Originally published at: Trump Anoints Himself With The Power To Secretly Repeal Regulations - TPM – Talking Points Memo
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No longer content to simply rip up the federal government, President Trump is now reaching into the past to undo agency regulations by fiat. “In effectuating repeals of facially unlawful regulations, agency heads shall finalize rules without notice and comment,” read Wednesday’s presidential memo, using a…
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“Notice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal.”
HUH!! You must be out of your fucking mind.
anti-Christian bias
I.e. Anything that Trump, the ‘perfect christian’ thinks does not give him sufficient praise.
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Morning!
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The Christian Nationalists Are Salivating
Welcome to Gilead.
Oh, also, the second season of The Last of Us premieres tomorrow night.
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“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.” ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
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Good morning everyone. Time for the fire hose of madness…
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Great quotation in one of the new Handmaid’s Tale episodes, I paraphrase:
“God is men’s excuse to use two things - cocks and guns.”
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You might binge watch the first season. It’s been like five years.
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The non-Right portions of the country insist that the GQP will own what happens to the nation with all these actions.
I wonder when that starts, because it hasn’t seemed to make a difference yet.
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Ellie and Joel have been wandering the wilderness for five years! Has it been that long?
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Whether you consider the loss of confidence in the US as a safe haven for investment due to a “crisis of competence” or some other reason, a glaring flaw in our non-parliamentary system is the inability to correct quickly for a loss of confidence. Maybe, you might argue, this is a Constitutional feature, as it requires that the government do all it can to assure confidence in the creditworthiness and currency of the US. With the current rise in bond prices and drop in the dollar, we should recognize that if Trump was a prime minister, he would already be gone - Liz Truss gone. More importantly, Congress has abandoned its duty to protect the high degree of confidence required by the American system.
As a rule, an advantage of common law jurisprudence systems is that they do a better job at protecting property rights of investors and owners. For example, about three-quarters of international mining companies are based or headquartered in Canada. It’s not just for the tax benefits, but a legal system where judges have long-term experience with the industry. By the same token, US sovereign credit (bonds) have been the standard risk-avoidance instrument, especially in uncertain periods. The implication is not just that the US government will not pay its obligations, but the judicial system has unraveled to the point where it is no longer predictable. You could very well have assets seized or frozen, the very "grabbing hand’ government conservatives have long warned about. Such a government could seize other people’s property (Greenland) as well as your own stuff (bank deposits, buildings, or even natural resources, as well as use national assets as payment to friends and cronies). The US fixed income market is about $47 trillion, double GDP and intentionally a very boring place. There was some excitement from the inversion of the yield curve from 2022 to 2024 due the effects of the pandemic, but nothing like this. For the first time you see the markets toying with the notion that the US per se may not even exist a few decades from now, and nobody is in the wings clean up the mess.
If the tariff thing was working, you would expect capital to pile into US bonds, and that did not happen because there is no confidence any of this is real. Indeed, if there was sufficient confidence that things are headed in the right direction, fewer members of our billionaire class would be planning to bug out to their bunkers in and around Queenstown, New Zealand when it looks like things are falling apart. It’s not fair to their fellow Americans and certainly not fair to the poor Kiwis expected to leave town and go live in the “bush” once the billionaires descend.
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From the Guardian…
Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down
Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters – and surrounded by yes men
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This is a spot article everyone should read. It’s disturbing but accurate.
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For some reason that reminded me of Gloria Steinem once saying, “Most men are little more than animated bags of sperm.”
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Here’s the link:
ETA I think we can all agree we really miss Melanoma (currently in an undisclosed location) and her moderating influence.
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Saddest thing about fascism is that they’re thick as shit.
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Yes. It is.
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The pain hasn’t started yet. If we lost the last election due to “kitchen table issues” with voters in a post-pandemic inflationary funk, along with the usual misogyny and racism, then the GOP is about to see the mother of all kitchen table issues when the tariffs hit the economy in full force. That’s going to take a few months.
There will be other negative effects too with reduced or eliminated services. Social Security is the big one, if the DOGE boyz manage to screw that up enough. But I think economic pain will be the wakeup call. I don’t see how we avoid a full recession, or worse.
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Tu sabes, I really hate it when people keep referring to this satanic piece of shit as anything other than “president” (as the situation, desafortunadamente, warrants) and certainly, “criminal.” When outlets keep using the word “king”, well, what’s the downside here? It’s like already ceding democratic power and saying, “Yeah, the word fits, so we’ll just go with it.”
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