You bet your sweet Gattaca it is.
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I have no idea what âVAT (veterans)â is - not a term this UKian is familiar with. Sorry, Everyone in the UK knows exactly what it means when they see the term VAT written.
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Veterans Against TerrorismâŚitâs some UKIP (party) garbage. Anyway, not everyone here is from the UK â itâs a thread on American politics â and I donât think the one example changes my point either way. Pleonasm for clarity is obviously something people find helpful so I donât know why itâs scorned.
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Never heard of it. But I guess it ought to be âVat terrorismâ. 
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I guarantee he typed that himself: too many errors in one short tweet. (same old same old)
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Itâs how business letters were signed off, back in the 1970s and '80s when he was still a stupid jerk but not as addled as he is now. Itâs the equivalent of someone who doesnât recognize their loved ones anymore but can sing a song from their youth perfectly.
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They were signed thank your?
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No alternatives listed in the largest group (24 ounces/day), which tells me the milk lobby is getting their moneyâs worth.
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Sometimes â typos werenât invented in the 21st century, after all â and then youâd have to use White-out, but the carbon copy would still show the original typing.
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That must have been what he was doing at the White House, keeping tabs on the illegal criminals hiding out in the Oval Office.
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They gotta get that big beautiful military parade and free jet maintenance money from somewhere.
I thought tariffs and doge were bringing in billions, are we gonna spend it on anything worthwhile?
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This is something thatâs just been blowing my mind â how are you supposed to âmake America healthyâ while at the same time slashing the regulations, regulatory bodies, and regulators that are responsible for this? Ok, yeah, letâs âmake America healthyâ by allowing companies to dump poison into our water and increasing the risk of contamination in the food supply. Letâs âmake America healthyâ by encouraging the consumption of beef tallow, raw milk, and raw water.
âBurdensome regulationsâ are there for a fucking reason as the âall regulations are written in bloodâ saying goes. If they werenât there, why would anybody bother adhering to them? You canât trust companies to self-regulate. That never works at scale.
Itâs simply maddening the amount of intellectual dishonesty here.
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Itâs an extension of Trump bragging about how the US had the cleanest air and water while simultaneously bragging about the (air and water quality) regulations he eliminated, as if the two were unrelated, and air and water had been magically made clean through sheer force of will (before he was in office, no less). I just⌠canât even.
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Thatâs the first time Iâve seen âevilâ spelt that way.
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Good regulations are consistent and clear. Good regulators collaborate with companies to make regulations effective with the least disruption. That can look like regulatory capture and the public/private revolving door, but sometimes itâs just the sign of a good system. What good regulations and good regulators are terrible for is corruption. Consistency and clarity are the enemies of grift. Opaque, inconsistent and complicated regulations are fertile grounds for grifters in government to get paid to help violators through the maze and haze. It forces businesses to bribe to survive.
You have to cut competent regulators to grift.
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Hereâs yet another example of a commercial interest - in this case a law firm - which is presented with possible ruination if they donât comply with trump-land threats and also possible ruination if they do. In this case the latter outcome. Hereâs hoping for the increased business leader awareness of damned if you comply and damned if you donât favoring the @#$!n donât! âŚparticularly when if you can hang on for oh about another 1338 days your company will end up looking far better for it.
Karen Dunn and Other Top Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm
They are leaving a few months after Paul Weiss cut a deal with the White House to avoid an executive order that would have restricted its business.
Four top partners at Paul Weiss announced late Friday that they were leaving the law firm, a major blow to the firm in the wake of its decision to cut a deal with President Trump to head off an executive order that would have restricted its business.
The partners â Karen Dunn, Bill Isaacson, Jeannie Rhee and Jessica Phillips â will form their own law firm.
âWe were disappointed not to be able to tell each of you personally and individually the news that we have decided to leave Paul, Weiss to start a new law firm,â the lawyers said in an email message to the firm late Friday afternoon.
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Who Won a Seat at Trumpâs Crypto Dinner?
The New York Times reviewed a guest list and social media posts to identify who was invited to President Trumpâs private event for customers of his cryptocurrency business on Thursday and a White House tour on Friday. Here are some of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/trump-crypto-dinner-attendees.html
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