What's so frustrating is he knows better than this. All politics to the side, he knows this won't happen. He's smarter than that.

fuck this stupid mewling bullshit. Trump’s tariffs are stupid and catastrophic and the steel tariffs you’ve pushed for decades have cost far more Americans their jobs than they have saved.

It's not just the tariffs, it's the anti-thought too - just sheer lack of rigor, lack of care, and lack of curiosity about what could work better.

Mike Lee Can you fucking morons make up your mind? Either tariffs are necessary to create American jobs and prosperity, or this is a negotiation tactic. Our trade is already mostly free. Do you dumb mother fuckers think people in countries like Vietnam are going to be buying American

THE ABSURDITY OF POLITICAL CLUSTERS Now the same people who are (justifiably) supporting Javier Milei's unwiding of the half a dozen decades of Peronisms that crippled Argentina (centralized around protectionism) are ALSO supporting Trump's neo-Peronism.

We are just doing the Covid restrictions thing all over again. These are all the same arguments 1. Something must be done 2. Required masks and forced closings are something 3. Let’s do the masks and closings

Above all, normalization of rule by decree in response to perceived crises (of varying legitimacy) and no endpoint is the darkest trend of 2020s American politics

When people casually say, "But maybe those countries should stop ripping us off..." and it becomes clear they are referring to the bogus "reciprocal tariff" list, it feels like you're arguing with a bowl of rendered lard. But it's still important to point out the truth to them.

Why the fuck does he think “your iPhone will cost 2x by being produced in a factory that won’t even be a major job creator” is a good line

Congress just needs to put a stop to this now. The economy is being driven into the ground by a few incredibly dumb people, and because too much power is concentrated in the executive branch (as many of us have been screaming about for years). What’s happening here isn’t eleventy

Democrats are behind on what’s happening in Washington (stuck in February), or else only have one political language (anti-rich). There isn’t a billionaire takeover of government. I’d prefer a billionaire takeover of government. There’s just a Mad King trying to hurt us all.

Incredible, career-defining move for Lutnick if he loaded up on bonds in February, got in Trump’s good graces by being a tariff hawk, made a bundle on his bonds, sold, and talked Trump out of tariffs on Monday

“We have to see how it goes.” No. You don’t crash the stock market to a similar degree as Covid and then get to say that. The assumption has to be what happened is bad, like with any change in market indicators. The only difference here is people feel the need to defend Trump.

I hope everybody on the degrowth left and the anti-globalisation left have a good and long think about how fucking retarded their political platform is after this world historic disaster

Making jokes and penguins or insufficient mathematical rigor is funny on Twitter but the wrong attack line. The right attack line is “this man is deliberately destroying livelihoods because he’s literally just crazy”

Cool!

This is a slightly bullish signal. China decoupling has been happening for years and for good reasons. If the end of this is more decoupling with China but partners like Vietnam and Taiwan end up okay, that’s manageable.

OUR PLAN IS WORKING PERFECTLY AND IS JUST A NEGOTIATING TACTIC BUT IT IS ALSO GOING TO BE PERMANENT AND WE WILL BE THE WORLD LEADER IN TEXTILES AND NOW THERE IS A PAUSE AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL BUT ALSO WE WILL NEVER BACK DOWN AAAAAAHHHHHH

Jfc

an interesting way to frame abundance would be: we've banned people from doing anything that affects the built environment. so our entire civilizational output has been channeled into consumer goods and websites. but what we actually need are buildings and other heavy