A Progressive Libertarian
@tiggersdad.bsky.social
Liberty and Responsibility are opposite sides of the same coin.
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Pro-Life is a Lie.
Small Government is a Lie.
Law and Order is a Lie.
Government Efficiency is a lie.
Originalism is a Lie.
They’re all lies. Today’s Republicans put the Con in both Conservatism and the Constitution.
Small Government is a Lie.
Law and Order is a Lie.
Government Efficiency is a lie.
Originalism is a Lie.
They’re all lies. Today’s Republicans put the Con in both Conservatism and the Constitution.
Anyone who took an entity named after a meme coin and run by a 🤡 seriously shouldn’t be allowed to vote. He did the same thing to Twitter but the consequences are far less. People who are corrupt don’t trust others.
D'OHGE! President Convicted Felon said Musk's DOGE would make government more efficient. Turns out it’s doing the opposite, becoming a waste of time and money. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... via @washingtonpost.com
DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Anyone who took an entity named after a meme coin and run by a 🤡 seriously shouldn’t be allowed to vote. He did the same thing to Twitter but the consequences are far less. People who are corrupt don’t trust others.
George W. Bush was a bad President and made some historically bad mistakes but it wasn't until he botched the response to Hurricane Katrina that the public's view of him truly soured. Trump is merrily walking through a minefield. It's only a matter of time until he steps on one.
They've now made clear the Qatari plane is officially a bribe. Trump gets to take it with him for his personal use after he leaves office. The Times is really not being clear with readers abt how prez libraries work. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/qatar...
Qatari Royals Give Trump a Plane
Fascinating details emerging with the Qatari royal family giving Donald Trump the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
George W. Bush was a bad President and made some historically bad mistakes but it wasn't until he botched the response to Hurricane Katrina that the public's view of him truly soured. Trump is merrily walking through a minefield. It's only a matter of time until he steps on one.
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"And frommmmm Chicaaaaaago, standing 6'1", 6'6" with the papal mitre, your starting pontiff, Rrrrrrobbbbberrrrtttt PREEEEEEEEVOOOOOOSSST!"
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"And frommmmm Chicaaaaaago, standing 6'1", 6'6" with the papal mitre, your starting pontiff, Rrrrrrobbbbberrrrtttt PREEEEEEEEVOOOOOOSSST!"
I hope he does it. It’ll put his narcissism on full display just as the effects of his insane trade war start to bite and it’ll expose DOGGIE for the fraud it is.
(AP) — Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
apnews.com/article/army...
apnews.com/article/army...
May 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I hope he does it. It’ll put his narcissism on full display just as the effects of his insane trade war start to bite and it’ll expose DOGGIE for the fraud it is.
“Strategic uncertainty” is a euphemism for “impulsive moron.”
Q: "Trump's strategy has been to announce these tariffs, then dial some back, pause them, make exceptions. Explain why you see this as a good negotiating strategy?"
Bessent: "It's called strategic uncertainty...Nobody's better at creating this leverage than President Trump."
Bessent: "It's called strategic uncertainty...Nobody's better at creating this leverage than President Trump."
April 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Strategic uncertainty” is a euphemism for “impulsive moron.”
Stephen Miller is the most vile piece of shit ever to have his hands on the steering wheel of the U.S. government.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Stephen Miller is the most vile piece of shit ever to have his hands on the steering wheel of the U.S. government.
I think as a society we need to reckon with how Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two of the biggest conmen in all of history, have been able to fool so many people for so long despite ample evidence exposing them for what they truly are.
NYT: “.. end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours ..
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
“.. bring peace to the Middle East ..
“.. usher in dozens of trade deals ..
“.. Mr. Trump’s inability .. to deliver .. has exposed the gulf between his rhetoric and his accomplishments.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
April 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I think as a society we need to reckon with how Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two of the biggest conmen in all of history, have been able to fool so many people for so long despite ample evidence exposing them for what they truly are.
The U.S.won’t regain its standing in the world until the cancer known as MAGA is neutralized and marginalized in the body politic. Unfortunately, the only hope for that happening is for enough people who support it to feel real economic pain.
The bigger risk is that even a significant policy reversal is unable to stem the tide going out on US assets at this point.
Each day goes by that reinforces the riskiness of US assets puts us closer to what may be a generational shift in global capital flows away from the US.
