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Saturday, September 05, 2026
People Who Pay Their Bills Are Suckers
Trump's beliefs about the losses from trade probably aren't entirely an extension of his core business practice, but I suspect they are not unrelated.
I also suspect that going after the rich guy from TV with a series of ads from people he had stiffed over the years would have been effective.
Good journalism angle, too, if we had any journalists anymore.
At Least The War Is Over
With Iraq, "everyone" agreed it was a glorious idea even though nobody could agree on why or what it was supposed to achieve.
I suppose most pundits basically agreed with Richard Cohen, whatever they said, that the "prudent [?] use of violence could be therapeutic." Afghanistan didn’t cure their wwr boners.
Still the entire neoconservative movement had been building up to it and even they didn’t have a clear, generally agreed upon, purpose.
And that was complete clarity compared to whatever we have now with Iran.
Iran has grown more confident in its ability to attack targets in the Middle East and appears determined to continue the conflict for months to frustrate the United States, according to U.S. intelligence reports in recent weeks.Probably the goal of their war now is to change the name of Tehran to Trump City. Actually he will probably tell google to do that tomorrow.
We all know that hippies and George McGovern humiliated America by losing [it was a tie] Vietnam. Obama lost Iraq, Biden lost Afghanistan, and now President Emanuel will lose Iran.
That is how popular history is written.
Friday, September 04, 2026
Sure Why Not
New innovations in heterodox political economy.
President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to prevent the US from trading with many nations unless the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates.“LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT, which the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ridiculous and very costly Tariff decision, strongly acknowledged ‘the President’ has an absolute right to do,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “IT’S BETTER THAN TARIFFS! The Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart - BE PATRIOTS for a change.”
The Senior Senator From Pennsylvania
I don’t think I would enjoy being a senator. Also I never tried to get the job. 
One morning in June, three paralyzed military veterans in wheelchairs from rural Pennsylvania arrived at the office of Sen. John Fetterman for a long-awaited meeting to discuss legislation that would improve their care.
Fetterman’s staff greeted them with bad news: The Pennsylvania Democrat had to cancel. He’d told his staff he may have eaten something bad and wasn’t feeling well, according to people familiar with the matter.Less than an hour after his staffers met with the veterans in his place, Fetterman walked into his office, showing no signs of illness. He had an appointment he didn’t want to miss, he told staff: an interview on Fox News to discuss Israel and the war in Iran.
The hardworking evil ones to the most damage, but I do have extra contempt for people who too lazy to do the important jobs they asked for.
CHOP is the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Thursday, September 03, 2026
The Pro-Genocide Wing
Partial list, at least.
Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:
— Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 3 September 2026 at 17:40
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Spinning The Wheel Of Iran Options
Regime change-war-sanctions-war-war-sanctions-peace deal-war-sanctions-war-regime change
The Nazi Memorabilia Guy Is Big Fans Of The Pro-Israel Guy
I somehow missed this a month ago.
Draw your own conclusions.
Good Luck
Self-driving cars work better than I predicted, though not nearly as well as their boosters claimed, but navigating London is a challenge!
Londoners are now able to hire self-driving taxis for the first time, after rides in Wayve’s autonomous vehicles were added to the Uber app on Thursday.
The chances of landing a robotaxi on request immediately are slim, with only 15 vehicles so far licensed. That contrasts with the more than 100,000 private hire vehicles in the capital – roughly the same number of Uber customers who have registered to take autonomous rides.
The cars will still come with a licensed human driver sitting in the front seat, ready to take over the controls should the need arise.
We are still not close to demonstrating the business case for these things. Drivers are cheap!
And yes, I understand the value of the fantasy personal robot car, but all of these self-driving taxis still have significant human intervention (which they obscure) whether behind the wheel or remotely.
Is It Genocide Yet
Ratko Mladić died recently. It is worth reminding yourself what exactly the Butcher of Bosnia was involved with that we called "genocide."
Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime.
Has it widely been condemned? Missed that. If it happens it will get very complicated.
It is fashionable to blame voters for everything - and daring to care about genocide is one of those things - but Dem electeds are also divided into pro- and anti-genocide camps. You can choose for yourself how many are in each.
The Center For American Progress
Centrists, man...
The history makes it easy to cast Tanden as the Democratic Establishment’s enforcer, more interested in disciplining the party’s left flank than in considering the failures of the center. What’s missing from that picture is how progressive CAP has become. Matthew Yglesias, the centrist Substacker (and former ThinkProgress blogger), points to the disjunction between Tanden’s reputation and CAP’s work. “Most people evaluate Neera on the basis of her Twitter persona,” he told me. But if you ignored the feed and simply read the organization’s policy output, “you would almost think, Well, this is the moderate wing of the Bernie Sanders movement.”CAP’s policy positions bear that out. Among its proposals for addressing the affordability crisis is a voluntary program in which grocers who restrain price increases on staple foods would get temporary relief from credit-card swipe fees — hardly the sort of policy usually associated with the party’s corporate-friendly center. The Washington Post editorial board derided it as price controls. “That one didn’t get a ton of love, to be honest,” said Jared Bernstein, Biden’s former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and now a CAP senior fellow, who helped write the proposal. He rejects the idea that it was an attempt to reposition CAP in a way that would neutralize the left: “That’s a direct result of recognizing that the affordability crisis requires a bold policy response.”
program in which grocers who restrain price increases on staple foods would get temporary relief from credit-card swipe fees
That's almost full communism! Imagine trying to implement this! The application process! The bureaucracy!
Imagine running a little corner store and trying to prove you restrained price increases on staple foods to get your temporary swipe fee relief?
Is this a joke? I can't even tell. Does the writer want us to understand he is laughing at this, too, or is is he marveling at this model of left wing policy, genuinely?
Wednesday, September 02, 2026
I Think It Is?
Benefits like, uh, growth and stuff or whatever.
Altman told the gathered ministers and representatives that countries shouldn’t overlook the improvements to daily life poised to come from AI.“I think it is non-negotiable that you have to use it,” he said. “The economic growth and benefit to people that can come from this, the value to a country, is too high to ignore.”
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