“In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment.”
Instinct according to Merriam-Webster:
“…a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason”
So, his ability to make complex decisions using no reason are better than his closest advisors and experts in the field. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
The number of chatbots ignoring human instructions is increasing. I’m very glad Anthropic stood up to the idiot Hegseth, but fear the ones that take its place will be far worse for the world.
hii- I’m new to substack & saw you were also on the top 100 in health. I’m 29 and have beaten cancer twice. I’m sharing all the tips & tricks I’ve learned on healing my body from the inside out.
Berries are 1 of the top 5 cancer fighting foods, check out my last post!
don't worry about Darrell. Bill would have, or might already have, contacted you personally to answer your question or to tell you, ahhhhl, you rude creature, you. But for some reason, I doubt Bill would call you rude or intrusive.
From the article on Student debt: “The psychological weight of carrying debt is a really widespread issue, even if it seems financially manageable,” she said. “It’s not necessarily ‘I can’t afford it.’ It’s sometimes ‘It feels like I had no other choice but to go to college and I had to take out loans to go, and now I’m going to be stuck with this,’ which can define people’s lives in a way that feels very unfair and harmful.”
Pay your bills! I borrowed and paid my loan back. I had to defer for a few years while broke, but I did it. Now I have a 30 year old son who borrowed and he is paying his back. You borrow money. You go to school. You pay it back.
Too bad that the student loans make you "feel bad". That is how debt works. You feel responsible for it so you pay it back.
I don't understand, beyond bankruptcy issues, how people do this.
Yes, I know, I am unsympathetic. Oh well.
Like we used to say in my fraternity - Pay your bills!
Sasse is a wonderful man. I hope everyone reads the full link. I'm going to try to make this short w/ some c/p from another interview w/ Peter Robinson/"Uncommon Knowledge."
I think it's highly likely at some point in the future when America has either
declined or hopefully reformed itself, one of the things that I think we did is we figured out
how to do politics in an era of disintermediated conversation. We don't have a lot of shared
facts. We have gazillions of people screaming all the time on the internet and we pretend
they're representative. They're not at all representative. The loudest people have the most
ridiculously outside voice in American life. And it used to just be the left, the far left that
had a bunch of people who were post-constitutional or post-liberal, as in post-classically
liberal. Now we have a bunch of people at the right end of the spectrum that are also post
constitutional or post-liberal. I don't think those people are representative of America, but
we don't know how to have a conversation right now 'cause we give all the voice to the
loudest, angriest people. Most people aren't that angry.
If the founders could be transported two and a half centuries into the future and observe this, how might they reflect on it? The founders needed to divide government's power over and over and over and over because if men were angels, you wouldn't need government. And if governors were angels, you wouldn't need checks on power. But we need the governors to also be constrained. And so they divided over and over, just great civics, right? Private sector's more important than the public sector. Of the public sector, what happens closest to the people is more important.
State and locals are more important than what happens way off in Washington, D.C. Of
what happens in Washington, D.C., let's divide power three ways. We'll have an Article I
legislature, Article II, executive branch, Article III, judiciary. They are kind of co-equal
branches, but the legislature is the preeminent branch. So let's divide them as well.
THEN he talks about both sides, thru the yrs: they're caught in a system where we have a big collective action problem where most of the people in the legislature really just wish they were TikTok stars. And so what they're trying to do is find a platform to grandstand. They don't really wanna do stuff legislatively.
And so we don't pass anything. Over the course of a given two-year Congress, about 11,000
pieces of legislation will be introduced. On average, about 380 pass. So 3.5%. Half of that
3.5% are post-office naming bills, right? So we're passing like 1.6, 1.7, 1.8% of legislation
that's introduced. In the last 44 years, I think there's only been a budget that has spent
more than a third of the public's dollars on an appropriated normal process four times in
44 years. That's why we go through this BS every September 28, 29, 30. Congress is filled with folks who are so desperate to keep that job that they don't wanna do anything that upsets
anybody. So nobody takes any risk. And why don't we just figure out a way to do, how do we
do a quick take to say it was the other party's side that nothing happened, when both sides
are pretty happy to do nothing. So what do we do about it? You gotta elect different kinda people, people who are super skeptical of politics, not people who've spent their whole life trying to get to Washington, but people who view it kind of Cincinnatus style or George Washington style as, I gotta serve for a term. But man, I wanna get back to Mount Vernon. I wanna get back to my vineyard and my family and my grandkids. I do not wanna move to Washington, D.C. for the rest of my life. We can have a debate about term limits, but the more interesting thing would be if the voters self-consciously only wanted to elect people who kind of wanted the self-term limit 'cause they didn't wanna be here forever. Weirdos wanna be here forever.
when he was in politics: In my nine years in politics, a little more if you count living on a campaign bus for a year and a half, I was always willing to say what I believed to voters, even if it might make me unpopular. I have the weird claim to fame of being by far the highest vote-getter in the history of Nebraska and also by far the most sanctioned person in the history of Nebraska. My guess is second or third most sanctioned person in Nebraska has been sanctioned by their party three or four or five times. 63 times state parties in Nebraska convened to condemn me for not being aligned with President Trump on issue X, or whatever. Most of America is center right and they want politics to do a limited number of things, do it well, get its job done, and stop pretending you wanna be Hollywood. Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. Shut up, do your service and get off the stage. And regular folks liked my approach to politics and so I'm glad for the ways that we went and said normy things. Go to more town halls, but roll your eyes. Don't pretend that politics is the center of the world.
