the more i learn about history, the more I appreciate America. America is actually an extremely cool and special anomaly in the timeline of civilizations. It's so successful that it's allowed the people inside it to lose touch with how bad things can truly be
hamilton wrote 51 op-eds in under a year on a shared burner account to win one policy argument, then died in a beef that escalated from remarks printed in a newspaper. the most influential poster in american history simply could not log off, and the constitution is the result
It’s going to own so hard when the GOP drops the really brutal shit in the Platner Files in October, he loses by 10, and leftoids pretend they did nothing wrong and are the future of the Democratic Party because they got some retards in New York elected via low turnout primaries
Stuck on this. This lady running for Congress in Colorado says 9/11 was “inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East, that forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response.”
By which, I guess she means, having a US military presence in Saudi Arabia by invitation after ousting Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
That’s OBL’s logic. Unreconstructed al-Qaeda-ism.
How many more years do normal people have to look at primary election results, in both parties, with abject horror before we abolish the primary system and let parties pick their candidates, as is common in every other democracy?
DSA types see normie libs as political opponents to be beaten. Normie libs see DSA types as teammates to be placated. Not hard to figure out how that is going to turn out
Jack Goldsmith: "The President is Legally Barred from Waiving Iranian Sanctions as Pledged in the Iran MOU"
1. Federal law--namely, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015--bars Donald Trump from immediately waiving sanctions against Iran.
2. Trump will probably violate the law and get away with it.
3. "It was unthinkable in 2015 that INARA would be deployed against a Republican president who sought in an agreement related to Iran’s nuclear program to waive sanctions against Iran. And before President Trump began his military action against Iran in February, it was unthinkable that he, a famous critic of the JCPOA, would be making such an agreement. But here we are."
Link to Executive Functions post in reply.
The interim memorandum between America and Iran will likely be the final deal because it has the only elements that the two sides agree on: A ceasefire, removal of U.S. naval blockade on Iran, opening of Hormuz Strait.
All the other points are still contended and were thus relegated to the ��final deal,” within 60 days. The gap will continue to be wide, disagreement irreconcilable, 60 days will become open ended. The Trump Gaza Peace Plan is an illustration. Agree on most pressing demands, relegate the rest of the contentious issue to later. Later never comes. Status quo becomes permanent.
In future decades economists will write about an "upper income trap," wherein most wealthy economies stop growing due to bureaucratic dysfunction, service sector cost disease, social unrest from a highly educated populace, rent seeking, and anti-industrial sentiment.
It’s kind of wild that a Supreme Court case upholding the rights of Asian American students not to be discriminated against in university admissions is coded as “anti civil rights” without question or exploration of the underlying premise.