Pun Salad

Adding to Mr. Ramirez's observation, we have a tweet from Matt Wilstein, who caught a candid election-day quip from the ex-president:

A real quote from Donald Trump about tonight’s results:

"Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit. If they lose, I should not be blamed at all."

pic.twitter.com/u0O8yWfCoE

— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) November 8, 2022

I firmly wish that he would just shut up and go away.

Briefly noted:

• Jeff Jacoby notes an interesting fact: The election's biggest winner? Incumbency.

  He notes a head-scratching collision of realities: polling puts American disapproval of Congress at high levels. But actual reelection rates for CongressCritters and Senators are also extremely high.

  In fact, it appears the reelection rate for Senate incumbents this year was … 100%.

• At Cato, David Boaz wonders What Does It Mean to Say that a Job Is Underpaid? You won't be surprised to learn that it doesn't mean what the people saying it want it to mean.

• I just put Stuart Ritchie's substack onto my feed. I really liked his book Science Fictions when I read it a couple years back. His substack is (um) less formal, as you can tell from a recent article wondering: Does watching pornography cause erectile dysfunction?

  Section headings; "Limp Evidence"; "Smut’s ado about nothing"; and "Onan the Barbarian".