I had no idea Cheney was still alive, until I heard that he’d died. I’m glad I didn’t have to think about him and his dark soul at all for the last decade or so of his life.

Not true everywhere— my kids’ high school lets anyone play any JV sport even if they have never played before—- tennis, lacrosse, football, soccer etc. The only exception is boys basketball because they have a very limited number of player spots.

A do-nothing congress is actually best case scenario in my opinion.

Pathetic!!

That worked out well for Ross Perot.

Well he doesn’t know how to drive so he’s probably forgotten it’s there.

He has stock that can potentially be worth 200 billion if he sells it; but if he sells too much the price plummets. And he’s very leveraged with loans also, because he never wants to sell stock (and pay taxes) to have the cash to buy his next project.

He’s not taking a more liberal position though- he’s calling for more austerity not higher taxes on billionaires.

Right, this is going to increase our trade deficit as people find other sources for American exports!

Doesn’t lowering the rate increase inflation?

I’m not sure DJT is capable of feeling embarrassment! He seems utterly shameless.

But DJT is sitting at the president’s desk, and impeachment isn’t happening, so EM is not in a position of strength no matter what intel he has.

By saying it doesn’t DOGE enough, it is urging more austerity. Except when it comes to subsidies for Elon— he’s ok with those.

It’s not a gift— he’s among those saying we need to cut everything that makes the government work for the people and only keep what makes it work for the leader and Elon. It’s not a helpful message.

I’m reading Good Dirt right now and despite not having a driving plot it’s hard to put down. I think I’d describe it as a coming of age book but with that key developmental moment delayed about a decade or more from the usual teenaged point.

NY Times is about as mainstream as it gets.

I thought we cared about being mean to Jewish people this week? Doesn’t that rule out the Nazi symbols?

His post basically says he fixed a problem he created and now we are back where he THINKS we started (in “China selling us things is very unfair to us” land)

This is such a small monetary claim— a lot to him but lawyers won’t take cases worth less than what their fees to handle the case would be. But a lawyer might take it if the author could collect enough authors unpaid by the same publisher.

No MAGA is going to read a post that long.

Every once in a while he randomly says fentynal, completely out of context, because he remembers that was what supposedly justified him grabbing tariff power from Congress. It’s almost comical.

Well if his hat says it, it must be true.

Nothing has been overturned.

The admin could have chosen not to appeal or not to request a stay— but they love the whiplash.

I think most tariffs are currently on hold anyway due to TACO.

I think the goal is to avoid the courts adding to the tariff uncertainty while briefing is completed. I agree that it’s sensible.

That’s ok because readers of those publications will not forget, and the MAGA will be big mad that he’s disagreeing with their leader, and foreign countries will no longer try to suck up to Trump by contracting with Elon for internet, and his businesses will continue to decline.

Seems like maybe Taco doesn’t understand how contracts work?

TACO

Perfectly timed to head off the post TACO reveal tariff tantrum.