The military museum and the daily news from Bosnia can almost make you think that war is what usually happens. Young men and women and children die. Politicians talk. Relief agencies try to help. And you do notice the museum has no pictures of victims, only heroes.
I've called him a menace, an addict, and a traitor to the west. And what triggers him is that I say one group of shareholders might be getting taken advantage of. That's that's what he decides.
The Republican party no longer exists. It has become a mega movement and it's tied itself to Donald Trump, which was always a bad idea. He was always mercurial. He was always uh really a salesman more than a politician.
If we take the Senate and the House, be clear, it wasn't that Democrats are back. It's just that for this moment, the American public decided they hate Democrats less.
I think young people are the immune system here like there's a variety of things plaguing the world right now but if you look at what's going on in France if you look at the election results in Serbia I think what has happened is that young people are saying we're sick of old people voting themselves more power ability to engage in corruption and voting themselves more money
This kind of magical power that Trump has to get voters to walk on glass to vote for him who might be irregular voters otherwise has never really carried over to the midterms or to other types of elections in the Trump era.
So the federal government has been using the SAVE database as well as some other commercially available databases to try to come up with a list of citizens that they're trying to have the states compare with their own state voter registration lists to take out people who are not eligible to be voting.
Usually secretaries of defense do everything they can to sort of protect the military from our sort of divisive politics and those culture wars. And Hegseth was really the first secretary of defense I've seen in my lifetime who invited that into the Pentagon and made it a central plank of his identity and leadership.
If you're under the age of 40 what you have witnessed is in addition to co you've witnessed this transfer of wealth and opportunity from your generation to older generations incredible income inequality what feels like a coarseness and a meanness that runs through our uh politics and a general acceptance that it's okay not to care about the lower middle class and the prospects of the young.
A major mistake that we did make was creating sort of a paraparty industry that really invested in this idea that demographics was destiny and that we didn't have to appeal to white voters and we started to sort of you know uh uh just flood ourselves with misinformation, bad analysis, bad data, misleading polling and it you know it was a conglomerate of interest groups.
If she were a black gay progressive, uh it would be my body, my choice, sexist work, um you know, girl boss, and instead because she's a white MAGA uh Republican, everyone's outraged. No, I think it's a double standard.
And basically, what they said was, it doesn't really matter if he's taking a salary or he's taking a salary of a dollar a year or whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is that he's acting as a government employee. He's acting as an agent of the United States government. And that in every conceivable way, Jared Kushner is a government employee, whether he's making money at it or not.
The reason I don't want to be a judge is a principal judge stays out of politics and stays out of policy fights. And if I were a judge, I'd do that. I'd stay out of those fights. I don't want to stay out of those fights.
So even before this executive order, if you wanted to do the thing Trump is asking for, which is to speak English, you were going to have to wait to learn how. But now they're just being told to do it without the funding for these classes.
You're seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. And we were hearing that, 'These things are here to stay. We have to figure out how to do it smartly.' At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly.
Scenes of mass migration events like this one have struck a nerve across Europe, where many politicians are hardening their immigration policies to appease the far right.
It's not a left-right thing. It's a populous technocrat divide. You're seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. And we were hearing that, 'These things are here to stay. We have to figure out how to do it smartly.' At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly.
All you have to be is a charismatic fraud and uh be incapable of feeling shame no matter how many times you're proven wrong and uh you know, you our politics will will promote you to somewhere near the top of the heap.
It's not a left-right thing. It's a populous technocrat divide. You're seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly.
If you look at where the Democrats are right now, from those you would call the more moderate ones to the progressive ones, they still are extraordinarily centrist to the point that most of them are to the right of Dwight Eisenhower, who was a Republican, of course. And what I'm referring to especially there is with Eisenhower's upper tax bracket at 91 or 92% with his call for universal health care, with all these things that coming out of World War II were absolutely centrist positions.
So this kind of circular logic of when, you know, constitutionality kind of winks on and off, depending on how popular something is, is an issue that has really kind of confounded lower courts.
Our country is all ancestral homelands of Native Americans, of indigenous people indigenous to North America, and we love our land and we celebrate it every day, right? We don't need a 250th anniversary to celebrate.
I saw a reluctance among Democrats to say they had done something wrong, that they had been using language that might alienate a voter, that might get them laughed at on Fox News. And in their minds, this was a really pain-free and sensible and tolerant way of saying that they were a diverse party that wanted to represent Native Americans.
I don't think a politician should be able to change their net worth a whole heck of a lot by getting into office. Like whatever your net worth is when you get into office, put in inflation, put in normal salary, and you should probably leave office with a similar.
Authoritarianism doesn't look like what it used to look like. It's not your grandmother's authoritarianism. It doesn't ride into town on the back of a coup in the way that it used to, in the way that so many of us have in our imagination. This is the slow hollowing out of institutions. It happens gradually.
You may think you don't do politics, but politics will do you. And so, choose to engage, use the power of your vote, the power of your voice, or you can step back, but that doesn't mean you may be opting out, but politics is not opting out of influencing your own life.
Many of them were radicalized on the campaign through the investigations and the efforts to prosecute Donald Trump. Many of them received some subpoenas themselves and viewed the stakes of the 2024 election as not so much about policy, but about staying out of prison.
The claims of persecution behind this refugee program are based on this wildly debunked far-right conspiracy about South Africa. That white farmers are being killed by gangs of black South Africans and that their land is being seized by the government.
An overweening state greatly prefers governing an atomistic populace, where each individual is like a BB thrown into an electoral sack. There's no structural rigidity to it, especially after laxity in the law concerning porn, pot, and poker has now greased all the BBs.
Big parties and sporting events are potentially the most underutilized political strategy, right? I would actually expect uh the the admin's like overall popularity uh approval rating to go up based on uh based just on this event
If progressives don't enforce the border, fascists will. And if Democrats can't come up with some sort of symbolism or role models that demonstrate strength and service as masculinity, then the Republicans sort of fill that hole with violence and misogyny, which is exactly what they're doing.
I can't figure out any strategy other than the Ellisons are either themselves very politically motivated to change the tone and tenor of CBS and 60 or they see more money incurring favor with the Trump administration who seems to be — I've heard — was incandescently enraged by the interview with Marjorie Taylor Green.
There was no deep state inside the Trump administration. There were people willing to speak truth to power and prevent the President from doing illegal things, not to prevent him from implementing a lawful agenda.
As a Black woman in this country, just about every right that I have is some type of law that can be overturned. And in my lifetime, I'm actively watching those efforts happen.
The biggest psychological tax cut in history would be if we elected a technocrat who maybe checked in once a month but wasn't in your face every day and dominating the table conversation at dinner.
There was a time when our party was a thing that we voted for, and, you know, we felt psychologically connected to the party. The party wins, we feel good. If the party loses, we feel bad. But there's still all these other parts of our identity that we have that are linked to our, you know, sense of self-esteem and our place in the world.
The MAGA movement is about a quarter to a third depending on I mean it's a it's a pretty fluid section of the Republican party, but it's not half the country.
