Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo Twitter profile

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Megan McArdle

5 years

I just muted anyone who doesn’t follow me. If you want to troll me on politics, you’re going to have to endure my opinions on DC traffic and the proper way to make pie.

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Megan McArdle

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4 years

Kamala Harris is ... not a great debater.

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The first thing to point out is that this deal makes no financial sense for Elon Musk. He's paying a premium for the stock, the total value of the acquisition is almost a fifth of his net worth, and there's no obvious way he's going to squeeze more money out of Twitter operations

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The essence of the Met Gala is that ultra-rich people pay huge sums to meet and be photographed with celebrities ... and then deduct their night out from their taxes. Why has no one pointed out that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wore a "tax the rich" dress *to a tax shelter*?

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Marveling at the seamless transition from "Shadowbanning is ultra-MAGA paranoia" to "LOL of course they were de-amplifying the hard right, who thought this was news?"

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2 years

The New York Post was banned from Twitter for writing essentially this same story.

Byron York

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2 years

New York Times flash: Hunter Biden had a laptop. It contained emails about his foreign business activities. Those emails have been 'authenticated by people familiar with them and with the [Biden tax and foreign influence] investigation.' @mirandadevine

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2 years

I feel like the point at which the dictator's troops are shelling Europe's largest nuclear power plant is the point at which we should probably stop debating whether he is simply a rational actor mounting a calculated, completely understandable response to NATO expansion.

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4 years

Yesterday, the United States reported 31,705 new cases of covid19. One of them was my dad.

Opinion | My dad has covid-19. All we can do is wait.

It wasn't supposed to be this hard to help.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

What's particularly appalling is that so much of this discourse is being driven by children of the professional class who clearly have no grasp of what it means to pour years, decades, or even generations into building up some unglamorous small business that's rooted to one spot

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4 years

One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting' - Its getting harder and harder to believe this is the state of public discourse.

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

The number of people outraged by the idea that Kyle Rittenhouse deserved the presumption of innocence and a reasonable doubt standard for conviction is ... a bit disturbing. Liberal democratic values are a thin topsoil stretched across our deep bedrock tribalism.

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

Kyle 👏 Rittenhouse 👏 didn't 👏 carry 👏 the 👏 gun 👏 across 👏 state 👏 lines 👏

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5 years

Do I hear $25?

America Rising

@AmericaRising

5 years

WATCH: @RashidaTlaib calls for a $20 Minimum Wage.

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2 years

Sure, Musk could just fire most of the staff. He can destroy Twitter, for the low low price of $46 billion. But actually making it into the thing he and many others want ... pretty skeptical. Anyway, thanks for listening, the column is here.

Opinion | Buying Twitter is one thing. Changing it? Good luck with that.

Elon Musk has convinced me he is serious about wanting to buy and fix Twitter. The "fixing" part will be the harder of the two tasks.

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Megan McArdle

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1 year

Lessons for the GOP: 1) Trump doesn't care about winning elections, except his. 2) He prefers bad candidates who appease him to good candidates who acknowledge he lost in 2020. 3) His brand helps in primaries and hurts in generals 4) He'll keep doing this until forcibly stopped.

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Megan McArdle

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4 months

Conservatives who are reveling in Claudine Gay schadenfreude might pause to notice that Harvard eventually realized that protecting an insider who had violated institutional norms was destroying the institution, and course-corrected, while the GOP is still saddled with Trump.

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Megan McArdle

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4 years

Antifa is a bogeyman, little more than a figment of overheated right-wing imaginations. Also, they just declared an autonomous zone covering several blocks in Seattle, and are planning to expand their territory.

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

He can certainly order people to take the heavy hands off the ban-hammer, but day in and day out, it is still lower level employees who will be making the ban decisions, because no one wants an actually unmoderated platform full of spam and child porn.

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

Twitter's moderation policies are more driven by its left-leaning customer base, the preferences of advertisers who don't want to offend said base, and the cultural preferences of its progressive junior staff, as by the desires of senior management.

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2 years

The carrying costs for the debt he's using to fund the acquisition are major, possibly as much as a billion a year. Even for Elon Musk, this is a lot of money.

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2 years

I think the people catastrophizing about contraception or interracial marriage being next after Roe sincerely believe it. But I'm sorry, I cannot take this seriously.

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2 years

The second thing to point out is that it will be much, much harder than most people think to remake Twitter as Free Speech, Inc.

