Margaret Hoover had him on her PBS show recently and I was remembering your post about what an idiot he is. He sure confirmed it in that interview.
Here's his latest gem: "The president believes if we can replace income tax revenue with tariff revenue, we can make everybody better off," NEC Director Kevin Hassett tells Bloomberg television today.
I taught Kevin Hassett’s son in elementary school. Parent teacher conferences with this man were painful. He knew everything about everything, including teaching. His expertise on education seemed to come from attending elementary school himself. His kid was great, though.
I was a comic reader from the time I was 5 in 1964 and have at times owned key issues which I read and stored badly never knowing they were key issues. Hindsight is always a good investment strategy, but it's really hard to pull off without a crystal ball.
Well, the joke’s on you, JVL, because Hassett is no doubt pulling down the big bucks in the Magical Orange Kingdom now, showing that conservatism has a very, very low bar for qualifications to run the world. That is Hassett’s true comic success.
Hurry, Hurry! Step right up folks and see the Silly Man. Watch as he leads his country into the abyss. Look! There's the ringmaster with his orange hair, long red tie and flame thrower. Only the poor and less fortunate will be burned! Send in the clowns. So many clowns.
Based on several of his recent comments, Hassett also believes that you reduce inflation by increasing the money supply and he would support trump's call to reduce interest rates.
'but rather to demonstrate how bankrupt the conservative intellectual world has become.'
It's the inevitable outcome when the primary tool of conservative 'thought' is arguing from vapid moral opinions, with little regard empirical evidence, ie basic irrationality.
Conservative 'intellectualism' has been an exercise in trying to figure out how to enforce 'proper morality', often self-serving, onto people with a complete avoidance of real-world considerations.
I bring this up, because there's no reviving conservative 'intellectualism' *in governance*, and I feel like TheBulwark wants to back to the same old approaches, without acknowledging it will lead to the same exact problems we have today.
So now that we are in our 10th+ year of mocking all of these clowns, how can we finally banish them? The morons are winning bigly -- this is not a drill
Sorta off topic but live in an Asian ethnoburb and kids who have 1500 SATs, near 4.0s, the right activities, parents who can afford the schools easily are not not getting into highly selective institutions (note didn't state good). You see enough of that, the meritocracy myth goes away fast.
The funniest part is that Kevin’s theory on comics was tried by many many people and not only failed spectacularly, but almost killed the industry… a decade before he pitched this to JVL. What a fucking moron
Margaret Hoover had him on her PBS show recently and I was remembering your post about what an idiot he is. He sure confirmed it in that interview.
Here's his latest gem: "The president believes if we can replace income tax revenue with tariff revenue, we can make everybody better off," NEC Director Kevin Hassett tells Bloomberg television today.
Sounds like Hassett is the exception to The Peter Principle. He kept getting promoted BEYOND his level of incompetence.
How much is Hassett personally worth? Someone who thinks it’s so easy to only pick winners should be worth $500B at least, surely.
Welcome to the meritocracy. The sad part was that this guy was seen as a lesser threat among the cabinet of horrors. Ugh.
I taught Kevin Hassett’s son in elementary school. Parent teacher conferences with this man were painful. He knew everything about everything, including teaching. His expertise on education seemed to come from attending elementary school himself. His kid was great, though.
I was a comic reader from the time I was 5 in 1964 and have at times owned key issues which I read and stored badly never knowing they were key issues. Hindsight is always a good investment strategy, but it's really hard to pull off without a crystal ball.
Well, the joke’s on you, JVL, because Hassett is no doubt pulling down the big bucks in the Magical Orange Kingdom now, showing that conservatism has a very, very low bar for qualifications to run the world. That is Hassett’s true comic success.
Hurry, Hurry! Step right up folks and see the Silly Man. Watch as he leads his country into the abyss. Look! There's the ringmaster with his orange hair, long red tie and flame thrower. Only the poor and less fortunate will be burned! Send in the clowns. So many clowns.
Based on several of his recent comments, Hassett also believes that you reduce inflation by increasing the money supply and he would support trump's call to reduce interest rates.
met Hassett in 2015 on a National Review Cruise. Decided then he was a jerk, and have not seen any reason to change my mind.
So he's like Jonathan Turley, but for economic issues?
'but rather to demonstrate how bankrupt the conservative intellectual world has become.'
It's the inevitable outcome when the primary tool of conservative 'thought' is arguing from vapid moral opinions, with little regard empirical evidence, ie basic irrationality.
Conservative 'intellectualism' has been an exercise in trying to figure out how to enforce 'proper morality', often self-serving, onto people with a complete avoidance of real-world considerations.
I bring this up, because there's no reviving conservative 'intellectualism' *in governance*, and I feel like TheBulwark wants to back to the same old approaches, without acknowledging it will lead to the same exact problems we have today.
I remember him from the Covid times in particular...
So now that we are in our 10th+ year of mocking all of these clowns, how can we finally banish them? The morons are winning bigly -- this is not a drill
Sorta off topic but live in an Asian ethnoburb and kids who have 1500 SATs, near 4.0s, the right activities, parents who can afford the schools easily are not not getting into highly selective institutions (note didn't state good). You see enough of that, the meritocracy myth goes away fast.
Hasset’s home is probably filled with unopened boxes of Stinky Pete.
The funniest part is that Kevin’s theory on comics was tried by many many people and not only failed spectacularly, but almost killed the industry… a decade before he pitched this to JVL. What a fucking moron