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@dbongino Hi, Dan. Maybe you should take a look at your X analytics one day and check out the engagement. See, most of the folks that interact with you don't believe anything you say, and they think you are a lying grifter. Try better next time, mkay?

Tom Massie is a shameless fraud. Thanks, and have a great day.

One Year On: The Greatest Economic Own Goal in Living Memory A year ago, Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden, surrounded by charts nobody understood, and declared war on mathematics. He called it Liberation Day. The Financial Times, along with every economist who has read more than a bus ticket, is marking the anniversary with a verdict that should be carved into marble: it failed. On every single front. Spectacularly. Completely. Embarrassingly. Let us be precise about this. Measured against Trump’s own three stated goals, making foreigners pay for doing business with America, narrowing the trade deficit, and punishing China, the tariffs have clearly failed.  Not partially failed. Not failed with asterisks. Failed the way a man fails when he drives a Reliant Robin onto a motorway and acts surprised when it rolls. And everyone said so. Economists said so. Trading partners said so. His own party said so. The entire field of international trade theory, developed over roughly two centuries by people who actually read things, screamed it from the rooftops. But Donald Trump, a man whose relationship with economics appears to consist entirely of gut feeling and cable television and 6 casino bankruptcies knew better. The average American household paid an extra $1,700 due to tariffs. Over 65 percent of Americans reported that everyday goods became significantly less affordable.  This is what happens when you run the world’s largest economy on instinct and vibes. One year after the Rose Garden ceremony, factory jobs are down and inflation is up.  The precise opposite of what was promised. With extraordinary confidence. Then the lawyers arrived. The Supreme Court found that Trump had exceeded his authority, ruling that the declared emergency bore no rational connection to the trade measures imposed.  In other words, the legal foundation was nonsense. The government had collected $166 billion in tariffs from over 330,000 businesses on grounds the Supreme Court found unconstitutional. The refund process is now underway.  One hundred and sixty-six billion dollars. Collected illegally. From American businesses. The financial markets, bless them, responded with the only appropriate tool available: mockery. The meme “Trump Always Chickens Out” refuses to go away, and the TACO index is now actively used by analysts to price in the president’s chronic habit of retreating.  Every serious voice warned this would happen. Trade economists. Former Treasury secretaries. The IMF. The WTO. The EU. Canada. Japan. Basically anyone who had spent more than forty minutes studying how global trade actually works. The man who ignored all of them had previously run a casino into bankruptcy and considered that a learning experience. He was not, it turns out, a fast learner. One year. Zero of three goals achieved. One Supreme Court ruling. One $170 billion refund. One economy paying more for everything and making less of it. Liberation Day. What a name for it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@libsoftiktok Meanwhile in MAGA land x.com/afpost/status/…

Meet Nancy Brasel, the U.S. district judge who sentenced Feeding Our Future fraudster Abdul Abubakar Ali to ONLY 1 year in prison because he showed "genuine remorse" for his crimes. Steals millions. Gets caught. Says sorry. Only gets 1 year in prison. The “Justice” system

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Being "too old" for games is a myth made by boring people.

@JrMolonLabe @ben4texas @SGTWipper1Each I don’t get these guys that want to shit on their fellow veterans. It’s almost like they are compensating for something.

@Filmbeloh20 @ben4texas @SGTWipper1Each Bad jumps. Blown up and a lot of broken bones for 16+ years. Yeah I sleep well at 100%

A Veteran can achieve a 100% disability rating with anywhere between 1 and 29 rated conditions. They could have a single condition rated at 100%, or it could take as many as 29 issues all rated at 10% each. TWENTY NINE! Make it make sense. It's worse than Common Core math.

@RondureGyre @propublica Fuck your whataboutism. I’m equally appalled at both. Why aren’t you???

@propublica I'm sure you were equally appalled at the thousands of pardons signed by Bidens autopen Including blanket pardons starting 2014 for his friends and families Now, what is the actual reason for trump pardoning this person?

New: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent. propub.li/4di7xXs

@BrandonStraka Nobody believes this. My refund was about half of what it was the year before. Meanwhile my medical insurance doubled, gas is higher, groceries are higher and we’re at war with Iran which means everything is about to get way worse.

Sec. Scott Bessent reports refunds are up over 10%, with nearly half of returns reflecting Trump policy changes and 25% claiming no tax on overtime.