Each day goes by that reinforces the riskiness of US assets puts us closer to what may be a generational shift in global capital flows away from the US.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The U.S.won’t regain its standing in the world until the cancer known as MAGA is neutralized and marginalized in the body politic. Unfortunately, the only hope for that happening is for enough people who support it to feel real economic pain.
Yet the people who push abortion bans are almost always the same dumb mf’ers who are anti-vax. Here’s a deal. When a state gets the maternal mortality rate below the mortality rate of mRNA vaccines, they can pass whatever abortion restrictions they’d like as long as maternal mortality stays below.
US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. https://ja.ma/3XXrCtw
US Abortion Bans and Infant Mortality
This population-based, cross-sectional study investigates the infant mortality rate following the adoption of complete or 6-week abortion bans in a number of US states.
ja.ma
April 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yet the people who push abortion bans are almost always the same dumb mf’ers who are anti-vax. Here’s a deal. When a state gets the maternal mortality rate below the mortality rate of mRNA vaccines, they can pass whatever abortion restrictions they’d like as long as maternal mortality stays below.
Besides the insanity of tariffs “replacing” income taxes, it’s wild that no one calls out the absolute illogic of these fairytales. Tariff cannot replace taxes, bring manufacturing home AND be used as negotiating leverage to reduce trade barriers from other countries.
Trump claims to Fox News that the money he brings in from tariffs "could be so great it would replace" income taxes.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Besides the insanity of tariffs “replacing” income taxes, it’s wild that no one calls out the absolute illogic of these fairytales. Tariff cannot replace taxes, bring manufacturing home AND be used as negotiating leverage to reduce trade barriers from other countries.
One of the benefits of the tariff debacle is that it creates immediate consequences for the incompetence and insidiousness of this Administration. So much of the terrible things they’re doing will only be felt over time.
aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas.
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
“There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
One of the benefits of the tariff debacle is that it creates immediate consequences for the incompetence and insidiousness of this Administration. So much of the terrible things they’re doing will only be felt over time.
The Trump Administration is a clown show. A recession is all but guaranteed and today’s willful blindness to what is really happening is how bear markets are made.
Many waking up today to tales the trade and capital war are over and the pro-growth admin everyone hoped for is now here.
Markets are pricing in near certainty of this path when there are plenty of signs the admin's negative-growth policies are still here.
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Markets are pricing in near certainty of this path when there are plenty of signs the admin's negative-growth policies are still here.
Thread.
April 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Trump Administration is a clown show. A recession is all but guaranteed and today’s willful blindness to what is really happening is how bear markets are made.
Trump may be President but the bond market is the real leader.
The bond market tanking may be the one thing that puts the brakes on the crazy train. Bet Bessent isn’t sleeping much tonight.
April 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Trump may be President but the bond market is the real leader.
They are Shrodinger’s tariffs. They’ll simultaneously raise revenue while bringing manufacturing home while used to negotiate with every country in the world. These people are so used to their echo chamber they think everyone is as naive snd gullible as their supporters.
3. The rationale for this policy keeps changing. Remember when it was all about bringing manufacturing home? (That was yesterday.) Now it's negotiating deals. Those are fundamentally in tension.
(I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.)
(I'm only going to build a factory in the US if tariffs are likely to persist.)
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
They are Shrodinger’s tariffs. They’ll simultaneously raise revenue while bringing manufacturing home while used to negotiate with every country in the world. These people are so used to their echo chamber they think everyone is as naive snd gullible as their supporters.
One of the reasons the practice of capitalism in this country is so broken is because the majority of people, including those in positions of power, don’t understand how it works. Trump’s policies are making capital unnecessarily more expensive which will ultimately diminish productive investment.
UAW chief Shawn Fain, on market turmoil:
“.. You know, half of Americans don't even have stock .. So when I hear all the crying about the stock market, this is just Wall Street. They're people that are already rich .. working class people are trying to survive ..”
www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...
“.. You know, half of Americans don't even have stock .. So when I hear all the crying about the stock market, this is just Wall Street. They're people that are already rich .. working class people are trying to survive ..”
www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...
April 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One of the reasons the practice of capitalism in this country is so broken is because the majority of people, including those in positions of power, don’t understand how it works. Trump’s policies are making capital unnecessarily more expensive which will ultimately diminish productive investment.
