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Semi-anonymous profile of UCLA graduate who also has a Master from USC. No shortage of opinions, but I try only to comment on college football or what I read in The Economist.

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Latest posts by mrtpsm.bsky.social on Bluesky

Theyโ€™ll just opt for military tribunals instead, lol.

Nevermind Ex Parte Merryman (1861)โ€ฆFederal Rules of Civil Procedure is just noiseโ€ฆ

31.10.2025 03:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where are you โ€˜eaded?

29.10.2025 23:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, shitโ€ฆ

26.10.2025 02:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is the blueprint for all Charlemagne columns, lol.

11.10.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Funny joke but Johnson wonโ€™t say the obvious that most underemployed men are that way because the decline of blue collar jobs that rely on physical strength and endurance.

Itโ€™s not like Walmart or McDonaldโ€™s gives people full time workโ€ฆ

08.10.2025 03:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump isnโ€™t told what actually happens necessarily, just the details that the fit the contours of New York City ravaged by the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s.

By that measure he doesnโ€™t really see these types of raids are โ€œsomething newโ€.

Heโ€™s a developer, not an architect, lol.

08.10.2025 03:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is peak Economist wonkery.

Hundreds of thousands of American college students will be forced this article and think itโ€™s outline is the equivalent of Caesarโ€™s Gallic Warsโ€ฆ

04.10.2025 03:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That bear illustration would have made for a better cover, lol.

But either way, analysis is spot on here.

04.10.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œWhat is the one foreign policy miscue that America could do to cripple itself like British Empireโ€ฆoh waitโ€ฆthatโ€™s rightโ€ฆ

04.10.2025 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Oxford-Cambridge Arc deserves its own column and episode of Money Talks, FWIWโ€ฆ

27.09.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The runways problem is more about giving RyanAir a piece of the action at Luton even though the investment is needed at Heathrowโ€ฆ

27.09.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glorious.

27.09.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

True, mostly it can be explained bu national housing figures in the US being totally misleading.

Housing where the American economy is booming is fiendishly expensive (to some extent because they are usually coastal states like Britain.) Where itโ€™s tanking itโ€™s not.

27.09.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trumpโ€™s focus is on making sure that he leaves something behind for his descendants to support themselves once he is gone.

Chinaโ€™s problem is that it is not seen as as protective of private control of intellectual propert.

24.09.2025 07:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also, daily newspapers are essentially a thing of the past.

Now any โ€œpaper of recordโ€ want to put up a subscriber paywall as if they can match the in-depth reporting of an issue of The Economist, lol.

21.09.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Actually, thatโ€™s precisely what liberals are missing.

Instead of a monolithic approach, different figures need to leverage their existing power to inflict death by a thousand cuts.

This sort of pitched battle/dichotomy plays into his narrative.

17.09.2025 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The key thing about Trumpโ€™s second term is that heโ€™s operating in a co-dependent relationship with the Presidency.

Heโ€™s the alcoholic breadwinner of the GOP family and he has to collapse before they will abandon him.

17.09.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Economic rent-seekingโ€ฆitโ€™s not just for papal indulgences any moreโ€ฆlol.

17.09.2025 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is a very Orwellian title.

An advanced modern economy that js dependent on the weakest and most downtrodden is a Dickens novel, not progress, lol.

17.09.2025 01:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Southern Italian food is nothing like what is in the North, lol.

16.09.2025 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glorious.

13.09.2025 03:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, even uselectiomatlas,com had the opposite color scheme.

However, Democrats are reluctant to embrace the color red because it is tied to socialist parties outside the USโ€ฆ

12.09.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazing job thereโ€ฆnext upโ€ฆ.supermarket chains.

11.09.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s a product, in part, of Americaโ€™s economic and political centers being in different cities, unlike most of Europe.

In London, political affiliation was how you set yourself apart.

In America, there was very few cities in which there we multiple papers.

11.09.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Biden would have responded, but not invoked Article 5 immediately, lol.

10.09.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s a veiled reference to the role of gender in the reshuffleโ€ฆ.

โ€ฆerโ€ฆeither that or someone called him a โ€œchumpโ€ over there.

10.09.2025 08:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Keep in mind there are millions of Americans that are in shouting distance of being able to get an Irish passport through heritage, lol.

Post-Brexit though, having tiers of citizenship with non-European countries is a feature not a bug.

10.09.2025 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s a paean to isolationism.

The idea that foreign deployment in peacetime is inherently problematic and if we are over there, we should be only there to fight.

10.09.2025 05:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No left of center party ever wins if it campaigns on burning down an independent agency for fiscal soundness.

Creates a fear in the public that socialists will just keep โ€œprinting more moneyโ€ to pay for public spending.

10.09.2025 05:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Except the AMAs.

So far thatโ€™s not real popular on the rightโ€ฆ

07.09.2025 02:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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