Obsolete Dogma

The Banality of Stupid Evil: the Kevin Hassett Story

Kevin Hassett is a stone cold moron, but even he’s not stupid enough to actually believe this. He’s just such a genuinely bad person that he’s willing to say 2+2=5 if Trump demands it.

Imagine saying it would have been bad if the SPD had stopped Hitler by playing constitutional hardball, and then you’ll see how insanely stupid it is to say that Democrats shouldn’t gerrymander back to try to stop Trump now

“Our opponents are fascists, but it would be bad to stop fascism by bending the rules like they are” is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

There’s no bad way to stop fascism.

Kevin Hassett is a deeply immoral person whose—plausible!—excuse for being so execrable is that he’s too stupid to know better.

In another life, he would have been touting Stalin’s record grain harvests

The good news: My prediction from December 2016 was correct

The bad news: It was about Trump trying to turn us into Argentina

Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are probably to blame for today’s miserable jobs report.

Instead of getting rid of his tariffs, though, Trump has decided to get rid of reliable economic statistics. They’re just going to fake the numbers.

If you’re going to fake that jobs numbers, you need to fake GDP too so that everything is consistent. It’s all going to become garbage.

It will actually be interesting to compare the average market reaction to jobs reports from up until now with what happens in the future to get an idea of how much Trump is faking them.

Welp. Guess economic reporters can stop covering the jobs reports now.

Can’t wait for the BLS to congratulate Comrade Trump on another record grain harvest

“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” —1984

Brown is acceding to government oversight of course evaluations, where they can investigate anyone they want for "antisemitism" based on student complaints.

QAnon is like if people who wanted to fight anti-Semitism decided that the best way to do that was to support Hitler

If any of this were funny, I’d be laughing about how Trumpers built an anti-pedophile cult around the guy who was best friends with the most famous pedophile of all time

You’re describing the Nordic countries. Our taxes are actually more progressive than theirs, but our spending is far, far less so

Trump would rather release a child sex trafficker than release the Epstein files

If you live in NYC, the federal, state, and city tax credits add up to a combined ~75% of the cost of solar panels for your home, speaking as someone who just got them

When you’re sooooo close to getting it

Can’t wait for Trump to announce he’s going to finish OJ’s work looking for the Real Killer

When you have nothing to hide dot com

This is the first thing being born between 1980 & 1990 teaches you

Chinese language social media went hard for Trump from like 2020-24. Pushed the idea that he’d be harder on the CCP than Dems & that Dems were basically communists.

Trump’s pro-Putin stance on Ukraine has broken the spell a little for anti-CCP immigrants who are realizing he might sell out Taiwan

The Democratic Party’s capitulation to the Crypto lobby is one of the most nakedly corrupt things I’ve seen in my life.

Crypto is a blatant scam with zero value that is designed to end popular control of our currency. Dems just co-signed the next global financial crisis. It’s unforgivable.

When he was consolidating power, one of the first things Putin did was pressure late night hosts to stop making fun of him.

In other news, CBS just canceled Colbert because they want Trump to approve their merger.

Resolved: Democrats should call him Donald Epstein from now on

Lot of far left voters are more anti-system than pro-welfare state; they care more about vibes than policy. They want someone who's Fighting The Establishment, even if that person is going to hurt them like Trump, more than they want an Establishment person to offer a credible plan to help them

Trump couldn't act guiltier if he tried when it comes to Epstein. Makes you think!

The thing about Samuel Moyn is he’s a stone cold moron, and Yale should be forced to give a refund to everyone who’s taken a class from him

Between his tariffs and trying to fire Powell, Trump. is doing everything he can to make inflation go up

Good thing he was elected to *checks notes* make it go down