No, it’s not. “Austerity” implies that everyone does without. It’s not that at all, it’s simply vindictive. They want to subject people they hate to “austerity”, while carving out exceptions for their friends (who they think deserve it more, anyway).
Trump floats
I was gonna post that that was doubtful, but then I Did My Own Research and discovered that morbidly obese people have an easier time floating
Aren’t they losing a ton of money, though?
surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage
Oh, my sweet summer child.
“They” didn’t invest trillions of their own money in it. They invested a few million, built up some hype, and got other people to invest more, so now their millions are billions. And they are smart enough to sell before it all collapses.
They make their billions even though it’s garbage. Heck, they make billions because they know it’s garbage before everyone else does.
The thing with laws is that Congress can always change them by passing another law…
… but from what I’ve read, the current text of Joe Wilson’s bill carves out an exception for “living and former Presidents”. So, if this passes, we may get our Obama $420 bill someday…
Here’s a link to a news station not run by a fascist enabler
https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/trump-250-bill-proposal-sparks-backlash/
The reported push by Trump administration officials comes despite the 1866 Thayer Amendment, which makes it illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official U.S. currency, bonds or other financial notes. Additionally, current law limits U.S. currency to specific denominations and a $250 bill is not on that list.
No, they definitely would sit on the appointment if it’s someone dumb.
They might take what they think is the “middle ground” and let a “compromise candidate” through. But I hope they remember that Merrick Garland was the “compromise candidate”, and Mitch and Lindsey still shit all over that pick.
The way I look at it, it’s a shared resource. You are just as “entitled” to the space as the person behind you.
If I need the space, I will try and use it. But, I will move back slowly, and stop if I meet any resistance. There is nothing worse than having someone slam their seat back into your laptop (or worse, onto your knees…)
If Democrats win control of the House, then it will happen earlier, because once the VP becomes President, the VP position becomes vacant, and can only be filled if both houses of Congress approve. And Democrats would likely use the “McConnell doctrine” to sit on any appointment made by President Vance and not act on it.
That would effectively give Democrats an extra half vote in the Senate, because there would be no VP to break ties. And the next Democratic House Speaker would be next in line if, somehow, President Vance also leaves office.
So, once the returns are in (with good news for Democrats), if the plan was to shove Trump to the side it will happen before the new House takes over, while Republicans can still pick a new VP.
You might have realized this already, but if you didn’t, this posted eleventy gazillion times
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
THE DAILY SLOP (AS I LIKE TO CALL IT) IS TOTALLY WRONG ON THIS, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM SHITHOLE CUNTRIES WANT TO COME HERE, SO MANY THAT WE CANT KEEP THEM ALL OUT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER…
I think people are missing a main point here. There is nothing wrong with IPv4, it works. It just can’t scale globally anymore, it doesn’t have enough space.
If you are running a worldwide network with millions of nodes, IPv6 is essential. But for things that are smaller than that, it becomes less essential. But what’s the best metric for adoption, how many small offices or home labs adopt it? Or how many large, worldwide networks?
Not necessarily, I think the courts were already making noise about the original thing:
The settlement is also expected to stave off a concern raised by the judge overseeing his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, who has ordered Trump and the DOJ to justify by next week why the case should be able to proceed. In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams questioned whether Trump and the defendants – the Treasury Department and IRS – are “sufficiently adverse” for the case to proceed.
“Moreover, although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. Indeed, President Trump’s own remarks about this matter acknowledge the unique dynamic of this litigation,” she wrote.
I think the judge might have been about to start the process to throw it all out, which is why Trump (and his Justice Dept cronies) came up with this “settlement” idea
The silver lining here is that even Donald Trump has his limits. He seems to acknowledge that ordering the Treasury to pay him $10B directly might go too far. Or “sort of looks bad”, as he put it.
Of course, forming a commission to hand out 1.7B to his friends is just as bad. The Courts will probably strike that down, too, and he will whine about it.
If the Democratic brand is so toxic that candidates in certain states are better off running without it, that sounds like a problem with the party itself.
I wonder if that’s the real reason why that “2024 autopsy” is not getting released: it shows that the Democrats are toxic to most average voters. (And not because they are “not progressive enough…”)
John Fetterman is a US Senator from Pennsylvania. He was already one of the more conservative Democrats, but he had a stroke during his Senate campaign, and when he got better he took a sharp right turn.
At this point, whenever there is a vote where all the Democratic Senators except one vote in a bloc, that one lone holdout is often Fetterman.
Why couldn’t the Democrats actually put Don Osborne on their primary ballot, then? Or even “None of the Above”?
It seems silly to have to recruit someone to run, just to win an election and immediately quit.
fettermaned
Haha
No, if you call it “austerity” you are at least trying to hide it behind a veneer of self sacrifice. These folks aren’t even doing that anymore.