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Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads.
The Trump administration used Homeland Security funds to finance a set of controversial pro-Trump advertisements that recently began airing on television on.wsj.com/4iQdY6L
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Mike Lee is so close to figuring out why the government shouldn’t be weighing in on religion.
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Trump weaponizing the Justice Department to compel the Fed into violating the law on his behalf.
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Consider supporting this charity or others who are supporting the hungry right now as many are facing their SNAP benefits ending: feedingamerica.org/?fbclid=P…
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One of things that liberals and people who are not really that deep into conservative activism underestimate, is how outcome dependent conservatives are, even the most intellectually inclined... the ones who are purely principled never get to the top like Roberts.
Weak state capacity and high corruption go hand in hand. This is why countries fail to develop. The "deep state" that Trump rails against is just competent and honest government, that won't do let him do whatever he wants.
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CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: Hawks, Doves and Lapdogs
The next Fed chair will be an obedient partisan…
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Generations of Lost Cause nostalgia have obscured the Civil War for what it was. A second revolution to fulfill the promises of the first. It didn't get us there, America continued to be, and continues to be, a work in progress.
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Tonight is a Litmus Test for the country.
Trump knows it is completely illegal to deploy Marines on American citizens.
But Trump also knows that Congress is filled with weak and spineless people that will not do anything.
And Trump also knows that the legal system in our country is too slow and often times too politicized to protect the citizenry.
So Trump is doing this to see how the people react.
If the people allow him to get away with calling the Marines on Los Angeles, what is to stop Trump from calling the Army on New York City next?
Or the Navy on Boston Harbor after that?
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This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers.
To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols, what is that formula? Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was.
I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed, or is just being misleading. Either way, the Trump administration did not "literally calculate tariff and non tariff barriers" to determine the tariff rates it's imposing on other countries. As I said, it divided our trade deficit with a country by our imports with that country, and then multiplied by 0.5 (because Trump was being "lenient").
Oh, and if our trade deficit/imports with a country is less than 10%, or we have a trade surplus with a country, Trump slapped a flat 10% tariff on that country.
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I truly don't understand how you can think that America is great and also not be a liberal shill. What makes America great is liberalism!!!!
Unless it's all just a white supremacist thing but even that is coming from such a cucked, weak, low confidence place it's hard to get.
