Many relatives. Pre 2010s kept quiet, assumed HW Bush types in charge. Unclear why. Last get together heard many things, repeatables being putting Rep politicians, ICE employees in Alligator Alcatraz, stripping some voters of that ability. Vet friends have, ugh, spiciest opinions.

Extraordinary document unearthed in treasure hunt, from originalism’s latest dig. Treasure hunts to unearthing documents for interpretation, very rigorous. Definitely not scriptural exegesis.

Yes, it’s important to deal with the world as it is. Not how you wish. It’s a path to opportunities that make changing an unjust world plausible rather than impossible.

Fortunately there are lots of democracies with high-speed trains to learn from. Maybe see what they are doing right since what the US, UK are doing doesn’t work?

I'm happy to have Yankee adopted as a demonym for the entire country because it furthers my goal of eradicating Dixie cultural identity

Solved the “how will you pay for it”. Just need someone to come up with clever political framing to sell it to the masses.

Schrödinger’s immigrant lives a cushy life on welfare and takes jobs hard working Americans.

Penchant for trolling overwhelmed by cowardice.

Back after a hiatus. What’ve I missed?

Sigh, this again. Municipal and school budgets are separate accounting entities. Starting from incorrect premises only weakens understanding and sabotages goals.

Yes, the admins policy making has not actually been haphazard and economically illiterate as its common feature.

Republicans not understanding healthcare economics. At all. As sure as death and taxes.

Or the UK.

Always amused too by self reported IQs often ending in 0 or 5.

Mamdani could walk on water, only to be attacked for not being able to swim.

Correct, and confusion around this is what leads to anger over rising prices of non tradable services politically placed on tradable goods.

I’m really basking in this bc during the primary, I got a lot of heat from centrist YIMBY types calling me overly credulous/deluded for saying Zohran would be a good mayor and would support building more housing never have I been happier to have been vindicated

The Four Horsemen of housing, childcare, higher education, and healthcare.

Can confirm.

Issue is more who Dersh is yearning for tbh.

Trump signaling intention to try induce recession.

Republican infighting doesn’t excite me anymore. Every civil war ends with the party getting more psychotic and no less powerful

Anti-capitalism / anti-market conspiracy theories are an underrated cause of both MAGA & the extremely disorganized left-of-center response to it. This shit hasn't bought the public into socialism but it has convinced the public to view economic policy w/ maximal cynicism and narrow self-interest.

Yes, Marx, economic analysis but literary instead of quantitatively. Let’s his followers argue over interpretation of the scriptures, avoiding at base it’s bad Ricardo and accounting mistaken for, well, the whole economy.

Me, as a child when my grandmother takes me to meet mayor Wellington Webb. Only the president did it because he’s losing his marbles.

It will never not be funny, the clear contempt Trump has for his supporters. Chuck and Nancy redux.

Too bad. Was looking forward to sun downing with socialism covered by his fawning propagandists.

Lmfao. Today has been full of surprises, then I saw this.

Not remarked on enough too. His documented ease of rapport with transactional Democrats compared to Republican evangelicals, policy ideologues.

Highlights how health insurance isn’t actually insurance but an inefficient cost sharing arrangement. Republicans as ignorant psychopaths well known, no need to highlight the obvious.

Always interesting to see internal labor market dynamics.

Some thoughts. Business cycle potentially decoupled, to an extent, from labor market? Traditional monetary policy less effective, can tighten labor market but not can’t blunt consumption, ergo stickier inflation?

Dear god. Among those “many other points” does Ukraine pay reparations too? Could easily be confused, wondering who embarked on the nineteenth century style war of conquest. Looks dead on arrival.

It’s a permission structure to not learn from failures, cast blame. Nothing more. Avoids the messy implications of what is needed to move to prioritizing outcomes over process.

Hence why it attracts so many cranks interested dishonest revision. Same with WWII.

nice “joke” but have you considered that even when i recognize attempts at “humor,” i reject them and instead read things both literally and in the worst possible light? do better you piece of shit.

Mistaking that inside of many people is a liberal waiting to get out if we just offer the right form of help, make a compelling argument. Not that they have different values, fundamentally value different things.

Contingent on, somehow, not being crippled by procedural fetishism. Not optimistic.

Meanwhile, in finance, “Pls fix. Thx”

Yes. Post Trump future is dark. bsky.app/profile/patr...

The Republican party is the party of 46 year olds who are only allowed to see their kids ever other weekend but also don't

Easy to fall into this misunderstanding when you interact with even the brightest of the right wing.

More annoying is how much you end up liking them. Speaking from past experience.

there'd definitely problems with using military/war framings for electoral politics, but one thing it is good at is helping people keep is and ought separate. "The enemy has a strategic advantage that we must fight around" is rarely interpreted as "The enemy is correct and we should lose".

This. It’s Fukuyama’s vetocracy. It’s everywhere when you look around. It’s also going to protect us from prosecuting Trump and his miscreants, Judith Shklar comes to mind for pointing out process is not a virtue in itself.

i hate this kind of scolding tbh

Astonishing. Yet, it appears more stove touching is needed from the article.

With self imposed ball and chain, his enemies obsession with process at the expense of outcomes. It’s a nonstarter among legal elites to even contemplate, everything but full fidelity is effectively treated the same as summary execution.

Not really that surprising. It’s a catch basin for general malcontents. Met lots of them, yet to meet a well adjusted one.

It’s just education polarization. It’s occurring globally, across all developed democracies. Exceptions, Portugal, had higher ed expansions later and you can see the beginnings of it there too.