Bob Dunn 📸
Photographer, artist, writer, wandering the outback with a camera and maybe a fishing rod. Once-upon-a-time newspaper editor, reporter, database geek.
Joined
December 2023
They say we have 3 equal branches of government, but only the Executive Branch has the guns & Gestapo, so tell me how that is equal.
Rep. Menendez: "They had over 20 armed ICE HSI officers, they were heavily armed, their faces were covered, and they wearing no identification. So this is who they chose to have come engage with the mayor of Newark and 3 elected members of the House of Representatives."
Translation:
"Retailers will pass those tarrifs straight to the American consumers but first they'll add another 10% themselves, since nobody will be able to tell the difference."
Lutnick: "We do expect a 10 percent baseline tariff to be in place for the foreseeable future ... what happens is the businesses and the countries primarily eat the tariff."
Translation:
"Y'all are fucked so hard."
Lutnick on his message to dockworkers who are out of work: "You should be very optimistic and positive, because the president truthed it out, and I rely on the president."
Cotton is a coward.
Tom Cotton on Witkoff reportedly using a Kremlin interpreter during his meetings with Putin: "Steve Witkoff is a very skilled and capable negotiator. He has the president's total trust and he's 100% loyal to the president. He's doing what the president has asked."
