Patrick
@patrick4872.bsky.social
Longtime lurker on the old app, now here. Liberal. Interested in economics, finance, politics, and cooking. Likes learning new things. Seed oil enthusiast.
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The Republican party is the party of 46 year olds who are only allowed to see their kids ever other weekend but also don't
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The Republican party is the party of 46 year olds who are only allowed to see their kids ever other weekend but also don't
Easy to fall into this misunderstanding when you interact with even the brightest of the right wing.
TRUMP: You have to bring in talent
INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America
TRUMP: No you don't. No.
INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Easy to fall into this misunderstanding when you interact with even the brightest of the right wing.
More annoying is how much you end up liking them. Speaking from past experience.
the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look
I mean come on
I mean come on
Toshiro Mifune
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
More annoying is how much you end up liking them. Speaking from past experience.
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there'd definitely problems with using military/war framings for electoral politics, but one thing it is good at is helping people keep is and ought separate. "The enemy has a strategic advantage that we must fight around" is rarely interpreted as "The enemy is correct and we should lose".
October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
there'd definitely problems with using military/war framings for electoral politics, but one thing it is good at is helping people keep is and ought separate. "The enemy has a strategic advantage that we must fight around" is rarely interpreted as "The enemy is correct and we should lose".
This. It’s Fukuyama’s vetocracy. It’s everywhere when you look around. It’s also going to protect us from prosecuting Trump and his miscreants, Judith Shklar comes to mind for pointing out process is not a virtue in itself.
a defining feature of our inherited progressive ideology is a fear of power, and a reflexive need to "put guardrails" on the government doing anything
except now what the guardrails are "protecting" us from is housing, green energy, transit
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
except now what the guardrails are "protecting" us from is housing, green energy, transit
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
October 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This. It’s Fukuyama’s vetocracy. It’s everywhere when you look around. It’s also going to protect us from prosecuting Trump and his miscreants, Judith Shklar comes to mind for pointing out process is not a virtue in itself.
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i hate this kind of scolding tbh
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
i hate this kind of scolding tbh
Astonishing. Yet, it appears more stove touching is needed from the article.
“Since siding with [Obama] twice, Iowa has become a stronghold for Mr. Trump. Yet perhaps no state has struggled more with his economic policies. During the first quarter of 2025, Iowa’s GDP dropped by 6.1%, more than any other state aside from neighboring Nebraska.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President’s Policies Have Hit Hard
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Astonishing. Yet, it appears more stove touching is needed from the article.
With self imposed ball and chain, his enemies obsession with process at the expense of outcomes. It’s a nonstarter among legal elites to even contemplate, everything but full fidelity is effectively treated the same as summary execution.
Yeah I think people are pretty unrealistic about their expectations of denouement in terms of punishment even in good outcomes, but it also *isn’t a good outcome* if he walks totally free. Like there has to be a line.
There is no peace and national reconciliation possible in the wake of this wreckage that does not include Stephen Miller spending a significant chunk of his life behind bars for his role in these state-sanctioned crimes. It's non-negotiable.
October 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
With self imposed ball and chain, his enemies obsession with process at the expense of outcomes. It’s a nonstarter among legal elites to even contemplate, everything but full fidelity is effectively treated the same as summary execution.
Not really that surprising. It’s a catch basin for general malcontents. Met lots of them, yet to meet a well adjusted one.
To think that she started out as a member of the Green Party
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Not really that surprising. It’s a catch basin for general malcontents. Met lots of them, yet to meet a well adjusted one.
It’s just education polarization. It’s occurring globally, across all developed democracies. Exceptions, Portugal, had higher ed expansions later and you can see the beginnings of it there too.
does it have something to do with the literal richest men in the history of the world waging a longterm propaganda campaign on behalf of the Republican Party in exchange for wealth and power beyond human comprehension
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
It’s just education polarization. It’s occurring globally, across all developed democracies. Exceptions, Portugal, had higher ed expansions later and you can see the beginnings of it there too.
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The most interesting trend talking to Democrats: how much Trump 2.0. radicalized moderates against Republicans. Progressives start from the point that they can't trust Republicans on anything. But moderates always thought they could do business because they had to. That's gone.
October 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The most interesting trend talking to Democrats: how much Trump 2.0. radicalized moderates against Republicans. Progressives start from the point that they can't trust Republicans on anything. But moderates always thought they could do business because they had to. That's gone.
New investments don’t care about the price now, care about the future price. Lock in low break even, favorable financing now with a counter cyclical investment. Rational, no psychosexual analysis needed.
serious question: what is the market case for more oil drilling given that there is an ongoing oil glut
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
New investments don’t care about the price now, care about the future price. Lock in low break even, favorable financing now with a counter cyclical investment. Rational, no psychosexual analysis needed.
Even in economics it’s bad, lazily default to Hayek’s platitudes. Which are wrong. The reality has both been known for a while and more interesting than Hayek. Strange place with recurring absurdities.
I have to write this up as a piece but one of the reasons some Americans are so credulous about Communist dictatorships is because they get really dumb and wrong anti-communist education in school and understandably conclude that *everything* must be the reverse.
The state of Florida is apparently now teaching that McCarthyism was not, in fact, a bad thing, I guess.
