Apparently, he didn't want to answer.
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Apparently, he didn't want to answer.
Perhaps a coincidence or a sign from the universe that I have been listening to live DMB songs on spotify since Friday.
How could you tell?
They don't, but these ideas aren't real, and they won't work.
Except this is precisely the stuff that Dems are correct NOT to do.
W, and I cannot stress this enough, TAF? Not to mention, had a president with a D by his name have an official float an idea like this, we'd be looking at impeachment by an R Congress.
I’ve gone from lamenting the decline of legacy media to thinking it can’t die soon enough.
I don't recall fresh veggie obsessed young men shooting up the CDC in 2009, but maybe I am getting old.
Dems don't know how to take their own side in an argument. Exhibit 1,048,038.
My best to your wife who is evidently an incredible woman, but don't mistake skinny for fit.
Same. If anything, I have become more radically liberal. Gee, maybe it's about being a sentient educated person?
American women should go on strike until the misogynists shut up. nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icel...
Yup. He loves a mic and a camera more than a normal person loves her children, so there is something up, and it ain't right.
Which is an overtly white supremacist endeavor, and Trump may not care about the details but he likes that part.
Project 2025.
If you didn't know anything about anything, you might be a Trumper.
"There's no crime in Pyongyang, Martha. I suggest you move there."
There's no car jacking in Pyongyang now either, Martha.
Mine did as well. I remember her process looked like this, home-kitchen style.
Yet he wins his elections easily. So discouraging that even in a state-wide race you can't convince enough Rs that someone so unlikeable and useless doesn't deserve their vote. See also, Trump.
They sure did love to speculate when Biden was in office. Because he was "mean" to them and wouldn't give them access and content.
You know dang well it's not CONGRESS. It's one political party, the Republican Party, who has abandoned the public interest and violates the oath to the Constitution that our MOC must swear.
It hasn't sparked a national debate; it's inflamed the MAGA, who never argue in good faith.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I don't think JD watches enough TV though. He needs to get that up to 12 hours per day before he can call himself ready.
Ethics. What are they?
Including Officer Goodman (aptly named), who saved Mitt Romney's life. Another brave Black man. Speaking of Mitt, wonder what that coward is up to these days. All that money and no will to speak out or spend it in ways that matter.
*him
Every MOC and their staff who were there that day owe their lives to that Black man and others like them. Black excellence in shooting! Loomer can fuck all the way off.
and individualism
All caps rants coming about Murdoch and the WSJ.
Once you read an article explaining what a complaint says or the result of a trial, you realize that you shouldn't be trusting most journalists to understand public policy, economics, law, or, most of all, sci/med. Really, they should have some obligation to have a degree in the underlying subject.
It's the company store. Will they pay their workers in script? Doesn't even pay for an Amazon Prime subscription.
No, there is no scientific evidence linking wind turbines to whale deaths. The primary causes of whale mortality are human activities such as ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear, not offshore wind development. (NOAA). RFK, Jr. is as insane as you think he is.
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
South Australia's electricity mix over the past three days. Wind and solar have produced enough electricity to cover all of the state's power needs.
I think that's a selling point for their customers.
Also, Waffle House exists and is much cooler.
Pretty much the story of Christianity. Maybe it's something about religion?
Bipartisanship these days is asking to be lined up for the gulag. Fight you idiots!
Proof of 1. how Trump and his minions view "the troops," which is as automatons who must act at their will; and 2. the fact that there's absolutely no reason for them to be there at all.
25th Amendment would come in handy right about now. Or impeachment. But the Founders never imagined the cravenness of the Republican Party.
The world noticed. Again. Trump is mentally incapacitated. He has no filters left. No ability to compartmentalize thoughts. No recognition of what is required and what should not be said. No ability to differ between right and wrong. He’s mentally unfit.
He is completely out to lunch. What an idiot.
Maybe it's because they weren't memorable, but I don't recall seeing video of any other presidents' Cabinet Meetings with such regularity. This really is the reality TV presidency, and it's much worse than the worst shlock that genre serves up.
Come on stock market crash!
Racist white dude says what?
Yup. I don't recall any previous DHS sec in the airport videos before, but at ATL you have to look at her in the security lines.
Yeah. That looks like an abrasion by concrete. Unless the video showed the alleged assailant pushing the agent's hand against a rough hard surface in a contact initiated by the assailant, they don't have a case.
Agree. I don't see anti-vax moms who have become MAGA bc of RFK, Jr. as pro-authoritarian. They are just not deep thinkers. Struggling to think of who else was a Dem/Dem leaner who is now MAGA bc they prefer authoritarians? The Latinos and Black men who flipped to Trump?
Prob chillin' with Gen Flynn and Putin in Moscow.
Insanity inducing. @washingtonpost.com you're really going for the dustheap of history, aren't you?
But Trump looks out for the little guy. I am shocked that he'd take this prestigious job from an artisan and his family and give it to a soulless corporation. (that's sarcasm)
I have been wondering this. Ivanka is gone; the forgotten daughter is totally forgotten. Even the fail sons have not been around? Or maybe they skulk around Bedminster and Mar a Lago when he there?
