Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
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Signal: pbump.11
Philip Bump
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Not to be partisan, but I don’t particularly like the inflation.
Both Orwell and Idiocracy comparisons have grown stale through overuse. However
What you do not need in order to sell bananas is a sophisticated ability to analyze information or an inherent skepticism about claims made by serially dishonest people. So it’s a really good alternative! Check it out!
The world needs banana salespeople and you should embrace this new, lucrative career.
If you are writing headlines about how Trump is promising evidence of fraud in the 2020 election here in mid-2026 — after almost six years of earnest effort by his allies and after more than 16 months of him as president — you are a hopeless rube and should go sell bananas.
