Ali Jalili
@jalilichubb.bsky.social
Husband, dad, decent guy, retired Foreign Service Officer. I like funny people.
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
Ah, yes, the party of the working class… “…a relative bargain for them. “If you want to buy a home in New York or Southampton, a really good house, it could cost $100 million to $150 million,” he said. “You can’t spend $25 million in Washington even if you try.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses
Billionaires and multimillionaires are flocking to a city where power has been more important than money, but is now deeply intertwined with it.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Ah, yes, the party of the working class… “…a relative bargain for them. “If you want to buy a home in New York or Southampton, a really good house, it could cost $100 million to $150 million,” he said. “You can’t spend $25 million in Washington even if you try.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/u...
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I'd love to see how in the world any budget analyst can produce any figures showing a balanced budget from tariffs.
The crimes that must be committed against economics, logic, and basic math will be astounding.
The crimes that must be committed against economics, logic, and basic math will be astounding.
An accurate CBO score will not let them do this, but they’re going to make this line as grey and arbitrary as they can to get the score.
Just a bad faith run around the budget process and (frankly) deficit-minded members of Trump’s party.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/can...
Just a bad faith run around the budget process and (frankly) deficit-minded members of Trump’s party.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/can...
November 30, 2024 at 10:25 PM
I'd love to see how in the world any budget analyst can produce any figures showing a balanced budget from tariffs.
The crimes that must be committed against economics, logic, and basic math will be astounding.
The crimes that must be committed against economics, logic, and basic math will be astounding.