was just today discussing that exceptional scrupularity. on the one hand, these were awful wars, lots of death and destruction! on the hand, i maintain there is a real difference in character between the US in those wars and Russia or Israel. (but drone assassinations were a moral calamity!)

if they openly “ask”, and the Salvadorean government says “no”, then they claim exerting pressure on this “helpful, friendly partner” would be contrary to US foreign policy interests, are they in contempt? if “effectuate” is too strong, what obligation does the government actually have?

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i don’t understand how US firms can continue to enable and offer for download Tiktok once the 90-day extension foreseen by the law potentially banning the service (and already an overstretch in its application) has passed. (this is independent of any views on whether that law was a good idea.)

you can just do things. stupid things.

policy uncertainty is a non-tariff barrier.

when norm violations become the norm, then whatever they are they are not norm violations.

The Trump Administration “is using this case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop the Trump administration from imprisoning any people it wants anywhere else in the world.”

watch the video. thank goodness this 52-year-old seamstress, who stays remarkably composed for the sake of her daughter, is no longer somehow a danger to us all.

i guess we have been deliberated.

if Trump won the 2020 election, doesn’t the 22nd Amendment mean he couldn’t be elected in 2024 and therefore is not President? oh, too bad!

pretty far down the list of transparently lawless and abhorrent things this administration has done in two and a half months! but definitely on the list, for sure!

i hope your day was tariffic and not tarible.

surely they can paint this tape to 10%. so sad, so close.

was the tariff rate shift intraday, or if you paid the steeper duty this morning do you get a partial refund?

i remember when people used to say China’s stock market wasn’t really investable, because its movements were dominated by unpredictable choices by its government.

i guess there's going to be a "manufacturing boom" in a bunch of countries China very inexpensively ships to.

if we think of the economy as a lambo, the administration as the teenage scion of the emir.