HaroldWilson
6d ago
Degrowth
Get real. Trump has just delivered the most anti-growth policy of the post-war era but Democrats still get this moniker because they, what, don't always acquiesce to tax and spending cuts?
HaroldWilson
6d ago
This might be more compelling if MAGA ever criticised Trump when he goes the other direction. When the tariffs came out MAGA defended them as sound economic policy. When he backtracked they still defended them as a brilliant negotiating tactic, despite having supported them in substance days before.
HaroldWilson
6d ago
"Fuck you, we did in fact build that"
Some real Obama Derangement Syndrome here. A throwaway line from a campaign speech 13 years ago and people are still mad over it. This is the equivalent of if people were still referencing the Malaise speech all the time in the 90s.
HaroldWilson
7d ago
And everyone fell into lock-step behind him
Initially yes, but not post-debate (Pelosi being the obvious case) and I doubt that happens with Trump.
HaroldWilson
9d ago
Normie Africans name their kids things like ‘John’ or ‘Mary’
Not uniformly. African-origin names are common in many Commonwealth Southern and West African nations.
HaroldWilson
9d ago
TDS
Can this die now? TDS has largely been vindicated over the past four and half years, and especially the past 100 days.
HaroldWilson
12d ago
Oh sure legally but the object-level principle at stake is basically the same - whether or not we should avoid using participation in local legal proceedings as a means of deporting illegal immigrants.
HaroldWilson
12d ago
As others have gestured at, this is just a rehash of the sanctuary cities arguments from Trump 1. The problem with using state courts/police as a convenient piggyback for immigration enforcement is that is encourages illegal immigrants to never show up at court or co-operate with police ever, either for their own minor offences or as witnesses etc.
HaroldWilson
12d ago
"using it as it was meant to be used?"
Fundamentally he seems either deliberately unwilling or simply unable to comprehend that the interviewer is asking about means rather than ends. Saying 'I was elected to close the borders/change our terms of trade' is just a total non-sequitur response to the question 'have you expanded the powers of the presidency'. It would be one thing to say 'I don't care about process, I care about results', but he doesn't say that, he's just talking past the question.
HaroldWilson
12d ago
A tiny portion of my taxes are spent on roads. Having paid my taxes, I feel entitled to use of public roads
Unless you actually live in New York City itself you don't pay for the upkeep of the roads in Manhattan since most are owned and maintained by the NYC Department of Transportation, and the remainder are operated by the state. Why should New Yorkers be forced to subsidise New Jersey suburbanites driving in to use their New York amenities without contributing anything? If you live elsewhere in NYC the objection is more reasonable, but the avenue for those grievances to be aired should be via state and local government, not the federal DoT.
And I notice the contempt and sometimes hatred new urbanists have for suburbanites
Some maybe do but that doesn't make the policy any less sensible just because a minority have an irrational basis for supporting it.
They cannot make me want to live in an apartment downtown or ride a train to work.
Fine. No-one is going to make you. But don't expect everyone else to have to cater to and subsidise your preferences and negative externalities. New York should be run for the benefit of people who live in New York, not for people who hate urban living and want to freeride off the amenities of a great city.
But they could possibly make me too poor to live any other way.
This is just silly and amounts to 'public policy should be geared towards me being able to enjoy the benefits of living in proximity to a great city without a) having to contribute anything and b) being allowed to make life worse for urban residents without paying any compensation'.
HaroldWilson
13d ago
We won't see such a benefit.
Why? It seems unlikely that car journeys are immune to price signals.
HaroldWilson
13d ago
naked attacks on suburbanites by urban enthusiasts
If you like the suburbs so much then don't go to Manhattan, nobody is forcing you to do so.
HaroldWilson
15d ago
s Prima notes, the Supreme Court did not order a result. The courts that have denied 'make easier' efforts as sufficient facilitation are lower courts. Tthe Supreme Court has not specifically weighed in on their ability to demand a result versus an effort.
This is currently a moot point given that the Trump administration hasn't put in any effort whatsoever. If he asks Bukele to send him back and he says no, then we can move to the question of whether that is sufficient attempt at 'facilitation'.
