When Democrat leadership bring an uncooked hotdog to a gun fight. Watch/listen to @velshi.com's 8/30 show where he literally calls Jeffries out for this ineffectual line of "attack".
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When Democrat leadership bring an uncooked hotdog to a gun fight. Watch/listen to @velshi.com's 8/30 show where he literally calls Jeffries out for this ineffectual line of "attack".
Are there any downsides to shutting down the government? Most employees have been fired. Whole Depts are shuttered. Parks don't have funding and some are already closed. SSecurity help and call center wait times are already hours long. I don't know if anyone would even notice.
Seriously, what's the demographic that listens to Rogan? I know white guys but what other characteristics do they have?
These billionaires should be doing everything to stop this. I haven't heard of many billionaires who don't ultimately get on the Autocratic Leader's bad side and end up penniless in hiding or dead.
A couple of more months of this and the US would be able to completely pay off it's national debt and give everyone in the US a big, fat rebate check, right? Right?!?
They also say "there's nothing the two of them can do to stand-up to Trump because they are the minority party". They'd better build a time machine and go back to remind Mitch of that during the times the GOP was in the minority.
It's "too big to fail" at this point. Too many VCs & tech bros have dumped all their money into it. Too many businesses have shifted to an AI-first model and need it to be successful to stay afloat or else they'll have to go on a hiring frenzy to stay afloat. The government will bail them ALL out.
To the commenters of Ali's post using one example to prove Dem leadership is "fighting", that's literally the bare minimum of what they should be doing. Someone even posted leadership can't do anything "because they are the minority". That sure stopped Mitch when they were in those situations.
Brilliant
Maybe if millennials didn’t buy an avocado toast every single day, then they could afford to purchase a house in 1955 like everyone else.
And to every C-suite executive who tells their employees, "We aren't looking to have AI replace you", we all know you are lying!
Clinton killed real welfare so this actually represents all the people receiving either TANF, GA or SNAP. It's a shadow of what welfare once was. The disparities in percentages between States are partly due to how difficult benefits are to obtain, more than they are how many need them.
And why would he? These guys don't do anything to actually help their constituents yet they continue to get voted back in.
I'm assuming Trump is going to nuke some country in order to grab any media attention away from this.
They hate him in Michigan too, which is why he hangs out in TN.
or "Nappy time" .
Does internal polling show that she'd most likely get creamed in the 2026 election?
You nailed it! I felt like I do when I'm with a bunch of guys and they start talking sports and sports stats for two hours.
Witkoff hangs out in the White House, doesn't read intelligence briefings or email, has little interaction with his staff, and is clueless about diplomacy. These people "failed up" their entire lives and are used to not having to do or be accountable for anything. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Honestly, I don't think Vance is as smart as he thinks he is. He talks like how dumb person thinks a smart person would talk.
When MAGA claims the cities are overrun with violent crime, people can see (with their own eyes) that it isn't. Trump needs more shootings to support his desire to invoke martial law.
Now that's real energy independence.
Serious question, is inflation good in any situation? Like "If I own ____ or have my money in ____ inflation will make me richer"... can that ever be a true statement?
I guess the GOP has the new copout for gun violence. No more "thoughts and prayers" but "they are lucky enough to be with Jesus now".
BREAKING: A shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been contained, and the suspected shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The exact number of victims is not yet known. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
The US could be the leader in Green energy production but we have an administration stuck in the 1950s and oil/coal lobbyists embedded so deep into politics...
Glad to see THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES worrying about kitchen table issues like who is hosting late night programs.
He meant a boom for the investors. It'll be a crash for all the newly graduated that can't find a job and the workers all these companies fire.
(Red state redistricting intensifies)
say what you will about donald trump he got cracker barrel to put the gay guy back in its logo
I agree. Also, Trump has some sort of "attractive power" that none of the others around him have. Even if he names a successor, without that "power" his cult will splinter and many will go back to not caring and not paying attention to politics.
