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[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

This response shows the economic illiteracy of blanket tariffs.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

“Who is the terrorist? The United States of America!”

This is Mamdani’s endorsed candidate for Congress, as the October 2023 Hamas massacre that killed dozens of American citizens was still unfolding. Understand what is happening here.

There is no chance he’s not aware of this. He knows. He supports it. He literally endorses it. Mamdani himself was arrested protesting at Chuck Schumer’s house just days after 10/7, preemptively opposing the Jewish state’s response to the slaughter through disorderly conduct outside a prominent Jew’s home. This is who he is.

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

Marco Rubio would be a top 10 President but we don’t deserve him.

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

Rubio on the anniversary of Tiananmen 👇

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

Rubio on the anniversary of Tiananmen 👇

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The legal issues here are entirely different. You can think SCOTUS got it wrong, but this is just dishonest.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Hello 911? I’d like to report a murder

[🐺 @LeighWolf]

We sacrificed 360,000 souls to end slavery and another 250,000 souls to defeat fascism.

Any moral debts were paid in blood many decades ago.

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

Based

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

🚨BREAKING: In a shadow docket ruling, SCOTUS allows Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map (with only one Black-majority district).

The 3 liberals dissent.

https://t.co/FcPGWKFL7Y

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

@elvicentela Don’t hate the player hate the game. SGA is the logical outcome from soft bs rule structures that started with James harden in Houston

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Vietnam was devastated by decades of war, bombings, and failed socialist policies, yet it began growing rapidly once it liberalized parts of its economy.

Ethiopia was never colonized, yet for decades it was it was the poster child of poverty and famine on the continent.

History matters, but so do the economic policies countries choose today.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Walter Rodney was wrong.

Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work.

Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer.

Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

@ChicagosLoneCon The obsession is all the moderates for both parties who were winning where they shouldn’t lost. They’re replaced by hardliners or were gerrymandered out.

Last mod you got is BFitz.

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

@ChicagosLoneCon Competitive but there aren’t Barbara comstock’s out there. Plus R gerrymandering gonna offset a lot of a potential upwelling. Honestly. I see a house flip but a minor one.

[Michael(Poltfan)((JapanDayTripper)) @PoltFan69]

Gen Z boss in a bread line!
Gen Z boss in a bread line!

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

Unions are literally labor cartels.

Look at our ports and what unions have done to them.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

Since the libs are already mad at me, I’ll poke the bear and say the anti-public-sector-union takes amount to effectively wishing for an end to the American labor movement—that’s just the reality when private sector unionization is ~6%.

I’m sure I’ll get some “yes” chad face replies and quotes, but be careful what you wish for; liberal democracy under capitalism but without unions has often been pretty politically unstable! People want a democratic say in their economic life; unions offer this. Without unions, allegiance to liberal democracy itself declines, because people feel (reasonably) without resource to have a say in where they spend a third of their lives—at work.

If you’re frustrated with the policy demands of some public sector unions, find compromises. Offer them something else in exchange! Do a little horse trading.

Better yet, reform and expand American labor law through things like sectoral bargaining so unions aren’t so often in zero-sum situations where they feel obligated to cling to existing jobs for existing members, because they don’t have a strong path to organizing new workplaces and finding good new union jobs for workers that would be displaced by, say, automating trains.

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

The Chinese will look at you with a straight face and say “we think in centuries” as they plunge into a demographic crisis caused by one-child policy

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Your periodic reminder that the US spends far more on entitlements than defense:

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

As Trump has explained, tariffs don’t raise prices and are paid by foreigners, which is why [checks notes] suspending or removing them lowers prices and makes things more affordable.

[Moderate R @BFitzStan]

This guy sucks

[santos-inistas @JDabknee]

Reminder that suburbs are parasites that leech off of the city’s agglomeration effects without contributing to her prosperity