Author: Scott Lemieux
This being 2020, why shouldn't Axl Rose own the Secretary of the Treasury on Twitter? Suicide Squad producer Steve Mnuchin has, frankly, had enough of your complaints about the economy.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) (3rd L) shares a laugh with Republican members of Congress after signing legislation to repeal the Affordable Care.
There's a wonderful scene in the entertaining Richard Gere vehicle Arbitrage where the desperate hedge fund magnate played by Gere -- who needs to sell his fund before his mini.
As Republican elites move towards a "take the punch" strategy, we should be clear precisely who they expect to take the punches (i.e. "not them"): And Wisconsin's Republican chief justice.
It's worth noting that the completely unqualified kooks and crackpots driving Trump's pandemic response are kooks and crackpots who...are members of the Republican establishment in fine standing, and either they.
Does the almost surreally incompetent American president presiding over a dysfunctional political system really matter to handling of the pandemic? Yes: Per capita, the United States is currently seeing about.
FILE PHOTO: Attorney Michael Avenatti arrives at the United States Courthouse in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo I dunno, bringing back.
Obviously, one would like the odds to be better than this, but given what the 2020 Senate map looks like this is very bad news for Donald Trump: Whoever is.
