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Epimethius - afterthought (Promethius' less famous brother) L'esprit de l'escalier. Append to all tweets: I could be wrong.
Always curious. Always seeking.

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

@andrewrsorkin at least you all made it clear that Lisa Cook is innocent until proven guilty.

This administration has no respect for due process.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Every time Putin spits in Trump’s face, Trump takes it out on Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Putin knows this and it won’t change until the GOP stands up to Trump. In other words, nothing will change. It’s all a show. Europe must act, or they’re just a bad show too.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

"Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. (...)

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost." — Ronald Reagan

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

Exactly.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Big question — will we live under emergency rule or Constitutional rule?

What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a federal appeals court has knocked them down? | The Hill https://t.co/OqbiMzAIQ8

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Mises saw the key distinction: in liberal states with limited government power, cultural mixing creates no problems because all interactions remain voluntary.

But interventionist states turn immigration into a political battle where "a national minority must expect the worst from a majority of a different nationality."

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

It is the Heritage foundation you have to watch.

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

What's disorienting about Trump is that you never know if some of the stuff he's doing (takeover of DC policing, Bolton FBI raid) is a move toward dictatorship or just idiotic showboating & petty vindictiveness, because he's fundamentally a moron (see FIFA press conference)

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

@JoeSquawk have you considered this situation for the country? Economy?

[Kristine (@schachin on Threads) 🇺🇦 @schachin]

Yes 💯
I had congestive heart failure at one point andI had six leg pain procedures.

The way the edema appears is very very different.

Leg veins make your legs and feet, what I call, glumpy. You have pitting and swelling but it's more and less in different places.

It does not appear consistently and it doesn't appear consistently across both legs.

It is not equally distributed across the body or cross both legs.

He's also carrying vast amounts of fluid.

That would be one thing if he wasn't given the best medical care in the world.

Then...
The bruising on his hand is 100% IV given.

He's most likely being givenIV lasix to bring the fluid down, but it's not controlled.

With the care that he gets plus getting IV lasix it has to be kidney or heart failure.

The thing is it's so out of control, you can see it on the daily with the fluid in his neck and his face and his ankles, it means his heart is failing and to the point where they can no longer use meds to keep it stable.

You can come out of congestive heart failure, I did. I live with heart failure but my heart is doing very well because I'm med compliant.

However not at his age.

Also his heart is failing at such a rate that the IV lasix can't even keep up with the fluid.

He's dying.

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

Lessons to be learned, government intervention stunts innovation and competitive performance.

[Brian Sullivan @SullyCNBC]

Trump 'asking' Intel to give 10% to the US Gov't in return for the Chips Act money.

Not exact same as taxpayer taking stakes in GM or some big banks, but it does rhyme.

So .. do we call it an Intel bailout or no?

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

The more government intervenes the less competitive we become.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Biden was wrong to subsidize the private sector with the Chips Act using our tax dollars. The counter to Biden is not to lean in and have govt own part of Intel. This will only lead to more government subsidies and less productivity. Intel will become a test case of what not to do.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Biden was wrong to subsidize the private sector with the Chips Act using our tax dollars. The counter to Biden is not to lean in and have govt own part of Intel. This will only lead to more government subsidies and less productivity. Intel will become a test case of what not to do.

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

@pcristoaloia @Villager1244 @charlesmurray Short term thinking. We would be far ahead of China in automobile innovation now if we hadn't intervened. Instead we would have innovated and competed. Americans are amazingly good at it.

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

@charlesmurray And they are enemies of the US Constitution.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Suppose you build a farm. After a while, the government takes it. Maybe before you die—either way, it's their farm now because they think no human should ever own a farm they didn't build. Or at all, as the case may be.

This is how commissars starve a nation. Works every time.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

A Ukrainian intelligence officer says the Americans are being “unbelievably aggressive” in pushing Ukraine to forfeit more land—but it is unclear is why they are so forcefully promoting Russia’s interests https://t.co/eMOiXBuZCO

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

@grok How many times has Trump violated the constitution since becoming president?

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

@andrewrsorkin I vote for the Steve and Andrew show.
Unfortunately, I've canceled my subscription, will no longer see cnbc. Very tired of Joe and Rick shouting at me.
I wish you success.

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

"The mRNA vaccines were developed by scientists, tested by clinicians, evaluated by statisticians, and approved by regulatory experts. Every layer of institutional knowledge validated their safety and efficacy. Yet all of this is being overruled based on a fundamental misreading of what vaccines are supposed to do."
Excellent overview of RFKJ's anti-science anti-vaxx decision @Quillette @clairlemon
https://t.co/fzJNcWwoqK

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

Small businesses are in a much worse position at this point.
I see all the economic reasoning based on Walmart, Costco, etc. Sm business has already started sinking.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Christmas is going to be a disaster this year.

Companies have sold down their front-ran inventory, and now the “deals” are already set.

Average tariff of 20%. Even higher if you’re China heavy.

Imports have been falling off a cliff for months now, so there’s no restocking happening to save the shopping season.

Either, prices go way up and volume goes way down. Or prices stay flat and corporate profit margins get annihilated.

It’s August 7th.

The holiday shopping season is 90 days away.

It’s too late.

We’ve made our bed and now we must lay in it.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In this video, Friedman explains how socialism relies on force to achieve good. But using force corrupts, no matter how pure the intentions.

This is key to understanding why centralized control systems inevitably fail.

[brain blobs @SmashAGrape]

Plus, small companies cannot eat the tariffs!

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

“It’s hard to imagine that with tariffs kicking in you don’t have a headwind,” says Centerview Partners’ Blair Effron. “Companies will not continue to eat the cost of increase.”
https://t.co/IQBpoSXoqM