"In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism seems to be devouring everything, the temptation is to believe that this time is different."

David Brooks

They're saving a lot of money by not paying or feeding the troops. Sort of the way Trump has always done business.

If polls continue to sink we can forget about having an election in 2026. Rs will not let it happen unless they're going to win.

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"The Republicans have always had a challenge that they were the party of wealthy Americans and business. The problem is wealthy Americans will always be a very small minority of Americans. So for wealthy Americans, they have to convince at least some nonwealthy Americans to support their platform. How do you do that? Well, you do it with issues of identity, their sense of threat, their sense of fear, their sense of the world is changing and "I'm being left behind." It's very effective."

Barbara Walter

"In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism seems to be devouring everything, the temptation is to believe that this time is different."

David Brooks

Not so long ago our National Guard shot and killed people protesting the Viet Nam war. Some things never change.

"Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic."

Former President Bill Clinton

I did not think it would ever happen, but I have to agree with Musk about this bill.

If Iran or North Korea want to nuke the US they will just ship the bombs in via FedEx. Cheaper and nobody would know where it came from. It's too far to use trucks like Ukraine did.

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Pretty soon DJT will have insulted and blamed everyone on both sides of the aisle to the point that they stop paying him off in donations.
#4 | Posted by Corky

Dream on. He's collected so much graft he doesn't need them anymore. Sigh.

one of thses days South Florida will secede and leave the rest of the state to wither and die.
#8 | Posted by danni

One of these days South Florida will be under water.

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"Blaming the messenger for bad news might help in hiding these from the public for a while. But it doesn't make them go away."

Maher Abdallah, head of international relations at the al-Jazeera TV channel

If Iran or North Korea wants to nuke the US they would be crazy to use a missile. Then everyone in the world would know where it came from and who to shoot back at. They would ship the bomb in via UPS. Cheaper, more reliable, and nobody knows where it came from. Of course both of those countries ARE crazy.

"The U.S. government's use of ICE is reminiscent of how governments in countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua have used police and paramilitary units loyal to the president with impunity to suppress dissent."

Alternet

"Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."

George Carlin

"We now live in the Trump era, where the president's terrible ideas are made real by a team of enablers and toadies. Democracy may die in darkness, but under Trump, it's just as liable to die in dumbness."

Bret Stephens, New York Times.

"Of course due process makes it harder for the government to do what it wants. That's the whole point " to make sure that the government is acting in accord with the law."

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law

"Government "of the People" cannot flourish beneath a suffocating cloak of secrecy. And secrecy is often aimed, not at protecting us from enemies abroad, but at deceiving us about the dark machinations of our own government."

Sen. Richard H. Black, Colonel US Army (ret.); Associate, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

"Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic."

Former President Bill Clinton

Is there any chance this is why Musk wants to gut EPA?

Of course it will cut medicare. Rich people don't need it and they are the only ones who count.

"We now live in the Trump era, where the president's terrible ideas are made real by a team of enablers and toadies. Democracy may die in darkness, but under Trump, it's just as liable to die in dumbness."

Bret Stephens, New York Times.

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