Now you could say, this is not fair, Marianne Williamson just wants to abuse fairness norms to ride Joe Biden's coattails onto TV, not become powerful like Trajan.
I'm a simple man. If this is the case, she can publicly explain it to me me in her own words as if I were a child.
Follow
Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
Washington, DCJoined July 2012
Alan Cole’s Tweets
To be clear, Marianne Williamson's stated agenda is she should be the most powerful person on earth from 2025 to 2029 or longer, joining a historical list that includes people like Alexander, Trajan, and Napoleon.
Some people might express negative opinions about this!
3
8
230
Show this thread
"Run for President" should not be a little button you can press to get a bunch of free publicity with no downsides.
I can see why Yang, in particular, holds this view, but sorry, no.
Quote Tweet
The media hit pieces on Marianne Williamson are out of control.
9
123
1,701
Show this thread
It's true. My summer camp would frequently have to keep me indoors when I was a kiddo.
The upside was that the camp had Star Wars and we just watched that a lot.
1
1
15
Oh hi I'm an alien who behaves in a manner compatible with the views of UFO theorists.
That is to say, I am competent enough to do interstellar travel, but then I crash my ship and die every time for some reason when faced with the task of terrestrial flight
9
9
101
1. Nobody allows new construction in my neighborhood, limiting the number of people who can live here.
2. There's an uptick in murder, thievery, and assault, often perpetrated by people with many prior arrests. This may make neighborhoods like mine less popular going forward.
6
3
111
Show this thread
I live in a very convenient location. My family drives just 1 mile per capita per day on weekdays, and our utility bills are low because of shared walls.
My style of living is conducive to low carbon emissions, which many care about.
However! Two problems:
2
1
95
Show this thread
Extraordinary how low the intellectual standards are for general purpose writers advancing a vague econ pessimism thesis
Quote Tweet
3
4
99
Replying to
Help wanted signs are evidence that no one has jobs
4
2
44
Not much room for discourse about the smog.
The air is yellow. I don't want the air to be yellow. We can do some Canada jokes. Not much more to say, really. Pretty lame topic.
3
13
I have some sad news to report…longtime economist Bill , who headed ’s economics department and worked at the , has transitioned to an ancestor. I just saw him at graduation two weeks ago. Bill was my go-to guy on and #RolandMartinUnfiltered. RIP
56
120
648
Out of the 1,000 top scorers on the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Technology, 36% have migrated eight years later (primarily to the US).
Out of the top 100, 62%.
Out of the top 10, 90%.
96
935
2,996
I'm very glad we millennials buried "wasssup" in shame and agreed to Never Do That Again before the Zoomers came along.
Imagine how owned we'd be if they found out about it. They'd know what losers we were.
6
1
45
"I'm in the same category as Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Ron DeSantis."
Yeah, of course you are, honey. Have a biscuit.
3
20
Show this thread
There are some people I personally will not acknowledge as candidates for the presidency.
It's not a policy thing, it's that I refuse to let them hack my speech by nominally inserting themselves into a category in which they don't belong.
2
2
27
Show this thread
Newly introduced legislation by House Ways & Means Committee Chair Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) is a warning shot at a component of a multilateral treaty brokered through the OECD known as the Undertaxed Profits Rule (UTPR).
🧵 The latest from :
3
8
"But you yada-yadaed the best part!"
"I mentioned the governorship of Indiana."
Quote Tweet
Mike Pence's website has a lengthy bio but yada-yada's over 2017-2021
mikepence2024.com/about/michael-
1
13
All right, enough is enough with this smog situation. It’s time to invade Canada.
Obviously, the main force operates out of Syracuse NY and cuts off Toronto from the St. Lawrence. We will restore order.
14
10
82
Christie's problem isn't that he can't make Trump bleed, though that's far from assured. It's that he can definitely draw blood from any plausible non-Trump option, and he probably can't help himself.
