Don't leave anything for later.
Later, the coffee gets cold.
Later, you lose interest.
Later, the day turns into night.
Later, people grow up.
Later, people grow old.
Later, life goes by.
Later, you regret not doing something... when you had the chance.
I want politics to be about a better everyday life.
Here's what that can look like:
We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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There’s a term in psychology called habituation: the way we stop noticing things we see often. A painting on the wall. A familiar view. Even a person’s kindness.
The brain filters the predictable to save energy. But in doing so, it risks filtering out what makes life feel full.
Not everything that becomes familiar should be forgotten.
Sometimes, attention is an act of love.
A nice recent personal example: I wrote a substack on the Tariffs Balance Income Taxes example, with a numerical example but no math. My numerical example taught me that I had to restrict the idea to tariffs on labor-intensive goods. I asked for comment. Ivan Werning said it was basically in Mirrlees and Diamond, or, for trade, in a 1986 Dixit and Norman article. I asked Dixit, and he and Werning have been having a big email discussion, because Werning has also written on this. I haven't had time to understand them, but Dixit did convince me my idea was flawed because the only reason a tariff helped in my example was that I had the economy start off with suboptimal income taxes, taxing labor but not capital. Thus, if tariffs were good, that's only because we've set existing taxes wrong, so we might better be direct and fix them and not bother with tariffs.
The Substack is at ericrasmusen.substack.c… . I'll be updating it more as I get time to udnerstand Dixit and Werning.
Good general rule: if you wish to avoid a horrific war try not to invade your neighbouring state, murder pretty much everyone you can find, rape some of them, torture others, desecrate their bodies while shrieking with joy, kidnap babies (and kill them), video the entire thing, then vow to do it over and over
The “Due Process” argument is a farce.
Immigrants are offered “due process” in their Visa applications.
Illegal immigrants denied themselves due process by ignoring our laws by bypassing the Visa process and by being here illegally.
You don’t gain rights by breaking the law.
The bigger the family, the more people there are to love the new child when it arrives. The more brothers and sisters who seem to pop out of nowhere to give hugs and kisses and stare at new life in fascination and wonder.
Love doesn't get stretched thin.
It multiplies.
