Daniel Thompson

[Native Land Pod @nativelandpod]

Call it socialism. Call it progressive. Call it whatever you want.

#AngelaRye goes back to the Black Panther Ten-Point Program: jobs, healthcare and a government that makes sure people can actually live, etc.

Maybe argue less about the label and more about the policy.

[Hubert Baidoo @HubertBaid80747]

If the Bank of Ghana established the pricing structure, and Goldbod functioned only as a delivery boy, Goldbod cannot claim to have curbed gold smuggling. That credit belongs to the Bank of Ghana, if that claim is true at all. Granting this premise, what exactly is Goldbod's mandate?

Ps: When the media invites lawyers, this is the number 1 question they should ask them, not the arithmetic. That's not their domain.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

As Democrats look for a 2028 candidate who can win swing states, I visited Kentucky to talk to Governor @AndyBeshearKY who manages not just to be elected in a deep red state but to be popular there while taking some liberal positions. Here's my take: https://t.co/RYmzijzfA5

[FDR Wallace Dem 🌹✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @fdr_dem]

Jasmine Crockett is massively projecting. She wants Black voters to be demoralized for the fact that SHE is not on the ballot in November.

This has nothing to do with James Talarico, so she needs to stop weaponizing Black voters as a scapegoat for her issues, and stop blaming James in the process.

Podcasts are not where these issues need to be addressed either.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

New York City is where people from all over the world come to become Americans. A recent viral ‘New York’ magazine essay about Middle Eastern immigrants gets that exactly backward.

[John Kasich @JohnKasich]

Democratic Socialists are winning elections because they are speaking directly to voters about their very real concerns and offering ideas to address them. Those may not be ideas I agree with - or even believe are workable - but when other candidates fail to offer ideas and proposals of their own, it is no wonder they are losing.

[Hubert Baidoo @HubertBaid80747]

FYI

[Jay’V @JayVTheGreat]

There’s nothing like a b*tch a$$ black male, hating on another Black man at the behest of the Democratic Party.
It’s quite pathetic. 🤡
The left loves these effeminate men who don’t mind voting for their own demise.

[Hubert Baidoo @HubertBaid80747]

Alfred, with the greatest respect, what occurred on the space was not scrutiny. It was simply handing Mr. Gyamfi an unchallenged platform to exonerate himself. I generally prefer to keep my peace these days, but the ongoing tragedy of the Goldbod mandate is too grave an issue to stay silent on.

Mr. Gyamfi repeatedly boasts that Goldbod has not incurred losses. Of course it hasn’t, and theoretically, it should never. Goldbod functions strictly as a middleman, and middlemen operating with state-backed authority do not lose money. Sustaining a baseline profit under these conditions is not a mark of managerial brilliance but merely the basic structural nature of a somewhat unnecessary mandate.

Our concern is that Goldbod is quietly draining the economic lifeblood of this nation. I warned of this the moment the bill was enacted. Barely a year later, Ghana has lost an estimated $2 billion on the back of this arrangement. The defence to this cannot and must never be export returns. Gold was going to be exported anyway.

This is what the $2 billion could have done within our domestic mining sector alone. For under $600 million, the state could have:

Reclaimed and purified over 15 billion cubic feet of our heavily polluted river bodies,

Established a state-owned mining corporation capable of competing with giants like Newmont, and

Built Africa’s first integrated bauxite processing facility.

The remaining $1.4 billion could have fully asphalted every primary agricultural road connecting our food baskets to market centers across the country.

Mr. Gyamfi went so far as to attribute the government’s elusive macroeconomic success to Goldbod, even while the Cedi had already depreciated 8.6% year-to-date at the time of his speaking. I refrain from probing further into the currency metrics to avoid political rhetoric.

Furthermore, he framed Goldbod's central purpose as the eradication of gold smuggling. Genuine scrutiny would have challenged that premise directly: Why does a nation like Canada which produces significantly more gold than Ghana operate without a state monopoly like Goldbod, yet effectively control industrial smuggling? Asking these fundamental structural questions is what true accountability looks like.

Whenever I express these concerns, some members in this forum misconstrue my objective analysis as personal animosity toward Mr. Gyamfi. That is simply untrue. I respect him and seriously celebrate his accomplishments. However, the Goldbod framework poses severe long-term macroeconomic and environmental threats to our nation. The intelligentsia must interrogate these policy choices critically rather than prioritizing political favor or personal affinities.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, should ever take precedence over the sacred preservation of our lands, our waters, and our economic sovereignty.

Thank you.

[Hubert Baidoo @HubertBaid80747]

"The history of democracy and economics has shown that there is no single objective answer to how people define the best life, and therefore the best approach is letting people decide what matters in their own lives."

This is profound, Mark. That is a wonderful piece!!

[Hubert Baidoo @HubertBaid80747]

In a civilized society you cannot criminalize the opinions of people on any faith. You simply can't.
The law may protect you the individual regardless of your faith, but it should not "protect" the faith itself. It's open. Anyone can punch holes. That's how societies progress.

Many years ago, Nietzsche wrote that God was dead. Guess what, he couldn't find us the killer😅. What killed Nietzsche however, is known.

Allow people!

[April Chapman @Unshakablewapr]

So now we have Black freak nasty Diddycrat socialists trying to convince us that drags shows aren’t sexual and it’s just all fun and games? This is the degredation and moral rot of modern liberal black females. Keep these women away from your children. They are wicked and perverse. She takes her OWN children and doesn’t see anything wrong with it.

[Henry Macwhirr 🍉 @h_macwhirr]

@JamieMetzl Young voters don't necessarily endorse the DSA platform. They will support candidates who are not afraid to speak out against genocide, and they will reject those who defend it. Young voters will redeem the soul of America.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

No one has been more consistently eloquent or incisive in exposing @realDonaldTrump than @Ossoff. The paragraph from his weekend speech that has gotten so much attention was a brutal takedown.
But two words in it, "with Natalie" seemed gratuitous and unnecessary.
They juiced the virality of it, I'm sure. Probably thrilled some in the base, who figured it was just giving Trump a taste of his own nasty medicine.
But they distracted and detracted from the power of the message.

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

Vindman was so "arrogant" that he "literally laughed at Angie Nixon. Said he didn't even think he was in a primary," political consultant @RealJacobPerry, who had been in discussions with Vindman to join his campaign at one point, told Axios

https://t.co/MnsBxNyHjC

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Jason Arday’s death was a tragedy, writes @DouglasKMurray. But the reaction to his fall shows the double standards that enabled his rise in the first place.

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

David Jolly, the Democratic Nominee for Governor in Florida: “I reject the DSA. I reject Socialism.”

[NewsNation @NewsNation]

Journalist @jemelehill joins @ChrisCuomo to break down the heavy backlash surrounding Stephen A. Smith after he publicly blasted the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for giving him their "Thumbs Down" award.

More: https://t.co/4VfgdZLwrq

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

🚨 CNN: Abdul El-Sayed is the first Michigan Democrat in the 21st century to trail by at least 4 points in a Senate poll

[Timothy Selikem Korku Donkor @DonkorST]

The black person has become so westernized that in his artificial sense of chasing the original western lifestyle, he mocks himself.

If he finds his brother or sister who writes or speaks English well, he thinks he has found excellence.

He ignores every flaw and begins to worship him because he has found one of his own who perfectly mimics the foreigner.

What fools we are!