Frank Lesser
@sadmonsters
bsky.app/profile/sadmon… threads.net/@lessfrank Former Emmy-winning writer for Colbert and Emmy-losing writer for Sedaris
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02-01-2011 00:38:36
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Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
The stock market is crashing. 80,000 veterans and their families are at risk of foreclosure due to VA cuts. Our national security is at risk after the firing of the NSA Director. The remains of U.S. soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania have just arrived at
NEW: Here's a photo posted in 2018 apparently of Joe Kent, Trump's pick to head the National Counterterrorism Center, from the Instagram feed of a family member, showing he had the word "PANZER" tattooed on his arm. Why? I asked him, the NCTC, and the ODNI, and, so far, no reply.
