1. Bet on emergence. "Enduring political change requires changing societal values, not transient perceptions."
2. Reality is on deck. "I myself am more pro-DOGE than anti-DOGE, but overall the DOGE play is much ado about nothing. It will not stop us from getting to where the government can no longer borrow enough to fund its spending, including the ever-rising share of interest payments. At that point, we will be staring in the face the threat of Weimar-era hyperinflation, confronting our political leaders with the need to suddenly do something serious and substantive."
3. Zugzwang. Can we start with half? Go ahead, Dems, shut it down. Make my day. "There is also the possibility that the shutdown will be used to demonstrate that the vast number of federal workers are 'non-essential' and can therefore be done away with permanently." They're totally screwed. As we finish this post, the vote to close debate is yet to take place. Look for a nod to "bipartisanship" with a few amendments to the House resolution introduced and defeated.
4. The real debt ceiling looms. "The Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency are making some of the cuts that it would be forced to make in the event of a financial collapse — ahead of the collapse."
5. Prepare accordingly. "Hang on tight because the so-called Trumpcession is in reality the final price to be paid for four years of Joe Biden."
6. Five years later, reality dawns. "There was no science or data." There was tyranny. "The notion that bureaucrats could decide whose job and business mattered and whose did not was a profound and counterproductive violation of economic liberty."
7. No. Next question? "Do Americans really need federal bureaucrats to tell us what's good for us?"
9. Is anybody surprised? "The dominant media treatment of Trump’s diplomacy—that it is an ignoble betrayal of democracy, the West, and freedom itself—is childlike in its simplicity."
11. Used poorly, at that. "Lost on international observers like [Douglas] Murray or American commentators who have never left the Acela corridor is that the populist right has developed a dissenting view on the liberal international order because they have historically served as its enforcers."
13. The policy bundles are too big. "The public wants the economy humming, the border secure, an end to the illiberal lunacy that was wokeism — and that’s about it."
14. Now batting, reality. "It isn’t the idea that trans people exist that’s the problem. It’s the denial of reality and truth that is the problem."
16. Let the kids play! "Be bold, take heart, and choose to foster a culture of childrearing in which parents accept risk and responsibility."
17. Perfectionism hampers performance? “Lieutenant Colonel so-and-so probably makes, maybe, thirty decisions a day that affect someone’s life, job or career. All of them are not going to be something we agree with, or even the best decision. So, if he’s 29 - 1, that’s not too bad.”
18. Laws of conservation in economics. "One of the drivers of large foreign capital investment is that, at least so far, the United States has been an attractive place to invest. Another is that our savings rate is relatively low."
19. Then came the punishment cycles. "One of the most consequential elements of the social justice era was the implication that certain language and discourse norms had been broadly accepted when they had in fact only been adopted by a small elite."
20. They denied coherent beliefs. "The decline of the American university isn’t some bipartisan blunder—it’s the lopsided result of leftist control."
22. Only "fairly sure?" "I am fairly sure that Ronda Rousey could smack the tar out of that skinny little twerp Dylan Mulvaney every day before breakfast and twice on Sunday."
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