two.
Are they peeing? That’s it. That’s the caption.
There needs to be a grassroots takeover of the party. We just watched the Republicans do it. Unfortunately the Democrats are about 15 years behind.
You're not concerned that redistricting is just 'one' thing he's done and there are lot of clueless centrist Third Way-type other things?
Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."
Yeah I tried that and it didn't go very well.
what
Ruh roh, don't tell Matt Yglesias...
The Asian drop is 31 points!
I just listen to what my 19-year-old son tells me to listen to open.spotify.com/album/1jzv3j...
42.1% of Americans like high grocery prices, and fascism.
The 2019 economy was truly exceptional — low unemployment, low inflation, rising wages. And it was before the horrors and aftermath of COVID. And Trump wasn't really doing so much fascism then. People just wanted that time in their lives back. That's my theory.
I don’t think you were either. But I do wonder — was the long authoritarian arc of the GOP not apparent by the 1980s? I mean, you had Watergate, You had Iran/Contra, you had Reagan’s demagoguery…
