
Sam Frank
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Sam Frank
@anecdoted
~todset-partug / Inter-universal Geometer / Salvage Consultant


Why can't streaming shows come out annually when they're only 8-10 episodes when they used to produce 24 episodes a season every year on TV?





One of the mistakes the Right is making is designating Jews as permanent racial enemies. Leftists did same thing to young white men and created ferocious permanent enemies like me. This is complicated by the historical role of Jews as political commissars of the American empire.



What is extremely unhygienic but everyone seems to do it anyway???


@ClickingSeason It doesn't matter if you're a good parent or a bad parent, the kids will end up messed up because we all have to live in this messed up society. But of course, it's better to have better parents.

@_samantha_joy it do be like this



PSA TO WALKERS! my dad used to walk like 15-20k everyday and his outer thigh muscles are much stronger than his inner thigh muscles which puts a lot of strain on his knees. his doctor told him to not walk as much/climb stairs and his knees hurt 24/7. do inner thigh workouts guys




It’s been three weeks since I first published Economic Blitzkrieg so I figured it’s worth doing a quick overview of where we are and where I think we are headed: First to summarize: The thesis was Trump didn’t really care that much about tariffs. He cares about fortifying US hegemony by cutting out China. But to be more precise I’m going to fully outline what he cares about and then what he’s trying to do about each. Top of the list are his primary issues that needed to be addressed quickly & forcefully: A) Chinas growing industrial, technological and militaristic strength relative to the US B) A dependence on China at the base layer of U.S. industrial and military supply chains C) An unsustainable fiscal debt load and budget deficit that couldn’t be easily addressed without either irreparably impacting reserve status or forcing significant voter pain via austerity Less pressing but still relevant downstream issues that were also considered, in no particular order: D) Fentanyl crisis E) A free riding Europe that benefited from the U.S. security umbrella without commensurate compensation F) Growing economic entanglement between China and supposed military allies to the U.S. G) Growing unwillingness by voters around the world to take economic pain as the price of being a “good ally” as demonstrated by continued flow of Russian gas into Germany H) A concerted and accelerated shift of the Chinese economic model up the value-add ladder following the bust of their real estate bubble into areas that have traditionally been staples of higher-income economies including autos, semis and robotics I) Increased concern around the value of IP and the US’s assumed ability to control access to AI following Deepseek and the subsequent torrent of similar models out of China despite two years of GPU import restrictions J) A near term fiscal setup that seemed incredibly bleak given Yellen’s decision to short-date the govts debt in the form of $10T of maturities in 2025 while at the same time juiced fiscal spending to a degree that practically gaurentee economic malaise of the deficit were to be closed cold-turkey. So my thesis is that Trump turned to a number of high-IQ and mid-IQ advisors and asked for a plan. People such as Miran, Thiel, Pottinger, Colby, maybe Bessent… and yes maybe even obsessive single-issue types like Kyle Bass and Navarro. Who came up with the plan only mildly matters at this point… And these individuals constructed the following sweeping plan that attempts to solve everything all at once within the constraints he has. Constraints that include: midterm elections, the existing rule of law in the U.S. (loosely), high debt loads throughout the developed world and general unwillingness to “rock the boat”, an adversary who can exert far more economic pain on most countries vs the US. And most importantly, and adversary who has a defacto emperor for life while Trump has to wake up every morning and check the polls. Said another way, an adversary with a much higher pain tolerance vs either US politicians or voters. So what was the plan: Isolate China. Force countries to choose between two spheres of trade. Two spheres of military security. Two spheres of financial rails. But because of the aforementioned constraints you couldn’t just go to countries and ask them nicely to walk into an economic woodchipper… and while they were at it please run don’t walk since you have midterms coming up. So the strategy had to introduce game theory. It had to magnify the economic leverage. It had to introduce time constraints. It had to be binary. In or out. No room for ambiguity that can be undone by a subsequent government administration. 1/n continued below…














