Nice Guy Eddie

25 years ago. poor taste jokes are acceptable at some point. people make jokes about brian kelly killing a student but no one else can do the same with A&M killing students? As far as I know, no one was ever held accountable.

Ironic name. I didn't pick the character from Reservoir Dogs because he was nice.

Don't be so quick to think that Trump's picks will be able to make too many changes. If there is one lesson from Trump's first admin, they were incompetent. He was successful in some areas like appointing and confirming judges but that was very much handled by competent people like McConnell. Trump's appointees first inclination will be to fire people in many agencies. Then they will learn that policy change #2 will be tough to implement because there's no one to do it. And never underestimate an office worker in slowing down a project or causing it to fail. "Yes sir, I knew a change to that process would create unidentified problems but you ordered me to implement the change immediately."

I'm still in the angry phase of post election. I'm looking forward to seeing many Trump voters suffer from his policies.

AI power usage is going to dwarf crypto soon if it's not there already. An anti-crypto person will respond by saying that crypto doesn't have utility like AI. Of course that is a very narrow mindset of crypto. Modern history has proven that nothing has more utility than making and retaining wealth. Everything else is secondary.

nothing says Houston like air conditioning

Of all of the bad picks, I see Hegseth as being the least impactful. The DoD/Pentagon will eat him up. The folks in there will spin him around in a million directions and provide him some meaningless wins that he can crow about. And I doubt Elon’s DOGE will even be given a DoD report much less allowed in the building. The real pentagon powers will convince hegsetg to go on tour and compare tattoos with the military personnel around the global bases. It will be interesting when hegseth learns that supplying the Ukraine war has been a benefit to US readiness. Not sure he will be allowed to believe it.

I’m not arguing that bitcoin is energy efficient but it’s not like the traditional banking system is using 5kWh annually themselves.

Could be worse. Eric is back at the terminal finding out the plane left without him.

The gop is against it and there is little reason for any Dem admin to help out a Texas project.

No CR but the Sunday afternoon news cycle is a good time trump to announce crypto friendly picks for treasury/sec/cftc.

Biden needs to start issuing popular (relatively) policies via executive order. Even act on them before a federal judge stops them. Want to write off student debt? Mail out the checks. Don’t announce the exec order until after the checks start getting cashed and media starts hearing about them. See if Trump has the balls to attempt to roll back the amounts or charge them via taxes. perhaps wait until the last federal judges are confirmed.

Fuck him. Little girls were being molested in front of him and he allowed it because he thought it was acceptable recovery practices. Perhaps he didn’t know the doctor got off doing it but that’s a flimsy excuse.

RFK Jf. is the type of rebel who only desires to be brought into the inner circle. He will now do anything trump wants.

Trump will hurt America and Americans but the one ray of hope that I have is that we’re seeing more examples of Trump being able the adequately get things done. He was pathetic at doing the easiest things as president the first time. Now as president-elect, everyone is simultaneously laughing at his picks while being horrified with the thought of them in power. Perhaps the one worst rep or senator (now or recent) that Trump could have chosen instead of Gaetz was George santos. No one in Congress likes Gaetz and now they’re all tasked with keeping gaetz’s secrets and confirming his appointment. Kevin McCarthy will use any last power he has to ensure that ethics report is made public.

I'm sure Johnson is going to say that it's an incomplete report, or that Gaetz didn't have a chance to appeal the findings, etc. etc. The fix was always in. They will find a judge to agree, and the Ethics Committee has no standing to "complete" their report. What's the saying that when the facts are not on your side, argue the law. I bet we never see the report. At best the witnesses could publicly state their side but do you really want to go against Trump and the potential AG?

Wasn't there a constant problem for Trump's chiefs of staff where they constantly had to attempt to keep people away from Trump as he would consistently listen to the last voice he heard? and since people know this, they would look for ways around the chief of staff.

Rewatching season 1. Hopefully finish by the end of the weekend. Glad I'm working through these episodes because I had forgotten some story lines.

he resigned from this congress. But he won his race for the next congress. Besides DeSantis can appoint whomever he wants, and if Trump tells DeSantis to appoint Gaetz back to his seats, DeSantis will. The resignation was about preventing the planned release of the ethics report today. EDIT: His Wednesday resignation stopped the Ethic Committee on voting on the release today of the report to the public. The House is making noise that now Gaetz is no longer a member, they may have a duty to destroy their findings on Gaetz and definitely not give it to the Senate or the public.

For the max 401k crowd (traditional or roth) check to see if your employer allows for after tax contributions. I'm in year 6 of my employment and just learned that I can contribute an additional 10K as after tax dollars to my traditional 401k and then have it automatically converted to my roth 401k account. It's a way of pushing up to $10K extra into my roth via payroll deductions. Backdoor roth IRA contributions are tricky for me tax wise because I have traditional IRA balances. I believe this works around that issue or at least I haven't discovered it yet. as always don't take tax advice from someone named after a movie tough guy.

Trump putting wild picks into the AG and HHS is a misdirection as they drastically change other agencies. What's more fun to discuss on MSNBC? New vaccine rules or gutting 1000s of jobs in unknown departments? And high probability that Gaetz remains in the House. Trump probably has to throw one to the Senate to let them reject. It removes scrutiny on other nominees. Gaetz would agree to being cannon fodder to get a Trump pardon or two.

He better be careful of getting his wish given his proclivity in breaking certain laws and potentially even more if he has more power.

from his lips to God's ears. But I hope he doesn't wait for that amount before starting to sell.

I won’t duplicate my post from the Gaetz thread but I’m convinced he is never going to make it to the senate confirmation and that has always been the plan.

I feel like the fix is in with this entire nomination perhaps even to a point that Trump doesn't plan on Gaetz being AG. Timeframe: The ethics investigation was set to be released tomorrow, the 15th Gaetz is named as the AG nominee AND he resigned from Congress on the 13th By resigning, the ethics probe is no longer needed and may be locked away The Senate committee have said they want to see ethics report (Theory) Gaetz withdraws his AG nomination and DeSantis reappoints Gaetz back to his House seat (Theory) Once reinstated, it's possible that the ethics probe findings are moot since it occurred during his previous tenure not current (Shakiest part of my theory) This could all be Trump helping Gaetz to avoid the ethics probe findings from being made public. My guess is that if the House Ethics committee announces they are releasing the findings, Gaetz will take them to court to prevent it. Any holes in this theory?