Trump talked about draining the swamp.  He’s actually doing it, but not in the way people imagined. Instead, all these people who have been scamming the country under the radar are getting found out because they decide to associate themselves with Trump.

So, he (obviously) forcefully denied the underage stuff because that can be a crime. The rest of it, he seems to gloss over with the ‘I’m not perfect’ approach. Great, you’re not a criminal, you’re just a skeevy PoS.

I’m glad he’ll be forced to say that he’s just doing it for entertainment, it’s made up, and it’s not intended to be “news” or to defend his reporting.

The only defense I can think of is that he was essentially reporting/aggregating from other sources and those sources are the ones at fault, not him.  Which creates…

I suspect he’s just trying to build up drama and keep the attention on him.  He’ll sign it and then talk about how the wall is already being built, so this bill doesn’t matter.

So, he’d rather rot in prison (and likely hoping for a pardon), rather than tell the truth about Trump and Co. That tell me he’s stupid or Trump and Co did some awful shit.  That’s to say nothing of Mueller potentially holding back some charges because it would divulge secrets of their investigation, what evidence…

If the automatic continuing resolution approach doesn’t work, perhaps we should consider the opposite. If the government shuts down, it really shuts down- soldiers must serve but are not paid, no money gets paid to ANY military contractors, FAA, TSA, don’t work, nor are they paid, etc.

That’s been marginally effective, but it’s not enough. So, now they’re arguing that teachers are all liberals who promote socialism.

As much as we’d like to consider ourselves a state, Chicago is not a state and Illinois is not one of the highest taxed states.

I think they try to position even moderate economic ideas as socialism to hide the fact that their viewers would otherwise support it.

Fox News viewers have been trained to have a Pavlovian response to the word socialism- socialism is always, always bad, even if I’m receiving the benefits of it and its great.

If you’re being insulted by Tucker Carlson, you’re doing something right.

It frustrates me to no end that if we’re to do the ‘right’ thing (Northam and Fairfax resigns), we’re handing the governorship to the GOP, who probably did more racist shit growing up, absolutely would not resign, and would do a lot worse for PoC in VA, than these fools have. 

The problem is that she tried to govern via twitter with song lyrics and one liners, that conjured a anti-semetic trope. She needed to be more nuanced about it and she failed. But given that she’s Muslim, that failure was amplified 100x greater than it should have been. It’s being blown out of proportion, but her…

You’re correct on the math, but I think the issue is that people were sold that they’d have a LOT more take home pay, when they only got a little more take home pay. So, they naturally assumed they’d get the same return as always, since they’re checks were only marginally bigger.

The other issue is that many filers…

A number of issues at play:

Small correction, but Reid filibuster was for non-SCOTUS judges.  Still the fallout of having a bunch of Republican (not conservative) justices can’t be overstated.

Upvote. Change parliamentary so a simple majority can cause a measure to proceed, but if someone wants to block it, they must actually filibuster.  Have another simple majority vote after it ends just in case you have a Mr Smith Goes to Washington moment. 

Assuming that is excess energy (to your point on capacity + buffer), it’s a nice low tech method.

So, you’ve been to Crystal City too?

Nope- those government loans everyone hated so much, helped quite a bit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/03/16/this-government-loan-program-helped-tesla-at-a-critical-time-trump-wants-to-cut-it/?utm_term=.1b22c8722327

-The minimum wage (adjusted for inflation) was higher in the 50s and 60s than it is now.
-The teacher-student ratio for schools were much lower in the 50s and 60s
-There was massive amounts being spent on infrastructure in the 50's and 60s
- Unionization rates were much higher in the 50s and 60s
- College was up to 3x…