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

Queen Elizabeth presided over the end of the British Empire, not its expansion, and also, parliament has been charge of Britain's foreign policy for the whole of her reign. Before you dump on a dying woman, it's worth asking what she, personally, did to merit the attack.

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Megan McArdle

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6 years

Wrote a column on Venezuela and socialism. Being assailed by people who say that I obviously have no idea what socialism is, because socialism doesn't involve state control of the economy. What are they teaching them in schools these days?

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Megan McArdle

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6 years

Guys! A quick primer: "Rein in", like a horse, not "Reign in", like Queen Victoria "Toe the line", like a racer awaiting the gun, not "Tow the line", like a trawler "Hare-brained", like a rabbit (related to "mad as a March hare"), not "hair-brained", like your skull collapsed

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

No matter what new policies Musk sets, there will be gray areas. And it is Twitter's progressive workforce, not Elon Musk, who will be making the calls in those gray areas.

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Megan McArdle

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3 years

Pet theory: all conservatives should have to spend a year living off a minimum-wage job. All progressives should have to stake their future on profitably running a low-wage business for a year Think of this every time I see "Businesses could find workers if they just paid more!"

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Megan McArdle

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4 years

I wish people would stop explaining every meh debate performance by a woman as a function of gender. Yes, there are challenges, but Elizabeth Warren is a good debater! Not all women are great debaters being held back by their sex--some of us, like some men, are just bad debaters.

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

Every day on this site I come across someone who is indignant that others are going about their lives rather than maintaining a rigorous schedule of testing, social distancing, and masking. I always want to ask: what the hell did you think the endgame of this virus was?

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Megan McArdle

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2 years

I'm kind of a single issue voter on honoring the results of elections.

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Give me one good reason Caitlin Clark can’t compete in the NBA.

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Megan McArdle

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4 months

Seeing a lot of similar takes, so seems worth pointing out that Penn’s (white) president was fired before Gay for her poor performance at that congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, and that Stanford’s (white male) president was sacked 5 months ago for research misconduct.

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Let’s be real. This is an extension of what happened to me at UNC, and it is a glimpse into the future to come. Academic freedom is under attack. Racial justice programs are under attack. Black women will be made to pay. Our so-called allies too often lack any real courage.

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2 years

Ah, you say, but a bold leader can counteract those tendencies. Which, sure, but said bold leader is going to be rather busy running Tesla and SpaceX and so forth.

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3 years

I have no idea what we should have done in Afghanistan, but I wish someone had planned to get people who worked for us and the Afghan government out before the Taliban executed them.

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Megan McArdle

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4 years

Did I hear that right? Did Joe Biden, born in 1942, claim he was told by his father in 1950, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that two dudes he saw kissing "love each other"? Because while that story is heartwarming, I have questions.

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Someone who did a couple of years of community college and worked during school to minimize their loan burden gave up a lot of fun, and is now going to pay higher taxes so that their classmate could have the full "college experience". That's ... not ideal.

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4 years

In 2016, I was #NeverTrump though I didn't vote, because it doesn't matter in DC. This time around, however, Democrats have given me no choice but to vote for the moderate they nominated.

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5 years

The most bizarre passage in the Green New Deal is the admission that after they've junked every car in America, replaced every power plant, and renovated every single building within the space of a decade, they might not get around to slaughtering all the cows by their deadline.

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2 years

Either the president is deliberately misrepresenting the student loan cancellation in a quite Trumpian fashion, or he is actually so confused that he thinks he signed a bill rather than an executive order. This can't be written off as a simple verbal glitch.

Jake Schneider

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2 years

@RNCResearch Here is the full clip for all you clowns who say it’s out of context. Biden first falsely claims he “signed a law” to cancel student loan debt, then says he “got it passed by a vote or two.” ???????

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4 years

People who learn a foreign language as adults almost never lose their accents. In other news, a public figure, presumably left-leaning, thinks "Learn English" is a devastating riposte to an immigrant giving a speech at a convention.

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4 years

Oh, God. She still can’t speak English.

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2 years

How is what GoFundMe was proposing to do any different from stealing?

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Megan McArdle

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6 years

Collins starts ripping into the people who promulgated the "outlandish" Swetnick allegation. Which comports with something that I've observed: the sense that media & Democrats had prejudged the case radicalized a lot of moderate Republicans who had been dubious about nomination.

