I would support demanding everyone on that birthday list resign any public position, appointed or elected, Democrat or Republican or independent.
I would support demanding everyone on that birthday list resign any public position, appointed or elected, Democrat or Republican or independent.
Strikes me as both subservient to Trump and also thinking he's playing Trump for some long term purpose.
Bessent is talking about raising Chinese wages so they can consume more while lowering American wage so they can produce more.
It's very well known that concerts record performances along with audience reactions. Usually tickets include some provision to that effect. And I don't think we can discount that this couple in particular, senior executives, would be considered sophisticated willing participants.
A concert is a public event, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
For personal liberties but only for American citizens is not a thing. Kinda hard to see the positive slant on Alligator Alcatrazes popping up in southern red states but I'm Mullin will find it.
Moving out helps the affordability crisis. Score 1 for Mamdani.
Death toll in Texas floods is now at 129. There's still at least 170 missing and unaccounted for.
1992 was the brief interregnum between wife number 1, Ivana Trump, divorced in 1990, and wife number 2, Marla Maples, married in 1993. Trump had been having an affair openly with Maples since the mid 80s.
Trump isn't changing tactics from his previous scandals. But the Epstein file was so widely used by his acolytes it became imbedded deep in MAGA's syche and is really resistant to Trump's attempt to demagogue it away.
It was a different kind of fascism Schultz voted for?
Consolidating control in the WH.
Tapper and Thompson are saving it for their '29 book on the Trump years 'Aged and Confused'.
Start a Noble Peace Prize Committee stacked with Victor Orban, Benjamin Netanyahu and Javier Milei.
Superman is an illegal immigrant and refugee. Clark Kent is undocumented.
Will this get through the regulatory hoops that RFK Jr and his anti science colleagues will throw up to block treatment that isn't holistic?
Buy BYD. Except in the US because Musk has successfully lobbied to ban competition.
First a tv, then a colored tv, then a flat screen tv, then a smart tv, then a smart tv with 4k resolution. The poor should be housed in a tenement without heat or running water, staring at 4 moldy deteriorating walls.
Granny can't walk anymore but fortunately there are a lot of crops that can be on picked at ground level. And weeding is right up her alley.
Was there a similar warning last year when Musk was pouring $ hundreds of millions into Trump's campaign and setting up a get out the vote operation across the country?
Trump's in charge of everything but isn't responsible for anything is quite the Republican take.
But at least Texas officials didn't cry wolf. Even though there was a wolf at the door.
I think you mean money, not lives. Overly cautious saves lives. But overly cautious also costs money. We know the Republican cost benefit analysis.
I was really surprised to learn Camp Mystic had 750 campers. That's a small town in effect.
The private sector will step in to weather forecasting and provide enhanced coverage that will enable people who can afford it to avoid the worst disasters. Safety comes at a price.
All those calls were to XI.
Resurrection of the Know Nothing party - this time we're serious.
Carney won because he promised better economic management while maintaining the social safety net that Cdns overwhelmingly support. The other guy more or less campaigned on taking a hatchet to govt programs while setting up a Cdn DOGE.
MTG did her own research.
The only constituency that wants the return of the Pahlavi dynasty that reigned for just 55 years are American and British fans of the original coups that installed the family.
Trump is the guy who famously said he doesn't want black hands touching his money, only short guys in yamulkas. So he doesn't know the play, but he definitely knows the antisemitic character.
'best for the world'? Ominous.
This is going to force all the weak Democrats to back candidates like Mamdani. Everyone becomes a Jean Valjean when all of MAGA are Thenardiers.
The families Jordan is referring to is the Walton, Zuckerberg and Musk family who stood to pay millions extra if the TCJA tax cuts expired.
'jobs numbers coming in hot...hot...not.... so about this Golden Dome defense project?'
But it's not politicized retaliation if people are prosecuted for actual crimes and they're found guilty. You're not changing the rules to ensure their conviction. To not charge essentially ensures a double standard where these people are given immunity to act extra judicially.
