"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
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"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
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I know, right? I didn’t like Hunter trading on the family name either, I thought it was sleazy as hell, but it wasn’t illegal and he wasn’t the first. And now we have THIS?!
If you can’t see the distinction between openly ignoring a ruling versus making a bad argument about why the court lacked jurisdiction, getting slapped down and being too scared to ignore them going forward, then I can’t help you.
Yeah, the headline is wrong. They didn’t “ignore” anything. They slow walked responses, made frivolous arguments, etc. but they ultimately complied. Where is Kilmar Abrego Garcia right now?
around, landed, and deplaned everyone (children) who was to be on those planes.
They didn’t ignore that one. They made a frivolous argument they being outside US airspace meant the court had no jurisdiction, contempt proceedings were initiated, and they haven’t done anything like that since. In the most recent case planes were loaded and one was in the air and they turned
Stop. They haven’t ignored court rulings to date, quit acting like they don’t matter.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
This is when you find out the real administrator of DOGE was the friends we made along the way.
Not that you need anyone else’s approval, but this is 100% what you need to do. We all need to have limits on when and how and with whom we engage just to get through the day. That doesn’t make you an asshole, it makes you human. (And I say that as someone you have disagreed with on here before!)
Things are (shockingly) better in terms of gerrymandering now than 7 years ago. Doomers need to face the facts. We very much can (and I believe we will) defeat these authoritarians and save our republic.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Absolutely not. Pritzker, sure. Newsom can’t win.
Yes. This why endless discussion about ideal policy really doesn’t matter right now. We need to dislodge Trump, congressional republicans, and break the corrupt Supreme Court. Everything else is secondary.
That’s my understanding.
Are they gay, though? Very difficult to tell. Underreported subject. Needs clarification.
Also, does he have literally ANY other ideas? Lack of gratitude is the only insult he has.
Nah. It doesn’t help your argument but you can absolutely go back. And we should!
Eh, they brought it up because of the issues with Trump’s health recently and Vance is weird and awkward as hell. I want to believe, I just don’t think the Vance statement is evidence.
Oooooohhh. That makes more sense.
Yeah…the thing that helps me is I have literally no control over the timing. I don’t have to decide what’s better. Just wait for it to happen.
Vance’s comments weren’t weird, the interviewer *asked him* if he’d be ready. Also I’m convinced it’s better if he hangs on until after the midterms. I’m afraid Vance will look normal enough that the Dems won’t win as big as they need to. But there’s no way to know for sure.
Why is one a volcano?
So I thought it was random, too, but the interviewer specifically asked him if he was ready.
I think affirmative good. GOP has the majority and will take the blame. Historically they take the blame even with a Dem in the White House. There’s no way they don’t take the blame when they control Congress and the WH. Especially with everyone pissed at Trump.
So you, too, are killing industries! I hereby make you an honorary millennial. Welcome to the party.
Top 50% is a lot of very not rich people. The median income is $40K. You want to take 43% from them in taxes?
Man I would love to know exactly what they’ve been doing in Greenland because it must be an absolute shambles.
The question of whether Trump will respect democracy and the rule of law has been decisively and unequivocally answered in the negative. The only question we should be debating now is how to restore our democracy.
I don’t think it’s because it was a white conservative. They get a pass for a lot but it was a weird angry guy who didn’t pay his taxes that was angry he got audited. He also only killed one person. Every life matters but OKC killed 168 people. This may as well have been a random shooting.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
It is so intolerable to me that we are ruining people’s lives because Stephen Miller has a hard on for suffering. Every single person deported should be returned to America, made a citizen, and should be allowed to kick Stephen Miller personally in the balls. I hate that man so much.
That's not clear to me. I agree there aren't *nearly* enough if what they want to do is actually rule by force. There are plenty for photo ops, though. Which I think is the real goal of Trump. (Maybe not people like Miller.)
I knew Kavanaugh was a hack in that way but Gorsuch is a disappointment. Not that I thought he’d be a liberal lion or anything but he had bucked the GOP on a number of things (especially Indian law) and it’s disappointing that he’s lecturing courts for not following the rule he didn’t explain.
