@BenjaminNorton Is this correct? I did some number crunching, and it wasn't making sense. It looks to me like Zucman says the top 0.00001% owns 1.2%, not 12%. Still an effing large amount of money...
@WalshFreedom The difference between Trump & Vance is Trump only thinks about himself - it's not that he doesn't care about the American people, it just doesn't enter his mind. Vance thinks he's smarter than everyone else so he's intentionally doing things b/c he thinks he knows what's best.
@Savethedmagic That's why Walt was so good at this: sure, he employed very good businessmen & used some leading edge business practices for his time - but it was in service to the art of entertainment. Now it's reversed: art's expensive & risky, so they want as little of it as possible. 2/2
@Savethedmagic I have a (barely used) MBA, and yet I 1000% agree with you. The people running the Disney parks (and perhaps the rest of the company too) think that running WDW can be distilled down to formulas, analyses, and spreadsheets. But it's not a machine - if anything, it's art. 1/x
@LeadingReport Probably true, sort of. All men eventually get prostate cancer to some level if they live long enough. So it's likely he had a tiny, possibly even undetectable case for years before it took off. This isn't a shocker in my book.
@RadioFreeTom After more thought, maybe this: The Felon Guy promised Gaetz, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. seats in his cabinet to get their support but he chose spots for them where they would definitely not get confirmed - so then he's off the hook and can safely ditch them and say, "See? I tried".
@RadioFreeTom Ha!! You think The Felon Guy thinks strategically enough to plan like that? Or is it more likely that Gaetz has been loudly supporting TFG, and that gave Gaetz the opportunity to tell TFG what he wants - which, like TFG, is to get back at all the people "falsely accusing" them?
@RachelBitecofer I'm still convinced (without much evidence, admittedly) that the Bernie Bro movement was created/amplified by Russian social media trolls, to create as much chaos and disharmony as possible. What do you think?
@FareedZakaria But I think the biggest problem is that she listened to the (irrelevant) MSM that said that she hadn't told us her detailed policies. Yet no one cared that TFG has no policies. She did best when everyone attacked Project 2025. She should have stayed on the attack!
@RachelBitecofer Also, a voter for The Felon Guy told me that it's OK b/c he didn't get much done last time so he won't really do any of the things he's promised this time either. But last time he had some sane people in the room, this time it's all lackeys. Those voters are going to be surprised