She first got elected in 2018. How many senators got there within three election cycles of their first office? Just because Obama went from Illinois State Senate to US Senate to President in a four year span doesn’t make such a climb normal.

When a group of his AI company’s investors sue to block the AI company’s purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.

Mercator Projection

Or

He’s surrounded by a bunch of people who play HoI for the wrong reasons.

‘After [current guy], our turn’, while a nice sentiment to avoid giving up entirely, does not have enough historical evidence to support it as a strategy.

But we’ve made every payment on that debt since we started borrowing. If lenders can’t count on those debt payments, they lose some faith in the currency that undergirds the world economy.

This is quite bad, regardless of where you live.

Future borrowing, both public and private, becomes more expensive (higher risk demands higher returns). This is bad if you live in the US.

People involved in international trade start questioning if the USD is really what they want as the reserve currency (the Dollar is the go between for all other currencies, so if you’re in Europe trading with Japan, you exchange euros for dollars for yen, which while a bit cumbersome, is wonderfully predictable) and what they might want to use instead (euros? renminbi? rubles? The chaotic world of direct exchanges of currencies?). This is bad if the country you live in imports goods that you need or exports goods that other people need.

Then, to borrow a phrase popularized by one of the names they’re probably highlighting with a Sharpie, lock them up.

If missing $400 million would have them shut down, what’s that $14 billion endowment for? Show? It accrued 11.5% last year. That’s three times what Trump was threatening to not give them

It’s about the same number of incidents (plane crashes, death agnostic), it’s just that a week into the new admin, one of them had the most deaths since the autopilot that aims for the ground crashed those planes in 2019.

But since the other side is willing to just outright lie, it’s not exactly a high crime not to highlight that technically it’s the same number of crashes.

The optics the recently indicted (and later hastily pardoned) mayor being one of the guys perp walking the sympathetic suspect probably didn’t help them either.

Oh, that’s a good one.

The way all these companies have ditched gay rights really clarifies how much of an empty gesture the month of rainbow banners was (and how much of an empty gesture this probably is). But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them

If he had just never started posting, he’d have such a better life.

Sure, more moving parts.

Dead people make poor servants. You can’t even boss them around.

Let him ride the helicopter all he wants. Keep him up in the helicopter as much as you can. If possible, give him an upgrade to an Osprey.

It’s well documented that he’s estranged from one of his kids. And it’s not like his behavior has gotten better over time.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93m5ma

He scrapped USAID. The CIA is gonna take that a lot more personally than ‘he didn’t escalate our harebrained scheme in Cuba to a full war’.

Then one of the ~5000 FBI agents assigned to J6 (and therefore counting down to having to find a new job) has an opportunity to do the something very funny.

I won’t hold my breath, but if this gets the Turks to stop bombing Northeast Syria, the ability of the new Syrian state to project power may get the region enough de facto autonomy that full independence isn’t strictly necessary in the short to medium term.