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Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
April 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly
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Americans have a tendency to conflate wealth with intelligence.
We are now living with the consequences of this logical fallacy.
We are now living with the consequences of this logical fallacy.
April 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Americans have a tendency to conflate wealth with intelligence.
We are now living with the consequences of this logical fallacy.
We are now living with the consequences of this logical fallacy.
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The Economist Op-Ed: "Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said - on history, economics and the technicalities of trade - was utterly deluded." 🔥
April 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Economist Op-Ed: "Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said - on history, economics and the technicalities of trade - was utterly deluded." 🔥
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Turns out it’s *not* good to have stupid and malicious people in charge
April 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Turns out it’s *not* good to have stupid and malicious people in charge
Are elected Republicans finally about to pull their heads out from Trump’s ass? My belief has been they finally will when it becomes more painful to support him than to rebel against him. I think this insane tariff policy is finally changing that equation.
April 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Are elected Republicans finally about to pull their heads out from Trump’s ass? My belief has been they finally will when it becomes more painful to support him than to rebel against him. I think this insane tariff policy is finally changing that equation.
I had an epiphany today. The reason so much of the policy coming out of Washington these days is so bad is because the people who are making it engage in magical thinking, where they look at individual pieces of a complex system in isolation without recognizing how their…1/
It’s only 7:30am but I guarantee this is the dumbest thing you’ll read today. Crashing the global economy to save a few bucks on treasury refi interest. x.com/billackman/s...
Bill Ackman on X: "An extremely insightful piece on tariffs and @realDonaldTrump’s strategy." / X
An extremely insightful piece on tariffs and @realDonaldTrump’s strategy.
x.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I had an epiphany today. The reason so much of the policy coming out of Washington these days is so bad is because the people who are making it engage in magical thinking, where they look at individual pieces of a complex system in isolation without recognizing how their…1/
Considering Trump is “fake” and “incredibly stupid” why should we expect anything else?
Trump’s Tariff Formula Slammed As ‘Fake’ And ‘Incredibly Stupid’ By Experts
Trump’s Tariff Formula Slammed As ‘Fake’ And ‘Incredibly Stupid’ By Experts
The approach appears to punish countries based on their trade imbalances with the U.S., rather than the taxes they impose on the U.S. and a combination of other trade barriers Trump claimed the new tariff rates would be based on.
on.forbes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Considering Trump is “fake” and “incredibly stupid” why should we expect anything else?
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reading the White House CEA’s analysis of tax cut extension and laughing when they lament the “unthinkable consequences of a more than $4T tax hike on Americans”
Brother, the call is coming from inside the house! >$4T tax hike was announced yesterday!
Brother, the call is coming from inside the house! >$4T tax hike was announced yesterday!
April 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
reading the White House CEA’s analysis of tax cut extension and laughing when they lament the “unthinkable consequences of a more than $4T tax hike on Americans”
Brother, the call is coming from inside the house! >$4T tax hike was announced yesterday!
Brother, the call is coming from inside the house! >$4T tax hike was announced yesterday!
This is for all the “tuned in” people who can’t understand why more people are running around with their hair on fire about what’s going on in Washington. They don’t know, and many won’t believe it until it affects them. That day is getting closer.
I teach at a school with a large nursing program and my intro to sociology classes are often filled with nursing students. Out of 35 of them only 2 knew about the cuts and grant cancellations in HHS and NIH, they were very upset when we discussed it - TALK TO YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING
April 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is for all the “tuned in” people who can’t understand why more people are running around with their hair on fire about what’s going on in Washington. They don’t know, and many won’t believe it until it affects them. That day is getting closer.
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NEW from me at MSNBC. Trump's tariffs are calamitous, incoherent, economically-illiterate, historically-illiterate, anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-poor, prioritize enemies over allies, and will slam the economy, raise prices, and provide little budget savings. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump’s tariffs are incoherent and destructive
The president's so-called “Liberation Day” is the beginning of a painful and pointless ordeal for the American people.
www.msnbc.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
NEW from me at MSNBC. Trump's tariffs are calamitous, incoherent, economically-illiterate, historically-illiterate, anti-worker, anti-consumer, anti-poor, prioritize enemies over allies, and will slam the economy, raise prices, and provide little budget savings. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...