Yeah we got unlucky there with 2 Trump appointees and one Dem on the panel.
I’m on the other side of the country so I hadn’t seen that. I knew they pulled back after a while, but didn’t realize it was for reasons like this. I thought Trump got bored.
Here in reality? Sure. But Trump got his images of troops backing up the LAPD who was bush tear gassing journalists.
Sorry, what I mean is, they were in LA for weeks. Trump doesn’t care if guys have to shit in Humvees. He was just glad they were there on TV doing what he wanted. So I’m surprised he would back down from going to Chicago.
Thanks for taking the time!
Wait. This makes sense, but why didn’t that work in LA, then? DC makes sense because it’s a federal enclave but why can’t he just do to Chicago what he did in LA?
Do you think the Plantation of Ulster and the Protestant Ascendancy didn’t matter at all? There’s a reason most Protestants were (and are) Unionists.
Yeah you are 100% right, there.
Also (and this was not you) lots of people think “millennial” means “young person.” Thats why my initial reply *was* snarky (sorry), because I thought you were, like so many others, looking at 20 year olds and calling them millennials.
You make a good point if the concern is the market, but if the market is satisfied by fake cause then maybe it’s OK if they let it happen. (It would Not actually be ok but I mean from SCOTUS’ POV.)
Oh, haha, it was a huge thing in past years. Here’s an example list (although to be clear the article itself is disagreeing with the take because you are of course correct, generations are not monolithic). www.cbinsights.com/research/mil...
Slight majority for Kamala, actually, while a similar majority of voters over 45 backed Trump.
I mean this sincerely, and not sneakily: your personal experience with a few people in your family is not data. Your experience is not universal. Data disproves what you’re arguing.
You’re missing the point. Our lot in life is to be blamed for things we didn’t do. We voted at the same or higher rate as prior generations at the same age. But millennials get blamed for everything that happens. We killed all sorts of industries! We sat out the election! (None of it is true.)
Right but the Church of England was a thing well before the Plantation of Ulster. The term “Protestant” may not have existed yet but it was still a religious difference. Some Protestants were Irish nationalists but he majority of them were Unionists.
Whatever might have happened in your family, 60%+ of millennials voted. We didn’t “sit it out.”
Remember that they essentially *were* different ethnicities in Ireland. Native Irish people were generally Catholic, the English settlers were Protestant.
It’s our lot in life!
What do you think “millennial” means? Because the *youngest* millennial was 28 in 2024 and most were over 30. Some were over 40!
I fucking knew the first one to test this would be a GWOT veteran. We didn’t serve in a 20+ fucking years long war just to be stripped of the rights we were fighting for here at home. We defended that right. It’s ours. Good luck arresting all of us. Fuck Donald Trump. Release the Epstein Files. ✊✊✊
This is exactly right. Republicans in Congress and SCOTUS are utterly corrupt and have abandoned their duty in favor of their naked self-interest.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Do you have any idea how either of them got to their current positions?
NY is the worst state Dem party though, so yes, it’s a problem that they’re from that particular machine.
That video was Kamala saying we should follow the fucking law and pointing out that it was a TRUMP LAW.
Like come on, dude. Kamala campaigned with Liz Fucking Cheney, talked about owning a gun and said we need to have the “most lethal military,” all while refusing to allow a trans person to speak at the DNC. What the fuck else could she have possibly done?
“Obviously the earth is flat. Many tests have proven it. Asking for specific examples of tests they provide it seems disingenuous because we all know it’s happening. I know it. You know it.”
So I didn’t agree with this chain of posts from Mark but I *think* this was part of his suggestion that we call the Intel shares a “wealth tax” and thank Trump for doing something so progressive and then propose further wealth taxes. I think that’s the “compliment Trump” he was referring to.
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Yeah, that didn’t happen.
That’s a fascinating question. I don’t think so, simply because I think Miller would want to trumpet it far and wide as an assault on our brave officers and use it as an excuse for a further crackdown, but anything is possible with these people.
officer as CJCS but don’t forget Trump *thought* he was getting someone who wore a MAGA hat and promised he’d kill for Trump.
