Marshall Power Locke
@MarshallLocke
Philosophically conservative. Temperamentally moderate. On the lookout for glimpses of high light and eternal beauty.
Donald 'All Sizzle, No Steak' Trump knows deals like Bart Simpson knows multiplication tables. youtube.com/watch?v=xbZblL…
Which is why, in the @NRO Week newsletter yesterday, we made sure to qualify the paragraph on the "deal" as follows:
Reminder:
In a 1983 Section 232 investigation, the Council of Economic Advisers explained why Navarro/Trump's steel tariffs weaken our industrial base and our defense capabilities:
Yes, the horror in Gaza would end if Hamas surrendered, but Israel's humanitarian obligations are no more contingent on Hamas's capitulation than ours in Iraq were contingent on al Qaeda or ISIS laying down their arms. Israel's failure to secure and provide for the Gazan…
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - President Theodore Roosevelt
Andrew Gifford Contemporary English painter who completed his art training at Newcastle upon Tyne. I’ve posted a few pieces by him but not this. How I imagine a summers day with golden light and heat haze. Stunning work
Later in that same speech, if you actually read it instead of just Googling the part you want, TR said this applicable thing
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;…
Jackson Browne: 'Nothing But Time': youtube.com/watch?v=D8PLiD…
Approaching the Death Star, from the movie 'Return of the Jedi', music by John Williams: youtube.com/watch?v=msYhI9…
Movie music by John Barry, 'Slumber Inc', from Diamonds are Forever: youtube.com/watch?v=nALdcK…
Music score from Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Map Room scene: youtube.com/watch?v=l9HytP…
$2 trillion in annual deficits and Trump’s plan is to give out rebates? That’s as ridiculous as when he gave out rebates during Covid to the wealthy. We don’t need rebates. We need a fiscally responsible leader who will reduce the deficit. No wonder he went bankrupt six times.
I will introduce legislation in the Senate to send a rebate check to every working person in America
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My American boss back in the states, who I reported to from #Tokyo in the mid 1990s was very skillful in negotiating with the #Japanese. We spent many hundreds of hours in long nego meetings in a tough industry, and when we finally worked out something that was to **our**…
NatCons fixing inflation
Absolutely yes. Working people need relief now. They’ve earned it. Let’s return this money to them asap
Also I hope the ghosts of every Ukrainian soldier and civilian murdered by Putin’s thugs haunts him for the rest of his life
Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink services in the middle of a Ukrainian offensive. No way this didn’t cost lives and those deaths were entirely foreseeable. Musk needs to be investigated and held accountable. reuters.com/investigations…
FIRST: Trump touts his first 6 months in office NEXT: Trump's attempts to cover up/move on from the Epstein files fails spectacularly.
Musk ordered the shutdown of Starlink services in the middle of a Ukrainian offensive. No way this didn’t cost lives and those deaths were entirely foreseeable. Musk needs to be investigated and held accountable. reuters.com/investigations…
Ghislaine Maxwell will tell Trump whatever he wants to hear; she lied multiple times under oath and failed to take responsibility for the trafficking of girls for sex. She was tried and convicted for her crimes, but now she may be Trump's ticket to make the Epstein files go away.
NEW - Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, sources tell me & @AaronKatersky
“Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the exchange.” nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/…
Reporter: Were you ever briefed about your name being in the Epstein files? Trump: No
The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese won't confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.
"Japanese officials said there was no written agreement with Washington — and no legally binding one would be drawn up", and surprise surprise, they deny giving Trump $550b to arbitrarily spend however he wants. ft.com/content/c1183b…
Trump's ham-handed coverup RE Epstein files has outraged a large segment of #MAGA influencers, but thus far his GOP support is rock-solid. But Independents (i.e., those voters who win elections for candidates) has crashed 17 points since January. msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
Scripture can be twisted and used out of context to corrupt or to control humans who assume that a pastor is a trustworthy person. This power is intensified by the fact that many see a minister as speaking for God—indeed, a pastor may tell people that they are doing exactly that.