Disney Will Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Services →
Netflix is all like, “duh.”
Why does Amazon ask me to rate items they know I purchased as gifts for other people? Am I supposed to text them and ask if they liked the graphic novel I sent them?
Slate Money: Bad Eggs Edition →
It’s not too late to get your Mooch on. Also contains this gem from Anna Szymanski:
The vegan alpha bro may be the worst of all possible types.
Slate Money: Bad Eggs Edition →
It’s not too late to get your Mooch on. Also contains this gem:
The vegan alpha bro may be the worst of all possible types.
Trump Can’t Close →
Kevin D. Williamson is brilliant for the National Review, delving into the connection between Donald Trump and the world of and inspired by Glengarry Glen Ross.
For all his gold-plated toilets, [Donald Trump] is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around.... He isn’t Blake. He’s poor sad old Shelley Levene, who cannot close the deal, who spends his nights whining about the unfairness of it all.
The type of insight we needed last summer.
Trump Came in as a Weak President, and He’s Made Himself Weaker →
Julia Azaria for FiveThirtyEight:
A strong presidency is built on more than just tough talk. Good organization may not get people chanting at a campaign rally, but it’s a big part of what makes a presidency effective.
Trump Can’t Close →
For all his gold-plated toilets, [Donald Trump] is at heart that middling junior salesman watching Glengarry Glen Ross and thinking to himself: “That’s the man I want to be.” How many times do you imagine he has stood in front of a mirror trying to project like Alec Baldwin? Unfortunately for the president, it’s Baldwin who does the good imitation of Trump, not the other way around.... He isn’t Blake. He’s poor sad old Shelley Levene, who cannot close the deal, who spends his nights whining about the unfairness of it all.
Tripartite Party Theory, GOP 2017
- party-in-electorate
- party-in-unable-to-government
- party-as-the-Trump-Organization