Not sure how you can blackmail Trump. What information could be out there that is significantly worse than things we already know? Is it worse than rape(s)? Worse than selling State secrets? Worse than insurrection?

Suppose it is worse, what will the useless Democrats do about it, tweet? Will the Republicans suddenly grow a conscience?

Well he said he wanted generals like Hitler had. The old Prussian officer corp commonly referred to them as "nodding donkeys".
You'll need to make a large list of reasons The Reich lost The Great Patriotic War. Somewhere near the top will be the loyalty oaths and purges Hitler imposed on the men who actually knew how to fight a war.

Just because it has a big number doesn't mean you need more people to manage it.
It's a gigantic number. For comparison Goldman Sacs manages 1.7 trillion and has over 45,000 employees.
But you're the one making the assertion. Tell us why the Fed should lose 90% of its' labor force. Surely there is more to your argument than, "computers go brrrr".

Of course we know her name, because we absolutely know what we're talking about and it's not just reflexive MAGA hate
I knew they pushed some lady out to be the frontman after Musk blew a joint with Rogan. Probably couldn't have recalled her name without Google. I also know we wouldn't be in a position to outsource rocket launches if Democrats hadn't been chocking off NASA's budget since the 60's. Whatever SpaceX manages to accomplish with taxpayer money over the next decade it will be because they are standing on the shoulders of giants whose achievements served humanity not some morally bankrupt flamethrower salesman who thinks he is IRL Ironman.
"we coup who we want" should have been the end of Musk in American politics and the source of my reflexive' hate of him. He should have been hauled in front of Congress. Who is "we"? Did he violate the Logan Act? Did he use his money and influence to overthrow a democratically elected government to get access to their lithium? Instead we are handing him the last great frontier and now apparently US budget oversite.

The Federal Reserve has about 22,000 employees.

You couldn't have picked a worse example.
The Fed manages a 7.5 trillion dollar portfolio.
It's self funding, and in most years writes a check for several hundred million dollars to The Treasury Department.

We are against space and rural broadband and EV subsidies now?

Can't speak for "we". Yes, I'm against diverting NASA funds to pay for a billionaire tech bro's Mars pipe-dream.
"rural broadband" = red state pork project that better enables Trump voters to spam Facebook memes and cruise Grinder. If Mississippi wants broadband Mississippi should pay for it.
If people want to spend their money on an overpriced S,E,X or Y model Tesla they are free to do so. Using tax money to prop up the stock price of a company ran by a never-grew-up frat boy seems like the definition of government inefficacy.

A Christian fundie yearning for the apocalypse to begin - Mike Huckabee as US Ambassador to Israel.

I think the next four years might be kinda fun.
Reparations for white people. Goat farmers running Homeland Security. Parasitic brain worms overseeing Healthcare.
It's like The Onion administration!

"Hamas is a terrorist organization created for the express & explicit purpose of driving every Jew out of the region & replacing Israel with a fundamentalist Islamic Palestinian state stretching from the Jordan to the Mediterranean
Israel has no choice but to eliminate Hamas ... "
-USA SoS

Congrats to all the pro-paraglider Jill Stein voters!
You really put the Democrats in their place.

What makes Cheney a "war hawk"? Ukraine support? That's not what war hawk means. Look at her foreign policy voting record. Nothing hawkish.
Nine guns pointed at your face, from what battlefield account did Captain Bonespurs recall that scenario?
Seems like the imagery of a firing squad to me. But maybe Gal's right and I'm hearing what I want to hear.
In a strong field this might be Trump's most dangerous flaw:
The inability to speak English in a way a normal person can understand precisely what the ---- he means.

I'f you're ever curious what it would be like to live in a Police State you don't need to fly to N Korea, just drive through Texas. Highway Patrol every 1.7 miles, people pulled over for traffic violations at gunpoint, Border Patrol checkpoints. Countless road signs, OBEY this, LAW that. "Prison Area" almost as often as a McDonalds on a Longhorn Ave.
The Lone Star State, that's not just the motto it's their Yelp rating.

How many hospitals have the IDF claimed to be Hamas secret bases that turned out to be just hospitals after bombing them or raids killing innocent civilians?

Don't leave us hanging ...
How many?

There are (were) 37 hospitals in Gaza. Almost three times more than Tel Aviv which has more than double the population of Gaza.

Since you approve of open-ended rhetorical questions, here's one: which hospital in Gaza are you willing to bet the lives of someone else's children doesn't give aid to terrorists, doesn't have weapon caches and doesn't have known terrorists on staff?

