Comments on: On tariffs: what is Trump thinking?

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:21:10 +0000

Two smart people (chamath and sacks) and two knaves (klein and summers)

By: Brian E

Brian E — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:49:41 +0000

Another interesting All-In podcast, this time discussing/cross-talking about tariffs with Larry Summers, Ezra Klein, Chamath and Sacks.

It does clarify the battle lines between the globalists and the economic nationalists.

A couple of interesting graphs around the 3 minute mark putting the recent sell-off in perspective.

The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcmMOZKnKAk

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:20:43 +0000

Holman Jenkins is wishing that Gov. Andy Beshear had run instead of Kamela, because Beshear might have beaten Trump.
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Chuckles. The Democratic Party had an abnormally deep bench in 2020. It included four men who had founded profitable businesses, a quondam business executive, and three state governors. Michael Bloomberg had both founded a business and done a creditable job as Mayor of New York. John Hickenlooper had been both a business executive and state executive. Steve Bullock had managed to appeal to a red state electorate. The Democratic primary electorate took a glance at Bloomberg and ignored the rest. What they actually wanted was
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(1) a corporate lawyer turned prosecutor with a history of abusing subordinates,
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(2) an ambulatory resume who had put in time as a none-too-accomplished small city mayor (marketing himself as gay).
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(3) A lapsed law professor (now Senator) whose career was crucially advanced by affirmative action fraud.
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(4) A onetime n’er do well who found his niche in municipal politics in Burlington, Vt, then parked in Congress for thirty years. He’s a Trotskyist. Cool, no?
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(5) A Washington fixture of nearly 50 years duration who had a known history of comical mendacity and whose notable activity over 20-odd years was running a pay-for-play operation with the legwork done by his brother and drug-addled sex fiend of a son.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:39:16 +0000

My thoughts are similar to Rufus’. It’s never a convenient time for extreme or unorthodox measures, and they’re always going to make somebody angry, but they have to come eventually.

Like Thomas Paine said, those who say “Give me peace in my day!” are selfish. Chaos now for a better future? I’ll take it…

By: om

om — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:06:35 +0000

BJ needs to get out more often.

Check out the “Wall Street Journal” editorial page, which is about as right wing as it gets.

LOL. Own goal. Check out the Babalon Bee, BJ, but don't fact check it, because although it is satire, it turns out to be correct more often than the "factual" media.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:38:34 +0000

Seeing as the murdoch sons are steering newscorp in general to the left but the barclay beancounters at the Torygraph and The Mails are nearly as bad all of these publications many of them have pulled their masks off

Their protestations against xi none withstanding they have given the game away

Its a tricky gamble china owns nearly everyone on fleet street and threadneedle as well

By: FOAF

FOAF — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:09:36 +0000

“Check out the “Wall Street Journal” editorial page, which is about as right-wing as you can get. ”

Not any more. They were never more than grudgingly for Trump to begin with and now they’e gone full TDS and yes it began before the tariff moves. And don’t even think about the “news” pages of the WSJ, they are as bad if not worse than the NYT and WaPoo.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:05:58 +0000

“concern troll”

Ya think huxley? Clayton is one of the most blatant trolls I’ve ever seen.

By: FOAF

FOAF — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:05:02 +0000

“Hi Brian E what I meant was I didn’t approve of what Biden did”

You are packed so full of trolling horseshit Clayton it’s spurting out your ears in jet streams. Link us to any and all comments you made here or elsewhere objecting to Biden when he was President. You can’t because you didn’t. That is a classic troll tactic, pretending to be “even-handed”.

I’m beginning to doubt whether Clayton is even “British” or if that’s just a new diversionary tactic from the troll farm. Of course he might be AI in the first place.

By: neo

neo — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:17:07 +0000

BJ: Peggy Noonan is not a person anyone actually on the right would call a person on the right. See this.