@elonmusk Yes, anything that can further divide is more traffic and money on X. Andreesssen lost me when he said "Our enemies...". A bigger mind would say let's not cause enemies by calling those with different opinions as enemy. Evil is evil.
@MarioNawfal I am going to relax. I suspect he will announce a victory in Iran on Sunday Eve, and turn Memorial Day into a celebration of winning the Trump War.
@elonmusk You are better off if you focus on why they are doing this. Promising jobs is a fucking scam. Your data centers will eat energy, use water and result in higher unemployment. WTF is wrong with a timeout?
@RayDalio A good question, if you want to stretch a bit, is how do these inverse cultures benefit from the other? On the other end of defending against is working with.
@yabbanx Someday we will have open markets, and we consumers can benefit from and reward innovation and progress. Hard to imagine, hard to do, but let's think about what it would mean.
He is saying don't believe what you read on X, and other sources that are managed by algorithm. It is too easy to convince curious, innocent people to be led into falsehoods and anger. Which makes X more money. If you read something that makes you mad, it is probably because you were manipulated into believing it.
The only questions I have about applying Reaganism right now are the debt and regulating AI. I know he believed deeply in tax breaks as a stimulant, but I don't see how we avoid tax increases of some kind. Yuck. And with the unknown risks and rewards of AI, this is time for serious regulations at the national and international level. Not deregulation.
Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.
$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.
One hour before the announcement.
Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.
They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.
Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.
The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.
This is not the first time.
It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.
But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.
Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.
These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.
I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.
This isn't politics anymore.
This is a financial operation running out of the White House.
@mikepompeo@RpsAgainstTrump Yes, our best interests are served with legal relationships with all countries. We joined NATO because we knew this. A strong Europe is a strong US.