Three objectives three time frames: A) short-term [6mo to 1yr] - control yield curve, bring fiscal situation under control B) near-term [1yr to 2yr]- decouple supply chains from China, ensure resiliency of military to provide credible deterrence against a TW invasion. This can include friendshoring only if the underpinning supply is in fact located in the ally’s boarders. A “china skin” i.e. Vietnam where the bulk of value-add is imported is not acceptable because that can still be weaponized by Xi. C) medium-term [3yr to 5yr] resuscitate domestic manufacturing, have sufficient infrastructure to maintain relevance in a robotics-driven world.
Constraints: Rates, legislation, mid-term elections, FX moves, credit spreads, talent shortage, Boomers retiring, energy, capex supply (including transformers from China), AI progress, capital market reaction…. And most importantly…. Xi’s reaction function.
Smooth sailing folks 🫡
Terence Tao gets a tiny taste of what the average American worker went through when we offshored all their factory jobs to China and imported 100M foreigners to take whatever jobs were left, and he immediately decides that all technological progress must cease and Heaven and Earth must move so that he can keep his job.
In fact he’s not even really getting a taste, since even after AI has made him useless, he will still be rich and famous. He will probably never turn to fentanyl or drink himself to death in despair of ever providing for his family.
A good reminder that the “elites” who destroyed this country are the most cowardly and self-centered people to ever exist.
It’s reasonable for Americans to find these public displays of foreign religiosity off-putting, as with Muslims praying in the streets. But concluding that Indians don’t assimilate is incorrect. Each successive generation is far less likely to speak Hindi or practice Hinduism. The problem is that most Indians, like other successful minority groups, assimilate into urban lib culture and adopt their political, albeit with a minority identity that white libs lack. You don’t have to be a vulgar hater to recognize that mass legal immigration having a demonstrably negative impact on our political and cultural spheres.
Just saw a Chinese nationalist on douyin say that Taiwan should reunify china and restore Chinese culture because the people's republic of China is controlled by Jews
If the GOP has a bad night in November, there will be a concerted effort by the establishment to blame it on the administration's immigration efforts as opposed to the sluggish economy or the war. We cannot allow these people to gaslight us into losing our country.
Liberals spent years lobbying schools to push students through whether they were ready or not and now they’re surprised they aren’t actually learning anything
Reminder that when commies talk about moneyless societies, they really do just mean the physical pieces of paper we refer to as "money". Simply renaming them to "Marxbux" or something without changing anything else would appease 90% of them.
I've been using a browser extension that shows a user's location next to their username, and it really gives you some immediate perspective when you see just how much of the posting on this app is just Nigerians QT'ing other Nigerians.
Something completely lost to most Americans is just how much Virginia drove the War for Independence. Boston gets all the attention because that’s where it turned into a full blown war. The way people think of the War for Independence is that all this stuff happened in Massachusetts then suddenly all the other colonies showed up.
Every colony had its own story, had its own particular efforts and reasons for joining in the war, but the actual political leadership was Virginian. Virginians led in all coordinated political measures.
Further, a Virginian proposed independence, Richard Henry Lee. A Virginian wrote the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson. And a Virginian led the Continental army, George Washington. Virginia was where the first colony took root, and it was also where America itself was born.
Imagine arguing we should slow down the development of Superintelligence and mankind's overcoming of all diseases and obstacles of the natural world because--
*checks notes*
we're solving math too fast.
Turks stole Northern Cyprus in 1974, ethnically cleansed 150k Greeks, stablished thousands of Turkish settlements, & they've occupied it for 52 years. Why haven't Greek Cypriots elected the Greek Orthodox version of Hamas? By Cenk's logic there should be non-stop terror from them
When the flags of Spain and Mexico flew over Texas, there were many Josés, but scarcely a Pooja to be found.
When the flag of France flew over Texas, there were many Jeans, but scarcely a Pooja to be found.
When the Lone Star flew over the Republic of Texas, and later the flag of the Confederacy, there were many Johns, but scarcely a Pooja to be found.
Then came the Stars and Stripes. Beneath it, Josés and Jeans and Johns lived together — some rooted in the soil for generations, others more newly arrived — each with a different claim upon the land and its history.
Then, five seconds ago, Pooja arrived.
She surveyed the descendants of all those who had come before her, announced that she was every bit as Texan as they were, and informed them that if they didn’t like it, they were free to leave.