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Kind of bizarre they have a photo of Warren as the top image for the headline "Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass Crypto Bill" when she's been the most vocal one against passing it.

No one has been a bigger critic of the GENIUS Act than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, who has warned that in addition to weak protections for consumers and financial stability, the bill allows tech companies to issue their own private currencies and "take control over the money supply."

She also said that the GENIUS Act mirrors the passage of the 2000 passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which deregulated derivatives and helped the product proliferate in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008.

Sure. I dislike her, but she's been vocally anti-interventionist for many years. She hitched her wagon to someone who doesn't actually care about any of it.

Anyone in this administration who has any values whatsoever is destined to fail, because the leader they're so obsequious to has none.

It's really not that complicated. Trump is a bully and loves piling on to prove he's the alpha male. But he's also a coward (like many bullies) and is afraid to wade into something that will spiral out of control. So he's trying to subjugate the government of Iran using threats so he can get the satisfaction of the former without the risk of the latter.

"Not since Truman..."

So Huckabee wants to nuke Iran?

Also, tell me this is not a letter that would be written to Kim Jong Un if the names were swapped.

In [Trump's] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

Those are clearly Netanyahu's words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.

You mean ceded. Seceded is what the West Coast should do.

It's interesting that you post a message like that when yours is the majority position on Lemmy and comes up regularly. Any time I post conflicting data on the election, I'm down voted at about a 40/60 ratio up/down. Meanwhile politically I'm somewhere between Lenin and Bernie.

War in the Middle East is a Republican rite of passage. It's part of their heritage.

Did you forget about 2021-2023?

I've never had a reason to go to Medford before and now I have a very good one not to.

This is SO much worse than I thought it would be! By people who don't value nature or public good and would happily sell off the most unique part of America: its national parks.