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Looking for great IP? Read the Optionist on Substack. Also wrote the civil rights history The Shadows of Youth, UVA Phd, Hollywood Reporter alum, lapsed college prof, retired fencer, once on KUWTK
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Megan McArdle is the Kyrsten Sinema of op/ed columnists
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I appreciate that there's 50 years of counter example where things could have gone wrong and they didn't and that today's NG is way more professionalized than then but I think Trump will push them to do illegal/unconstitutional things that will push us into uncharted territory
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When I think of Kent State as an example of I think of NG being put in situations they aren't prepared for and rather than organized shooting, it's one person with an accidental trigger finger setting off dominoes
And, in this case the people running the government are lookin to provoke violence
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Genuinely one the nicest guys I've got to know (along with Ron Howard) in my work. And universally beloved.
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"I didn't create this mess" says the man whose expiring tax cuts are the reason for this bill and they're expiring b/c that was the original fraud to hide the deficit hit to begin with
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The America I grew up in could get to the moon because it taxed the billionaires. Now we can't get to the moon because we don't tax the billionaires.
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The funny thing is that as bad as the Landry subplot and the way it is memory holed is, his relationship with Tyra is important to the development of both characters over the next 3 seasons. Has any major (good) character change ever been built on such a shoddy frame?
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Dollars to donuts Elon still gets a big fat comprehensive pardon before this is all over because of that we'll never get justice. Everything else is sadly as meaningful as a WWE match
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That Harvard Law Review did this is the academic discipline version of a Paul Weiss deal
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The real money shot of this story is at the end where one of th real motive is revealed: Getting the reprimand in the kid's Law Review file expunged.
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Not to mention that it doesn't get to the main point until the end: Strong arming the Law Review to get them to w/draw the disciplinary letter against the staffer. All this bullying b/c they didn't like that the kid had a letter in his file.