A U.S. Department of Agriculture report released last Friday showed only two Chinese purchases of American soybeans since the summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, totaling 332,000 metric tons from Oct. 2 through Nov. 12 — well short of the 12 million metric tons that the White House said China agreed to purchase by year-end.
Monday, November 17, 2025
President Deals
This one was obviously bullshit. They barely tried to pretend.
And Then Everyone Forgot
It wasn't just Rubio and the Senate that decided bygones.
Official DC decided, for whatever reason ($$$), that a few weepy tributes to Khashoggi had taken it far enough, and it was time to return to hard-headed realism ($$$).With MBS’s arrival to DC, it’s worth remembering that 2 months after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Senate UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution—co-led by Rubio—calling on MBS to be held accountable for the jailing & torture of Saudi activists & the murder of Khashoggi.
— Seth Binder (@seth_binder) November 17, 2025
America's Smartest Man
Harvard Crimson, continuing to do the best Larry Summers-related journalism. I hope Patel and Srivastava have non-journalism career plans, because there are no rewards for exposing made men.
Summers went on to describe what he saw as his “best shot”: that the woman finds him “invaluable and interesting” and concludes “she can’t have it without romance / sex.”
Throughout June, Summers fed Epstein updates about the woman’s workload and continued contact. Epstein urged him to play the “long game” and keep her in what he called a “forced holding pattern.”
The final messages, dated July 5, 2019, show Summers still in regular contact with Epstein. That morning, Summers wrote he was in Cape Cod with his family — “Bit of an Ibsen play,” he joked — and the two men exchanged a brief flurry of literary one-liners.
The thread ends at 1:27 p.m.
Epstein was arrested the next day.
The name they used for this Chinese-born woman was... "peril."
We must remember that Larry's great "bitches be stupid" speech, which he gave to a room full of mostly top women academics.
There are three broad hypotheses about the sources of the very substantial disparities that this conference’s papers document and have been documented before with respect to the presence of women in high-end scientific professions. One is what I would call the—I’ll explain each of these in a few moments and comment on how important I think they are—the first is what I call the high-powered job hypothesis. The second is what I would call different availability of aptitude at the high end, and the third is what I would call different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search. And in my own view, their importance probably ranks in exactly the order that I just described.
In order: 1) women don't put enough time in, because they have kids, 2) bitches be stupid, 3) old lecherous men demand sex for help in career advancement, without which women cannot succeed due to sabotage. Obviously #3 is unimportant, in Larry's detached, objective, unbiased, sensibly centrist view.
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Mommy He Hit Me Back
I don't know what will happen with Venezuela, but I guarantee most of our glorious thinkfluencers will consider any retaliation to be an act of war, and not the actual act of war.
Elite Rot
I believe readers of this blog can take it as read that the bad orange man is indeed bad, that the current [and all past in my lifetime] incarnation of the Republican party being in charge is much much much much worse than the alternative of the Democratic party being charge.
But much as a party that won't object to genocide is unlikely to be up to the task of defending Democracy, a party whose elite players welcome Larry Summers into the fold is unlikely to be up to the task of combatting racism, moral degeneracy, and corruption, let alone confront our economic problems in a productive and politically appealing way.
But much as a party that won't object to genocide is unlikely to be up to the task of defending Democracy, a party whose elite players welcome Larry Summers into the fold is unlikely to be up to the task of combatting racism, moral degeneracy, and corruption, let alone confront our economic problems in a productive and politically appealing way.
The time to clean house is now, because soon everyone will be yelling about the coming elections. Well, really, they do that they day after the last election but I don't have to listen to them.
The vacation home for the elite rot of the Democratic party is currently the Center for American Progress. It's a shame because like many aught-era institutions it started with some promise. Most of them went bad.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
I Admit I Forgot That The First American Pope (Self-Declared, News Outlet Endorsed) Was Still Alive
Amazing stuff.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN Bill Donohue
Dersh
Lawyers are going to lawyer, but this man's former client is dead and it is obscene (but not unique, of course) that a man who regularly performs this kind of sophistry is the toast of cable news, and a regular sympathetic NYT page 1 figure.
Also, generally it's absurd that outlets let criminal defense attorneys use them for PR purposes for rich and famous people. People like Dersh can do what they want in the courts, but high priced lawyers are largely in the PR business in cases like these. The courts, at least, will slap down some bullshit.Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile. pic.twitter.com/cz5r6S2gan
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 15, 2025
Not Beating The Charges
Journalists - people who work for the New York Times, people who used to work for the New York Times (white ones, anyway), people who desperately want to work for the New York Times, especially - will defend that place to the death against the rabid lambs of the internet, and then the New York Times does this.
A couple of times I saw Nuzzi/Lizza referred to as a journalism "power couple." I don't think journalism should have "power couples" and I think if journalists were serious about defending the, well, seriousness of their practices and institutions they would vocally object to such things themselves.
If her journalism and her "ethical" practices related to journalism are what gets elevated by the people who make such choices, then you should consider that their critics have a point.
If her journalism and her "ethical" practices related to journalism are what gets elevated by the people who make such choices, then you should consider that their critics have a point.
There might even be a defense of a kind of "fallen star" memoir if she had, in fact, fallen, instead of just being handed an editor gig at one of the few publications that still pays salaries (Vanity Fair).
Vance Glancing At His Watch
On one hand, if Trump bites it, everyone will hate Vance even more. On the other hand, Vance is an actual Nazi instead of just someone with some Nazi-adjacent views like Trump
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he received a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam as part of his recent physical, calling the scan "very standard."This was the previously reported MRI.
Trump told reporters he got the MRI "because it's part of my physical. Getting an MRI is very standard. What, you think I shouldn't have it? Other people get it ... I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor."
Friday, November 14, 2025
Time To Partially Fix The Problems I Created
US President Donald Trump is readying substantial tariff cuts designed to address high food prices and a series of new trade deals — including framework agreements with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ecuador — as he seeks to address voter concerns over the cost of goods.
Why Do You Keep Focusing on Larry Summers, Atrios?
I wasn't 100% sure he was still an active paticipant in CAP, or if he just had a legacy courtesy title, but I was pretty sure he was!
Summers’s efforts at CAP are part of a multipronged effort by high-powered centrists in the Democratic Party to bend the agenda of the 2029 candidate toward the middle. As The New York Times reported over the summer, the Project 2029 advisory committee includes Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan, the economist Justin Wolfers, New America CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter, Roosevelt Institute principal Felicia Wong, and Third Way’s Jim Kessler.
Epstein buddy, Genocide Guy, Guy Who Thinks Democrats Should Be Republicans...
Aside from the Epstein stuff, Larry has shown numerous times that he will burn everything down if he doesn't get his way, so it is malpractice to keep him around!
Cancel Culture
I can't believe these censorious lefties are trying to cancel their fine colleague, Larry Summers.
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, reopening an old and bitter divide between Summers and the faculty.
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