Remember back when like every other day we saw 4k footage from the DoW of speed boats being blown to bits in the Caribbean, but somehow we’ve sunk 90% of Iran’s naval vessels with nary a photo (aside from that one ship being sunk by a sub)? Weird.

@StorytellerSBM Believe it or not, there are lots of Fed gigs that you may be interested in. I worked in the civ industry for 25 years before I realized I could do the same thing for the G. Still serving the warfighter and still being creative. Best of all worlds.

4ish months till I’m off active-duty. Do I feel like I’m anywhere closer to figuring out what’s next? Not particularly. I’m trying to do something every day that could help point me in the right direction. New resume tape coming your way soon, my friends.

@rickdicksonreal Fuckin A. Same with disability.

The antiquated divorce settlements continue to be awful for service members even almost 60 years later. Military members shouldn’t owe shit for retirement payments to spouses. Zero. None. They don’t earn any of it.

@RonDeSantis @MaxNordau Most beautiful beaches in the U.S. Maybe the world.

You’ll be impressed with the beaches in NW FL.

@ben4texas @SGTWipper1Each "I dEpLOyEd". Neat. So did I - multiple times as an Infantryman. Did you ever break your back in a bad jump? Get exposed to sarin gas? What else... Oh yeah, any shrapnel still in your body? My 'aches and pains' would make you cry like a bitch.

No, I just have integrity and believe in working for a living. Veterans getting disability while being able to work, and most do, is no different than people working the welfare system. I did 20 years, mostly reserves. I deployed with the Marines in Desert Storm and National Guard for OIF. I have my issues. I also have my pride. Veteran disability is a scam. If you can work, you’re not disabled. You just have aches and pains like 99% of everyone else.

@SGTWipper1Each Mine added up in real people math is 260% lol

@ben4texas @SGTWipper1Each Hi there! 100% here. I still work full time and I have a jet ski because I'm trying to enjoy life for myself, as well as set my wife up with a retirement because I'll probably be dead before age 60 due to the myriad issues I have from burn pit exposure. Yahoo for me!

Unless you can’t work, you’re not disabled, you’re just wanting free money. I know too many veterans that are 100% disabled. One of them is a firefighter full time and worked with me in an ED as a nurse. He had a nice lake house. Nice ski boat. Ice car. HE HIT THE LOTTERY. They are trying to turn veterans into democrats by giving them disability money. Democrats give everybody free money to buy votes. America will implode under the financial burden of entitlements.

@KMSharp72 @jakeshieldsajj @FrontierArt1 Do y'all get gayer every time you call Trump Daddy? Or are you already at peak gayness? Not judging, just find it fascinating. You do you, bubba.

@jakeshieldsajj @FrontierArt1 I think people like you are incompetently attempting to destroy America. Buckle up buttercup, not going to be a very fun next few years for the beta babies. The GOAT is still your DADDY

Do you think Trump is intentionally destroying America or do you just think he’s incompetent?

@robbystarbuck @wil_da_beast630 But why? What has JD accomplished as a conservative?

@wil_da_beast630 I don’t think it’s hostility, I just prefer JD as option 1, Ron as option 2.

I genuinely don't get the level of hostility/neutrality toward the competent, actually right-wing DeSantis.

@SGTWipper1Each Basic: 89 Moves: 2 Times Deployed: 3 (Shield/Storm, Intrinsic Action 93-1 and 93-2 ETS: 94 Final Rank: E5

Basic/Boot: 2011 Military Moves: 3 Times Deployed: 0 Exited Service: 2017 Final Rank: Sergeant Now it’s your turn. 🫡

@KarlWuckert I've been a conservative and voted Republican all my life. As long as we had the house and senate to keep Kamala in check, it would have been better than the idiocy we have now. Everybody in Iowa can suck it for dismissing DeSantis.

Looking back, do you still think Trump was the better choice than Kamala?

@CryptidPolitics You're writing that while using a clip showing him eviscerating the opponent that ultimately won the election. It doesn't matter how good the candidate is. We're at the point in the Idiocracy movie where everyone is voting based on what a guy named CatTurd tells them.

Marco Rubio has what it takes to be the 2028 GOP nominee. He would absolutely eviscerate whoever the Democrats put up as their nominee. He’s a bonafide generational political talent.