Per WH sources: Trump improvised 'fire and fury' — paper he looked was an opioid fact sheet. Kelly 'surprised' not shocked… more tk — Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) August 9, 2017 "The White House, including the national-security team, was unaware President Trump was preparing to speak publicly about North Korea." — John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 9, …
Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread: Those Were the Days
43 years ago today. Concise and to the point. You could even fit it in a tweet, @realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/1rtKdCUwM4 — John Dingell (@JohnDingell) August 9, 2017 . Apart from nostalgia, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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Darling Nicky
Knew a girl named Nicky I guess you could say she was, well, a machine: A presidential retweet brings lots of attention, whether you want it or not. But for “Nicole Mincey,” who until recently was associated with the online merchandise store ProTrump45.com, you’d think the attention would be a boon for business and a …
So Step Away With Your Fist Fight Ways
This ain’t back in the day: Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away. It feels inevitable. But it’s not. A well-known team of inequality researchers — Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — has …
Vacation open thread
I’m on vacation for the rest of the week. I’ll be talking to an anti-trust economist and then chasing the kids through the 100 acre woods at Grandma and Grandpa. If I don’t climb ten trees and splash in the stream, I did something wrong. See you on Monday. via GIPHY Open thread
Seems significant…
Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, got an unpleasant wake-up call from the FBI a couple of weeks ago. Via WaPo: FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation …
More Kooks and Nukes (Open Thread)
Maybe Cheryl can share her nuclear expertise here, but this sounds like bullshit to me: My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 9, 2017 It would take more than six months and …