Tucker: Why did you invade Ukraine?
Putin: Very well, where do I begin?
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it. At the age of eighteen, I went off to evil medical school. From there...
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.
I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system.
In 1952, the corporate share of federal tax revenue was 32%. In 2020, it was down to 7%.
Here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
JUST IN: The US economy added a blockbuster 353,000 jobs in January, far exceeding expectations of 180,000. This is a really healthy economy. (December jobs revised up to 333,000)
Unemployment rate: 3.7%
Wage growth: 4.5% in past year —>far ahead of 3.4% inflation
#jobs
Was thinking about how Howard Dean once went “YEAHHHHH!!!!” really loud and lost the nomination. That was it. He just said yeah loud and the media was like: oh hell no that’s not Presidential
This war is just a relentless nightmare. Entire families killed. Children orphaned. A whole generation on both sides radicalized. Hamas's leadership isn't destroyed. The hostages haven't been brought home. The only sane path forward is a ceasefire and negotiated hostage release.