For a good return you gotta go bettin on chance—and then you’re back with anarchy.

Just so we’re all clear: the City of Portland is removing protections legally applied and mandated by law in an attempt to prevent the utterly and thoroughly illegal rescission of three hundred and fifty million dollars’ worth of federal funding, legally allocated by the duly elected representatives of the people who put up the funds, all because no one can afford the amount of time it would take for the wheels of justice to slowly grind their way to finding precisely that illegality and impotently enjoining what’s already been rescinded until such time as the Supreme Court throws out any such exceeding fine work without explanation from the illegible gloom of the shadow docket, but—but! Having done so, the entire city must now spend the rest of the year, the term, the reich huddled quietly in a corner hoping this will all be enough, but it’s never enough, and anyway if at any later point we happen across his mind in the slightest slantwise fashion he’ll just take it all again, and more besides, and what will we give up next?