The Third-Worlding of America How to destroy 80 years of credibility in less than 3 months

"The combination of interest rates soaring amid a slump and the currency plunging despite rising interest rates isn’t what we normally expect for advanced countries, let alone the owner of the world’s leading reserve currency. It is, however, what we often see in emerging-market economies."

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I don’t take credit for this meme, but I do co-sign.

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"So let me get this straight. President Musk and VP Trump S want immig rants to take the high-paying, highly skilled jobs while they MASS DEPORT farm workers, construction laborers, housekeepers, home health aides, janitors, and others doing the low-paying jobs NOBODY ELSE WANTS TO DO?!" - JON COOPER

Just to be clear: it looks like Turnip and Muskmelon aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. 🙄

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BREAKING NEWS:

President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Michael J. Fox and Hillary Clinton.

Who agrees they DESERVE it. 💙

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How GOP Senators Are Secretly Getting Ready to Surrender to Trump Trump wants to turn the FBI into something so draconian that the political press many not grasp it until it’s too late. And Republican senators are already giving themselves cover to go along with all...

Ominous: GOPers are now saying Trump is picking Kash Patel to "clean out" the FBI and restore its "integrity." This will be their cover to go along w/Trump's scheme to unleash FBI on enemies. Media is already credulously echoing this claim. Awful.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1894...

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Annual reminder:

Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.

Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

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THIS is how it’s done, folks.

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