It appears the courts won’t let Congress abdicate their responsibilities to check the executive after all. Of course it remains to be seen if the executive or Congress care:
You are barking up the wrong tree in the wrong yard on the wrong block. The GOP has worked for five decades to get to this point - they will Prop him up and let him act as long as he allows them to move in the directions they want. He’s nowhere close to endangering their completion of this mission - in fact he’s probably enabling its fruition significantly sooner than they expected.
Everything that doesn’t focus on this is just wasted intellectual effort.
A great many voters of all stripes fail to see clear policy differences between the two parties as they exist now. It’s supposedly a major reason we have so many who no longer vote.
That aside if you look at current economic policy proposals of democrats now and republicans under Reagan there’s little daylight.
Democrats biggest problem is few democrats can hold an audience like republicans have been taught to do. Bernie is the notable exception as is AOC.
If we need to have separate space for women and men - which is fishing ridiculous IMHO - the the MLB team that just called up a woman pitcher from the minors has some splaining to do.
In case anyone cares, the Presidents budget request for next fiscal year is now posted on the White House website. The total numbers for reductions in various places match what was reported from the leaked OMB pass back a couple of weeks ago.
Everyone here gets it. Believe me when I tell you his most ardent supporters in my town don’t. And when Walmart starts running out of TP in a couple weeks they will be mad as hell. Just not at him.
The democrats currently in national and state wide offices are hardly the radical left. It may appear that way because of how far right the GOP has gone, but Biden governed as a surprisingly successful economic centerist with a smattering of center left social success. It’s actually a major reason the dems are now in wilderness wandering mode.
The DNC needs to get over itself. The JD Pritzkers of the world don’t actually need them to get elected and he’s about the most senior person agewiae the DNC should support. If all the DNC does is keep sclerotic geriatric has been a in office nothing g will change and we will have witnessed a total collapse into authoritarian rule in a year. If they want to be a functional opposition Hogg is showing them the way.
Equally not-shockingly all the hullabaloo about protecting women’s spaces heaps insults on women AND defies statistical analysis. It’s also ONLY about trans women - trans men are apparently not a threat.
Guess you can’t have a Strict Father hierarchical society without cementing who gets to be a father and thus in control.
So apparently Amazon - like a lot of businesses - is going to add a line to its billing about how much the total price of an item has increased due to the tariffs. The White House responded about as well as you’d expect, calling it a political move by Amazon.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025”
Some mornings you just have to laugh at whose face the leopards are currently eating.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kid-rocks-restaurant-closes-to-avoid-trumps-ice-raids/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKUFZpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrOSy9oJFC8KH9N4zz6rePF_1cPH4xjR_Ti6414eek-56tETtzgX2Vpjsi7O_aem_xYMMsOrTKw8OTo-M-FxvKg
On “American Foreign Policy Drive-by: Houthis and the Blowfish Edition”
As with so much of this administrations work, performative war works for people with short attention spans.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025”
Tossing him at this point would be the second stupidest thing the DNC has done in the last year.
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No Veronica, there is no Santa, much less two. But the GOP sure does love to stack the deck anyway.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/americas-long-coup-how-the-gop-rigged-812?r=v677&utm_medium=ios
On “United States and China Agree to 90 Day Tariff Reprieve”
Funny how easy it was to give up the fight to onshore manufacturing.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025”
It appears the courts won’t let Congress abdicate their responsibilities to check the executive after all. Of course it remains to be seen if the executive or Congress care:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-pauses-trumps-effort-reduce-size-federal-government-rcna205996?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAAwXB2w6CIAAA0L%2FpMbstq8011sRlxcoZoi8OCC9DwKCyeujbO6d5PHq38TzNuBaDG9O%2BH3etlh7BOlq8eVulbFsx3rW3YD8UpJmwGjVFNtmd0hCAxJdlviaw2MMLmiu20vCwRLIIaZy5WEzjqwqP33tkkKrOFyzl7JWo9Ilpff%2BAkgpVxujs33ID86HDBJio9x3HYPSzohLWtroumTWDEzaAlAtmjPwDpk3xKbMAAAA%3D&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7k_Y9XFZIFQN3mb8nFK6NkZEaJWsJe1JUmELzqGoNmfPQVkk2vRmTuVagqyA_aem_JNP7dYoFYwlVXAoGp7scVA&_branch_match_id=1281224086309622960
On “How Much Is Enough?”
You are barking up the wrong tree in the wrong yard on the wrong block. The GOP has worked for five decades to get to this point - they will Prop him up and let him act as long as he allows them to move in the directions they want. He’s nowhere close to endangering their completion of this mission - in fact he’s probably enabling its fruition significantly sooner than they expected.
Everything that doesn’t focus on this is just wasted intellectual effort.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025”
The police violence was the miscarriage Jay. These convictions are the corrections for the individuals but will do nothing to correct the system.
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Let’s hope Texas continues its streak of judicial activist independence and ignores him.
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Because we as a nation need more reasons to commit political violence:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/weather/weather-weapons-nws-radar-attack
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And good news for fans of due process.
On “A Backlash Is Coming”
Hope. Such a powerful word yet rendered neutered by reality these days.
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A great many voters of all stripes fail to see clear policy differences between the two parties as they exist now. It’s supposedly a major reason we have so many who no longer vote.
That aside if you look at current economic policy proposals of democrats now and republicans under Reagan there’s little daylight.
Democrats biggest problem is few democrats can hold an audience like republicans have been taught to do. Bernie is the notable exception as is AOC.
On “Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex”
If we need to have separate space for women and men - which is fishing ridiculous IMHO - the the MLB team that just called up a woman pitcher from the minors has some splaining to do.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
In case anyone cares, the Presidents budget request for next fiscal year is now posted on the White House website. The total numbers for reductions in various places match what was reported from the leaked OMB pass back a couple of weeks ago.
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Everyone here gets it. Believe me when I tell you his most ardent supporters in my town don’t. And when Walmart starts running out of TP in a couple weeks they will be mad as hell. Just not at him.
On “A Backlash Is Coming”
The democrats currently in national and state wide offices are hardly the radical left. It may appear that way because of how far right the GOP has gone, but Biden governed as a surprisingly successful economic centerist with a smattering of center left social success. It’s actually a major reason the dems are now in wilderness wandering mode.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
No Lee it’s not the exact opposite. They voted for the white guy who was going to hurt people. He’s hurting people. Win win.
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How disloyal!
On “US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection”
Ethical conflicts and blurred lines. How cute.
Try full on corruption in the open.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
I don’t think Pritzker is looking at polling, at least not that way.
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The DNC needs to get over itself. The JD Pritzkers of the world don’t actually need them to get elected and he’s about the most senior person agewiae the DNC should support. If all the DNC does is keep sclerotic geriatric has been a in office nothing g will change and we will have witnessed a total collapse into authoritarian rule in a year. If they want to be a functional opposition Hogg is showing them the way.
On “Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex”
Biological context? Transphobe much?
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Equally not-shockingly all the hullabaloo about protecting women’s spaces heaps insults on women AND defies statistical analysis. It’s also ONLY about trans women - trans men are apparently not a threat.
Guess you can’t have a Strict Father hierarchical society without cementing who gets to be a father and thus in control.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
So apparently Amazon - like a lot of businesses - is going to add a line to its billing about how much the total price of an item has increased due to the tariffs. The White House responded about as well as you’d expect, calling it a political move by Amazon.
We really are in a post-truth world I guess.