“He sold $1 billion worth of NVDA stock right before shit hit the fan, and is in a clear position to have access to inside information, but he probably did it innocently enough. Let’s just ask no questions and leave him be.”

I don’t think it’s too late to exact punishment

Lutnick is getting thrown under the bus so hard. It’ll be interesting how his Congressional testimony goes, since this was blatant corruption on his part, and because he’s on record stating he knew Epstein was using children for sex after his first arrest in 2005 and continued to visit his island and work with Epstein basically up until his second arrest in 2019.

Strokes do end up heightening the worst of a person’s personality

This is absolutely not true. Like any brain injury, strokes can damage different parts of someone’s brain and it can be impossible to predict how they may change. It could affect memory, personality, mobility, speech, you name it. Regarding personality, it could change in almost infinite ways, or not at all.

Microsoft Access, actually

Stoats are weasels my friend

“All I have is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels.”

“Ok, I’ll take that.”

Lmao my bad, and fuck that guy

Definitely, the affair is a sidenote, the illegal funnelling of chips to China and blatant awareness of this crime within the Trump Admin is the story

“The buck stops over there!”

Elon is about to spend a lot of time in court if he doesn’t flee the country. Nathan Johnson is the new AG in Texas, and Elon and his companies have broken a lot of laws here.

Van Hollen really laid it out for the party with this announcement:

“Now people will have to make a decision, one way or the other, and they have to decide whether they want to vote for change or whether they want to vote for the status quo.”

I’m totally fine with a 67 year old. That’s the age of a normal elder statesman. This will change over 4-6 years, but right now Van Hollen is totally with it and I love his ideas.

I anticipate the next 2 years are going to be rough. I would not be surprised if the Trump Admin starts arresting legislators.

As far as the Democratic Party, I anticipate the progressive momentum from this election will carry over into 2028. What we’re witnessing is literally a generational shift, as all these 80 year olds finally start dying or losing power and Millennials are rapidly increasing their power in Congress

I’ve heard a number of progressive reps say they’ve had positive conversations with Jeffries regarding the House policy agenda for the upcoming session. I’m interested to hear more. To Jeffries’ credit, he’s only been leader for 2 years in the minority, maybe let’s see how he does with a majority.

Have not heard the same about Schumer. We’re all ready for that guy to not be in charge

Most House Reps outside of leadership only have a handful of personal staff. That staff is often based in their home district and interacting with constituents. They don’t have someone planning their activities for them to the degree you think they do. House Reps have way fewer resources than Senators

How many “Dems got stuck in traffic,” exactly? Wasn’t it like 2? And do we know they attended this event knowing AIPAC money was involved? It was sponsored by a front group, right?

About 40% of Mississippi’s people are black, though I would suspect they make up a smaller percentage of Mississippi’s registered voters

Republican Thomas Massie filed this. He was going to file it in September, but in order to stop that, Republican House Speaker and Crazy Person Mike Johnson cancelled all House sessions until after the election. The House didn’t work between Sep 16th and Nov 9th as a result