Gale Collins: Hey, Brett, I know you are Trump critics mostly, and Elon is not a big fan of Musk, but you are also a champion of low taxes and spending deductions. Tell me a job you are doing. Or at least like.
Brett Stephens: Many things. Overcoming the southern border. To surrender to Mexico firmly to surrender to high cartel gangsters in front of US justice. Eventually, the threat of Houthis for global trade is becoming serious. To be tough on Iran. Eliminating conflicting DEI programs in the army and other federal agencies. Giving the administration a great excuse to be serious about the problem of school enmity at Columbia University. 2017 to expand tax deductions. Approval of the spending bill that refuses to close the government (with the brave help of Chuck Shamar).
If it were not for the fact that all of this is mentioned to praise the excellent food prepared for me through the Hannibal Litter, I would be almost happy. I collect that you are primarily focused on lectures.
Gay: Yes, I see that out of control, the government is dedicated to breaking existing programs-both foreign and domestic-who have been able to help the poor, treat the sick and protect people in danger.
Brett: OK, there’s They.
Gay: An administration, anyway, seems to be often disqualified, unusual young Elon Kasturi’s costs through the minnies.
Brett: That too.
Gay: By the way, about Chuck Shamar. I think we agree that they did the right thing to vote with the trumpets to run the government. I always liked the things for which he stood. But should he become the Senate minority leader? If so, it will have to rally the Democrats around a serious message of reform. And that does not mean tax deduction.
Brett: Shamar did something really brave: he shot for his party. Democrats are accused of government closure, which makes Trump’s absence a result of the Democrats that they are taking care of the ideology than the country. And so that President Kart Blanche would have to decide which parts of the government he considered critical – and which parts are even more disposable.
Gay: Absolute contract.
Brett: The big question you raise is whether the right messenger is for reforms. And I guess my answer is whether the next Democratic leader Elizabeth Warren will be a person in the Progressive Mold or Cloverdo’s Michael Bennett. If the former, I would say to Chuck: Hold on with your nails.
So… Who would you prefer as a reformist? And what will your correction message be?
Gay: The tough question, which the Democrats in the Congress are far from responding together. I would love to see Cox, acknowledging that cutting some funds for programs is not a bad thing that has not been carried out in a while. After coming with new projects to meet the original goals.
Tell the world: “We are thrilled but not shift.”
Brett: Or, “We’re lame but not crazy.”
Gay: And they need to reduce their image. A friend of mine has recently suggested that communities should organize “Canadian” programs “programs in the north to show support for our disturbing neighbors. I am sure that he mentioned Leonard Cohen Poetry festivals and a program of Janet McDonald Nelson Eddie Movie Revals. For this?
Brett: Yes Leonard Cohen. The theme of the event can come straight from its last masterpiece, “You should be dark.” Key Song: “You should be deep/we kill the flame.” (Or, wait, maybe this is the purpose of Trump’s presidency?)
Speaking of darkness, your views on Trump’s attacks on the legal system, including his Chief Justice Roberts, joke.
Gay: I wonder how long the Roberts have realized that sooner or later, the administration will have to break. After all, the point of keeping a Supreme Court is that it is an institution that is able to prevent a president from breaking the law.
Brett: Or a Congress.
Gay: This is definitely an administration that reminds us of why the framers decided to separate the powers. Trump doesn’t care about such things. I am afraid that since it is constitutionally in his last term, he will do something crazy to live forever… forever. Am I also unconscious?
Brett: I am very worried about JD Venus Dawn Junior Administration that can take power in four years than I am about to make the 22nd Amendment. The actual crisis will come when Trump has decided to open any negative rule, A brown Andrew Jackson and John Marshall in Versester vs. Georgia, or, well, Abraham Lincoln and Roger Teni former Part Maryman.
Lat: I almost forgot about forgot about the old water that the hebbes carpus used to apply his nose in the Chief Justice when the writ was suspended. Right call, unclear view.
Gay: These days we need every happy person we can get.
Brett: The second legal story that received my attention, Gayle, is that Brad Corp, the head of the Brad Corp, the head of the Divine Law Firm Paul Weiss, Brad Corp, which has a history of supporting Democrats, supported and approved a provocative executive order by the president to prevent his lawyers from federal buildings. Instead of fighting this order, which was definitely illegal, the carp has now agreed to provide $ 40 million to Trump’s reasons for termination of the order. It was a political shake -down, pure and easy and embarrassing interpretation of the car.
Gay: Long ago, I still lived in a pleasant place where everyone expected that Trump’s critics and opponents would spend their second term, identifying their administration’s mistakes and disasters. But it seems as if faith in the future is not enough to prevent capitalism.
Maybe – I am thinking about Canada once again – we should support Nelson Eddie’s old film showcasing, in which he and his fellow Mounties pledge to drive bad people “like a packet of angry wolves on the trail …”
Well, maybe I’m taking …
Brett: This is a cultural reference that is beyond me.
Gay: Well, we distribute our skills. You have cited European intellectuals and I cited the famous musical of the 1930s.
Brett: But since we are on the topic of Trump’s shake downs, I have to admit that one of them is that I think is not bad at all. I mean, the administration reached the deal with Columbia University to launch a $ 400 million federal funding process in exchange for banning facial -covered masks in protests violating school policies, preventing internal security, internal and internal security. I know I am going to run some of my readers around, but I think the president entitled the university. Now they can accuse Evil Donald what he should have done a year ago.
Gay: Sorry, I just do not like to try to order the university’s curriculum by threatening to withdraw federal funds, more than half of which are being used for medical and scientific research.
Brett: I would have been more sympathetic to Colombia if they had shown that they were able to clean their home.
Gay: Moving towards a completely different track – any idea about the Mayor Race of New York City?
Brett: Is there any other serious option other than Andrew Coomo? The city is in poor condition. I know that many people hate it and have taken part of the mistakes as governor. Then once, the Moyian Train Hall and the Terminal of New Lagardia Airport are a major achievement that improves the city. And I’m definitely not seeing a more capable or hard -minded alternative.
Gay: Well, in addition to the ridiculous option of re -selecting destructive Eric Adams, the possibilities include City Camp Patroller, Bradlander, and Council Speaker, Adren Adams. None of them have extensive experience in the administration, but is not involved in a major sexual harassment scandal.
We have to wait and see how everyone performs in the campaign, which should be given a lot of attention that 2025 is not an important year for high -level elections. I have to say that I’m waiting for it.
Brett, this is the point where you often pay tribute to someone – a great – or something else -. Today, I want to start the exchange by remembering the great Max Frankliel, who directed Robert McFoden’s beautiful Obotti, the former executive editor of the Times on Sunday, which covers Frekel’s extraordinary life and his career, and we have a category of 35 times a day.
Brett: Surprisingly, memory of him is for a blessing.
And, before our departure, I hope that readers will not lose Sally for the former Massachusetts’ First Kitty Dokas. Dukas suffered from depression and substance abuse for many years – and then he dealt with his challenges with courage and openness, which made him an inspiration. What I didn’t know was that he too was an extraordinary human friend. A paragraph of throat caught me from the throat:
He worked with the Lutheran Service Association to evacuate children from refugee camps and bring them to foster homes in the United States. At the early 1980s, she went to a refugee camp on the Thailand Cambodia border to look for a missing orphan whose sister lived near Boston. When the Thai Colonel did not let her go to the camp, she would beg for her knees. He was upset. He found the boy and joined him with his sister. He later received a full scholarship at Brandes University.
Condolences to the Dukas family. His memory should also be for a blessing.