Ok, I'll stop now. It was a long, & I'll add, a wonderful interview. Included more about his experience & views about education, life, religion. He's a very religious man. When reading about him & his interviews I was reminded very much of the book "Tuesdays with Morrie".
I'll join Todd perhaps in my comment about the defaulting student loan folks:
"Ms. Tully was on an income-based repayment plan, paying $60 per month when she defaulted. This amount, to many, may seem manageable. But for her, it remained psychologically burdensome."
Oh, boo hoo.
I wondered how Ms. Tully supports herself in the Czech Republic. The only information in the article is, "Ms. Tully and Mr. Cooper [another defaulter, who lives in 'Southeast Asia'] also lead seemingly debt-free lives. They largely rely on local jobs and freelance work, still living comfortably despite earning far less than their American peers."
It's interesting that the journalism person CHOSE to be vague. Are they working legally in their countries of residence? (Mr. Cooper is a citizen of Wherever) Are they paying income taxes in the Czech Republic and Wherever?
"More than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt ..."
"Are saddled with". No action on their part involved. They were just standing around in the pasture, munching a bit of clover, when Total Strangers came up and "saddled" them with student loans. GAAAAAAAH!
You know who is "saddled" with this debt - through no action of their own except voting for expletive fools and gerbils? American taxpayers!
oh student debt, perhaps Bernie Sanders approach where you go to an expensive private school without a solid plan, change your major a few times, delay adulthood for a few years, learn to dislike your country, then demand that taxpayers take on your debt?
From today’s 7 Other Things:
“In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment.”
Instinct according to Merriam-Webster:
“…a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason”
So, his ability to make complex decisions using no reason are better than his closest advisors and experts in the field. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Bill, how can I obtain a copy of your interview with my sister, Karen Moore, in Melbourne, Australia. My email: llweider44@gmail.com. Linda Weider
I apologize for the mixup on this — you should have every thing now. Can you confirm? Thanks!
The number of chatbots ignoring human instructions is increasing. I’m very glad Anthropic stood up to the idiot Hegseth, but fear the ones that take its place will be far worse for the world.
hii- I’m new to substack & saw you were also on the top 100 in health. I’m 29 and have beaten cancer twice. I’m sharing all the tips & tricks I’ve learned on healing my body from the inside out.
Berries are 1 of the top 5 cancer fighting foods, check out my last post!
https://livlifee.substack.com/p/why-i-eat-blueberries-every-day-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
If you want to advertise on Bill’s site you might reach out to him for rates. Doing so as a commenter is rude and intrusive to his readers.
Sorry- not my intention. All the other comments I’ve posted with this article have been super encouraging! Just trying to connect with others.
don't worry about Darrell. Bill would have, or might already have, contacted you personally to answer your question or to tell you, ahhhhl, you rude creature, you. But for some reason, I doubt Bill would call you rude or intrusive.
BTW, congratulations on beating cancer!!!
From the article on Student debt: “The psychological weight of carrying debt is a really widespread issue, even if it seems financially manageable,” she said. “It’s not necessarily ‘I can’t afford it.’ It’s sometimes ‘It feels like I had no other choice but to go to college and I had to take out loans to go, and now I’m going to be stuck with this,’ which can define people’s lives in a way that feels very unfair and harmful.”
Pay your bills! I borrowed and paid my loan back. I had to defer for a few years while broke, but I did it. Now I have a 30 year old son who borrowed and he is paying his back. You borrow money. You go to school. You pay it back.
Too bad that the student loans make you "feel bad". That is how debt works. You feel responsible for it so you pay it back.
I don't understand, beyond bankruptcy issues, how people do this.
Yes, I know, I am unsympathetic. Oh well.
Like we used to say in my fraternity - Pay your bills!
Sasse is a wonderful man. I hope everyone reads the full link. I'm going to try to make this short w/ some c/p from another interview w/ Peter Robinson/"Uncommon Knowledge."
I think it's highly likely at some point in the future when America has either
declined or hopefully reformed itself, one of the things that I think we did is we figured out
how to do politics in an era of disintermediated conversation. We don't have a lot of shared
facts. We have gazillions of people screaming all the time on the internet and we pretend
they're representative. They're not at all representative. The loudest people have the most
ridiculously outside voice in American life. And it used to just be the left, the far left that
had a bunch of people who were post-constitutional or post-liberal, as in post-classically
liberal. Now we have a bunch of people at the right end of the spectrum that are also post
constitutional or post-liberal. I don't think those people are representative of America, but
we don't know how to have a conversation right now 'cause we give all the voice to the
loudest, angriest people. Most people aren't that angry.
