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@azdctx82.bsky.social
Picked a helluva week to give up sniffing glue.
@pkrugman.bsky.social Bingo
“So businesspeople have a choice: Continue to abase themselves, destroying their dignity and their reputations, in an attempt to curry favor with a wannabe dictator who’s falling short, or show some spine. And that stiffening of the spine must be a collective endeavour.”
“So businesspeople have a choice: Continue to abase themselves, destroying their dignity and their reputations, in an attempt to curry favor with a wannabe dictator who’s falling short, or show some spine. And that stiffening of the spine must be a collective endeavour.”
January 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM
@pkrugman.bsky.social Bingo
“So businesspeople have a choice: Continue to abase themselves, destroying their dignity and their reputations, in an attempt to curry favor with a wannabe dictator who’s falling short, or show some spine. And that stiffening of the spine must be a collective endeavour.”
“So businesspeople have a choice: Continue to abase themselves, destroying their dignity and their reputations, in an attempt to curry favor with a wannabe dictator who’s falling short, or show some spine. And that stiffening of the spine must be a collective endeavour.”
Man just f*ck all the way off with this nonsense. Admitting you are not smart or creative enough o forge a broader and stronger partnership with Denmark/Greenland so you have to do it by force or coercion is not a flex. It’s an admission of weakness and stupidity.
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz on Greenland: "Denmark just doesn't have the resources or capacity to do what needs to be done in the northern region. And to the Democrats who say 'they're giving you full access,' everybody knows if you're renting a place you treat it differently than if you own it."
January 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Man just f*ck all the way off with this nonsense. Admitting you are not smart or creative enough o forge a broader and stronger partnership with Denmark/Greenland so you have to do it by force or coercion is not a flex. It’s an admission of weakness and stupidity.
Trump is the Rosy Ruiz of Nobel winners.
(For younger folks Ruiz appeared to win the 1980 women’s Boston Marathon but it was soon discovered she entered the course a half mile from the finish; the trophy was rescinded)
More contemporary analogy is that Trump is the Riley Gaines of Nobel winners.
(For younger folks Ruiz appeared to win the 1980 women’s Boston Marathon but it was soon discovered she entered the course a half mile from the finish; the trophy was rescinded)
More contemporary analogy is that Trump is the Riley Gaines of Nobel winners.
January 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Trump is the Rosy Ruiz of Nobel winners.
(For younger folks Ruiz appeared to win the 1980 women’s Boston Marathon but it was soon discovered she entered the course a half mile from the finish; the trophy was rescinded)
More contemporary analogy is that Trump is the Riley Gaines of Nobel winners.
(For younger folks Ruiz appeared to win the 1980 women’s Boston Marathon but it was soon discovered she entered the course a half mile from the finish; the trophy was rescinded)
More contemporary analogy is that Trump is the Riley Gaines of Nobel winners.
Imagine being one of only 100 US Senators with a whole constitution outlining your powers and a bag of laws and decades of practice establishing Fed Independence but being so feckless and lacking in integrity that you say this on TV because you are the tool of conman wannabe autocrat.
Sen. Kevin Cramer: "Maybe the point should be if you're the attorney for Jay Powell and you want to avoid an indictment, how about you go to Jeanine Pirro and say, 'I'll make a deal. I'll step down today if you drop the investigation today.' To me, that would be a win win for everybody."
January 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Imagine being one of only 100 US Senators with a whole constitution outlining your powers and a bag of laws and decades of practice establishing Fed Independence but being so feckless and lacking in integrity that you say this on TV because you are the tool of conman wannabe autocrat.
When the levee breaks, the torrent of stories about the criminal graft, corruption, & disgusting treatment & abuse of people in ICE detention centers will horrify us. It’s important to be on the side of good & right side of history. Many people are failing that test now. Soon it will be too late.
