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  1. Elsewhere, I looked up the line of succession. Christ on a crutch. Number Office[3] Name Party 1 Vice President JD Vance Republican 2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson Republican 3 President pro tempore of the Senate Chuck Grassley Republican 4 Secretary of State Marco Rubio Republican 5 Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Republican 6 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Republican 7 Attorney General Pam Bondi Republican 8 Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum Republican 9 Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Republican 10 Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick Republican 11 Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer Republican 12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Independent 13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Scott Turner Republican 14 Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Republican 15 Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Republican 16 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Republican 17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins Republican 18 Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem Republican
  2. You are aware, I hope, that people are not tried and convicted on the basis of an arrest affidavit. There could easily be, and usually is, a lot more to the story.
  3. This is pretty clearly not one of Trump's core beliefs.
  4. Pot's getting hot for Rs. Until now, hitching yourself to Trump was the quickest/easiest way to get elected. That's the source of all his power. Trump might have burned himself and them.
  5. For elucidation purposes, almost all injunctions order a (or all) defendant, and "those in active concert and participation with" the defendant, to do or not do ordered things. It has been this way for 100 years or more. The idea being to avoid disingenuous "it's beyond my control" arguments like this. They put him there, they can damn well bring him back.
  6. She's such a little cunt. That is not going to work in front of Boasberg. And then we may have our crisis.
  7. Probably pretty emblematic of everything this slapdash administration is doing.
  8. Well, a lot of Magats, that's who. But even if you confine it just to the economy, it's a bad comparison.
  9. In the preface to that, he posits that 1955 America was objectively better than 2025 America. First, that's a questionable assumption on any number of levels. More importantly, though, the world has vastly changed since 1955, and it would take far more than merely "restoring" manufacturing to reproduce 1955. He's a fucking idiot fantasist.
  10. Hypothetically speaking, the first remedy would be that Trump should be impeached immediately, along with Vance and everyone else complicit. Which, of course, seems exceedingly unlikely given the invertebrate status of the entire GOP delegation. That, in turn, should result in decimation at the midterms, which might return sufficient Ds that impeachment is possible. The line of succession is grotesque, though. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession I don't believe there is any provision for undoing the results of a completed election.
  11. So good to see that the adults are back. Right @realgreggym
  12. Well, except Bessent was doing jackshit to restrain Trump. Either way, he's a lickspittle. If he is having second thoughts, it's probably because he sees his post-administration stock trading career circling the drain.
  13. What's kind of interesting is why Trump is all jacked up about tariffs now, as opposed to his first term? Is it because his Chinese tariffs were somewhat successful? I think one can make a case that almost any tariffs against China are justifiable, because they are "cheating us" in several ways. That's not true of everyone we have a trade imbalance with. Something or someone got in his ear about this.
  14. It seems bizarre, but that Voya outfit may not let you sell to cash. I just don't see the "use case" for that type of 401k, and I don't know why employers choose them. Maybe sometimes it's part of an "employee leasing" deal.
  15. What motown reports seems to align with what Anthony's father said. It doesn't align with the other narrative, which seems to be mostly eyewitness statements, who wouldn't have much reason to know back story. It may be complete bullshit, but information is very sketchy from unbiased sources.
  16. True enough. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
  17. It's rare that you see a rebuke like that delivered as clearly and relatively dispassionately. He's a gem.
  18. Well, it may be total bullshit, but seems to align with what the suspect's father said.
  19. By impact, virulently. Crack is cocaine, so it was already illegal. And it was popular among the poor and brown in a way that powder cocaine never has been, but it doesn't have any physical or psychologically different properties. Smoking it is a more efficient delivery system than snorting it, by a little bit. When a separate set of crack laws was enacted, the weight of the drug was given a 100:1 ratio. That is, possession of one gram of crack was the equivalent, for sentencing purposes, of possession of 100 grams of cocaine, a tenth of a kilo. Mandatory minimum sentences were enacted based on this. So a poor black person caught with 5 crack rocks gets five years, no exceptions, and a white banker with four ounces of powder coke doesn't get jail time. This is a huge reason there are so many browns in the federal prison system. Now, unlike MJ laws, there wasn't an explictly racist intention, but there was a dumb, unscientific moral panic that created laws that would clearly and obviously affect poorer, browner communities more than their richer, whiter counterparts. And yes, some black leaders were behind such laws, far less so than the later VCCCA, Biden's infamous crime bill.
  20. Well one way would be to attract money back into the equity market and away from bonds and interest-based investments. Lowering rates is also thought to stimulate capital intensive activity, but that effect on the stock market is probably more "psychological" than anything else, giving companies more "growthy" events to make investors spooge over.
  21. https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-first-buttholes-might-have-been-for-sperm-instead-of-poop/
  22. Extricating ourselves from trade with China is a good thing, almost no question there. And tariffs probably play a role in that. But, again, it's more like the CHIPs Act than this.
  23. Possibly well-known, but a lot of the Central American gangs ensnare kids very young as ostensible "members" by giving them candy and money and shit, and later in life, when they want out and don't want to do crimes, is when the treat of persecution arises. So, it's theoretically possible to call someone a "member" of MS-13 or TdA, but they're no threat to anyone and never did any crimes. Disingenuous, but possible.
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