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yeah I think his real argument/claim is that Biden wasn't running his own presidency or making real decisions

An autopen is a tool that public figures use to replicate their signature so they're not spending their entire day physically signing everything. I'd wager that the only time presidents or governors manually sign anything is when it's on camera.

happy birthday @KH868

appy birthday doomer

It was right after his net approval turned negative. But ABC like scrubbed the entire site so all the useful archives and polling averages etc. are all just gone.

Article gets into my headspace about why I couldn't see it happening, though it is https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/cuomo-power-mayors-office-00228331 The counterpoint is that it's probably better odds than not that his intention is to win and then spend the entirety of 2026 using it as a platform to run for Governor against Hochul. Oh the joys of odd-year municipal elections.

don't recall if there's a more appropriate thread to drop this Rep. Self adjourned a hearing rather than introduce Sarah McBride properly

i'm private sector, so for this particular change technically nothing. but folks in my cohort who went in that direction are at or nearing that ten-year mark. but to extent that i'm in that broader student loan bucket generally and paying attention, it's just infuriating the absolute contempt these people have for kids who were told all their lives to stay in school and then were promised that if they sacrifice earning potential to work in the public sector for a decade, that debt would be wiped clean. the PSLF stuff in particular is just mean, cruel, spiteful, and terrible all around.

why does my phone send push notifications for the clickbaitiest shit

Executive Order curtailing the PSLF program: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/

Does he know of any "fair" alliances or is the goal just to pull America out of the US-centric post WWII world order and revert to pre-WWI "great empires" carving the world up between themselves?

I was taken aback that it said only three riflemen and no blanks. Wasn't it a thing that there's always like four shooters and a blank so no one knows for sure it was them? Then I read this part.

trump folks talking to Ukraine opposition parties https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/

There is a constitutional question - if he has that degree of power, he should probably be Senate-confirmed.

Trump has started boxing Elon in https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093

He signed an executive order maybe last week or the week prior. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/designating-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/

The people who dont like him didn't watch, of course the response was positive.