So, Representative Jasmine Crockett is “the new Hillary”? A smart, strong, powerful, and articulate woman? And also black!! That pretty much wraps up the characteristics needed to paint her as maga’s latest antichrist.
The trick will be for lefties to see through the trick this time and reject the Republican lies. The record has not been good in that respect.
Well they may attempt to lower it. That’s change every billionaire can agree on.
I’m on my way to HANDS OFF in Charlottesville! Good luck!!
I take it then that it’s the press reporting the cuts as permanent?
If they did their elections “properly” there’d be a republican in office there naturally!
American bird droppings are some of the finest in the world. We need to protect our birds’ poop!
And Donnie Diapers is just the, uh, man to do it.
Yeah. Think like “a businessman”: know the price of everything and the value of none of it.
Gaslighting requires consistent, systematic manipulation. Trump’s intent to sell off federal lands is no secret, but I don’t see the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund like the Norway Pension Fund, designed to protect wealth for future generations. A gaslighter would be more consistent than Trump, wouldn’t he, making the needed wealth transfer vehicles as he goes? Trump is just making a cob-job of the possibly thought-out plan of his coconspirators, the oligarchs seeking to reap benefits. Here is Peter Wehner’s plot summary of Gaslight:
In the 1944 film gaslight, a young woman, Paula Alquist, falls in love with and marries an older man, Gregory Anton. Over the course of the film, Gregory—cunning, moody, charismatic—deceives Paula into thinking that she is losing her mind. He does so by manipulating her memory, accusing her of hiding paintings and stealing things, isolating her, diminishing her self-worth and confidence, and denying reality. The film’s title refers to Gregory’s trick of secretly dimming and brightening the indoor gas lighting while insisting that Paula is imagining the changes.
Near the end of the movie, Paula finds out that she has been deceived by Gregory, a murderer who wants her committed to a mental institution so he can gain control of an estate. The inspector who solves the case tells Paula, “You’re not going out of your mind. You’re slowly and systematically being driven out of your mind.”
The big difference is that it appears that Trump is trying to convince us HE is losing his mind, despite the best efforts of his cadre of bootlickers. Given the family history with dementia, and the unwillingness of those to correct him on words, concepts, as well as broadcast bogus explanations to suggest a rational basis for this tariff nonsense, it almost looks like he’s gaslit himself, if that’s possible.
Let’s go back a bit, like what a couple of months or so ago, that Rep Nancy Mace accused a foster care advocate of injuring her by shaking her hand, and had accosted her. Prosecutors dropped the charges.
I bring Mace up because it seems that Republicans are trying out the Mace move of accusing someone accosting them when in fact that they didn’t.
It’s a Republican meme so Fox News will call it that. Other media may handle it in a more nuanced way.
For example, below is a quote from a NYT article in February using the word “permanent” in the sense that if the Senate manages to ignore scoring rules, it could remain in place because it wouldn’t increase the deficit (although it actually would). That doesn’t mean the law couldn’t be repealed or amended by a future Congress.
Senate Republicans and some Trump administration officials have embraced the possibility of upending Washington’s budget rules so that extending the 2017 tax cuts would appear to cost nothing — and therefore could be permanent. Such a change has already run aground with fiscal hawks in the House, who share the Senate antipathy toward congressional scorekeepers but are unwilling to completely disregard their rules. House Republicans will have to stick to the $4.5 trillion limit.
The vote, 51-48, fell along mostly party lines, but with sharp dissent from two prominent GOP senators. It could not have come at a more difficult political moment. The US economy is churning after the president’s vast tariff scheme sent stocks plummeting, and experts are warning of soaring costs for consumers at home and threats of a potential recession. Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky both voted against the bill.
But with a nod from Trump, GOP leaders held on, determined to march ahead. Approval paves the way for Republicans, in the months ahead, to try to power a tax cut bill through both chambers of Congress over the objections of Democrats, just as they did in Trump’s first term with unified party control in Washington.
The Senate package pulls in other GOP priorities – including $175bn to bolster Trump’s mass deportation effort, which is running short of cash, and another $175bn for the Pentagon to build up the military – from an earlier budget effort.
John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No 2 ranking Republican senator, said voters gave his party a mission in November, and the Senate budget plan delivers.
“It fulfills our promises to secure the border, to rebuild our economy and to restore peace through strength,” Barrasso said.
Is somebody going have to check Signal to see how they picked the men to send to El Salvador? Or have they perfected the Mission Impossible gimmick of paper setting it’s self on fire after the reader is done reading it.
The representative is dead, not sick.
The country is committing stupidcide. (h/t Jonathan Larsen at The Fucking News.)
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow walked her viewers on Friday through the origin story of how President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, joined the MAGA team during his first presidential run – and brought a phantom source with him to Washington, D.C.
“In all of his books, Peter Navarro has cited an economics expert to justify his views, and the economics expert he cites is somebody named Ron Vara,” who, Maddow added, sent out a memo around Washington at the start of Trump’s first administration touting the benefits of a tariff policy.
Ron Vara is an anagram of “Navarro”. He was his own “expert.”
Perhaps the dress is made of paper towels? Also, given that the purpose of the painting is to help Americans pay their bills, it would have to carry a price tag of about $4 trillion to cover last week’s losses causing Americans to struggle.
