At this point advertising on twitter now becomes an approval of Musk's antisemitic comments. Even a company where the CEO is a Nazi knows it can't be good for the company to stick with twitless.

It makes zero sense to me that the Democrats didn't start something like this weeks ago to get the Republicans on the record for being anti military and potentially work that into being pro Putin - because it obviously has a component of that. But the thing is is that the media while always seemingly to report and even support right wing talking points even overt lies, the much more reasonable talking points by the Democrats tend to back fire on them.

It's almost as if our entire media wants Republicans to win seats so the owners of all that media don't get forced to pay taxes like the rich used to pay taxes.

Don't worry about MS. They've got the money to postpone this case until there is a Republican attorney general who will settle this case for thousands instead of billions. It happens all the time.

Only common people get screwed by the IRS, not the super rich.

(Although in order to continue the pretense that justice is equal, they will occasionally allow a rich person to lose in court but that is usually NEW rich, like Martha Stewart.)

During those years after the Bush tax cuts where the GDP went up some and government revenues went up were mostly the same years that the fed was lowering the lending rates year after year. So how do you separate out the effect of lowering the lending rate which put more $$ in the hands of investors, versus the tax cuts that put more money in the hands of Corporations who used that $$ for stock buy backs and automation and moving jobs overseas. None of which are overall helpful for the American economy and the American people?

And the Obama stimulus package put trillions into the economy and the GDP went from minus 2 to plus 2. That's a 4 point change. (And deficits went down)

Prior to the pandemic, Trump's GDP went from the 2.5 that he inherited to an average of 2.7. That's a 0.2 point change. (And deficits skyrocketed.)

So I'm confused. How can anyone other than a propagandist suggest that the tax cuts did ANYTHING for the American economy other than make the super rich richer?

Where's the beef on this?

Why hasn't Schumer brought up a vote to change this rule? Put any Republican on record as against the change and use it is an obvious anti military stance of those Republicans in the next election.

Or does he not do this because too many Democrats might vote against the rule change?

"...The Republicans might want to pull out and read those pocket constitutions they claim to carry around before they try to give McHenry any special powers...."

There isn't a lot in the Constitution on how the House and Senate should run the house and senate. Most of those rules come from the house or senate themselves.

Hopefully there will be some Republicans that will insist that in order to approve this temporary move, that certain bills be allowed to come to the floor including funding the government until after the next election.

" In the end, Palestinians voted for this.

If the vote was "corrupt" then why didn't the UN or the US step in and run it like it does everywhere else? "

The Palestinians voted for Hamas in 2006 and since then have not allowed new elections. But you are correct that the UN and the US and Israel should not have allowed no elections to continue.

Well in order to call it a humanitarian crises, you have to consider the fact that the victims of that crises are human.

Thus, I suspect, it is easy for this woman to make such a statement.

Bush ignored the threats that screamed out as imminent in the summer of 2001 and rather than getting damned for ignoring that threat he because a hero and used that to trick us into a war to get Iraqi oil back onto world markets.
Did Netanyahu do the same thing when he seemingly ignored what Hamas was planning? Did Netanyahu figure he could get his agenda passed - just like Bush Cheney did in his 2 administrations - if he ignored the threats? Then using the principles laid out in Naomi Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine", he could get whatever he wanted.

Seems to me that the ONLY people on the planet that benefit from this is Russia, Iran, possibly some well connected people in Hamas, and Netanyahu.

The Israelis people and the Palestinians will suffer to high heaven, as will most of Hamas rank and file. But if Netanyahu can survive what looks like similar incompetence that Bush showed us that summer back in 2001, then he stands to possibly become a full blown dictator of Israel.

This is not a bug in living in a red state but a feature. Republicans have always hated SS and have stolen SS money to help pay for tax cuts for the rich. But that money needs to be paid back now that the baby boomers, who paid that money to those rich, are retiring in droves.
So those Republican led governments say let them die and this lowers the benefits and costs of SS. This has postponed the day the government has to pay that money back. The problem is that these deaths are not quite enough to postpone that day of reckoning anymore.

So now, they want to cut benefits so they postpone paying it back some more. And this will also lead to more elder deaths so that will also contribute to postponing that day and at the same time potentially bigger tax cuts for the rich.

It is a truly brilliant move and they've gotten millions of voters voting to make it happen. Voters who end up dying sooner than those who tend to vote in favor of the politicians working to prevent that from happening - many Democrats though sadly, not all. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the con job the Republicans are getting away with.

..."I disagree. They should stay and help protect the ones that don't have the means to leave."....

Maybe offer them a ride?

His show had been circling the drain for years when the pandemic hit. And when he broadcast from home without writers his show became truly horrendous and for us, impossible to watch. When he returned to the studio we didn't return.
And after this failed attempt to return, we never will. And his explanation for why he isn't returning is probably some of the worst fiction I've read in years.

"By 1942 it was kind of late for the Vatican to stop fascism. Don't forget they were surrounded by fascist Italy and Mussolini would have loved for the pope to disappear."

So a reasonable defense of this pope is cowardice. Got it!