He's painfully stupid - but more importantly, he's greedy. Very wealthy man.
"There are hardly five critics in America, and several of them are asleep. "
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He's painfully stupid - but more importantly, he's greedy. Very wealthy man.
Right, he's also VP, so there's that... but many rank-and-file Rs are not part of the current admin (a) and (b) most Rs, even if they support Trump, are not Uber Nazis. The question is > does Vance have the magic necessary to hold that coalition together, and I don't personally think he does.
But if it's just merging risk pools to sustain healthcare, etc. ?
How has Stephen Miller managed to put himself next to the Mad King as wormtongue? At least Brad Dourif can act.
How bad is the Vance interregnum going to be? Or do you think some Rs (not that I hold out hope for most) will use it as an off-ramp and abandon some of the most deleterious policies ?
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Check @samwang.bsky.social on this.
are these people ever going to get their comeuppance?
He may be smiling now but is name will be in a list that is made public once we have a new and functioning congress / and truth and reconciliation thereafter.
But National Middle Child Day was TUESDAY
It's about to get real for a lot of people as #openenrollment approaches: "Affordable Care Act marketplace insurers have proposed raising premiums by 26% next year, according to an analysis by KFF of 312 insurers across 50 states and D.C."
The Liberace Award for Trumpian Taste
the thing about your wife spilling non-alcoholic beer on her Slint beach towel at Tanglewood is that it still smells like beer when you get it home.
A+
of course he has
The American people must pull it down at the first opportunity.
the society of our southern states is thoroughly debased at this point, but people can learn one thing from southerners still: DO NOT SHOW UP EARLY TO A DINNER PARTY.
lot of moistened bints in the government already tbh
why?
Motherfucking wind farms…
Rhymes with another of his insufficiencies, per Stormy Daniels.
Was there one thing that gave you hope this week?
good news via the Kansas Herald of Freedom (Lawrence) for Saturday, January 19, 1856.
This doesn't get a click unless their names are on the record.
It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign
I hear you - I use old take-away plastic etc - but sometimes vintage picnic baskets have a thermos for that very purpose!
Vichyssoise if it's going to be hot out.
All I’m asking, as an American, is for another set of Americans on a hill to have the moral courage and tenacity to fight for the Republic At the end of the day, this is the experiment of democracy
pickleball
bless the doctor's hand!
RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
5. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop
TikTACO
It was so stupid they sandbagged Colin Powell into carrying their water before the senate, to his and our shame. His reputation never recovered; and they were fine with that.
CNN in and out of it.
Are you staying hydrated? Appreciate your work.
One of which was Stonewall himself! who died 10 days later.
and, tbf, Chancellorsville, which was made possible by Stonewall Jackson's audacity, ended in catastrophe at sunset, with not one but two Confederate generals shot by their own troops.
I will not feel bad for the mainstream media re: this. Would be interested to hear what you are seeing, Josh, at TPM.
nothing has been more spursy than two weeks of silence while the fan base fractures and entrenches on this.
He's Pelosi's body double. And she's dead.
oh my I will laugh all day remembering this. thank you.
are there ever going to be consequences?
How much hope should we take from liberal victories in Canada and Romania, etc.?
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
oh look, honey, the US is botoxing its history again...
When they are arresting sitting mayors for legal protests of ilkigal kidnapping by the government you are well past the point where strongly worded letters or statements are going to do anything to stop this and you are going to have to put yourself on the line in the same way that that mayor did.
Hillary was right. But maybe now it is time to get past her restraint. She said "half."
FIFA corruption makes the IOC look like dabblers
AM is Platinum Medallion now is all I will say.
they are all so broken. let's finish the job.
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that is certainly one perspective
Ossoff is up in 2026
oh that was a nice DB10 ohhhhh
watching car crashes in old movies makes me sad...
Also Georgia Bulldogs, tbf
I suppose they framed it with curtains so they can draw them when they ignore its contents?
are these reporters pooled from SNL?
now we know how compys evolved
"Christianity" in Trump's America
sounds wall-y to me
The Civil War
The failure of libertarians to pick the right side in this has exposed their whole thought system. A principled libertarian attack on limiting government overreach would be welcome at this time. Put no such thing exists. Libertarian just means selfish.
okay, so now I guess we focus not on that bad thing he did but on others of the bad things he has done or is trying to do?
The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
someone told him he had a mandate lol
true, and since Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, imo.
"Good men will break the nation to see if a dollar falls out."
This is high art
Allmans reference for the groupies?
endgame?
which?!
wow
LEEROY JEEENKINNNS enters the chat.
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
Live, my donkey, till you eat trefoil! and when you do leave, which you will, you will do so with your head held high, knowing that you gave it your best.
lol
like nothing you've ever seen before
wishes that dude would switch platforms.
Anyone? Anyone?
"Gains erased" would be an apt tagline for the film documenting this second Trump administration.
I feel so badly for Nicola, who already had reputation management issues.
wouldn't you just love to FOIA / subpoena the day's trading activity in brokerage accounts FTB of those Republicans who know what Trump's tariffs look like in advance of the 4PM announcement? #corruption
More importantly: played Doc Holliday, Elvis, Moses, God, Willem de Kooning, Val Kilmer, Val Kilmer, Mark Twain, Gert Rafto, and Himself.
what booker is doing very well is making clear the difference between moral persuasion and legislative power. Democrats have the ability to harness the former, if not the latter, and while it's taken longer than I would have preferred, I'm happy to see it happening.
hang in there
But he sure plays a mean pinball
Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America." Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
I feel like as long as there is baseball in America, there is hope that we can be who we say we are and represent what we say we represent. At least, it feels that way on opening day.
life has been too good. but it will get worse until they are satisfied in our suffering.
can you describe a non-bloody scenario where we turn this around?
also: "Bryan Gil underwent surgery this morning on the lateral collateral ligament of his right knee. Approximate downtime: 4-5 months."
I might have to unfollow if you keep this up.
LOL #USMNT #ETTD
“And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?” - Ursula K. Le Guin
“Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.” —Salvador Dali
