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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
So in Yo-Yo Ma's medley, the second bit was Amazing Grace, and I think the fourth was maybe a snippet of Simple Gifts. The first was the Star Trek theme, right? The third I have no idea. Anybody?
Not just for keyboards anymore.
Several folks have suggested this for the ending, and I can absolutely imagine myself thinking Copland was Simple Gifts, so yeah, it makes sense.
AHA!

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21 Jan
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None of the chatter on the Ben Sasse piece in The Atlantic has quoted what strikes me as the most interesting line. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering."
Or the line that follows that one: " (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.)"
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Lots of minimum-wage-hike critics wandering around imagining that corporations set their prices pegged to a specific set rate of profit rather than charging whatever the market will bear at a given moment.
"If you raise the the wages of fast food workers, McDonald's will charge more for Big Macs!"
"Why?"
"So they make more money!"

If they'd make more money by charging more for Big Macs, they'd be doing it already.
What McDonald's will do if the price of labor goes up is MAKE SLIGHTLY LESS PROFIT. That's what'll change. That's your argument. Have fun with it!
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Hot take: The $2000/$1400 stimulus check issue isn't going to make a difference in the 2022 or 2024 elections.
The feeling in the Biden camp is presumably that they were saying $2000 before the $600 passed, so topping up the $600 with another $1400 is following through on their original plan. I think that's bad messaging, but reasonable on substance.
I'd like further left policy than I'm likely to get from Biden, on this and a thousand other issues. But if Trump had vetoed the $600 two weeks ago, it seems obvious that Biden would be proposing $2000 now, and that they see this as the same as that.
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My gut tells me that the speech was handed to him from outside the WH pretty much as we saw it, and he was given an ultimatum: read it or else.
Folks are asking who I think wrote it and what the "or else" was. The obvious answers are "McConnell's writing staff" and "he gets barred from running in 2024," but I have no specific insight.
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