I wrote last week about how busy I was.
Wednesday I attended this:
I showed up just as Matt Welch was delivering his opening.
I was there, and think my opening vote might have timed out…..I said Matt and Nick won after trying to vote undecided at the open.
While I have voted for some Democrats in the past as a statement against a particularly bad Republican, the Democrats have done some absolutely batshiat crazy stuff, really, since about 2005. I put a lot of it on the reax to Katrina. That was a massive failure of local, but especially state government. For every reference to “heckuvah job, Brownie,” there was a spooky silence about Kathleen Blanco.
Things didn’t really start moving there until LTG. Honore showed up.
Sarah mentioned Harry Browne during her open, but Katrina should have driven the point home that government doesn’t work.
Yet that’s the Democrats’ prescription for just about anything.
Health Care
Disaster Relief
Monetary Policy
COVID
You name it.
Another 6K GS-11s will solve it.
And they never do.
Bubuhbut OrangeManBad!!1!
Yep. And I didn’t vote for him. But you all did vote for vaccine mandates, lockdowns, the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the Inflation Reduction Act, a completely open border, continuation of Trump’s tariffs…..
You need something way more compelling to convince me that voting for Biden is a good idea.
This is what I posed on the Substack discussion of it:
Random asides: Substack makes copypasta way difficult…almost as difficult as some of the data protection features I’ve seen recently to stop data spillage. Also, the text-prediction stuff on iOS has gotten pretty damn good; I’m able to type full replies using the predictive e text much of the time on my phone. As with the Crypto scammers I dealt with on WhatsApp, I will get information out. You can’t hide things, no matter how hard you try.
This was the night before the Fami Willis disqualification in Georgia. The two debating the Reason editors-at-large were from The Bulwark, which is something I’ve really not paid much attention to. You don’t like Trump. I get it. I never voted for him, and, in spite of all the things the Democrats did to him, the LP’s basic endorsement, etc., I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
But how does it make you feel?
Ambivalent? Do I hold some hope that Trump/Musk/Vivek will get things trimmed down? Maybe a bit? Am I very confident about it? Nope.
But I do enjoy getting into Reason events. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I had an early morning.