Now they need to fire J.D. Aupperle for inappropriately firing Garza, and with two recently vacated positions, offer Garza the option to choose which one he wants.

Trump defended Witkoff on Tuesday night. “That’s what a dealmaker does. You’ve got to say look, they want this, you’ve got to convince them of this,” Trump said while onboard Air Force One. “That’s a very standard form of negotiation.” He added that he imagined Witkoff “is saying the same thing to Ukraine”.

That’s not negotiation! That’s not deal making! That’s outright capitulation to the aggressor in a war that should never have been started.

You’ve got to say look, they want this, you’ve got to convince them of this

But that’s not what he was saying. He was coaching them on how to convince YOU, Mr. Trump, on how to manipulate YOU, Mr Trump, to get you to help them to get everything they want.

True, but… I mean… who would try to generate something like that as an image? … I take that back. I’m sure somebody would.

Instead of AI slop, that looks to me like someone that doesn’t speak the language hurriedly transcribing it from paper, getting paid by the recipe, and knowing nobody is going to verify anything. AI knows how to spell turkey and kosher.

Well, then any mediocre journalist would be asking the obvious next question, “What in the hell were the authorities doing about it for those months?” That would probably have been a good story.

“If it’s been going on nightly for months, did you report it to anyone?” is an obvious question that people would want to know and the reporter should be asking, along with follow up questions depending on the answer.

That’s the problem with most modern journalists. They’re not doing anything remotely akin to investigative journalism. They’re just doing ask softball questions and regurgitate the answer journalism.

Will the Democratic Party go for it? Party moderates might be skeptical, considering that in 2016 and 2020, the current system produced their preferred presidential nominees in Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

This is exactly the problem. We need current politicians to pass RCV to fix the current broken system. But they don’t see the current system as broken, because the current system is what got them elected, so it must work, right? Also, they may recognized that, in a system where voters have a real choice and aren’t forced to choose between the lesser of two evils, they might have a harder time getting elected (or maybe don’t even stand a chance), so… “that can’t be good.”

Pssh. Everyone knows that’s what alcohol is for.

The landowner of the neighbouring site said he saw truckloads of rubbish dumped there every night for months.

“I swear, I was going to report it to the authorities first thing tomorrow morning. Honest!”

Funny how the administration keeps bringing this up in the news cycle, repeatedly reminding troops that they should not obey illegal orders. If they’d just ignored the video, everyone would have forgotten about it by now.

It’s as if they either A) have never heard of the Streisand Effect, or B) are trying to distract everyone from something else.

Anyway, how about them Epstein Files?

attempted

So, what, it’s only actual fraud if you don’t get caught? He submitted fraudulent documents. Full stop. He successfully committed fraud.

6543 inventions are currently suppressed.

Like what?

/s