HaroldWilson
15d ago
“facilitate only to the extent possible”.
This is fair, but Trump has absolutely not met even this lower bar. He hasn't even asked. What 'facilitation' has he attempted?
HaroldWilson
15d ago
offer Ukraine vague European security guarantees
Well this is the rub really isn't it. For any deal to not be completely worthless to Ukraine, it surely needs some real guarantee against the re-invasion of whatever is left at some future date, which seems to be only provided either by NATO membership or the continuous presence of Western troops in Ukraine as a part of any 'security guarantee'.
HaroldWilson
20d ago
So we can clean all this up with a quick Zoom call then? Don't even need to actually get him out of the prison.
Not necessarily.
https://www.justice.gov/eoir/reference-materials/ic/chapter-4/7
except that evidentiary hearings on the merits may only be conducted by telephone conference if the respondent consents after being notified of the right to proceed in person or through video conference. See INA § 240(b)(2), 8 C.F.R. § 1003.25(c)
HaroldWilson
20d ago
It's the due process that gives you your several days in court, however taxing they may be, rather than just, say, being disappeared to a banana republic's prison system.
HaroldWilson
20d ago
take any and all actions
There are some intermediate stages between 'any and all actions necessary' and 'publicly approve of and pay for his foreign imprisonment'.
HaroldWilson
20d ago
His immigration status is what determines how much process is due.
It may do, but even the Trump administration admits that the result of the due process he was entitled to has simply been ignored and now they say it doesn't matter because they have no obligations to someone in a foreign principle. The point is that the same logic could apply to citizens. Say a domestic citizen criminal is due to be deported to be held in a foreign prison, the judiciary decides this is not legal, but then the executive decides to do it anyway, the exact same logic Trump uses ('you can't compel us to take any action related to foreign policy') still applies and the citizen never returns.
HaroldWilson
29d ago
“How bendy can a banana be” a legitimate negotiating question.
Well it sort of obviously is a negotiating question. If you want free access to European markets some degree of harmonisation has to occur - whether one party thinks regulation X is pointless isn't really material, the question is are they willing to endanger a trade deal to ditch the bendy bananas regulation. And so the inevitable horse trading.
HaroldWilson
29d ago
calculating emissions of imports in a unfavourable way
This I agree would be a non-tariff barrier to the extent that it happens.
It also inherently favours domestic European goods due to the lower transport emissions and the fact the Europeans are trying to develop green industries... but the fact it favours domestic industry must surely be a nice bonus.
Well this I think is silly. On this basis any taxation which is not very broad-based is a non-tariff barrier. If the British raise their alcohol duty on spirits faster than beer is this discriminating against American whisky-makers and French cognac producers in favour of domestic breweries, assuming Britain is more competitive in beer production than spirits?
HaroldWilson
29d ago
I find it difficult to see how this is different to literally any regulation though. It's not as if any product is prevented from entering the EU under these rules, it's just a question of how it's marketed. It's as much consumer protection as producer protection - when someone sees 'champagne' they expect it be from Champagne (and not just because of expectations created by the regulations). After all the EU does enforce non-EU names - Celyon tea, Sussex wine, Mongolian Cashmere etc. etc.
HaroldWilson
29d ago
I am worried about this too, but the strength of the favourable initial market reaction to his climbdown makes me hope he might not try again in 90 days again.
HaroldWilson
29d ago
Ok, but until he climbed down the expert consensus was exactly right on what the reaction of the markets would be.
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Warren made the initial 2011 speech that Obama was referencing/expanding upon in his 2012 speech, but the whole controversy arose over Obama saying the line.
What does this even mean In context it's just a completely anodyne exposition of the notion that no man is an island. Idk what 'ideas/actions' has to do with it when one of the examples he gave of facilitation of success by govt. is physical infrastructure.
If this were true one wouldn't have to reach back for a statement from four Presidential campaigns ago. Nobody references 'I'm not concerned about the very poor' do they.
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