Did Trump put his hand on the Bible?

No, he didn't.

Inskeep: You suggest a scenario where Trump is effectively using these tech leaders. They're up on stage with him, as though they're totems of his triumph. Are you sure that he's not using you, though, that it might be the reverse, that they're going to get what they want out of this and you're not?

Bannon: This is all a process, right? This is a populist, nationalist revolution in this country. It's been building for a long time. It takes a real understanding of how the system is and what solutions are populist solutions to change it. So is President Trump using us? No, it's his movement, right? We wouldn't be a movement if President Trump hadn't come along.

Steve's in for a big surprise.

More: The most recent entry in the "good advice for Democrats" canon comes from occasional TNR contributor and Bulwark writer Jonathan V. Last, who wrote, "The job of the Democratic party comes in two parts. First: Do not help Republicans. Not in any way. Second: Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world." True enough. The only problem here is the lack of an organized Democratic Party to actually serve as an aggressive opposition party. We could use one of those!

Nevertheless, there is a lesson here for liberals that we should perhaps heed while Democrats in Washington debate how supine they want to get for the incoming administration. During Trump's first term, much of the mainstream left organized itself around the idea that "this was not normal" and that surely our over-regarded system of norms would save us from Trump. And so deep investments were made in various quick fixes"an impeachment effort and the Mueller investigation chief among them"that seemed to offer the hope of prematurely canceling the Trump presidency, without much regard for how difficult it is to actually oust a president (or for the decades of evidence suggesting that our justice system routinely fails to hold the rich and powerful to account, more broadly).

A second Trump era offers the opportunity for a change of course"a second reckoning of sorts. I think that Last is on to something when he suggests that Trump's opposition should force him to "own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world." I'd actually take this a step further. Rather than exert so much energy trying to thrust Trump out of the presidency, liberals would be well served to spend their time thrusting the presidency upon Donald Trump. Instead of searching for illusory quick fixes for the existence of the Trump administration, start demanding the Trump administration fix everything quickly.

Schadenfreude may well be the only thing that gets many of us through the next four years with our sanity intact.

What a pu ssy

Tax Cuts for Billionaires is Top Priority

Always has been. Anyone who thought otherwise is willfully ignorant.

Am I the only one here who is noticing a pattern of purchasing the actions of Pres-elect Trump?

Just wait until he is sworn in and laws no longer apply to him.

Just a bit outside.

Bitch move. What a sad little man.

An agency to charge Americans more for importing goods so they can charge other American more for finished products. Worst idea so far this century.

Tim Kaine made him look like a fool.

The single worst decision made by the SCOTUS since Dred Scott.

More: On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju that there should be "conditions" on the proposed federal aid to California in the wake of the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County.

"It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects, so that's something that has to be factored in. I think there should probably be conditions on that aid."

Asked whether he planned on conditioning the aid to debt ceiling negotiations, Johnson said that option is on the table. "There's some discussion about that, but we'll see where it goes."

Yeha, takes one to know one.

Who cares what Jamie Dimon thinks, he has no concept of how real people live their lives. They couldn't have found a more out of touch person to ask this question to.

More: After two men brutally assaulted a security guard on a desolate train platform on the outskirts of St. Louis, county transit police detective Matthew Shute struggled to identify the culprits. He studied grainy surveillance videos, canvassed homeless shelters and repeatedly called the victim of the attack, who said he remembered almost nothing because of a brain injury from the beating.

Months later, they tried one more option.

Shute uploaded a still image from the blurry video of the incident to a facial recognition program, which uses artificial intelligence to scour the mug shots of hundreds of thousands of people arrested in the St. Louis area. Despite the poor quality of the image, the software spat out the names and photos of several people deemed to resemble one of the attackers, whose face was hooded by a winter coat and partially obscured by a surgical mask.

Though the city's facial recognition policy warns officers that the results of the technology are "nonscientific" and "should not be used as the sole basis for any decision," Shute proceeded to build a case against one of the AI-generated results: Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of violent offenses, as Shute would later acknowledge.

Arrested and jailed for a crime he says he didn't commit, it would take Gatlin more than two years to clear his name.

Gatlin is one of at least eight people wrongfully arrested in the United States after being identified through facial recognition. Six cases were previously reported in media outlets. Two wrongful arrests " Gatlin and Jason Vernau, a Miami resident " have not been previously reported.

All of the cases were eventually dismissed. Police probably could have eliminated most of the people as suspects before their arrest through basic police work, such as checking alibis, comparing tattoos, or, in one case, following DNA and fingerprint evidence left at the scene.

"Too much feminine energy with this guy. Women hate each other like he is talking. Men can put differences aside."

...wailed boaz as he hated Don Lemon so much that he made a thread about it.

More: "It's legally and ethically dicey to have open conversations about this," says Graham Parsons, a philosophy professor at West Point who urged military officers and troops to consider resisting "politicized" orders in a New York Times op-ed in September. One concern is whether the military could tarnish itself with an incident like Kent State, when four college students were shot to death by jittery and poorly trained Ohio National Guardsmen in 1970.

"Soldiers are trained predominately to fight, kill and win wars," says Brian VanDeMark, a Naval Academy historian and author of the 2024 book Kent State: An American Tragedy. "Local police and state police are far better trained to deal with the psychology of crowds, which can become inherently unpredictable, impulsive and irrational. If you're not well trained to cope, your reaction might be inadequate and turn to force." He adds that at the Naval Academy as well as West Point, "my impression is this is an issue that is being thought about and worried about a lot but it's not openly discussed."

Repubs are so desperate to have Trump seem legitimate they are now using him speaking to a man they absolutely despise as a way to do that.

Really though when haven't people died needlessly from preventable causes in Mississippi?

The problem with the CFPB is it's an unconstitutional institution.

Even Clarence Thomas disagrees with you.