So do the Palestinian
Occasionally. The overwhelming majority of Palestinian attacks are against civilian targets. The stated goal is to kill or capture as many civilians as possible. Prediction: You wont even attempt to dispute this.
They refuse to learn the lessons of other oppressed minority populations whose foes had military superiority, like the ANC or IRA or NIC or American civil rights activists. They WANT to be martyred, just ask them. They see 'people' like you encouraging self immolation and think they are on the winning path. If they can hold out for one more year, one more decade, one more century, they'll finally get all the land. If they keep throwing their children into the meat grinder 'history will be on their side'.
"the world is watching in horror"...so more suicide tactics, more death, more war.
Meanwhile, the "world" just keeps "watching", doing nothing. Because the Jews, despite their size, have big bats to swing politically, economically and militarily all over the world. And the so-called Palestinians only have martyrs.
One great irony is that 'people' like you are the Palestinians worst enemy. You make it impossible for any outcome but total destruction. Of course, you're fine with that. The only thing you really care about is name-calling on the internet, brave warrior of righteousness you are.

Only difference being it's 2024 and you can't hide the truth as easily anymore.
Slightly off topic but you're really showing how pathetically naive you are. It's easier than ever to spread lies and misinformation around the globe at lighting speed.

fkkking ghoul
miserable piece of shht
garbage human
Show this thread to your therapist, I dare you.

uprisings in the ghettos
The Jews attacked the Germans in uniform. They didn't kidnap German children or gang rape German civilians.
Black slaves didn't hijack Canadian stagecoaches under a guise of revolutionary action.

You're a fkkking re Tar D
Goodman's Law and a slur. You really know how to make a point!
But not necessarily the point you are going for ...

History will judge
History, as Churchill said, will be written by the victors. Spoiler alert: the Syrian and Egyptian squatters commonly referred to as "Palestinians" won't be its' authors.
If you actually gave a ---- about the poor misunderstood freedom fighters of Gaza you'd be much more concerned about their actual future rather than an imaginary judgement of history.
But let's be real. You don't give a ----. It's just hand waiving and virtue signaling with 0 real life consequences for you. Like Hamas, you're happy for the conflict to continue. What else are you going to do with your time? You spend every waking hour of everyday splooging TikTok memes and hurling slurs from the safety of the internet. It's a tailor-made topic for someone like you to moan about.
Power dynamic where you get to side with your fellow weaklings. Check
East/West divide where you get to condemn the West whilst enjoying all it provides. Check
Sufficient a-historical propaganda where you don't have to actually know anything to participate. Check
Opportunity to call people Nazis while constantly spewing antisemitic tropes. Check

Among the items found on Sinwar's carcass was an employee badge for the UN. No one is shocked.

You can read every post I've ever written about the conflict between Israel and Palestine and will never find one mention from me in support for Hamas.
No, you're much too much of a coward to come out and say something that could be so easily hung around your neck in future discussions. You don't need to say it, but it's there between the lines nonetheless.
What you're doing is no different than some of the righties who claim to not support Trump then repeat every Trump meme verbatim, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.

"I don't support Hamas"
... .but migrant caravans are coming to eat your pets
"I don't support Hamas"
... .but Kamala will allow babies to be executed after birth
"I don't support Hamas"
... .but the Democrats are actually secret communists

Say what you will about the average kiffiyeh wearing hanglider, and I've said plenty, but at least they have the guts to stand up straight and say what they mean.

The idea that someone who does a job in Savana, GA should in principle be paid the same as someone doing that job in Long Beach is absurd. Why not demand the same benefits as dock workers in Rotterdam?
Can the companies counter with the pay package workers in Manilla receive?

I've got no problem with unions. But the people who run and speak for unions often look and sound like mob bosses. Their ignorance of basic economics is laughable. They come off as someone with a 9th grade education who watched every episode of The Sopranos and thinks Tony was the good guy.

"So what does that make Melania"
"I dunno, I would have to assume a high priced call girl"
S. Seaborn

Also, the line about good writers stealing came from Oscar Wilde.

TBF Bartlet's monologue was taken from FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech meant to overthrow the isolationist attitudes following WWI.

As Sorkin puts it in another episode, I think it was a Sam line: "good writers borrow from other writers, great writers steal from them outright".

As long as they don't park in the fuel isle to take a 40min dump whilst making loud grunting noises I'm fine with it.

I'm no Luddite. I think humans can and will do everything given enough time and resources. But self driving semis is really dumb even if we could somehow figure out the whole -who's liable- question. Dumb for all the reasons Shaun pointed out plus at least 100 more. And this isn't some quest for the the benefit of all mankind. It's so JB Hunt, CR England and Swift can save a nickel and have something to trade when truckers get smart enough to unionize.

I'm curious though, Shaun, given the choice between an AI driver, a well trained gibbon in a long nose Pete or a guy in a turban with a clapped out 15 year old white Volvo ...
Which is preferable?