See also: NAFTA

Looking forward to reading this.

Thanks for the heads up.

Musk as the inevitable excretion of NeoLiberal Dogma.

"took all the trees / Put 'em in a tree museum" - Joni Mitchell

what a great song even more fitting today than when it was written

THIS is part of the coming singularity - not when computers gain sentience - but rather when every person has easy access to the information guiding policy.

Agreed

Donald Trump learns the lesson of King Canute... the hard way.

When I used to read to my son we played a game. I would keep readin as long as he would repeat the last sentence I read when asked.

He got quite good.

From an apparent slumbering child would come, "and Bilbo slipped the ring on his finger..."

Now that I've googled her, I'll bet that works better than Jowett for kids.

(for adults too probably)

which translation are you using?

Jowett

yes... and who would prosecute contempt of Congress in any event?

Not Todd Blanche.

Gotta wonder what Trump's endgame is.

Is this like the tariff ploy only larger?

Does he plan to hold nations and large businesses over a barrell until they bribe him to stop?

I've often found it eaiser to discern motive with him if you forget about policy as goal and focus on money to him.

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I'm a fan of @lindseyboylan.bsky.social .

It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction of democracy and which meanwhile can benefit only a minority of the masses who support it. - FA Hayek the visionary who couldn't see the road he was on

Smart Mayor.

Assemble a good team and remake NYC as it could be.

or a sequel on Biden

I know which way Jake is leaning

Would you trust Team Trump to outnegotiate a bunch of Persians?

The brain trust of Kushner, Lutnick and Vance

learning about the context some 50 years later has been a trip

who knew it was ok to beat your wife

(See Bruno v Codd)

or that anything she said was a function of hysteria but his words were gospel

even her own lawyer didn't believe her

eye opening for me

in, say, NY being the surviving spouse is easier than one might suspect, especially decades ago... I know.

my father got away with it

pretty sure he stole the will too and claimed there was none

hell of a story I should write some day

Let's see.

50 years ago was 1976. I suspect the apparent lack of difference was more illusion than substance.

Long gone were the days when the GOP said "we're all Keynesians now."

They just didn't say the quiet part out loud.

At least they don't hide anymore.

#EconSky

Collateral Damage of Regime Change gone wrong.

What if the IRGC is just as willing to risk great damage as #Netanyahu and #Trump apparently are.

"In one viral clip captioned “Point of view: you have a Thai girlfriend”, Pafan kneels on the floor clipping Mike’s nails. He says his followers are mostly American men, many of them “in awe” of how she caters to him."

NOT @theonion.com

Not until Putin has refilled his coffers to withstand another few years of war in Ukraine.

Losing Hungary was a blow to Vlad.

Good thing he has a Trump card in his pocket.

Agreed.

Reagan was a figurehead on a movement that began before Nixon, indeed, that began when FDR's movement ascended.

Reagan was an actor. FDR was a politician.

Washington and Lincoln were our two sine qua non Presidents.

Reagan's job could have been done by many.

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you people thought I was writing science fiction, HA

No. Obama only unfroze $1.7B. That's kid stuff.

Trump goes big. He'll unfreeze $20B.

And not even get back to status quo ante doing it.

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Tedious is quite generous.

I find it enabling.

If sexual harassers were always described as such the world just might be a better place, at least for their victims' sanity.

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We promise not to shoot

Neither are Wall St. traders.

They are betting other people's money 😉