T. J. Stiles

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“If I owned both hell and Texas, I would live in hell and rent out Texas.”
— General Philip Sheridan

Today’s reminder that Texas is a one-party dictatorship.

Hassett always reminds me of actor Mark Proksch, especially in his deliriously weenie role in Better Call Saul.

One of the things i am not hearing mentioned during tariff discussions is how weak the dollar has become since King Midas took the throne. The dollar has fallen approx 10% on average to other currencies.
So as an importer, you’re not only paying tariffs, but also buying with a weaker dollar.

Trump and the Federalist Society extremists on SCOTUS have shattered a century-old structure of government, replacing it with a dishonest, partisan, Constitution-violating pursuit of dictatorial power. I don’t think many appreciate what a giant task it will be to rebuild what we had. We’re in ruins.

“His own people.”

We face a generational fight to restore what we built in the face of the Gilded Age & into the Progressive Era.
• A nonpartisan, merit-based civil service
• Fully staffed, honest data collection
• Independent regulatory agencies
• Policies for the public good, not personal power

He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.

It’s kind of amazing how every single thing he says is a lie. Hassett is the living negation of integrity.

Revisions happen every month.

“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund…”We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.”

* that [not the] Eric Wittenberg has died. We regret the error.

I’m very sad to learn the Eric Wittenberg has died. An honest and thorough historian of Civil War battles, he wrote prolifically and well. I found his work eye-opening and relied on it when writing my biography of Custer. May his memory be a blessing.

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

I’ll add that Congress was aware of the argument that it was wrong to make special provisions for certain classes of people. President Andrew Johnson objected to measures to help Black people, as in his veto of the reauthorization of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Congress did it anyway. And wrote 14A too.

Trump’s policies are now actively hurting small businesses, big corporations, workers, the self-employed, the unemployed, children, the elderly, all adults, cancer victims, researchers, scientists, universities, farmers, immigrants, courts. Etc.

They’re helping Trump’s personal power. That’s all.

GOLDMAN: Friday’s jobs number “brings payroll growth closer in line with big data indicators of job gains and the broader growth dataset, both of which have slowed significantly in recent months. ..

“.. the economic data confirm our view that the US economy is growing at a below-potential pace.”

Again: In 1866, Congress wrote and passed the 14th Amendment, sending it to the states. It *also* created Black regiments in the Regular Army, to force it to take Black troops.

But the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is really big on the “living Constitution,” right?

Imagining Trump’s ideal business supporter.

“You’re CEO of Widgets Inc. What do you want from Trump’s administration?”

“Oh, what you’d expect: to greatly increase the cost of our inputs & machinery in a chaotic way that makes planning impossible. To drive our workforce out of the country, make all federal data worthless, end basic research.”

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Office of Special Counsel says it's opened Hatch Act probe of Jack Smith The U.S. Office of Special Counsel said opened an investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith and whether he violated the Hatch Act.

Boy, Biden sure abused his power with preemptive pardons.

abcnews.go.com/US/office-sp...

We lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs in July.

The whole theory of Trump’s farkakte tariff regime is to bring factories back to the U.S. But it’s doing the opposite. That’s no surprise. Trump’s less intense tariff binge in his first term caused a manufacturing recession.

It will get worse.

If you were not already convinced, the firing of the chief labor statistician proves Trump is not pro-business and has no clue about the economy. He’s a narcissistic dictator. Period.

What a hell of a news day. Capping off a hell of a news week.

“But the data show that just 10,000 new jobs were created last month.”

“Just round up to a million.”

Are you giving me the bun rush? I suppose that’s what this situation calls for.

The Congress that drafted the 14th Amendment created Black regiments in the Regular Army—not to segregate it, but to force it to take Black troops.

Look how Trump’s tariffs brought manufacturing jobs roaring back.