If he’s letting them know when he’s switching between doom and gloom, they’re making $$$$$$$$$$ on market reaction. That’s a lot of the current game. He’s discovered the market is his toy, and he’s sharing his toy with people who are “nice to” him.
A very fashionable chihuahua in sunglasses. Caption: “This tiny dog had everyone's attention in Japan”
As well he should
Russia, however...
Donald Hussein Trump
Trump continually hiring from his TV favorites, like a 5 year old staffing up with muppets.
This is leadership by chaos, which always ends in disaster. This is not an administration that governs. It is a tedious daily television show with one hero who spends each day conjuring up an enemy and defeating him/her/them.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
To any politician who might be considering the political consequences of raising hell about a legal American resident who was kidnapped and taken to a foreign torture gulag, please don't focus group the Constitution.
GITMO comes immediately to mind. The current situation isn’t entirely orthogonal to previous conservative momentum.
I'm cognitively twisted up by the notion of ordinary Americans suffering from stock market losses while the wealthy obliviously celebrate.
Maybe I sniffed too much glue as a teen, but....wuuuuh?
Didn't know about this. Will read. Thanks for the tip.
really underrated how much these rich guys know jack shit about politics
Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today:
www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...
The GOP COVID Committee report is wild. The virus is a Chinese bioweapon designed by Fauci ... and it was so mild that the US should have taken zero precautions ... and Democratic governors didn't take enough precautions ... and we should have let everyone get it.
oversight.house.gov/release/fina...
Appropriately, Rudy Giuliani rang the stock market bell today, just before the stocks went into free fall.
very excited to see what this does to the lives and livelhoods of my friends and family. also excited to live through, what, the third economic collapse that is the direct product of republican governance?
The argument that actually punishing Le Pen and her cronies for their crimes will only make them stronger in the long run is a little hard to swallow when we have a prominent example of a right-wing authoritarian who was very much not punished for his crimes and is now wrecking everything in sight.
Or that the entire purpose was to create a pretext for bribes.
"Stop protecting Europe while we attempt to assure Greenland of our protection."
@therickwilson.bsky.social
Forgot the feisty girl shirt tuck
What was dumber: including a journalist on a signal chat about your bomb plans or then calling that journalist “bottom scum” while he still had the screenshots available to publish as your colleagues were already committing perjury
Pussy
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Survivor Exceptionalism > Survivor Fallacy
Agreed. But fwiw I think The Pitt generally is good about this. I was just responding to the comments about the addict doc plot thread. Whipped up for drama.
I refuse to dedicate time and attention to this rabbit hole. But nothing would surprise me.
Extortion, pure and simple.
not a small thing, however, drowned out it might be
Alternative Title: Arab-Americans For Killing All Foreigners Renames Itself to Arab-Americans For Killing Almost All Foreigners
