But the GOP is seemingly under the complete control of Trump and Musk and the ideologues behind them and GOP members in Congress seem fine with not asserting any authority to get back their perogative.
They could have removed in 2021 and 2022. This is when they controlled all three branches of the government.
At the time, they were dealing with the COVID vaccine roll out and getting life back to normal (COVID restrictions did not fully end until mid or end 2022), Inflation, and the Afghan withdrawal.
Pardon political capital and resource allocation for being real things.
A lot of Americans don't understand the difference between weak political parties and strong political parties.
In the US, both political parties are weak and it is probably more accurate to state that there are 50 if not 100s of Democratic and Republican Parties joining together for one. All that it takes to register as a Democrat and Republican in the U.S. is checking a box when you register to vote.
A lot of Parliamentary countries have strong political parties especially ones where the upper house is more ceremonial than not have strong and centrally organized political parties. You have to be a dues paying member to join and participate in the conferences. There are no primaries, the parties state "Riding X, Ms. Jones is your candidate for the Labour Party." And the parties have a lot more power to punish wayward members who don't tow the line.
Instead we get half-baked conspiracies theories on the evil DNC controlling everything and preventing the true voice of the people from being heard.
BS, if the DNC was strong, AOC would not be in Congress or her path to Congress would have involved a lot more ladders
Tell me you haven't heard of softpower without telling me you haven't heard of softpower.
PEPFAR is an unalloyed good and one of the few (maybe the only) good thing to come from Bush II's admin. The cost of doing it is cheap for a country our size.
Finding the baseball card signed by Jackie Robinson was a chef's kiss. The wine store is still active though I don't know if it is in the control of her family.
On the one hand, here is a charming story about a woman able to raise her daughter in an apartment that she was raised in: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/realestate/renters-childhood-apartment.html
On the other hand, this story is an epic policy failure because it is about a not poor woman (she went to boarding school and is at least shabby chic upper-middle class) who can live a quirky, subsidized bohemian life because of a rent stabilization law.
Now if only the press would call this out as Trump huffing and puffing and getting nothing but that would go against the Team America vibe so they won't
Mexico apparently has 14,591 troops at the border and the deal with Trump is that they would have 10K troops at the border. Not 10K more but 10K so Trump agreed to let Mexico reduce its border guards
“I just had a good call with President Trump,” Trudeau said in a social media post. He said Canada would push ahead with its 1 billion Canadian dollar, or about $6.89 billion, border reinforcement plan and deploy additional technology and staff, all of which had been announced previously.
Trudeau said Canada would also appoint a “fentanyl czar” and would: “list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering.”
FWIW, I think Musk is angry at USAID because they took stances against Apartheid. They were not perfect but they did a lot of good stuff too and there very well be a huge crisis in Africa because USAID was supplying food and medical supplies in places like Sudan.
Or Trump caved because of a 500 point drop in the market.
It basically looks like a kick the can down the road kind of agreement where both sides say they are doing something but it is really the status quo which will remain. Border migration from Mexico was down before Trump was elected again.
Harris won 75 million plus votes and Democrats increased their house seats. You and Jaybird are treating this like a 1972 plus 1994 defeat and there are only 180 or so Democrats in the House and less than 45 of the in the Senate.
In the meantime, guess who is whispering to Trump about South Africa: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4e61eff1e920d5a836ca4d9a65a4bf983f8f85e96110dc8f6131787c62979576.png
You guys don't have to like the Democrats but surely there are more important things going on right now like a looming massive trade war which could cripple the economy, Musk's young edgelords being given carte blanche over critical information and systems, at least one of whom might not be an American citizen and many just graduated high school.
Is litigating the 2024 election with snark really the thing to do now?
Elon Musk, a non-elected, non-appointed head of a non-existent government department, apparently on behest or suggestion of Michael Flynn has labeled payments to Lutheran Social Services as "illegal" and stopped them.
Lutheran Social Services is the largest employer in South Dakota and mainly operates senior homes. This was probably Medicare and Medicaid money.
Yes. There is a possibility that no one could have beaten Trump in 2024 and this aligns with global trends.
COVID and the post-COVID inflation surges have produced "throw the bums" out elections around the world. This has happened to center-left and center-right governments. Basically, almost anyone or party who was in charge of government in 2021 had big issues in their next elections.
If anything, the Democratic Party did much better compared to others. The Tories lost 251 seats in their July 2024 election. The LDP lost 68 seats.
On “Open Mic for the week of 2/3/2025”
Legally? There is no authority to do this.
But the GOP is seemingly under the complete control of Trump and Musk and the ideologues behind them and GOP members in Congress seem fine with not asserting any authority to get back their perogative.
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There are very few areas where zero sum thinking is a good idea.
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Murc's Law in Aisle 4!!! Murc's Law in Aisle 4!!!
They could have removed in 2021 and 2022. This is when they controlled all three branches of the government.
At the time, they were dealing with the COVID vaccine roll out and getting life back to normal (COVID restrictions did not fully end until mid or end 2022), Inflation, and the Afghan withdrawal.
Pardon political capital and resource allocation for being real things.
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A lot of Americans don't understand the difference between weak political parties and strong political parties.
