between Blanche confirmation and the "weaponization fund" there's only one a post-midterms congress could stop or put Trump in jail over, so guess which one they're letting move forward
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Профиль Vivelythe only thing this actually shows is that capitalism goes to great expense and great lengths to hide every single data point about goods and services from consumers, and we're still in a state where USUALLY "price at purchase" is the only thing that can't be hidden, though they attack that too
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
so much centrist discourse is centrists looking at policy arguments they WON (usually to disastrous effect) and pretending actually they lost and got put in gulags over it
bob barker 🍸why do so many of you follow this person
Amnesty can thread the eye of a needle by immediately saying "our apology was just us trying to play politics, it was a mistake, these people are monsters" but instead they're probably just going to settle and contribute millions directly to trans genocide
animal from the international networkthe thing about doing unprompted apologies instead of just weathering the backlash is that if they were going to sue you anyway, now they have a document you created that admits some level of wrongdoing
have Blade decapitate Leto Morbius for lulz like in Deadpool
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)Shit, I'll help you: all the MCU bullshit results in the vamps deciding now's their time, and Blade's private war against the vamps comes into the light. Movie starts with Blade murking someone at a bloodrave. Conclude the movie with a stinger with Blade facing off against Morbius for luls.
so this would be an agency under the control of Trump and/or the Republican congress to investigate ""corruption""? on the week of the comey/fauci stuff?
The Washington PostSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is set to introduce legislation to create a new federal agency to investigate corruption in response to President Trump’s administration ahead of the midterm elections.
even in terms of protectionism you'd want to import materials and export assembled goods but Trump is just like "50% tariff on steel, 60% tariff on rubber, 80% tariff on cotton, i am very smart"
Karl Bodeideally you'd allow Chinese goods in U.S. markets (EVs, AI) but you'd have functional and well-funded regulators policing labor, consumer, privacy, violations U.S. companies don't want that accountability and competition, so you get this dumb fucking protectionism overseen by clowns
that describes every predating fish
Richard FallonEvery one of these headlines points to the continued relevance of Thomas Hawkins in shaping our language. But they forgot to add that this 'sea dragon' was an 'ardent Monster fleeting through the expanse of Seas like lightning to his distant prey, with a lust quenchable alone in gore’.
I want a new duck A mallard I think One that won't make a mess of my house Or build a nest in the bathroom sink
Matthew HightonFinally a toilet for people who just want a quiet place to pet their duck.
I'm not saying it'll happen, America genuinely does have a longstanding social contract that's a barrier that wasn't present elsewhere, but historically this configuration overwhelmingly indicates the party in power dispensing with elections and pretenses of democracy
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret DevereauxLike, that is fundamentally the unknown factor in American politics over the next 2-3 years where I feel like I have no idea where things are going to go because "politician has iron grip on a major political party while *staggeringly* unpopular" is just not a configuration we've seen before.
this is why the very concept of things like the Hyde amendment is repulsive. training people to expect that government is a menu they can micromanage instead of a collective will
Big Ol’ MushBig part of the problem is a *lot* of people conceiving their participation in public life as some form of noblesse oblige rather than an obligation shared among equals.