Featuring Paul Krugman on this morning's shocking ruling, Steve Cook & Jen Rubin's SCOTUS analysis, scandalous Ken Paxton, Frederick Wise, love & basketball, war with Iran?, truffles, pups, & the Pod
Ken Paxton is so disgusting 🤮 He might beat Cornyn in the senate race but I hope Crockett or Talarico has something to throw him off track with his lying and corrupt record.
I think that the nail in the tariff coffin was how expansive Trump’s imposition of tariffs and threats to impose tariffs became in going so far afield from raising revenue and regulating imports by using them as weapons of coercion, blackmail and shakedowns to get what he wanted. Among the most blatant examples was his threat to impose a 10% tariff and later a 25% tariff on 8 of our European allies unless they agreed to support Trump’s grab of Greenland. This was pure mob tactics to crush any country that stood in his way. The next such controversial action taken by Trump will be his summary and arbitrary decisions to make war without a prior declaration of war by Congress, such as in Venezuela. But the most blatant abuse of such power stands before us: Trump’s threat to attack and invade Iran.
Ken Paxton is so disgusting 🤮 He might beat Cornyn in the senate race but I hope Crockett or Talarico has something to throw him off track with his lying and corrupt record.
It's past time to begin defending our right to vote. Here is a strategy I see unfolding:
1. Force (more) voters to show up in person on voting day.
2. Stations ICE agents around the polling place. This might require State cooperation - maybe.
3. Use facial recognition software and cameras to identify specific voters.
4. Detain those voters before they enter the voting place.
5. By the time they challenge the detention, it will be too late to vote.
6. Use the prepositioned MAGA staff on State election boards to create a contingent election for President in 2028 that gets decided in the House.
7. Exploit the loopholes in the Constitutional prohibition from being elected more than twice in 2028. (The third rail option for a third term.)
How do we prevent these things from happening in 2026 and 2028?
The “I can do anything” Chosen One can’t by fiat change the plain language of the law & the constitution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMiszTQZtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUPaVFnM6g&t=14s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOy0RUNHZao
Resist MAGA gangster, grifter authoritarianism! Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!
I think that the nail in the tariff coffin was how expansive Trump’s imposition of tariffs and threats to impose tariffs became in going so far afield from raising revenue and regulating imports by using them as weapons of coercion, blackmail and shakedowns to get what he wanted. Among the most blatant examples was his threat to impose a 10% tariff and later a 25% tariff on 8 of our European allies unless they agreed to support Trump’s grab of Greenland. This was pure mob tactics to crush any country that stood in his way. The next such controversial action taken by Trump will be his summary and arbitrary decisions to make war without a prior declaration of war by Congress, such as in Venezuela. But the most blatant abuse of such power stands before us: Trump’s threat to attack and invade Iran.