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  1. The other issue is a lack of credibility. Long term rates are a function of the sense that the American banking system is independent and neutral to politics. This is political horseshit. While the Fed has always been political, it has also always been independent. That’s not a “Rogue agency” that’s an independent central bank operating in a free market. Well, it managed to keep a fiat currency operating as the world’s value reserve for 50 years, allowing people like you and I to enjoy tax cuts and fairly stable prices over a long period by exporting debt to other countries and getting imported tangible goods in return, so it seems pretty successful to me. If that looks like failure to you, I’m curious what you think a successful central bank looks like. I’m old enough to remember when I was on Hornfans shouting from the rooftops about position of the dollar and the the exploding debt while you were caping for the 2003 Tax cuts and increased structural deficits as far as the eye could see, not to mention the Iraq war. If you really want to do this take it to the Cloak Room. And bring your shine box.
  2. 1) Trust me, you will know when we get there. But by then it will be too late. It might already be. 2) The free press? All they do is bear witness as the light go out. And besides, in a modern autocracy, tolerating a critical press is one of the ways they maintain the fiction of democracy. 3) The court are a jump ball right now, and the autocratics have length advantage. The Dems have a defensive-PG out there. 4) Thank you, but I don’t actually think there are many of us. 5) Finally, this is not about Trump. Trump is a symptom. The AEI (the last traditional conservative think tank published that piece in 2012. Norm Ornstein and other conservative political scientists started ringing alarm bells about this well over a decade ago. I’m far less concerned about Trump than I am about what the office of the President will be capable of without any checks and balances.
  3. You have no idea what rooms I’m in, but I’m pretty sure you watch cable news.
  4. Actually a great example of normal shittiness- Hunter Biden, well connected son of politicians who parleys that into medium sized money, only to get shamed and charge with a crime, brings shame on whole family. The first family- issues a meme coin and other projects to monetize the executive branch and sell favors immediately upon taking office, while simultaneously dismantling non-partisan bureaucracies. This is the South America playbook- to dismantle institutions and make leaders the source of services. You don’t need to make free speech illegal when the lives and fortunes of your subjects are dependent on your favor.
  5. This is a dangerous misunderstanding of the situation in this country. first- the purpose of the two parties is to coordinate effort and win elections, but the most important function they played traditionally is to coopt and neutralize radical outsider factions. The Democratic Party has a radical outsider element of around 15%. While noisy, this faction is contained and has no power. The Republican Party has been radicalized. It is now an insurgent outlier party with only 15-20% of its base occupying a political space in the traditional American conservative tradition. Theres a ton of formal political science research backing up that conclusion, since well before Trump. Trump is just their avatar. The Democratic Party sucks in the normal way of political parties but is in no way controlled by its extreme. The fact that you think it is demonstrates a poor media diet or perhaps normalcy bias. As most people here should have understood long ago, I have not thought of myself as a Democrat in a decade, and am not any sort a of progressive. But I do consider myself a co-belligerent of the Democrats because The Republic and the institutions that hold up civilization are facing existential risk from within the political system. We are drifting towards South American style authoritarian kleptocracy.
  6. No, actually we do, and you should look at some easily available real life examples: Sen. Bob Menendez, post indictment Dems demand Menendez resign on the other hand: The impact of Trump verdicts:
  7. Grok is woke in the actual meaning of woke.
  8. His taint has got to be absolutely revolting
  9. I don’t think you can overstate how challenging this is to the worldview they’ve cultivated in their base and how shook they are at an individual level. This was posted by elderly friend who is former Texas GOP officer on FB a 10 days ago. There’s a lot of textual anxiety here. He usually posts something political 3-4X/week and hasn’t posted a thing about Trump or anything directly partisan since. I think it’s possible that the only lie they won’t accept under any circumstances is that there is no conspiracy. “OPINION.....EPSTEIN'S DEATH....i don't for a second believe he committed suicide. Dr, Baden a very respected medical examiner said the hyiod bone was not broken. every cop in cop 101 is taught that a broken hyoid bone is evidence of a suicide by hanging or strangulation. the fact that the two guards were not observing a high profile prisoner and the tape of his cell mysteriously malfunctioned suggests coverup. a prisoner interviewed that was in that cell stated there was no possibility of anything that could have been used to do a suicide by hanging. in all likelihood he was smothered to death. Epstein had nothing to lose, even if he got life, he would have been housed in a prime federal facility and could have written an expose. and do you think for one minute the names on the list and people in those tapes would have not gotten him the best of the best, chances are he would have been out on parole in 18 months. rermember, he killed no one. now the fact that Trump, Kash and Bongino, all highly respected for truth bearers suddenly are claiming suicide leads me to believe that the list and tapes contained in addition to reputation damage information and maybe pedophile charges highly valuable leverage, against some future adversary, there could be no other reason for such an obvious coverup other than an intelligent chess move. the fact that Epstein's woman is still alive just suggests that she was smart enough to put the word out that three client list and sets of tapes exists, all given to unnamed parties to be given to the media upon her having any sudden and suspicious death, another intelligent chess move. who do you believe?
  10. Why is GenX like this? Because this is how we grew up. For us it was never Black Lives Matter, or All lives matter. It’s “No Lives Matter.” Always has been.
  11. World class cope: Hear that, libs/lesbos/jews? They were trolling NPR! Pwnt!
  12. THATS NOT A WORD AND I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO WORDLE MANAGER Wordle 1,496 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. This South Park thing seems to be all over the place today, I honestly didn’t know it was still relevant. I thought it was like the Simpsons or the last 15 years of Johnny Carson; sort of a grand old media institute that everyone knows but not very important anymore. was my impression wrong? Do a lot of people still pay attention to SP or did this go viral overnight and draw the attention?
  14. Welp, the M18s have been pulled from service.
  15. I’m hesitant to wade into this, but it’s probably worth mentioning here that whenever they assume office, if the new chair is not perceived to be an independent actor, it’s entirely possible (or perhaps even likely) that mortgage rates don’t budge, or even go up, even if the Fed reduces the Fed funds rate.
  16. I think you may have missed the point of the anecdote about the veteran. I don’t have any illusions. I just want a world worth living in when things shake out.
  17. Couldn’t sleep and now this Wordle 1,495 X/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
  18. I think part of why the situation in Gaza is so appalling, no matter how one feels about Israel, is that there is a huge moral difference between the Hamas leadership or actual Hamas fighters and civilian noncombatants or even rock throwers who hate Israel and chant “Death to Israel.”
  19. Indeed not, but I’m not sure Hegel did either, despite being highly consequential in the 40s in the way that Ayn Rand is now.
  20. The crew at KLBJ-AM these days make Sgt. Sam seem like a combination of William F Buckley and Plato.
  21. Jeff Ward is on the radio again? I thought KLBJ ran him off when he didn’t fall in line with the rest of Temu OANN.
  22. I wonder if Popper were writing today, would he engage with the work of Ayn Rand?
  23. That and also Powell speaking live this morning while opening and leading the Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference, where he is in attendance, right now.
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