Greg Young

Lawyer. Capitals writer for @JapersRink, podcaster for @JapersRinkRadio. I always get pucks deep and get in on the forecheck. Crypto anti-enthusiast

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

Ah what the heck, lets announce it early...our first guest will be longtime guest @ShutdownLine!

We're going to go over the Caps hot start in depth...plus Corey is going to be catching me up on the NHL over the last two years.

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

Happy to announce an early Christmas present for Caps fans...I'm going to be relaunching @JapersRinkRadio!

I'm still working on the full slate of guests, but the hope is to go bi-weekly. I'll be announcing our first guest early next week, so stay tuned 🙂

[hottiepants @punishedpants]

@Wilson__Valdez when has "trying to appeal to Republicans" ever worked. If Republicans want a Republican they will vote for the republican, not a Democrat who says "i'll put a Republican in my cabinet." We're in a heavily polarized era this shit doesn't work it just pisses off your base

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

They all just didn’t want to eat leverpostej

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

Today, it is Sweden's national day, where they celebrate 503 years of being independent from Denmark. Congratulations, I suppose.

Norway's national day is also a celebration of being independent from Denmark. So is Iceland's national day. I guess, bascially, Denmark is the England of the North and Nordic countries love not being united.

The only Nordic country that does not have independence from Denmark as its national day, is Finland because they celebrate independence from Russia 👏

Denmark's own national day is the date that we got democracy in 1849. We were not ruled by anyone else so we can not celebrate independence.

[palki 🦋 @themeasuredtake]

fuck san francisco politics, fuck california politics. yall could’ve had one of the best candidates in congress and you pick an insane zionist instead.

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

And they’re also cutting corporate tax rates and income taxes on high earners.

Denmark! Weird country!

[Matt Bruenig @MattBruenig]

New Danish government

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

The funny thing is that A had a seemingly terrible election...but seem likely to end up with a better and tighter coalition than before.

[Gust23 @Gust_2319]

🧵Update on the Danish government formation: As had been expected, the king has appointed Mette Frederiksen (A) as formateur. She says she is now aiming to form a government consisting of A, F, M, and B.

She says "intensive" negotiations will begin tomorrow.

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

This is actually a key plot point (traveling to a warm springs to heal) in War & Peace

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

I’m not kidding

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

This was a good podcast. One thing missing was that the US having a debt crisis would reverberate around the world much more than Argentina/Greece bc the dollar is the global reserve currency & the US economy makes up a huge % of global economic activity.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New pod: NOBODY HAS ANY IDEA HOW TO ACTUALLY REDUCE THE US DEFICIT

Right now, everybody thinks someone deserves a tax cut. For the Trump administration, it's: rich people, seniors, and business owners. For Democrats, it's everybody except rich people. In this morning's CNBC interview, Jeff Bezos said nobody earning under $75 should pay taxes.

Great, wonderful. Nobody should pay taxes. Understood. One problem with that:

Nobody knows how to cut spending, either. Elon Musk and his team of 20something genius lads spent months spelunking through the US budget wrecking havoc and they managed to cut no more than ... 0.1% of federal outlays.

One problem here is a massive gap between outsiders' confidence that deficit reduction is easy (just find the waste! it's right under that chair! go to the budget document and control-f for "fraud"! bingo!) and insider understanding that cutting $1 trillion in govt spending is a career-ending, and potentially party-destroying, risk. The US govt is, per the old economic joke, an insurance company with a standing army, where the vast majority of spending goes to health care payments, social security checks, and military ops/personnel/procurement.

Meanwhile, America's annual deficit is skyrocketing toward $2 trillion, interest payments now rivaling total military spending, and even liberal and center-left economists are worrying that the U.S. is running out of fiscal space and something awfully freaky could happen if we hit a recession that causes tax revenue to plummet, automatic spending to increase, and the deficit to blow open.

"American debt crisis" has been a boy-cries-wolf story for decades in American politics. But as @JustinWolfers tells me, the wolf is getting awfully close to the door.

https://t.co/88adKk2Yvm

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

@JHWeissmann Honestly, not really. If you take Texas, for instance, they did a reasonable job of insulating themselves against a pretty blue year (not a lot of R+ 5-10 type seats). https://t.co/CW8SpOiwOT

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

FWIW, a lot of the decline comes from St Louis city…St Louis county is growing at an ok clip.

[vo @vanillaopinions]

the rest of the rust belt is growing and having the hottest housing market in the country and st louis is still left behind

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

@TheStalwart Oh yes! https://t.co/zfRDg1aJnM

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

The twist is Joe revealing he’s actually talking about the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ album about George Floyd

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

They were playing that Mighty Mighty Bosstones song (the one) at the gym. The whole place was so pumped every time the chorus came on. Some songs will always just have it.

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

@besttrousers Going to be all the more impressive when the next Star Wars movie features Chewbacca running a 2 hour marathon

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

The funny thing is that the bulk of this growth happened in the 2021 economy that everyone said (fairly!) that they hated

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

Surprising but true:

The bottom 90% have seen their wealth grow at a faster pace than the top 10% this decade

Obviously it's coming off a smaller base but I'm not sure how many ppl would believe this if you told them

https://t.co/2z6xHf95hK

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

Exhibit A: Magyar, Péter

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

i agree. the changing of the mind part is v good.

also, part of me wants to say "it's going to take a very large tent to defeat MAGA in the long run, and the biggest tents require coalitions that don't make ideological sense, so i think it's good that the resistance libs and the post-liberal-commentary-gatekeeping-haters-of-resistance-liberalism are on the same page"

[Top-Line Beagle🐶🏒 @toplinebeagle]

I’ve seen a lot of people on here making their projections so I figured I’d take a crack at it. Here’s how I’d like to see the Caps forward lines shakeout next season:

Ovechkin - Dubois - Kyrou
A. Protas - I. Protas - Leonard
Chimera - Fehr - Ward
Sourdif - Latta - Wilson

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

About the Caps missing the playoffs: sometimes it kinda just happens in hockey and there’s no huge lesson from it.

For example, take that random 2016-17 Bolts team that missed. Then…

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

@jonathanchait Between this, high oil prices, and a car-centric culture…kinda wonder how Americans are gonna get anywhere in 5-10 years

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

Don't disagree. That said, curious to see him play a full year w/o Ovechkin.

[Stat Guy Blake 🏒📊 @AllenCaps1995]

So I have a take that I promise is not reactionary. I have been stewing on this since a week before the deadline.

D**** S***** for picks, and then bundle that return with existing picks for something big like a Robertson.

[Greg Young @GregY_JR]

I do not think the Capitals will be making this pick

[RMNB @rmnb]

Capitals to receive Ducks’ 2026 first-round pick from John Carlson trade after Anaheim makes playoffs https://t.co/pfIAiXTfxg

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

An interesting thing about Reddit: the big sports subreddits are, for the most part, fairly good quality. Lots of fun discussion, memes, analysis.

But if you go into the individual TEAM subreddits for those sports, almost 100% of them are toxic hellholes filled enraged morons