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Enforcer of YIMBY Martial Law.
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Nothing about helping workers or dealing with 🇨🇳 required continuing to dismantle international trade institutions or keeping Trump’s awful, bad faith tariffs on our allies. Or using CFIUS against 🇯🇵 in…2025.
Again, Biden got awful advice from Sullivan & Tai & I’ll never understand why he followed it
Again, Biden got awful advice from Sullivan & Tai & I’ll never understand why he followed it
The very first thing Biden should have done was abolish all the bad Trump tariffs on our allies (& re-entered TPP)
The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing
He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
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The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing
He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
When is an ally not a partner?
This blistering @japantimes.co.jp editorial on the U.S. Steel / Nippon Steel debacle is worth reading in full.
www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...
This blistering @japantimes.co.jp editorial on the U.S. Steel / Nippon Steel debacle is worth reading in full.
www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...
January 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Nothing about helping workers or dealing with 🇨🇳 required continuing to dismantle international trade institutions or keeping Trump’s awful, bad faith tariffs on our allies. Or using CFIUS against 🇯🇵 in…2025.
Again, Biden got awful advice from Sullivan & Tai & I’ll never understand why he followed it
Again, Biden got awful advice from Sullivan & Tai & I’ll never understand why he followed it
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Once again, it is difficult to overstate how disastrous Katherine Tai's tenure at USTR has been for US trade policy & standing in the multilateral trade regime
USTR releasing “model” texts 7 days before leaving office is a real LOL moment. Sorry, what were y’all doing for 4 years?
ustr.gov/about-us/pol...
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USTR Releases Model Negotiating Texts
WASHINGTON – The Office of the United States Trade Representative today released model negotiating texts in furtherance of the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of building a more resilient global tr...
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January 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Once again, it is difficult to overstate how disastrous Katherine Tai's tenure at USTR has been for US trade policy & standing in the multilateral trade regime
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The reason TikTok is bad is the same reason all social media is bad, that you replace your sources of information from "people who know what the fuck they're talking about" with a million deranged idiots such as yourself. That way you get like Libsoftiktok or the autism telepathy podcast
January 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The reason TikTok is bad is the same reason all social media is bad, that you replace your sources of information from "people who know what the fuck they're talking about" with a million deranged idiots such as yourself. That way you get like Libsoftiktok or the autism telepathy podcast
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Germany, INSA poll:
CDU/CSU-EPP: 31.5% (-0.5)
AfD-ESN: 19.5% (+0.5)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11.5% (-0.5)
BSW-NI: 8%
FDP-RE: 4.5% (+0.5)
LINKE-LEFT: 3% (-1)
+/- vs. 2-6 December 2024
Fieldwork: 6-9 December 2024
Sample size: 2,004
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
#btw25 #Bundestag #wahlen
CDU/CSU-EPP: 31.5% (-0.5)
AfD-ESN: 19.5% (+0.5)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11.5% (-0.5)
BSW-NI: 8%
FDP-RE: 4.5% (+0.5)
LINKE-LEFT: 3% (-1)
+/- vs. 2-6 December 2024
Fieldwork: 6-9 December 2024
Sample size: 2,004
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
#btw25 #Bundestag #wahlen
December 9, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Germany, INSA poll:
CDU/CSU-EPP: 31.5% (-0.5)
AfD-ESN: 19.5% (+0.5)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11.5% (-0.5)
BSW-NI: 8%
FDP-RE: 4.5% (+0.5)
LINKE-LEFT: 3% (-1)
+/- vs. 2-6 December 2024
Fieldwork: 6-9 December 2024
Sample size: 2,004
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
#btw25 #Bundestag #wahlen
CDU/CSU-EPP: 31.5% (-0.5)
AfD-ESN: 19.5% (+0.5)
SPD-S&D: 17% (+1)
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 11.5% (-0.5)
BSW-NI: 8%
FDP-RE: 4.5% (+0.5)
LINKE-LEFT: 3% (-1)
+/- vs. 2-6 December 2024
Fieldwork: 6-9 December 2024
Sample size: 2,004
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
#btw25 #Bundestag #wahlen
Moving here more because my Twitter followers are in decline and the site doesn't reward intelligent text.
December 9, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Moving here more because my Twitter followers are in decline and the site doesn't reward intelligent text.
I might eat my words, but I think Vance is DOA.
Trump can say anything and voters don't care. The rest of the GOP insanity has festered under the surface. When that's revealed and "normal, post-Trump" leaders start talking, the ceiling caves in.
Trump can say anything and voters don't care. The rest of the GOP insanity has festered under the surface. When that's revealed and "normal, post-Trump" leaders start talking, the ceiling caves in.
These Trump guys are all going to say stuff that sounds less crazy than the shit Trump himself sounds to newspaper reporters and the party is going to get destroyed for it in a way Trump never was.
Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth: "The left and progressives used allegiance to state, they used patriotism as a vehicle to untether us from timeless truth, from the Bible. The cross and the bible were replaced by a flag and a pledge.”
December 9, 2024 at 10:28 PM
I might eat my words, but I think Vance is DOA.
Trump can say anything and voters don't care. The rest of the GOP insanity has festered under the surface. When that's revealed and "normal, post-Trump" leaders start talking, the ceiling caves in.
Trump can say anything and voters don't care. The rest of the GOP insanity has festered under the surface. When that's revealed and "normal, post-Trump" leaders start talking, the ceiling caves in.
