Chris
@c-whitlock.bsky.social
Retired. National security background. Advanced analytics and AI. Enjoy fitness, football, sports. Reading.
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"You don’t install smoke alarms, acquire fire extinguishers, and buy home insurance because you expect a house fire. Rather, you recognize the value of insuring against low-probability/high-magnitude events." @jadler1969.bsky.social from the archive on climate change:
Conservatives Need to Engage in Climate Policy Debate
Even if you believe that cataclysmic climate change is unlikely, the potential consequences are sufficiently grave to justify prudent action.
www.thebulwark.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"You don’t install smoke alarms, acquire fire extinguishers, and buy home insurance because you expect a house fire. Rather, you recognize the value of insuring against low-probability/high-magnitude events." @jadler1969.bsky.social from the archive on climate change:
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Walmart CFO John David Rainey: "We've not seen a period where you've had prices go up this high, this quickly. We're well equipped and experienced in dealing with price increases that are going up 2 or 3 percent, but not 30 percent."
May 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Walmart CFO John David Rainey: "We've not seen a period where you've had prices go up this high, this quickly. We're well equipped and experienced in dealing with price increases that are going up 2 or 3 percent, but not 30 percent."
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Bullocks. You will work in the same place as will your children. Bullocks.
Manufacturing dropped most of the labor hours because of automation and process engineering. You think that will stop?
Manufacturing dropped most of the labor hours because of automation and process engineering. You think that will stop?
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bullocks. You will work in the same place as will your children. Bullocks.
Manufacturing dropped most of the labor hours because of automation and process engineering. You think that will stop?
Manufacturing dropped most of the labor hours because of automation and process engineering. You think that will stop?
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
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HAPPENING NOW
📈 EURO AND YEN SURGING
⚠️ US DOLLAR FALLING
⚠️ STOCK FUTURES CRASHING
⚠️ BOND MARKETS IMPLODING
⚠️ 10YR TREASURY YIELD SOARING
📈 EURO AND YEN SURGING
⚠️ US DOLLAR FALLING
⚠️ STOCK FUTURES CRASHING
⚠️ BOND MARKETS IMPLODING
⚠️ 10YR TREASURY YIELD SOARING
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
HAPPENING NOW
📈 EURO AND YEN SURGING
⚠️ US DOLLAR FALLING
⚠️ STOCK FUTURES CRASHING
⚠️ BOND MARKETS IMPLODING
⚠️ 10YR TREASURY YIELD SOARING
📈 EURO AND YEN SURGING
⚠️ US DOLLAR FALLING
⚠️ STOCK FUTURES CRASHING
⚠️ BOND MARKETS IMPLODING
⚠️ 10YR TREASURY YIELD SOARING
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The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
EU, China start talks on lifting EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Handelsblatt reports
The European Union and China have begun negotiations on the abolition of EU tariffs on imports of Chinese electric cars, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
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“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
April 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
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What some people aren’t factoring into their analysis is the reality that companies were buying tons of inventory to beat the tariffs.
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
April 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What some people aren’t factoring into their analysis is the reality that companies were buying tons of inventory to beat the tariffs.
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result.
#econsky
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Elections have consequences
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Elections have consequences
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Brand Trump: Toxic Uncertainty
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April 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Brand Trump: Toxic Uncertainty
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He’s pulled the knife half way out of the economy’s back, but the injury (no longer a reliable trading partner) will take years to heal.
#stupid
#stupid
April 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
He’s pulled the knife half way out of the economy’s back, but the injury (no longer a reliable trading partner) will take years to heal.
#stupid
#stupid
media1.tenor.co
April 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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The Economist 5 months ago with Biden and The Economist today with Trump smh….is America great yet?
April 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The Economist 5 months ago with Biden and The Economist today with Trump smh….is America great yet?
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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My advice is if your law firm can't say this, get yourself a new law firm.
"Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
"Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
Statement from Elias Law Group Chair Marc Elias
www.elias.law
April 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
My advice is if your law firm can't say this, get yourself a new law firm.
"Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
"Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
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Houston GenZ activist Isaiah Martin visited with Politics Done Right to discuss the state of the Democratic Party and why it needs a new fighting generation, GenZ.
A GenZ activist-politician, discusses the path for Democrats to reclaim working class.
Houston GenZ activist Isaiah Martin visited with Politics Done Right to discuss the state of the Democratic Party and why it needs a new fighting generation, GenZ.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Houston GenZ activist Isaiah Martin visited with Politics Done Right to discuss the state of the Democratic Party and why it needs a new fighting generation, GenZ.
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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Some sound advice:
February 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some sound advice:
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Do you stand with Ukraine? 🇺🇦
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Do you stand with Ukraine? 🇺🇦