January 12, 2026 at 7:14 PM
When the levee breaks, the torrent of stories about the criminal graft, corruption, & disgusting treatment & abuse of people in ICE detention centers will horrify us. It’s important to be on the side of good & right side of history. Many people are failing that test now. Soon it will be too late.
On one level…just bonkers. Not a good look when you are shaking down oil execs for $100 billion for your little Venezuela adventure. My wife suggests it also is the mob boss thing - here’s my ballroom help me make it nice. Def could be that but it’s a sign of a broken and corrupt man to his core.
Trump is clearly not well.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
January 10, 2026 at 11:29 PM
On one level…just bonkers. Not a good look when you are shaking down oil execs for $100 billion for your little Venezuela adventure. My wife suggests it also is the mob boss thing - here’s my ballroom help me make it nice. Def could be that but it’s a sign of a broken and corrupt man to his core.
Trump’s plan for Venezuela is…something. He wants oil companies to invest $100 billion to produce much more oil there to bring the price down to $50/bbl. It costs much more than that to produce in VZ, & $50 is too low for US shale producers to drill here. Genius.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...
Trump’s $100 Billion Venezuela Oil Plan Gets a Cool Reception
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Trump’s plan for Venezuela is…something. He wants oil companies to invest $100 billion to produce much more oil there to bring the price down to $50/bbl. It costs much more than that to produce in VZ, & $50 is too low for US shale producers to drill here. Genius.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...
I keep saying we are in a kakistocracy - governed by the worst and least capable among g us - and they keep proving it day after day.
This is ghastly reinvention of history, just the most disgusting, debased lying about events we all saw. I ache for my country.
This is ghastly reinvention of history, just the most disgusting, debased lying about events we all saw. I ache for my country.
As if we all don’t have eyes and didn’t witness this happen in real time. These liars continue to be a stain on our nation.
Sad and destructive. A betrayal of all who came before them. 🇺🇸
Sad and destructive. A betrayal of all who came before them. 🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
I keep saying we are in a kakistocracy - governed by the worst and least capable among g us - and they keep proving it day after day.
This is ghastly reinvention of history, just the most disgusting, debased lying about events we all saw. I ache for my country.
This is ghastly reinvention of history, just the most disgusting, debased lying about events we all saw. I ache for my country.
A major problem in America is that people as ignorant of American history as Governor Landry get elected.
Heck, Florida elected Rick Scott Governor & Senator after he presided over the largest case of Medicare/Aid fraud in our history ($1.7 billion fine) as CEO of Columbia/HCA.
No standards.
Heck, Florida elected Rick Scott Governor & Senator after he presided over the largest case of Medicare/Aid fraud in our history ($1.7 billion fine) as CEO of Columbia/HCA.
No standards.
KERNEN: Europeans are talking about it almost being like Vladimir Putin and Ukraine.
JEFF LANDRY: I disagree. When has the United States engaged in imperialism? Never. Europe has engaged in imperialism. The reason the Danish have Greenland is because of imperialism.
JEFF LANDRY: I disagree. When has the United States engaged in imperialism? Never. Europe has engaged in imperialism. The reason the Danish have Greenland is because of imperialism.
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 PM
A major problem in America is that people as ignorant of American history as Governor Landry get elected.
Heck, Florida elected Rick Scott Governor & Senator after he presided over the largest case of Medicare/Aid fraud in our history ($1.7 billion fine) as CEO of Columbia/HCA.
No standards.
Heck, Florida elected Rick Scott Governor & Senator after he presided over the largest case of Medicare/Aid fraud in our history ($1.7 billion fine) as CEO of Columbia/HCA.
No standards.
My short version of where we are in 2026: The country is being driven into the ditch but they are getting rich.
Pretty much sums up why the business guys, politicians, media hacks are just watching and riding along.
Pretty much sums up why the business guys, politicians, media hacks are just watching and riding along.
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
My short version of where we are in 2026: The country is being driven into the ditch but they are getting rich.
