Originally published at: Republican Breaks With Trump By … Respecting the Role of the Judiciary
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) signaled on Wednesday that he would oppose any effort to have the Senate consider a new nominee to replace Lisa Cook, whom President Trump fired from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors last month a few days after MAGA influencer-turned-Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced he had referred supposed…
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Republican prevents economy from collapsing, likely because he isn’t rich enough to survive the collapse. Oh what courage we have in America.
Also,
Mike Baumgartner and every other Republican who didn’t sign the discharge petition, supports pedophiles.
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It’s remarkable to see him step over kids with measles, cancer patients, congressional appropriations, the rule of law, the torture of people in a foreign concentration camp, the cover up of the Epstein Investigation, and the military deployed to American cities to suppress protests but find the Federal Reserve just a step too far.
If there is a hell, may Republicans in Congress find it.
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It’s abomination-athon ! There’s nothing to compare with the GOP members refusing to sign on to the discharge petition but the outright murder of 11 unknowns in international waters yesterday is pretty damn close. Damn near unbelievable !
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“Republican Breaks With Trump“
That’s singular. One Republican. Not exactly a dam breaking.
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lower interest rates
And lock-in profit for billionaires. It’s a simple formula:
- Take your hundreds of millions in tax savings
- Use it to get a huge loan for almost nothing
- Spend to steal, if you can’t just steal
- MAGA is easy pickings
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National Guard orders in D.C. expected to be extended for months
Not sure that’s a good idea. As the tourist season wanes, the trash cleanup needs dwindle.
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Schools are petri dishes and what little herd immunity remains will be gone fast; it’s not going to stop at measles nor ultimately at the Florida border either.
This is not even the inmates running the asylum: they aren’t running anything, they’re agents of chaos.
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Same as it ever was. I remember Ben Bernanke, he wasn’t the greatest Chair in Fed history, but he was one of the very few qualified people that Bush the Lesser appointed to an important position. The real Republicans know not to fuck around with money,
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Not going to Florida, even to get on a boat to leave the country. This is where first world problems meet third world problems.
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“Evidently China is farther along in its project than I realized, because Xi has reached the point where he no longer humors Trump. Which means that the Chinese believe America’s decline is terminal.”
–The Bulwark, 2025
I think the Chinese are right.
They generate as much energy with just solar than we do from all sources. Their population will have cheap energy, which translates to lower household expenses.
Manufacturing quality products for less among an affluent population eager to buy it? We can’t match that production, and they don’t need our market.
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My only question about China is just when will they make their move and invade/take over Taiwan. I’m sure it will be sometime during this administration, they certainly aren’t going to be worried about any retaliation from Hegseth’s Pentagon and the Orange Idiot won’t dare say a word. The fallback position will be " Well, Taiwan is historically part of China anyway ". There’s no doubt it will happen
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I predict it will be slow, and not a military invasion. There are already strong economic ties between Taiwan and China, and as ties between Taiwan and the United States are strained, Taiwan will increasingly look to China as a customer and a patron.
Look at the entire disaster that is the restriction on sales of some nVidia GPUs to China. It hasn’t stopped China from acquiring them, and it especially hasn’t stopped Chinese companies from acquiring them in Singapore. It basically amounts to us interfering, badly, with trade between the United States, Taiwan, and China. As the US continues to be a bad actor, with bad rules, Taiwan will necessarily seek tighter ties with China.
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Point #1:
Republican Curtis Sliwa is also in the race.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Point #2: Florida is getting exactly what they voted for. Soon the EU will require a series of immunizations to travel there.
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During the Reagan administration they mined the harbors near Nicaragua and were eventually sanctioned by the Intelligence Court of Justice.
From Google:
the CIA mined Nicaraguan harbors, including Puerto Corinto and Puerto Sandino on the Pacific coast, in 1983 as part of a strategy to aid the Contra rebels against the Sandinista government. The mining operation resulted in damage to several foreign and Nicaraguan vessels and drew international condemnation, leading to the International Court of Justice ruling that the U.S. had violated international law.
Consequences:
- Foreign and Nicaraguan ships were damaged or sunk.
- The action provoked international outrage and protests, with the Soviet Union and Nicaragua bringing the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
- In 1986, the ICJ ruled that the U.S. had violated international law by mining the harbors.
- The revelations also led to increased scrutiny from the U.S. Congress, resulting in the second Boland Amendment, which tightened requirements for reporting covert actions and cut off funding for the mining operation
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To say nothing of the re-enlistment rates.
The Guard is the closest thing we have to the founders’ ideal of a militia or citizen-army (as opposed to a professional standing army like King George had). And none of this is doing anything good to their morale.
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The inmates are setting fire to the asylum.
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Traditionally, when the vote is assured, certain members will be permitted to vote against the “party line”, so as to lull the rubes back home into thinking their senator/representative has courage and ethics and is On Their Side. It’s an old story.
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Maybe, but soon those leaves will start falling and need raking.
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No more mulching, either. Though maybe that’s more of a year-round thing in D.C.?
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