Steve Randy Waldman
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why should we assume a Trump SEC won’t normalize Elon Musk levels of candor and honesty?
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“we’ll add artificial banana flavor to idaho spuds. american ingenuity!”
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you’ve made my day. and let me tell you, it was looking unmakable.
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“some of them, i assume, are good things.”
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one answer, perhaps hard to communicate in the political rough and tumble but good on the merits, is free trade but with balance enforced via capital controls (taxation of foreign investments) rather than destructive tariffs. drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/20/k...
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i think they’ve decided, the way you deal with annoying “follow the science” people is ensure that there is no science to follow.
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depends how unpopular they become.
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they’ve graduated from constitutional hardball to unconstitutional hardball, or maybe as @jamellebouie.net might put it anticonstitutional hardball.
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[new draft post] Overall but not bilateral balance https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/30/overall-but-not-bilateral-balance/index.html
Steve Randy Waldman
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If we impeach Trump, Vance, and Mike Johnson, then Grassley is the President. Not that he's great, but he's old and old-school, and if the MAGA-ists are sufficiently disgraced so this could happen, we can insist on a decent VP nomination too. It's a caretaker administration until 2028.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
(2028 election, 2029 inauguration.)
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no, i didn't know that. i guess many other countries are free of disease then.
Steve Randy Waldman
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all i'll say about the great "is American food somehow poisoned" debate is that (1) subjectively, yes, lots of us have had the experience of seeming healthy eating whatever we want elsewhere; (2) that when you are traveling you walking a lot is a real confound, but some of us have lived abroad too.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
absence of term limits only creates an uncertain option for electeds, not an obligation that binds them to the consequences of their actions. if an elected wants to behave like homo economicus, she can vote for the privatization then move onto a sinecure with the utility or a related party. 1/
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i don't doubt that a legislator whose expected tenure is very long might take a more long-term view of things. but with or without limits, we have no way of reconciling meaningful democracy, legislator career freedom, and an expectation of tenure that would discipline cynical short-termism. /fin
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term limits are good. the legislative competence case and so-called democracy case against are incoherently inconsistent. if legislative power is let to accrue to seniority, the public may be left to choose btw a weak representative who shares their values or capable one who does not. 1/
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no power should be allocated to seniority alone. the institutional knowledge that helps render legislators more capable should be reposed in the party, not in the person. /fin
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impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
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considering how the film ends, i find it a bit disconcerting we seem to be living out Dr. Strangelove. but then a piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor suggests maybe they have learned to love the bomb. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... ht @hannahstoryb.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
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had to look it up. but, yes!
Steve Randy Waldman
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kit cars! maybe the best way to buy a $24,000 Chinese EV will be to have ten parcels sent by DHL each with $2,400 of the value. (You can't use the US postal service though, then you'll get tariffed.)
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you see, the tariffs really are reciprocal. those Canadians try to block the flow of our goods!
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zom bee.