Bozo_Casanova

You’re familiar with Amazon’s business model, right?

But see, you're begging the question. I don't acccept the premise that they were in fact protecting corporate interests. I think there were and are specific interests associated with specific people that benefitted, and I'm sure to some people that looks like being pro-business or pro-capitalism, but it's not. The greatest danger to capitalism is not socialism, but rent-seeking. The greatest danger to American business is not overregulation but regulatory capture.

Fundamentally I see the tarriffs as another form of regulatory capture to favor well connected inbumbent interests. My point was that there was never any "there" there. The economic orthodoxy of that era was all just a kayfabe. The tarriffs are just the mask coming all the way off. Surprise, it's not wrestling it's "sports entertainment".

Um, not sure about that. Other than the tarrifs I don't see a lot of light between Trump's debt-financed fiscal stimulus for people at the top plus regulatory capture by cronies and Reagan/Bush 2's version of the same thing. The biggest difference is that Trump doesn't pretend that the revenue generated by the growth will exceed the cost of the the debt we incur to get it. He doesn't care at all. It's just a tax cut for it's own sake. Then they force interest rates down to suck the cash into asset prices and pretend that's not inflation.

I think he means "if actual," not that the actual result is that way. But regardless, I think that's more likely than either the polling average being exactly right or the pollsters underestimating Trumps base again. I'm not ready to call my shot, but that's my map if the election was held today. BTW - I don't think his shading is anything other than an artifact of setting the colors on the battleground states.

Hopefully he's not handling security Our suburbs, like the suburbs of Boise and Atlanta, are a mecca for the reverse dust-bowlers fleeing commiefornia. I think there's a high percentage of "ex Republicans" or normie Republicans voting for Harris who quietly believe it's too soon to tell if the 2001, 2003, and 2017 tax cuts will pay for themselves, and always will be. This point seems somewhat self-evident and people keep overlooking it. The Big Sort works both ways.

From the first half of last season to now feels like we just skipped to the other side of one of those 4-5 year “trust the process” building cycles. Just massively, radically upgraded, seemingly without a loss of chemistry or damage to the culture. Nico is The Man.

Yeah, this.

Look, Wemby is a problem and even on an off night he is unique. BUT - man, is there a player in the NBA with more upside than Derrick Lively? How did we even get this guy at 12? He's physically gifted, his skills seem to improve game to game and his hustle and intuition are off the charts.

If you say so, but speaking as a Mavs fan, that guy is a problem.

At least you've got Butch Reed Jeremy Sochan around to pick up flagrants for you.

This got me thinking about how many candidates in partisan races I actually felt like I was voting *for* at any level. Maybe 3? And one of them would be the one Republican, which I came to regret. I just got that one way wrong.

some beautiful passes tonight

I'm not an ex-Republican, to be clear. I don't care at all about ideology or party tribes. I consider myself a citizen loyal to the United States and Texas and my loyalty, as it were, is undivided. But on both moral and intellectual grounds, I've consistently voted for Democrats since I could vote, because it the was the most effective way to vote against Republicans. Republicans have consistently offered me the worst combination of candidate and policy choices. I've only ever voted for one Republican, and I came to regret it. The crazy thing to me that there are so many smart middle-aged adults unable to admit to themselves or just now realizing that the economic orthodoxy of the 80's was bullshit.

You know, it's been the longest time since I watched H.O.T.S.

Yeah and they don't understand economics because their economics teacher was ... they weren't required to take economics.

Me neither, and I'm not even a Democrat or a progressive.

You really appreciate Kleiber's role in a game like this - to give you quality bench minutes and play interior defense well.I used to get frustrated because of his obvious limitations, but he's really very good at what he does well, and he's good enough to hang in there at the rest.

"Here's why that's bad news for Democrats" - CNN We have reached the stage of the campaign where the undecided voter panel has replaced interviewing people drinking coffee at First Watch by the dead mall on a weekday at 10am.

You mean the one that broke yesterday or the one that’s rumored to be about to break? Lotta groping these days. Hard to keep track.

Most of the good Texas grapes are from the high plains and the cab franc and viognier grown there are truly excellent. Hill Country grows pretty good Mouvedre and Tannat and the Tempranillo vines will be good in 10-15 years, but that’s about it.

Are we talking about good burgers from places you're ashamed to patronize? Because I have seen some shit.

Yeah, you know what else gives off "stick to the whites" vibes? The famously mediocre Loire Valley. Maybe you should stick to Merlot.

Well, no. At most basic level market clearing price of a commodity represents equilibrium between the money seeking to be exchanged for apples/diapers/cheerios whatever and the amount of those things available. But as consumers we don't interacts directly with that. We work with middlemen who aggregate goods we want, dress them up, merchandise them with other things that we may want but don't know about yet, along with substitutional goods, invest in staff and physical plant close to where we are, and branding to make us feel good about paying a tiny markup for working with them instead of the other middlemen. The more competitive it is, the tinier it gets, and the strongest competitors are often the ones who can charge the highest mark-up (which is one way to measure the value of the brand) but choose to sell undifferentiated commodities at wholesale or even below wholesale cost to atract customers. None of that means prices will do gown. The only think that forces prices down is either less money chasing a thing or more things relative to the money chasing them Texas Cab Franc, Viognier, Albarinho and Mouvedre are all excellent. I suspect those LV screens are coming from the delta between Trump voters who say they voted for Trump in 2020 vs Harris voters who say they didn't vote in 2020. Zero concern about that. Put it on the pile.

Seriously.