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(+ nice catch @verall)
Also, @tsimionescu's reasoning is spot on, and exactly how logic works.
But then CNBC flashed a similar headline (without unpacking it as not what Hassett actually said, and then Reuters picked it up, citing CNBC. And markets spasmed 3.5%.
What Hassett had actually said, for those who missed, was 'Trump's gonna do what Trump's gonna do.'
Cass Sunstein would very strongly disagree.
Podkayne of Mars is often taken to be one of Heinlein's juvenile novels (based on the story) but that was not his intent, and he said the "moral" was aimed at adults.
there is some subtext here about saying others are "not happier"
(tyrna be funny not patronizing. but the machinery of subjectivity production is ofc very real)
(Not defending or apologizing for anyone's lifestyle here.)
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Well that got my attention.