9point6.

“I’m not illegal, you’re illegal!”

Still thinking like an 8-year-old.

I’m fairly convinced they only believe in themselves, as a psychological axiom. Moral good is that which makes them richer, happier, or more powerful.

That’s all there is at the base of our entire system of government at the moment.

“We were waiting until it was important.”

For David Zaslov, about $200 million.

I’m getting mixed messages here.

Simple answer? Tax cuts for the rich are going to have to be paid for by creating more public debt.

Well, just for others who might do the same:

I thought it would be an interesting read, so I searched and it looks like this was never a real article: https://knowyourmeme.com/news/no-christian-bale-did-not-roast-sigma-bale-idolizers

That’s always been the case with anti-“DEI” rhetoric. Barely-veiled racism, and an excuse to engage in kakistocracy while crying for meritocracy.

I get that it’s an easy dunk, but the iterations and options for effective spycraft using freely available technology and knowledge are effectively limitless, when you have weeks of exclusive, unsupervised access to something as big and complex as a plane.

Since Qatar knows it will be fully disassembled to find bugs, but also has effectively limitless unsupervised time with it, there will probably be some crazy advanced, near-undetectable bugs in the plane components themselves.

Bondi:

They also determined it does not constitute a bribe because the gift does not hinge on an official act.

Emoluments clause:

…no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

Bondi, we’re not talking about bribes, we’re talking about explicit violations of the Constitution. So where’s the Congressional consent?

Oh, because Qatar gives it to USAF, and USAF gives it to Trump, it’s “legally permissible.” Gosh, what a novel idea. Definitely not something a first year law student would see as a strawperson introduced in a transaction specifically to evade illegal conduct.

It’s no downside to them. Either (a) officials do nothing in response, which tells them they can do this again the future, or (b) the officials challenge the illegal arrest, giving the DOJ an opportunity to expand powers by creating court precedent via immunity arguments.

If in the off-chance, © the court rules against them, it makes no difference since they’ll ignore the order.

The leopards yearn for the faces.

*Trying to suspend

The headline is not doing constitutional democracy and the rule of law any favors by making casual readers think they have that power, which (sorry to be all technical, NYT) they do not have.

Don’t believe for a second congressional Republicans are going to “awaken.” We’re well past that. More fear just will make them cower and grovel even harder.

They were already so spineless at two impeachments that they refused to save themselves or us from this, when salvation from Trump was served to them on a silver platter - they’re weak, pathetic lumps of misshapen ego.

Oh come on.

So what about the Democrats, I asked? “They hate us and won’t accept us. And if they don’t change their attitude, Trump and MAGA will keep winning.”

That was echoed by former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, who regularly speaks out about this. “If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party, then today’s Republican Party will remain victorious and our democracy will disappear,” Walsh told me.

Most of us will accept you. Just stop being awful people. It isn’t hard.

Tim Walz got it. It’s a shame they kneecapped his normal-people messaging.

I agree, but in context he was just extending a metaphor that treated the voters/citizens as “owners,” presumably because he thought Trump would understand the language better.

“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. We’re sitting in one right now,” Carney told Trump. “Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last several months, it’s not for sale. Won’t be for sale, ever,” he said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387465/trump-carney-canada-tariffs