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Dint use nummer 86 tho

Reading the full transcript I think it was supposed to be "not" spread democracy at the point of a gun. The next sentence talks about what it is to do. It's an unfortunate error and one that would have been corrected in the public record in the past if the president wasn't already violating the emoluments clause, sending people to foreign prisons for civil infractions without due process, violating the Impoundment Act and Article I daily, ...

The French "Let them eat brioche" as a revolutionary slogan is a lot better than the American "Let them eat tariffs".

Embedded Spy: How's it going? Asset #1: About the same. Asset #2: Yep.

Yeah, I thought the Dems should have had the vote to remove the disability in the House and had it fail just to muddy things more. But, Dems seem to worry more about voter perception than they should.

So we could have shot them all at a cost of 10 cents per rioter per taxpayer? 🤔

Leaving aside the inanity and the insanity, how do you put a tariff on a movie?

Was firing Auditor Generals on there? That's setting up for some major grift.

Firing all the federal workers only saves a couple hundred billion. The workers themselves were (are?) a bargain at only $1000 or so per American. Of course (as almost everyone here knows) the only way to balance the budget, if it were a sincere and useful goal, is to return to 20th Century taxation or have huge reductions in Medicare, Social Security and military spending.

It will be worded so bonuses for certain financial sector workers will be "tips". Just like certain salaries are considered long term capital gains.

And no empathy.

You can torture immigrants in Arizona to get a pardon, too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

Plus, by breaking the government they can restore the services people demand. Of course the restored services will be privatized, be more expensive due to profit, have higher fraud because the contracts will be structured on service delivery numbers, and pay the workers delivering the services less. It's Russia in the 90's. Hopefully, we won't get even more Germany in the 30's to go with it.

Or, perhaps worse yet, how many times had he been told already?

Signal caused the empire to kill 50 civilians to get one leader in such a way as to create great risk to our pilots and equipment? It does sound defective.

"Siri, add Mogul to chat" "Adding Goldberg to chat"

I expect "wear red for [something]" days so the cult can go out in public with their MAGA gear and only seem like assholes and not complete assholes.

Do you think Waltz has Trump in Signal using "Gold" as part of a nickname?

But, did Schumer get to his first promotional event on time?

Guy down the street who generally seems annoying (e.g. chopping down city planted tree and burning the stump for three days) has the Ukrainian flag flying.

I know the broader market seems to move 2-4% on based on 25% tariffs. But, there are probably some specific stocks that move a lot more giving a great opportunity for graft if you know the timing of the announcements.

I'm OK with the $250 bill as long as they don't repeal the relevant part of the 1866 Act of Congress.

The 880b is over 10 years, so it's just a devastating cut, not a complete elimination. Except for the 10% of people no longer covered or the medical providers reimbursed further below cost.

I'm wondering if I should treat the US Government like PayPal or some shopping rebate site and create a mostly unused checking account for payments. I'm sure some DOGEr is actually a spy, or wants to retire somewhere w/o extradition, or needs to feed their drug habits . . . I assume the payment database and personal info databases are going to be out there.

My $8 a month probably doesn't matter, but I prefer democracy to Star Trek.