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Wendy Torres's avatar

Thank you for such a great article. I think trump knows nothing about how government works & does not care to know. He has always done what he wants-with little or no thought applied-& allowed to get away with it. His mind set will never change. Unfortunately too many in government are ok with his behavior.

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Deb Martina's avatar

Great post, thank you.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Honestly, I agree.

With the sit the fuck down and shut up decision from 2 republican judges, and a democrat judge on the Tariff BS yesterday, that says to me the system is doing its job.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/urgent-update-3-judge-panel-tells

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Prof Montage's avatar

Ouch. No, Gabe. Judges don’t trample, they apply the law. That’s MAGA speak

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Alex Sullivan's avatar

Excellent article.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Good stuff, but I think that he will do one of two things:

1. Coward that he is, he will retreat and hide behind his Truth Social account, firing off angry Tweets.

2. Impose martial law.

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Margaret Bryant's avatar

I’m hoping for dramatic change at the midterms. Flipping the House and the Senate would put major checks on Trump. As for martial law, I’m not sure how that would happen. I can’t believe the Pentagon would go along with that. 🤞

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

He needs a case on strong moral merits, to expose the judiciary-deep state complex as the demons they are in plain, viral terms.

But maybe then there is a hope

Maybe the Garcia case or something like it after all? It is Dems screaming to get a wife beating cartel member back in the country

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

So am I.

The Bloated Yam and Poltroon Pete canned a number of top generals, replacing them with loyalists.

If the Bloated Yam orders his troops to run the country, he will fire those who disobey — citing the Constitution — until he finds some green-eyed, glassy, second lieutenant straight out of West Point, who cheered over “Trophy Wives” to command entire 60,000-man corps.

It’s not hard to do. The ruling powers simply make a deal with the generals — higher military budgets in return for unconditional support.

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Deb Martina's avatar

#2 is horrifying

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Miriam Rodin's avatar

Best both accurate, thorough and cogent discussion I have seen/heard since inauguration day. You go Gabe. It helps focus on 2 important additional issues. The need to support and protect the independent judiciary from MAGA vengeance and media distortion. Second it focuses our attention to his only actual accomplishment: self enrichment with graft, bribes and racketeering. What would Don Corleone do?

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Herrnson Lev's avatar

TACO = Trump always chickens out... and when he doesn't, he sues. A lifetime of experience has taught Trump that it's always better to take one's chances with the courts. We'll see how the US Court of International Trade and others are at non-partisan rulings.

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

The blood is in the water. Judges know they can make up anything, and rule any nonsensical way, and still get their way.

It will continue with literally everything until someone stands up to them. And it’s not going to be Trump

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Mollie's avatar
2dEdited

Except where they are ruling in sensible ways to not give Trump unchecked power. But that's okay if he does what you want?

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Anne DePalma's avatar

Great job, Gabe. You are indeed “wise beyond your years.” Amazing analysis.

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

TACO

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John Durante's avatar

Fantastic contribution here. Thank you.

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Rosemary Ford's avatar

Trump’s efforts always remind me of the anecdote about Edison blowing up a machine to learn its limits. For myself, all those NYT stories about deportations highlight the neglect by multiple administrations in enforcing the law and the failure of multiple Congresses to correct the problems with immigration law. Trump is the reason that the legislatures and courts have to confront issues. I am horrified to learn that a wealthy institution like Harvard (and multiple others) are selling 25% (or more) engineering and medical slots to international students—-choosing “filthy lucre” over the needs of this country. I am sorry the efforts to make government agencies more efficient have been stymied. The benefits of surplus employees accrue to a small subset of people who are lucky to get the jobs. The wages and benefits, including multiple protections from discipline or ineffectiveness, exceed comparable private sector jobs.

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

That’s the scheme: all of this high horse hoopla just to sell the country to foreigners

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William m Gaffney's avatar

The fact is a lot of theses foreign students get engineering jobs, medical jobs because there is a shortage of Americans to fill those jobs

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

There provably isn’t. Congress has to purposefully choke residencies to keep doctor salaries from falling. And now recent college grads have *higher* unemployment rates than the market average

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William m Gaffney's avatar

The reason doctors salaries are down is health insurance and profits

"Yes, there is a shortage of engineers in the US, particularly in certain fields. Reports indicate that the US needs around 400,000 new engineers annually, but many positions go unfilled, according to Boston Consulting Group. This shortage is expected to persist through at least 2030"

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

Doctors salaries *arent* down: they’re propped up by an arbitrary blockage of available positions, lobbied for by the AMA. That’s the exact opposite of a situation where you need immigrant labor

And if there is such a shortage of engineers it’s pretty weird for engineer salaries to be stagnant even with increasing graduate degree requirements, and CS majors going unhired, right?

You and them start from deciding that Americans don’t deserve anything and that foreigners are better than us, and then work backwards from that. But the economic picture almost never matches the claims and any path to enabling that opportunity for *americans* is blocked or abandoned

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William m Gaffney's avatar

I have a lot of experience as a recruiter and career coach It has nothing about who should get the jobs Google this subject and read articles on it

As for doctors ask a few how their salaries are doing and what they think of the insurance companies

I'm 73 and I can tell you there has been a decline in quality That is because doctors are put on a time schedule and given less time to spend with their patience Their is alss a shortage of doctors

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

I’ve read the articles about it, these kinds of claims are perennial, it’s always exactly the same:

Either an industry that’s already bottlenecked anyways, or that has tried everything except treating workers better.

Directing major choices or training is never even considered, because employing Americans is never a goal

All just propaganda to pad a bottom line or just expressing hatred for the people under them

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rachel h.'s avatar

Excellent commentary.

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Patty S.'s avatar

Thank you, Gabe.

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Kendra S's avatar

Another outstanding piece, Gabe. I find it fascinating to see the system at work. Thanks for peeling back some of the layers so that we can understand better.

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David Hopper's avatar

Thank you, Gabe, for another great newsletter. I have seen some very disturbing posts on social media that the big, beautiful bill now before the Senate contains provisions which would give Trump enormous powers. There has been little if any coverage of that on the news. Can you comment on this?

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Fool’s Errand's avatar

Does it matter?

Congress already gave the presidency powers on trade and immigration and those are being ignored by judges.

So why couldn’t judges just ignore this new bill?

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