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From The Reporter’s Notebook
After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was booed for declining to endorse Donald Trump in his primetime speech on the third night of the Republican convention, Donald Trump Jr. was less than sympathetic, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. “People like to make the story and create the dialogue about disunity,” Trump Jr. replied. “The best unity I saw was everyone booing him off the stage.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Trump’s mix of cocky ambiguity and predation could scarcely be better primed to trigger the kind of great power confrontation that could push the world from smoldering to fire. It is no exaggeration to say that were it not for the relative confidence that Trump will be defeated in November that interview alone could trigger a genuine international crisis. Indeed, it still may. Trump brings together aggression and narcissism with a kind of militant ignorance which can be harmless or even amusing in the make believe world of reality TV or New York real estate but becomes positively dangerous on a national and global stage, thrashing about like a hose spewing fire. As Will Saletan memorably put it, the GOP is a failed state and Trump is its warlord.”
Say What?!
“Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.”
– An adviser to Donald Trump on veterans issues called for drastic measures in response to the Benghazi terror attacks — twice.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “I experienced that transition. Among other results was that after the parking meters were sold the new owners changed the parking rules. Instead of meters becoming free after 6pm, or 9pm, in many neighborhoods near restaurants or theaters and clubs the parking meters are active 24 hrs. Also rates quadrupled in some locations. Also, if a neighborhood wanted to close a street for a block party, the company claimed it would lose revenue and needed to be compensated. To be fair to the city, its need for revenue is so dire it is selling off the furniture, so to speak. There is a reason for the budget crunch: it can’t bring in enough money via property taxes.”
Related: Over the past decade, Chicago has sold off more of its public infrastructure and services than any other city in the U.S.
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