“Also, I’d like lower taxes. I am NOT a Tory though!”

Serous question: which segments of capital would you say are acceptable to bring into the coalition?

Probably worth thinking about the implications of online media gatekeeping shifting from Brooklyn journalists to attracting people succeeding on YouTube/TikTok. Do hot people want higher taxes?

Have you heard the Good News about position limits for oil to limit price fluctuations? https://www.paulweiss.com/insights/client-memos/cftc-adopts-position-limits-rule-and-extends-regulations-on-aggregation-of-positions

“You have to always hit the current optimal policy bullseye, and you get little credit for overshooting to avoid repeating past mistakes” is tough medicine, but seems to be the right heuristic based on the last 20 years of politics.

Supporters of rivalrous socialism/socialism in one country are the absolute worst of the bunch: Stalin, Pol Pot, the Kims, arguably Mao.

I mean, I respect them enough to listen to what they say to me. We just have a different view of the substance and politics here.

I mean, the explicit argument is that ring fencing it would shrink it down. I don’t think that’s a gotcha.

I mean, multiple members of the Admin made clear they were trying to shrink it, ringfence it, send it to zero, etc after the positive 2022 EO, including here on this website.

A lot.

You could do something that was effective there but it would need to be couched as being pro the users. That’s not what was done.

I mean, we tried that. That was 21-24.

Look, if you want to make people working in crypto untouchable for the coalition, that’s a choice. It’s not worked so well, but it is a choice.

Again, I’m a Democrat and someone who has strongly disapproved of Trump the entire time. The idea that my support is undesirable seems like an error.

Hope your day improves.