Yep, he knows the GOP is going to vote for it in the House, so he's pretending he's telling them to do it. There'll be a play to stop it passing the Senate, and if that fails he'll refuse to sign, claiming there's now "ongoing investigations".

Question is whether the base will pretend to believe it

Even if the Walmart product wasn't a much smaller item than previously, and it really was 25% less for the same product, it would still be completely ridiculous to try and argue a single product should be the measure of inflation, and not the actual CPI measure.

Hassett is such a shameless clown.

He's lying. People who process the data being furloughed doesn't make the data disappear. The number is bad so they are making up lies to avoid reporting it.

They'll do the electorally safe thing and vote to release the files, with a plan that it'll never go to a vote in senate, or if it does then a handful of senators up for election in 2026 will be allowed to vote for it, knowing it won't reach 60 votes.

Incredible work from the president, collecting another $1 trillion from tariffs in less than 10 hours

But it really doesn't help to shout there are crocodiles outside, because when people look and see wolves they're not going to look to you for solutions. And it really doesn't help to get upset at people telling you they're wolves and talking about how to deal with wolves, not crocodiles.

With the Democratic nomination, in a +15 environment, he managed to beat a sex predator/granny killer who ran as "not Mamdani" by 10pts. He proved the support for Dem Socialism is not there yet.

He has a great opportunity to win that, and I hope he takes it. But pretending its there now is wrong.

Yep. Agreed entirely.

No, I am being honest about the real state of support for progressive politics, because recognising where it is at gives it it's best chance to succeed.

Cuomo, a sex pest and granny killer, running as an independent and getting 40% of the vote just to oppose Mamdani should tell you something.

Cuomo ran as an independent, and a large share of his vote was people willing to vote for him, a granny killing sex predator, to try and stop Mamdani.

Claiming that represents a huge win for progressive politics is wildly dishonest.

I've said repeatedly that I support Mamdani and want him to succeed. But I am honest about where support for him and his policy set is right now.

You, as we've seen, have absolutely no interest in that basic level of honesty.

I'm not sure if you're arguing out of pure bad faith, or you're genuinely ignorant about politics, but either way you have to stop.

Yes, wins are measured against how well that party typically does in that electorate. It's so weird you're trying to argue against that.

You're being silly. You can't claim it was a massive victory, then start making up excuses for why it was nowhere near as big a win as Democrats normally win by in NY. He won by 30pts less than freaking Eric Adams won by.

Not even slightly. It's NY and he ran on the Democratic ticket, anything less than a 30pt win is bad, and in this cycle a Democrat should look to win by 40-50. "But the Post was mean" is no excuse.

I like Mamdani, but pretending he's began some great left wing shift is deluding ourselves.

Yep. Eric Adams won by 40pts, and DeBlasio won by around the same amount twice. Mamdani winning by 10pts, when he ran against a serial sex offender/granny killer, is just not evidence of a huge left wing surge. But the media does have to write stories.

This is a weird take. Mamdani ran on the Democratic ticket and won by 9pts, beating a serial sex offender and granny killer. Eric Adams won by 40pts despite no-one liking him

Meanwhile candidates closer to the centre won in New Jersey & Virginia by double digits. The idea of leftwing surge is wrong

If an elected representative were just playing up to the MAGA crowd, or were legitimately mentally unwell, how could we tell the difference?

"But I was a good and loyal fascist, how is this happening to me?" asked every single asshole that never read a history book.

"get their ass" is neo-liberalism

If anyone is wondering how brain rotted on-line leftism has become, here's a guy claiming a lady on a fictional show trying to her role at a Parks dept is a neo-liberal shill.

Nancy Mace has been loathsome for a long time, but its really striking how her decision to fall in to line with MAGA has resulted in her becoming completely insane.

Last Saturday my little community raised $10,000 for Feeding America, which they turn into 100,000 meals. I run a meme account and have done more for the hungry in this country than the president, who is intentionally starving women and children for no reason.

Georgia is not a blue state. Georgia hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide constitutional office since 2006. Yesterday Democrats won 2 positions, each by 20pt landslides.

I am genuinely not sure how much Mike Johnson actually believes his desperate cope, or if he is just lying.

Yeah, its bordering on silly, to be honest. I think what's happened is the tech guys have gotten really excited about the technology of self driving cars, and they've gone looking for a use case while shutting the finance guys out of the room.

The medium term plan is to recoup billions in R&D by no longer having to pay cab drivers.

The long term plan is stop selling cars and receive cash up front, and instead build vast fleets that trickle in operating revenue, because auto manufacturers have long craved the joys of fleet management.

"our voters are happy and that's why they're not turning out to vote for us" is an extraordinarily silly argument.

The Maine Voter ID ballot isn't just losing, its losing by 20pts. Woefully unpopular.

Funny how the Democrats can only rig elections when Trump is president.

The Dems haven't just won elections, some of the margins of victory are really powerful signs for 2026 & 2028. Last New Jersey Governor race Dems held on by 3pts, tonight they won by 15pts. Last Virginia governor race Dems lost by 2pts, tonight they won by 13pts.

There's two realities about Mamdani that a lot of people are trying very hard to ignore;
1) he's beating a serial sex pest with a record of killing people's grandparents
2) lots of exciting campaigns produced often good but always entirely unexciting, complex terms in office