Reid Kelley

Mediocre Economist, Bad Catholic. Georgetown and UVa grad, Braves fan, Economist at BLS* *Opinions mine, not BLS’s or DOL’s, obviously.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@agostino_harry @suzania A much better occasion!

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@neontaster That’s not a fair competition.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Like here's a perfect example. Haley Stevens is not 'a genocidal monster'. And in fact calling her that just completely cheapens the term and demonstrates that you are an un-serious clown and nobody should listen to anything you say.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@MattGlassman312 @danielschuman And surely that question of search should equally apply to corporations that wouldn’t fall under the category of Press.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@CDHenry_PA The Bushmaster is rated for home hurricane defense.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@BigBlobApe Yeah, his term ends at the end of this Congress.

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

I think most people understand that infidelity happens, but for a politician it is especially deadly because you have failed to keep what is quite literally the most important promise you'll ever make. Really makes one wonder whether any of your promises mean anything.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@ClwnPrncCharlie @mattyglesias Is there any evidence of that working, as opposed to Yglesias’s strategy of supporting moderate candidates in the moderate, swingy parts of the country?

[Zy @ZyMazza]

PRIEST: "Should I turn left?"

THE SKULL OF AQUINAS: it would seem that any priest driving down this road should turn left

P: "Yeah because the abbey is that way, okay makes sense"

S: The abbey is off to the left, and indeed there is no other turn available, in either direction for 1.2 miles

P: "Okay, great, I'm turning left since that's what I should do!"

*turns on left-turn signal and begins to turn left*

S: ON THE CONTRARY, the sign says 'do not enter' and beside it 'one way road'; in this situation, the correct thing to do is continue going straight

[Kelly J. Rose (kjrose) @kjrose]

This is indistinguishable from Protestant ecclesiology.

“My chapel says I’m fine, my clergy say I’m fine, I feel fine, haters can hate.”

Cool. Lutherans can say that too.

Catholicism has an actual visible Church, not just locally sourced reassurance from the group Rome just sanctioned.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@BeaneaterB @Gusshortstop Your initial argument was still right, btw.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@CySalesSlider @BeaneaterB In a game we were losing by two in the ninth? That would be dumb unless you could foresee today would be the day the offense would have a breakout ninth.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@WASPmexicano @AndrewFiggy https://t.co/99LmMtN5tP

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Exactly. A decade of polling has shown that - even among Bernie Sanders supporters - socialist policies are popular ONLY on the condition that the rich pay for everything. Even most far leftists refuse to accept higher taxes for their socialist utopia.

[Nicholas @nickycantaloupe]

People keep saying “at least their aesthetics are good” and sorry they kinda aren’t. Holding your event under giant power lines, with white lawn chairs, in a tent, with your bishops in unnecessarily bulky vestments and giant awkward miters, choir singing with electronic organ 🫤

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@AccolonsMetal I think you’re quite reasonable to argue that they’ve given too much leeway in general, but it does not mean what you originally asserted - that the President has unfettered ability to order the military to do whatever he wants against another branch of the US government. (2/2)

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@AccolonsMetal No that’s not surprising. Nor relevant. Because again, Congress typically gives the President a fairly free hand amount of leeway here. It doesn’t mean that they’ve completely abandoned their powers. (1/2)

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@AccolonsMetal @neoavatara @varadmehta Again, Congress, within the past two weeks passed a War Powers Resolution aimed at limiting Trump on Iran. So no, the world has not changed *in this way* all that much from the 1970s.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@AccolonsMetal @neoavatara @varadmehta The world has not changed that much. Congress quite literally just took some action to limit the Iran misadventure. There are other reasons to allow Presidents to have a broad hand in war powers questions beyond “the President has the guns”.

[Reid Kelley @Reimkel]

@AccolonsMetal @neoavatara @varadmehta This is a bad understanding of the war powers debate, in part because Congress has enforced their power there at times. See the end of the Vietnam War for example.