It’s a very good morning. Nice to have a little bit of hope that things can get better.

I’m so sorry. I’m keeping your friend and all the other hostages in my prayers.

There’s no evidence this was Israel. Iran has plenty of enemies in the Middle East.

Anything to add beside a snide comment?

I’m not a libertarian, I’m a social democrat.

The last century has been a total and unmitigated disaster for Argentina. The two options Argentinians had in this election were:

1. More of the same by the guy who oversaw inflation reaching 160% (100% chance of things getting worse)
2. A total wild card (99.9% chance of things getting worse)

Unsurprisingly, they went for the latter. I don’t think anti-libertarians get to gloat in this context, given it’s the Argentinian establishment which has overseen one of the most remarkable examples of total state-collapse and economic failure in modern history.