Lost Future

Neoliberal moderate. Mixed economy enjoyer. Populism is really, really bad

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

There’s also a record share of *Americans* who are 70 and older.

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@mattyglesias @HubertBiscuit 👀

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

Founder: “I graduated from Stanford and took a job at Anthropic. I've been there awhile and I'm leaving to start my own AI company ”

VCs:

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

Reminder that virtually all party primaries in the US are now effectively open. Yes it’s a spectrum, but only 9 states still have truly closed primaries. If there were some kind of moderation effect, we’d be living in it now

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Open primaries would diminish the ability of extremists to win party primaries because everyone could vote in them.

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

If you’re going to impose a $3T tax hike, you could fund deficit reduction (which will tend to dampen inflation, lower borrowing costs, boost investment and wage growth), invest in maternal and infant health, fund research that could delay the onset of age-related diseases. Devoting it all to retiree benefits, including for retirees with the highest lifetime incomes, seems incredibly perverse.

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

The max payout for soc sec is $62k per year. For two income earners that’s $125k paid by the federal government annually. I have zero problem helping out the genuinely poor, but that is genuinely insane. Adding a 12.5% flat tax on income to perpetuate that system is crazier.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Finance Twitter on a day where US futures are down by more than 1%, leaving them slightly less than 3% below all-time highs.

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@milansingh03 @johnarnold I literally came here to post this exact link and you beat me to it lol

[Wilterson Witzky da Silva 🀄 @ww_dasilva]

how is this the country that produced the industrial revolution

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@AntoninWR @ezraklein he is Literally Required to document all of his social occasions for you, personally. I believe that’s in the Constitution

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@heynottheface @davidshor @rupasubramanya I decided in the 2000s that ‘both sides are bad’ and I’ve seen no reason to change my mind since then

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@everytime_ipee @ASPertierra so basically you have zero principles and any tactics your side uses is automatically justified. Gotcha

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@everytime_ipee @ASPertierra so if a MAGA crew of ex-Jan 6ers blockaded a US highway and cut off food and medical supplies, you’d say President Newsom should negotiate in good faith with them? C’mon

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

Just flew from Columbus Ohio to Miami in 2.5 hours and all I could think the entire way was how nice it would be to have high speed rail so I could do it in 7.

[Dan Epps @danepps]

Alito: "marijuana use today is like alcohol use at the founding."

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@LeftJustRight @heynottheface again- you have to fight a fire in your neighborhood. You don't have to invade a foreign country! That's where your analogy falls apart. Invading other countries is completely optional

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@CharlesFLehman 202 people in the US have been exonerated after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, in the last 50 years. I think obviously, if you got rid of some of these things, some small number of innocent people would be executed. How many is an OK number to you?

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@LeftJustRight @heynottheface society can’t live without police, firefighters or EMTs- it can live without invading Iran. The war is completely voluntary.

Again- if you’re so outraged by Iran’s conduct, why aren’t you personally fighting, or at least in the military?

[Lost Future @a_lost_future]

@LeftJustRight @heynottheface well no, I have the opinion that it’s bad too. The world is full of bad things. What I’m saying is that if you’d like other soldiers to fight/die as the world’s policeman, it’s pretty hypocritical if you yourself aren’t one?

If you’d think it’s so bad, why aren’t *you* fighting?