the more you protect from foreign competition on strategic grounds, the more essential it is you ensure a brutally competitive industry domestically. we're usually better at the first half of that than the second, unfortunately.

“you say you are an honest person, but *have* you read the terms and conditions?”

they ignored us but finally we matter. bwahahaha! we are the villains of the comic books we grew up with and transformed into world dominating, endlessly derivative mass media products. whatever.

one way to think of it is we have huge effective tariffs on pharma products *first sold elsewhere* regardless of where they are produced. it seems to me people in the US don’t love this. we maybe feel a little ripped off by comparison to our neighbors.

Grover Cleveland: “the communism of combined wealth + capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice + integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty + toil.“ via chrispeel.net/2024/11/15/t...

years from now, where you least expect it, there will be sightings of dark brandon.

politicians draw the lesson being dickish is the superpower but it only works for a very special kind of dick.

they call it x because it’s all of our ex.

the murderer is scandalized. “do you see? do you see? do you see what i am up against? *they mean to hang me!*” “it is i, it is me, who is the true victim here.”

hypocrisy is a mark of status, as consistency is only enforced on those of low status.

It breaks my heart when my kid is sick.

actually skeet is just the plural form of skoot.

“The selection of Gaetz just rips the mask off. With it, Trump is trolling not just his defeated opponents but many of his craven establishment supporters. It’s like Caligula trying to make his horse a consul.” ~Michelle Goldberg www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...

a parasitic worm that infects the brain, drives its host to take over his nation’s public health service, then drops larvae into the raw milk the population is now forced to imbibe.

📌

the twitter files was pretty lame, but i am looking forward to the x files.

“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-do... ht @costrike.bsky.social

the only qualification is the favor of the king.

as long as there still is a Department of Education, shouldn't it be a creationist?

plutocrats are only wealthy because we collectively enforce the existence of their wealth. they should think about that more. so should we.