ha!

remember how they couldn’t endorse because they were failing to persuade the public of their neutrality and lack of bias, so it was essential to restore trust?

i guess a best case scenario is what people sometimes say of the WSJ, good news side, ridiculous editorial side? i don’t know to what degree WSJ has lived up even to that. can we hope that from WaPo? some of the journalists i admire still work there. do they become fascist Pravda?

i’m sure planning to call my Republican Congresswoman today to let her know it’s a vicious, crappy blueprint that would cut some of the most cost effective healthcare provision in the United States to finance tax cuts for billionaires.

Apparently the DOGE administrator is Amy Gleason. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

fraud, waste, and abuse are when payments are made to anyone other than Elon.

proposals like this are a great precedent for the wealth taxes we need to impose on households with net worths greater than 100M.

i love it when organizations i’ve given money to write me to tell me it’s my last chance to give them more money.

look. if you consider keeping non-rich people alive to be a waste of money, then medicaid is full of fraud, waste, and abuse.

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"Although feeding dying babies should…qualify for the vague foreign aid waiver issued by…Marco Rubio, the salaries of…staff and the cost of…fuel to get…therapeutic food to hospitals like mine are not. …nobody can open the warehouses where the life-saving packets from the American people are stored."

[new draft post] A theory of Elons https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/25/a-theory-of-elons/index.html

I don't know, but general PPP is a bad measure. Military procurement is dangerously liable to waste and corruption. You have address outputs, not inputs. Europe is far from matching Russia's artillery production. The US too. That's shocking, shameful, surprising to econs who treat GDP as fungible.

Absolutely. I'm not saying some law of history says it will happen. A presumption of inertia and muddling thru says it most likely will not. I am saying it would be a good idea, though, and hoping to participate in the persuading of that! (It's weird to want Germany to rearm while my govt is Nazi.)

We'll see. I'm skeptical "peace" in Ukraine meaningfully happens. Perhaps a ceasefire or armistice, but it may remain obvious there is no genuine peace. Europe, like all of us, needs to address how it curates its information environment. But it's more likely than we are to make progress.

our character flaw.

Military Keynesianism can be a unifying project, though. Like a few years ago the AOC/Sanders wing hoped a Green New Deal might've been. It can coopt a lot of naysayers with capitalist opportunities and good jobs.

i also don't like to be overly prescriptive about language, and find it annoying when people are overly prescriptive of mine. i'd not opt to put Nazis in government, even if i thought they would remedy this annoyance.

if Europeans can get over their debt phobia (or tax the effing rich), a private sector depression would be a great opportunity to devote a few years to building the military they now urgently require.

DOGE is the new NSA. #transparency