So this is what competence looks like

| 12:01 pm EST January 17, 2021
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Joe Biden has picked Wendy Sherman as his Deputy Secretary of State. She’s brilliant. I’m still trying to wrap my head around having a President who picks the best people, instead of the worst people.

– I’ll never understand why the UK still insisted on letting Brexit play out all the way to the end, even after it was clearly a disaster. Then again, I’ll never understand why the US still insisted on letting Trump’s presidency play out all the way to the end, even after it was clearly a disaster.

– Some folks are dissing a $15 minimum wage because a fast food worker would make nearly as much as some people with professional jobs. But when the lowest income earners see their wages increased, natural economic forces then cause higher income earners to also start making more. Economics 101.

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