I thought the headline was talking about all of the DOGE preteens he brought in to destroy the government. Although maybe they are his children too?

I’m sure threatening current and prospective students will help with declining enrolments.

Before his government service, he was a partner at Soros Fund Management

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent

LOL, you’d think the MAGA types would already be calling for his head based on that.

And:

Bessent has praised Trump’s proposal to implement broad tariffs

Aren’t you getting exactly what you wanted, Bessent?

And you’d think a self-perceived business genius would be able to significantly increase the value of said purchase, not lose billions.

The FT source seems to be behind a paywall, and this article seems to be jumping between a bunch of possibly unrelated issues (focusing on young adult cognitive decline but looking at whole population reading rates and numeracy ability).

Also they don’t work. Therefore, they have no value to society.

Of course, Republicans are working to make sure that children are sent to the factories and mines once more.

Yeah, see the temper tantrum he threw during the meeting with Zelensky. They were just desperate to get a rise out of him, and they couldn’t even manage that.

The FAA says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeYwa-DCiWk

That’s a slightly different question (opinion on the ACA vs whether the government should ensure that everyone has healthcare).

Although the latter is also true, according to the OP article:

The poll found that a majority of Republicans still believe ensuring health coverage is not the government’s job, but the majority has shrunk since 2020.

That year, only 22% of Republican voters believed the government should ensure everyone in the country has healthcare, but that number has now grown to 32%.

“So what you’re saying is I’m indestructible?”

“No, even a slight breeze could-”

“'…indestructible.”

Online scam artists tend to do it, along with random emphasis. It just makes the person using it seem illiterate to me, but we’re not the target market.

Think dick pills, pick up artists, conspiracy theorists, and so on.

They’re not going to be defended by the soy boys who want to feed the monsters.

He really is just the typical, always online, alt-right loser. Same as Steven Cheung accusing people of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” during the ongoing Arlington scandal.

And being masculine while openly giving support to the less fortunate. Contrasting with the might-makes-right view that these alt-right “masculine” types subscribe to.

Another connection is Vince McMahon and his wife, both of which are right wing pieces of trash. Linda herself served in the previous Trump administration.

They have a platform now, but it’s only a few pages and lacks any real detail. Like something a lazy high school student would submit when they haven’t bothered to do the work.

See here: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform

Project 2025 may be the unofficial platform, although officially adopting it may be a step too far for even the Republican party. If only because of the optics of it, not because they don’t agree with all of it.

Certainly Trump has suggested cleaning house of “liberal” members of the public service so he can install his own cronies that will let him do whatever he wants, which is in line with Project 2025.

Just before Sunday’s vote, opposition leaders posted a photo of an all-male line up of their number in suits and white shirts making victory signs in the exclusive members-only Industrialists Club in Mexico City’s elite Polanco neighbourhood.

Industrialists Club? It’s like they are a satire of themselves.

Guy looks like he’s pushing 70 so I’m not so sure (I know he’s actually much younger but man he looks rough).

Tidal turned me off by pushing that snake oil MQA format for years, although I believe they have been moving away from it in recent years.

Part of it is due to fundamentalist evangelical Christians, who believe that Israel needs to firmly own the region in order to bring about the apocalypse. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/14/half-of-evangelicals-support-israel-because-they-believe-it-is-important-for-fulfilling-end-times-prophecy/

This is the same reason that Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, and former Australian prime minister, a devout evangelical Christian, tried to.