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As much as you despise data, the numbers are the numbers. Trump is helping the middle class by whimsically multiplying the costs of the goods they consume while tanking their 401Ks? Soooo helpful. Your fantasy that investment is up based on tariffs that keep being put "on hold" is laughable. Investment has been up based on IRA and CHIPS incentives. The on-again-off-again tariffs haven't had any impact on real investment. Nobody is investing based on schizophrenic policy. The only things tariffs have accomplished is to scare the shit out of the markets, alienate allies, devalue the dollar, and drive trade to other companies. Pure destruction. There is no upside.

Gaffes or no gaffes, we successfully rebuilt the economy under Biden, going from Trumpster fire to the envy of the world. And now Trump is back in office, mashing buttons and yanking levers he CLEARLY does not understand, and we're tanking.

No, exactly as I said, district court judge Paula Xinis ordered his return. The administration has broken and continues to break the law, as affirmed by the SCOTUS. This is the United States of America, not yet Trumpistan. A court order is a court order, and the executive can't ignore it and the AG can't overturn it or retroactively deem actions legal. Whatever bullshit you read on Twitter, this is reality.

Sure, just keep on pretending that what's been confirmed by multiple independent new outlets didn't happen. You weren't IN the chat so there's no possible way for you to gain information about it. No dignity. A. Bondi did not refer the case for reversal or appeal or change of status or anything else. They simply scooped up a man who was legally living and working in the United States and shipped him to a prison in El Salvador. The exact same due process that protects every American citizen applies to Abrego Garcia. And if he can be disappeared to a foreign gulag then anyone can. There is no question that they broke the law. B. The order to return him is NOT from an immigration judge, but from a district court judge. In no way, shape or form can the AG overrule a district court judge. Again, not even in the same branch of government. They are breaking the law. C. The SCOTUS has confirmed that the administration is breaking the law, upholding the district court ruling but asking for clarification of one word. The administration is refusing to comply. They are breaking the law. They ignoring the SCOTUS. We are watching a constitutional crisis unfold in real time.

Q: How many smart people does it take to teach BASIC economics to a giant orange toddler? A: A lot! It's like we've given a child the captaincy of the world's biggest airplane mid-flight. He's banging all the buttons and levers in the cockpit without a clue what they do, while the grownups around him patiently explain that he's headed for the ground--and we simply hope he can be persuaded of basic reality.

No, quoting irrelevant portions of my links back to me is stupid, but not dishonest. The dishonest part is that you claimed those articles confirmed the existence of the chat but not the content of the chat, which is untrue. Every on of those articles also stated that their respective outlets had confirmed the content. You lied about it, and then tried to cover it up with bogus citations. Abrego Garcia has maintained all along that he is not in a gang. You are making up the idea that he argued otherwise. His position was that he and his family had been threatened by a gang, not that he was in one. And WTF are you even talking about. No, the AG cannot overrule a judge. They aren't even in the same goddamn branch of government, FFS. Do you not have any idea of how our government operates?

Jeebus. I can post links, but I can't make you be honest about what's in them. It says the NYT was the first to report because the NYT was the first to report. That's how journalism works. Rather than just repeating the NYT story, each of those outlets has independently confirmed that the second chat is real AND confirmation that the contents were as described. It's right there in each article. You just deny, deny, deny while the world moves by. Hope Trump is worth your dignity! These are the exact same goddamn links. AP A person familiar with the contents and those who received the messages, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, confirmed the second chat to The Associated Press. ABC Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details about an imminent attack on Houthis in Yemen in March in a second group chat using the messaging app Signal that included his wife, his brother and his personal lawyer, two sources familiar with the contents of the chat told ABC News. NBC Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a 13-person Signal group chat, including his wife and his brother, two sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to NBC News. A. This is America. We don't arrest people for what other people think their tattoos might mean. B. Again, a judicial ruling is the formal decision on a specific legal question. It is not comprehensive of the rationale that led there. And his order of withholding was based on threats against himself and his family, not on gang affiliation. He has consistently denied any gang affiliation. -- He's a man with a family, legally living in the US, working a union job as a tradesman, with no criminal record whatsoever. A nation of laws does NOT just put this man on a plane to another country. C. Deportees are almost always sent back to their home country. This idea of, essentially outsourcing undesirables to third-party nations is rather novel. What an amazing invention by this upstanding administration. And, again, NONE OF THAT MATTERS. We are a nation of laws, for the moment at least. And this administration is breaking both the spirit and letter of those laws. While you clap and fawn over it.

