The inflation rate is not as important as the median voters’ sense of the existing price level. As my kid put it, we’re going to keep voting out incumbents until everyone forgets what a hamburger cost in 2019.
Pro tip: if the Pope preaches the Gospel, and you respond by saying you have a problem with the Pope, the faith leader you're disagreeing with isn't actually the Pope.
In fairness to him, he did say we would get tired of all the winning
How many thousands of people have to die because an old fool thinks military action will distract from his bald spot?
Considering how we treated the last President of Venezuela, I’m not sure many of his opponents would have a problem with this plan
When a Democratic-majority chamber is elected, a committee should immediately hold hearings on Trump’s ability to distinguish actual events from imagination, including seeing the results of (and learning the need for) his multiple cognitive tests.
The nice thing about this 3-hour wait in the TSA line is that it gave me time to email all my idiot reps in Congress. #waitingforthegop
1)Greg Abbott accommodates Feds’ desire for detention space
2)5th Circuit makes TX a “Trump sanctuary,” where the Constitution doesn’t apply to immigrants
3)Feds truck detainees to TX
4)Supreme Court reverses 5th
5)Feds release detainees on the street, making Abbott author of a far worse TX crisis
One wonders what kind of funding priorities Congress could pass by naming them after Trump:
-The Trump Institute for Corruption Enforcement
-The Trump Initiative for Equitable Immigration Policy
-The Trump Chair for Fascism Research
-The Trump Center for the Study of Personality Disorders
Suppose Trump wanted to establish a new MAGA paramilitary to go into blue states with no mission other than stirring things up and sending the message those who disrespect MAGA should get accustomed to intimidation and bullying. Would that look any different from what's happening today?
Republicans voted in ‘16 for a candidate who liked to “grab” women. They can’t be surprised that the dominant story of his tenure would be which women he grabbed.
Can you imagine being a grown man, having been elected president, possessing more wealth than most could spend in a lifetime, and still being so deeply and desperately insecure that flubbing a word forces you into a panicky tap dance?
So apparently we're bombing boats with no evidence they carry drug runners, and then pardoning crypto execs *convicted* of helping actual drug runners launder their money.
Well, I guess you can't accuse of us of employing a double standard. We're now ignoring due process in both directions.
Republicans used to debate whether conditioning highway funds on implementing a drinking age was disrespectful of state sovereignty. Now they endorse one state's governor sending his troops into another state over the objection of the state's government. So much for the party of federalism.
I don't know how to talk about policy and leadership choices with people who are willing to believe cities in which they joyfully vacation and in which their friends live happily are in fact so overrun with violent criminals that martial law is the only viable path forward.
Said the President, “I look at it, and I think, did it have to be 40 days and 40 nights? I could have negotiated a deal to avoid all that. But Noah’s great, doing a great job in terms of two animals, and people are increasingly recognizing him.”
If Texas Republicans want me to believe they actually care about the Ten Commandments they could start by voting for a president who follows even one of them.
It is remarkable to think of the effort to which FDR and his staff went to limit public awareness of his entirely harmless disability, while Trump’s battle with emerging depression, creeping dementia, and narcissistic personality disorder are an open secret on hourly display.
The ruling on universal injunctions confirms John Adams' view that “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” A decent president wouldn't need to be ordered to stop violating the constitution once a court stated the law.
Trump thinks nothing of selling out his supporters in this way because he’s practically offended that the press would ask anyone else to speak for him. Trump thinks if anyone purports to predict his plans or assess his thinking, they are diminishing his prerogative and challenging his power.
What Rubio should have said: “I don’t think it’s a regime change move. At least it wasn’t as of last night. But to be honest we hadn’t even planned on doing it until he gave the go order, so I’m not exactly sure what his aim was. Ask me again tomorrow. Or ask Bibi, maybe he knows.”
You’re right. Trump demands his operatives produce apprehensions and deportations at scale. They can’t afford to prioritize “bad guys.” To produce numbers, they need to focus on those they can find and can’t pass up any opportunity to deport. The “good guys” with technical slip-ups are first to go.
Hey @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, if Trump hangs onto the Qatari jet after 1/20/29, wouldn't he be subject to 18 USC 641? After all, the only Const'l way to accept the gift is on behalf of the USA, and once his term ends, he can be prosecuted for exercising dominion over federal property.
Why is living under government better than living under warlords and anarchy? Because when we give government the exclusive power to protect (or take) life, liberty, and property, we bind it not to take those things without due process of law. Government without due process is just another warlord.
Anytime you concede that a certain group of people is not entitled to due process, you’re just selecting the name they will apply to you when they decide they don’t want you around anymore.
Well, huh, I wonder why that's the top search being conducted