I'd argue this isn't going to be some 23 year reign. After he's gone, the cultists will disband and with no obvious line of succession, the in-fighting for power will tear MAGA apart from within. I just hope "good people" will be waiting & ready to swoop in and take the lead. 2/2
However, there are diffs between past Authoritarians and where we are now. If Trump were younger I'd be more worried, however, he's OLD and in bad health. MAGA is solely a cult of Trump where the cultists and the sychophants he's installed are beholden to him and him alone. 1/2
Some doomerism for Tuesday morning. TL;DR - The US is past the tipping point of "pre-authoritarian" and can be considered an authoritarian state. Fun Fact: The number of times Authoritarians have been elected out of office after being elected in? Zero. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Why is none of this front and center along with all the other failures of this administration?
What's the point of having unlimited money if you can't lord over and control others?
Sorry Mr. Farmer but that's what they want. You lose the farm and some megaconglomerate buys it on the cheap. Once the farms are owned by a handful of companies, they then get to dictate the prices and control the wages.
Trump fires Lisa Cook in an unprecedented move, and immediately the US dollar sinks against the Yen (in red), the Euro (teal), and the British Pound (purple). Stocks are also sorting it out, but down around a quarter point. Point is: Markets don't think this is move helps American business.
It makes the Nazis feel bad and he can't let that happen.
Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk.
But Biden stuttered a couple of times so, you know, both sides!
He's aged 15 years in 7 months.
You can tell he's a fighter! No more strongly worded letters but speeches with a swear in them. At this rate they'll be ready for real pushback by 2035.
I'm surprised he wasn't talking about Bowser from the Super Mario games... then again, maybe he was.
The SCOTUS only allows Republicans to be an imperial President. They save to "save America" by limiting what a Democrat can do.
I guess the SCOTUS will get a chance to revisit it's past ruling on flag burning and determine it was "decided wrong" as well.
The definition of "lacking self-awareness".
Exactly! Nothing hurts these types more then being made fun of.
It's easier to institute martial law when there are actual shooters walking around blowing people away.
I love how he always dwells on "the tone" of someone's comment or question. Usually it's just a reporter asking a question rather blandly.
"I'm not withholding my endorsement. I wasn't going to endorse him in the first place."
I didn't realize there is a law against "name calling of a public figure".
Before AI, Google searches never ever occasionally returned crap.
I'm sure they'll be cutting the multiple assistant vice deans they most likely have and lowering the pay of the remaining upper administration before firing all the general campus support staff.
"Universal Healthcare? That's SOCIALISM!!!" - MAGA "10% government control of a publicly traded company? The Art of the Deal!" - MAGA
They need to demand a controlling share of the stock for Fox News and make it progressive platform.
How come the GOP isn't screening "That's socialism" or "That's communism"?
"We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they’re leading a seminar at Antioch" Finally! It took them what, 25 years to figure this out? People like people who talk like them but they also like people who listen!
Trump will never have an approval better than Obama... or Biden.
GOP to the American people, "Shut up and die already!"
Would the MAGA chuds be happy if they changed the logo to the man sitting inside the barrel and rebranded themselves '"Cracker" Barrel'.
Would he have been happier if they put the guy in the barrel and rebranded themselves "Cracker" Barrel?
How soon will it be before he's throwing "criminals" out of helicopters?
How soon before he's throwing "criminals" out of helicopters? time.com/7311453/trum...
For those not paying attention, it was a grift all along. www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...
This. Newsom is out front because he's the only one "visibly fighting". He tried going MAGA-lite after Trump's win and it wasn't successful with the base. He's giving the people what they want so maybe other candidates will follow his lead. It's 2010s tea-party but for Dems this time around.
The potential silver lining is the new map was going to based on the increased support the GOP received in 2024 from minority voters. These new maps and non-white support tanking for Trump might actually weaken these new GOP candidates' chances.
