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Oren Cass goes out and declares that, akshully, what Trump is doing is just like when Obama used the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions. /2
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What started with him? Brazenly violating the constitution? Bringing in an unconfirmed billionaire to fire the federal workforce and cut off funds to disfavored groups? Tearing up treaties and betraying allies? This is hot nonsense, and really does nothing but legitimize this BS, like when /1
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Reagan had lots of very bad policy ideas. His administration still respected treaties, followed court orders, and generally respected legal processes. The idea that this is just like Reagan is pure delusion. And, again, this from someone who thinks Reagan's presidency was a policy catastrophe.
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I think they may be confusing the conference at Yalta with a different conference a few years before where two good buddies signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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This was plain as day in June 2024. I said at the time Biden could be dead and propped up by aides, and it would be infinitely better than this train wreck. Heck, Reagan's second term, he had full on advanced Alzeheimer's. I'm no Reagan fan, but it was miles and miles better than this.
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It's a series of often contradictory impulses. But they are consistent (even if they're incoherent). Trump thinks a trade deficit means the US is "losing," but also wants a strong dollar (which feeds a trade surplus). And he thinks manufacturing things is super special and good, for some reason.
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episode about crime with the Manhattan Institute scholar a few months ago was very good and interesting. Conversely, these conversations also suss out those who are entirely full of hot air. That was this week’s guest. Martin Gurri, pspent an hour making a whole fool of himself. It was revealing. /2
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I’d really like to see a discussion of economic policy with a conservative who is in some way rooted in reality. Listening to Oren Cass on Kara Swisher’s podcast was painful. Are Greg Mankiw or Glenn Hubbard hiding under rocks somewhere?
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That’s awfully generous to the ADL. I think they honestly don’t care, at best— they’re not a principled group like the ACLU, which will defend free speech rights of everyone, Nazis included; liberal leaning Jews aren’t in their tent, pro-Israel neo-Nazis are.
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Who’ll think of the water views??? 😑 These people should be ignored. Seattle needs more housing. In every neighborhood. The super special boys and girls of Madrona aren’t an exception.
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I lived on the upper west side for 6 years. A 20 block stroll on a fall evening was lovely. The same stroll in pouring rain was not. And in the winter there were times I’d take the 1 train one stop to save two blocks walk through the freezing wind tunnel. But even that wouldn’t lead me to drive…
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Not sure “just let them walk” is much of a mass transit policy. :)
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Yeah that’s good for 8 months a year. Not so much right around now.
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Yes. If you’re paying for a parking spot in Manhattan (which is an amount that gets you a 2 bedroom apartment in much of the country), I’m playing the world’s tiniest violin for your $9 congestion fee.
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Uhhhh on what planet is anyone driving a mile in Manhattan…? Even if he considers himself too good for the subway or the bus, taking a cab isn’t just faster than driving 18 blocks— it’s also much faster after you factor in 25 minutes of searching for a parking spot.
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By a yards per game metric (which should probably be the one used), the record is held by OJ, followed I believe by Jim Brown.
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That’s about white.
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of course the shift has already happened. The center left and center right have varying degrees of distaste and discomfort for Bibi Netanyahu’s government, for instance, but none are pro-Hamas or generally in favor of letting Putin overrun Ukraine. /2
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The threat has to be acute. It generally worked in 2024 with Never Trumpers because they shelved (rightly, of course, in my center-left view) their policy disagreements. So long as they continue to capitulate on tax cuts and abortion and financial deregulation, it can work. On foreign policy /1
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cheaper to fly today than it was a few decades ago. When it comes to the basic task of making getting from point A to point B cheap and accessible, deregulation has been a huge boon. /2
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Yep. Bad regulation is certainly bad. But lack of regulation is often the worst case scenario (see, again, finance). People love to complain about how small airplane seats have gotten and how much less comfortable trips are, etc., and they’re right. But they neglect that it’s also literally 90% /1
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a disaster. Like anything, regulation is a tool that can be useful in the right circumstances and if properly designed. Anyone suggesting it’s always good or always bad doesn’t adequately understand it. /2
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People very rarely think intelligently about regulation. They’re either knee-jerk anti-regulation or imagine that any issue can be solved with regulation. Reality is, deregulating trucking and airlines in the 70s was very much a good thing. Deregulating finance in the 70s through the 2000s was /1
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Depends on the makeup of the rest of your team and the profile of your number one. If you have a top pass catching back and/or a great possession tight end, the over the top guy is great. If you don’t the possession guy could be more valuable.
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Very excited about the return of the Substack. There was a lot lost when the Times blog went away in favor of Twitter threads. Hopefully longish form blogging is back!
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No one does or ever will transact in bitcoins. They’re a wildly volatile vehicle for fraud (and nothing else) without any mechanism for stabilizing. Trump and some of his VC sycophants are pushing it because they can make money off of greater fools with it. Nothing else.
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But the message that that in turn sends lay watchers is that both parties are corrupt (even though Trump’s crimes are all of the sort that are routinely prosecuted, other than some technicalities in the NY business records case. But that distinction won’t be made in public discourse. /2
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It’s terrible politics and optics. On substance, there was no right answer. It’s certainly true that tax evaders under those circumstances who have paid penalties and interest are damn near never prosecuted, and neither are people who lie on gun permit applications absent other related crimes. /1
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It’s… somewhat darkly funny that Republicans hold up Barack Obama and Kamala Harris and Claudine Gay as “DEI candidates,” while extolling Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump as qualified for the positions they hold.