Memento mori

I live in South Carolina and everyone I know votes straight ticket Republican and they’re noticeably uncomfortable with the demolition and the ballroom replacement. This has legs and they need to push this now. The Argentina stuff is going over like a lead balloon too.

My wife’s (in some cases three-time) trump voting relatives have started mentioning the ballroom to me, negatively; anecdata but I’d like to see some high quality polling. I think it’s a mistake by certain elite elected Dems to think this story isn’t breaking thru

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot. We can never normalize this:

Wow. A very calm, matter-of-fact, but absolutely brutal takedown here. But ya gotta watch all the way to 3:19! youtu.be/3MBUeBuG5Jc?...

This realization hit me about an hour ago. They’re “buying” our military.

CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it. www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

The White House just issued a sweeping federal directive transforming how dissent might be policed in the US—here’s why civil liberties groups are so alarmed.

People are growing more skeptical of data centers. A company pulled plans for a local data center the day before a commission meeting. People don't want them once they are built and they sure as shit don't want one partially built and bankrupt.

ONG! These data centers should never be built in the desert. Arizona is in a water crisis. And data centers are noisy and destroy water supplies. 😩

There’s $5 billion sitting in SNAP reserves right now. The money’s there. The Administration just decided feeding families matters less than bailing out Argentina.

The Epstein Recess continues.

His domestic policy is Orbanism, his foreign policy is Putinism, and his economic policy is 17th Century mercantilism.

Shorter answer: It's a very bad idea, sends the wrong message to Russia and Europe, and makes the Ford available for all kinds of illegal mischief in Latin America.

I never liked her

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation. Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This is coming from a guy who lied on the stand about a protester, only to be humiliated by video of what actually happened, leading a jury to acquit in an hour. This vapid shitbag liar wants to “correct misconceptions?”

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure. Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities. EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni. ucop.edu/communicatio...

Elections always cancel people. It's called losing.

False equivalencies will be the end of us.

If he were right, the import price index (which measures pre-tariff prices) would have fallen by enough to offset the sharp tariff hike. It didn't.

Just for the record, in 2020: - Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey - Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes - Garland was an appeals court judge - Monaco was in private practice in LA There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise. He crazy.

Mirrors my thinking that we’re actually fighting against historical “climate” when most politicians and the Democratic Party are trying to deal with historical “weather” events. The climate was such that NO Democrat was going to win in ‘24.

economy contracts or prices go up, and reward them when prices go down or the economy expands; I have also argued that we should view Trump’s victory in 2024 as part of a broader anti-incumbent wave sweeping the globe that year —+

a reflection of broader global economic sentiment putting out the party in power across dozens of democracies. In fact, compared to other incumbent parties, the Democrats actually did quite well: Democrats lost 6 points on vote margin from 2020 to 2024 while the average change globally was -12.”

Since 2024, I’ve been arguing that inflation and the economy are not a Republican issue, but an anti-incumbent issue…This take is consistent with most of the historical political science literature and current polling data. The literature says voters punish the party in power when the+

Some snippets of citizen sentiment to share: “New polls from Gallup and YouGov show Democrats pulling ahead of Republicans as the party voters trust more to handle the economy…Maybe the situation for Democrats is less dire than pundits think.” +

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Construction workers involved in the demolition of the East Wing of the White House have signed non-disclosure agreements and are not permitted to speak to the press.

Also -DC is built on a damn swamp -they had to redo the whole foundation, with deep steel piers, during the Truman Retrofit. People wrote dissertations about it. This ballroom thing is gonna sink. Also -where are all the people and offices and functions that WERE in the East Wing going to live?

Illinois has now achieved its 10th credit rating upgrade since I took office. It reflects our continued growth in financial standing and speaks volumes to our state's commitment to fiscal discipline. With each upgrade, it means saving Illinoisans millions of dollars.

"While the indictment alleges that James made "thousand(s)" from rental income, sources tell ABC News that prosecutors found no record of James collecting rent from her niece beyond $1,350 that James reported on her 2020 tax return..." abcnews.go.com/US/evidence-...

Puts him firmly in the Comey category -- the career professionals have said there's not a case there, while political hack Ed Martin Jr keeps pushing for an indictment. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

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