That's one thing we can count on regardless of who is there: conspiracy theories. MAGA gonna MAGA. I can't wait.
I am so done with "the market." They are engaged in mass delusion, so they surrender their power until it's too late to prevent what's coming.
charisma of a wet gym sock, I say
my condolences
@nytimes.com embarrassing
If dems cut an ad from this and spend all their campaign money on airtime that will be 100x better than their current strategy.
same, and I wasn't so sparing in my use before (legal profession does that to you)
It was for me until about 1 month ago. I have had to work to make myself cut back due to a double whammy of perimenopause and Trump 2.0.
NPR has been "Nice Polite Republicans" for 20 years; they never ask the right follow up and just let elected Rs lie.
no, the Bulwark
They are a most-trusted source for me as well. Had a loyal Dem friend (and I think of myself as a loyal Dem voter) express shock and suspicion that they'd turn me into an R, but I told her Bill Kristol is doing a better job of shouting the alarm and hating on Rs than most elected Dems.
I swear Sec of Lip Implants and Botox looks pretty uncomfortable, like it might even be too much for her. They are treating him like a dementia patient, so that's also a clue.
Just ask ACB if the precedent has become subject to controversy*. Controversy being wholly manufactured by the far-right-industrial-complex.
I see. A combat vet on the Mall. Well, he has a lot of courage, happens to be right about the law, but not much judgment, IMO.
Why is it that Bill Kristol is able to articulate this clearly and has more fire in his belly to fight it than the people we elected to fight it? @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
But American companies monetize the patents that non-profits like universities hold, growing our economy and delivering new discoveries to the public. What an idiot.
Yeah, it's really not hard. I started using inclusive descriptions of loving relationships and families with my kids as soon as they were old enough to be noticing married people and families. E.g. "Who will I marry?" "You can marry the man or woman you love when you're old enough."
He's been 6 feet under for me for a while. That stint at the Olympics was a hint of coming attractions. It was so mainstream that I began to wonder. His appearance for Trump was no surprise.
I walked the streets of D.C. without fear as a teen during the "murder capital of the world" days in the early 1990s and ever since. Fuck off, Miller.
Happened at U South Carolina yesterday. Not clear whether there was a shooter there or misinformation.
@washingtonpost.com When exactly will you stop acting as mere stenographers who dutifully write down what he says as if he means it? You reported that he told 30,000 lies during his first term. There is no reason to defer to him or to credit his words as true. Report the facts; don't repeat lies.
I doubt people will do it. It's such an obvious load of MAGA bait bullshit.
They did it in 2020 as well. I have been consistent since 2024 in my response to Dem fundraising that I will not be giving until I see them acting like they mean what they say. No one who uses the word "bipartisan" like it's desirable or who grants the good faith of Rs is getting a dime.
brilliant. co-sign!
I would stake some money on a bet that none of the victims of homicide in D.C. last year were tourists. I would stake some money on a bet that none of the homicides in D.C. happened on the National Mall, where our troops are hanging out. Geezer needs to stop lying.
How can you be surprised by anything? Makes me curse a blue streak when anyone defends their now regretted vote or non-vote.
“This kristallnacht is just Hitler trying to grab some headlines and make you look away from the rising cost of beer all over Germany” - how Democrats sound
Did Joe Scarborough finally find his spine? Highly unusual of him to speak the truth.
They'd rather eat broken glass than ask difficult questions and threaten their access.
Yes. I would be out there telling people that the jackbooted thugs are coming to your city next and they are going to arrest you if you so much as look at them the wrong way. In this case, fear is the correct response.
If I paid as much as the Dems do for crappy product -- consulting services that result in losing campaigns -- I would find a new vendor. Why is politics (also punditry) a field where there's no accountability?
Similar sort of disgusting timeline with Harvard, its professors/institutes, and Epstein. Also Bill Gates. www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/b... The basic through line is that far too many people with power will look the other way when young girls are sexually victimized. Bc girls/women don't count.
The next person to speak to him could change his mind. He's never kept his word, except to Putin perhaps. You have to add to the hypothetical that he'd not lie and not change his mind. What is the point of this thought experiment. Why do you want us to lie to Trump to soothe his massive ego?
Yes. The "crunchy granola" moms of my acquaintance are the most MAHA-curious.
Creates corruption and graft. Mafia run/crony capitalism.
Waffle House welcomes all and is still cool with the under 60 set. Not Waffle House.
Cracker Barrel is fighting the Grim Reaper, not woke. Unlike Waffle House, which is cool, no one under 40 will go to Cracker Barrel, and most of their loyal customers at over 60.
He's having IVs inserted.
Has any president put a portrait of himself in the WH while still in office. I bet not. What a friggin narcissist.
The clue to me wasn't what the Tea Party said but who was in the Tea Party movement and when it started. They lost their fool minds when a Black man became president.
True, but they should have been waiting for him on the tarmac in Florida after he got his free plane ride home on Inauguration Day. And at the same time, been frog-marching his co-conspirators out of Congress.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
raising questions? no questions. we know.