Reasons it’s ok to crash the economy: pandemic, nuclear winter, alien invasion
Reasons it’s not ok to crash the economy: the president is an idiot
Hypocritical, I know
Ugh fine. Let me repeat. Shut the FUCK up. These covid comparisosn are stupid and so are you. A global pandemic is not the same as your fucking idiot president doing dumb shit. Suck my entire anus
TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands that are entirely populated by penguins?
BROOKE ROLLINS: C'mon Jake. Whatever. Listen, the people that are leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest people I've ever worked with.
It’s funny how populists hate finance but like crypto. Any economist will tell you finance provides valuable services. The benefits of crypto are more uncertain, and it’s much more inherently tied to scams and criminality. That’s a feature, not a bug for Tate-style populism.