I would donate to a Mark Warner primary opponent if they were more radical than mark warner

This is actually why I can't get too upset about the Democrats caving. It's a poison pill surrender. You win, Republicans, you get to punish your voters and sink your ratings further

I can't get too upset about this for the following reason. I wanted the shutdown to continue as long as possible to hurt the admin, which is all that matters. But the Republican "cave" would have helped the admin and then "winning" just hurts them. So it's a wash.

I did some googling and Spain and Japan both had 50-year mortgages at the height of their property bubbles

The idea was you could pass your mortgage down to your kids or grandkids

Both of their housing markets crashed disastrously and the people who took them out were often ruined

It was like two days ago where Bovino and other agents were found to have lied in a deposition about him being assaulted. Video showed the situation was entirely the opposite.

I'm so tired of the water argument strawman. I see have seen every pro -AI pundit and influencer on here shoot it down five times. You bring up the irrefutable power argument in their comments and.... crickets.

Thinking about this, if you actually wanted to fix the 1995 idiot anti-basic analysis framework by pushing the implications of sovereign money creation, you almost have to stick some handwavey or false BS on the end. That makes controversy, which creates attention, and gets the true stuff covered.

Im not sure we really found the inflection point where US budget deficits create inflation all by themselves in a normal global economy. COVID fucked that question up. Maybe we got close enough that smaller supply shocks have larger impacts

American politics and folk wisdom have been dominated by a framework of a fixed supply of money and a household finance view of national budgets since 300 years ago, when it was true. It's not a coincidence that Trump killed the dumbass balanced budget movement while MMT was knifing up high.

The thing is that US politics and folk wisdom / pop culture were DOMINATED by assumptions antithetical to that basic analysis for ... forever!. "How are we going to pay the debt back". MMT went a LONG way to fixing that. Three orders of magnitude up in coherence, among the wonks, it was dumb

Let's demand an austerity budget that splits the GOP and puts Trump's approval at 18 percent, and then mostly vote against it and campaign against it, and repeal it when we have a trifecta

The longer the government stays closed, the harder we win. We should demand refunding USAID and defunding ICE. Let's close it for 13 months and win 60 senate seats. (Bad advice but this is the political dynamics for real)

That's not a good argument against doing it. It's probably a good argument FOR doing it. If the shutdown goes 13 months, maybe we win 60 senate seats. If they want it open, they can fold. This offer is too reasonable.

Our political odds in 2026 probably go down if Rs fold relative to that if we fold, although it depends if how credible you think the problem of prog stayhomes would be after a fold by us