“No one is teaching your kids to be gay,” a Florida teacher told the room. “Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
my inbox is full of people claiming Biden caused the recent spike in gas prices when he "shut down Keystone pipeline." Given this pipeline does not yet exist -- and was only 8% built by time Biden revoked permit -- this seems to take a very extreme view of rational expectations!
Padma Lakshmi: "The president is himself a second-generation American. Two of the president’s wives are immigrants, but the only difference between them and Omar — and myself — is skin color”
Pamela Karlan: “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll... send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.”
Let's be precise. GOP-controlled Senate didn't "reject" Obama's 2016 SCOTUS nominee; they didn't assess Garland's fitness, hold a vote, vote him down
Rather, McConnell refused to hold vote or even a single hearing. He invented a rule to steal a seat & hoard it for a GOP successor
Bread lines...televised Cabinet flattery sessions...centrally-planned economic industrial policy: Under Republican leadership, the US is turning into Republicans’ scariest 30-year-old Soviet fever dreams.
Texas Republican who has led charge to ban all-ages drag shows "to stop the sexualization of kids" is facing allegations of inviting an intern to his home, serving her alcohol even though she isn’t old enough to legally drink, and having sex with her.
From 2017-early 2020, Trump signed into law $4.7 trillion of new debt, above & beyond what US had been expected to borrow absent new laws
About half of that $4.7T in new debt was through spending increases.
This was all *before* covid hit.
We cannot raise the debt ceiling.
Democrats have carelessly spent our taxpayer money and devalued our currency.
They've made their bed, so they must lie in it.
House Ways & Means Chair Neal said he’s consulting lawyers about whether to make public a complaint by a federal employee about possible misconduct in the IRS’s auditing of Trump. Employee alleges “inappropriate efforts to influence” the audit process
I am so tired of this narrative that the economy was in the toilet under Obama and Trump revived it. Unemployment was 4.7% when Trump took office. Average GDP growth in Obama's 2nd term was about equal to average under Trump pre-covid.
Santorum just said that no one called Trump a racist before he was president.
AYFKM. 50 years ago, Nixon's DOJ accused Trump of racism, for refusing to rent apartments to Black people.
Do you know how racist you have to be to get accused of racism by the *Nixon administration*?!
Wisconsin leads the nation in farm bankruptcies. Number of family farms filing for bankruptcy in 2019 jumped nearly 20% from the previous year.
Manufacturers in Wisconsin have also shed ~12k jobs since Trump took office.
Hannity: “I can’t imagine you ever saying, ‘Bring me some boxes we brought back from the White House. I’d like to look at them.’”
Trump: “I would do that..I have the right to take stuff! You know they ended up paying Nixon $18 million for what he had.”
GOP stole a SCOTUS seat from Obama; took away filibuster so that they could push through a pick without 60 votes; arranged for a sham FBI investigation when their pick was credibly accused of sexual assault; mocked the victim; and now can’t fathom why people might be upset
The angry Left responding to Kavanaugh’s confirmation. This rage isn’t good for our country. The Dems’ behavior has been abominable—dragging a good man & his family through the mud—but after a careful and fair process, a great victory for all of us who cherish the Constitution.
The question more interviewers should be asking GOP lawmakers threatening to default on our debt because of alleged concerns about fiscal profligacy is this: Why no such concerns when Trump signed $4.7T of new debt into law even *before* covid hit?
judge a politician by the people he surrounds himself with, says campaign manager for politician whose former campaign chair, deputy chair, national security adviser, foreign policy adviser, political adviser, and personal attorney were all convicted of/pled guilty to felonies
In Bill Stepien's first
@foxandfriends
interview, no mention of "Sleepy Joe" or "Beijing Biden." Trump campaign chief describes Biden exclusively as an "empty vessel of the radical left," and says: "I think you need to judge Joe Biden by the people he's surrounding himself with."
Love this photo of dogs watching a performance of Billy Elliott. They’re training to become service dogs, and they're practicing what it's like to help their handlers navigate through a theater.
Amazing.
Gov. Greg Abbott's "enhanced" truck inspections turned up zero drugs or migrants, but cost Texas consumers and businesses an estimated $4.2 billion.
Delays resulted in $240 million in spoiled produce alone.
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through the campaign manager’s private company, according to top Republicans with knowledge of the payments
So weird how Trump is responsible for everything that happened in the first three years of his presidency but somehow the Democrats are responsible for the past 6 months
What happened to all those constitutional conservatives I've heard about? Postal service, decennial census, legislative branch holding power of the purse -- Trump is sabotaging so many things literally required by the Constitution with nary a peep from GOP
Horses that reportedly got traded today: Repubs demanded tax break for corporate meal expenses ("three martini lunches"). Dems agreed, in exchange for expanded tax credits for low income families & working poor
Pretty much sums up the parties' priorities
Lol, apparently urging people to register to vote and "reject hate speech, misinformation, and online negativity" is campaigning against Trump.
This reminds me of the time NPR tweeted out the text of the Declaration of Independence and people thought it was an anti-Trump attack
Prince Harry and Megan Markle are using foreign titles to campaign against President Trump and interfere with our election. Today, I asked the British Government to put a stop to it.
See my full letter below⬇️
IF OUR FORMALLY TARGETED FARMERS NEED ADDITIONAL AID UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE TRADE DEALS WITH CHINA, MEXICO, CANADA AND OTHERS FULLY KICK IN, THAT AID WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PAID FOR OUT OF THE MASSIVE TARIFF MONEY COMING INTO THE USA!
Fox News’s Chris Wallace: "Let’s start with a basic fact. President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on a free press in our history."
Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
holy moly, child poverty rate rose from all-time low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% (!!!) in 2022, reflecting end of temporary child allowance and other programs.
Striking that so much of the praise for Biden invokes the words “decent” and “empathy.” It’s not so much faint praise as a recognition that the other candidate is probably a sociopath.
Crazy Nancy Pelosi is looking at the 25th Amendment in order to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris. The Dems want that to happen fast because Sleepy Joe is out of it!!!
Unclear whether all of the eulogists today accused of attacking Trump were actually attacking Trump. But when vague truisms about American values & fighting abuse of power sound like they *could* be a subtweet of a sitting president, that is perhaps the biggest indictment of all
judge has ordered 2 top Trump officials, former DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and AG Jeff Sessions, to be deposed in lawsuit over family separations. would mark the first time the former officials have been ordered to testify in one of dozens of lawsuits
Two years ago, Trump signed his tax cuts into law. He made big promises about them: they’d pay for themselves; supercharge GDP; give Americans huge raises; and ultimately become quite popular.
Two years on, all of those promises have been broken.
Just Posted: Maryanne Trump Barry, President Trump’s older sister, faced accusations of judicial misconduct over her role in the fraudulent tax schemes reported by The Times. She decided to retire, making her immune from misconduct proceedings.
This threat is illustrative of the issue at the heart of the impeachment inquiry: Is Trump acting in the interests of the American people, or of Trump personally?
Trump flew back to his own Las Vegas hotel each night during the western-states swing that wrapped up Friday, rather than in the other cities he was actually visiting. That likely cost taxpayers $1m extra, and diverted thousands of $ into his own pocket
Real econ risk is if things go wrong, WH doesn't have a plan & doesn't have any competent personnel to come up with one. Trump's econ brain trust consists of a guy who plays an economist on TV, a nutcase the entire (real) econ profession has disowned, & the producer of LegoBatman
It's true!
More than 1 in 4 doctors in the United States are immigrants
More than half of students enrolling in STEM grad programs are immigrants
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the native-born
Immigrants serve in the military
Immigrant entrepreneurs create jobs
'Immigration is an issue that affects all others. Immigration affects our health-care system. Immigration affects education. Immigration affects public safety, national security, our economy, our financial system' - S. Miller
via
@NickMiroff
@jdawsey1
Trump got feds to build him helipad at Maralago, and town of Palm Beach to permit use of helicopter there on condition it's used for official presidential business only.
Been used twice, both times by private business helicopter with corporate Trump logo.
Where exactly are millennial professionals allowed to live?
We got yelled at for living in our parents' basements.
We can’t live in big expensive cities, b/c we’ll gentrify or price out retirees.
We can't live in smaller, cheaper towns, where we'll displace the locals.
President Trump on the debt ceiling: "I said, I remember, to Sen. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, 'Would anyone ever use that to negotiate with?' They said 'absolutely not.' That's a sacred element of our country. They can't use the debt ceiling to negotiate."
Trump plans to:
*add a 10% tax to almost everything consumers buy
*reduce labor supply (cracking down on both legal and illegal immigration)
*expand deficits (more tax cuts etc)
*kneecap the independent agency tasked w/ price stability
All these things on margin are inflationary
More voters expect Biden's policies to cause price increases, while they tend to think Trump’s policies would lower prices, something Republicans overwhelmingly believe will happen.
signs you may not be hiring the best attorneys
1) they send formal legal letters in Comic Sans
2) they sign formal legal letters with a Sharpie
3) you aren't paying them, but a company called "Fraud Guarantee" is
4) they're in prison
What’s in this supposedly commonsense bill McCarthy is demanding in exchange for not destroying the global economy?
Here’s my handy guide, for those interested in the substance of the legislation and not just political gamesmanship. 🧵
When Obama was president and the official economic statistics were good, Trump said they were fake.
When Trump became president and inherited the exact same stats, suddenly they were real.
Now that they’re turning south, they’re fake again.
My gym just charged my credit card the usual monthly fee for a service they have no intention of providing, given that all gyms are closed and everyone at the gym has already been laid off. No response to multiple cancellation requests sent weeks ago. How is this not fraud?
Trump announced that Melania would hold a news conference to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S. He said this would happen "over the next couple of weeks."
That was almost exactly 4 years ago. Still waiting.
For the past two weeks, President Trump, Larry Kudlow & other White House officials have gone on TV and repeatedly downplayed coronavirus risks to pump markets.
Starting to look like prioritizing stock market performance at the expense of public health sacrifices both.
If you listen to Trump, Kudlow or other WH aides, you might think we have to choose between what's optimal for public health and what's optimal for the economy. Save lives, or maximize GDP. But if you listen to actual economists, you'll learn this is a false choice. /1
Man steals pro-Biden yard sign, then goes around town stealing copies of local newspaper containing story on his theft of the pro-Biden yard sign.
Local newspaper then publishes new story, on theft of the story on the theft.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar tells
@jaketapper
the Trump administration does not have the “exact details” of a health care alternative in case they get their way and the Supreme Court wipes out Obamacare.
It’s weird how one quarter of 4.1% growth under Trump means the economy is completely transformed but one quarter of 5.1% growth under Obama meant socialism was nigh
Moore: I bet Trump has 180 IQ. amazing breadth of knowledge
Hasan: This is a man who thinks wind turbines cause cancer, you can stop a hurricane w nuclear weapon, thinks you need ID to buy box of cereal
Moore: I'm not here to defend everything Trump says
Real question raised by that Lev Parnas “Take her out” tape isn’t whether presidents have ability to recall ambassadors. It’s why he was giving the removal order in this crowd. Where exactly do Parnas and Fruman fall on the State Dept org chart