Favorite Rejects 2022-08-07

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

by age 30, you should have at least one provision of your state constitution against which you have sworn undying enmity

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Here's the thing about small businesses — if your business is a subsidiary of a large business, then it's not a small business it's a subsidiary!

Doug Andres @DougAndres

Interesting: The new book minimum tax language in Schumer’s bill now captures subsidiaries, which includes a TON of small to midsize businesses. That’s a new $35B tax on small businesses just trying to get off the ground.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer

It makes me feel crazy to see people who were, as of three weeks ago, yelling that Biden needs to declare a climate emergency because every little bit of emissions reduction counts, now caterwauling that a ~40% cut in emissions still isn’t enough to meet our Paris goals.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Google Maps shows that there are 3.787 McDonalds restaurants in the country of China. Palates don't cheat. China has always been a part of America. The long lost child will eventually return home.

Hua Chunying 华春莹 @SpokespersonCHN

Baidu Maps show that there are 38 Shandong dumpling restaurants and 67 Shanxi noodle restaurants in Taipei. Palates don't cheat. #Taiwan has always been a part of China. The long lost child will eventually return home. https://t.co/p50RXund9T

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Wyden and his team have done a lot of hard work on this legislation for months and not sought much credit or recognition.

Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNews

Some kudos to Sen. Finance, Sen. @RonWyden staffers here who had an extra pay-for lying around for just this situation. (Not commenting on whether this or the bill is good/bad. Just that it's impressive they could come up with what can score as $30 billion in a pinch here.)

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

We need a day of national reckoning for the take that Joe Manchin "would be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity" (yes, Podesta literally said that and the tone of the article strongly suggests that the reporters agree). nytimes.com/2022/07/15/cli…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It’s important to keep in mind that as @JStein_WaPo reported in February, I was personally responsible for saving the then-dead congressional negotiations.