@paulg as long as he and his yes-men remain in charge of the Republican party, our former allies will not trust us. The only way to restore the value of investments that depended on that trust is impeachment and removal from office.
The tariffs were conceived by pseudo-intellectuals whose position was achieved via charisma or loyalty rather than correctness, and who rejected true expertise in the field. They were implemented by executive fiat, and defended by motivated reasoning and brazen lies.
This is how the far right does everything. The people on this website defending these tariffs would be doing so no matter what Trump did; they have zero credibility. If he nuked Los Angeles, they'd be on here making fun of Californians.
For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch
2024 Democrats are the red dot.
Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.
When Trump says he wants generals like Hitler's, I think he knows what he means. He grasps that those generals were unbound by law & personally loyal to the leader. Hitler replaced generals' oath to the constitution with an oath of personal loyalty to him
https://t.co/BJdZhoW9Rk
Great news, elected Dems: your highly paid consultants have spent the last five days exhaustively researching this, and early signs indicate that it *might* be okay for you to have a conscience about the active, ongoing spread of a blood libel. https://t.co/ruyI9S3OA9
One thing I think is important about this sustained attack - Vance is *still* tweeting about it - on Haitians in Ohio, is that it puts the lie to everything a certain sort of immigration restrictionist said they wanted.
"Oh, we just want them to come here legally"
They did!! 1/
The game here is to get you to find one single group of people that you'd be OK categorically excluding. Maybe it's Haitians, maybe Somalis, whatever.
After they get you to agree to exclude that one group, it's off to the races.
Don't fall for it.
Today, I attended a press conference at the apartment complexes where national and local media have falsely reported that gangs have taken over.
Instead, we heard from residents who debunked this narrative and called out the slumlord responsible for forcing them to live in inhumane conditions.
This is a thread of what I saw and heard.
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