(Paul Krugman sits down)
(Opens his laptop)
(Fires up his Substack)
(Stares at the black page)
(Pours a glass of chardonnay to the brim)
(Starts typing)
“The good thing about rent control is
@LaocoonofTroy@piersmorgan Thank you, sir. Can’t say it better. It was also the epigraph for the movie “Caligula” - it stuck with me since I was a little kid.
The USS Liberty conspiracy theory asks you to accept that Israel, a nation of 2.5 million people fighting for its literal survival on six fronts simultaneously against 110 million Arabs equipped with Soviet tanks, Soviet aircraft, and Soviet warships, and with no formal American alliance, no American weapons, and no guarantee that anyone was coming to save them, is chose day four of that existential war to deliberately attack the one country on earth that might eventually become their ally, in broad daylight, in international waters, leaving 174 survivors who could identify the attacking forces, while fourteen separate investigations across two governments found zero evidence of intent, while Israel’s own military had accidentally bombed its own armored column the day before proving how catastrophically identification fails in wartime chaos, and while not a single one of the conspiracy theory’s proponents in nearly six decades of trying has ever managed to agree on what Israel was actually trying to accomplish by doing it.
Heavy lift.
“I’ll kill your whole f—king family! Your children, your wife, all dead! I have your face!”
Newark (May 27) —Far-left rioters incited by Democrats and extremists make death threats against federal agents at the siege of Delaney Hall. Video by @nicksortor: