penguins18.bsky.social
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Arson and murder are state crimes, not federal. Trump cannot pardon him.
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I preferred when they kept saying they would have a new healthcare proposal in a few weeks, and never did.
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He really thinks that all Medicaid recipients are minority inner city welfare queens. He has no idea that many if not most are rural MAGA's.
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Slippery slopes are not fait accompli's. Liberals are FAR too willing to just assume we will fall all the way down if we take one step.
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I'll bet anything if a bunch of Dem Senators and Reps went down to San Salvador and camped out demanding a meeting, the "agreement" with Trump will evaporate. Bukele HAS to know he's in massive doo doo when Dems next have a majority in Congress, which is probably in 18 months.
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Why? He's been 100% consistent on that. Cotton's got a lot of awful opinions from my perspective but he doesn't sway with the wind.
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Magic 8-ball says: "Wouldn't you like to know?"
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He did not. The SC declared presidents immune from criminal prosecution for official acts. None of this relates to any criminal prosecution.
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Trump could get any prisoner out of that Salvadoran gulag with one phone call. Hell, one order to the SoS. He is choosing not to, because I guess he can't bare to admit a mistake.
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I know you're being snarky, but it takes year and years to open a productive mine.
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Flipping back and forward between telephoto and wide angle is the oldest rhetorical trick in the book. And it works because it's possible to argue both at once.
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The “senior Wall State” guy is the one confused. So hard to admit that you got it wrong, especially for these Masters of the Universe types. But Trump I’m sure told Lutnick that. He’s operating on half wattage, wants only to destroy and is on no one’s side.
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You couldn’t write a more perfectly narcissistic statement than that if you had 10 AI apps working 24/7 on it.
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“Exciting” technically can mean a lot of different things.
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It’s a really good point. The reporting we’ve seen (which could be wrong) about the contents of some of these “agreements” suggests they’re honestly pretty nothing-burgerish.
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His name apparently is John Barron.
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There is nothing in this agreement. The pro bono causes have to be things both parties agree to. This is a complete nothingburger.
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Probably. I get why the party did the switch, but many of us knew how poor a candidate she would be from her history (though a fantastic public servant).
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Or maybe she was really bad at convincing people. Maybe? Or are we still prohibited from saying that out loud? Also the people who didn’t show up for her weren’t “serious bizguys,” but young leftish types.
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Eh. I think she stunk from day one, when she took three weeks off to formulate her message, by which time her brand was set in concrete by GOP adjacent accounts. I know people of color, hard core Democrats, who to this day refer to her as the “DEI candidate.”
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They can own them, but not trade. They must put their portfolios in blind trusts. Super easy.
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Actually I’m gonna disagree on that. It absolutely can. Not legitimately, but yeah, certain types of racism research can cause people otherwise inclined in that direction to become more explicit racists. I think most such researchers would agree, too.
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Gonna be a rough ride. He’s up against the sitting AG, who has been traveling the state for six years and is super popular.
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Actually, none are.
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Xi knows him so well and it’s almost too easy.
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You can’t compare her quality as a candidate to Trump’s. His voters expect different things. No, her campaign was a mistake-fest designed by a committee of DC swamp creatures (which she allowed). I STILL don’t know who the fuck she is and what her core beliefs are.
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They have the most popular policies, but consistently terrible candidates.
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At what point does our liberal membership card allow is to admit that Kamala Harris was a terrible candidate?
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I strongly disagree. The vast percentage of law firms (and their lawyers) are not "caving to Trump's demands." This chicken little stuff is not helpful.
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As someone who knows a fair bit about the 1944 Treaty, this is utter bullshit.
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Everything Trump touches dies. Episode number a billion.
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Dunno whom you talk to, but I know many academics and lawyers who are prominent names around here (Colorado) and they're pissed, speaking out, and not fearful at all. Maybe it's NYC and DC dude.
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In case anyone is wondering about that "European" outbreak, here's the reality: 90% of cases were concentrated in Romania, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, where MMR vaccination coverage is low.
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Depends … on what he thinks he’s doing, I guess?
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Whoa ... what rocket scientist advisor suggested that? Yikes. And anyway, Gavin Newsom has that lane covered. You ain't getting past him.
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Also the UAW supports the tariffs and I assume she's quite close to them. Still, while she has never really made any moves to run nationally, if she has such ambitions she can't think that way.
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All tariffs are taxes, correct. But not all taxes are tariffs. And it's an academic point for sure, but the tea taxes and such George levied on the colonies were not tariffs strictly speaking. Doesn't matter.
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First honest thing Bessent or Lutnick or any of them have said. Some will last longer than others, but as any caregiver can tell you, covering up for someone in angry cognitive decline is absolutely exhausting.
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Technically those were taxes weren't they? Colonists were British subjects.
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Wait is this a thing in conservative fever swamps? My dishwasher works great.
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I assume the default to be "don't pay it and see if there's anyone still employed who knows what the rate is."
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That's a given.
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Ah. Did not know that.
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Did it occur to you that you are the only person who thinks so? You're just wrong, lol.
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Oh wait I get it. By calling it a signing bonus the Blue Jays are taking all that liability on themselves. This makes him extremely tradeable in a few years.
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Yeah I gotta say I don't understand the advantage of calling it a signing bonus. Doesn't change anything about lux tax or cash flow in any year, and doesn't upfront any money. It IS just salary. What am I missing?
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Normally not something a President of the United States spends a lot of time worrying about.
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Paul is nothing if not consistent, unlike most of the rest of these clowns.
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Nope. The ball is in play and right there. The fielders have a right to field the ball, which has priority over the runners' path.