@dissidentwookie @scottlincicome Wow didn’t know Powell caused Covid or decided to spend $7T in stimulus
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Ap3x
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The national debt just exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946: wsj.com/economy/u-s-de…
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@mattyglesias What’s the socioeconomic breakdown of this group of voters? Why have they switched? Seems like he just transformed some racial polarization into class polarization.
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Trump being the guy who drastically curbed racial polarization in the electorate is one of the great ironies of history
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(((Harry Enten)))@ForecasterEnten
Trump's GOP is holding on to the generational gains they made with Black voters in the 2024 election. The GOP has gained 12 pts on the Dems on party id with African Americans vs. Trump term 1 at this point. Trump's approval with Black voters is higher than it was in term 1.
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Great point.
Why does Powell think he’s personally the lynchpin of Fed independence? Does he not think the other governors are up to the job?
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent
It is unusual for soon-to-be-former Fed Chair Jay Powell to stay on at the @federalreserve. For someone who speaks so often of norms, his unilateral decision to stay flies in the face of tradition. Kevin Warsh will bring about a new day at the Fed, with accountability, management, and sound policymaking in the lead.
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The “high-trust customs” you’re mourning were a fiction. We know this because the curtain has been pulled back repeatedly: Wikileaks, the Podesta emails, the Twitter Files, the FISA disclosures. The diplomats and politicians shaking hands on camera were lying to each other, to allies, and to voters in private. Trump’s contribution is refusing the veneer. That’s not a degradation of trust. It’s the removal of a performance that was hiding the absence of trust. His relationships are more honest, more personal, and therefore more durable, because nobody has to wonder what he really thinks.
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Trump's bullying only works (and only temporarily at that) because he's taking advantage of the high-trust customs and relationships established by more principled predecessors.
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The incredible daily routine of Paul Tudor Jones:
2:30 AM Wake up, work for 30 minutes
3:00–3:45 Watch the London open, analytical work
3:45 Back to sleep
6:15 Wake up, repeat
6:15 Wake up
6:15–7:00 Work
7:00–7:45 Workout, 45 minutes of hard cardio
8:00 At the screens for the market open
8:00–10:00 AM Screens, no meetings
10:00–12:00 Meetings
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Meeting
3:00–4:00 Hour before the close: map out the next day
4:00 Market close
4:00–5:00 Hour after the close: think about Tokyo and Hong Kong, map out tomorrow
5:00–6:00 PM Walk with wife
6:00–7:00 PM Work
7:00 Eat and watch the news
8:00–9:30 Netflix / mindless entertainment
9:30–10:15 Work
10:15 Bed
2:30 Wake up, repeat
He's had the same routine for over 40 years.
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
My guest today is Paul Tudor Jones (@ptj_official), one of the greatest macro traders of all time. He correctly predicted the 1987 stock market crash and shorted the Japanese bubble in 1990. For over 40 years, his flagship fund has had a negative correlation to the S&P 500. 100% of his returns are alpha. He says today's market has so many similarities to 2000, "the easiest bear market I've ever seen in my whole life." He makes the case for going long dollar-yen, why Bitcoin beats gold as an inflation hedge, and why he was wrong about Warren Buffett. But what I'll remember most from this conversation is Paul's zest for life. He's 71 and still wakes at 2:30 every morning to trade the London open. He works out for two hours a day. He walks with his wife every evening. He travels the country chasing peak spring and peak fall. He's so excited about the songs picked for his funeral that he wishes he could be there to hear them. Paul has lived five lifetimes in one. He's one of the most entertaining and interesting people I've met, and the conversation will leave you searching to be as passionate about what you do as he is about what he does. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:00 The Kindest Thing 13:19 Trading vs. Investing 17:33 Lessons from Warren Buffet 22:24 The Existential Risks of AI 29:54 The Nature of Trading 31:46 Bitcoin 35:55 Bubbles 42:08 A Day in the Life of PTJ 46:00 Information Overload 47:07 Passion for Markets 50:49 The Robin Hood Foundation 54:18 The Workless World 56:03 Journalism 1:00:00 Principal Components of a Great Life 1:05:06 Kill Them With Kindness
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That's awesome how they fucking kicked him in the head
Fuck him
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨WATCH: The moment police detain a suspected terrorist in North West London
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@PolitlcsUK What a disgusting video. These officers should never be able to police again. 1312.
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🚨 WATCH: Police struggle to detain the 45-year-old suspect after two Jewish people were stabbed in Golders Green
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We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…
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@CathyYoung63 @grok You poked Rufo to get more than your usual dismal engagement and it backfired. Many such cases.
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Deleted because Rufo has posted screenshots of several posts by Will Stancil that do endorse political violence. So yeah, I was wrong & I won't blame @grok. 🤣
Trump has said worse stuff, but people who hold themselves up as the good guys should be held to higher standards.
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@ASFleischman @HistoryBoomer Unfortunately there are tens of millions of them and they’re quite loud
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The people who support the Comey indictment would support literally anything this President said or did.
You can safely disregard them on every other topic.
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It really puts into perspective how little our esoteric political discussions on here matter when the median voter is literally this
Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinn
Every so often (I mean frequently) I see a voter articulate their rationale in such a way that makes me want to smash a whole whiskey bottle across my head.
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Europeans see a photo of an aisle of 500 different packaged sliced breads in a US grocery store and can’t comprehend the scale of abundance in America that there’s also a whole entire separate giant bakery section full of breads like these
Leo/Täubchen🐦@affairemayaling
these are in almost every supermarket chain here. this is what we mean when we say you don’t have bread in your grocery stores.
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@RichardHanania Trumpers built their own Kremlin via market forces. Hilarious
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Incredible levels of trashy behavior.
Now if you ask the admin for comment on a story, they'll delay you so they can give it to Fox News instead.
Don't ask for comment, of course they'll attack the "fake news media."
You can't win dealing with people with no ethical code.
Sam Stein@samstein
ATTENTION TO anyone in the WH press corps. We asked WH for comment this morning with a 1230 deadline. they asked us for a few more hours to track the story down. we were gracious about it. they then gave it to Fox News (which doesn't have nearly the same deets we do)
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Ap3x retweetledi
I'm sorry but this bit has to end with me piledriving someone's smug, sniveling face right into the fuckin' pavement
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@avidseries Bush was a thousand times worse a president than Trump despite being a jovial and earnest guy.
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The most personally repellant man to occupy the White House in my lifetime, and it's not close.
Passports represent the United States, not an individual. They are not objects meant to advance a personality cult or a president's narcissism. This is just the latest example of Trump trashing longstanding norms of behavior, and it sets a troubling precedent.
And of course it provides still more ammo to people around the world who claim the Trump administration is falling into Dear Leader territory.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Department of State finalizing plan to put Trump's picture on U.S. passports. — The Bulwark/FOX
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Permanent bear posting for engagement is amazing because it simply works all the time, regardless of the market regime.
During 95% of the time when the stock market goes up, you can always call for a crash, and people will listen because the market has been going up and they're concerned it'll crash.
During the 5% of the time when the stock market goes down, you can claim fame for finally being right (after likely being wrong for years).
This is the reason why so many people do it. You can basically have zero knowledge about the market and still post and eventually get plenty of views and followers.
The issue with being in a constant bearish state is that you will only eventually make money off the fear of retail investors. But it's highly unlikely that you will make money in the stock market when you're constantly betting against the market.
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