notthecoolest.bsky.social
Dad. Engineer. Lifter. Reader. Part-time fanatic.
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All the officials are positioning themselves to take credit or to save face while all the people living in the target zones just want the bombs to stop falling on them.
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GOP POTUS in 2000: massive tax cut for the wealthy, war in the Middle East
GOP POTUS in 2025: massive tax cut for the wealthy, war in the Middle East
The party might have 180ed on a lot of policies over the last generation, but they stay true to their core values.
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I mean, it sucks and I hope no one actually gets hurt, but we just bombed a sovereign nation that posed no real immediate threat to us. It's an completely foreseeable, expected reaction.
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Good luck with that. NRC is a statutory agency and legally the only entity that can approve/regulate non-government nuclear facilities.
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I think 3 members are required for a quorum. With Wright's tenure ending, that would backfire if they can't get two nominees through.
Although, they're bad at thinking ahead. I'd be entertained if they fire the democrats, can't get nominees through, and their nuclear agenda is dead in the water.
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So Elon is cool making peace with a dude he claims is a pedo that used to get his rocks of with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker?
Am I getting that right?
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This is also him openly admitting he actively protects a brutal, dictatorial regime from consequences.
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At least it's consistent. All of their complaining about trade is always about goods and never services--the US has a trade surplus in services with virtually every country.
We're the world's top exporter of services. It's not close. But services aren't "real" and don't count to them, apparently.
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I wish they'd all just hurry up and get impoundment over to SCOTUS.
Congress allocated the funds. Under the law, POTUS has no right to refuse or slow-walk using them for their allocated purpose.
SCOTUS needs to either confirm the Impoundment Act or show their belly to the Unitary Executive again.
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Good job, Canada. At least the *whole* world doesn't suck.
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Not that they care, but lots of the folks they're targeting haven't even committed an actual crime at all.
Improper entry (like sneaking across the border) is a crime. But just being here improperly (like overstaying a visa) is only a civil offense, not a criminal one.
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The D-Student Coup
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So unnerved, she will make very unhappy faces while voting in favor of anything the Administration needs her to and doing literally nothing to stop any of it.
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In court filings, the DOJ admits his deportation was a mistake and inappropriate.
But, apparently, the US is powerless to do anything to correct that mistake because it's up against the overwhelming, sovereign might of El Salvador (who they're paying to keep him).
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Aside from whatever she's paid (both officially and via "perks" of being a Senator): It's literally her job.
The very reason she's elected is to do the right thing. She should be deeply ashamed of the fact that she's part of the very party that she admits makes her scared to do so.
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Incidentally, he keeps saying the economy is wonderful right now. Prices are down, jobs are available, etc.
All of that would be more reason *not* to cut rates from the Fed's perspective if it were actually true.
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Our top ranking health official has a wildly, wildly incorrect understanding of the very condition he's pledged to address.
This will surely work out fine.
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He's got ICE going around detaining and deporting legal residents for what they put on social media or in college newspapers.
But I guess it's okay when the government he's a part of does it?
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Hopefully the Senator brings Mr. Garcia home, but I'm also worried about the Senator making it home.
They could just as easily toss the Senator in jail as they could release Garcia.
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How do these guys manage to look at themselves in the mirror every morning before work?
"Yeah, totally nonviolent guy actually following the law--but I needlessly smashed his window to drag him out of his car. You know, just doing good honest work."
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Hopefully he comes back.
And, to be clear, by "he" I'm talking about the Senator. We're already at the "disappear innocent people" stage. That's not far from "disappear political opponents" part of authoritarianism.
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It'd be funny if him and a coalition of mostly democrats managed to get that passed.
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The Admin also openly admitted the steep rise in yields due to the ongoing bond selloff is why they reversed their tariff stance.
Which is basically screaming at China "hey! here's how to bully us and win this trade war" since they're sitting on a mountain of US bonds they can sell.
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*Market recovers ~half it's losses after Trump does a 180 and suspends the policy he said was going to be amazing after less than a week.*
"See! He knows what he's doing!"
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Such a wonderful, effective policy that it was rolled back in less than a week.
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Okay, but they'll just be kicked out again on some other pretense because nothing matters anymore and everything is awful.
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Coal mining in the US employed about 43,000 people total in 2023.
Arby's, the C-tier fast food chain, employed around 80,000 in 2023.
I always think that's fun context to know when politicians are bending over backward talking about protecting the coal industry.
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More people need to understand that.
If the government can deport non-citizens with no due process, they can deport citizens with no due process. They just have to declare you're not a citizen first, and you have no way to fight it because you'll be denied due process.
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So why did you help them pass the CR that made it easier for him to do it?
New leadership, please. I'm begging you.
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SPY now has a negative 1-yr return because the dumbest people in the country rallied around the dumbest person to ever run for office.
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Thank you for having principles instead of being a spineless coward.
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In context, this is the dumbest decision a President has ever made. Hoover couldn't understand the impact of big tariffs our transitioning economy. For Adams it wasn't clear that they would really backfire. For Trump, everyone who just took Econ 101 could have told him this was going to happen.
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Worst since 2020? Who was President then? Fuck that guys too!
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We'd be so much better off if they read some of the books they keep trying to ban.
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C'mon, some of us need a vacation there as a break from living in this nightmare.
Those of us lucky enough to get vacation days, that is.
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Notable that their concern about markets tumbling is Wall Street's feelings and not people's retirement.
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Their excuse is that we do almost no trade with Russia because of sanctions. So there's no point in putting a tariff on them.
Which is absolute BS, because we have a trade *surplus* with Australia and they're still getting tariffed.
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Listen, I know things are looking bad for everyone's investments and the economy and global stability and American democracy and all that, but those ~12 trans athletes can't compete in D-1 sports anymore and you just can't put a price on that.
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The party who always claims taxes are too high and tax cuts are great are celebrating the biggest peacetime tax hike in US history.
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I genuinely hope they ignore the tit-for-tat tariffs completely and just outright ban trade with the US until sanity comes back to our government.
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"It's time for Americans to stop being researchers or software engineers or artists and get back to working in factories!" That's the argument he's making.
We don't do lot of manufacturing anymore because we're in a good enough position that we don't have to. That upsets the GOP greatly.
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Wait, did someone catch, are these total or on top of existing ones?
Because that would bring the total on some Chinese imports to like 60%.
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If they can send alleged illegal or otherwise criminal immigrants to the gulag with no due process, that means they can send *anyone* without due process.
They just have to claim you're here illegally first. Without due process, no one has any reliable way to contest that claim.
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Make him minority leader. He's done more in a day that the current leader has done all year.
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Fitting that Thurmond's record that was set trying to stop civil rights, and it was broken by a black man trying to protect American liberty as we know it.