American Politics from 2019 on

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At 3:40 AM Trump posted about the "highly partisan appeal court." Hmm. Does not sound like him. No simple words like crooked. He must be dead!
https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news ... 2025-08-30

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JD Vance ready to step in.
orlaghcat
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No one has seen him in three days. All events have been cancelled, JD Vance has cancelled his 32nd vacation of the summer, and the he flags at the White House are at half mast. Could this be it? I mean, dont get me wrong, it won’t make anything better, but it’d be nice to know he’s gone.

mariselmoralesnyc
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Interesting timing for Vance’s interview with USA Today. What job has he been training for, travel writer? He’s been on vacation 8 times in 7 months.
“Yes, terrible tragedies happen,” he said. “And if, God forbid, there’s a terrible tragedy, I can’t think of better on-the-job training than what I’ve gotten over the last 200 days.”
Vice President JD Vance said he’s prepared to run the country if “God forbid” something “terrible” were to happen to President Trump

trivworks
5h
BREAKING: JD Vance cancels all 3 planned vacations next week

tye1138
5h
Timeline:
Wednesday the 27th at 12:30, Trump has a meeting with JD Vance, directly after his press conference.
After the meeting, all plans for Trump were canceled, including a very import trade meeting with Japanese leaders who were already in town.
JD Vance posts later that same day that Trump's health was excellent, but if anything "should" happen, he is ready for the job with 200 days of training under his belt.

FAKE TRUMP TWEET AT 4:30 AM TO PROTEST COURTS AND TARIFFS

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Young men are blaming Democrats for Trump bleeding them dry
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8 ... g-them-dry

Part of this, she notes, is cyclical: Men tend to work in industries more sensitive to downturns, such as construction and manufacturing, while women are more concentrated in sectors that are less vulnerable, like health care and education.

But that’s where the irony kicks in. Manufacturing and construction are also the industries arguably most affected by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. An analysis by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth found that of the top 25 subsectors of the U.S. economy most harmed by tariffs, a shocking 19 were in manufacturing.

And that’s not all. Repair and maintenance came in at No. 14, construction at No. 20, waste management at No. 21, and energy-extraction industries—i.e., mining and drilling—rounded out the list at No. 23 through No. 25. These are all overwhelmingly male-dominated industries. And as Schrager points out, the first to be laid off in those industries are the young ones.

You can see the vicious cycle. Trump’s policies directly damage the industries that employ young men, but when layoffs come, the right blames women, immigrants, and “wokeness” rather than the real culprit—the right itself. And thanks to the echo chamber of online influencers and algorithms, too many of those young men believe it.

Republicans break their jobs, then harvest their anger—while Democrats get the blame.

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Nighttime raid

By Dave Philipps

I’ve covered the military for 15 years. I reported this story alongside veteran military reporter Matthew Cole.

A group of Navy SEALs emerged from the ink black ocean on a winter night in early 2019 and crept to a rocky shore in North Korea. They were on a top secret mission so complex and consequential that everything had to go exactly right.

The objective was to plant an electronic device that would let the United States intercept Kim Jong-un’s communications amid high-level nuclear talks with President Trump.

The mission had the potential to provide the United States a stream of valuable intelligence. But it meant putting American commandos on North Korean soil — a move that, if detected, could not only sink negotiations, but could also lead to a hostage crisis or an escalating conflict with a nuclear-armed foe. It was so risky that it required the president’s direct approval.

For the operation, the military chose SEAL Team 6’s Red Squadron — the same unit that killed Osama Bin Laden. SEALs who were more used to quick raids in places like Afghanistan and Iraq would have to survive for hours in frigid seas, slip past security forces on land and perform a precise technical installation. The SEALs rehearsed for months, aware that every move needed to be perfect.

Yet the team faced a serious limitation: It would be going in almost blind. Typically, Special Operations forces have drones overhead during a mission, streaming high-definition video of the target. Often, they can even listen in on enemy communications. In North Korea, though, any drone would be spotted. So the mission would have to rely on satellites and high-altitude spy planes that could provide only low-definition still images after a lag of several minutes.

So they spent months watching how people came and went in the area. They studied fishing patterns and chose a time when boat traffic would be minimal. The intelligence suggested that if SEALs arrived silently in the right location in the dead of a winter night, they would be unlikely to encounter anyone.

But when they reached what they thought was a deserted shore that night, wearing black wet suits and night-vision goggles, the mission swiftly unraveled. A North Korean boat appeared out of the dark. Flashlights from the bow swept over the water. Fearing that they had been spotted, the SEALs opened fire. Within seconds, everyone on the North Korean boat was dead.

Read the story to find out what happened next. The details remain classified and are being reported here for the first time. The Trump administration did not inform key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission.

The Times is disclosing it to provide the public with a fuller understanding of the risks taken by the first Trump administration during a critical period of diplomacy toward North Korea — and to provide greater transparency about the elite and secretive commando forces in U.S. Special Operations.

NYT

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50 million in grants! All you have to do is connect Tylenol ( not other brands of paracetamol) or vaccines to autism
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ken ... 02163.html
be sure to include conclusions in the grant applicaion

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The quirky independent voter felt we were trying to con them with our switcheroo to Harris, the radical left winger who. ..I don't know...turned out to be black, and woman on top of all that. And she was not in a PRIMARY!

Elsewhere:

Whomever the democrats could have put forward was better than Stubby McBonespurs, given the fact that Trump was a convicted felon who tried to overthrow democracy in his first time around, who put forward policies that were destructive to the U.S. Any trump supporter trying to shift blame by saying "I might have voted democrat but I didn't like the way Harris was nominated" is just trying to excuse their own racism.

The problem was Biden was incapable of putting forward a voluble narrative that kept swing voters onside. When it was time for the election they felt no connection with the Democratic party and were just left with bills to pay. It should have been possible to counter the chaotic Trump campaign and a candidate who was seriously flawed.

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This column was in Finnish to start with. Google translated and maybe 5 minutes editing it.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2025/0 ... cists.html

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Trade deficit is beyond Trump's understanding:

To supply the world with dollars, the US must run trade deficits. That is to say it must buy more than it sells. Persistent trade deficits have, over time, eroded its industrial base. Factories and jobs have gone offshore. Foreign nations have used their profits to invest in US capital markets and its debt. Meanwhile financial markets - aka Wall Street - have grown and grown, as America financialized.

https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/break ... vilege?utm

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It's broken. You can't fix it and go back. Thanks MAGA.

"For Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of "The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels," this past week has been disturbing — and all too familiar. Asked what is the state of America's soul today, he replied, "I think that we are in a dangerous place. There's never been a once-upon-a-time in American history. There's not going to be a happily-ever-after. But there are moments that you and I could agree we would like to see replicated — and this is not one of them.

"Political violence erupts in America when there is an existential question — who is an American? Who deserves to be included in 'We the people,' or 'All men being created equal'?" he said. "When that is in tension, when we don't have common agreement about that, then, if you look at it historically, violence erupts."
"Meacham told Robert Costa, "We do not want to be in a place where because you disagree with someone, you pick up a gun. That is not what the country can be. And if it is, then it's something different."

"It's not America? "It's not the America we want," he said."

"Meacham says the purpose of America is an urgent cause for leaders, and for citizens: "When we lose the capacity to engage in argument and dissent and debate peaceably, we are breaking faith with the American covenant," he said. "And the American covenant is that we live in contention with each other, but we're not at each other's throats."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/historian- ... democracy/

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Yeah, but lib tears mean you're winning righ?