What’s this “we”, white man?

Unfortunately, they’ve only established that the 1974 emergency powers act is not a legal way to establish tariffs; all other tariffs established by justifying them through other means are still (potentially) legal.

The government never announces that it is becoming fascist. They announce that anti-fascists are the enemy.

I’m so happy for you that she got cleared!

I beg to differ:

There will be no punishment and no investigation after two Army military helicopters were flown by Kid Rock’s house over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. The Army had suspended the aircrew in Saturday’s incident, a U.S. official said earlier Tuesday, but Hegseth announced Tuesday evening that no suspension or punishment would be forthcoming.

Remember the last shutdown, when we had the Republicans over a barrel and almost every Democrat in the nation was like, “Finally! This is the line and we’re not backing down!” - and then Schumer backed down in return for a measly promise that Democratic issues would be ‘considered’ [completely ignored] the next month?

He’s 75, he thinks the government still works like it used to (and actually still works, lol), and we desperately need a change of leadership away from the Schumer’s and the Pelosi’s.

Retribution for what? Not immediately kowtowing to the wounded narcissist?

No. ICE was already plenty funded from last summer’s bill, which is why they’re still on the streets and in the airports. The Democrats were (supposedly) fighting for restrictions on ICE: no masks, warrants required, limits on use of force, etc. Once again, they got absolutely none of the things that they were supposedly fighting for.

The Republicans, however, get to claim they’ve “ended” the shutdown, and have also gotten pretty much everything they wanted.

It’s going to be even worse with the war with Iran. Here is a wonderful, detailed article on the various impacts the war is going to or is likely to have on various food supplies.

Aside from what everyone else’s already mentioned, there’s the whole hassle of setting up a new device - debloating, tweaking the settings, etc. Why go through the pain of adjusting to a new device when the old one works just fine?

Malone claimed on social media that [HHS] had disbanded [the vaccine advisory board] and planned to completely reconstitute it. But soon after, Malone retracted his claim, saying it was a miscommunication and that disbanding ACIP was merely one of the “options being considered.” [A] HHS spokesperson […] then released a statement to media pointing to Malone’s retraction and adding, “Unless officially announced by us, any assertions about what we are doing next is baseless speculation.” Malone [said] that Nixon’s response was what led to his departure. “After Andrew trashing me with the press, I am done with the CDC and ACIP,” Malone said in a text message Tuesday morning. “That was the last straw.”

Sounds like he thought he could say anything and that it would magically happen, and he didn’t like being called out on his bullshit.

“Suffice to say I do not like drama, and have better things to do,” he added. […] “Hundreds of hours of uncompensated labor, incredible hate from many quarters, hostile press, internal bickering, weaponized leaking, sabotage—I have better things to do,” he said.

I’m delighted that he should go off and pursue these “better things”, lol.

Nowhere near as infuriating as when they finally speak up … after they’ve left office :(

You seem to be incapable of understanding how organizations work, and I don’t have time for that kind of determined idiocy or trolling. Blocked.

I particularly liked the underlying assumption throughout the article that Trump absolutely has to have Iran capitulate and therefore the only thing they can do is to continue to escalate. That “declare victory and leave” isn’t something they’ve even considered.

He’s only retiring because he’s hit mandatory retirement age.

He already tried to declare it’s over. I think he was a bit shocked that reality isn’t listening to him.

The way they pushed through the “renovation” (aka destruction) plans was by secretly voting beforehand that anyone who was non-Trumpian wasn’t allowed to vote (that’s why they were all muted on the call). I fully expect this to go a similar way: she’ll get access to the plans, but not be allowed to vote. Or perhaps she’ll be the only non-Trumpian allowed to vote.

I’d rather the Chinese still owned TikTok than a bunch of corrupt Techbro billionaires who have already admitted they want America entirely owned by themselves and their friends and the rest of us as slaves - if that. All the forced sale of TikTok stuff was to give them another tool to pacify and brainwash the masses while they consolidate their control.

Trump may be unable to end the war he started with Iran, even if he wanted to

Yeah, we know. It’s one of the (many) reasons we didn’t want this.

Microsoft, Google, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia, and Oracle’s offices and cloud infrastructure in Israel and some Gulf countries as the new targets.