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David Rothschild
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economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design

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Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.

Mad King, taxes & spending (not run through our legislature) designed to punish states that do not love the king, standing armies terrifying otherwise peaceful cities: when they said Make America Great Again, I had no idea they meant 1775!

Fact that Trump won't understand that Roberts save him, ranting & raving on social media, just makes it better for Roberts: NYT will declare Roberts a god.

This makes Roberts' decision even easier for him, by ruling against Trump on tariffs, he not only gets Media & Political Elite to claim his right-wing anti-democratic Supreme Court as legitimate, save Trump Trump from himself on economy, he helps save NATO. Classic Win-Win-Win.
New tariff just dropped.

Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.

It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.

(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).
New tariff just dropped.

Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.

It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June.

(Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

Imagine thinking through all of the possible stories to put on the top of the NYT this morning and deciding that Trump Regime maybe making up some BS prosecution of MN leaders, writing about it like it was a real thing from legit prosecutors, was the most critical thing for their readers to see.

NYT thinks their main job is to amplify Trump Regime’s disinformation to US in an impartial frame: they believe that unnamed Trump Regime officials are the most important and trustworthy sources of information for US.

Grok can do can do fascism, deepfake porn, and antisemitism, no wonder major businesses, governments, and media organizations use it as their performed communication platform.
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Trump Regime turning on white women is insane: they are already ruling US representing the interests of a small minority against the vast majority, and they are shrinking the tent.

Trump is not going to install the opposition leader as president of Venezuela for two reasons (1) even Trump is not dumb enough to send military into overthrow regime and occupy country: it would be an epic disaster (2) regime is giving him $500 million bribes.

This is getting lost in Trump's ongoing occupation of Minnesota, but Trump used the US military to steal $500 million from Venezuela and place it in a bank account in Qatar.
So Trump ordered US military to kidnap President of Venezuela, Trump demanded $billions in oil to avoid more kidnapping, now Trump is laundering proceeds through Qatar? What is Jared’s cut?
I don't understand how this is legal...? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

ICE is filled with terrible human beings.

Counterpoint: DHS is shooting people in the face.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on "acts of violence" against ICE agents in Minnesota: "Pouring water on the ground so that it would freeze the ground in front of our federal law enforcement vehicles so that they would potentially slide, crash, and potentially kill them"
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on "acts of violence" against ICE agents in Minnesota: "Pouring water on the ground so that it would freeze the ground in front of our federal law enforcement vehicles so that they would potentially slide, crash, and potentially kill them"

We need a shadow government.

Kidnapping the president of a country and then blackmailing the opposition leader for her Peace Price in exchange for considering a ground invasion & occupation to install her as the new president is next level insane.
María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”

Maybe the Confederates were just not meant to invade Minnesota in the winter. Sort of like Napoleon invading Russia. Got to be mindful of that ice!

All the occupying force did was a shoot a few people, and all of a sudden the people feel like they have the right to be rude?

Cannot believe the people are being mean to the occupying force meant to terrorize the people!
Naaaaaaailed it

Abolish ICE => Establish Medicare-For-All
María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”

Seems reasonable that if they are going to demand papers & access to your face, they should show nameplates & access to their face.
The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.

Less money for terrifying paramilitary, More money for access to healthcare.

Imagine if the "serious" "centrist" "post-partisan" position on early Nazi Germany was that defunding & shutting down the Sturmabteilung (SA) was going to far.
The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.

NYT is horrific: (1) Democrats call to abolish death squads way worse than Republicans running death squads (2) Trump generally loves protests (just not against him) (3) Rural people love government killing annoying city people.

Elections are necessary, but not sufficient, for stopping Trumpism from destroying US.
Increasingly convinced that one of the main reasons the "Trump is going to cancel the midterms" meme won't die is because a lot of posting addicts don't want to accept that electoralism is still a necessary condition for beating Trump. It's a perverse sort of wishcasting.
i don't even know why i'm raising this here because i know i'm going to get a hundred replies of "Trump has god powers that will let him do whatever he wants and thus we have no choice but to bend to his will," but for those of you capable of complex thought, these are questions to ask yourself.

We had elections in 1862 and 1864 while a Civil War was raging across the US.
Trump to Reuters about the midterm elections: "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...