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Megan McArdle

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6 months

Left wing protesters keep choosing disruptive tactics which get them a lot of publicity. Unfortunately, since normies don't like disruptive tactics, the net effect of this publicity is to make their cause less popular than it otherwise would be.

Ariel Koren

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The Bay Bridge is SHUT DOWN Biden will not get away with genocide, Biden will not get away with staying in San Francisco without EVERYONE knowing he is supporting the slaughter in Gaza No more genocide, ceasefire NOW

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Megan McArdle

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4 years

I almost hesitated to write this column, because what it says about covid-19 seems so obvious to me, and has been for a month. But I keep running into folks for whom it isn't obvious, so I tried to explain it to them.

Opinion | When a danger is growing exponentially, everything looks fine until it doesn’t

We can fight it, but the virus is here, and it is spreading quickly, even though everything looks normal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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4 years

I'm not really sure why you're bringing my race and gender into this, professor. But I see a fair number of unmasked, undistanced folks in my highly integrated neighborhood in Washington DC. I'd be shocked to discover that as many as 1% of them voted Republican.

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What do you mean "we", white woman? Seriously, "America" hasn't given up on fighting Covid-19; Cuomo's NY, Murphy's NJ, Whitmer's MI haven't given up. It's *Republicans* who have given up.

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6 months

Somewhat to my surprise, a significant chunk of the left believes that it is a severe violation to film them while they are engaged in an expressive protest in a public space. This seems incoherent to me, can anyone explain it?

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Photo evidence of the disruptive individual's attempt to record student faces and step over demonstrators. (3/3)

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Megan McArdle

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4 years

I always try to understand the best arguments for both sides of an issue. I've reached my limit with "Mask requirements violate my fundamental liberties as an American!", as stated by people who undoubtedly believe that they can, and should, be required to wear pants in public.

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I'm almost as astonished at folks asking "Why do you care that the President of Harvard is a plagiarist, if the thefts were minor" as I was at folks asking "Why do you care if the President of the United States is threatening to arrest journalists, if he hasn't actually done it?"

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6 months

No matter how righteous your cause, if you are tearing down posters showing kidnapped children, you are one of the bad guys.

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7 years

Look, you want to defend antifa? Say "I don't believe in free speech, and I'm okay with violence against unarmed civilians I disagree with"

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2 years

The left suddenly turning on an emergency program that was designed to maintain employment while enabling non-essential workers to stay home and avoid spreading disease is one of the least expected, and most disappointing, developments of the last few years.

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I am astonished by the number of people I encounter who like to compare the current events on American streets, approvingly, to the French Revolution. Did you read to the end of that chapter?

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It's hard enough to gut-rehab a corporate workforce and culture with a leader who is tirelessly dedicated to the task full time.

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3 years

The fact that supporters of left-wing cancellations have to reach back to 2002 for one of the two examples they can muster against the right is not a good argument FOR their case.

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Colin Kaepernick and the Dixie Chicks are arguably the two biggest victims of "cancel culture" in the last 20 years, and both were victims of right-wing cancellation

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What Trump did is legions worse than anything that happened last summer. But without equating them, I will say, there is a reason that elites should never, ever legitimate street violence, and this seems like a good time to drive home that reminder.

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Non-violence is an important tool for protests, but so is violence.

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I’m just going to throw out a possibility that Democrats might want to consider: maybe they’re losing because they did a bunch of stuff that wasn’t very popular.

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4 years

Please stop saying a mortality rate of 2% is no big deal, esp. since that risk is concentrated among the elderly and those with complicating conditions. I’m glad you’re young & your parents are under 65, but many people are, or love, elderly people. You sound unbelievably callous

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2 years

Coincidences happen, but "The exotic bat virus leaked out of the nearby institute that studies exotic bat viruses" has always seemed somewhat more parsimonious than "the exotic bat virus just happened to appear in a wet market down the street from the exotic bat virus repository"

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Leaders attempting turnaround sometimes have to resort to a "nuke it from orbit" strategy: fire everyone and make them reapply for their jobs, or move the company to another city.

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Megan McArdle

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5 years

"You can rewrite garbage. You can't rewrite nothing."

Tayari Jones

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What's the best professional advice you've ever recieved?

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This is why I don't find "Everyone make the right decision for their own family" very compelling.

Dr. Seema Yasmin is on a media literacy mission

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1 wedding with 55 ppl led to Covid outbreaks in the community, at a LT care facility 100 miles away + a correctional facility 200 miles away. 177 cases, 7 hospitalizations + 7 deaths were linked to the wedding. No one who died had attended the wedding.

