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James Surowiecki

@JamesSurowiecki

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Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Contributing writer for Fast Company and The Atlantic. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.

New Haven, CT
Joined February 2013
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@JamesSurowiecki
James Surowiecki
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Incredibly sad to see Machado abasing herself like this. Trump turns everyone into their worst version of themselves.
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Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize? Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
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James Surowiecki
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The fact that Stephen Miller laments the dissolution of the French and British empires and wants the U.S. to embrace imperial ways is a perfect expression of the cancer that the post liberal right has become on the American body politic.
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@JamesSurowiecki
James Surowiecki
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"Greenland should be part of the US" is as absurd and offensive a statement as "The Sudetenland should be part of Germany." Trump has no constitutional authority to seize it. It's grotesque that we've gotten to this point.
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James Surowiecki
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These people are lunatics.
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@JamesSurowiecki
James Surowiecki
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"I'm reflexively non-interventionist, except that I'm in favor of the U.S. intervening whenever Trump decides it's a good idea."
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Kelly did not characterize lawful military operations as illegal, did not counsel members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders, and did not engage in seditious conduct. In a just world, he would be able to sue Hegseth for defamation.
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Trump has no knowledge of or interest in the actual economics of Venezuelan oil production: he just wants to own more stuff. But it's as if he's trying to show that the left-wing critique of US foreign policy is true: it's all about imperialist control of natural resources.
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James Surowiecki
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So Trump is threatening to assassinate the new Venezuelan leader we just installed if she doesn't play ball?
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@JamesSurowiecki
James Surowiecki
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Why do doctors keep giving Trump this cognitive test that looks for signs of dementia?
@MeidasTouch
MeidasTouch
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Trump again says his health is “PERFECT” and claims he “ACED” his third straight cognitive exam, a test given by doctors to detect signs of dementia
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James Surowiecki
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The same goes for Cuba. Yesterday, Marco Rubio suggested that Cuba could be next on the regime-change train. But Trump revoked humanitarian parole for Cuban refugees in the U.S. There's a total incoherence between Trump's foreign policy and his immigration policy.
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James Surowiecki
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Video from Miami, not Venezuela, and literally no one in the MSM has said that the people of Venezuela liked being ruled by Maduro. The only people who downplayed how bad Maduro was were RWers who didn't want us to accept Venezuelans' claims of political asylum.
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Nick shirley
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Wait a minute the MSM media lied to us again? The people of Venezuela actually didn’t like being ruled by a narco-terrorist? World Cup style celebrations are ERUPTING all across Venezuela atm, congratulations to the people of Venezuela! Que Dios te bendiga! 🙏🏼
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James Surowiecki
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Remarkable that Trump revoked Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans, saying it was safe for them to return home, while the country was ruled by a guy he just used US military force to remove from power.
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James Surowiecki
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Every tweet in defense of this coup sounds like it was written by a 12-year-old boy.
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James Surowiecki
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Terrible call by Shanahan. Why get cute on 4th and 1 when you need to keep your offense on the field?
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@JamesSurowiecki
James Surowiecki
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Machado got the Nobel Peace Prize Trump thought should have been his. No chance he was going to support her.
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Josh Rogin
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Trump throws Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado under the bus. Says he hasn’t talked to her. “It will be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support inside the country or the respect. Shes a very nice woman.”
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James Surowiecki
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These 49ers uniforms are hideous.
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James Surowiecki
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Very weird tweet if your point is that the critics of the Venezuela coup are wrong.
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James Surowiecki
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"Oil imperialism is the foundation of America First" is quite a take.
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James Surowiecki
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"We've superseded it by a lot. By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe Document." What is he babbling about?
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Aaron Rupar
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Trump: "All the way back it dated to the Monroe Doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal. But we've superseded it by a lot. By a real lot. They now call it the Donroe Document. I don't know. It's Monroe Doctrine. We sort of forgot about it."
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