Thomas Oatley

@dugmartsch @mungowitz @scottlincicome Well, then non-traded goods would then become relatively cheaper.

@mungowitz @scottlincicome I mean yeah sure unless the tariff enjoyer says 15% on everything! In which case, there’s nothing relative in a global supply chain.

@WarClandestine The Department of Defense spends 25% of the federal budget and 50% of all discretionary expenditures. No other program that isn't social security even comes close.

When you realize that you have been busting your ass and going to work your whole life, just for the Democrats to steal your tax dollars and give it to illegals, so they can cheat in elections and steal more of your tax dollars…

@bennyjohnson We spend $900 billion per year on defense. Maybe start there.

I’m convinced we could pay off our entire national debt by doing 3 simple things: 1. Ban all non-citizens from welfare programs 2. Strict, enforceable work requirement for EBT/SNAP/Section 8 3. Mass prosecute welfare fraud with federal prison time for stealing from taxpayers

@Noahpinion Now do the US.

Britain is a broken civilization.

@JohnHolbein1 Post-tenure Review PTR

what would be the perfect academic-inspired band name?

@timburchett Maybe you could try to remember what we fought for (and against).

This disgusts me. If any country ought to be kissing our ass it’s France. My Uncle Roy fought and died and is buried there for their freedom.

Remarquable article du NYT sur la grande divergence technologique entre les deux grands empires du 21e siècle : les USA et la Chine. L'empire du pétrole fait face à celui du soleil dans une confrontation qui embarque le reste de l'humanité. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Now do Christians.

Now delayed until 7am. No communication. Pretty horrible look for your customer service

@flynorse I’m stuck at JFK because you delayed my flight from 11:55pm until 5am. What are you able to do?

@AskFlynorseSrvc I’m now stuck in JFK because NO2 is delayed. What can you do for Me?

@matt_vanswol newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…

Can anyone explain to me why democrats are flying to other countries to help illegal immigrant criminals… …but none of them came here, to Western North Carolina, to help their fellow Americans? I don’t understand.

Oh, @JDVance— America, take a good look. This is what a coward looks like in a tailored suit and a borrowed spine. You were raised in hardship, forged by trauma, and handed a microphone. And somehow, you chose to become the very thing your story once stood against—a mouthpiece for cruelty, a spokesman for white grievance, and a Vice President of the most vindictive regime in modern American history. Let’s start here: @JoeBiden ain’t responsible for the hollowed-out husk you’ve become. You broke yourself. You wrote a book begging for empathy—for understanding the pain of Appalachia, the wounds of addiction, the complexity of the forgotten white working class. And now? You sit one heartbeat from the presidency, parroting fascist talking points and cheering for mass deportations like it’s a halftime show. You married a woman who’d be targeted under the very policies you now defend. You’re raising biracial children—yet you align yourself with a party that would erase them for the sake of purity and political theater. That’s not policy. That’s cowardice, dressed in flag pins and handed a title. You talk about immigrants like they’re vermin—like they haven’t built this country with sweat, sacrifice, and the same hope your meemaw once prayed for you. Your ancestors? They didn’t build this country with “bare hands.” They inherited whiteness, and with it, land, loans, and legacy. And now you stand on that inheritance and pull the ladder up behind you? You call it patriotism. But the rest of us know: It’s just fear. You say there are “too many” to grant due process— That the Constitution bends under the weight of brown skin and foreign accents. You wouldn’t say that about your wife. You wouldn’t say that about your children. But you’ll say it about desperate families fleeing wars we helped start—because it plays well in the echo chamber of your ambitions. This isn’t about law. You’re not defending America. You’re defacing it. Let me speak plainly: You were once a boy with clarity, a man with promise. But the Right didn’t just buy your voice. They bought your silence. Now you carry water for billionaires, white nationalists, and a president who brags about breaking the law like it’s a sport. You rage against “smug liberals,” but what you really hate is truth. Because truth reveals what you are: A collaborator. A coward. A man who wrapped his trauma in a suit and now sells it as state-sanctioned brutality. And let me say more: History will remember. You will not be honored as a patriot. You will not be celebrated as a statesman. You will be remembered as the Vice President of a regime that tried to finish the job Jim Crow started. You looked at your children—your own children—and still chose to sit next to a man who called for mass deportations, prison barges, and constitutional erosion. All for a title. All for power. When the dust clears—because it always does— when America finally retches up this poison you’ve helped inject into its bloodstream, your name will be bitter in the mouths of those who survived your policies. This isn’t leadership. This is treason in a flag-wrapped podium, wearing the face of a man too broken to love himself—so he breaks everything else. And the worst part? You know it. You’ve always known it. – Don’t Blink.

@JTLonsdale @Noahpinion And how would we know this without giving due process for all who are deported?

@Noahpinion Nope. Not US citizens. I don’t believe he’s done that / if he had, I’d be up in arms and speaking against it.

Well said. A couple friends texted me today about the due process and rule of law issues around USA’s immigration (/Biden admin alien invasion) situation, and I shared JD’s post with my reply. Context is critical for this one. And USA needs to start deporting at scale ASAP.

@charliekirk11 It bothers you to learn that educated people reject political parties that support racism, Fascism, and all forms of stupidity?

In 2021 over 96% of political donations from Harvard faculty went to Democrat candidates. Defund Harvard.

@ryancbriggs @JohnHolbein1 Add networks plus luck you get 75% I’d bet.

@JohnHolbein1 Too vaguely specified to be answerable, but plausibly nearly 100%. If we could re-run history but randomize our parents (and so randomize country of birth, etc) I think most academics would probably not end up being academics.

what % of successes in academic publishing can be attributed to luck?

@SpencerHakimian It’s not like it’s a big secret that the US doesn’t manufacture consumer electronics in any appreciable quantity.

Not that China would do this, but what happens if Xi decides to place export controls on the very same items that Trump just exempted from tariffs? We just completely showed our hand on what we cannot afford to have cut off to us.

@TheChiefNerd This isn’t rocket science. Send low productivity (and therefore low wage) jobs away. Keep high productivity (and therefore high wage) jobs here. MAGA tariffs do exactly the opposite.

Scott Galloway Argues Against Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back to the U.S. 🤔 “We have outsourced low wage jobs overseas such that we can create more profits, more investments and create higher wage jobs”

@SenBillCassidy Gosh, if only there had been something you could have done as a Senator to send a strong public health message about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines.

Not publicly known if the child was vaccinated, but almost certainly not. Everyone should be vaccinated! There is no treatment for measles. No benefit to getting measles. Top health officials should say so unequivocally b/4 another child dies. foxnews.com/health/second-…

@BonneyMax Yet semiconductors and pharmaceuticals are largely exempt from the tariffs