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4 years

COUNTERPOINT: No one who doesn't already believe it would believe it simply because they went on the record; the people who are saying ANONYMOUS SOURCES right now would just shift to DISGRUNTLED EX-STAFFERS.

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10 months

It turns out that if you treat your profession as an explicitly political project, people will extend your profession the same trust they extend politicians.

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New Gallup poll: “Americans' Confidence in Higher Education Down Sharply”

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Becoming clear that an entire generation of younger progressives whose political character was formed during the Obama admin take the extra-gentle media treatment he got as the baseline to which any Dem president is entitled. Hence their indignation when we do our jobs.

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It will be interesting if Democrats in this hearing manage to talk about Amy Coney Barrett for a change, rather than President Trump.

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I want to start an advice column called "ask an old person", where I explain to young people that their crisis of the moment is an extremely normal thing we've all lived through, and exhort them to grow the hell up. Audience will obviously consist entirely of irritated fogies.

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If mortgage rates stay high, one thing I expect we’ll see is a collapse in willingness to sell homes. It would take a lot to get me to trade my 1.75% mortgage for a 6 percenter.

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I think maybe colleges need to do a one-word vocabulary test where they ask freshmen to define the word “violence” and offer remedial classes to people who think a rescinded job offer is violence, but what Hamas did to Israeli civilians is not.

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NYU Law Students Say Classmate Losing Job Offer Over Pro-Hamas Statement Is 'Violence'

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6 years

In re Alfie Evans: we do not give parents the right to decide for their children because they always make the correct choice. We give them that right because they care more about the child's welfare than the experts do.

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We would probably feel different about invasions if the conquerors largely devoted themselves to providing low cost construction, landscaping, and food service to the natives, while otherwise leaving them alone.

James Jinnette

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WATCH🎥 Breaking new footage shows a group of illegals, all appearing to be military aged men, crashing a boat into La Jolla beach after which they scatter into the surrounding neighborhood. This is not immigration, it’s invasion.

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I thought the ProPublica analysis of billionaire taxes was going to be exciting. Instead, it told me things I already knew: that the US tax code offers deductions for charitable donations, loan interest, and business operating expenses, and only taxes capital gains when you sell.

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Painful. She tries to pay for an annual budget line-item (converting economy to renewables), with 10-year budget savings from higher taxes on the wealthy, impossible even if she hadn't wildly understated the cost. Then confuses the military's total budget with a proposed increase

Daily Caller

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“The Daily Show” host @Trevornoah asked Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( @Ocasio2018 ) how she plans to pay for her agenda. It really is hard to watch.

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I am still trying to wrap my mind around people who think the covid vaccines are too dangerous to take, but aren't particularly afraid of getting covid. The covid virus wasn't tested at all before putting it into humans, and thus far, the side effect profile looks pretty bad.

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I really don't understand why I am reading so many hot takes about free speech which literally just ignore the fact that people are worried about being fired and talk as if this is all about people whining about the awkward silence when their racist joke falls flat.

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ABC calls Texas for Cruz. $70 million and loads of charm ultimately no match for the state's partisan lean.

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3 years

I disagree with Josh Hawley on a lot, but I would not have expected him to do something this deeply unpatriotic.

The TN

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BREAKING: "I Cannot Vote to Certify the Electoral College Results on January 6th" - MO Senator Josh Hawley Announces He Will Object to Electoral College Certification Process

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I am finding it increasingly difficult to generate explanations for El Salvador's crime decline other than "absolute savagery works".

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This is what I mean about the unintentional hilarity of it all. The layers run so deep, I just can't stop thinking about it. It's magnificent.

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Weird how no one seems concerned that whoever stole IRS files and gave them to ProPublica committed a serious felony, or that the material might be Russian disinformation.

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I was asked today why conservatives shifted tone on vax. My answer: GOP leaders/pundits believed in vax themselves, but didn't want to anger base, and assumed we were close to herd immunity between vaccines/prior infection, so pandering wouldn't matter. [Delta enters the room]

The Recount

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Asked what it will take to up the vaccination rate in Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) snaps: “I don’t know, you tell me! Folks supposed to have common sense. It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks.” (For more context, Ivey signed a ban on vaccine passports back in May.)

