"Politics has no place in the ranks. And it absolutely has no place in our national cemeteries." Adm. Mike Mullen writes on last week's confrontation at Arlington National Cemetery washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Every single thing Jim said…

I’d watch

Huh

putting a guy with ~$10s of billions in government contracts/tax credits/other subsidies to the like 5 companies he's CEO of in charge of a federal spending commission is probably going to end up exactly how you'd expect

(Not just budget experts)

JD Vance says people don't want to "serve in Kamala Harris’s military. [She] wants the U.S. Army to be about gender inclusion, ridiculous diversity politics, instead of about serving your country..." Women in the military aren't the problem. They're essential. We roll the tape:

Whaaaaaaat?

The recruiter’s office is open if you want to join up. Might need a few waivers for that SF-86 tho.

So I did a thing. Do me a favor and check it out. Drops Weds. instagram.com/reel/C_iyTnpJh…

"The sound of a woman’s voice outside the home has been outlawed in Afghanistan." Thought experiment: Imagine this was a country ruled by women where men couldn't speak outside the home. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/wor…

This is a for-real genuine problem: leading media reporting a version of events you wouldn't recognize if you saw or listened to it yourself. (I listened to this speech. In a million years would not have written this summary.) Please, someone from the NYT, actually engage with

The jobs numbers come out tomorrow morning. In rational world they would affect the votes of 12 and only 12 voters--the members of the FOMC. But in our world who knows.

You. Can’t. Just. Play. The. Tape.

Donald Trump was asked today what he’d do about child care if elected president. This is what he said, in its entirety:

NPR is reporting the identities of two Trump staffers involved in the recent altercation at Arlington National Cemetery via stephen fowler Quil Lawrence Tom Bowman

Full story: npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

This father bought an AR-style rifle and gave it as a holiday present to his 14-year old son who used it to kill 4 innocent victims. This was AFTER his son (as well as this father) were questioned in May of 2023 by law enforcement after anonymous tips that were received about

The fact that he said this at the Economic Club of New York is next level nonsensical.  And what is most galling is that every single person there knows it.  This is not a room of low information voters.  He really truly  said to he is going to eliminate the deficit (which he

Calling Trump's remarks at the NY Economics Club incoherent gibberish is not a biased attack. It is a completely rational observation. He did not speak in coherent or complete sentences. And when he did, proposals like (tarriffs - childcare) do not make sense.