How do idiots like this have 11,000 followers?

I like Sherrod Brown but what is the $10 number supposed to represent?? Does he think that's the price per gallon? Seems out of touch.

The popular narrative of American decline is predicated on the idea that US power will somehow disappear. But as much damage as Trump is doing, that's not going to happen. Instead, US power will become more erratic, with no consistent long-term domestic consensus to guide its application.

Writing this shit is a choice guys.

Trump's geopolitical brinkmanship has hit a wall with Iran reut.rs/4nvr7T7

You seem qualified

This is one of those where I can’t understand how it isn’t the biggest story in America.

It’s because Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, waited a full 18 months to even open an *investigation* into Trump’s involvement in Jan 6. That inexplicable delay allowed Trump to regroup and consolidate support for 2024. Hope this helps.

We're getting close to the point where European capital is going to have to consider somewhere like Luxembourg as an alternative to London, just because you can't expose holdings to the level of political dysfunction London is exhibiting.

The Brits really need to look themselves in the mirror and be honest about why they have such a hard-on for trying to destroy all their politicians. Starmer isn't perfect but man, he's better than a lot of others! Just look across the Atlantic.

Hey Buster, Susac is 3 for 3 tonight in Sacramento with 2 dingers. I've seen enough; call him up!

Sounding like it was U.A.E. hitting Iran

The U.S. Constitution of 1789 has shown itself to be wholly insufficient to base future government on. People won’t acknowledge this very obvious fact.

America will get proportional representation one day. And sometime far in the future, we will look back and think: why did it take us so long? Now let’s go make that history happen, sooner rather than never. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

CEO said a....probably accurate thing!

Lots of jokey responses to this one, but I think the actual signal it carries is Trump is real close to declaring "victory" *and going home* (ending the blockade and pulling most ships out of area). Which if true is actually very good news for the world economy.

I love finding out about some contemporary writer who's won eight hundred billion literary awards and then reading their writing and it absolutely sucks ass

What the fuck are we doing here

It will never not be enraging that when interest rates were close to zero the US government did not invest in infrastructure and green energy bc the GOP was obsessed with austerity.

This, of course, is one more entry on the Trump administration "THAT'S why you don't do that" list. The reason you don't tear up the JCPOA or stage bolt-from-the-blue attacks is that it makes negotiating your own out of a sticky spot much, much harder because no one trusts you.

WHAT

TACO Trump now signaled he will never restart the war. Iran can do as it pleases. Watch him take down the sanctions in exchange for reopening the Strait.

Seems like Trump’s only path. He walks away. Pretends he won. Tries to change the subject.

Someone has actually done this on Google 😂😂👏

So I guess the strait of Hormuz is currently stuck in a quantum superposition of being both open and closed at the same time until traversed.

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One way of looking at it is to just admit Scott Alexander and his ilk are idiots. The fact that someone can write analytically dense prose does not mean one is not an idiot.

This would seem to call into question that Reuters piece about "opening the Oman side of the Strait" which drove market sentiment higher yesterday: How the Strait of Hormuz will change Iran’s regime - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

It's price levels and cost of living that people are pissed off about. It's not "inflation" per se.

OK, Bluesky I'm finally ready to deal with this I wrote about Graham Platner I still don't know what to make about HIM, but I know this: If Democrats can't adapt his take-no-prisoners populism, their aging party and its 30% approval rating are doomed My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Some differences b/n Poland/Hungary which may matter for the democratic restoration process: Fidesz lost in a landslide and Tisza has a constitutional majority; PiS lost closely and retained the presidency. Poland's high ideological polarization is central to politics; Hu's main issue is corruption.

as implied by their job title, correct

NATO has been the bedrock of our national security for over 75 years. Walking away from our strongest allies during a period of global instability is a serious mistake that makes every American less safe.

Lmao, the blockade is fake

The US is not going to be able to enforce a blockade of the Strait. What happens when a Chinese ship comes through? Are they going to fire on the ship? Or physically block its passage? No, they are not going to do that.

Must be nice to be such a smooth-brained finance bro you can just say the war is over and your clients will believe it.

The EU is perhaps also a factor in Orbàn not going down the Erdoğan route and simply arresting Magyar. Just enough space was left for this, because Hungary has some external checks & balances

Right. The key thing is the DECISION. Law supplies the materials to make the decision, and the rule that the decision must be made out of the materials law supplies is a meaningful constraint! But the fashioning of the decision out of those materials is in the nature of a craft.

If anyone really thinks The Law is about gathering Facts and then arriving at the one Right answer/judgment, I don't know what to tell y'all. Maybe read some Hume or something. Holy cow.

This whole thread is incredibly exhausting to read through.

Scott Bessent has been very quiet lately.

So Vance is tacitly admitting the US lacks the ability to constrain Israel.

I think the simple answer is that Israel has as much right to exist as any other country, but it does not have any more right to operate chauvinistic apartheid policies than any other country.

It seems America has run on the honor system for 250 years. Then we ran out of honor. A madman is in charge and he’s surrounded by cowards. Now we find that impeachment is meaningless. The 25th amendment is meaningless. The Bill of Rights is meaningless. And the Constitution is meaningless.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Just today, Netanyahu launches his harshest attack against Lebanon since the offensive began. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire. The European Union must suspend its Association Agreement with Israel.

abundantly clear that there are simply no adults in any of the rooms we have reserved for them

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi The Iran–U.S. ceasefire terms are clear: the U.S. must choose — ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both The world sees the massacres in Lebanon The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments

it will take some time for electeds to reflect it but Stupid Suez is almost certainly the end of the bipartisan consensus on military intervention in the middle east

Wow, Angola and Afghanistan and Nicaragua ... famously successful and stable countries, much peace, much peace...