Foster Zygote
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Trump's Second Term
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dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
What Me Worry?I don't know who this is, unless he's just mocking random Americans now
dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
Someone tell DOnnie that Nuisance Suites don't work when the POTUS tries them....
A Nuisance suite is where you sue knowing you don't stand much of a chance of winning, but hoping that other side will make a deal rather then run up the legal costs of fighting it. Trump in his business days was notorious for filing these.
Norman Alexander
Penultimate Amazing
A trick he was taught by Roy Cohn.
Segnosaur
Penultimate Amazing
Is it just me, or does that picture hurt trump more than help him?
The picture makes Trump look like some sort of elitist, while el Sayed looks like an approachable friendly guy, a sort of "everyman".
bruto
Penultimate Amazing
Deal or not, a nuisance suit can be ruinous and just plain ugly and unpleasant, and Trump has made it plain that his intention is to make people's lives miserable and hellish. Because for the president this stuff is free, and there seems to be no downside to losing, no precedent that prevents a losing case from simply being repeated, it's worth doing even with no chance at all of winning and no likelihood of a deal.
The Atheist
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His worshippers will love it, and that's all that matters to him.
Everyone else knows he's a racist ◊◊◊◊.
The financial times made the same point about this being the reason for the US coming to the aid of the Yen. Either the yen would fall making Japanese exports cheaper and US exports more expensive. Or Japan would sell US bonds putting up interest rates. The US currently pays about $1 trillion in interest (about 20% of the federal budget), predicted to increase every year, Even for the US this is becoming unsustainable.The real reason why Trump and Bessent are scared of higher interest rates:
How Scott Bessent used financial engineering to fund the $2 trillion deficit while leaving it untouched | Fortune
The alarm is coming from inside the house. The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee says the borrowing math no longer adds up.fortune.com
TL: DR: this administration decided to do all deficit financing through the shortest, lowest interest rate bonds that run just for a year, instead of staggering it in short, medium and long-term bonds.
The result is that the money for current deficit plus the next one will have to raised at the same, and probably at higher cost.
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Off topic, but I wonder if you choose that phrase because it was in the first Latin paragraph you were taught. It was in the opening paragraph of Ecce Romani. I don't remember much more than that, but somehow that is stuck in my head.
Jeanine Pirro's brilliant performance appeared again in this new video about Trump's DOJ:
It's a kind of Best of the Justice Department if the DOJ were a comedy improv group as it sometimes appears to be.
I also considered placing it in So what form does the resistance take? thread because Beaver Creek's resistance to Buck-ee's corporation is truly inspiring.
As always, there are two versions of the show out on YouTube, the one above with all the particularly silly segments included in addition to the main story about Trump's DOJ and this one without them: Trump & the DOJ: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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I thought it was AI to start with (since it appears to be set in the 1920s), but turns out it's a posed photo by David Yarrow, who is well-known for his wildlife and celebrity shoots (sometimes both together). (I saw him speak at a camera show a few years back.)I'm sure this will resonate with struggling Americans
Turnberry Std format Col by David Yarrow | Watson Gallery
Turnberry Std format Col by David Yarrow
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dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
Just read about Trump's Patriot Games. God, it's the Hunger Games for real.
dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
Oh, Nuisance suits have been around forever...a long time before Cohn, and it not like Cohn invented them.
Except Trump overdid it. A loy of them are thrown out of court very quickly.
Flo
Illuminator
Is there all that much of a difference between the two ?
Trump's Patriot Games Athletes Spill Embarrassing Details
The Patriot Games are more like the MAGA Games.
Norman Alexander
Penultimate Amazing
Never said Cohn invented them. Nor that Donny was the first Trump for whom he advocated using them. Just that Cohn perfected the art of exploiting the angles between the actual wording of the law and true "spirit of the law" as to how it was supposed and expected to be applied. In short, he got as close to cheating as he could legally get away with. Donny thinks he can do the same.
By many accounts it was: In short, he cheated as much as he could
The actual "legality" doesn't seem to have been part of his decision making.
Well beside all the obvious concerns with security and protests there's the fact that Trump will insist on being involved at every stage, up to and including handing over the trophy, oh and he will bitch and whine if an American player attracts a penalty.