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Scalise on CNBC: "This bond downgrade is another serious blow that shows that America needs to get its fiscal house in order. We start to do that in this bill."

NOTE: The bill is project to increase the debt by trillions of dollars, hence the pushback from the right.

Via CRFB >

WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

To make matters worse, importers are leaving inventory in China ports. Waiting for tariffs to be lowered. If they are lowered enough, there will be a crush to ship them here and transport them when they get here. That will drive transportation costs way up. = More inflation, post tariffs

RFK Jr and Statistics:

Somehow, Trump has declared that we’re under numerous national emergencies from the Southern Border Emergency to the Energy Emergency, Trade Emergency, Public Lands Emergency, and Immigration Enforcement Emergency. Yet these crises seem so “urgent” that he finds time to golf every weekend. Odd.

This is what the start of an economic collapse looks like.

#BlameTrump

You laugh, but this was him in 2018.

LMAO -- a reporter breaks news during a briefing to State Department spox Tammy Bruce that her boss Marco Rubio is the new national security adviser

"I just heard this from you," Bruce says

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...

also by “lawyers” he means stephen miller doesn’t he

🚨BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS election challenge to Proposition A, the minimum wage and sick leave bill approved by voters in November. A victory for the Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund and the voters of Missouri.

We need a concise story about all of this Gavin Kliger business.

Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.

Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

"Fascism is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope." - Timothy Snyder
👇👇👇Seems spot on.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Trump officials create uncertainty to evade court orders rather than comply Recalcitrance appears to be product of Trump White House’s maximalist interpretation of executive powers

Faced with a flurry of adverse court orders it would rather not follow, the Trump White House is increasingly deploying a strategy of claiming or even manufacturing its own uncertainty to dodge their effects without appearing to outright defy them @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

[guy who smashed a window at the capitol] “he made a mistake and was doing what he thought was right, let’s pardon him and give him back the fine he paid”
[guy who stood outside home depot] “why would we bother with a hearing before sending him to the el salvador terror prison”

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences?

A sociopath.

Hey, @StephenM, just curious: Are you gonna fire ICE official Robert Cerna when he's deposed next week and he admits that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly removed to El Salvador? Here's Cerna's sworn declaration, in case you didn't see it! Looking forward to your response!!

Just asking questions, Stephen!!!!

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Trump says ‘home-grown’ Americans are next to go to El Salvador, tells Bukele ‘gotta build about five more places’ “You gotta build about five more places,” Trump told Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, prompting laughter from administration officials.

You’re next. nypost.com/2025/04/14/u...

The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.

El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia.

It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.

The Admin is continually missing the point in the Abrego Garcia case that it has committed a constitutional violation and is obligated to remedy it. It’s not some freestanding order re foreign policy.The courts’ presumption of the Exec good faith brings a reciprocal oblig to comply w/ lawful orders.

Opinion | The Last 2 Months — and Next 2 Years — of U.S. Politics (Gift Article) Ezra Klein answers listener questions about the first two months of the second Trump term and the options Democrats and civil society have in response.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

They’re going to accidentally deport a U.S. citizen aren’t they

Nobody is saying this. They have to conjure up imaginary libs to argue with since they can’t win a debate with real ones on this issue.

The Blogs: The Insidious Antisemitism of the Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project Esther’ From the blog of Emily Kaiman at The Times of Israel

blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-insidiou...

Art of the deal!