Originally published at: Trump’s Corruption Is What’s Tanking the Economy
It’s the Corruption, Stupid In the aftermath of Viktor Orban’s defeat in Hungary, a typically shallow conventional wisdom has already emerged that unless President Trump gets the economy turned around, Republicans are going to have hell to pay in the 2026 and 2028 elections. The NYT quotes the right-wing commentator Rod Dreher, who decamped to…
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Tank baby, Tank!
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Why can’t we say we lost?
While the expert consensus is clear, mainstream news sites have been shy of acknowledging the defeat in such an unambiguous way.
Politifact, for example, confined itself to saying that, contra Trump officials, the US did not achieve “total victory.” The Hill similarly temporized, arguing that Iran could simply win by virtue of not losing. The Guardian argued that both the US and Iran were losers, without mentioning the massive bonanza the Iranian regime seems poised to reap in tolls. The Bezos-ified Washington Post insisted, inevitably, that the US could still win.
You would think that after Vietnam and Iraq, America would have recognized the danger of giving the president a blank check for foreign adventurism. But somehow the bipartisan appeal of more money for more guns and for equating “security” with “belligerence” never seems to get old.
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is crazy that they don’t… AND, NO MORE WINDMILLS!"
90% of the UK’s North Sea resource has been extracted. The fields peaked in 1999.
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They grabbed Mr. Thao out of his home, wearing Crocs, shorts and a blanket, dragging him out into the Minnesota winter. After questioning him in a car away from his home, they discovered 1. He was telling the truth 2. He was a US citizen 3. The two guys they were looking for didn’t, in fact, live there with him.
Minnesota is looking at charging the ICE agents with kidnapping
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Boss lady sucked. Boy toy is long gone.
Troy Edgar, who served as former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s deputy secretary, has returned to the agency in the same role, according to two administration officials and two other people close to the administration, all granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters.
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If you’ve followed any public lands fight in the past year, you’ve seen the acronym without knowing it. The Dalton Corridor land transfer in Alaska. The CRA attacks on resource management plans in Montana, North Dakota, and Utah. The March 31 oil and gas lease sales in Utah and Colorado. The Oregon old-growth timber plans. The entire debate over whether public lands should be kept, sold, transferred, or stripped for parts.
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Don’t just stop the payments; claw back the money that was illegally paid - there has to be legal standing for this. That should completely shut CPAC down, which is the best thing that could happen.
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Similar playbook to his Casinos, bleed the value out of it and leave other investors holding the bag.
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Shortly after dashcam video from a citizen appeared, showing the confrontation and shooting, the FBI appeared at the hospital, had him released into their custody, even though he was still be cared for for multiple gunshot wounds - including one to the jaw.
Again, claims of “gang member and suspected of murder” - murder charges were cleared and although one of the people who had also been charged with the murder was a member, there was nothing indicated anyone else was.
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Replying to @ralph_vonholst on yesterday’s thread.
I see a lot of this…where the fuggs try to smear EVs and Green tech as having a huge carbon footprint.
And I can’t say they haven’t been successful…a lot of mouthbreathers end up repeating shit like this.
What they don’t realize is (for people with at least avg. IQs) they are saying “You are just as evil as we are!”
We have to find a way to say “I will pocket your admission that you are indeed evil, and reject your attempt to slime me with same”
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Trump thinks the Pope is “soft on crime”. Coming from a felon, that’s rich.
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