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David Frum was on the Bulwark podcast Election Day (so recorded well before any results were known) and he brought this up. He said blacks and Hispanics are voting with their economic peers and that’s a good thing in the long run.

Perhaps there’s a plan to drive Dallas into municipal bankruptcy so there can be more support for budget reform.

Exactly-it’s like some of you were born after 2008. Real estate prices falling in a broad, noticeable way is terrible for the economy. If you want to get PE out of residential real estate then the economy needs to create more attractive avenues of investment. To that point, a far bigger problem is that major parts of the economy are in thrall to rent-seeking. It’s an area that JD Vance is reputed to be aligned with Lina Khan* on and if there’s a continuation of anti-monopoly enforcement it would mark a welcome surprise. *that said, I’m not terribly hopeful because this wouldn’t play nice with pretty much everyone else in Trump’s ear.

Well, kudos to whoever stole my Harris/Waltz sign that was still up as of yesterday evening, along with the rest of our neighbors' signs. Probably teen pranks but it does put a fitting capstone on the end of the Biden presidency and probably a fitting reminder of the courtesy to expect over the next four years.

This might be better in the “things my wife says thread,” but I asked her this morning what country we should move to and her reply was “well, we both like Argentina.”

Wildly overdue.

And down 70-good morning America.

Inflation.

It’s prehensile, in fact he uses it to sign his name.

Mine is very close:

We got both rain and sunshine together in ‘59.

Hah! I like to stop at the 290 Brenham location on the way back and forth from Houston for a dip cone. Sometimes it’s a five minute stop, sometimes it’s 30 minutes. I tell the kids the randomness is a good way to be reminded of the instability in modern America.

I’m okay letting him walk if he wants more than that. Maybe that pushes the Astros to be more aggressive with Tucker to either extend or trade.

I understood absolutely none of that.

I don’t want to be overly presumptuous about farmers in Iowa, none of whom I know and in a state I’ve never visited. That said, I grew up around SE Texas rice farmers (and after rice didn’t make money they cycled through sorghum, soybeans, even cotton and of course now everyone is growing corn) and they are just are plenty happy to take a handout. I watched those families get bailed annually in the 80’s and that “bail-out” money wasn’t going to just food, it got spent in new trucks, boats, 4 wheelers and the like. I wouldn’t get overly sanctimonious about their dislike of federal support when it’s meant for them. I’ll tell you something else you probably don’t know about those hard working, independent problem solvers. Most of them aren’t farming anymore (too much work, too little profit) but they are still getting USDA money for leasing their fields to other farmers, sometimes just for leaving them fallow. These are the same people, mind you, passing along emails later forwarded to me that claimed Obama was a Muslim jihadist back in 2005. I’m sure that’s migrated to Facebook or other social networks, but I’m sure the rhetoric about Harris isn’t any less racist.

Holy shit on jobs report.

I’m sure you can search his posts, but he would do Counselor riffs every time Nate Paul was brought up. One of our losses with his passing is a fuller account of his detective work on the cartel money laundering.

Except they fired the guy most responsible for whatever authenticity was ascribed to their polling.

Looks awesome. Fassbender struggling with a southern accent is also a fun part, RIP Lobo and his full memorization of The Counselor screenplay.

I appreciate that they are trying to expand their audience but you’re right, she really was. I would hope they know that and decided to proceed anyway because they had a show runner lined up with a really good take (that said, checking out IMDb right now and her resume is light).

Now @Wulaw Horn, @UTPhil2006, @Neonmoon and I trying to imagine if this is good or bad for the bond market..

I'm with @henrygandorf in that Trump has a "to death do us part" hold on the party. That's also why he needs to be in jail.

Nothing is dominating the headlines for 3 days. If you go listen to a Pod Save America podcast from last Friday it’ll feel like it was recorded 4 years ago. The media barrage of everything is a fire hose right now, it’s like everyone is on cocaine.

The Pod Save America guys talked themselves out of recommending Kamala appear on Rogan* and responding to this kind belief is a good example of how they are wrong. *they said it was because Rogan will start bringing up bullshit “data” in support of anti-vax and she would get bogged down in it. I haven’t heard them be so protective of her previously-I think you gotta let her cook. In regards to the “you’ve got to destroy it to save it” rhetoric, I think that should be such a layup I’m just shocked she’s not frothing at the opportunity. That said, it speaks to the failure of the party (this isn’t on her) to better articulate a counter to “Make America Great Again” as a vision of what it DOES need to look like.

My wife and I have had the same conversation and are similarly perplexed how people like @BurntOrange&White manage it. You should read up on how Iran went from the most Western friendly nation in the Middle East to 40 years of religious terrorism under the theocracy. One crucial step was the wealthy elites thought, after the Shah fled, “it’s okay, we can control Khomeini.” Most of them would end up fleeing themselves or in prison. So not entirely the same but another example of unforeseen consequences. The lesson should be that we don’t want kings in this country, whether by divine right or anointed by the market.