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Even in economics it’s bad, lazily default to Hayek’s platitudes. Which are wrong. The reality has both been known for a while and more interesting than Hayek. Strange place with recurring absurdities.
Used because moral objection comes off as too anodyne, possibly subjective, and carries authoritative appeal. As well as the impulse of a just world in same sense.
this is a pet peeve of mine. "war crime" is not something that means "bad thing I think is wrong". it is not a war crime to murder thousands of retreating enemy soldiers. it is a war crime to paint a Red Cross on a truck. if you think something is morally wrong just fucking say that.
ok so the basic problem here is that you have no idea what “war criminal” means except it’s a phrase that people react to
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Used because moral objection comes off as too anodyne, possibly subjective, and carries authoritative appeal. As well as the impulse of a just world in same sense.
Incredibly this is real. WTF happened Cuomo? Being involved in NY politics in the 2010s meant you ran into his people all the time, thuggish and psychotic, but effective. Just, wow.
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Incredibly this is real. WTF happened Cuomo? Being involved in NY politics in the 2010s meant you ran into his people all the time, thuggish and psychotic, but effective. Just, wow.
Yes. From school and interest in the historical period.
Honest question, asked without judgment: did you know what the tokenkopf was before today?
October 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yes. From school and interest in the historical period.
Yeah, saw Obama voting parents get kook right curious after Common Core and Michelle Obama school lunch push.
I have a theory that dumb, top-down "initiatives" and regulations in education and childcare radicalize parents to the kook right.
So many people are trying to figure out what's happening with kids and schools.
I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the
I don't know any big-picture answers. But from my n=2 sample, one big problem is the constant jankiness of doing schoolwork on Chromebooks and Google Classroom.
Math apps where you can't see the diagram and the
October 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Yeah, saw Obama voting parents get kook right curious after Common Core and Michelle Obama school lunch push.
After dying to own the libs during a pandemic it’s hard to be surprised.
Destroying the White House to own the Libs.
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
After dying to own the libs during a pandemic it’s hard to be surprised.
In this situation, based on how we’ve behaved with Russian sovereign assets, plausible “freeze” on payments of Chinese owned treasuries. Seizure in general of Chinese sovereign assets. Assets in € or £ would face the same fate. Control of financial plumbing weaponized immediately.
The whole damn world, the US and China very much included, will have its economy paralyzed for a bit if there's a US-China war.
And then things get even less pleasant, as war economy mobilization kicks off in every power involved, and even in some big manufacturing countries that nominally aren't.
And then things get even less pleasant, as war economy mobilization kicks off in every power involved, and even in some big manufacturing countries that nominally aren't.
Nobody is really prepared for when we go cyber-hot with China. Society is going to halt.
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In this situation, based on how we’ve behaved with Russian sovereign assets, plausible “freeze” on payments of Chinese owned treasuries. Seizure in general of Chinese sovereign assets. Assets in € or £ would face the same fate. Control of financial plumbing weaponized immediately.
Tangentially, important and underrated for economic policy. Dictatorships struggle to reform sources of economic dysfunction rather than just offload it. Argentina managing similar recurring crises under both elected governments and dictatorships. There’s a lesson there.
China routinely has protests where the government reverses itself, being an authoritarian state does not mean that the public is completely powerless
Tbh it’s interesting that people think that since China is authoritarian, its government can do whatever it wants no matter how unpopular. Like you see people saying they’ll be able to cut pensions because they’re authoritarian, but let’s remember how Covid Zero went for them lol
October 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tangentially, important and underrated for economic policy. Dictatorships struggle to reform sources of economic dysfunction rather than just offload it. Argentina managing similar recurring crises under both elected governments and dictatorships. There’s a lesson there.
Reject urban bourgeois decadence, return to the purity of the fields. -MAGA
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Reject urban bourgeois decadence, return to the purity of the fields. -MAGA
Would that actually be a bad thing? Could be helpful self marginalization. Among liberals. Conservatives wouldn’t still reflexively hate them.
the NYT's opinion is that the Democrats should take the position which upper-class Connecticut Republicans held in 2012 and that politics should be preserved in amber in that state until the sun runs out of hydrogen and swallows the earth
Ultimately it's the yawning moral void at the heart of this type of writing that baffles me. "Oh, the best data suggests that most voters feel that—" YOU ARE THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD. I AM READING YOU FOR YOUR OPINION. TELL ME WHAT IT IS.
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Would that actually be a bad thing? Could be helpful self marginalization. Among liberals. Conservatives wouldn’t still reflexively hate them.
Individuals who have differing brain worms and form the incoherent blob of the Trump infallibility constituency.
I mean, who was in favor of the Santos pardon in his base?
I’m very skeptical of this — not because President Trump isn’t willing to grant pardons and commutations easily, but because there is zero interest from his base in this, and he has nothing to gain from doing it.
And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.
And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Individuals who have differing brain worms and form the incoherent blob of the Trump infallibility constituency.
Interesting times and continued stove touching lay ahead.
I hate thermostatic public opinion I hate thermostatic public opinion I hate thermostatic public opinion I hate thermostatic public opinion
New Gallup Party ID tracker is out. Dems +7 now. Was +6 GOP in q4 2024. This is a 13 pt swing.
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Interesting times and continued stove touching lay ahead.