If the founders could be transported two and a half centuries into the future and observe this, how might they reflect on it? The founders needed to divide government's power over and over and over and over because if men were angels, you wouldn't need government. And if governors were angels, you wouldn't need checks on power. But we need the governors to also be constrained. And so they divided over and over, just great civics, right? Private sector's more important than the public sector. Of the public sector, what happens closest to the people is more important.
State and locals are more important than what happens way off in Washington, D.C. Of
what happens in Washington, D.C., let's divide power three ways. We'll have an Article I
legislature, Article II, executive branch, Article III, judiciary. They are kind of co-equal
branches, but the legislature is the preeminent branch. So let's divide them as well.
THEN he talks about both sides, thru the yrs: they're caught in a system where we have a big collective action problem where most of the people in the legislature really just wish they were TikTok stars. And so what they're trying to do is find a platform to grandstand. They don't really wanna do stuff legislatively.
And so we don't pass anything. Over the course of a given two-year Congress, about 11,000
pieces of legislation will be introduced. On average, about 380 pass. So 3.5%. Half of that
3.5% are post-office naming bills, right? So we're passing like 1.6, 1.7, 1.8% of legislation
that's introduced. In the last 44 years, I think there's only been a budget that has spent
more than a third of the public's dollars on an appropriated normal process four times in
44 years. That's why we go through this BS every September 28, 29, 30. Congress is filled with folks who are so desperate to keep that job that they don't wanna do anything that upsets
anybody. So nobody takes any risk. And why don't we just figure out a way to do, how do we
do a quick take to say it was the other party's side that nothing happened, when both sides
are pretty happy to do nothing. So what do we do about it? You gotta elect different kinda people, people who are super skeptical of politics, not people who've spent their whole life trying to get to Washington, but people who view it kind of Cincinnatus style or George Washington style as, I gotta serve for a term. But man, I wanna get back to Mount Vernon. I wanna get back to my vineyard and my family and my grandkids. I do not wanna move to Washington, D.C. for the rest of my life. We can have a debate about term limits, but the more interesting thing would be if the voters self-consciously only wanted to elect people who kind of wanted the self-term limit 'cause they didn't wanna be here forever. Weirdos wanna be here forever.
when he was in politics: In my nine years in politics, a little more if you count living on a campaign bus for a year and a half, I was always willing to say what I believed to voters, even if it might make me unpopular. I have the weird claim to fame of being by far the highest vote-getter in the history of Nebraska and also by far the most sanctioned person in the history of Nebraska. My guess is second or third most sanctioned person in Nebraska has been sanctioned by their party three or four or five times. 63 times state parties in Nebraska convened to condemn me for not being aligned with President Trump on issue X, or whatever. Most of America is center right and they want politics to do a limited number of things, do it well, get its job done, and stop pretending you wanna be Hollywood. Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. Shut up, do your service and get off the stage. And regular folks liked my approach to politics and so I'm glad for the ways that we went and said normy things. Go to more town halls, but roll your eyes. Don't pretend that politics is the center of the world.
Ok, I'll stop now. It was a long, & I'll add, a wonderful interview. Included more about his experience & views about education, life, religion. He's a very religious man. When reading about him & his interviews I was reminded very much of the book "Tuesdays with Morrie".
I'll join Todd perhaps in my comment about the defaulting student loan folks:
"Ms. Tully was on an income-based repayment plan, paying $60 per month when she defaulted. This amount, to many, may seem manageable. But for her, it remained psychologically burdensome."
Oh, boo hoo.
I wondered how Ms. Tully supports herself in the Czech Republic. The only information in the article is, "Ms. Tully and Mr. Cooper [another defaulter, who lives in 'Southeast Asia'] also lead seemingly debt-free lives. They largely rely on local jobs and freelance work, still living comfortably despite earning far less than their American peers."
It's interesting that the journalism person CHOSE to be vague. Are they working legally in their countries of residence? (Mr. Cooper is a citizen of Wherever) Are they paying income taxes in the Czech Republic and Wherever?
"More than 40 million borrowers are saddled with federal student debt ..."
"Are saddled with". No action on their part involved. They were just standing around in the pasture, munching a bit of clover, when Total Strangers came up and "saddled" them with student loans. GAAAAAAAH!
You know who is "saddled" with this debt - through no action of their own except voting for expletive fools and gerbils? American taxpayers!
oh student debt, perhaps Bernie Sanders approach where you go to an expensive private school without a solid plan, change your major a few times, delay adulthood for a few years, learn to dislike your country, then demand that taxpayers take on your debt?