From thread with Korean POV. Why do I think the real difference (as in Silicon Valley) is between workers who can do the job vs. workers who can do the job and you can make work impossible hours to meet ridiculously tight deadlines. https://t.co/p8EfHwp9Eg
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But not necessarily more obtainable! https://t.co/hZbgQko38U https://t.co/lAmc9zrBz5
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Link: https://t.co/YOqCrNEM8G It’s an especially stupid policy because a reader might spot an obscure name and make a connection that helps solve the mystery. Who knows?
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The @WSJ-reporting on the 2003 Epstein birthday book-says “Clinton and Trump were listed under the ‘Friends’ group, along with about 20 other associates.” So why not just PRINT THE LIST of the 20 instead of telling us down in the story of 6 the WSJ deems famous? Stop gatekeeping!
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A relatively minor side-point to this horror: People I know won’t ride LA’s light rail for fear of homeless crazies. Abundance YIMBY’s aren’t going to get people out of their cars and into no-parking high rises unless they do more to maintain safety & order in public spaces. You https://t.co/R6ZuhurvA3
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Sep 8, 2025
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Fawn Hall and Oliver North seem to have married. https://t.co/zbDyG08C5Z I wish them well. (Hall lived in LA for many years and is by consensus a very nice person.)
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Sep 8, 2025
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New Epstein data points, new speculation:
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Jimmy Hoffa https://t.co/rK9W68hIvI
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Note that Wolff only says Trump told the cops Epstein was “running a whorehouse”–easier for Trump to handle than pedophilia, less reason to panic. And Speaker Johnson was vague on what Trump ratted out Epstein for (“take this stuff down”). https://t.co/XduBfxhjmW
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Marshall speculates it’s a terrible story for Trump if it comes out he tried to get Epstein busted for being a pedophile–because that implies he knew it for a long time. But it doesn’t. Maybe he did. Maybe he only gradually became aware of the full scope. Not a story Trump https://t.co/SiP3pBbQQW
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Sep 8, 2025
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Also, Trump’s been accused of being a money-launderer, selling condos to crooks and oligarchs–for years. (See, eg https://t.co/CMnDLYnLwU and https://t.co/N2MkTsyZhD) Why would one more accusation in the Epstein files be enough for Trump to panic and decide to hide the files? https://t.co/JTlBaAWFGQ
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Sep 8, 2025
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Also, Trump’s been accused of being a money-launderer, selling condos to crooks and oligarchs–for years. (See, eg https://t.co/kJyCe3XPyc and https://t.co/N2MkTsyZhD) Why would one more accusation in the Epstein files be enough for Trump to panic and decide to hide the files?
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Sep 8, 2025
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Note that Wolff says Trump went to the police and said Epstein “was running a whorehouse.” “Whorehouse” implies some people–don’t call them “clients”!–besides Epstein were having sex with Epstein’s girls. Who would those people be? https://t.co/WL1gdhrgUo
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Sep 8, 2025
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.@MichaelWolffNYC says Speaker Johnson’s statment that Trump was an FBI informant is “ridiculous” and a “whopper.” Then he says it is essentially true. (Is the “whopper” just that Trump went to the Palm Beach Police, not the FBI?) https://t.co/P2LUXMzEAv
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See also: https://t.co/P2LUXMzEAv
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What do I know about money laundering–but a Russian oligarch paying $95M for a house worth $41M or so seems like very inefficient laundering for the oligarch. Since it took two years, I suppose it’s likely the value rose. But if it rose enough, then why wasn’t it just a flip? https://t.co/SiP3pBbQQW
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Sep 8, 2025
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MSM seems determined to produce a recession though … https://t.co/eXoM8ov47l
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Sep 7, 2025
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PODCAST: Is Taylor Swift gay? UPDATE., by @AnnCoulter https://t.co/pxRmvL9PO7
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Note that Story C does *not* require that the participants in the sex ring be underage, or even “victims.” (In this case, the ages seem to have been conveniently left vague, which makes it worse of course.) https://t.co/SCC9u1OrND
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Sep 6, 2025
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If by “hoax” Trump means merely the idea that he’s implicated in Epstein scandal, the analogy to “Russiagate” is revealing. But a) unlike Russiagate Epstein scandal is way bigger than Trump (see tweet below)–more potential culprits, for one; b) if Trump NOT implicated, full https://t.co/SCC9u1OrND
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Sep 6, 2025
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What about Story C?: Was Epstein running a sex ring for big shots as a way of extracting intelligence and kompromat in part for a foreign power? Seems like that should be Story A …. https://t.co/0sTutwvVj2
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Sep 6, 2025
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I say give them time. They will eventually stop producing null effects … and start producing negative effects, by subsidizing a culture of non-work and non-marriage (as no-strings welfare payments such as AFDC have traditionally done) https://t.co/W24XwtNQQD
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Sep 6, 2025
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But @TheArgumentMag did publish this essay, on how guaranteed income plans have failed again and again and again in to produce their anticipated positive antipoverty outcomes in large scale tests https://t.co/rBUxQXwHpT
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Sep 6, 2025
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Looks like @TheArgumentMag will have an argument about any issue–except immigration. The question is how do we sneak in more immigrants politically, not confronting the negative effects on unskilled wages or on cultural solidarity–or that the countries that have tried the “We
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