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4 years

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

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My favorite economist: MILTON KEYNES

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A lot of people are misreading this story, believing that this means the case was based on a lie. To be clear: the lawsuit was filed BEFORE this request, and does not rest on it, because the state of Colorado helpfully stipulated that it would do exactly as Lorie Smith feared.

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A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled could refuse to make a wedding website for gay couples had cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.

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Okay guys, new year, new tweet storms. It's time to talk Covington Catholic. Pull up a chair. I think we're going to be here a while.

Opinion | The Covington students failed to act like grownups. So did the adults.

Adults are doing the Covington kids a terrible disservice.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Guys. I'm going to say this ONE MORE TIME. And yes, this WILL be on your civics exam: Gerrymandering. Doesn't. Affect. The. Electoral. College. So. You. Cannot. Win. A. Presidential. Election. Through. Gerrymandering.

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4 years

Trump is explaining that he had no idea that they disbanded the pandemic group of his national security team. This is embarrassing.

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5 years

This is the greatest own-goal in political history.

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4 years

Only in the world of the upper middle class is insurance some kind of magic that makes all problems disappear.

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6 years

If you were interested in proving the truth of an alleged sexual felony, I can't imagine why you would prefer Senators doing the questioning over an experienced sex crimes prosecutor.

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Rather than being a stepping stone to the presidency, Pete Buttigieg's time as Secretary of Transportation is looking more and more like the millstone that will finally drown his ambitions to higher office.

Savanah Hernandez

@sav_says_

1 year

I asked Sec. Buttigieg why it took him almost 3 weeks to come and speak to residents of East Palestine. His press Secretary then told me I was aggressive for trying to ask questions on camera:

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Why do I encounter so *many* folks who tell me they refuse to get vaccinated because the vaccines are brand new and haven't been adequately tested (and besides covid is just the flu)...then talk up equally novel monoclonal antibody treatments as a miracle cure for "just the flu"?

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I remain shocked by the durability of the effects of the conservative boycott on Bud Light. WSJ reports that retailers are now reallocating shelf space to other brands, which will help lock in the decline.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

5 years

Roughly half our national debt accumulated under Obama. This had many causes, most notably the Great Recession, but tax cuts for big business was definitely not what drove it.

Kasie Hunt

@kasie

5 years

Consequences of tax cuts, mostly for big business —>

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@asymmetricinfo

2 years

Political consultant tells Politico that to fix her sagging polls, the VP must "Allow the Kamala Harris the public fell in love with to break free". I think the problem is that the public never was in love with her. She's a well-networked resume, not a charismatic fan favorite.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

2 years

Wokeness has moved past policing language to quasi-mystical numerology.

Women's March

@womensmarch

2 years

We apologize deeply for the email that was sent today. $14.92 was our average donation amount this week. It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before Thanksgiving.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

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I just had a belated conversation with a third person who had deeper firsthand knowledge of L'Affaire Chik-Fil-A than simply "Adam told them after it happened". I now consider the veracity of the incident to be settled beyond reasonable dispute. He is owed an apology.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

2 years

Looking at abortion opinion, it's actually quite striking how little men and women differ on this question. The whole pro-life is about men telling women what to do with their bodies" schtick simply isn't grounded in reality.

Abortion Trends by Gender

This page outlines Gallup's long-term trends on Americans' views about abortion by gender.

news.gallup.com

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Megan McArdle

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1 month

It's emotionally satisfying for Trump's political opponents to see him teeter on the edge of insolvency, but this prosecution looks political and abusive, undercuts legitimacy of other prosecutions for more serious crimes, and gives him incentive to cling to office no matter what

Tom Bevan

@TomBevanRCP

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The Associated Press, no friend of Donald Trump, found that in 70 YEARS of similar cases of civil fraud, Trump's stood out as unique.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

3 months

Just a thought, instead of yelling at companies for coping with inflation by shrinking portions instead of raising prices, what if you hadn’t touched off a massive inflation with an unnecessary relief bill, passed as vaccines were already ending the pandemic?

President Biden

@POTUS

3 months

While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same? Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend. I’m calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

4 years

I keep thinking of weird side effects of Coronavirus. LIke: with all this canceled travel, it will effectively reset a lot of frequent flyer programs, as the higher tier elites are unable to rack up enough miles to requalify.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

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It looks like NASCAR overreacted, but on the other hand, if all "overreactions" consisted of communities coming together to walk in solidarity for tolerance and unity, "overreaction" would be a positive instead of a negative.