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  1. Further to this point, as you go higher up the social/financial ladder, the concern with taxes is probably replaced by "regulation." For example, the objection to the "administrative state" is a false flag for objection to regulation. So, in my mind, I was kind of attaching a broader meaning to "taxes" than my text would indicate.
  2. Even if this wasn't the product of your algorithm, but instead a "neutral" aggregation of news tweets, the fact that a racially charged tweet from a dickwad like that made it into a news feed is just a demonstration that Xitter is overrun with shit. And you should get the fuck off of it and quit supporting Elmo and these fucks.
  3. Well, then, your methodology was fucked. Especially if you find you need them within days of canning them.
  4. Eh, I'm not sure it wasn't fully formed. Like a lot of things economic, there's theoretical and empirical. The theoretical basis was reasonable, if not sound, in the absence of hindsight. Now we have empirical data that tariffs don't work and neither do supply-side economics.
  5. Dude, every Supreme Court Justice ever was a political actor. Many of the cases before the Court have no real basis for choice or decision in any part of the Constitution or statutes of the country. They boil down to policy choices that are influenced by many things, including politics. Like a lot of problems facing Congress are really beyond Congress' capabilities or institutional competence (hence the administrative "state"), more modern justices are trained only in the law, and have never held office outside of the judiciary, so they are, at bottom, really unfamiliar with policy choices. So, experience, personal and governmental, bears little on their decisions, it boils down to biases and politics.
  6. L O fucking L.
  7. What it is, other than Trump's fever dream, is the way to drive manufacturing back to the US in the least intrusive (government involvement in business and labor) way possible. Cass acknowledges that tariffs alone will not do this.
  8. Well, I think Reagan's dream had more to do with deregulation than taxes, per se, but it's kind of six of one half a dozen of the other.
  9. You also got: Promise of lower grocery prices; Promise of an end to the war in Ukraine in 24 hours; Promise of free IVF.
  10. Well, I think his ultimate goal, which is idiotic, is to replace income tax with tariffs. That's why he thinks the Gilded Age was so great, no income tax. So much of this shit boils down to income tax. It's really what the oligarchs want, it's what his moron voters really want. All this small government and efficiency shit boils down to "I don't wanna pay taxes."
  11. Yep, I think it is both. But he's so stupid, willful, and impetuous that he can't stick to an agenda so he will only implement things desired by dark forces on a piecemeal basis.
  12. Shocking and appalling. Mike McKool, no longer affiliated, was from a long line of Dems. Fulbright complying in advance. Baker Botts and V/E no moves. Susman no moves. Interestingly, Jones Day, who has repped Trump business interests and GOP, no moves. Edit to add. Fulbright doesn't use the dreaded DEI, which I suppose is capitulation enough. But has a pretty robust affinity page. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-us/about/people-first
  13. Lutnick is proving to be a bigger clown than Peter Navarro. That's saying something.
  14. Even if you wanted to do things "by the book," it doesn't sound like he owns any property that requires a formal title transfer for you, your brother, or anyone else to take possession and own it, such as real estate, vehicles, or accounts. Usually, medicaid estate recovery is geared toward real estate and any potential assets excluded from eligibility by Crummy trust or the like. But I really have no idea what the mechanics of that recovery are. That is, do they await a probate and file as a creditor, or initiate their own proceedings regardless. He or his estate does not sound like a ripe target for recovery.
  15. It's going to be hilarious when Trump tells us the stock market is not the economy.
  16. I thought Trumplandia called Summers a supporter?
  17. The problem with that is that tariff exceptions usually are granted on an industry basis, not an individual business basis. Trump could try that and maybe will, but I don't think so. He thinks he's punishing trade partners. Trump really thinks this is sound economic policy because, as brisket says, he has no conception of mutual benefit; that every transaction has a big winner and a big loser. But, this is a nice counterbalance to the whole erroneous attempt to rationalize it as the "Mar A Lago Accord." Trump and rationality just don't go together.
  18. True as far as it goes. But, what does he have to lose? Assuming the law holds as written, he can't run for re-election to a third term. That much is clear. Other schemes to avoid application of the 22nd involve certain post-election events that he can't completely control.
  19. Icono may be too busy furiously masturbating over all this.
  20. Elon Musk goes to therapy and 50 therapists throw up their hands and fire him in disgust would get repetitive.
  21. Funny thing, I immediately considered whether this could be patented. It might could. However, there was a recent interesting case where American Axle patented a less-vibration-prone drive shaft, the design addressing shell and bending mode vibrations. When they claimed it though, rather than specifying a range of dimensions for the shaft liner, they phrased it in terms of "tuning the liner to damp both shell mode and bending mode vibrations" and then threw in a couple of percentages for how much damping it accomplished. There was a big snit about whether that was patenting "laws of nature" because it basically claimed a design process of tuning a shaft liner to damp two types of vibration to a satisfactory degree (which could be considered patent-ineligible). Rather, arguably, than the product of such a design process having concrete dimensions or other characteristics (which would be patent-eligible). This could be susceptible to the same kind of problem, but specifying a range of dimensions should be easier because there's a more finite universe of legal bat lengths and diameters than there is of drive shafts.
  22. What's weird about this is no one outside MLB uses wood bats and it is much easier to accomplish similar things with an aluminum bat without the oddball shape. Something about typing in these windows makes me make typos I wouldn't ordinarily.
  23. Yeah, I think that's accurate. A corked bat would also have a different coefficient of resititution than a solid wood bat that probably works against it. That is, more energy/momentum lost to compression of the thin-walled bat.
  24. "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Or, as paraphrased by Hemingway: The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Julian. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him.
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