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This is on Trump?
A tragedy to be sure. In a war zone.
If Trump helps bring the war to an end, will he get credit? My sense is more people think Trump started the Russia Ukraine war than think he can help stop it. That’s striking.
short of regime change in Russia, which I don’t think is our policy, what goal should the U.S. have in working to stop the fight? Return to status quo ante was my view for a long time but it doesn’t look workable. Putin probably keeps territory.
what say you, never trumper?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Didn’t musk say the only authority to do this was from the military, this trump? Musk approaching has no bearing.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)She was awful. I almost think Trump was trolling newsome. He married her after all.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The crazy thing is gas prices are still far below the Biden peak 4 years ago. Like 20 percent below.
Diesel is a problem and has been a structural problem predating but exacerbated by Iran conflict.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah but women are heavily employed in the state infrastructure. That will not shed jobs because productivity doesn’t correlate with job reduction like it does in the private sector.
The people who will be screwed are the unprotected classes in the private sector white collar cohort. Mostly white males. Probably white males over 50.
be ready.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The “working class” rejects the left because the working class lives with what is true and now, and not with some academic worker’s struggle narrative. Tell me all the good stuff that has happened to the working class under any socialist rule. Socialists are academics who want something for nothing. They aren’t working people.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t have a problem keeping two high performers apart from one another if there is conflict. They would have to be on different teams.
I love the anecdote about your boss checking in on you. I have been lucky to have never really had an overbearing boss.
I hired a young woman a few years back (still with me) who was coming from a large company to a small one, and in the interview process she bluntly asked if I was a micromanager. I said “only when you force me to be.” She got it and has done really well since joining. Very little micromanagement necessary.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Because we have allowed idiots to define vandalism and rioting as somehow caused by oppression.
it’s about time we started calling anti social behavior what it is: crime.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)More than 22 people were helped. It’s just that they were the program employees and bureaucrats, not the target population.
patronage wins. Where did the high speed rail funds go?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The issue with wealth taxes, for me, isn’t as much whether they should exist…I have come around on that question…it’s what to do with the money. Government destroys value at every turn.
The notion that generational wealth should be taxed no longer bothers me. The problem is that politicians get the money.
I’m starting to see wealth tax as the most direct route to Universal Basic Income, which is a problem across the board but I’m betting is where we land as AI permeates every industry and eliminates white collar jobs. I’d rather hand wealth taxes directly back to every citizen for their immediate consumption than flow it through the bureaucracy for “programs.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)And yet I have 20-something’s that work for me who own homes and nice cars. I’m thinking the American dream is dead if you think the dream is to own nyc or Silicon Valley real estate as a young person with a normal job.
If the American dream is to work hard for a chance to own property and make a good life for yourself, I’d argue it’s still alive. It’s just that if you live in a bastion of greed you have to deal with monetization of everything.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)He was a quality thinker regardless of politics.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s also a good example of how tariffs, like all taxes, are actually a tight money policy, and that Trump isn’t crazy at all for jawboning the fed hard.
Tarrifs plus student loan collections plus rates remaining high plus Aca subsidies lapsing etc etc etc. Are all tight money and a brake on the economy. No stimulus to overcome it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Hear hear gr. The opposition abandons all values to “get trump”
never seen the notion so strong.
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