This is spectacular. I donât listen to these guys, but wanted to for this one to see how theyâd respond to Ezra and Summers. Ezra has a real skill in revealing the policy incoherence of the intellectual wing of MAGA, and Summers would obviously be difficult to get a bunch of misstatements about international trade past without correction. It went even worse than I imagined it would. It was petulant and utterly lacking of self awareness of how bad their arguments were. Particularly Sacks
The disconnect between what they claim they want a policy to do vs what they are willing to support is incredible. The position - Trumpâs tariffs are good because high tech manufacturing is too important to rely on China - has nothing to do with what weâre actually seeing. It allowed Ezra to drop his now common âso I agree with your desired policy outcomes, but what you are describing sounds an awful lot to me like Joe Bidenâs policyâ, that like all others heâs raised it to they didnt have any response other than deflection. But best of all, this was released mere hours before Trump announced the exemption for high tech manufacturing.
Now the China tech exemptions arenât exemptions, just tariffs in âdifferent bucketsâ?
Both Trump and Bukele, people who desire to be seen as a strongman, are claiming they are powerless to get prisoners out of El Salvadorian jail and back to the US. How would anyone understand that other than trolling?
Also nobody asked Bukele why heâs not wearing a suit and tie
Iâve just seen the clip. I honestly thought it was a clip from the Flesh Gordon porno spoof. The ârocketâ is near identical.
From what I recall in order to sell in China you had to give up your IP. So Tesla as a case in point took a short-term gain for a long term loss and seeded #1 top EV position to BYD. Kind of a stupid thing to do.
On another note. China steals IP. Link from 2014 They have had access to Medtronic, Boston Sci, St Jude (now Abbott) for a number of months, say six and had all these companies latest innovations. It did little good because China didnât have the scientists in house to take advantage of this information. By the time theyâve implemented, the tech has moved on a level. But doesnât bode welll as theyâre also playing catch up in these fields, by elicit actions.
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1911808814799622588
https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1911824549651358069
https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1911846225902444875
Iâm beginning to think that heâs probably dead, and theyâre trying to cover it up.
https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1911797142525534385
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1911813389845745975
thatâs just disgusting
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https://x.com/jeffzeleny/status/1910785210733498645
âiconicâ
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1911849800439308399
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https://x.com/MikenzieFrost/status/1911755696325935120
These disgusting MagaCultPeople will cheer this on until one of them or their family members is âaccidentallyâ deported.
I donât think it will take long.
https://x.com/Harvard/status/1911835670953214401
Well done Harvard. Stand up to them.
(Mind you, it is probably easier to have principles with a $50 Billion+ endowment behind you, but nevertheless, credit where it is due).
https://x.com/Lippyaddiction/status/1911172903254573238
So why is everyone talking about April 20th?
On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border. That order gave DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 90 days to recommend additional actionsâincluding whether to invoke the Insurrection Act. The report is due on April 20.
We donât know what the report will say. And even if it does recommend invoking the Act, we donât know whether Trump will act on it.
But based on his past rhetoric and recent moves, itâs worth being prepared.
It may or may not happen on that day, and the date is certainly just a coincidence (or not?), but maybe itâs better to be prepared. Even better if this is all just nonsense and weâre all worrying for nothing.
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Thereâs little to no chance that he wonât invoke the Insurrection Act, officially instate a dictatorship and have millions cheer him on. The countryâs path to self-implosion is irreversible.