Be that as it may, I’ll take it. We don’t have the luxury of refusing allies (or at least co-belligerents) in this fight.
Remember what Churchill, a famous lifelong anti-communist, said about the USSR after Hitler invaded them: “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
Pissing their pants over a tweet James Comey under investigation for posting “86 47” on Instagram, Noem says
Former FBI Director James Comey has provoked an outcry from the Trump administration after he briefly posted a photo to Instagram that federal officials alleged was a call for violence against President Trump — a claim Comey pushed back on.
The image shared by Comey — a longtime Trump foe — showed seashells in sand arranged to form the numbers “86 47,” according to screenshots shared by Trump administration officials.
Comey later deleted the image. In a follow-up Instagram post Thursday night, Comey wrote that he “posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”
Never, ever forget that these cuts are statewide, for each individual Red state. And that nearly half the voters in any Red state are Democrats or at least left leaning. And that possibly half of all the residents are children who do not vote.
While rejoicing about the impending suffering of those who voted for Republicans, remember that those budget and program cuts will affect the innocent as well as the guilty. Lots more innocent than guilty.
Elon’s there? And so is his rival, OpenAI’s Sam Altman. And it’s actually a similar cast of characters to the ones we saw at the inauguration. Jensen Huang, the head of Nvidia, is there too, as is the Ruth Porat, the president and chief investment officer of Alphabet (parent company of Google). Bezos isn’t there. But the new CEO of Amazon Andrew Jassy is. The Times piece shows a genuinely staggering list of CEOs who are part of this trip, the CEOs of IBM, Boeing, Palantir, Halliburton, Citigroup and a bunch of others.
This is one corrupt adventure after another. I am struck by the thought that if their plane(s) all went down in a big burst of flames the world might have a chance to survive.
I’m sure the gov’t could improve its detection of fraud, and fraud of the kind Burris describes may well be a problem, but not on the scale he posits. (A fourth or fifth of the entire federal budget?) Who is this guy Burris, anyway? The article reports that he served in Trump’s first administration. He is not serving in the second.