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Perfectly sensible, coming from the worst cabinet in history.
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Yeah, yeah, you don't have to tell me ... Lutnick is indeed a cabinet secretary. He's so bad he deserves mention twice. 😀
The worst cabinet ever? Yes indeed! There's no real comparison.
Waldman goes beyond just the cabinet to include stars like Miller, Vought and Lutnick.
He leaves out heavyweight bootlickers like Hassett (may he rot in professional hell forevermore) and Bessent.
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Oh gawwwd, pun of the day award. 😜
You know, any reasonable person would have taken precautions to prevent mining. You know, stuff like having small craft of your own and well armed helicopters sweeping the straits clean of Iranian speedboats.
A sizable fraction of medical "research" offers simple correlations from retrospective data. Authors sometimes suggest that a causal process may be at work which they cannot test with their data/method. The reputable ones never push policy from mere correlations.
Reporters on the other hand ...
I will be voting today!
New twist on "boot licker ..."
Anyone who demands a "list of Jews" while pretending to fight anti-semitism should be shunned.
Pretext is now the Republican party's middle name.
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The Trump administration needs to investigate this immediately! 😉
I'm thinking "Yeah, quite possibly." And the case for doing so is a lot stronger than Hegseth's claim that Anthopic, with its Constitution, is worthy of a corporate death sentence for not kowtowing to him.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/o...
No, you can't. That's untouchable!
Anything that combines Mocha Latte and Edmund Burke is designed for about .02% of the population to read. 😁
Markwayne Mullin wins the "Tuberville Award" for the dumbest thing a politician has said this week.
The award often goes to its namesake, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R, AL), who has very few IQ points. Then again, Mullin's cognitive powers are equally ... awesome.
Markwayne Mullin wins the "Tuberville Award" for the dumbest thing a politician has said this week.
The award often goes to its namesake, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R, AL), who has very few IQ points. Then again, Mullin's cognitive powers are equally ... awesome.
In poker lingo, I "see you" and raise you one. Sandia as seen from Santa Fe. This is the view from my place. The Cerrillos Hills are a dark smudge below Sandia, and a few twinkling liggts of the city are visible.
Republicans only seem to recover their intelligence and their soul after they decide to step away from politics.
This “acknowledging reality” only seems to happen to Republicans after they decide to leave office.
I can't tell you how much I despise Scott Bessent, Kevin Hassett, and all the other functionaries who prop up this completely immoral American "regime."
What a wonderful side benefit to Trump. He gets to hand billions to Putin's war machine, pretending to help US consumers deal with the price shock his attack on Iran has caused.
All the while averting his gaze from Russian actions that help Iran target the US military.
Got it.
What a wonderful side benefit to Trump. He gets to hand billions to Putin's war machine, pretending to help US consumers deal with the price shock his attack on Iran has caused.
All the while averting his gaze from Russian actions that help Iran target the US military.
Got it.
It boggles my mind that 4 in 10 American's approve of this man's tenure as POTUS.
One word: Kompromat (компромат).
Depends on what you mean by "good." 😏
Not good for people who lose jobs or who cannot find one that keeps them financially stable.
Potentially very good for the likelihood of a political earthquake next November.
2/ accomplishment with his tax cuts and wars that ballooned the deficit again and set us on the path we're now following.
In the late 1990s the Clinton administration established a balanced budget with projected surpluses so large that people actually worried that the 10-year T-Bill would be eliminated, depriving the world's financial system of one of its most important reserve assets. Then Bush wiped out that
Time for Ukraine to take down Moscow’s grid. I suspect they have the drone and cruise missile capacity to do so.
12. setting. If any of them see this, they'll smile.
He passed away in 1997 from complications of pneumonia and lungs that were ruined by the army in North Africa.
A very different life from mine. I was privileged with stability. He was raised in poverty and instability.
I miss him.
11/ He then took a job teaching theater at Coral Gables high school. He built an amazing theater program over a quarter of a century, at a school that was generally regarded as one of the best public high schools in the nation. He taught generations of students college level skills in a high school
10/ He married my mom in 1954. Her Irish Catholic parents disowned her for marrying a Jew, and a poor one at that! They arranged their own wedding a few blocks from her parents house (Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables). Reconciliation occurred when I was born two years later. Sort of.
9/ Once home (photo), he somehow managed to finish high school with a GED. In 1950 he took advantage of the GI bill to go to college. He wanted warm, so the University of Miami beckoned. He studied English and spent lots of time in the Ring Theater learning the craft of acting and directing.