DavidN

@ThePoliEcon

Putting the 'poli' back into the 'econ'.

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    Dec 20

    I dont think I've ever read something so masterfully passive aggressive. What Mattis wrote was not just a swing at the ignorance of the president, but a warning flare to our allies, politicians, and the entire national security establishment.

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    Nov 21

    Uighur businessman & philanthropist sentenced to death in Xinjiang for going on hajj without approval by Chinese authorities. His son was detained in 2017 for studying abroad, his wife in April. All his assets have been confiscated.

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    Nov 20

    Honest to god, this reads like a position paper from a junior high school debate team. WTAF.

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  4. Oct 27

    Best metaphor ever

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  5. Retweeted
    Oct 15

    40,000+ people are alive today because of one man. He issued thousands of visas. When he was forced to leave his diplomatic posting, he gave the consulate stamp to a refugee to forge more visas, and literally threw visas out of a train window as he left

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    Oct 7

    It's never been more important to read critically and think critically. Not because you're a nihilist or you believe in nothing. But because you believe in yourself. New on ET In Brief. via

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  7. Sep 18

    . relevant to your recent post. Two oz billionaires and media moguls playing who the next Oz PM should be:

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  8. Sep 9

    Next level stuff here …

    Some guys realized day traders usually lose all their money so they created a scam day-trading firm which simply pocketed funds deposited and pretended to buy & sell shares. That's evil genius.
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  9. Sep 6

    Very awkward to be generous

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    Sep 5

    I detest the ideas of Steve Bannon (Enlightenment Now is a 500-page refutation) but it was a mistake for the New Yorker to have disinvited him - David Remnick should have eviscerated him, not martyrized him.

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    Aug 27

    "People don't want to be LECTURED to,...they want to LEARN with a peer having a CONVERSATION...so they can THINK for themselves..." at 5:24 in an interview with

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    Aug 20

    THREAD: I want to take a moment to elaborate why we should be so concerned that Jim Clapper, John Brennan, Admiral McRaven, Mike Hayden, and other officials feel it necessary to speak out against Trump:

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  13. Aug 13

    ‘for those who disliked Obama’s politics: He is at the same time a genuinely high-quality personality—intelligent, considerate, dignified, and self-disciplined. Those who hated him were deprived of any rational basis to despise him …they reverted to irrationality instead.’

    A decade ago Dinesh D’Souza repeatedly invited me to debate him on God. I'm glad I declined, & didn't help publicize a mendacious fanatic who's gone off the deep end. David Frum laments the downward spiral of US intellectual conservatism.
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  14. Aug 8

    This article is amazing.

    Part 1 of a three-part series on what it means to have a polarized electorate and a monolithic market. Today's note: the Age of Ridiculousness and the decline and fall of the American Empire. New on ET.
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  15. Jul 30

    Evolutionary biology reading list:

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  16. Jul 30

    Beginning of the end

    Cohen’s potential testimony is nothing short of amazing — the sort of one-in-a-million piece of evidence prosecutors dream about obtaining.
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  17. Jul 18

    Bravo

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    Jun 27

    5/ Accordingly, Democrats need to constantly ask themselves: Will this help us to appeal to all parts of our coalition — Never Trumpers, Independents, Establishment and Progressive Democrats, alike? If the answer is “yes”, do it! If the answer is “no”, eschew it!

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    Feb 11

    Three minutes. Seems to be the lower limit of lack of self awareness.

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  20. Feb 5

    . Just read your latest post, re “Apple Music is exclusive to HomePod to sell speakers”. Think I was prescient about this:

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