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@jimiuorio That's a direct quote from King George III often misattributed to Augustus Caesar or King Faisal.

Defending property rights is not “defending billionaires”.

@DanCollins2011 Wowzers.

Japan Inc died with the cassette tape. - Share of Global GDP: 17% → <4% - Semiconductors: 50% → 9% - Shipbuilding: 50%+ → about 10% - LCD Panels: 94% → about 2-5% - Televisions (Sony + Panasonic): 40%+ → <6% - Mobile Phones: 20% → <1% - DRAM: 80%+ → 0% - Telecom Base Stations: NEC + Fujitsu combined less than 2% - Power Semiconductors: Top five hold 20%+ → Only three seats in top ten, each <5% - Automobiles: Overtaken by China as No. 1 exporter. Missed EV transition.

@igorsushko Russia paid Ukraine over $2 billion in 2024 for gas transit fees.

South Korea is funding Russia's invasion of Ukraine through massive coal purchases. Starting in July 2025, South Korea dramatically increased imports of Russian coal. In April 2026 South Korea paid Russia $241.82 million for 2.26 million tons. July 2025-April 2026: $2.5 billion.

@policytensor Iran has been graduating 200,000 students per year for 20 years from its engineering faculties = 4 million engineers. US graduates more kids but 40% of US engineering students are foreign, mostly Chinese and Indian

An important technical reason why experts were sanguine about the military challenge posed by Iran is that, even as late as five years ago, Iranian missiles were thought to be too inaccurate to pose a significant threat. The only missile capable of reaching rear area bases in central Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan was the Shahab-3, which had a CEP of 2.5 km. All of this changes very dramatically and very rapidly. Especially with MaRV, the CEPs of Iranian MRBMs fall from >1 km to 300m and even down to 10m. The Israelis have been freaking out about the Khorramshahr, a powerful, highly accurate missile with a CEP of 30m. So Iran has very recently joined the ranks of the great missile powers. And this development was not fully anticipated or digested by the community of defense experts. To be sure, everyone knew Iranian strike capabilities were increasing. But it seems clear from my readings that the rapidity at which the balance of power was moving in Iran’s favor came as a surprise to pretty much everyone in the expert community. An important lesson of this failure is that technical and force developments can be particularly rapid in the new missile age, and almost all of them move the balance against the distant power and in favor of the situated state. This was the mechanical process that transitioned the world from a unipolar to a multipolar one in a purely military sense in the space of less than a decade. All these idiots who want an arms race and a cold war with China are just poorly informed about the real prospects for the future balance of power, which are uniformly poor and cannot be reversed.

@policytensor Funny

Oh look, 2% of gdp grows at the same rate as gdp! Did you know?

@Kathleen_Tyson_ They have begun inserting rape into the talking points because of revelations about Israeli prisons.

India’s FM Jaishankar looks nauseated to be standing next to Rubio as he spouts such hypocritical nonsense after 2.5 years of watching the Epstein Class promote genocides and wars.

@AriFleischer A full scale, unprovoked sneak attack under cover of diplomacy by Israel and the US with the cooperation of the GCC to install the son of the Shah as Iran's new leader was an entirely sensible, reasonable and least economically disruptive plan. How could it not work out?

On April 7, the President announced a double sided, two-week ceasefire subject to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE opening of the Strait. Iran didn’t comply. They gave their word and didn’t keep it. I don’t know what’s different now. Iran never keeps its word.

@StephanieKelton The 1998 deficit for all government excluding Social Security was $29 billion. The unified budget including about $100 billion in Social Security taxes headed for the Trust Fund created the surplus.

Built on the back of *private sector* indebtedness.

@profstonge Or, hear me out, they no longer identify as male gender.

Atlas shrugged

@policytensor Wargames from a decade ago conducted by US military, intelligence and diplomatic experts came to this exact totally foreseeable and foreseen outcome as most likely result of a full scale, unprovoked sneak attack on Iran.

