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Patrick Chovanec

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Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4m

Why, you think the North should have left the Union?

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7m

China is stepping up rare earth export curbs, and shoring up its trade war leverage ahead of a high-stakes meeting this month between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: Here is your Evening Briefing.

China Shores Up Trade War Leverage With Rare Earth Curbs

Get caught up.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6m

They might have profoundly disagreed with the ruling, and found it appalling, but that's a very different thing from saying the Court itself was illegitimate. Maybe John Brown might have believed that, but not Lincoln.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10m

There are lots of decisions I disagree with, and want to see reversed, but that's a different thing.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10m

But you yourself do not feel morally bound by them, as a member of the polity, because the court is no valid court. And that's a very serious step.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15m

I'm trying to imagine what 35 taps per second sounds like, and I can't. Doesn't it just blur into one sound? How do they measure it? With slow-motion film?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20m

‘I absolutely went for it!’: Michael Flatley on sex, swagger, Riverdance – and tapping his feet 35 times a second

The Lord of the Dance was always fanatically driven, practising for sixteen hours a day in his teens. His body now bears the damage of that era. But he still wants more. He discusses love, passion, pride and performing for Donald Trump

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19m

It's totally fine to believe that you're right and everyone else is wrong.

Just not all the time.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20m

That's fair, I respect that.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23m

Trump GOP: "We'll refuse to give furloughed workers their backpay. I mean it, we'll do it!"

Me:

a man wearing a top hat says stop don 't come back .

ALT: a man wearing a top hat says stop don 't come back .

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25m

At this rate, Republicans are going to cave within the week. But the problem for them is, the Epstein discharge petition will probably pass. And then ... who the hell knows? But they're fighting it like their world depends on it.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29m

With polls pointing to most voters blaming Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, it's dawning on Republicans in Congress, at least, that anything that makes the shutdown pain noticeably worse only hurts them.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 32m

Republicans desperately try to wrestle away bazooka that Trump has aimed at his own foot.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 43m

Exclusive: Senior GOP lawmakers have quietly advised the White House not to move forward with mass layoffs and sharp cuts as the government shutdown enters its second week.

Republicans Caution White House on Inflicting Shutdown Pain

Some GOP lawmakers have warned the president’s aides against mass layoffs and sharp cuts to government assistance.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1h

A scorching gold rally is helping China get one step closer to its goal of building a world less dependent on the US. Read The Big Take: bloom.bg/48gC3OO

📷️: Lam Yik/Bloomberg

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 46m

I am definitely a John Adams not a Sam Adams. I will participate in the rebellion only when no other option remains. And I won't enjoy it.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 49m

Oh I know! I know!

Unanimous applause.

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 52m

What to expect from North Korea’s imminent Oct. 10 military parade | NK PRO www.nknews.org/pro/what-to-...

What to expect from North Korea’s imminent Oct. 10 military parade | NK PRO

Editor’s note: NK Pro will go live the moment the Oct. 10 parade broadcast begins, providing real-time commentary and analysis. Register here for access. North Korea appears set to hold a large-scale ...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 50m

i see what you did there

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 52m

Well, tempers flared at my lack of understanding despite repeated efforts to convince me.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 57m

My own expressed view is that while I personally believe he did, unfortunately it has not been determined by any legal or constitutional process that he did. (I wish the Senate had). Absent that, see significant downside in giving any one judge the discretion to make that determination themselves.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

Well I'm certainly not going to relitigate the issue tonight. But suffice it to say that I don't think there's a legal consensus one way or the other that I brazenly ignored.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

Should meant "should" as in he is not a legally elected President. I disagreed.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

The assertion was made (by others) that not only is the Supreme Court illegitimate, but the sitting President is illegitimate as well because he was unqualified to be on the ballot.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

The relevant argument wasn't actually about that, but about whether Trump should have been disqualified for office under the 14th Amendment.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

And I may be mistaken, but I don't think the legal professional unanimously disagrees with me, either.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

And I inspired you to draw a frustrated self-portrait. Look, I never told anyone that they didn't understand anything. I never used such words at all. I argued a different point of view, which may very well be flawed, but is honestly how I see it.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

You're not a bluesky nobody, you're the nicest person on this site today.