I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"
Media framing has improved since the shutdown began and the Dems have done a very good job messaging the shutdown but I do not have confidence that Dems on the Sunday shows I’ll be prepared for how to message that Trump can’t just decide to pay the troops
If they aren’t able to. Use the illegal means to pay troops I’ll be very interested to see what happens with NG they have stationed in Illinois but are unable to deploy
Congress has delegated a lot of tariff authority to the president and the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on the tariffs yet. Congress passed laws saying that the president can do tariffs themselves in an “emergency” or if other countries do market manipulation
Tariff money at this point can be collected but can’t be spent. To this point the admin really hasn’t even attempted to shift money authorized for one type of spending to another
DHS might just be buying everything they have authorization to buy at this point with their budget. Rumor was that the reason that Glock had to pull their model with the integrated optic from the big market because of a new big contract
Hegseth’s micromanaging attitude could mean they have unpaid DoD staff sorting through lists individually to determine who has warrior ethos and who doesn’t
Not even sure how much that Trump sees those two as failures as it is his fans see them as failure and just decided to project what they want on the tall young kid
I’m would think it isn’t so much about scale as it is some things that you would need people ready to do anyway and it allows you to figure out how trustworthy and good at the job they are. Putin isn’t going to want a body man with no prior experience
This push might have worked had there not been articles titled “Republicans bloc Dem bill to pay troops through shutdown”. The republicans seem like the only strategy is that the public will blame the Dems
Only reason I think he would use that term is because he is a Calvinist. If there isn’t a hierarchy within a branch of Christianity it is much hard to think of a compatible flavor of Monarchy that works
Like how can we have endless pieces about fucking dissertation plagiarism and not one about "the spokesperson for DHS tells specific, easily-disproven lies constantly to provide cover for serious crimes against the public" how is that not a big deal? Do I have to write this shit myself?!?!?
The sad part is that it isn’t clear that she has another option. It isn’t clear to me that it is possible for a Latin American country that doesn’t have a democratic government to be overthrown without the support of the US government to some extent or another
This guy is like a 4th tier Trump goon. We have seen the lawyers Trump himself gets, imagine being this much of a no name trying to get representation for a Trump style lawsuit
Johnson shutting down the house I think was way less about checking temperature and more about wanting to stick Thune with his CR and turning down the noise on the Epstein discharge petition
