HighOPS

Firing all the federal workers only saves a couple hundred billion. The workers themselves were (are?) a bargain at only $1000 or so per American. Of course (as almost everyone here knows) the only way to balance the budget, if it were a sincere and useful goal, is to return to 20th Century taxation or have huge reductions in Medicare, Social Security and military spending.

It will be worded so bonuses for certain financial sector workers will be "tips". Just like certain salaries are considered long term capital gains.

And no empathy.

You can torture immigrants in Arizona to get a pardon, too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

Plus, by breaking the government they can restore the services people demand. Of course the restored services will be privatized, be more expensive due to profit, have higher fraud because the contracts will be structured on service delivery numbers, and pay the workers delivering the services less. It's Russia in the 90's. Hopefully, we won't get even more Germany in the 30's to go with it.

Or, perhaps worse yet, how many times had he been told already?

Signal caused the empire to kill 50 civilians to get one leader in such a way as to create great risk to our pilots and equipment? It does sound defective.

"Siri, add Mogul to chat" "Adding Goldberg to chat"

I expect "wear red for [something]" days so the cult can go out in public with their MAGA gear and only seem like assholes and not complete assholes.

Do you think Waltz has Trump in Signal using "Gold" as part of a nickname?

But, did Schumer get to his first promotional event on time?

Guy down the street who generally seems annoying (e.g. chopping down city planted tree and burning the stump for three days) has the Ukrainian flag flying.

I know the broader market seems to move 2-4% on based on 25% tariffs. But, there are probably some specific stocks that move a lot more giving a great opportunity for graft if you know the timing of the announcements.

I'm OK with the $250 bill as long as they don't repeal the relevant part of the 1866 Act of Congress.

The 880b is over 10 years, so it's just a devastating cut, not a complete elimination. Except for the 10% of people no longer covered or the medical providers reimbursed further below cost.