17
26
133
Show this thread
It always warms my heart when the legal world follows its rules-based systems even as it angers the emote-y people who want everything to be about emotions and media savvy. 🥰
2
3
33
my “for you” tab is like 85% made up of aggressive dating advice from people who should not be allowed to own a parakeet without supervision let alone be intimately involved with another human being
25
30
358
Many fake aliens are fantastic!
But imagine casting aside ET and Spock and Chewbacca because they don't nurse your conspiratorial but very terrestrial "THEY don't want you to know about it" feelings.
Sad!
3
Remember when this image was the big alien hype thing back in 2021?
To be fair, it was the far past, when camera quality wasn't as good.
2
20
Is it sufficient to add a bunch of caveats and still post about the claim anyway? No, not really.
While this remains technically within the bounds of sound epistemology, you're allowing your account to be functionally "hacked" and making it less interesting to me.
2
2
15
Show this thread
You, personally (yes! you!) have some responsibility not to repeat outlandish or unlikely claims made without extraordinary proof.
This is especially true if it's a claim people seem to have tons of fun making, since that means the number of false claims is likely to be high.
7
9
109
Show this thread
And then there's of course the possibility that something MUCH zanier than 2020-2022 happens, and it so happens to put an upward shock on interest rates that's even more massive than the COVID-Ukraine duo.
But 2020-2022 was objectively quite zany.
4
Show this thread
The pathway for clean L sometime in the future is that this thesis--with longer lifespans, desired wealth rises relative to GDP, pushing interest rates down--is wrong, and something closer to the CBO's model is right.
web.stanford.edu/~aauclert/demo
1
6
Show this thread
I'm surviving the first two years of this bet with , but by a much narrower margin than I had thought.
The pathway for an early L is something like:
- Trump screws up 2024, another Dem trifecta
- Budget hawks on the center left are marginalized
3
4
49
Show this thread
Look, if you are unhappy with how Democrats do things, there are very normal Jeb-type people around you could support like Adults.
But when Jeb or Romney or 2016-Rubio were around, they were nowhere to be found.
This suggests these people aren't anti-Democrat, just pro-nitwit.
2
1
73
Show this thread
The tech guys sincerely supporting RFK Jr (rather than merely defending the broad principle of free speech on their communications platforms) are such embarrassments.
4
5
170
Show this thread
For an example of fake productivity, a university staffed as follows:
In 2019, 1 administrator, 1 professor, and 1 cleaner.
2020, 1 administrator and 1 professor.
2022, 1 administrator, 1 professor, and 1 cleaner.
Measured productivity rose 50% in 2020, then fell again.
2
4
35
Show this thread
One way to help on this front is to stop rejecting comparative advantage.
We have dumb-dumbs in charge who would rather build one aircraft and 200,000 tons of steel than build two aircraft and trade one aircraft for 300,000 tons of steel. This mechanically reduces productivity.
1
2
47
Show this thread
...and a secondary cause of this is a composition effect; we're employing close to a record high percentage of people. The people on the margins of the labor force aren't going to immediately shift from being NEETs to being aerospace engineers.
1
2
39
Show this thread
This is worth talking about, but not as bad as it looks.
The primary cause of this is the 2020 productivity gain is fake. We canceled lots of work and dramatically changed what many service products looked like, and the BLS wasn't capable of adjusting for it appropriately...
Quote Tweet
For first time on record, YoY productivity change has remained negative for five consecutive quarters; this series began in 1948.
bls.gov/news.release/p
Show this thread
6
20
154
Show this thread
Still thinking about the time and I ran into in Halo online by random chance and defeated him soundly. (he will say that his driver was incompetent, which is true.)
Greatest L for center liberalism since the loss of TPP.
3
28
In seriousness, the fancy strategist take is this is an issue salience moment: he’s always been too old, and playing up the incident provokes more discussion of a legitimate downside.
3
163
Show this thread
Prior to today, I thought Joe Biden might be an agile style of 80-year-old with a mountain goat’s dexterity, one who would never trip embarrassingly.
This is a real category of person I believe exists. But sadly, it doesn’t include Joe Biden, as I learned today.
1
6
268
Show this thread