Wow! Quite a story. I was not aware of who she was.Good for her that she seems to be doing well.

https://x.com/dudespostingws/status/2047376708253143275?s=46

On Reddit today there was a picture of smoke in the air near the Pentagon, and the person was asking what it was. The best comment was "black smoke indicates the election of a new secretary of the navy", lol. (it was just a car fire)

@Horace said: You not liking him is not a prediction that he'd go to war with Iran. (I don't actually care much about the war personally, but I recognize it as a betrayal of his campaign platform.) Him going to war with Iran is a symptom of who he is, not the cause of why I don't like him. The fact that he was primarily self-serving and an agent of chaos should have been obvious.

The money quote: “One of the limits of madman theory is that you always have to be the craziest man,” Miller told Stein. “And right now, he's in a game of chicken with ... the craziest sons of b—— in the world. And so it's like, 'okay. So now... now what?' And you can see what happens, which is he says, ‘Oh, I'm gonna end their civilization,’ or, ‘Oh, I'm not gonna extend the ceasefire,’ or, ‘We're gonna go back at their power plants.’ And then when push comes to shove, it's like he doesn't want to do it.” While the “madman theory” was popularized by another controversial Republican president, Richard Nixon, Trump’s predecessor used this approach only sporadically, only after deliberately plotting his implementation — and could point to achievements like ending the Vietnam War, preventing nuclear war in the Middle East and opening up relations with China. By contrast, as Stein and Miller noted, Trump seems to act impulsively. The difference being that Nixon understood foreign policy, diplomacy and with whom he was dealing. Trump has no clue of any of any of the three. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/trump-trapped-as-his-game-of-chicken-backfires-report/ar-AA21xWij?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69e9757800c94432a4d2c5d38d00edc6&cvpid=b7fdb46c1386461faa29e6f40bf55ac2&ei=22

@Renauda LOL And in other news, a majority of people who voted for Ronald Reagan for US president are now dead, some under mysterious circumstances.

He should read the language the Texas legislature offered to their voters.

SBF is in federal prison for something similar to this.

I suspect (without opening the link) that snap excluded prepared foods so that it would buy more and people wouldn’t waste it at McDonald’s and rotisserie chicken just got caught up in that definition. But I agree with Horace, it’s cheap and nutritious and easy for a single mom.

https://x.com/positivityofx/status/2047222957215449287?s=46

Well, that has never stopped him before. LOL

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https://x.com/volokhc/status/2047069067756896573?s=46

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The fact that the AG is called Blanche is quite funny.

This is a none starter: The Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an "entry fee" from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA), four sources told Radio-Canada…. The U.S. demand was also confirmed by former Quebec premier Jean Charest, who was appointed Tuesday to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations. "[U.S. President Donald] Trump wants us to make a lot of concessions before we sit down at the table," Charest told Radio-Canada. "Meanwhile, he wouldn’t make any." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/washington-demanding-entry-fee-from-ottawa-before-trade-talks-sources-9.7172340

Seems like the right thread for this. https://x.com/daily_mailus/status/2046941807422939578?s=46

@Horace said: Tucker's son works as an intern for Vance. I forgot about that. Most make for some awkward moments in the office.