It seems the mystery source of the kill tax incentives for clean energy aspect of the Big Blow Jobs for Billionaires Act may be explained by the renewed spat between Musk and Trump. How do such stupid, immature and destructive monsters live so long?
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Questions for Morning Memo this AM:
By “subsidies” do you mean “welfare”?
Can I be denaturalized? I was, after all, born in Fresno.
How many years would I serve for “an innocent mistake”?
Can we put Bill Moyers’ Face on Rushmore instead of Trump’s?
It’s currently 100 degrees here in Lyon, France, as we approach the cocktail hour. Should I dehydrate with Aperol Spritz or a beer? (Not to stack the deck, but I’m allergic to beer).
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Trump, who “always does well in a bad economy”, could have his cake and be able to blame the Fed chairman for causing everyone else hardship.
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Those are some of the ones that were declared “dead”
The Trump administration is moving the immigrants’ names and legally obtained Social Security numbers to a database that federal officials normally use to track the deceased
Not able to work. Can’t have a bank account - automatically closed. Anything tied to a SS number is over.
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It’s where they make the envelopes.
She wouldn’t get it.
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TRUMP, for when you want to smell like you been neutering alligators.
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Serpentine Sheldon, serpentine!
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Re: Musk v Trump
I just finished reading Scalzi’s “Starter Villain” novel, in which it’s noted that supervillains are rarely super smart – or even particularly smart. The First Felon versus X-Man Elon seems to be a textbook case. Musk, either not knowing which side of his bread was buttered, or thinking himself totally indispensable and thus untouchable. Not taking into account his vulnerability as far as income went.
And we know the other guy. A criminal through and through. He’s never had to be clever, or strategic. He just never cared about the law, always gamed his way out, and now the Supremest Court in the Land has decreed that he’s not subject to any laws. And his captive Congress does anything his latest whim decrees! Dumb or dumber, it’s all good!
Elon really should have foreseen the danger. If he had even moderate intelligence.
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And if blaming Powell gets no traction he has a thousand other excuses lined up.
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No she wouldn’t,but she undoubtedly calls them “brown envelopes.” “Manila envelopes” is a language dodo bird.
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I’ll bet you she calls them “vanilla envelopes”, like so many doofuses (doofi) do. And then wonder why they don’t taste very vanilla.
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During a recent court proceeding, there were reports that Donald Trump was farting, which drew attention from those present in the courtroom. This incident has been noted as part of the unusual atmosphere surrounding his trial.
I like the “unusual atmosphere” bit.
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Here’s mine:
Isn’t it the “One Big Beautiful Bill”?
I realize BBB nicely creates confusion with Joe Biden’s excellent Build Back Better, but why cheat Donald out of his most excellently named OBBB?
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Either my brain is mush (entirely possible) or this sentence makes no sense?
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That one I haven’t heard, but it makes perfect sense. Or stupid sense. But I just always heard “brown” at work.
ETA: Sorry. This was meant to be in response to @Scoutmom.
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On the one hand, there remained a “normative state,” which would uphold every-day, procedural rule of law, and on the other hand, there was the “prerogative state,” which ruled through arbitrary violence and coercion against the state’s proscribed enemies.
I keep seeing videos in which masked men put someone in a car and then turn to the people watching and start to assault them.
It seems to me many of these videos show actions that are clearly illegal and should prosecuted. Why are there no “bounty hunter arrested for assaulting onlooker” stories? I understand this is a case of the normative vs. prerogative state. But where is the breakdown in the normative system? Police won’t prosecute? Identities of the assailants cannot be established?
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With respect to her knowledge of the world, she’s not exactly stretching the envelope is she?
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imposing a new excise taxes on wind and solar . . . “It’s a secret, I guess,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told NBC.
Let me help you, Lindsey: “We have to pass the bill, so that you can find out what is in it — away from the fog of the controversy.”
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