zeke5123a
7hr ago
What needs to be considered isn’t just the lost good re USAID but the replacement spending (ie thr funding didn’t disappear). That is, Monzer is looking at only one side of the ledger.
Maybe he is right in the end but right now he ideologically is coming to a conclusion that Musk’s actions were on net bad; he hasn’t shown any work whatsoever.
zeke5123a
7hr ago
I find this response puzzling.
First, it assumes that USAID spending money was effective on net. Maybe it wasn’t. Maybe the money was spent in other ways that was more effective (ie Bastiat and Broke Window theory).
Second, it assumes a moral responsibility for USAID funding to continue indefinitely when there is zero moral responsibility (ie there is no moral duty to act contra Singer; otherwise, you and pretty much all of humanity are rotten evil people). Or at minimum if there is a duty to act it seems like the people complaining are throwing stones from glass houses.
Third, it assumes because USAID did some good things it was net good. The mafia helped the community (ie did some good things). Doesn’t make it good on net. Perhaps USAID wouldn’t have been targeted if it wasn’t funneling a ton of money into lefties for political reasons instead of focusing its mission on just doing good.
zeke5123a
7hr ago
Sure the Obama’s can’t solve everything but they could give away 60m and save so many lives. Why don’t they?
zeke5123a
7hr ago
The idea that Trump has done anything right ever, in his life, is a baseless claim put out by his racist idiot supporters.
I think the reality is Trump is pretty mediocre but his supporters exalt him whilst his detractors almost universally degrade him in excess of what they should leading to constant defenses.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I’m not sure WKA was decided incorrectly. On the narrow grounds of the holding, it isn’t offensive.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Sure but Roberts for unknown reasons reached the constitutional issue when he needed just statutory.
zeke5123a
2d ago
If the argument that using foreigners and aliens is to clarify that children borne of diplomats who happen to be U.S. citizens as well, then that moves me not at all.
zeke5123a
2d ago
It isn’t dispositive but it is instructive. That is, if the answer is “obvious” then how did the drafter understand it to mean something else? That is at least a clue that it isn’t obvious.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Your construction makes no sense. First, the punctuation would be wrong. Second, describing diplomats as foreigners and aliens would be surplusage on top of surplusage.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Re trans and sports.
Read this ESPN article. It is a lesson in how to editorialize a purported “straight” news story (no pun intended).
zeke5123a
2d ago
And kavanaugh? Maybe that should make you pause and think perhaps your position isn’t air tight.
zeke5123a
2d ago
This reminds me of Obamacare. Everyone was told “not a real issue” as the received wisdom was “clear” but when you actually look at the received wisdom it just isn’t clear.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Isn’t that part of the point? Mr. Bennett is a weak man who married the uncouth but gorgeous party girl. He made a bad choice but never had the spine to guide her to a better path.
zeke5123a
4d ago
Well, you are also missing the category where if you are an old grizzled cop you can revoke the immunity after shooting the criminal diplomat.
zeke5123a
5d ago
But the question is if an Indian was off the reservation and gave birth would the child be a US citizen? It is far from clear the answer was yes meaning it is entirely relevant to the question of birthright citizenship.
zeke5123a
5d ago
It isn’t obvious to me. Randy Barnett and Richard Epstein both have laid out strong reasoners why this wasn’t the case. Likewise, it wasn’t obvious to Dick Posner why constitutionally this was required.
The real question in my mind was whether the change to the civil rights act language was designed to grant birthright citizenship.
zeke5123a
5d ago
Lisa cook pretty clearly lied on her mortgage application. Sure she hasn’t been indicted but it doesn’t follow that the same burden of proof applies to a for cause firing.
It also seems clear she plagiarized. It would be interesting if Trump fired her for that on the basis that she was appointed in part for her academic “success” which is fraudulent.
zeke5123a
6d ago
I’m not sure you can describe the demise of Humphrey’s executor as “is this even the same constitution.”
First, the union got by for about 150 years prior to it. Second, the court has routinely cabined the scope of that ruling for years heavily narrowing its scope. Sure striking it will be meaningful but not earth shattering.
zeke5123a
8d ago
It is common knowledge that women would fuck dogs for Dubai elite. I think it’s the demeaning attitude
zeke5123a
9d ago
I find the substack article to be not very good either. It makes a claim that rape gangs are unlikely because of the very few number of defendants. But that was part of the whole scandal (ie authorities kept looking the other way).
No everyone was saying “if they are actually good why don’t the critics step up.” This criticism is basically suggesting the critics don’t actually believe what they are saying.
But that is a different criticism compared to “sure USAID funding was cut but the funding didn’t disappear and some of the funding supported bad stuff; need to prove on net whether things have gotten worse as opposed to looking at one part of one side of the ledger.” This is saying maybe the critics are in good faith but they haven’t really considered everything.
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