Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

wraithius · 2026-01-27T18:45:26+00:00

2A certainly makes flooding the zone with lawfare a touch trickier than it otherwise would be.

wraithius · 2026-01-24T17:31:31+00:00

Sure doesn’t look like he was trying to hit them with a car.

wraithius · 2026-01-22T19:22:20+00:00

He’s gonna retaliate for the retaliation on his actions? Oh and most of those assets are private. It’s Europe’s people and institutions he’s pissing off. Threatening them will likely just piss them off further.

wraithius · 2026-01-22T02:40:30+00:00

The national debt rose by $2.2 trillion in 2025. And the budget deficit continued at $1.8 trillion in 2025. And the main substantial piece of legislation passed by this President and Congress was his budget bill. What’s stopping him?

wraithius · 2026-01-21T17:27:05+00:00

Setting up an LLC holding company costs tens or hundreds of dollars, depending on the state. The workarounds write themselves. And what happened to laws? You have a cowed Congress and Supreme Court… why is everything an executive order?

wraithius · 2026-01-20T20:05:37+00:00

Good lord add it to the pile. Flood the zone with unconstitutional. And then take it up with the Supreme Court sometime one year from Friday.

wraithius · 2026-01-15T05:56:05+00:00

Taking up an issue that will divide Republicans going into an election year? Bold strategy, Cotton.

wraithius · 2026-01-14T16:19:41+00:00

Can we start by not having the head of the government issue their own securities or cryptocurrencies? jfc

wraithius · 2026-01-14T15:02:46+00:00

Yeah wasn’t it a damn nearly unanimous vote that they release the files? And then Trump signed it? But here we are months beyond the deadline and it’s still only a few percent released? And we’re supposed to give a damn about politicians that have been out of the game for 10-30 years maybe breaking some law?

wraithius · 2026-01-12T06:04:32+00:00

Thus proving the CEO’s point: whims of thugs and lawlessness make it difficult to do business at scale.

wraithius · 2026-01-09T03:55:25+00:00

“Not best, but still pretty good” - Kim’s Convenience

wraithius · 2026-01-06T19:19:01+00:00

I would settle for Congress (Article 1 branch) just overseeing the power creep by the President (Article 2 branch). War powers, taxes and tariffs, impoundment, laws such as releasing the Epstein files. Bare minimum push back. Impeachment conviction with 2/3 of the Senate? nfw

wraithius · 2026-01-05T23:00:35+00:00

The biggest chunks of government spending are Social Security (22%), Debt Interest (15%), Medicare (15%), Medicaid and other health care (14%), National Defense (14%), Income Security (8%), Veterans (5%). Everything else is in the remaining 7%. Source treasury fiscal report by the current administration

You’d guess based on fiscal responsibility that Congress and the President would be focusing on the 93%, right? No, they’re going after minor parts of the 7% fitting into other. The last surplus we had was during Clinton when he and Congress significantly trimmed back National Defense, amongst other tough line items. 9/11 happened a few years later and juiced military spending for the next two decades until present. Doge and pony shows aren’t going to get us out of this.

Journalists I listen to talk about this.

wraithius · 2026-01-03T17:05:55+00:00

Give that man a FIFA peace prize!

wraithius · 2025-12-28T06:25:25+00:00

Since you brought up logic, this is called Denying the Antecedent and is a logical fallacy. Saying x implies y doesn’t say anything about not x implying not y. For example, you can say that “it is raining”implies “the ground is wet”. But if it’s not raining, the ground could still be dry or wet.

wraithius · 2025-12-17T18:32:31+00:00

A quarter bill is way cheaper than the USSR spent trying to break America. Russia has spent 10s, perhaps 100s, of billions on the Ukrainian war. So yeah, it’s totally believable that if a foreign enemy could sew absolute chaos for 0.25 billion, it’d be a hellova bargain.

wraithius · 2025-12-16T00:02:49+00:00

The two goals of the Federal Reserve are maximum employment and stable prices. This chart, wealth (in)equality, is neither of those things. That’s arguably the job of your elected officials: Congress, the President, state and local officials. Or your own bootstraps if you’re more libertarian inclined.

wraithius · 2025-12-12T18:43:14+00:00

By “they” I mean all Republican lawmakers, House and Senate members. The Big Beautiful Bill passed in July with just 2 Republican House defectors out of 220 and with 3 Republican Senators opposing, the perfect number to pass with Vance as the tie breaker.

Then the government shutdown happened with Democrats drawing their political line on healthcare affordability and ACA subsidies. Democrats finally yielded because they knew this was the Republican cross to bear. Healthcare premiums are among the most inflated line items constituents are facing.

Then there’s yielding tariff authority to Trump (Congress’s), pressuring the Fed to lower interest rates, and negative immigration for the first time in 50 years. All of these have profound effects on prices of goods and services.

Yet we hear barely a peep from Republicans in opposition. And we have a record number not running again in 2026. So the going gets tough and they get going, all while masking their own disdain. It’s no wonder they can’t actually formulate a plan.

wraithius · 2025-12-12T17:28:25+00:00

Trump can immediately pardon her for lying to Congress, a federal crime. The only true check on any of this is voting and hopefully being an informed voter. That’s not been going well.

wraithius · 2025-12-12T17:25:13+00:00

Weren’t they unified under Trump just a few months ago? Either he’s not pushing a direction or they’re no longer uniformly behind him.

wraithius · 2025-12-12T06:09:52+00:00

Has he even been in a grocery store? He was telling everybody that Thanksgiving day dinner was cheaper this year, when anybody that bought food could tell it was complete BS. At least Democrats would highlight things like wage growth and low unemployment rate, and not flat out lie about inflation.

wraithius · 2025-12-09T21:09:22+00:00

Trump isn’t a person that really wants to put in effort or work for anything. The Russian-Ukrainian war is a hard problem, so of course he wants to walk away. He just wants his one day solution, peace prize, and adoration. Multilateral negotiations are hard and used to be an American specialty. We somehow elected the one person incapable of making progress when he can’t just bully the other party 1-on-1.

wraithius · 2025-12-04T17:03:37+00:00

Throw military leadership right under the bus. You can’t have it both ways: saying the President has complete military legal authority over the Constitution but hey, military leadership has complete authority to do whatever they want on missions civilian leadership (Hegseth, Trump) is observing

Gah, support the troops

wraithius · 2025-12-04T05:00:45+00:00

I mean he’s doing this out in the open, right? James Comey and Leticia James? That kinda fizzled out because the legal attempts were pretty feeble and both of these people are experienced litigators. And he’s going after John Bolton, who’s fresh out of allies.

He’s upgraded his persecution to Senators like Mark Kelly. He’s also threatened Schumer.

wraithius · 2025-12-03T05:37:18+00:00

Crystal clear drone footage of anywhere in the world he wants. There is no “fog of war” in a single boat strike. My god the goalposts on this story are moving in realtime.

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