Pretty much sums up why the business guys, politicians, media hacks are just watching and riding along.
Pretty much sums up why the business guys, politicians, media hacks are just watching and riding along.
We don’t know for sure why Trump invaded Venezuela & took Maduro. Some combination of the idiotic Donroe Doctrine & oil/resource control seems most plausible. Because it’s Trump we can’t dismiss that it’s about the MAGA 2020 election nonsense that Maduro manipulated voting machines. Crazyville.
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
We don’t know for sure why Trump invaded Venezuela & took Maduro. Some combination of the idiotic Donroe Doctrine & oil/resource control seems most plausible. Because it’s Trump we can’t dismiss that it’s about the MAGA 2020 election nonsense that Maduro manipulated voting machines. Crazyville.
I’m thinking that even in my 60s I could pick up a few yards against the Niners porous run defense. I would crumble upon being tackled, but that’s beside the point. Not good. Credit to Shanahan and Salah for keeping them at 12-4 with all the injuries.
January 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I’m thinking that even in my 60s I could pick up a few yards against the Niners porous run defense. I would crumble upon being tackled, but that’s beside the point. Not good. Credit to Shanahan and Salah for keeping them at 12-4 with all the injuries.
So we’re going to “run” Venezuela’s government with a Super America First Strike Force led by Rubio & Hegseth. Oil companies will build infrastructure needed to extract & ship large volumes of oil the US now claims some right to. This looks like such a well thought out plan. What can go wrong?
January 3, 2026 at 7:14 PM
So we’re going to “run” Venezuela’s government with a Super America First Strike Force led by Rubio & Hegseth. Oil companies will build infrastructure needed to extract & ship large volumes of oil the US now claims some right to. This looks like such a well thought out plan. What can go wrong?
Just showed up to the hospital operating room demanding entry as a citizen heart surgeon. I expect them to let me in and anyone who thinks citizen journalism is a real thing to allow me to operate on them. Will report back.
January 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Just showed up to the hospital operating room demanding entry as a citizen heart surgeon. I expect them to let me in and anyone who thinks citizen journalism is a real thing to allow me to operate on them. Will report back.
Personal example of how women are smarter than men. Long ago my wife & I cut a deal.
She had blood clean-up, I had vomit. Even with three sons there was not much blood. But so much vomit.
Now they are grown and we have three cats. No blood. So much vomit.
She refuses to renegotiate this deal.
She had blood clean-up, I had vomit. Even with three sons there was not much blood. But so much vomit.
Now they are grown and we have three cats. No blood. So much vomit.
She refuses to renegotiate this deal.
December 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Personal example of how women are smarter than men. Long ago my wife & I cut a deal.
She had blood clean-up, I had vomit. Even with three sons there was not much blood. But so much vomit.
Now they are grown and we have three cats. No blood. So much vomit.
She refuses to renegotiate this deal.
She had blood clean-up, I had vomit. Even with three sons there was not much blood. But so much vomit.
Now they are grown and we have three cats. No blood. So much vomit.
She refuses to renegotiate this deal.
From Politico:
“A senior WH official told The Times last week that the administration rejected that interpretation and that the WH did not anticipate Congress getting involved to override the board’s decision” (to undo the Kennedy Center name change).
Arrogance + gutless GOP = this.
“A senior WH official told The Times last week that the administration rejected that interpretation and that the WH did not anticipate Congress getting involved to override the board’s decision” (to undo the Kennedy Center name change).
Arrogance + gutless GOP = this.
December 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
From Politico:
“A senior WH official told The Times last week that the administration rejected that interpretation and that the WH did not anticipate Congress getting involved to override the board’s decision” (to undo the Kennedy Center name change).
Arrogance + gutless GOP = this.
“A senior WH official told The Times last week that the administration rejected that interpretation and that the WH did not anticipate Congress getting involved to override the board’s decision” (to undo the Kennedy Center name change).