And the Guardian (linked in original update), and NBC, and the AP, and ABC, and on and on... It's real. The guy's a total flop. The Houthi's have shot down two of our drones, and Hegseth, the buffoon, is texting his buddies--and a journalist--about the attack flight times of piloted aircraft. He has to go. He does not have a tattoo that says MS13. A pathological liar told you that his tattoos should be interpreted as MS13. The same guy who used a sharpie to "edit" the path of a hurricane to be more convenient. Photos taken at the same desk, even. So that's not worth much. Judges did not "rule" that, though they may have believed it. And he was picked up at Home Depot with the other day laborers... in 2019. Again, wife, kids and no criminal record. AND NONE OF THAT REALLY MATTERS. Whether he was at one time or even is affiliated with MS13--which seems like a stretch to conclude--he was protected against deportation by a court order and is entitled to due process. That's the crux of it. I don't know Abrego Garcia at all and have no investment in him, but I care deeply that we have a nation of laws and due process. Everyone should care about that essential element of our democracy. But Dear Leader did something obviously illegal again, and you'll choose him over the law every time. When the executive admits it made a mistake, is court ordered to correct the mistake, and even escalated to the SCOTUS to correct the mistake, AND STILL WON'T CORRECT THE MISTAKE then we have a constitutional crisis. Like a toddler testing boundaries, he's trying to see if there are still functional restraints-- if there are still checks an balances. To see if they've sufficiently undermined checks and balances enough to do whatever they want.

As a fan of the network upon which Pete Hegseth was recently a pundit--another job for which he had no real qualifications, but at dramatically lower stakes--it's clear that you have no idea of journalistic standards. If multiple outlets are confirming it from multiple sources, it happened. And the irony of your post is over the top hilarious. You "knowing" and it being "proven" that Garcia is a gang member based on a tip--no evidence. You call him a wife beater? Hegseth's own mother called him an abuser in writing. Abrego Garcia has been in this country 16 years with steady employment, no criminal record and a lasting marriage. While Hegseth has been certainly accused of rape, sexual harassment, alcoholism and more. And Abrego Garcia has never put our military at risk. Maybe Hegseth should be deported? He should definitely be fired. --and let's not let it go unmentioned that you're trying to hand-wave away a court order in favor of executive fiat. Poo-poo to the rule of law! Bring on the dictator!

Kennedy is a certified kook. That's been known for a long time. I'm just now finding out that he's also an a-hole. His characterization of people on the spectrum is unbelievably tone deaf. And frankly, mean spirited. But back to the kookery... The guy who is overflowing with science misinformation thinks that after decades of autism research, he's going to crack the code by September? That's just nonsense. What's actually happening is that he's given himself to September to pretend like they've figured it out and craft an outcome that suits his preconceptions. That is the only point of such a timeline. If he really just wanted to prioritize autism research he would fund it and let science take its course.

The official cause of death was stroke. Unofficially? Disappointment. "Like, seriously, world?"

MAGA can't stand education. Critical thinking ruins people for thoughtless following.

The "soft little bìtches" are you gutless wonders, who lack both courage and conviction. Who will sell out the American experiment entirely just to get your way. Pete Hegseth is a haircut. And, evidently, a massive security risk. If you think putting someone utterly unqualified--and dangerously so--in charge of the military makes it a "strong military," you're even dumber than you seem. I'd take a trans service person with strength of character over you creeps any day. They're worth 10 of you.

No, you're a partisan without principles, so I have no expectation that you would let gross negligence and incompetence nudge you off the part line. As long as you think you are getting your way, you cannot be bothered about the corners cut to get there.

Nice try. It's confirmed by multiple outlets.