Tate Watkins

We've done this to ourselves, America. The 4-hour lines at the airport. The surging gas prices, and other rising prices to follow. The $200 billion and counting tab for our latest Middle Eastern adventure, piled on to of the $39 trillion in debt. Amazing national self-sabotage.

Well. That explains it.

The dimensions of what we have fucked up in this country are beyond any coherent explanation. It’s beyond any reasonable rage and almost beyond despair—in words, at any rate.

@PreetBharara Explain the Minnesota lawsuit from AG Keith Ellison. What novel legal argument is he making and will he be successful?

What questions do you have for StayTuned this week? AskPreet

@murphymike Dems really do have a hard time reading the room. Schumer still thinks he's dealing with Republicans of good faith. Newsflash bud- those days are long gone.

Country is at peak frustration and fury over out of control ICE, and Sen Schumer decides now is time to punt for two weeks instead of push in all the chips and use shutdown leverage to hobble ICE thuggery? I just don’t get it. Not a wartime general this guy…

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Trump has it backwards. The U.S. doesn’t subsidize the world; the world subsidizes the U.S. The dollar’s reserve-currency status allows us to live beyond our means. Soaring debt, tariffs, and military threats jeopardize that status. When it’s lost, economic collapse will follow.

@atrupar Or we could simply have an independent fed who could raise rates to combat inflation. Inflation cannot be controlled with price controls bc the underlying issues remain. Remove price controls and inflation explodes.

NEWSNATION: Why now are you for price controls? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I think desperate times calls for desperate measures

@SenateGOP when are you going to stand up? When are you going to assert your authority? Are you all just a bunch of wimps? There’s nothing courageous, honorable or virtuous in following this path. You folks were not raised to b weak in the face of conmen. Stand up & find courage

Drive the healthcare wedge now!! The contrast is stark. Your healthcare costs are doubling while this administration is spending your money occupying a foreign country in our hemisphere. He doesn’t care about you. He cares about hemispheric dominance.

Everyone is watching the chip war. Nobody is watching the power war. That’s the trap. China’s power grid: 3.9 terawatts America’s power grid: 1.3 terawatts Read that again. China has 3x the electrical capacity of the United States. They added more power generation between 2010-2024 than the rest of the world combined. Right now: → China: 30 nuclear reactors under construction → United States: Zero China’s data centers pay 3¢ per kilowatt-hour. Virginia—America’s AI heartland—pays 9¢. That’s not a gap. That’s a structural execution. Here’s what nobody will say publicly: AI doesn’t run on chips. AI runs on electricity. The chip is the brain. The grid is the blood supply. You can design the most advanced GPU on Earth. If you can’t power a million of them cheaply, you lose. Goldman Sachs projects China will have 400 gigawatts of spare capacity by 2030. That’s triple the entire projected global AI power demand. They’re not building for today. They’re building for the decade when AI scales 1000x. My prediction (bookmark this): By July 2026, the first major US tech company will announce an AI facility in a foreign country citing “power constraints” as the primary driver. That headline will be the moment America realizes: We didn’t lose the AI race in silicon. We lost it in kilowatts. The century belongs to whoever can keep the lights on.

@MyGolfSpy I don't know anyone who doesn't want to see longer drives and lower scores. It's almost like they're trying to roll back the popularity of the sport.

You will be hearing more and more about the golf ball rollback in the coming weeks. It’s arguably the most asinine decisions this sport has made in 50 years. It affects .1% of golfers the other 99.9% of amateur golfers don’t have a distance problem. There’s never been a golfer that we’ve ever asked that said “I hit the ball too far”. Amateur male golfers have gained .7 yards in 10 years (that’s 2.1 feet) and amateur women golfers have lost 3 yards. So what possible reason is there for a rollback? There isn’t one.

@ThrillaRilla369 Once you go cast iron, you never back man.

Does anyone still use a cast-iron skillet these days? I’m trying to prove to my girlfriend that they’re not just a thing of the past—she thinks they’re completely outdated.

@IngrahamAngle Haha... From abroad??? Why would his solicitor general argued at the SC that the govt would have to refund AMERICANS if his tariffs are struck down. If foreign govts are paying shouldn't they be refunded???

Trump takes tariff money from abroad and puts $12B of it into American agriculture. That’s how you put farmers first.

@atrupar Maybe we could pool everyone and get lower rates across the board. That would be nice.

Roger Marshall on the GOP healthcare plan: "We do need some type of reinsurance pool to take care of the high risk people. We would like to have association healthcare plans so Amazon or Costco, someone like that, could sell health plans across state plans."

@RepDanGoldman Much needed. Thank you

Elon Musk paid an effective tax rate of 3.3%. Jeff Bezos paid 1%. How? They take out tax-free loans against their stock.   Today I'm introducing the ROBINHOOD Act to tax these loans and generate at least $276B for universal childcare and other programs to restore access to the American Dream.   It’s time for billionaires to pay their fair share.

@stuartpstevens He must have seen Putin’s soul

The Republican Party has been compromised and is operating as an asset of the Russian Federation. There's nothing like this in American history. A major party is taking the side of a clear enemy of the United States.

@chefjoseandres @JDVance @Ukraine This group of folks would have been loyalists in 1776. Cowards

Hey .@JDVance the ones killing civilians every day are Putin troops…when are you going to tell Him that @Ukraine is just defending their country, freedom and just fighting for democracy? Russia should send their troops home and the war ends immediately….

@McFaul Zero point zero

What concessions from Putin has Witkoff secured?

@softtail65 Cold Rain and Snow