Open Thread: The Prez Dispenser

New York Times: “Running under the banner of Donald Trump’s populist political movement, Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown, humbly calls himself a “car guy from Cleveland” and recounts the modest circumstances of his childhood, when his immigrant family started over from scratch in the United States.” Said Moreno: “We came here with absolutely nothing — we came here legally — but we came here, nine of us in a two-bedroom apartment.” “But there is much more that Mr.

“Donald Trump has always surrounded himself with lawyers — all types of lawyers. There are the television-friendly talking heads. The polished criminal practitioners. The pit-bull litigators, the corporate suits and the legal advisers with their own legal troubles,” the New York Times reports. “And then there was the singular Michael D.

“Donald Trump pledged to double down on tax cuts if he wins a second term as president, drawing a distinction with President Joe Biden who has called for tax hikes on businesses and the richest Americans,” Bloomberg reports. Said Trump: “Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class big tax cut.”

Take two brothers, steep them in the great music of the Sixties, wind them up and watch them go. Brian D'Addario and Michael D'Addario have been making great records and touring since they were in their teens. (Now they're in their twenties.) Along the way, they've written some incredible songs. But this latest album looks to be the one that might finally push them to the top.

“The person on the other side of the aisle is not an enemy. They’re a fellow American. Our enemies are like Hamas and Hezbollah and the people who are trying to kill us. These are our political adversaries.” — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), quoted by The Hill.

Donald Trump predicts that if President Joe Biden is reelected in 2024, the result will be a bloodbath, World War III, "and everything else”—presumably meaning the basic human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria. This all sounds pretty bad. Except, this isn't the first time Trump made this kind of prediction.