Kamil Choudhury

We are no longer a force for change, we are merely not imploding.

Be that as it may, we must count on their desire to make their dollars grow to circumscribe the worst policy outcomes.

As we have determined, Congress is a rubber stamp organization. Who cares what they say or do.

One Nation, Indivisible under Number Must Go Up.

What I am saying is that the obvious way to save the Republic is to immediately put everyone's social security contributions into SPY.

If you start thinking of SPX as the distilled, real-time id of America -- something that both requires and bounds responses from the people we put in charge -- in a way we have developed a system of checks and balances that simply cannot be ignored the way you can ignore, say, courts.

Needless to say, this isn't how we think democracies are supposed to be run... but ask yourself this: is it actually undemocratic?

It appears that the binding constraint on a rogue executive's policy option set isn't congress or anything so prosaic as the people's electoral will -- it is what the market will allow him to do.

... but only after a pseudo-climbdown from Trump, who clearly has an eye on what the markets are doing.

The US initiated a war involving a dozen other countries and accidentally choked off half the world's oil supply... and the market went up 1%.

Well I think the major danger here is debris from intercepted missiles. Shelter in place definitely works for that.

I think we need to discuss what I have taken to calling the Political Economy of SPX 6900.

Mostly it's hilarious, I'm not going to lie.

Missile Movie: noun. Movie chosen before bedtime to be put on by dad at 3AM when the alert is received to shelter in place from missiles.

Hello @americanexpress.bsky.social I am interested in renouncing American citizenship in favor of American Express citizenship.

Tfw your credit card company cares more about you than your government.

If Trump wants to do this properly, we should be insuring and escorting cargos heading to directly allied countries only: Singapore, Japan, South Korea.

Similar questions for the Indians: is the ocean named after you or not?

Come get your oil.

If the impact of the Hormuz shutdown is going to be felt exclusively by the Chinese, why don't they insure cargos and send escorts to get their oil.

Third rate power.

Mark Zuckerberg hit on my girlfriend.

Somehow even worse in that case.

I think everyone needs a lesson in how submarine warfare works.

bsky.app/profile/mbbr...

Which is another way of saying: how fucking stupid *are* you all?

Hang on: do people think that cooks, deckhands and engineers on naval vessels are non-uniformed personnel that cannot be targeted?

"I feel like nothing has happened in a while."

"I'm sorry, are you complaining that the Iranians haven't bombed us today."

They are going to make so much money over the next two months.

For what it's worth, I think we all knew the deal when we headed out to this part of the world: the US does not organize mass evacuations, there are simply too many of us and military airlift is busy doing other things.

I guess a bus to Riyadh from Doha and then London from there. Anyhow, anyone around for drinks this week?

We are about to see the complete normalization of antisemitism in American politics.

Not going to lie lads, this might be the hottest thing she's ever sent me.