I find it's always worth considering to whom that money is owed, to stop the argument being too abstract. In effect you could say that one in every five dollars is transferred straight from taxpayers to bondholders.
What infrastructure will we be left with when the companies building all this collapse? Essentially their big product is a pile of numbers that fit on a cheap hard disk. What will the data centers get used for?
Not the herons you deserve, but the herons you need right now.
I was once in the same room as Anderssen and no-one there could take their eyes off his head. It truly is freakishly big.
Anyway, how does he know that he has zero introspection if he has zero introspection? He means, I think, that he lives without moral qualm. But he can't quite say that.
You wonder whether there's a 'don't mention the war' thing going on with Trump. Bringing up Churchill to the Irish leader and now Pearl Harbour to the Japanese. Or maybe it's entirely deliberate.
Full sketch at dmdonald.com/posts/he-polished-a-glass-at-me/
@samsteindc.bsky.social has a follow-up ready
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social ran a focus group
@jvl.bsky.social is writing five newsletters
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"He polished a glass at me." Trump GMs for @thebulwark.com — a new D&D sketch from the DONgeonmaster.
TRUMP: The dragon will eat you.
STEIN: I have a follow-up ready.
TRUMP: For after it eats you?
STEIN: You try editing this every day.
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Full sketch at dmdonald.com/posts/he-alr...
@jonfavs.bsky.social makes a persuadable precinct map for D&D, @danpfeiffer.bsky.social arrives with a five-chapter post-mortem, and @jonlovett.bsky.social can't stop himself from turning everything into a bit.
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"He already wrote the post-mortem."
A new D&D sketch from the DONgeonmaster.
FAVREAU: When did you write the post-mortem?
PFEIFFER: Last week.
FAVREAU: We didn't know about this session last week.
PFEIFFER: Some version of this was always going to happen.
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Full sketch at dmdonald.com/posts/dongeo... — Rubio spends the entire game looking for boxes, Hegseth achieves maximum lethality, Vance denies his own name and Bondi keeps an eye on the DOW.
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"You cannot lethality a mountain, Pete". A new D&D sketch from the DONgeonmaster.
TRUMP: Okay, so. You're all in a tavern. A tremendous tavern.
RUBIO: I peer over the bar.
TRUMP: Marco, we've been over this, you're a halfling, you can't see over the bar.
RUBIO: I find a box. I stand on the box.