Tim Duncheon

Stock markets down badly today on the shocking revelation from Jerome Powell that tariffs might be bad for the US economy

Why California’s dangerous drivers get to keep their licenses The California DMV routinely allows deadly drivers to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found.

The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again. calmatters.org/investigatio...

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If this is the effect of walking back some of his economic program, just imagine the prosperity he could unleash if he abandoned all of it!

In a way the tone is almost as frightening as the substance. The dissent writes like it understands the stakes, and what kind of regime we're on the precipice of becoming. The majority writes like it's hearing a case about whether rollerblades can be taxed as vehicles.

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

JPM now has a US recession as their base case:

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Americans will pay $6 trillion for Trump’s tariffs—the largest tax hike in U.S. history From CNN’s Chris Isidore

Now THAT’s a headline, no notes

I mean, soon … yes?

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

mm yes more of that populism I've heard so much about

Top government officials sharing highly classified war plans in a group chat with unauthorized participants is possibly the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history.

Democrats need to treat it more like that and less like a funny thing that happened.

Housing really is a ‘decide if you want to win’ issue for the Democratic Party.

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]

CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

Utterly unacceptable

The Biden regime left us a disaster AND the fundamentals of the economy are actually quite strong: what’s not to understand!?!

it doesn't matter if the CR was bad or anywhere near good; as long as lawlessnes reigns supreme in Washington you don't vote for a single GOP bill or a single GOP nominee, why is this so fuckin' hard to understand

The word for what Senate Democrats are doing right now is "betrayal." Not only are they voluntarily surrendering the only leverage they have, the leverage they have spent months promising to use against Trump, they're doing it while lying and pretending they want the opposite.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

If Schumer votes for cloture, every Senator who doesn't immediately call for him to be replaced as Senate minority leader should be primaried.

This is absolute betrayal. This is launching a civil war in the Democratic Party that will burn it to the ground.

RETVRN.

The counter-argument is that Hickenlooper's worst-case scenario is indistinguishable from what's already happening

In 2020, Gavin Newsom dedicated the entirety of his State of the State speech to homelessness, which was to be THE priority for his administration. Five years later, to everyone’s relief, there is so little homelessness in California that the governor can devote all his attention to podcasting.

It's often said that presidents have limited power over the economy, but really it's more accurate to say that they have limited power to increase economic growth.

They have a lot more power to break things.

The president turned the south lawn of the white house into a tesla dealership and musk promised him $100 million in donations on the same day.

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically.
(www.ft.com/content/7568... )