Every Republican senator — except maybe Mike Lee and Rick Scott — knows the SAVE Act can't pass 50 votes, let alone 60. But not one of them told Trump that in the room. Dan Pfeiffer calls it a pure sign of weakness and failure from John Thune: you had him there, and you still said nothing.
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After canceling the bill signing, Trump attended a Senate Republican lunch that quickly descended into chaos. [1] — Jon Favreau "After canceling the housing bill signing, Trump attended a Senate lunch where he berated Republicans over Iran and got into a shouting matc…" 12:10 According to Jon Favreau's account drawn from CNN and Punchbowl reporting, Trump berated senators over Iran, got into a shouting match with Bill Cassidy — a senator he recently helped push out of office — calling him a lunatic. Cassidy called Trump 'brother'; Trump told him he wasn't his brother. Cassidy eventually sat down, then changed his Iran war powers vote after receiving a White House briefing. Trump also noted that every senator who voted to convict him at impeachment is gone — then glanced at Lisa Murkowski, who was still there. Dan Pfeiffer zeroes in on the structural failure: not one Senate Republican, including those not up for reelection, told Trump to his face that the SAVE Act mathematically cannot pass. Ana Paulina Luna has meanwhile blocked all House floor business until the Senate passes the SAVE Act, paralyzing the chamber. The hosts then move to the $88 billion Iran war supplemental — a politically toxic ask given that 69% of Americans say the conflict wasn't worth the cost. [2] — Dan Pfeiffer "69% say Iran war not worth the cost: A CBS poll found that 69% of Americans think the Iran war has not been worth the cost, making the $88 …" 17:20 With gas prices still elevated and Medicaid cuts fresh, the vote will be a live grenade for Republican incumbents heading into the midterms.
After canceling the housing bill signing, Trump attended a Senate lunch where he berated Republicans over Iran and got into a shouting match with Bill Cassidy, calling him a lunatic. Cassidy refused to sit down, called Trump 'brother,' and Trump told him he wasn't his brother. Senator John Kennedy later said the meeting was a success because no one got stabbed.
The Trump administration asked Congress for an $88 billion war funding supplemental, mostly to pay for the Iran war, which polls show 69% of Americans think wasn't worth the cost.
The Trump administration is asking Congress for an $88 billion Iran war funding supplemental — and 69% of Americans already think the war wasn't worth the cost. With gas prices still elevated and Medicaid cuts fresh in voters' minds, Republicans are being asked to cast one of the most unpopular votes imaginable heading into the midterms.
A CBS poll found that 69% of Americans think the Iran war has not been worth the cost, making the $88 billion supplemental politically toxic for Republicans.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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