All Hat No Cattle: Trump Goes Nuclear on Critics of Qatar Jet ‘Gift’: ‘World Class Losers’

Trump Goes Nuclear on Critics of Qatar Jet ‘Gift’: ‘World Class Losers’
President Donald Trump launched what amounts to a double-edged rebuttal against criticism from the left over his plans to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar’s royal family — while sidestepping outrage from his own base

On Friday, they threatened to suspend habeas corpus and on Sunday they accept a $300 million airplane from a slave state that funds terrorism. Quite the weekend. - John Jackson

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

When the Pentagon Papers revealed that presidents and their cabinet members had been lying about the Vietnam War, it was a seismic event in American politics. Now we have a "president" who lies about everything, all the time, and the reaction from the Press is "meh." - Nerzog

Lookee Here, A Country More Bloodthirsty Than The USA.

Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, looks set to win an election from his prison cell in The Hague.

The populist dubbed “The Punisher” in his home country – was arrested in March on charges of crimes against humanity related to his notorious “war on drugs”, which human rights group allege involved the extrajudicial killings of up to 30,000 people.

How long til men pretending to be ICE just grab women off the streets? - Laurie Kilmartin

Republican Shenanigans

Trump Establishes New Cabinet Department to Process Huge Volume of Bribes. - Andy Borowitz

Republicans Want No AI Regulation. None, Nada, Zip.

A Republican tax bill released late Sunday seeks to block states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) models for the next 10 years.

The bill text from the House Energy and Commerce Committee would bar states from enforcing laws or regulations governing AI models, AI systems or automated decision systems.

Tariffs up, Tariffs down. Rename bodies of water.
Look over here while they dismantle our Constitution. - Pete Weber

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Rock The Voter News

Nixon: I am not a crook!

Trump: I'm a crook, so what! - Alex Cole

If This Ever Passes, Only The Rich Will Benefit.

House Republicans are moving forward with plans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by $4 trillion as part of a larger plan to advance President Trump’s tax agenda.

The proposal, which was included in legislative text unveiled by the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday, is in line with House instructions outlined in a blueprint adopted by congressional Republicans last month that kicked off the process by which the party is using to enact Trump’s tax priorities.

The Republicans spent the last 50 years offshoring American factories to China in order to maximize their own profits while you and your family became accustomed to cheaper foreign products. None of that was Joe Biden's fault. - Liam Nissan

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In exchange for getting nothing from China, we agreed to remove the gun we had pointed at our own head. We will continue to aim the gun at our own foot, however. Masterful negotiating. - Matthew Miller

Business/Tech News

I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure you can’t impose price controls on the pharmaceutical sector with an executive order. - Matt Yglesias

Eric Trump Proudly Announces His Bitcoin Grift, Er, Company.

American Bitcoin, Eric Trump’s bitcoin mining company, announced Monday that it plans to go public.

The firm will merge with fellow bitcoin mining firm Gryphon Digital Mining and operate under the American Bitcoin brand, appearing on the Nasdaq under the ticker “ABTC,” according to a press release.

So, when Trump raised Chinese tariffs…
China did too.
Then he raised them again…
So China did too.
Then he raised them even more…
And China did that too.

And then what did Trump do?

He rolled back the tariffs.
And now China has too.

And we wonder how he bankrupted casinos. - JoJoFromJerz