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🧵 Democrats need to stop promising sweeping policies like this w/o ever discussing <institutional> reform. There was <no way> any of this was going to pass the Senate. It's no wonder voters get disillusioned. You promise them magical 🦄 & can't deliver. The <platform> needs to be institutional reform
Biden promised affordable childcare, universal paid family leave, higher minimum wages, free community college, and more. Those policies would disproportionately benefit women, especially those who make too much to qualify for existing programs but not enough to easily afford paid support. 2/
December 7, 2024 at 8:05 PM
🧵 Democrats need to stop promising sweeping policies like this w/o ever discussing <institutional> reform. There was <no way> any of this was going to pass the Senate. It's no wonder voters get disillusioned. You promise them magical 🦄 & can't deliver. The <platform> needs to be institutional reform
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what i think most people don't understand is that defense spending is not actually high--in fact, it is *near record lows* as a percent of gdp. and we're not living in the end of history anymore--we're headed into a new era of instability and great power conflict.
www.defense.gov/Multimedia/P...
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December 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM
what i think most people don't understand is that defense spending is not actually high--in fact, it is *near record lows* as a percent of gdp. and we're not living in the end of history anymore--we're headed into a new era of instability and great power conflict.
www.defense.gov/Multimedia/P...
www.defense.gov/Multimedia/P...
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it would not be wrong to say that the project of the conservative movement since watergate has been to ensure that another watergate could never happen. fox news exists so that the base will never be exposed to media that has them calling representatives in outrage about the president's behavior.
the entire reason that five out of nine of the members of the supreme court were appointed were so that the president would be able to get away with watergate.
December 1, 2024 at 2:36 AM
it would not be wrong to say that the project of the conservative movement since watergate has been to ensure that another watergate could never happen. fox news exists so that the base will never be exposed to media that has them calling representatives in outrage about the president's behavior.
Voters support low wage growth.
Welcome to the club, but this is precisely the type of language that the left has always been using ("elites", "wage suppression") and precisely the reason i found all the Bernie and Warren (not to mention even more radical ones) stuff so off-putting
November 30, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Voters support low wage growth.
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Welcome to the club, but this is precisely the type of language that the left has always been using ("elites", "wage suppression") and precisely the reason i found all the Bernie and Warren (not to mention even more radical ones) stuff so off-putting
November 30, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Welcome to the club, but this is precisely the type of language that the left has always been using ("elites", "wage suppression") and precisely the reason i found all the Bernie and Warren (not to mention even more radical ones) stuff so off-putting
Yeah, and the Democrats need to move rightward again.
The democrats have moved to the left in very obvious ways over the last 15 years or so. I was alive in the 80s/90s/00s. That they are still treated as the DLC in popular discourse drives me batty because it erases all the work folks did to to shift the party left!
November 30, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Yeah, and the Democrats need to move rightward again.
No, Corbyn was too far-left and couldn't capitalize on a tough-on-crime position in the 2010s. Labor was being so far-left that they allowed Tories to win for 13 years.
November 30, 2024 at 8:41 PM
No, Corbyn was too far-left and couldn't capitalize on a tough-on-crime position in the 2010s. Labor was being so far-left that they allowed Tories to win for 13 years.
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NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.”
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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November 30, 2024 at 4:38 PM
NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.”
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the key thing with the recent Marc Andreesen debanking stuff is that he's mad the companies he invests in have to follow anti-money-laundering rules and many normal banks won't touch them because they don't
November 30, 2024 at 7:12 AM
the key thing with the recent Marc Andreesen debanking stuff is that he's mad the companies he invests in have to follow anti-money-laundering rules and many normal banks won't touch them because they don't
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dismantling the institutions upholding american hegemony and affluence because it would make the libs really angry if we did this
November 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
dismantling the institutions upholding american hegemony and affluence because it would make the libs really angry if we did this
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The alternative to democracy isn’t the policies I prefer, it’s destroying the incentive people with power have to care what ANY regular people think, whether they agree with me or not.
November 30, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The alternative to democracy isn’t the policies I prefer, it’s destroying the incentive people with power have to care what ANY regular people think, whether they agree with me or not.
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And yes, part of the solution is to start breaking some rules to stop those unpopular things from happening, rather than sitting on our hands and saying “but the norms say we have to let bad things happen to people.” Yeah, fuck that.
November 30, 2024 at 5:48 PM
And yes, part of the solution is to start breaking some rules to stop those unpopular things from happening, rather than sitting on our hands and saying “but the norms say we have to let bad things happen to people.” Yeah, fuck that.
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Feel like two of the big linger questions of this century are gonna be "how do you build back to a high social trust society" and "how do you deprogram people who have completely melted their brains in a democracy"
Man education polarization drawing all the low social trust people into one party is really such a nightmare
November 20, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Feel like two of the big linger questions of this century are gonna be "how do you build back to a high social trust society" and "how do you deprogram people who have completely melted their brains in a democracy"
"Trump is too old"
"Trump deficit"
"Tariff farm crisis"
"Abandoned Ukraine"
"Trump deficit"
"Tariff farm crisis"
"Abandoned Ukraine"
November 17, 2024 at 7:07 AM
"Trump is too old"
"Trump deficit"
"Tariff farm crisis"
"Abandoned Ukraine"
"Trump deficit"
"Tariff farm crisis"
"Abandoned Ukraine"
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and there is a non zero chance that Iowa has two senate seats up in 2026 because Chuck Grassley is Very, Very old
yeah uh if they actually start deporting people, Iowa's meatpacking industry is going to get nuked
for my first act as president, i am going to pass monstrous tariffs that will devastate the ag industry and for my second act, i will deport everyone working in farming and food production, checkmate [checks notes] red states
November 14, 2024 at 11:36 PM
and there is a non zero chance that Iowa has two senate seats up in 2026 because Chuck Grassley is Very, Very old