look. just because you have a firetruck doesn’t mean that anybody’s fired a truck.

yeah. he’s no spring chicken. thus attention to the VP pick. there’s no reason to think he’d not choose a milquetoast pre-MAGA GOP-er, if revulsion by that point didn’t compel him to do even better than that. advice and consent of a senate that would have just convicted.

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Van Hollen is clear they tried to stage a scene in which they’d be sipping margaritas by the pool, to mock human rights concerns. they refused the pool, and didn’t touch the margaritas placed before them.

three impeachments (Trump, Vance, Mike Johnson) gets us to Grassley, who is not great but would serve as a conventional caretaker until 2029. we’d have to pay attention to his VP pick too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

i wish you sweetness in whatever form you can enjoy it.

look. the piety of a tart is much greater than the piety of a croissant. you don’t have to care about either one’s religion.

yes. and it obviously requires accelerated depreciation.

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they could have just said no, leaving Van Hollen’s trip looking like a failed stunt. why didn’t they?

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i mean, caligula is legend…

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

didn’t the House declare his entire term is one day or something? promises made. promises kept.

would it have been Saturday in 1787? consider changes to the standard calendar, “leap” days etc.

China hasn’t tried and failed. China’s leaders prefer the political economy of a “lean, hungry” population and decadence-and-entitlement-inspiring demand from elsewhere. If external demand is no longer available, they’ll have to think abt how to write domestic checks while minimizing what they fear.

“tax cuts for lower MPCs” is a great condensation. i love making marginal propensity to consume an identity. you may be higher SES, but you are lower MPC.

social democrats and market socialists all want large roles for markets. why not choose either of those identifiers?

cc @steveroth.bsky.social