“economists” falsely presume a quantitative resource constraint rather than undesirable patterns of deployment and remuneration. under poor deployment and inequitable remuneration, greater public share can be welfare increasing, even when much must be spent on unconsumable war preparedness.
denialists are predictably popular, until they aren’t.
do the tariffs in their current form survive the morrow?
under Trump, you announce everything.
what you actually do… well that's not so important. as long as he can take credit for your announcement.
the point of fentanyl as a pretext is it has nothing at all to do with the tariffs so there's complete liberty in slapping them on or off, making them stronger or weaker, as a response to actions that may be invented or merely symbolic.
touch the stove for the pleasure of withdrawing your finger. it’s a kink!
@curtosis right! i’m wondering whether annulment in this case could be by simple majority.
if you set wealth and income taxes too low, a kind of very powerful but misaligned AGI emerges.
what bank would have the balls to make a collateral call to Musk as the value of the Tesla shares he pledged falls?
@curtosis the Supreme Court placed determination of eligibility under 14AS3 with Congress in Trump v Anderson. it wouldn’t be legislation, just a finding of Congress. i don’t think it would be subject to a Presidential veto.
of course that would litigated, and if this court is known for consistency its perhaps consistency in achieving certain outcomes rather than consistent deployment of logic and the law.
from #BethMole https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/rfk-jr-shuts-americans-out-of-health-decisions-despite-vow-for-transparency/ ht @Doug_Bostrom
Text: On Monday, Kennedy published the new policy in the Federal Register, which specifically revoked a transparency rule adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1971. The rule—called the Richardson Waiver, after then-Health Secretary Elliot Richardson—required HHS to have public notice-and-comment periods for proposed rules and policies regarding certain matters, namely public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts. These five categories would otherwise have been exempt from public notice-and-comment requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The APA also says that public notice-and-comment periods can be waived for "good cause."
Suppose that Congress resolved, by a simple majority, that Trump engaged in insurrection and is therefore ineligible for any office of the United States?
Such a resolution shouldn’t be necessary, under the Constitution’s plain language, but after Trump v Anderson, that would do it, right?
the choice has always been social democracy or catastrophe.
we've been dilatory.
at some level i think this whole thing is just a well-executed plan to make members of the United States’ leadership class have to work as taxi drivers like Vladimir Putin did.
“One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.” https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis
they finally took away our avocado toast. it is for our own good.
all crypto is now $TRUMP.
i never strangled you. i simply effectuated a pause on your breathing. if you chose not to restart after the pause, that’s on you.
didn't they campaign on bringing back the romance, that sense of surprise, when, um, the tornado demolished your home? https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114100647524431078
"The murderous insanity of all this is scarcely possible to describe." @ryanlcooper speaks plainly about what one is doing when one purposefully shatters the global public health system with no transition or replacement. https://prospect.org/world/2025-03-03-musk-doge-pepfar-hiv-tuberculosis/