You have to have "trust" in currency to use it and for me I feel a lot safer with the good old American Dollars. I make no apologies for this either. Crypto appears to me to be "cyptic" meaning a lot of corruption and failure in the future. We've had the "current" currency for centuries and it feels secure the Crypto just doesn't fit the same bill! I kind of look at Crypto like I look at Ponzi Schemes and I don't think I would ever want to go near it.
I’m not proud of this thought, but I am going to put it out there anyway. The Democrats need to perfect the art of the “They/you’ formula. A shadowy “they” is going to do something “you” don’t like. Dems do pretty well on this with Social Security—“They” (Republicans) are going to take SS from “you.”
Republicans excel at they/you. Honestly, it’s all they got. Now Dems have an opportunity to put the kidnapping and rendition of immigrants into the classic “they/you” blender and create a frozen daiquiri of if “THEY” can send masked bandits to snatch grad students off the street, they can certainly do that to “YOU.”
Forget the whole constitutional blah blah blah—-just go for the visceral distrust of weird shadowy government agents (Deep state anybody?) and appeal to the ol’ lizard brain.
all you hafta do is look at pictures of the gulag into which our guy has been thrown to grasp that the main thing is to Get Him The Hell Out Of There. If we do a lot of miscellaneos but don't do that we have failed.
Regardless of political affiliation get out of your broadcast/substack cubicle and go into the street to a nonviolent protest… then you will read signs and hear speeches, talk to people and actually learn that their concerns cover the incompetence of this regime. You name it, there is a sign and voice against it….🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He was in the country legally. He accidentally entered Canada after making a wrong turn, then tried to reenter the U.S. but was arrested. Homeland Security says he was sent to El Salvador.
If anyone has a direct line to Tim, JVL, Sam, etc., let's try to get some visibility on this. It hasn't even been a day and it's been buried on the nytimes website. Why is this not a bigger story?
Honestly this is a “no brainer.” Why? Because the assault on the Constitution is not a debatable policy issue requiring one’s brain to function for a cogent argument. This is a total gut punch - below the belt, at that - and requires punching back. With fury. With conviction. With passion. Distraction? Dems, your party loyal are not “distracted”. They are sick to their stomachs and begging for leadership. Get the f@ck out of your head and start punching!!!!🔥
In his dissent from the Saturday a.m. ruling, Alito (as summarized by Corbin Barthold) complained that "The Court did not wait for a substantive ruling from the trial or appellate courts. It acted without input from the government." IOW, Alito is outraged that the Court majority wouldn't just allow the government to ship more people off to a gulag without justifying the action on legal grounds. Alito, of course, purports to be a devout Christian.
The urgency of the El Salvador issue can be elevated in voters' minds by spotlighting Trump's statement that he wants more prisons built there to hold "the homegrown," and the fact that some U.S. citizens have already been detained at the border and imprisoned for a short period.
While Trump says he would send the worst of the worst criminals to a clone of CECOT, no such standard applied to the immigrants he sent there without a hearing or even a chance to call their relatives. They were supposed to be simply gone, forever. If he can get away with leaving those people there, what would stop him from snatching anyone for any reason, shipping them to a foreign gulag, then claiming to be powerless to extract them?
Another reason that Californians will never vote for Gavin. He should learn the history of our state. (Something akin to El Savatore happened in California.) His time would be better spent on the tarrifs which a killing the vineyards and agriculture. He has a job as govenor not as a podcaster.
Senator Van Hollen was a warrior the go the El Salvore. Thank God someone knows the difference between right and wrong.
It's terrifying that people--apparently on the basis of their race and threatening tattoos--are being snatched (what's another word for how they are "detaining" these unfortunates?) off US streets and from various other places in order to furtively exile them to what amounts to a gulag: while too many otherwise intelligent people wonder if it's worth making a fuss about. God help us.
When I heard about Jeffries's "cost of living week of action," my immediate reaction was nausea, and when that subsided I finally realized that Jeffries is simply a not-old not-white version of Chuck Schumer. I very enthusiastically agree with Tim that Consultant Brain is something the Democrats should place gently into a tiny coffin, seal it up with Super Glue, and send it to the center of the earth.
Can the Democrats, and their consultants, not walk and chew gum at the same time? This tendency to ferret out and harp on a single issue at a time seems to me the result of everybody campaigning all the time and governing very little of it. ALL of you people in Congress (including the Senate) were elected to do the job of GOVERNING. We are not paying you to perennially be running for office, so knock it off. It's not just the economy stupid, or the canceling of our Constitution and rights, or our public health, or our science and education infrastructure, or our foreign policy - I could go on. It is everything, all the time. Elected politicians need to pull it together and rise above their constant need to campaign. Who knows, maybe doing a great job will be enough to get you reelected? Give that a try, maybe?
One thing foreigners say about Americans is they're surprised by us always saying..."that's not fair" as if that's the way the world works because that's the way our world is supposed to work. Nobody wants to see a lie, a fake contest, a roughed up underdog, a family destroyed for a couple minutes of online content video. The pointless abuse going on with these harmless people when there are really serious criminals that need to be removed is so stupid people kind of get it and they're angry about it.
You have to have "trust" in currency to use it and for me I feel a lot safer with the good old American Dollars. I make no apologies for this either. Crypto appears to me to be "cyptic" meaning a lot of corruption and failure in the future. We've had the "current" currency for centuries and it feels secure the Crypto just doesn't fit the same bill! I kind of look at Crypto like I look at Ponzi Schemes and I don't think I would ever want to go near it.
