I’m almost ready to say that when it comes to achieving a goal — especially an ambitious one — I believe your outcome isn’t so much determined by what you do, but who you do it with. Outcomes, like math problems, are determined by a factorization of known quantities. Math is never magic. There is an inescapable fatalism in it. Embrace it, because you cannot outwit it or outrun it. Make the absolute most of every piece you’ve got on the board, and remember what every good chess player knows: pawns win games. Spend no time mourning the weakness of your fellow cast. Improve it whenever you can, but if you make an enemy, never let it be by accident. After all, in real life pawns don’t wear pawn costumes and queens wear no crowns.
Tag: trump
The absolute best writing on Trump comes from @david_j_roth…
“But Trump is not playing chess. The man is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.”
Gen. James Mattis full statement on President Trump, the protests, James Madison, and using the military to clear peaceful protesters “for a bizarre photo op.”
Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.
The Trump administration is asking state labor officials to delay releasing the number of unemployment claims they’re fielding
The Trump administration is asking state labor officials to delay releasing the precise number of unemployment claims they are fielding
For Richie: by a factor of many, many, many
“You can multiply that by a factor of many, many, many.”
Coronavirus Update: NEW–ongoing CDC blackouts
UPDATE: new CDC blackouts in testing numbers and abrupt press briefing “postponement”
White House Withholds 20 Emails (in FOIA suit) Between Two Trump Aides on Ukraine Aid
This article is from January 3, but now the DOJ is in on it. The NYT January 3rd article
Why @Jack is never, ever going to suspend Trump’s Twitter account
— so the constant whining about it is just, you know, whining. The Trump Exception Quit quoting the Twitter Rules. You’re missing the only one that counts: the public interest exception. “ Twitter generally actions Tweets that violate our rules. However, we recognize that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people…
How to maximize your war machine*
Lesson: Except where absolutely necessary never ever let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. In fact, chop off every hand you can and move as rapidly as possible to eliminate hands attached to humans altogether.
Tuesday’s House Impeachment hearings
Beginning at 8:00 AM ET