Day: February 14, 2017

Forget it, Donny, you’re out of your element!

Donald Trump: When I am President, Russia will respect us far more than they do now.
New York Times: In a move that U.S. officials say violates a major 1987 arms-control treaty, Russia has secretly deployed a cruise missile […] violating the 1987 treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces. Signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the treaty bans missiles that can fly between 300 and 3,400 miles.

If the Republicans in the Senate were really as concerned about a renegade presidency as they claim to be on Twitter and in anonymous mumblings to various reporters, they’d join with Democrats to block [Mnuchin’s] nomination. It only takes three of them, and they all could cite Mnuchin’s dubious testimony to the committee as a very plausible reason for doing so.

There was absolutely no chance of that ever happening, however. Nobody—except Bernie Sanders, who said it all the time—wants to get up and state flat out that the business model of people like Stephen Mnuchin, the people who immiserated millions out of sheer animal greed, was plain vanilla bunco fraud. This was really the last chance to make that point before these gombeen yahoos do it all over again.

Charlie Pierce, writing about the Mnuchin confirmation for Treasury Secretary. Yep. Great Recession II is coming, and if these yahoos are still in charge when it happens they’ll merily let the global economy burn to the ground Hoover style. The Market will sort all that out, don’t ya know? So get ready for your haircut, Wall Street, because it’s coming sooner than later; the great reckoning that should have been bailout and jailterms back in ought-eight will instead be no bailout, total ruin for you, and a decades long recovery for literally everyone else. And, of course, the end of the GOP. So we’ll have that going for us.