Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

I can't decide if Op-Ed pages are not worth it and should be cut (publish long essays from interesting ppl like Jamelle Bouie, but this shit is grotesque), or if we as readers have to realize they are just clickbait garbage and should mostly not be read.

"No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" theory of decision making. Worse to be an outlier who is "wrong" before the collapse and right after the collapse than going with the flow right into disaster.

During the GFC, ppl could see something was really wrong, but it was only a few investors who bet against the markets (and made bank).

I think many investors are relying on gov't serving as the insurer of last resort, Trump willing to do anything to prop up the markets, and the ..

Don't forget, your state sets the retail rates, they can allocate a lot of these costs to the data centers if they want -- they just won't in most cases.

Covering up for pedophilia for hundreds of years? Still onboard! Pope expresses longstanding sentiments derived from Saint Augustine? I'm out! Really says something. It's almost like the religious devotion is entirely performative.

What a sad, stupid bill. First off, a lot of talk about the values of fathers, let me tell you about families that have two dads! legiscan.com/TN/text/HJR0...

I suspect that COVID was Trump's biggest success -- Operation Warp Speed was critical.

I mean, he lost the election, so he got some blame, but the problem is that there is collective amnesia about everything that happened pre-Jan 7, 2020.

Jake Tapper wrote an entire book about the cost of access journalism (the real topic of the Biden book). And yet ....

I wouldn't give Clinton surplus credit to Reagan. I give Bush Sr. and the Congress a lot of credit for PAYGO rules. Reagan was not v concerned with the deficit. Bush Sr. was politically punished for giving a shit. Clinton was rewarded for also giving a shit. Politics are weird.

But, it's a party in their honor. Free drinks and hobnobbing with powerful ppl. They can't be asked to actually give that up in protest right? Imagine if the press elite felt they to make a sacrifice to stand up for themselves. That's everyone else's job.

/2 Also, the White House Correspondents Dinner was gross even when normal people were in power; a Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner is merely the satirical expression of how gross it is.

Carter is wildly misunderstood. A deregulating neoliberal if ever there was one.

It's amazing what happens when schools become insanely expensive -- mostly from administrative bloat and facility expansion financed by student debt. I (in part) blame US News & World Report rankings.

And the public's response is to pick total outliers, or inflate the views on one edge to either delegitimize the debates or support whatever bullshit theory they want to support. Not that the outliers aren't sometimes right, just that 98% of the time they are cranks.

Reagan sensationalized a story to destroy welfare.

FDR completely overreacted to security concerns involving Japanese ppl while we were at war with Japan.

Both were completely monstrous, but FDR's overarching concern was more comprehensible (to me), OTOH the immediate effect was MUCH worse.

States should be the laboratories of democracy, but our particular form of federalism doesn't seem to work that well. Should look at other federal systems (like Germany) and see what they do better.

And, certain things like universal health care and social security benefit from having as wide a pool as possible, and because states use tax competition to fuck each other over (for instance the two kansas cities which have bankrupted each other in tax competition).

It's a bit more complicated than that. States fall behind for reasons inside and outside their control. It's good to provide them access to funds (not debt) to invest and grow again. The complicated part is that most of the states don't use the money well, or the funds are for dumb shit.

I keep waiting, and I'm concerned that the next one will be a doozy. I wonder if we will once again have an extended low growth period by underreacting instead of a sharper "boom-bust" cycle.

What if I told you it was actually the easiest situation anybody has ever been in?

but great at meeting the party's formerly unstated goals -- which is to break all the institutions in the interests of the powerful.

What I really appreciate about John Roberts is that he is incredibly concerned with the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, but spends a lot of effort delegitimizing and politicizing it. Like so many R appointees, he's just fucking terrible at meeting his stated goals ...

Hooray for SCOTUS's two biggest scumfuckers.

Actually, there is probably sci-fi where I'd like it, but the modern versions annoy me.

I hate the "Person talks to an AI version of a dead relative" plotline in any form of media.

Kalshi calls!

So, basically, we've had one good R on the deficit and the Ds were pretty good. The rest of the Rs are fucking disasters who shouldn't be let near a balance sheet or a macroeconomy. Shoot their budget planners into space!

8. Trump 2 - Hahahahahaha. Does not give even a hint of a shit. Explodes spending, trying to steal the power of the purse, etc, etc. Basically a budgetary cancer.

7. Biden - Should have cared a little more. Exploded the deficit to help us bounce out of COVID faster than anyone else. But, approved a second stimulus package that was too large and contributed to additional inflation (in an inflationary environment).