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Trump just called for a big commitment to U.S. shipbuilding. Yet another instance of ripped-from-the-pages-of-today’s-headlines for my 2021 book THE BLUE AGE.
Gregg Easterbrook
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Gregg Easterbrook
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"The Blue Age" in bookstores now. Starred review, Kirkus: "Outstanding." Suitably quirky All Predictions Wrong now at Substack. TMQ has returned in same place.
- The economy is strong, and ought to favor Harris. My take is that the MSM is so relentlessly negative about the economy that is has poisoned the well
- Replying to @asarahlarsonUnless the guy is crazy, that statement is -- crazy. Bezos is 60. People will live on Mars someday, not in his lifetime.
- The two top figures of the Apollo program, Arthur Rudolph and Wernher von Braun, were German citizens who entered the United States as refugeesVance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
00:00Readers added contextWernher von Braun, the Chief Architect of the Saturn V rocket which carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, was a German immigrant and a Nazi. He was granted American citizenship in return for transferring Nazi rocket science to the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_v… - we need a revive democracy amendment (Constitution is brilliant but has required 27 patches so far): 1. Popular election of president 2. Supreme Court single 10 year term 3. Eliminate districts -- House elected at-large, ends gerrymandering 4. Senate single 10 year term
- friends of Tuesday Morning Quarterback -- relaunch is 8-22-17, details coming soon.
- why is it so many college-educated people have trouble grasping that with the US population rising, it is standard for all kinds of numbers to set "records" each passing yearDonald Trump received more re-election votes than any incumbent president in American history and you’re telling me that the man whose rallies couldn’t fill a parking lot got more and “won?” 🤔
- It says something about our moment that the #1 show (Squid Game) glamorizes mass shooting of the helpless as quite literally a sport, and this is noncontroversial, yet there are angry calls for censorship of jokes
- Because Nixon resigned voluntarily, we never found out what happens if the White House and the justice system go to war. We really don't even want to know who would winIf Trump refuses to talk to Mueller and Mueller subpoenas him, prepare for things to get hectic. washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
- this strip is from 1974 -- has the NFL really changed much?
- This was just a regular day for most of 20th century. We've become accustomed, rightly, to calm.
- Tuesday Morning Quarterback fans -- relaunch announcement comes tomorrow
- A homer view but true: Anything bad happening in Buffalo makes the national media. When something good is happening the NYT, WaPo, nets are silent. 73% drop in gun homicide! buffalonews.com/news/local/cri… via @TheBuffaloNews
- Replying to @JenSeniorNYIf you'd told me 20 years ago I would vote for Biden for president, I would have banged my head against the wall. Right now my head feels fine.
