Matthew Marlowe
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@engineervirtue
30+yrs in Tech, Author, Consultant, Occasional CTO, Gentoo Linux, 3d Printing, Space, Homeschooling Father, Active Investor and Options Trader, Dogs & RV's
For those desiring to see Thune removed as Majority Leader you are not appreciating one overriding fact: He's the Senator for North --- ehhh South -- Dakota, not MAGA. As Majority Leader, he is the leader of the Senate GOP Caucus, not MAGA. The GOP Caucus elected him 29-23. The runner-up was John Cornyn. Does that make you any happier? Rick Scott was in the first round of voting and got only 13 of 53 votes -- 40 GOP Senators wanted someone else. Thune was elected by the caucus and it is only the caucus that is going to get rid of him -- not MAGA. Much like the complaints against Susan Collins -- if you have an alternative Majority Leader who can get 27 votes from his/her colleagues, then name him/her. But saying nothing more than "Thune Must Go" without answer "Who replaces him" is just performative gripping with no meaningful alternative.
Women now outnumber men in the workforce. Here's why. trib.al/x85KtOw
Congress is dead. It cannot pass laws, cannot pass a budget, cannot exert control over foreign policy, cannot restrain its own spending, cannot make immigration policy, and cannot secure elections. The very concept of standing legislatures is broken. Total failure.
According to an estimate by Texas A&M, dairy farms that employ immigrant workers produce 79% of the nation’s milk supply – and the price of milk would double without them. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…
Star Trek star William Shatner on politics: "Star Trek wasn't political. I'm not political; I can't even vote in the US. So to put a geocentric label on interstellar characters is silly." Is this how celebrities should act?
Congress is dead. It cannot pass laws, cannot pass a budget, cannot exert control over foreign policy, cannot restrain its own spending, cannot make immigration policy, and cannot secure elections. The very concept of standing legislatures is broken. Total failure.
The reason the Right doesn't gather and protest like the Left is that narcissism is at the root of those protests. They do it so they can then show it off on social media. The Right tends to be less narcissistic.
Forget the "analysis", the short video is worth watching. NATO is *effectively* over by mutual consent between the US & Europe, even though the treaty remains. The US is not obligated to defend Europe, never has been. Article V merely says that nations will take "such action 1/
