But he can run fast in dress shoes.
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Who’s the guy with a really good tan to felon 47’s left.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has reversed his position on whether President Trump needs Congress’ permission to deploy troops to Venezuela after the president broke ties with the senator and longtime ally over his recent vote.
See, this just goes to prove the old adage that nobody is ever completely useless.
To illustrate: There is a genus of ocean-dwelling worms, Osedax, sometimes called snot worms, bone-eating worms, or zombie worms. They feed on the remains of dead whales.
And these scavenging worms, at the bottom of the ocean? Yes, Josh Hawley gives them someone to LOOK DOWN ON.
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A “murder” of crows.
A “shrewdness” of apes.
A “shart” of televangelists.
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Just listen. Dido and Aeneas. Aeneas called on to something greater by the gods themselves. This staging is wonderful, but what makes it all works is Xenia’s voice, the voice of the abandoned.
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“Hawley Folds” should be the title of his canned obituary. A smarmier creature cannot be invented.
And by the way, trump is in the Epstein files.
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Judas Iscariot?
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But I’m tentatively optimistic that the country is starting to get its bearings about how to think and account for public corruption, attacks on the state itself, even while critical departments like the Department of Justice are in corrupt hands. The resignations are a key, maybe the key signal.
This is indeed good news, but there is still the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The entropy, or political breakdown in this case, of the system tends to continue until a lower “second best” equilibrium is reached. Modern electoral autocracies eventually fall apart, but it is several decades before the pre-breakdown state can be reattained, if ever. Some observers, for example, say that the breakdown of the Soviet Union, which resulted in mostly an era of Putin, has yet to work its way to a stable state – even if Russians, for all their beaten-down passivity, long for stability more than anything else. In contrast, the US middle class is only getting its initial beating. Stephen Miller has much more planned! Democracy has always been exclusive. In ancient Greece it was limited to “free” adult male citizens, a distinct minority. When the US was created, women’s right to vote was limited to certain unmarried landowning women in New Jersey. Authoritarians like Trump hate wider definitions of citizenship and engage in base efforts to delegitimize efforts to expand the limits of citizenship. Even today we see efforts to smear anyone who doesn’t conform to a narrowly defined citizen (which, if you look at recent SCOTUS readings, is generally limited to wealthy people, with an exception for minions willing to show allegiance to an ur-citizen model). Citizens have the power to control weath and assets.
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“Rubio assured him that Trump was not planning to send troops to Venezuela.”
Universal Translator, set to Rubio: “The troops are being issued Spanish phrasebooks as we speak.”
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Beyond how large Greenland looks on a Mercator projection map, Trump has been fed a line about the Arctic opening up to shipping with the brief seasonal availability of the Northeast Passage along Russia’s arctic coast that allows traffic between Europe and Asia, and the eventual opening of the Northwest passage as the Arctic Sea melts. This is the extractionist view. Looked at differently, we could all do ourselves a favor by cutting carbon emissions. If embodied carbon is included in US emissions, that’s about 7 billion metric tons, with 2 billion coming from embodied carbon in imports. Global total emissions were about 38 billion metric tons of CO2 last year. If the US were to cut the recommended 40% of emissions to stop global warming, that would already be a global improvement of nearly 10%. If Trump still wanted to play hardball with other countries, he could instead go after any country not making similar strides in reducing carbon, particularly China (which has nearly 13 Gtn of CO2 emissions but is also a net exporter of embodied carbon to e.g. Walmart). It could also reset the current discussion about energy-hungry data centers.
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Reporter: What do you make of this union worker who called out Trump as a pedophile protector?
Rep Jamie Raskin: I think that he was speaking in a factual sense.
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How to sabotage 30 years of climate action in 10 days
The US withdrawal from 66 international organizations - including the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the IPCC climate scientists group, the intergovernmental biodiversity platform, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) - has been interpreted as an attempt by the Trump Administration to sabotage the climate action of the past 30 years and all progress made since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
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Trump, who doesn’t seem to understand physics, geochemistry, biology, appears to believe that the loss of polar ice sheets and the 200,000 or so glaciers around the world is a good thing. And he won’t live long enough to experience our planet after we blow up its air conditioner and took out the thermohaline system that distributes heat and cooling via ocean currents.
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So boys and girls the word of the day is Surprise, can you spell Surprise.
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I dispute your contention that a smarmier creature cannot be invented. We already have him in Speaker Johnson.
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And Mar a Largo will be under water.
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It’s beyond the possible that were Trump to militarily seize Greenland, he’d order blackening agents spread across the glaciers to increase the melting rate. For convenient shipping routes and more importantly, to make mining all those valuable minerals easier.
We’re dealing with people whose main focus is money and power. Trump adds in the need to humiliate and dominate people and to grab all the headlines. Plus, Josh Marshall’s “Trump Rule”. Whatever the alternatives, Trump will always do the stupidest one.
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Well, they clearly didn’t manage to drive the demon out with their laying on of hands…
I’ve come to the conclusion that Idiocracy was in fact a utopian movie - the President listened to the smart person in the room. Clearly fictional, as there is now no smart person in the room.
Just wondering how long TSF’s regime can keep piling the ICE pressure on MN before someone starts shooting back at the Keystone Kops Klan
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