Arrogance + gutless GOP = this.
Otherwise know as accountability and justice, or more colloquially, getting what you deserve.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Otherwise know as accountability and justice, or more colloquially, getting what you deserve.
My representative @repyassansari.bsky.social is the best. Smart, committed, principled, tireless on behalf of her constituents, Arizona, and America, she is as good as they come.
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My representative @repyassansari.bsky.social is the best. Smart, committed, principled, tireless on behalf of her constituents, Arizona, and America, she is as good as they come.
Like I keep saying, Dem officials ought to frame everything with “these people are full of shit.” Then talk about things like this. There are 100 cases a day, pick the most egregious and keep pounding the message. “They are full of shit and you cannot trust or believe anything they say.”
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Like I keep saying, Dem officials ought to frame everything with “these people are full of shit.” Then talk about things like this. There are 100 cases a day, pick the most egregious and keep pounding the message. “They are full of shit and you cannot trust or believe anything they say.”
Apropos of nothing:
kakistocracy
noun [ C or U ]
US /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɑː.krə.si/ UK /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɒk.rə.si/
a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country:
kakistocracy
noun [ C or U ]
US /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɑː.krə.si/ UK /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɒk.rə.si/
a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country:
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Apropos of nothing:
kakistocracy
noun [ C or U ]
US /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɑː.krə.si/ UK /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɒk.rə.si/
a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country:
kakistocracy
noun [ C or U ]
US /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɑː.krə.si/ UK /ˌkæk.ɪˈstɒk.rə.si/
a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country:
Putin’s blatant fluffing aside, he is not one to talk about anyone’s elections.A number of countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, etc.) use mail- in voting. We have 5 states that have used it successfully for years. GOP ought to be humiliated that the leader of the party is such a stooge.
August 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Putin’s blatant fluffing aside, he is not one to talk about anyone’s elections.A number of countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, etc.) use mail- in voting. We have 5 states that have used it successfully for years. GOP ought to be humiliated that the leader of the party is such a stooge.
Box wine for everyone DC!
JUST IN: Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US Atty for DC, 50-45
August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Box wine for everyone DC!
As someone said, Hassett is the Stephen Moore of Larry Kudlows.
Housing market really going to take off with materials (lumber, copper, steel, aluminum) all subject to high tariffs. We import a lot of things that go into houses & all are more expensive.
Deportation of labor makes it worse.
Housing market really going to take off with materials (lumber, copper, steel, aluminum) all subject to high tariffs. We import a lot of things that go into houses & all are more expensive.
Deportation of labor makes it worse.
CRAMER: How are we gonna get housing going here?
HASSETT: We expect all that stuff is gonna lift off now the the big beautiful bill is passed. In fact, it's lifting off already.
HASSETT: We expect all that stuff is gonna lift off now the the big beautiful bill is passed. In fact, it's lifting off already.
July 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As someone said, Hassett is the Stephen Moore of Larry Kudlows.
Housing market really going to take off with materials (lumber, copper, steel, aluminum) all subject to high tariffs. We import a lot of things that go into houses & all are more expensive.
Deportation of labor makes it worse.
Housing market really going to take off with materials (lumber, copper, steel, aluminum) all subject to high tariffs. We import a lot of things that go into houses & all are more expensive.
Deportation of labor makes it worse.
No one could see this coming.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
July 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
No one could see this coming.
Contrary to the Buffalo Springfield classic there’s something happening here & it’s exactly clear. Republicans, the SC, & wealthy people propped up & are bowing down to the guy who lost but tried to overturn the 2020 election. He is now seizing as much power as he can.They are destroying America.
June 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Contrary to the Buffalo Springfield classic there’s something happening here & it’s exactly clear. Republicans, the SC, & wealthy people propped up & are bowing down to the guy who lost but tried to overturn the 2020 election. He is now seizing as much power as he can.They are destroying America.