Balint Magyar ~

“Liberal democracy offers moral constraints without problem-solving.

Populism offers problem-solving without moral constraints.”

“Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.”

#MAGA

Stewart Lee said this about Brexit, but it certainly fits the USA today

"Voting that way is like protesting your hotel room by shitting in the bed, and then realising you’ve now got to sleep in a shitted bed".

I worked 38 years for the military and federal law enforcement, and now I have to watch much of the government's past hard work be destroyed, like #January6thInsurrection pardons.

Don't you dare tell me not be enraged.

On the anticipation of the next President of the United States imposing tariffs:
“Some companies are already telegraphing plans to raise prices.

‘If we get tariffs, we will pass those tariff costs back to the consumer,’ Philip Daniele, the chief executive of the vehicle parts supplier AutoZone, told analysts on a recent call — adding that the company would raise prices ‘ahead of’ the imposition of tariffs, rather than wait.” - NYT

Price gouging eh AutoZone? 👊

#Capitalism

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Sen. Joe Manchin has indicated he will help confirm Pres. Biden's last remaining judges, a reversal from his past position of not voting for any Biden judges who don't have any GOP support. "We're in different times right now," "My Republican friends are under a microscope." Manchin said. Five judges are waiting to be confirmed at the appellate court, w. one awaiting a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee & the other four just needing a full floor vote in the Senate.
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-judges/

Status check

sad humour

Malcolm Nance: "I expect he's going to pardon Edward Snowden and make him head of NSA".

can't help but be reminded of this today.

Epshteyn, huh? And looks like Sellout Susie is getting her first taste of #ETTD.

That said, both ed board pieces are similar in their diagnoses/protestations…although I did chuckle at WaPo’s “…will test Senate Republicans’ commitment to the country.”
🤔🙄😏

Welp, looks like his cabinet is starting to take form.

Deportation.
My fear is not that a million folks will be forced to leave the country. But that private owned "camps" will force them into, what is essentially slave labor. The shit work still needs to get done. And the government ain't paying for it. So the private prisons will hire them out, and keep the profits.