"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...
“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”
Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts."
One of the first tests of mettle for Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief will be the way it handles those "nightmares of urban dystopia based on conservative media doom loops" and injected into public discourse by the President himself. When asked about it, how will she deal with lying the size of a city?
Of course, it isn’t. And of course, it’s unconstitutional. And of course, it should be challenged in Court.
And when this Court sides with the Special One, we should get a big industrial shredder, gather all the constitutions in the country, & shred Article 1 live on tv.
What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?
Trump: "Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Mike Johnson: "We said, 'don't sit on your couch and play video games'- by the way, also not a talking point. There was an AEI study, I think one of the organizations that polled this, and most of these young men who are not working are sitting around literally playing video games. Get back to work"
Concepts and conceptualization should not be set in stones, as my former methods professor used to say.
Conceptualization should be open to new observable data, & can’t be so rigid that it misses everything & so loose that it captures everything (Sartori, may he RIP).
There is a confusion btw fascism & totalitarianism.
Even if we go with Linz’s conceptualization of fascism, which Tom uses, it meets the conditions we are observing—a push for a radical transformation of the society & gov.
I kind of find this back & forth useless bc we are talking pass each other
Because we are led by liars, grifters, and full on autocrats, the September job report was delayed.
If it weren’t, it would have shown a big increase in unemployment. ADP data shows that US companies lost 32,000 jobs in September, an unmistakable sign that the job market is as cold as ice.
I don’t think people outside Washington, DC appreciate how bad the brain drain from the Department of Justice is. It’s in no one’s interests — neither the people’s, nor the Trump Administration — yet I do not know of a single lawyer at DOJ who hasn’t either left already or isn’t weighing leaving.
