the antitrump coalition used to fancy itself institutionalist, but revelations of the vile personal behavior of the people who captain once favored institutions, and the willingness of those institutions to deform themselves to curry favor with the new order is undermining that i think.
I don’t know that one, but it’s good!
the most influential (and among the most perceptive) blog comment in history.
This post is a death threat.
if these are your views, do you think democracy is actually a good idea? if so, why?
the Epstein Files are just a subset of the Google Files.
i’m going to become a rounding consultant. i will introduce clients to the function “floor” for payments and “ceil” for invoices. my yacht will require safe harbor.
there is no hypocrisy under supremacy. a double standard is, from a supremicist perspective, simply correct.
a trade deficit could in theory be balanced by transfers rather than investment. it could all balance conceptually within the current account, even if there is a fig-leaf capital account entry.
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It sounds that way from the comments, that they may in fact be common in Australia and Canada but in the US are largely restricted to academic, activist, and adjacent social locations. The backlash (ironically?) seems strongest in the least-acknowledging US though.
i guess i’m going to say this doesn’t qualify as what i meant by “in person”. i mean you are there on a bus, like i am behind a screen when i’ve seen various videos of them. there’s no question they were a widespread elite and the media fad. 1/
but actually giving one, in real time before live people, strikes me as restricted to a certain category of elite events? i don’t know, as i say, i’ve never experienced it. /fin
someone gets up on the bus and tells you its route is aboriginal or something?
i have never experienced a land acknowledgment in person. have you?
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it’s like “american beauty” meets “being there”.
santa claus rally? y / n
u lock-in, they lock u-in.
the self-storage industry is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America. ok, ratcheting rates on stuck customers, auctioning their shit if they don’t pay, is icky. we’re not commenting on whether it’s ethical. but it’s legal, it’s profitable, we’re best off if it becomes widespread standard practice.
(thanks!)
merch idea! a corkboard map of the US by Congressional district. yeah, there’ll be some weird shapes. anyway, drop a little flag for each solicitation until you have all 435!
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in 2016, conventional wisdom was markets don’t like it when Trump is doing well. in 2025, it’s markets don’t like it when Trump is in trouble. (whatever they are doing, don’t expect them to be on the side of some greater good. that’s just not true of contemporary financial markets.)