They want to spread out the discontent perhaps.

Once again, if Trump really wanted to sanction Russia, he has an ideal vehicle crying out to be used; the Graham-Blumenthal act. However, he will not even allow Senate Republicans to vote on it. The only conclusion is that he really does not want to hurt Putin

I have "interview with the Vampire" and "Embrace of the Vampire" confused in my memory. I suppose I have a faint connection to either due to reasons I don't care to discuss.

I suspect Noem does know what Habeas corpus means. She just went into a robotic response to divert the topic.

Speaking of robotic, I just saw a 5-year-old picture of her at her wiki page. She looked like an attractive, normal human. When did she become an android?

olfactory malefactory satisfactory

I worked in a factory for a stint in 1976. The majority of factory work was low pay drudgery; maybe 25% high wage union jobs. Sentimentalizing factory work is kooky. It's not coming back becuz, among many reasons, lack of willing workers.

I'm not depressed. I'm excited that the EU is providing opportunity for academics and benefitting economically.

THe U.S. & RU will be a threat to democracy for many years.

Europe must thrive economically / militarily / civically.
Europe will preserve democracy until the U.S. recovers.

Most analysts are dismissing the Garcia situation as a loser for Dems. The Supreme Court will not buck Trump in any event.

I see the end of Democracy if the SC blinks. Trump will use El Salvador as effective instrument of fear/power.

I'm guessing SC acts: econ FTW.
But it's on a knife's edge.

Musk has been openly malicious for about 5 years.

What counts as "vintage"?

25th amendment time

I think the U.S. economic pain is a sad but necessary step to throw-off the fascism. The American people were numb to higher principles like rule of law.

The world going to be OK. We in the U.S. just going to have to go through some things.

I think we need to remember that the market swings don't reflect the underlying ability to ptoduce goods and services. The damage will repair. Most of the world will rewire around the U.S. in time.
But the U.S. will end up poorer.

To add to the incoherence, Lutnick cites high demand skills - electrician, HVAC, etc - that are already scarce. These people don't need new industrial plants to find jobs.

I think ppl are sentimental for 1960-1970s when low skilled factory jobs sometimes had high wages. That's never coming back.

Phillips, when you write about Euro hopium I hope you mention the article in Financial Times saying planning underway for u.s. exit fom nato in 5 to 10 years

No urgency

Having viable defense alternatives in free countries could help save democracy.

Both Putin and Trump are boosting far-right, anti-democratic parties in Europe. Putin directly threatens Europe. Having a reliable defense industry outside the control of the Putin-Trump partnership is essential.

That is not going to work
Universities need to stand together. Protesting Columbia is dead end. Frankly, universities so far have acted mostly like Columbia. Students at every university need to speak up, they are all teetering.

Maybe the law firm example has relevance.

Jesus Christ we need that spirit back again

I didn't really know what the adjective "arch" meant.
I thought sarcastic, cutting but it's more puckish, playful