What makes this a good answer, in your opinion?

Weird and utterly false. I worked at the World Bank (and still know people there), and the Bank and IMF are the premier global economic institutions

That is not not what they do, officially or unofficially, so my consideration is either Warsh is a fool or simply unserious

Patel: they can say he was a DEI hire

Being that Gill represents the same district that voted in Dick Armey, I could make a case that the average IQ of that district is 70

Really, only republicans use IQ as if it means something useful anymore

This should be the ringtone for every credible reporter that Trump has on speed dial

True. I am using grift (which denotes small-scale swindling) where I believe graft is probably better for scale. I guess both rely on flawed or corrupt marks

Guy really is the worst when you start thinking through it

I appreciated this piece. I truly doubt I could stomach the grotesquries of Palantir pitch/manifesto, and your analysis ties a number of threads I had not considered regarding Palantir and the context in which it operates

Karp and Thiel both formally studied philosophy, and so ‘manifesto’. Your take applies to most philosophy grads I have known as well

Though he is a horrible president he excels at grift!

But this makes me feel better

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A win for Democracy, a loss for the US

^writing that statement makes me disgusted

UAE, Russia, Hungary

With friends like these…

Positive feelings is not synonymous with nostalgia, therefore to make it so is to put forth a straw man argument (if an argument is being made)

“The televised dinner, held at the Washington Hilton, has been a cultural flashpoint before”

I think to refer to what will happen as a “cultural flashpoint” consigns the 4th estate to the “Style” section

Motor voter registrations are an effective and frictionless way to register people to vote. To oppose efforts like this, arguments veer into disenfranchisement

Restriction of the right to vote (to put it the most neutral terms) is core to conservatism as far back as Edmund Burke

Only if error counts despite being immediately corrected

If the material outcome matters it has a success rate of 100%

This blurb does a disservice to the article, which is about the economics of service stations rather than an idiotic war of choice

I felt unburdened in the pandemic. The second part of your sentence came first for me, then the realization that the first part applied. Kinda obvious all along in retrospect

In today’s edition of “everything is the 70s again,” Peter Thiel is Jim Jones

There is nothing worse in the GOP than to be successfully compared to Carter

Trump *can* be successfully compared to Carter, GOP politicians know this, and they are powerless to acknowledge this

The uncertainty extends to the US O&G industry as well: they will not expand production (aka drill more wells then they planned in their budgets) unless the price remains elevated in a rational manner

This cyclical happy-talk/aggression is not rational

Syrian billionaires is a cohort I hope I never cross paths with

He’s bragging about things that did not happen

The realm of things that did not happen is endless!

And the normalization of incompetence!

And yougov just shared this, which 34% is outside the margin for the usual 37-38% MAGA floor

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This is beneath the usual MAGA floor of 37% (tho close)

That is a bad sign (portent), if you are Trump

Hahaha, my apologies!

This is very interesting: the approvals are beneath the 37-38% hard floor of Trump, and I suspect are close to the margin of error

I looked but do not see a margin of error on these. Are they available?

Oh, Palantir is dug in

Presidents do not get more popular in their final two years. The GOP is fundamentally very weak as a party, which is why it was captured by an inept reality TV star (and mega-donors)

Further, autocrats do not do succession well at all