I think it’s that he isn’t giving illegal orders and unlike, say, not having enough troops to invade Iraq, deployment to an American city isn’t going to get tons of troops killed for no good reason. That, plus they probably don’t want to find out who will replace them. Gen Caine is actually a good
Oh I could do it. I wouldn’t enjoy it but I could do it.
Right but there was nobody else there and I doubt Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem would take your word for it. Also in this case they WERE fake officers. I’m talking about what will happen when someone (understandably) shoots at masked thugs who turn out to be federal agents.
Oh I’m certainly not saying that’s the *wrong* choice, I think it’s probably the better option in many cases. Just that they’ll try to make an example of you like they did Abrego Garcia and you may not get released OPR the way you expect.
Good opsec, maybe? Until it was far enough along that they felt it was safe to talk about? That’s my theory, anyway.
Yeah but that won’t stop them from throwing him in jail for like 18 months while they move toward trial.
Can she shitcan HIM? I don’t mind if he’s the only Teamster to face consequences.
This will make that look like a birthday party no one attended.
I think the word should be avoided because of the visceral reaction people have but the concept is 100% correct and the sad truth is that most white people are just never going to be ready to have that conversation no matter what words are used
I feel that.
It’s gonna be Biden being declared the winner times 10. I was in a Brooklyn for that and there were impromptu celebrations, this will make that look like a funeral.
To be clear I definitely don’t think talking about it in campaigns is helpful to most Dems but I wasn’t going to let someone on Bluesky spout that idiocy.
He’s not going to be the nominee, though. Guess j shouldn’t be surprised Nathan J Robinson is wrong on the Internet, though.
The loss of sleep will be over the victim, who will be charged with capital murder for shooting a federal officer.
Totally fair but if there’s ever going to be an election where we win one of Alaska, Texas or Iowa, 2026 is it.
Oh I don’t think we should talk about it in election campaigns. I was just explaining the concept.
That’s not the argument being made, or at least not all of it. He’s literally also saying a wealth tax is also theft, which is absurd.
@mcuban.bsky.social you’re too smart to actually believe this. A wealth tax asks you to pay cash to the government because you have an inconceivable amount of money and should pay a bit more. This is a mafia don demanding a cut, and it’s literally state ownership of capital.
Most excellent.
are better off than people of color. That is just a fact. It’s not “dumb” to acknowledge that.
What’s dumb is you willfully misunderstanding what “privilege” means. You are still better off than a black person in a similar situation. It doesn’t mean you’re in a *good* situation or that you aren’t disadvantaged in other ways. The world is complex! But white people in the U.S., all else equal,
Tom, most Dems *aren’t saying* any of these words!
May he rest in meats.
Respectfully, that’s doomerism. States run the elections. It’s much, much harder to do something to steal them than anyone would have you believe. And Trump will do what he wants, sure, but he keeps losing in court and the people in the government aren’t all convinced they can just ignore that.
They also interpret “voters care most about the economy” as (1) a statement about ALL voters as opposed to many/most, and (2) a statement that they do NOT care about *literally anything else.*
If Biden had taken 10% of Intel, at least it would have been in exchange for the billions in Chips Act funding granted to the company. Trump's taking this in exchange for deciding not to destroy the company. It's literal protection money.
THIS!!! It was a grant from Biden Administration. But after badgering and threatening CEO, Trump grabs an equity stake as a bribe. I’m old enough to remember when free market Republicans and Libertarians would have been outraged by this government expropriation (hint - it was 6 months ago).
That’s not “all he needs.” Trump’s support is collapsing. He is deeply unpopular. He could live forever and it’s not remotely clear he could stay in office. And Vance wouldn’t get the support of the sycophants. Every time he opens his mouth all human beings want to punch him in the face.
So now what happens is that a politically motivated prosecutor charges you *ANYWAY* (see, e.g., the entirety of the Trump DOJ) and all of your proposed harms still happen but we can’t get elected officials who take bribes. Seems bad!
I’m not super worried about a President not having the resources to fight a frivolous case about a Super Bowl jersey. He has an entire office full of lawyers to do that for him. Governors too, and those are the ones who would mostly have to worry about this, even if you’re right.