He knows everything about everything... except when he's never heard of someone he himself appointed... or the DOJ moved Maxwell to ClubFed... or anything about the Epstein files.
Powell: '[polls] are a snapshot of the past not a glimpse into the future, so if a leader uses them to govern it is is like steering while peering over the stern of a boat'.
"They" talk about demand for cybersecurity experts is going to increase in the next couple of years. I half-wonder if it's because they are planning for the increase in vulnerabilities the automated AI coders are going to introduce.
Canadians are too smart to fall for this dweeb's antics. I can't tell if he just acts like a conservative because he thinks that's what will get him elected or if he really believes the stupid stuff he says. He's reminds me of JD Vance and Ron DeSantis rolled into one with even less likeability.
Trump is driving up your electricity prices in 3 ways: 1. He's exporting too much of our natural gas 2. He's encouraging too many new data centers 3. He's stopping new power plants that use solar and wind. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...
These people come up with issues that no one has ever thought of or cares about.
And that's exactly why the GOP wants unions gone. Just think of how much money the corporations can make if they didn't have to pay their workers Union wages.
"No President has done more for African Americans than me." - Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Next they'll electrify it followed by adding a "death zone" just like the Berlin wall had.
Lost of millions of cheap labor workers, loss of them paying sales taxes and paying into social security which they will never be able to claim. Mass deportations make zero economic sense but it sure makes the white supremacists feel good.
Companies are realizing that the commercial AIs don't adapt and are stuck using it as-is since it's not able to adjust to their processes. Both the big AI companies and AI adpoters are in the sunk-cost phase. "We've dumped X billion already, if we just dump X billion more it'll all turn out OK".
I thought I saw a stat saying something like a very large percentage of the online gambling revenue comes from a single-digit percentage of the gamblers. Some people are being cleaned out!
There is a lot of talk about them and they seem to have been given all the US government's data but yeah, what do they actually do or produce?
Deportations and detentions will inflict a lot of damage on the US economy 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the...
Registration doesn't equal votes on election day.
Articles in financial media outlets have been reporting companies successfully implementing AI projects haven't seen any increase in profits. In other words, spend a bunch of money and waste resources to make the same amount of money.
"Fewer employees means more profit. Extrapolate that line down to zero employees and you get maximum profit!"
Is "unemployed" measured as those having a job versus looking for a job and but not able to get one or is it simply the total number in that age range without a job?
“Unemployment rate among 16-19-year-olds up to 15.2%, higher by 6ppt from the cycle low. 20-24yo 7.9%, a 2ppt bump from a couple years ago.” (via Yardeni) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social yardeni.com/charts/unemp...
Investors and their money are easily parted... especially when they are promised huge returns both with productivity and financially.
A new MIT report “reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.” @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
He means he's not the richest because only the richest and most powerful get into heaven.
You need to think like a billionaire or politician (aka aspiring billionaire). "What about me and my brand?"
"If someone's face is in front of my hand when I take a swing, it's their own fault they got hit!"
Sounds like the name of a foundation for Multiple Sclerosis research.
What was once the Obama Paradox is now the Biden Paradox.
Sure, my employer will probably "replace me with AI" but at least I'll have the satisfaction of seeing the company fail after they've gotten rid of everyone and the AI bubble pops!
Unfortunately, that information would fall on deaf ears. They won't care until they feel it but by then it will be too late for many.
Developers at Google have loose metrics showing AI actually negatively impacts productivity. The AI firms are pushing a false narrative of 10X productivity gains based off of a few success while ignoring a multitude of failures. "AI didn't work for us but it will work for you! Now invest with us!"
AI is a business’ dream; cut all workers but get '10X' the productivity. I work at mid-sized fin tech & they say they aren't looking to replace developers with AI. The head of HR let it slip that "AI will be able to replace coders" so you know it's being talked about at the higher leadership levels.
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