Leslie Talbot

@HouseJudiciary I am old enough to remember Kayleigh McEnany presenting Lesley Stahl with a GIANT binder, on camera, and saying "President Trump wanted me to show you his health care plan." Why not dust that off and present it to Dems? Or could it be she was...LYING?

Trump claims he saved Obamacare from 'disaster' Kimmel: “This guy, he’s got no more facts to give”

@atrupar Because he was normalized by the media as a legitimate candidate for the past four years. They treated his crimes as "political differences" and covered him accordingly, versus reminding the audience at every turn what he did and who he was.

A failed president who incited a coup attempt and then was found liable of sexual assault and then was convicted of felonies won the popular vote and electoral college. I still haven’t seen a satisfactory explanation. Probably never will.

@GregTSargent Not only that, but aren't all these tariffs meant to offset his proposed tax cuts? So if this is just a pressure tactic, how is he going to fund his tax cuts if Canada and Mexico capitulate?

This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *already* doing this. That's a big reason crossings have dropped. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/188854…

@pnrodenbush His DOJ would just drop the charges (only *with* prejudice) anyway.

The Dept of Justice allowing an OLC opinion - not a law or SCOTUS ruling - dictate that a sitting POTUS can’t be criminally charged is an abdication of duty and one of the reasons why people have lost faith in our justice system’s ability to hold powerful people accountable.

@WalshFreedom @mom2cch Not to mention the Republicans in the Senate, who could have ended this whole thing by convicting him.

Yes, I’m disappointed in Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, & SCOTUS. But mostly I’m disappointed in the 76 million Americans who said “no big deal” and voted for a candidate who, just 4yrs ago, lost an election, refused to concede, and then actually committed crimes trying to overthrow that election. The fact that 76 million Americans didn’t find THAT disqualifying will always be my biggest disappointment.

@FrankFigliuzzi1 @MiamiBookFair I’m reading Long Haul right now. It’s very good, and so compassionate toward the victims.

@CBSNews @timjacobwise Idiots.

Some voters are hoping President-elect Donald Trump may send out another stimulus check. Experts say the likelihood of this is extremely slim. cbsn.ws/4hZrqlH

@TristanSnell He has just completely lost the thread. He legit thinks he is casting a reality TV show.

Either 1) Trump is terrible at vetting, or 2) Trump is deliberately putting up dirty nominees — people with big flaws, scandals, allegations, etc — so he can lord it over them and demand absolute loyalty I’m leaning toward 2 — what about you?

@WaxWidow @Acyn To be fair, that’s probably a reasonable calculation.

@Acyn She's probably hoping that if she's a big enough bigot she'll score a cabinet position.

Mace: And here you have, you showed that clip, the left celebrating mental illness.

@ZombNationUSA @JStein_WaPo You’d be wrong.

@leslietalbot @JStein_WaPo Pretty sure government jobs are never counted in employment numbers. Well, except under the Biden administration anyway

🚨🚨Musk, Ramaswamy today gave us first "DOGE" roadmap; as I understand the key steps...: 1) Put DOGE ppl at each U.S. agency, then use "advanced technology" (AI?) to have them identify "thousands" of regulations to cut across government 2) Give Trump a list of "thousands" of regs to cut across the government, & have him approve their elimination 3) Identify "the minimum number of employees" necessary to maintain each agency's core function, which should be lower once 2 is complete. (NB: Musk oversaw ~80% reduction in X headcount) 4) Cut the federal employees - Musk/Ramaswamy call for for severance packages/ "incentives for early retirement," but we have no details 5) Cut programs where where Congress's specific spending authorization has lapsed (This category includes VA health care, NASA, antipoverty programs) 6) Approve a "temporary suspension of payments" amid "large-scale audits" (Details, specifics hugely unclear) 7) Assert POTUS authority to stop spending w/o Congressional approval by challenging 1974 budget law on impoundments All seems to be *w/o Congress* Fight whatever you need to in courts washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

@gilduran76 Plus all the bots and trolls not debating in good faith.

Apparently he has never heard of an algorithm, or how Musk has manipulated it to kill speech and tilt the discourse toward misinformation and extremism. In a free market, we can choose another product. Right? Dean Phillips is a fundamentally unserious person.

@503i7 @JoshEakle Of course it will. First, because even domestically produced products use foreign components (which will be more expensive). Second, because if the prices of similar goods go up, domestic producers will take that as a cue to raise theirs to match.

@JoshEakle It won’t increase the price if you buy something produced in America

Higher prices are coming. Walmart is preparing to raise prices if Trump delivers on his tariffs promises. Walmart CFO: "We never want to raise prices... But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers." He added, “Tariffs, though, are inflationary for customers... [and they] certainly would add product costs." Remember kids, foreign countries don't pay the tariffs. You pay the tariffs.

@matthewkassel @brianstelter I have news for them. Groveling before him (again) isn't going to save them from his vindictiveness.

“According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Scarborough and Brzezinski were credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration,” @brianstelter reports. cnn.com/2024/11/19/med…

@cwebbonline They need to be taxed.

And this is in church. CHURCH! These poor kids don’t have a chance.

@RadioFreeTom @WajahatAli Yeah, I’m holding my breath waiting for the media to start swarming hipster coffee shops in Williamsburg and publishing long think pieces about how to speak to their needs.

Has there been a single corporate media story about MAGA reaching out to understand the frustrations of nearly half the Voters who went against Trump? Let me know. I've been waiting 9 years for that piece.

@lpackard I guarantee you all of the people who complained that Obamacare “took away their great coverage”also had lifetime limits and didn’t even know it.

Lifetime limits: Insurance companies in America used to have lifetime limits for how much healthcare they would cover. If your care needs hit the limit, they would stop paying for it. Forever. The Affordable Care Act ended this.

@ChipCBrooks @OliviaTroye He’ll work his way down to them eventually, once he burns through his first round of picks and needs to replace them. His appointments always get worse over time.

John Ratcliffe for Director of CIA. It could have been worse. What's interesting to watch is so much of the commentary being focused on China & Iran in terms of some of these picks...but the elephant in the room remains: Russia.

@drvolts I’m so sorry. Losing a beloved pet is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. There’s nothing quite like it, and it is terrible.

Today we said goodbye to Forest, our beloved companion of 13 years. All four of us were at home, surrounding him, with our hands on him, as he passed. I have cried until I have no tears left.

@RichardClip @mewmewmew13 @Lawrence @TheLastWord The pessimist in me says his fans will cheer so loudly he’ll do it again and again for the accolades.

@leslietalbot @mewmewmew13 @Lawrence @TheLastWord agree. But will his fans fall for that?

1) Be careful what you wish for, part 645: Now that Trump has won, he needs to fulfil all his campaign promises. Good luck w/that. No POTUS can do much (if anything) about the basics of the economy (rent, mortgage rates, grocery $, wages, etc.). Looking forward to his promised