Yeah but those assessments don’t necessarily imply a loss of intelligence

Definitely going to listen to the "travel hacker" over the Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council when it comes to what the government can or can't do with regard to visa policy

215 at 21g each

The Scotch-Irish (aka Ulster Scots) aren’t ethnically Irish, they’re mostly Presbyterian and originally came from the Scottish border regions but lived for a few generations in the British colony of Ireland

Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, etc. were descended from “Scotch Irish”

New York hasn’t elected a Republican Senator since 1992, it’s the primary she’d need to worry about, not the general

Is it that much harder to win statewide as someone who can be accused of being soft on defense spending compared with someone who won half the state’s population while essentially be painted as a terrorist?

I see what you’re saying but I don’t think that’s a particularly astute takeaway just weeks after Zohran’s win in NYC (with half the population of the entire state)

Also consistent with the zero-based budgeting Elon implemented at Twitter and with DOGE

Account for things like overtime pay and post call wrap up and other admin duties, it could easily hit $30-40 per call

Probably not billed per call but based on staffing, and you can imagine if they’re paying $20-25 an hour for US-based staffing, the contractor’s probably charging $60-70 per hour. 4-5 calls per hour would be about $15-20 per call

(I’d just never seen this happen with the option to tip on a card, usually it would just be cash)

Restaurants/bars generally encourage (or at least allow) this to some extent

What's going on here? They comped your meal but charged you a penny?

Was the ACA repeal (McCain, Murkowski, Collins) the only real example?

Or he’s a nepo baby because his father’s a professor (same as Anna)

I think the fact that it's NYC is significant. NYC, and specifically the history of the Jewish people in NYC, directly disproves the central lies of Zionism. And as I thought about when I saw Zohran speak about NYC as a city of immigrants, it's the city my immigrant ancestors chose (not Israel)

I don’t think it was really that big a whiff, final tallies are going to be close and some polls in the last few days had him ahead. I think he just surged in the last couple of weeks and the inherent lag of polls didn’t start capturing it until the last few days.

I didn’t even realize this existed. I’ve never been to a synagogue in the US that didn’t have American and Israeli flags side by side