This is strange since the President of the United States assured me that American consumers do not pay the cost of tariffs
WHITE HOUSE: LOWERED CANADIAN TARIFF ON ENERGY TO MINIMIZE RISE IN COSTS
Eric Levitz
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Eric Levitz
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Joined September 2012
- A conservative murdered a Democratic lawmaker -- and wounded another -- three months ago. Between 2013 and 2022, right-wingers committed the vast majority of political murders. If you actually care about political violence, you should not spread wild lies about it.
Replying to @shaunmmaguirethe left completely owns political violence right now. it's all them. - This already exists. It is called the Government Accountability Office. Musk's proposition is not that a public entity should monitor federal spending for waste. It is that he - an unaccountable private citizen - should be able to cancel spending that he deems wasteful at willOn a separate note, it appears that DOGE is trying to do a line by line item, agency by agency audit of the United States government to eliminate fraud, redundancy, and unnecessary contractors. If that is the case, this needs to be applauded.
- Kamala has her flaws. But I think Americans who haven't heard from a presidential candidate who isn't Trump or Biden for 8 years will be awestruck by the magisterial oratory of a replacement-level 50-something politician
- If they can do this to Donald Trump, they can do it to *any* American who tries to falsify business records so as to conceal the hush money payments they made to their pornstar ex-mistresses during their presidential campaigns
- 1) There is no rational argument for why it should take 60 Senate votes to pass a law, but only 51 to give someone the lifelong power to dictate what kinds of laws Congress is allowed to pass.
- The far right gloating over the murder of a progressive young man on his way home from a wedding is among the most morally abominable things I've ever seen on this website.
- 40 million Californians get just two senators and they spent one on thisReplying to @sahilkapurA mask-free embrace between Feinstein and Graham to cap things off. And the Amy Coney Barrett hearings are over.
- The U.S. government is trying to exile a legal resident for coauthoring an oped it didn't like. It is difficult to imagine a graver attack on free speech rights.Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your
00:00 - 1) Despite having only a 50-vote Senate majority, Democrats are about to pass a nearly $2 trillion bill that puts more than $7,600 into the bank account of the typical family of 4, establishes America's first proper child allowance (on a temporary basis for now)...
- The idea that Democrats are duty-bound to support a Republican speaker who reneged on a budget deal and launched an impeachment inquiry into Biden because he heroically agreed to keep the government running for 45 days is deeply strangeRemember, Democrats may say they want more responsible Republican leadership, but they will side against that every chance they get - and then complain if anyone tries to hold them responsible for their own choices.
- [dr manhattan voice] It is 2003. I am listening to Ari Fleischer explain that the Middle Eastern country we're going to war with will greet us as liberators. It is 2020. I am listening to Ari Fleischer...etc, etcAri Fleischer: "I think it is entirely possible that this is going to be a catalyst inside Iran where the people celebrate this killing of Soleimani"
00:00 - The Fallout tv show was fun but also probably the dumbest satire of capitalism I've seen. No, investors in a fallout shelter company would not have an interest in engineering a nuclear apocalypse to increase the value of their shares on markets that would no longer exist
