I wouldn’t be surprised if CBO staffers are getting unexpected visits from very scary people right now. I hope they’re better insulated from pressure than most government employees are right now.
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Just another step along the Handmaiden Trail.
I should say that in a more sociological way. The core Trump audience feels wronged by immigrants and the people who support immigrants. Many find immigrants culturally threatening and many blame them for difficulties in the labor market. It makes them feel good to see pain inflicted on those they feel directly or…
Cruelty is the point. Cruelty is red meat to the red audience.
How are these tropes?
“proof that individuals inside TrumPutin’s administration corroborated with Russian intelligence during the elections.”
Dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles, the press says. Seems odd to target a single base with “dozens” of these expensive ($1.5 million each) weapons when a handful at one base would have made the same point, and a bunch across a lot of bases would have made a more effective point. Not that I’m endorsing what is almost…
Of course, the gullible media found Trump’s shameless exploiting of her as “presidential.”
Trump campaigned on cruelty, and, unlike his promises to preserve Medicare and Social Security, this is not one that he will fail to fulfill.
“There are some people who believe that hoping the president fails is akin to hoping that the pilot of your airplane crashes. Nonsense. Americans selected someone who told them that he had no experience flying a plane. Before he even boarded the flight, Trump boasted that he was going to reject the protocol of every…
One of the lovely things about Republicans is they only care about fiscal responsibility when they’re tightening other people’s belts.
I’m calling him President Mitläufer from here on out. That’s the term used in Germany after WWII for “fellow travelers”—people who weren’t committed Nazis but accommodated and supported them nevertheless. And that’s being charitable.
You’re right, Alex.
Sounds like a great way to get yourself another crippling lawsuit. Investigative journalism is great. Advertising for illicit contacts is unwise.
OMG. I thought the transcript was a joke, but then I clicked on the video link. OMG.
he believes criminal laws should be clear and interpreted in favor of defendants even if that hurts government prosecutions (like Scalia)
1. The clause clearly says that the president needs permission from Congress to be a profiteer. Congress is unlikely to deny him this permission unless he waits until he’s really pissed them off.
I would feel some sympathy for her if she hadn’t blamed journalist Julia Ioffe for the antiSemitic tweets Ioffe received in the wake of her Melania profile in GQ (http://heatst.com/politics/melania-trump-bullying/).
Sanders sounds like an old school social democrat. We need old school social democrats with Sanders’ courage and tenacity. We also need new school progressives with the same. By showing that somebody to the left of Tim Kaine can be heard, Sanders makes space for others. I realize that telling Sanders to listen up…