Under hard money, governments fought till they ran out of their own money. Under easy money, governments can fight until they completely consume the value of all the money held by their people. This is why the century of central banking was the century of total war.

NYT conservative columnist Bret Stephens hit it right on the head with this.

Chinese crypto mogul Justin Sun bought $75 million of the $TRUMP coin, then had his pending civil fraud case halted by the SEC. cnn.com/2025/02/28/bus…

Former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa wrote the following letter to Donald Trump: 1/n

HEINRICH: So I'm curious, did this conversation at some point include information on weapons packages, targets or timing? RATCLIFFE: Not that I'm aware of. HEINRICH: Director Gabbard, same question. GABBARD: Same answer and defer to the Department of Defense on that question.

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.

When your boss starts a global financial crisis and people stop talking about your fuck-up.

Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now. I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter on the floor. Disclosure deadline is May 15th. We’re about to learn a few things. It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.

Many Americans suspect our nation is on the verge of becoming a dictatorship — and across the land, we are coming together to defend our democracy. In my hometown, more than a thousand of us rallied together for the second time this past Saturday. As I said to my neighbors,

...No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. Article I, Sec 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution

What kind of kickback is Donald J. Trump looking for from the pharma industry before this gets put back on the shelf? Sorry PhRMA, can’t be a jet…

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

They don’t even understand the basic building blocks of our Constitution…unfuckingbelievable.

NBACentel who did this 😭

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

War is breaking out because Trump pulled out of the Iran Deal and got humiliated by Netanyahu while trying to negotiate his own, and he's gonna have a military parade for his birthday. The weakest strongman.

It really is amazing how little it takes for these people to fold and do a total 360. So embarrassing.

It’s the only thing that makes it all make sense.

Sick and tired of Republican Senators coming to me privately saying, “Mark, keep speaking up, you’re our conscience.” I don’t want to be their damn conscience. I want them to vote their conscience.