Melania should be checking her papers are in order.
My sense is we're seeing CPC voters now viewing everything through a partisan lens. They disdain everything Cdn because the Liberals hold power and they don't. And would instantly reverse their views if they gained power. This is not true of non-CPC supporters.
Well, voters do care because Trump's approval is underwater. But the institutions that could do something about Trump and Musk's open corruption - the Senate, House and Supreme Court - don't care.
A Trump strength is being utterly contradictory within a head rattling beat. He could laud Musk yesterday, beat him up this morning with everything Democrats were first to criticize, be best buds again this afternoon and repeat the cycle every fucking day.
Unfortunately, we have to bother. Because the only sin worse than Trump's petty graft and everyday corruption is normalizing it. This isn't how any president ever has conducted himself in office.
He's right. But he could have said this numerous times in the last five months and been equally right.
Where the fuck is Schumer and Jeffries?
The Times owner, the billionaire Sulzburger family, stands to gain hundreds of millions in new and extended tax cuts as a result of this bill.
It was almost inevitable we would start seeing the emergence of individuals who presented the sharpest contrast to Trump and other MAGA figures. Despite what the Democratic establishment hopes and the Never Trumpers think, it's not going to be a centrist presenting watered down conservatism.
If the Democratic response is lets go with the House bill instead of lets blow this motherfucker up, Schumer should just walk into the sunset.
No children probably - Sanchez is 55.
I'd love to read the prenups between billionaires and second wives. How much is transferred to her account upon the ceremony? How much each year of marriage? A bonus if children? Milestone payments - $50 million if the marriage gets to 5 years, $100 million if 10?
Mom & Dad are coming home to live with us. That's gonna make a lot of folks really happy about the Big Bullshit Bill.
Typo - 12 years old.
Bloomberg's NYC campaign apparatus is 22 years old. When he used it to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, he won only American Samoa and less than 15% of the vote on Super Tuesday. So good luck Bill Ackman.
'she is required to be transparent about everything that took place at MIT with Epstein'. The horrors - frank and open communication.
70% of New Yorkers rent so maybe he should call NYC Commie Central.
Areas where Cuomo won is called Loserville. 70% of New Yorkers rent.
So secretive everybody knew about it, the Iranians moved everything and everyone out of the complex and a guy in Tennessee (?) reported on the flights of bombers over his backyard.
Fox Pravda is the 'criminal are us' network.
Yes but Trump didn't even mention invading Norway so he has that going for the Peace Prize.
50+ dead Palestinians every day at the hands of the Israelis. But that's American white evangelical peace.
Full results won't be known for at least a week. Who would have a partial results celebration party?
The Democratic establishment wants to attract young, active diverse voters but only if they think and behave exactly like the crop of aging diverse voters that's been the mainstay of the party for generations.
Peak shale oil production expected around 2027 but in some US regions, the cost of shale production hovers close to $70/barrel.
A climate change crisis that will be addressed by building more coal plants. We're in a death spiral.
Fun fact, in more than 100 years Iran has never had a regime change that wasn't either initiated by a Western power or wasn't a reaction to Western control. Trump is the continuation of a grand Western tradition.
It's an odd numbered year.
There's a lot of the base angry the party establishment keeps a tight leash on who can be a candidate and who can't, invariably favoring a very narrow spectrum. So serial sex abusers and corrupt liars like Cuomo get rehabilitated by billionaires to keep out young charismatic leaders like Mamdani.
The student who wrote the paper got an award, the student who criticized the paper got a job offer rescinded. This is the American establishment, not some backwoods town in a deep dark red state.
Particularly a hospital that may close in six months to a year. As compared to ICE agents swarming a local Home Depot today.
Any other administration the NYT would be reporting this as indecision, confusion, weakness of leadership. The only strategy at play here is Trump hoping someone bails him out or events play out better than people think a d he can swoop in to take credit.
