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Trump didn't enact tariffs for the reasons you typically would hear for enacting them. 84 is right, Trump is an idiot. He did it because he's under the misguided perception that having a trade deficit means you're losing so he was solely trying to change the trade deficit numbers

technically he takes advantage of everyone and everything, the government happens to fit in those categories.

Biden is replacing John Kerry with John Podesta for this Climate envoy position. Trolling QAnon.

I did feel like a lot of it was the senators trying to shame or embarrass the companies into supporting their bills. I guess where I kinda lose it is..... yall are the senate, pass the **** if you want. personally I don't understand why these people who are obviously not supportive matter. One of them even said if it was law they'll comply.

Fair statements on ol' Lindsey, I'm definitely no defender. He was good in this hearing thought. I don't think I've heard any mention of Elon Musk at all yet but I have been multitasking.

There's a hearing on C-SPAN radio right now I'm listening to in the senate regarding child exploitation on social media with CEOs from major companies..... credit where credit is due..... Lindsey Graham is slaying these d bags

the guitar solo in strangle hold sucks

Personally I'm really looking forward to Jack Poso's Ted Nugent Eras (Errors?) tour. My 2 favorite eras for uncle ted are crapping his pants to avoid vietnam and also drinking his own urine in preparation for Y2k all that said Fred Bear is actually a pretty good tune

I learned a lot about Thomas Jefferson by listening to a free series on Audible "Greatest Courses" or something like that about the Greatest Presidents and it was by Alan Lichtman https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-presidents IDK it Audible still has it free but I think Oblong would love that series, it was really great

Statues aren't supposed to teach history. They're supposed to display reverence to a figure or object that may not even be historical. If the figure or object is no longer revered there's no need to continue revering it

if we're looking to literal statues for history education we got bigger issues my daughter has been learning history from books and teachers and they seem to have a lot more awareness than statues

Lot of rumors about Harbaugh potentially hiring Kapernick as a coach now that he's the Chargers coach. That'll be an awesome something.

I think the constitution has qualifications for being president, not for running for president. My uniformed opinion is she's eligible.

She is definitely turning up the attacks on him. Good stuff. We'll see what the greatest and best counter puncher anybody has ever seen does in response

The court that granted itself the power to overturn laws is going to grant itself the power to be the administrative state. Some folks here think that's hilarious

As always consider the source... Trump’s White House Pharmacy Handed Out Drugs Like Candy: Report https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-house-pharmacy-prescription-drugs-1234953535/

More on the Chevron deference https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1750275148303753359?s=20

Morrisey has a terrible voice, a terrible band, and is a terrible dude. Cheers to Marr. His signature guitars are cool too.

This is bad. He literally says Tiny D won't be investigated b/c he dropped out.

Yep, I've definitely heard that analysis as well, and think it's true. I think his ridiculousness gets memory-holed when he's out of public eye. Another also related to what you're saying.... polling shows that among people who think they're both old doddering idiots, Biden wins those folks. So its def advantageous for anyone to help portray trump as having a bunch of sr moments. It's also good just from a typical primary of an incumbent standpoint, as he's effectively incumbent as you mentioned I'm just not super sure she's in a better position to do that now than she was 4 hours ago. I think she's not.

Sadly I'm on the other side of this one. I'm not sure this is enough of a performance to propel Haley forward in a stronger way. I'm down with her staying in the race and creating ad content for Democrats on Trump though for a few more months, esp ones about how the dude is losing it and is also a loser

She won't have to, there's no way he'd select her now.

Haley actually taking some legit swipes at slump in this speech. People in her crowd yelling that Trump wears depends and is a loser. Among other swipes Haley said he has Sr moments and explicitly called out him blaming her for J6 security.

Swift is an infinitely better business leader than Trump and that's one of his supposed qualifications for the job.