I’m not proud of this thought, but I am going to put it out there anyway. The Democrats need to perfect the art of the “They/you’ formula. A shadowy “they” is going to do something “you” don’t like. Dems do pretty well on this with Social Security—“They” (Republicans) are going to take SS from “you.”
Republicans excel at they/you. Honestly, it’s all they got. Now Dems have an opportunity to put the kidnapping and rendition of immigrants into the classic “they/you” blender and create a frozen daiquiri of if “THEY” can send masked bandits to snatch grad students off the street, they can certainly do that to “YOU.”
Forget the whole constitutional blah blah blah—-just go for the visceral distrust of weird shadowy government agents (Deep state anybody?) and appeal to the ol’ lizard brain.
all you hafta do is look at pictures of the gulag into which our guy has been thrown to grasp that the main thing is to Get Him The Hell Out Of There. If we do a lot of miscellaneos but don't do that we have failed.
Regardless of political affiliation get out of your broadcast/substack cubicle and go into the street to a nonviolent protest… then you will read signs and hear speeches, talk to people and actually learn that their concerns cover the incompetence of this regime. You name it, there is a sign and voice against it….🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Tim, have you read the new report this morning in the NYTimes about the man who was disappeared on the day the planes went to El Salvador?
Please get The Bulwark on this one. Another name to add to the list we are following: Ricardo Prada.
This man was in detention at an ICE facility, and now he has vanished. He's on no known list. Just gone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
More info here minus the paywall:
ttps://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ricardo-prada-vasquez-canada-disappeared-b2737493.html
He was in the country legally. He accidentally entered Canada after making a wrong turn, then tried to reenter the U.S. but was arrested. Homeland Security says he was sent to El Salvador.
If anyone has a direct line to Tim, JVL, Sam, etc., let's try to get some visibility on this. It hasn't even been a day and it's been buried on the nytimes website. Why is this not a bigger story?
Honestly this is a “no brainer.” Why? Because the assault on the Constitution is not a debatable policy issue requiring one’s brain to function for a cogent argument. This is a total gut punch - below the belt, at that - and requires punching back. With fury. With conviction. With passion. Distraction? Dems, your party loyal are not “distracted”. They are sick to their stomachs and begging for leadership. Get the f@ck out of your head and start punching!!!!🔥
In his dissent from the Saturday a.m. ruling, Alito (as summarized by Corbin Barthold) complained that "The Court did not wait for a substantive ruling from the trial or appellate courts. It acted without input from the government." IOW, Alito is outraged that the Court majority wouldn't just allow the government to ship more people off to a gulag without justifying the action on legal grounds. Alito, of course, purports to be a devout Christian.
The urgency of the El Salvador issue can be elevated in voters' minds by spotlighting Trump's statement that he wants more prisons built there to hold "the homegrown," and the fact that some U.S. citizens have already been detained at the border and imprisoned for a short period.
While Trump says he would send the worst of the worst criminals to a clone of CECOT, no such standard applied to the immigrants he sent there without a hearing or even a chance to call their relatives. They were supposed to be simply gone, forever. If he can get away with leaving those people there, what would stop him from snatching anyone for any reason, shipping them to a foreign gulag, then claiming to be powerless to extract them?
Democrats can connect the dots between tariffs and higher prices.
Another reason that Californians will never vote for Gavin. He should learn the history of our state. (Something akin to El Savatore happened in California.) His time would be better spent on the tarrifs which a killing the vineyards and agriculture. He has a job as govenor not as a podcaster.
Senator Van Hollen was a warrior the go the El Salvore. Thank God someone knows the difference between right and wrong.
It's terrifying that people--apparently on the basis of their race and threatening tattoos--are being snatched (what's another word for how they are "detaining" these unfortunates?) off US streets and from various other places in order to furtively exile them to what amounts to a gulag: while too many otherwise intelligent people wonder if it's worth making a fuss about. God help us.
When I heard about Jeffries's "cost of living week of action," my immediate reaction was nausea, and when that subsided I finally realized that Jeffries is simply a not-old not-white version of Chuck Schumer. I very enthusiastically agree with Tim that Consultant Brain is something the Democrats should place gently into a tiny coffin, seal it up with Super Glue, and send it to the center of the earth.
Spot on, Tim.
Due Process is #1.
Can the Democrats, and their consultants, not walk and chew gum at the same time? This tendency to ferret out and harp on a single issue at a time seems to me the result of everybody campaigning all the time and governing very little of it. ALL of you people in Congress (including the Senate) were elected to do the job of GOVERNING. We are not paying you to perennially be running for office, so knock it off. It's not just the economy stupid, or the canceling of our Constitution and rights, or our public health, or our science and education infrastructure, or our foreign policy - I could go on. It is everything, all the time. Elected politicians need to pull it together and rise above their constant need to campaign. Who knows, maybe doing a great job will be enough to get you reelected? Give that a try, maybe?
One thing foreigners say about Americans is they're surprised by us always saying..."that's not fair" as if that's the way the world works because that's the way our world is supposed to work. Nobody wants to see a lie, a fake contest, a roughed up underdog, a family destroyed for a couple minutes of online content video. The pointless abuse going on with these harmless people when there are really serious criminals that need to be removed is so stupid people kind of get it and they're angry about it.