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The great failure of Bidenomics was that it tried to do what was right for the country rather than what was good for the Democrats politically. The lesson: never do what’s right for the country; always do what’s good for the Democrats politically.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The DOGE dividend will be like when somebody settles a class-action suit for a large class that you didn’t know you were a member of and they send you a check for $0.15 that isn’t worth the trouble of adding to your deposit slip even if you were already going to the bank to make a deposit.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

If the month Donald Trump took office for the second time turns out to have been a business cycle peak, I don't think history will regard that as a coincidence. bsky.app/profile/carl...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Chamberlain sold Czechoslovakia out in order to buy time to belatedly build an armoury to fight fascism. Trump is selling Ukraine out because he likes fascism. These are really not the same thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Ukraine started the war by choosing a yellow and blue flag instead of a plain white one.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I don't believe Trump and Musk are part of a Chinese plot to destroy the US, but every time I update my priors based on new information, the probability goes up.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Tell your 9-years-ago self that Musk and Bannon are having a fight. They won't be shocked until you tell them which side you're on.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

LLMs hallucinate, but so do people. When people do it, it’s called bullshit. LLMs can’t be trusted not to do that, but neither can most people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If Russia and a third party (the US, or putative representatives thereof) make an agreement—to which Ukraine itself is not directly a party—regarding the future of Ukraine, then anyone who participates in the enforcement of that agreement is effectively intervening on behalf of Russia.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't heard of one example of actual fraud/waste/abuse uncovered by DOGE. No doubt there are some—but too minor to warrant my attention. Meanwhile bullshit, misunderstanding, politically motivated violations of the separation of powers, downright cruelty, and general recklessness are constant.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

You're offering me 38.5 times cyclically adjusted earnings, with the world in chaos? OK, Mr. Market, you've got a deal!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk has dramatically altered my class consciousness. I used to be middle class, ambidextrous bourgeois/proletariat, depending on the particular dispute; work for a living but acquire human capital to enhance my work and interests in physical capital to support my retirement. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

After each news source reports, "Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed," the congregation will respond by saying, "Jesus H. Christ!"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I’m thinking about the scene in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” where they bring in the letters.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

At some point in Trump’s term, possibly soon (and we can’t rule out that it’s already starting) but possibly not, there will be a recession that will bring down the inflation rate, so I guess I like bonds despite Trump’s aggressive attacks on the aggressive supply curve.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

What Congressional Democrats need to do, I think: 1. Recognize that stopping this autogolpe is far more important than any of the day-to-day political issues they might be concerned with. 2. Try to convince a few of their Republican colleagues of that.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It isn’t the 1% vs the 99% any more. It’s the 1 basis point vs the 9999 basis points.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A problem with starter packs is that they end up becoming finisher packs. You end up following a lot of people with very narrow ranges of interest, intellectual black holes in the vastness of space. There's much more variety in my Threads feed than on Bluesky, and it's mostly interesting variety.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I have the afternoon off because of DOGE. Workplace closed early due to weather conditions. Under the old regime l wouldn’t even have noticed. But I can’t work now: it’s against the rules; all telework agreements have been canceled.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently I misinterpreted “I don’t want to be a dictator except on day 1.” I thought he meant “I will be dictator on day 1, and after that there won’t be a dictator,” but he meant, “I will be dictator on day 1, and after that I’ll pass the role to Elon.”

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you want to get people to start using crypto, publicly hacking the institution at the core of the world’s current payments system seems like a good way to do it. Doesn’t seem to be working yet, but give it time.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

submitted 18 days ago • 428 comments

Threads refused to format this correctly. (The lines with calculations should be set off with initial spaces to emphasize the sixes.) Let's see if it works on BlueSky. M = 13 A = 1 13 - 1 = 6 + 6 G = 7 A = 1 7 - 1 = 6 ...in case you see someone with that mark on their forehead

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

To UK, France, Germany, Japan, and the rest of the democracies: The restoration of US credibility will not begin any time soon. The PRC is as credible as ever, and Russia, Iran, and NK remain serious threats. IT'S ON YOU NOW. You need to find leadership among you and prepare to keep the world safe.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Which of the enemies of the Constitution of the United States of America seem like a greater threat to it right now, the foreign ones or the domestic ones?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

There’s going to be a shortage of supervisors in the federal government because everyone suddenly wants to be in jobs that are covered by collective bargaining. People are switching to nonsupervisory jobs.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments