Thursday, November 14, 2024
People with a brain know Trump's threat to close the Department of Education is idle
Can Trump actually close the DOE?
Technically, yes.
However, “It would take an act of Congress to take it out,” Don Kettl, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, told Vox. “It would take an act of Congress to radically restructure it. And so the question is whether or not there’d be appetite on the Hill for abolishing the department.”
More.
That's because an act of Congress created it in the first place.
Trump is not a dictator, and never will be, although he plays one on TV, which is the real problem.
It's all just words.
Trump is down to 50.1% in the popular vote
People say it doesn't matter.
It doesn't, except psychologically, especially to Democrats who want to eliminate the Electoral College.
Having an Electoral College landslide without winning a clear majority in the popular vote would only fuel their long-standing rhetoric that it is unfair.
Election results for the popular vote almost always trend narrower as now, and they indicate in this election the same thing the very narrow GOP House win indicates:
This was not a red wave.
The country remains very much divided. And Democrats are wrong to be so dispirited and divided.
Harris/Walz 48.1% (226) Trump/Vance 50.1% (312)
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Republicans have won 219 seats in the US House so far, and these three of six remaining undecided races are their best shot for 222
Except Matt Gaetz is in that 219 and he has just resigned tonight. So 218.
Stefanik is in that 218 and she is taking the UN Ambassador job. When matters. A lot.
Waltz is in that 218 and he is going to be National Security Adviser. When matters. A lot.
The GOP really needs all three seats below just to get back to 221 now, not 222 as before, just one seat better than the current majority. And CA-45 looks more and more iffy to me as the count continues.
Trump is crazy playing chicken with the House majority in this way, and even crazier appointing Gaetz to Attorney General.
Gaetz will not be confirmed.
Trump's disrespect for the House outcome is a terrible beginning to his second term.
Rep. Matt Gaetz resigns to avoid House ethics report on Friday
House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed at a news conference Wednesday evening that Gaetz had submitted his resignation from Congress. The resignation will not take effect until it is announced on the House floor. ...
Gaetz has been the subject of a House Ethics Committee investigation into whether he engaged in sexual misconduct or illicit drug use. ...
Punchbowl News reported Wednesday that his resignation came just two days before the panel was set to vote on releasing a report on its probe. ...
Asked by a HuffPost reporter whether Gaetz has the character to be attorney general, Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, replied, “Are you s------- me?”
-- CNBC, here
This is some crazy shit.
OMG squared: Matt Gaetz to Attorney General
Poaching another one, but he's a complete lunatic who will command ZERO respect.
I guess that gets a problem child out of the House, but Attorney General of the United States?
I feel like I must be on acid or something.
Every single dollar spent by government is a dollar thrown into the fire, except for those handed directly to Elon Musk for every Tesla sold, so Trump adding a new Department of Government Efficiency is extremely amusing
Yeah, let's put the HOG feeding at the government trough and getting filthy stinking rich off electric car subsidies and tax credits, and government rocket contracts, in charge of government efficiency.
Trump announces Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’
What a bunch of phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n rollas.
"Government efficiency" is one of those oxymorons that is more equal than other oxymorons.
The US Senate Republican election of John Thune over John Cornyn and Rick Scott to Majority Leader isn't surprising except to MAGAs who can't imagine that Thune beat Trump in South Dakota by 37,785 votes in 2016
Thune has been dutifully serving Mitch McConnell for years and has the seniority and credibility demanded by his colleagues.
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
Disgusting: No matter how you cut it, core cpi inflation is up in October
Seasonally adjusted core cpi inflation is trending higher since July, and ticked up from 3.25% year over year in September to 3.30% in October.
Not seasonally adjusted inflation is up to 3.33% in October from 3.31% in September, also trending higher since July.
And yet Jerome Powell keeps cutting the Fed Funds Rate, 50 basis points in September and another 25 basis points last week. 10Y yield minus 2Y has been showing its displeasure ever since, reversing its healthy trend. So has the 30Y mortgage.
Congress continues to spend like drunken sailors, and Powell has joined them with loose monetary policy now after not tight enough policy EVER.
The whole thing is DISGUSTING. And the election changes NOTHING.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
He's eating the Congress
He's eating the Congress
He's eating the Senators
He's eating the Representatives
of the People
that work there
Woe Woe Woe Woe
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Arizona US Senate race has been called overnight for the Democrats, giving them 47 seats in the new Congress
Kari Lake, the losing Republican, quit her TV anchor job in 2021, which she had from 1999, to run for governor in 2022 and lost to the Democrat, and predictably has lost again in the race for US Senate in 2024.
Over time she has been a Republican, an independent, a Democrat, and a Republican again.
Two House races were called overnight for the GOP, AZ-6 and CA-41, giving Republicans a 219 seat majority in the US House election with Republicans leading in an additional three races
Looks like a 222 majority is within reach, except Trump is already poaching Stefanik and Waltz, bringing the majority down to 220, at least temporarily, which is where it is at right now.
And 222 is still not guaranteed, but like a madman Trump is already counting on it. His big mouth is what usually gets him in trouble. Will his impulsiveness do it this time?
In any event, this is no red wave.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Oh God, please make it stop: Trump to poach his new US Senate majority to fill Secretary of State post with Marco Rubio
These Republican senators don't grow on trees, you know.
It's almost like Trump is a secret Democrat trying to destroy the Republican Party from within.
Trump is insane. He's lost his mind.
I swear Trump has gone completely off his rocker, now plans to poach Mike Waltz from FL-6 for his national security adviser
That would take the theoretical GOP majority back down to 220, where it is right now.
The man is nuts.
In the four days since Nov 7th, Trump's popular vote share has contracted from 50.8% to 50.3%
Update 8:29 PM:
Harris/Walz 48.1% (226) Trump/Vance 50.2% (312)
Undecided House races are proceeding at a glacial pace, but since yesterday three Republicans have each seen their vote shares contract
Ciscomani in AZ-6 from 49.2 to 49.1
Garcia in CA-27 from 49.6 to 49.1
Steel in CA-45 from 51.3 to 51.1
Republicans currently lead in 5 of the 10 undecided races. If they win all those, they'll have 222 in the House.
But of course subtract Stefanik, and you are left with 221 GOP to advance President Trump's agenda in the first 100 days when 218 are needed.
Again, this was not a Republican "sweep", "a great realignment", a MAGA movement revolution, or any of the rubbish we're hearing from the cheering section.
This is just more of the same on the House side, where the GOP majority is 220.
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