Nonsense. We lost because Iran is militarily more powerful than anyone understood.

@SantiagoAuFund About 1 in 7 US billionaires are foreign born: top 3 countries are India, Israel and Taiwan

It's not that it's "easy" to get rich in America. It's not easy. It's hard. But it's "easier" to get rich in America than anywhere else. And that makes all the difference in the world. Take that possibility away, and the new Dark Ages will have arrived.

@johnhawkinsrwn The people voluntarily bailed out the banks and paid for the research, distribution and administration of the mandatory jab for a vaccine against a virus that still affects as many people every year, for instance

Exactly. Most billionaires got their money because people gave it to them voluntarily in return for things that improve their lives. When was the last time the government did something that improved your life? I wish the government didn't know I existed.

@jimiuorio The Founding Fathers fought a Revolution in 1776 against the High Lords of Finance, Technology and Trade in London to found a government to secure political rights as against those High Lords.

There are people who think that the government will allocate billionaires money better than the billionaires themselves..at least that what they pretend to believe. There’s 0.000% chance that the government would do it better…

@jackprandelli Yay Asian jobs!

US trade with China collapsed $49 billion in one quarter. Taiwan surged $39 billion. The tariff war is redrawing global trade ⚠️ Biggest winners Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025 → Taiwan: +$39B AI chips → Vietnam: +$18B manufacturing shift → Mexico: +$16B nearshoring Biggest losers: → China: -$49B → Ireland: -$44B pharma normalisation → Switzerland: -$36B → Canada: -$22B Taiwan's +$39B is the entire AI supply chain story in one number. TSMC's output has become a macroeconomic variable. Vietnam and Mexico are where China's factories went. The trade data now confirms it. China's -$49B is the largest collapse on the chart and this is before the full tariff escalation cycle completed. The decoupling isn't a trend. It's a fact.

@mungowitz The Communist Party of China lifted 800,000,000 people out of poverty. This is the largest contribution to poverty alleviation in any country at any time.

The universal decline in poverty is astonishing. It has happened literally EVERWHERE that adopted a market system. Can be a mixed bag, for culture and society, but to dismiss the decline of poverty is the sort of weird selfish solipsism of the trust fund leftist.

@DrJStrategy 1965. US accounts for just under 40% of global GDP by PPP. China is an asterisk by this measure. 2025. US at just under 15%, China just over 20% by this measure. US economy has grown but shrunk in relation to others.

At 250, the US faces a decision that cannot be deferred. It can continue managing decline while the underlying structure erodes. Or it can reassert the principles that made it a republic: sovereignty, production, fiscal discipline, and strategic clarity. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…

@elonmusk @TheLaurenChen @GadSaad EU corporations have reaped enormous short term benefits from wage suppression due to abundant immigration. The socialization of losses/privatization of profits policy only turns when corporations choose it.

@TheLaurenChen Suicidal Empathy @GadSaad

Why are European countries importing people who rely on welfare to survive and are exponentially.more violent? Genuinely, what do they gain from this?

@ky_statesman The 2 top purchasers of US SPR released oil are foreign corporations headquartered in London and Singapore, respectively.

Who caused the energy crisis in the first place genius?

@GrantCardone Each F35 has a life cycle cost of $140 million. US has 1,000. Only 50% are airworthy and only 30% are mission capable at any one time ever- GAO 2025. Pentagon plan to address security fail of this expensive, fragile, unreliable weapon system: buy 1,500 more.

America’s debt issue can ONLY be solved by expansion of GDP. 🇺🇸

@DylanRatigan The Founding Fathers fought a revolution against the High Lords of Finance, Trade and Technology in London to establish a government to secure political rights as against the High Lords

Which is why Monopoly controlling a captured government creates profound wealth inequality, and political alienation and why none of the political theories coming out of the Silicon Valley kingpins should be acknowledged or interpreted as anything other than self-serving to preserve their political control and platform Monopoly.