In the US, both political parties are weak and it is probably more accurate to state that there are 50 if not 100s of Democratic and Republican Parties joining together for one. All that it takes to register as a Democrat and Republican in the U.S. is checking a box when you register to vote.
A lot of Parliamentary countries have strong political parties especially ones where the upper house is more ceremonial than not have strong and centrally organized political parties. You have to be a dues paying member to join and participate in the conferences. There are no primaries, the parties state "Riding X, Ms. Jones is your candidate for the Labour Party." And the parties have a lot more power to punish wayward members who don't tow the line.
Instead we get half-baked conspiracies theories on the evil DNC controlling everything and preventing the true voice of the people from being heard.
BS, if the DNC was strong, AOC would not be in Congress or her path to Congress would have involved a lot more ladders
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Tell me you haven't heard of softpower without telling me you haven't heard of softpower.
PEPFAR is an unalloyed good and one of the few (maybe the only) good thing to come from Bush II's admin. The cost of doing it is cheap for a country our size.
"
Finding the baseball card signed by Jackie Robinson was a chef's kiss. The wine store is still active though I don't know if it is in the control of her family.
"
On the one hand, here is a charming story about a woman able to raise her daughter in an apartment that she was raised in: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/realestate/renters-childhood-apartment.html
On the other hand, this story is an epic policy failure because it is about a not poor woman (she went to boarding school and is at least shabby chic upper-middle class) who can live a quirky, subsidized bohemian life because of a rent stabilization law.
"
Now if only the press would call this out as Trump huffing and puffing and getting nothing but that would go against the Team America vibe so they won't
"
Mexico apparently has 14,591 troops at the border and the deal with Trump is that they would have 10K troops at the border. Not 10K more but 10K so Trump agreed to let Mexico reduce its border guards
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“I just had a good call with President Trump,” Trudeau said in a social media post. He said Canada would push ahead with its 1 billion Canadian dollar, or about $6.89 billion, border reinforcement plan and deploy additional technology and staff, all of which had been announced previously.
Trudeau said Canada would also appoint a “fentanyl czar” and would: “list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada-U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering.”
So it looks like Trump got nothing
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FWIW, I think Musk is angry at USAID because they took stances against Apartheid. They were not perfect but they did a lot of good stuff too and there very well be a huge crisis in Africa because USAID was supplying food and medical supplies in places like Sudan.
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For those claiming Democrats are not doing anything,
Schatz announced a blanket hold on all of Trump's state department nominees until USAID is restored.
Murphy announced a similar blanket hold on other officials I believe.
This gums up the Senate and it is stuff the Democrats can do
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Mark Rubio has announced himself as acting head of USAID
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Chris Murphy, Jamie Raskin, Andy Kim, Jasmine Crockett, and some others are aware of where we are at
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Trump caved to the Mexican lady.
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Or Trump caved because of a 500 point drop in the market.
It basically looks like a kick the can down the road kind of agreement where both sides say they are doing something but it is really the status quo which will remain. Border migration from Mexico was down before Trump was elected again.
On “Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025”
Trump is very mad at South Africa now: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4e61eff1e920d5a836ca4d9a65a4bf983f8f85e96110dc8f6131787c62979576.png
I wonder why
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Harris won 75 million plus votes and Democrats increased their house seats. You and Jaybird are treating this like a 1972 plus 1994 defeat and there are only 180 or so Democrats in the House and less than 45 of the in the Senate.
In the meantime, guess who is whispering to Trump about South Africa: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4e61eff1e920d5a836ca4d9a65a4bf983f8f85e96110dc8f6131787c62979576.png
You guys don't have to like the Democrats but surely there are more important things going on right now like a looming massive trade war which could cripple the economy, Musk's young edgelords being given carte blanche over critical information and systems, at least one of whom might not be an American citizen and many just graduated high school.
Is litigating the 2024 election with snark really the thing to do now?
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One of Musk's shock troops is a 19 year old who goes by Big Balls: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lh7upwp5j22y
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Wired has identified some of the edgelords helping Musk destroy everything: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/
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Elon Musk, a non-elected, non-appointed head of a non-existent government department, apparently on behest or suggestion of Michael Flynn has labeled payments to Lutheran Social Services as "illegal" and stopped them.
Lutheran Social Services is the largest employer in South Dakota and mainly operates senior homes. This was probably Medicare and Medicaid money.
"
Yes. There is a possibility that no one could have beaten Trump in 2024 and this aligns with global trends.
COVID and the post-COVID inflation surges have produced "throw the bums" out elections around the world. This has happened to center-left and center-right governments. Basically, almost anyone or party who was in charge of government in 2021 had big issues in their next elections.
If anything, the Democratic Party did much better compared to others. The Tories lost 251 seats in their July 2024 election. The LDP lost 68 seats.
https://apnews.com/article/global-elections-2024-incumbents-defeated-c80fbd4e667de86fe08aac025b333f95
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And it looks like Trump should be taken seriously and literally on Greenland too:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fb8e18a624c8253d9343816a7443e5b4725f3027af51f4c8a820c3059cce735f.jpg
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Trump is apparently hell bent on making Canada the 51st state: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GiyVs3ZWUAAyDnV.jpg
Canadian Bacon as a Grecian Tragedy. Joy!!!
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