Cartoon idea. Character smiling effusively watching a bolton-labeled bullet pass, missing by inches. Pan out, character is riddled with holes and standing in front of trump firing a machine gun.

On the long end treasury prices are ridiculously high. Selling as much as possible is actually the right move.

Bond Market Bubble

Even though everything is theater and Trump vs the neocons is bullshit.
I still hate those neocons

A good day for anyone who doesn't like killing for oil money

When you watch Fox News all day you start focusing on what Fox News focuses on to try and own the libs, even when it's not really your boathouse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ed-facilities/

Now on to concentrating the homeless into government-backed camps?

“Crack-down on homelessness” is terrible phrasing.

Sometimes I think Trump is brilliant. From the same WaPo article Huehuecoyotl cited:

"Trump’s directive is part of his broader targeting of California and a number of major U.S. cities in recent months, including Baltimore and Chicago. He has complained about what he says are years of failed Democratic leadership that have led sustained poverty and crime."

Yea that's why I said "trying to own the libs". There are problems with California's housing policies and what not, but Trump's obviously not interested in resolving the underlying problems. He's just going to round homeless people up and put them in camps.

He's playing up the Fox News worldview that California is liberal and the fruits of the liberal government is homelessness, crime, exotic people, etc.

He's the perfect president for conservative identity politics whose main goal to own the libs.

Reducing crime is a tried and true Republican/Conservative issue.

I don't know if there will be actual camps. It sounds like something like that is being considered, but still TBD. Even if there were camps, the issue would be are they voluntary, which I think they would absolutely be. In other words, the whole concentration camp moniker is a misnomer here. Increasing arrests for public nuisance type crimes could be an issue to talk about, but concentration camps - not gonna happen.

The potential for war on Iran is real. That war would be very real for huge numbers of people. It's far from inevitable. The people in power actually make a difference and bolton was the stuff of nightmares. Plus he was over here recently pushing brexit with his thinly veiled trade deal for political support poison

I'm sure whatever actual plan will be whatever plan is appropriate for a bunch Yale and Harvard grads whose project leader is an 70 year old lazy guy.

What makes Trump a genius is that he's perfectly in tune with his core audience of Fox News viewers because he is a Fox News viewer. They yell TV after a Fox News segment about how liberal California is coming off the hinges and Trump does too! He believes what Fox News tells him just as much as the old retired RV ATV salesman does.

I guess I'm just not that interested in the Fox News trope. Crime reduction has always been an R/Conservative thing. Reducing public defecation thrown in the mix seems fine to me.

Admittedly, I don't watch Fox News, nor read Trump tweets, so maybe they really are pulling more (Trump heart) strings than I know.

It really is the best way to explain Trump's process. The guy wanted to send in the National Guard to Chicago to stop the gun violence.

This isn't the reasoned policy proposals of a politician interested in calm collected solutions. Vox and the wonky news organizations put out explainers why sending in the Federal Guard would be illegal and ineffective. It's what your drunk racist uncle screams at you about what should be done about the evils of liberal government that he saw on Fox News

This is no different. That's what makes Trump so great. He what you get if your average Fox News viewer got to do what they want, and they love him for it.

Hue, how many of your next 10 posts are you going to mention Fox News in? O/U has been set at 9.5.

I know you’ve mentioned it 4 times in your last 4 posts, but I don’t even get your point. Are you claiming that fox is saying and is lying that liberal cities tend to have a lot of homelessness?

Really like this.

Can you extend it to have trump and brexit as two of the bullets from a meta machine gun.

I'm not going to put words into his mouth but I think what he's saying is that trump literally sits and liveblogs fox news, with whatever pet cause they happen to be championing that day becoming official presidential policy by tweet. The only saving grace for you guys seems to be that he's lazy and has a short attention span, so his handlers can spin whatever he types into the most charitable version knowing that two things are true, 1) the media will have forgotten about it in a couple of days, and 2) trump definitely will have forgotten about it in a couple of days.

aren't most all cities liberal? houston is i think. so dallas. phoenix maybe both no. im guessing here.

i dont understand much about the issue tbh. i know homelessness is bad on the west coast. i always hope for universal health care as maybe a start to solve this. like make sure all these homeless people can see a doctor and a dentist. mental health and drug treatment. just have access to basic health care and have it be easy to use. no paperwork to sign up. just see a patient, no problem. for free. because if it is complicated, these people never had health care, a lot of them, and many are too f up to begin to get it even if they have it for free technically now under medicaid. again guessing lol i have no idea really but it seems to me sort of thing.

Is the rate of homelessness indicative of a problem with the city, or their willingness to try and help homeless people rather than trying to force them out by buying bus tickets or harrassing/criminalizing the behavior, which relocates rather than solves the problem?

Expanding brain potential. And if we want to have a little fun, the last panel could even go luckbox (satan?) or kelhus (coastal elites).

Yeah, we've NEVER done anything like that.

Not gonna happen, guys.


Its like a bad ****ing Dana Carvey as Bush impression.

- Trump in today's 9-11 speech
"We had piece talks scheduled a few days ago. I called them off when …"

There was never a chance in hell anybody was showing up for that Camp David meeting. The whole thing was nothing more than Trump wishful thinking. Who's he think he's kidding with that lie. Evidently a lot of people since I don't see any pundits questioning it. Trump creates a fantasy meeting to be held at Camp David then announces he's called it off. What a tough guy.

btw, I just called off the meeting scheduled for tomorrow at the House of Pancakes between Donald Trump and Rachel Maddow because I didn't like the Tie Donald wore today.


PairTheBoard

The process is also what makes Trump so close to the base. Instead of having some politician who's attended some Heritage Foundation summit or Cato Institute symposium with charts and graphs throw out some Republican red meat identity politics everyone once and a while, Trump's tuned into the process by which most Republicans make sense of their world and get their identity politics, by watching and believing the same mass conservative media as all the holli polli conservatives.

So rather than some deeply thought out and processed proposal about the root cause analysis of homelessness and what mechanisms could be implemented via combining zzzz.....zzzzz....zz.... that the average Republican would be put to sleep by, you have Trump proposing what any slob sitting through a segment about how (failed) Democratic leadership caused homelessness by being Democratic would mutter, "We outta round them all up and put them in a camp somewhere". That's the kind of solutions the holli polli would want, and that's what Trump proposes, because he's one of them.

A lot of conservative places are so undesirable that you can buy a house with spare change. That cuts down on homelessness.

microbet with the ZING!

What came first, the confiscatory tax rates and high COL, or the unsustainable local government spending?