The entire point of spot visits is to not allow conditions and circumstances to be changed or hidden so that congressional oversight, provided for by law, into ongoing conduct.
The IDF has reduced to rubble 90% of Gaza s hospitals.
Yes,sir. I am a big strong man and I will read it with tears running down my cheeks because that's what Trump does to us big strong men, reduce us to tears.
Again. This seems to be modeled so closely to the run up to the Iraq War, it feels people should be pointing out a sequel to a bad movie is never a good idea.
Congressional Democrats seem hesitant and uncertain what to do. At the state and local levels, politicians are figuring out voters want them to step up, speak out and get involved. Newsom sees this, Mamdani is riding a wave and now Brad Lander is showing he's read the tea leaves.
If you're waiting for him to ask you so you can say no, you may be really ignorant of how things have changed in America.
If a Democratic president refused to call state representatives after a political assassination, the NYT would be running continuous columns calling it a collapse of the social order requiring impeachment.
I understand the point somewhat. People should be responsible for dissuading an aging person from running again or voting against a clearly incompetent candidate. But I'm not convinced that would ever happen in reality.
And the cycle will continue in '29 when Tapper will cover Trump's decline in '25. I'm not sure Tapper is a reporter any more as much as a comfortable historian.
How many pillows is that? A million?
The biggest takeaway should be that Carney wasn't intimidated the slightest by Trump on Cdn soil. And if you know anything about Americans abroad, you know how much they expect to be treated as special.
Russia was expelled from the G8 because it launched a war to annex Crimea.
So he doesn't want a deal.
The gay community is nodding vigorously on this. Every small advance (employment, housing, health care, enlistment, marriage) was made against vocal public and elected opposition as well as timid members and allies urging restraint because of reprisals.
Maybe the system needs flushing out like that. Seeing who decides Cuomo's sexual harassment and bullying of so many women is suddenly okay is perhaps a good litmus test. The base and the establishment in conflict is not new but there's a lot of fighting ahead.
If there were Democratic mayors that thought there was room to negotiate or reach agreement on issues, this hopefully should disabuse them of that ludicrous notion. There's two paths, absolute total resistance on all fronts or complete capitulation and bending the knee.
The one drop rule says that any contact, relationship, passing glance with a Democrat instantly makes that person an agent of the Democratic party.
The real Trump Derangement Syndrome. Any close contact with Trump turns supporters into raving insane extremists.
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One thought: this was a parade designed and executed by the US military which is legendary for paying 10x the usual cost and for never having to worry about attracting an audience as every military event is usually compulsory attendance.
I like how her entire life is under assault but being the good wife she is, she had time for a blowout and facial.
Especially given the very pointed title of the protests - No Kings.
Are they fleeing to a safe haven where the govt will refuse to extradite them for trial? Texas?
We bombed your house and killed your kids. Are you ready to do a deal now?
In the last six months she's recieved tens of millions from meme coins and documentary sales. Even at the rate she charges, that should cover two hours at a parade.
'aspirational security line setup'. I'm stealing this.
No Kings protests across the country vastly outnumber the paltry crowds at Trump's state sponsored $45 million birthday bash.
To me this alignment of articles actually highlights the NYT's dwindling influence. The failure to reflect the enormity of what is going is pushing the NYT to the periphery. People simply don't go to the Times anymore because it doesn't reflect their lives and experiences.
Was one of his ideas forced conversion to evangelicalism? Cause that seems really popular on the right.
The same person will tell you Jan 6 was a non violent expression of patriotism as well as a leftist FBI infiltrated and controlled operation. Leftist FBI which is kinda jaw dropping.
Even when it's clearly an extremist right wing violent act, there's a broad conservative ecosphere that manipulates it into a conspiracy by the left. Whitney's kidnapping attempt, Jan 6 have both been turned into leftist false flag operations.
American courts don't like working on Fridays and the weekend. Just schedule your constitutional breaches on Thursday and you'll get almost five days leeway.