When he goes, he will go exactly as he's lived. Horribly. Disgustingly. With spite and malice bleeding from all his holes.
Sadly, everyone knows who "he" is, without even having to ask.
Ironically, this is a good sign. People who sense their end is near often say, "I don't have time." Of course they almost never yell at someone about it. And did anyone ask him to in the first place?
Fear of not being seen as masculine enough is a fear men like trump and hegseth have of other male judgements. It's got nothing to do with women. They are keenly aware of the male gaze. They are afraid of it. Thus, Trump bombs seven countries in just over a year.
He could also just spin it as he was waiting to see if he needed to help defend. But as a senator, he should not even be hiding there. He should be on his way out, like all the others were. They had a more important job that day.
I heard this live on the radio today and it reminded me how a leader can inspire, even in ways that have nothing to do with politics or the public. I was having a hard week due to my responsibilities for a friend who has dementia, and hearing this helped a little. The hard path...
What I don't see anywhere is reports about shortages, but they are there. Odd shortages. If you order on Amazon, these get hidden behind blather about "supply chain disruptions." In the government, they call it "appropriations issues." In the store they just say "We don't have any."
Also, they leave everything else in place so it doesn't really do much of anything except, in this case, shut down the world's oil supply, turn commodities markets on their heads, and drive prices up for everyone, not to mention "supply chains" (Amazon's new favorite excuse) and shortages.
I'm also not really sure how to feel about evil men taking on other evil men. In trump's favorite form of entertainment, fake wrestling, usually one guy is a bad guy and the other is a hero. But in this case, you have dictators fighting other dictators and they are all corrupt and vile.
Supreme Court: "the nature
of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity."
This is how the Iran war started.
A completely invented entitlement never mentioned in the Constitution until Roberts created it.
What is "the nature" of presidential power anyway?
I hope Susan Sarandon issues a statement on how Hillary Clinton is a warmonger.
Short answer, too late (haha), signatures are extremely hard to forge and work better than I.D.s
It is freedom from ownership. And the concept (that a government or system doesn't own you) is an ancient one. Slavery, whether Biblical, American, Epsteinien, is just the most extreme form of systems attempting to own people. And it won't end with Epstein. It will probably be rebuilt by technology.
I can't think of any other way to prove U.S. citizenship. And it's probably a good thing. The U.S. is still, in spite of all the police body cams and crazy sovereign citizens, the only country in the world where you don't have to have "papers." That is a form of freedom we take for granted.
The other 3 ways of proving you are a citizen would make the maga wing insane if they weren't such low information voters: Certificate of Naturalization. Consular Report of a Birth Abroad. Certificate of Citizenship (given only to someone not born in the U.S. to U.S. citizens.)
When they blithely rattle off that people should be able to prove they are citizens in order to vote, they almost certainly think that means showing a driver's license. It doesn't. Birth certificate or passport are the only 2 ways a native born American can prove citizenship.
Basically he's doctor Evil demanding One Million Dollars!
"I am immediately imposing 10%, no, 15%, no, ummm, the world has been so unfair to us. So unfair."
...because they sell things and we buy them. So unfair.
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
Interesting all trump's friends are at the bottom of that list.
His seem to be roughly 90% quotations or paraphrasing. And it just ends being boring and slightly unreadable.
I know that Thomas Edsall's style of commentary is to fill his posts with quotes from other people and various publications, but sometimes I wonder if it's because he can't write his own opinion. We used to debate this stuff in the journalism classes I took at NYU: how many quotes to use.
I don't know why it didn't make more news -- make Kennedy's FDA rejected an application for a flu vaccine. The application was rejected, not the vaccine. They made up a reason why. This is like not letting a student take the SAT because they might get 1500 or 900 or 400 or...
At this point, a dead man appears to have become even more powerful postmortem than when he lived and breathed. Epstein's name should become a verb: a synonym for exposed or outed. Trump and Epstein are now linked forever... like Nixon and Watergate.
what "where they're needed" means.
A lot of indications that means Ohio and Haitians.
The sham of ICE and CBP, the announcement that they're going to be redeployed "where they're needed" has me wondering what is the end game of racists? Is it genocide? It's like the famous "First they came for.." poem by Martin Niemöller -- racism is a moving goalpost. So now we have to worry
Krugman used this term I hadn't seen before, "privilege addicts." I've wondered for a long time why people genuflect to this piece of garbage and I think that term come close. They're addicted to the perks. MTGreene woke up one day and realized she wasn't getting any of that.
Hopeful note from Paul Krugman today.
MPR News reports that nearly 30,000 Minnesotans have been trained as constitutional observers, with another 6,000 volunteers registered to deliver food... This is time-consuming, exhausting, dangerous activism. Yet ordinary Americans... are willing to do it.
That's why I don't mind scrolling through an echo chamber every so often.
"It's all gonna be over one day and it's all gonna go back to normal." Handmaid's Tale, s1e9. June to Janine, just before Janine flung herself from a bridge.
That's what I keep thinking ought to happen but what I sense will never actually come to pass. He's been polluting our country for too long.
I really don't understand when a thing or a place or a product has -- i don't know -- 300 4 or 5 star reviews and then 1 person says it's the worst and "I'd give it 1/2 star." Don't they think about the fact that maybe they're wrong? Or is this the result of "everyone gets a trophy" schooling?
Thinking about Catherine O'Hara and how humorless we have become as a nation since Trump started his political movement with the Obama birther nonsense in 2011. 15 years of his excrement and we can barely crack a smile anymore. We are a poorer nation because of it, and the good die young.
