Showing posts with label MSN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MSN. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Like the soul of the tyrant himself, Trump's administration is beset with fear and is full of convulsions and distractions, including on immigration enforcement, reversing last week's pause on deportations

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  All his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles.             ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Ah, so Trump is The Decider now lol, becomes more like George W. Bush every day

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  Trump Says He Decides What ‘America First’ Means Michael Scherer, The Atlantic   ... “America First” means whate...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Nigel Farage's UK Reform Party won new majorities in ten regional councils across England in the May 1 elections, stunning Labour and the Conservatives

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 ... The races were local. But Reform UK’s unprecedented surge has recast political trends nationwide, sparking panic in Britain’s two major...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Pete Wehner calls Trump America's mad king, lists twenty examples to date fewer than 90 days in

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    ... He is more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic than in his first term. ... Trump is America’s Mad King. ...  as the second...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Trump and Musk are crashing Social Security and its elderly customers are panicking

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    The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled America...

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic was mistakenly included in the Houthi Signal Chat because he shares the same initials as Jamieson Greer

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  Goldberg, who has the same initials as U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, was mistakenly added to the group by National Security ...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Clueless Ed Kilgore today post-mid-March thinks angry Democrats are in the minority based on a Gallup poll from late January

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But this simply ignores everything Trump has flooded the zone with since January 27. That's a backward-looking poll. Trump's has bee...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Absolutely stunning: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek threatens to shut down Social Security last night, takes it all back this afternoon

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  What a shit show. This guy needs to be fired stat. This is America under Mad King Ludwig. Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Du...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Ed Kilgore: Senate Democrats have no choice on the dirty continuing spending resolution if it passes the House, have only one filibuster to use in 2025, and now's the time

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Johnson added conservative sweeteners to the CR, which isn’t “clean” (i.e., a simple extension of current funding levels for everything) ...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Tesla has become real unpopular all of a sudden, what could the reason be?

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   ... Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, more than a dozen violent or destructive acts have been directed at Tesla facilities, ac...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Trump not only wants to move the goalposts for getting the costs of his tax cuts to $0, but also for calculating GDP

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 Why, is there something bad on the horizon with GDP lol? These people belong in jail, not in the White House.  Trump official floats new ap...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Coldest US winter in a decade ends, most of the country had below-average snowfall

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... March 1 ... ended the coldest three month period in the United States since the winter of 2013 to 2014. It was about 1.1 degrees below ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Fascist Musk, Fascist Tesla: The electric car company would have been unprofitable for seven consecutive years through 2020 without selling its phony government carbon credits to other dirty automakers

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   Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding ... Musk is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Now the Trump administration is imitating the most odious revolutionary rhetoric of the Obama administration

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  WH's Karoline Leavitt: Trump "Is Fundamentally Transforming Our Country For The Better"   We are fundamentally transforming ...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

That's exactly what it is, you beer-swilling surrender monkey

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   Trump's peace push 'not a betrayal' of Ukraine, Hegseth says
Friday, February 7, 2025

The legal system is about to be clogged with multiple battles over Trump's second and imperial presidency, which has deployed Elon Musk as the embodiment of the line-item veto which it does not possess

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It's a strange day when I find myself agreeing with Ed Markey. . . . “The courts, if they interpret the Constitution correctly, are goi...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Trump's new Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has given Elon Musk control of the payment systems which control everyone's Social Security and Medicare benefits

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   Billionaire Elon Musk’s deputies have gained access to a sensitive Treasury Department system responsible for trillions of dollars in U.S...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Black Hawk helicopter collision with passenger jet was part of a routine, annual re-training of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of government mission

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 Crashed US Army Black Hawk unit was responsible for doomsday readiness ... The three soldiers killed in the collision were part of the 12th...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Maybe the two best things about Marco Rubio are his condemnations of China for persecuting the Uyghur Muslims and of Tesla for opening a store where they live

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 You go, Little Marco. WaPo story reproduced here . You say Uyghur and I say Uighur . . ..
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Iraq combat vets wondered why National Guard member Pete Hegseth showed up in Iraq in 2005 leading a platoon

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  “I showed up in the 101st Airborne Division, in one of the most storied units in our nation’s history, with a bunch of combat vets who’d...