Plus an impending economic collapse & refugee crisis.

This man has a way with words!

Not sure they want to vote R. IMO they want to righteously refuse to vote D because of some nonsense about how Newsom’s monstrous on homelessness and genocide and trans rights so JD can win and be 10,000x worse on everything.

We also need mandatory financial disclosure to qualify as a presidential candidate. Minimum 20 years of tax records. That barrier would have kept out Trump in the first place. Authoritarians are always crooks as well.

You make a valid point re: the Economist’s sardonic house style. That said, serious journalism writ large continues to analyze Trump as a somewhat normal political actor, when he so clearly is not. Even using the magazine’s distinctive filter it would be possible to describe him more as he is.

That’s the point above.

The “Cybercab” is a relatively cheap investment to prop up the illusion that Tesla has a real autonomous taxi strategy. This vehicle is a hurried repurposing of the abandoned $25k car, not a serious attempt at a viable cab. The ridiculous two seater configuration tells us everything we need to know.

The only useful discipline for evaluating Trump’s actions in office is not political science or economics, it’s abnormal psych.

We are way beyond a point where subtlety is useful. And the OP is correct - this piece assumes throughout that Trump has actual policy goals, and is merely failing to make the right tactical choices to advance them. It’s tremendous naïveté in the guise of sober analysis.

Compensation, not demonstration.

We never get our perfect candidate. We get to pick from a menu of candidates with big enough constituencies to be in contention. If we’re lucky, we get a choice we really like. But harm reduction is always a key consideration. Voting for a candidate you don’t love can stop one you despise and fear.

We are always doing “lesser evil” voting b/c we’ve never had a perfect candidate, and we never will. The ‘24 choice was the starkest ever, and the righteous non-voters brought us ICE raids instead of SNAP, urban military occupations, and a new foreign invasion each week. Did you vote for Kamala?

Sounds like you are talking about Israel here.

Con man talking up his latest scam.

It’s not like it’s 45% - 55%. The lesser of the two evils is like 99.9% less evil.

Saving you from yourself.

Candidate Harris was dancing around the loaded term,“genocide,” as she should have. The most effective statecraft often happens behind the scenes. Netanyahu understood her perspective on Gaza perfectly well, which is why he actively backed Trump. Did you refuse to vote for her?

This feed is maybe well intentioned but way too repetitive. Blocked.

Ie, “aesthetic environmentalism.” Some rich coast & island residents oppose offshore turbines for the same reason.

No, she supported military action in response to the horror of 10/7. As did essentially everyone in US leadership roles. She would have handled subsequent phases of the Gaza war very differently than Trump has, which is why Netanyahu actively backed Trump.

Smart, timely, and clear. Thank you.

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IMO the interview footage provided real insight into 3 key things about Presley: he was crazy in love with gospel, R&B, and country; he thought every audience, no matter the size, deserved a great show; and he was fundamentally humble and sincere. Totally agree, though, about giving the band credit.

Actually quite accomplished.

His successor will be much worse.

This just isn’t correct. 10/7 made an Israel attack on Hamas inevitable—with the support of both parties, at the outset. Then the war expanded. A prez Harris would have approached Gaza very differently from Trump. Everyone knew it—including Bibi, who made his preference for Trump crystal clear.

Trump and his supporters, aside from professional provocateurs like Bannon, largely denied / repudiated his and his advisors’ most destructive plans when pressed. Perhaps you weren’t in close contact in 2024 with true believers in the “pro-peace candidate.” If so, count your blessings.

*This* is the problematic truck design today?

Yes, all other cultures need to use only specifically American vocabulary. Any other British words that are confusing to you that we should ban?

Kamala would have been vastly better on Gaza. And what the “anti-genocide” rhetoric (which was really just anti-Dem vote suppression) brought us was shutting down USAID and transferring food stamp funding to ICE and turning the entire Middle East into a war zone.