Patrick W. Watson
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Economics journalist, editor @MauldinEcon . Opinions mine. Mastodon: @patrickw @journa .host. Also on Threads (pwwatson) and Bsky (patrickww).
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When everything is designed to provoke and enrage you, staying calm is a revolutionary act.
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@RonFilipkowski
Owens: Trump is old, naive and easily deceived and we absolutely must restore him to the presidency.
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@MittRomney
It is not "good faith" to deposit money over the well-known insurance limit and then expect to be made whole.
Capitalism doesn't work unless people who take risks bear the costs when they lose.
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@RepAshleyHinson
No, you didn’t defund anything. You passed a bill the senate will ignore. Nothing of substance has changed.
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@AccountableGOP
So MTG favors taxation without representation yet remains in her party's House leadership. Interesting.
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MAGA thought process: We must punish evil China for sending this horrible virus that is just the common cold and we don't need masks but Trump was a hero for wearing one that one time and God bless him for inventing the miraculous vaccine we're not going to take.
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@MittRomney
If Sen Romney wants unlimited FDIC coverage, he can introduce a bill and raise someone's taxes to pay for it.
This ad-hoc practice where we have a $250K limit but everyone assumes we will ignore it in a crisis makes no sense.
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@DavidSacks
If you think all bank deposits should always have unlimited FDIC backing, say so and support legislation to do it. And find a way to fund it.
Waiting until a big bank fails *then* demanding a bailout for wealthy people who knew the risk they were taking is ridiculous.
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@SpeakerMcCarthy
We all know you will abandon this rule as soon as it causes your side to lose a vote you would otherwise win.
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Musk is killing Tesla���s brand for liberals without gaining any conservatives to replace them. Brilliant.
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@LindseyGrahamSC
The people who disagree with you on this point are mostly in your own party.
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@JackMLawrence
@notdred
It’s even worse than this. Twitter will have no way to know which of the 7 accounts claiming to be Dr X is really Dr X. They may find fakes but they’ll ban many real users, too.
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Donald Trump, who claims to be pro-police, calls the person who did this a "hostage" and vows to pardon him.
Officer Fanone on Jan 6. He was tased 3 times in his neck, beaten with his gun, dragged down the stairs unconscious and had a heart attack. Don’t say fake. His attacker confessed and is in prison.
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It's not about remote vs office. People have figured out that "grinding" rarely earns them anything extra, no matter where they work. So no reason to do it.
Breaking: multi-billion dollar CEO concerned that you’re not grinding
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@MarleeTuskesTV
What is this "both" talk? Dozens of officers saw it happen and all chose to let him bleed.
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So if a Biden staffer should turn out to be a foreign agent who lies to the FBI, and then Biden pardons him, Republicans will be cool with it, right?
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@DanCrenshawTX
Dude, literally *yesterday* you were telling people to ignore law enforcement. Don't act all surprised and outraged.
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Nevada enacted an indoor mask mandate on July 30. Now it is the only one of the ten worst-affected states where cases fell over the last two weeks.
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@PeterAlexander
Dunno your source. But until these agents testify, the person who just said the opposite under oath at great personal risk is far more credible.
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The same people who found a “lock her up” campaign chant amusing are now very very troubled by what they call a “politically motivated” prosecution.
Trump is bullying other Republicans, including his election challengers into supporting him. And it’s going to work.
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Largest elder care facility in NJ runs out of room to store the bodies but yes, let's re-open the economy.
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Trump simultaneously doesn't know Cassidy Hutchinson at all and also knows plenty of reasons why "she's not good."
I'm not a lawyer, but this seems potentially defamatory and maybe witness tampering.
"Whack job ... I won't say why that she's not good, but plenty of reasons" -- Trump makes all sorts of weird insinuations about Cassidy Hutchinson during a new Newsmax interview
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@sam_d_1995
Most pickup trucks in the US aren't really trucks. They are expensive cowboy costumes.
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@GregAbbott_TX
Do y’all just sit around making up fantasies you think will enrage people? Who’s in those meetings?
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Greg Abbott has ordered TX state troopers to inspect *every* truck entering from Mexico. But legally they can only inspect mechanical condition, not cargo. So he's delayed shipping, cost everyone $$$ and done nothing about immigration or smuggling.
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Math doesn’t care if you “do your own research.” The answer is still the same.
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Translation: US troops are now mercenaries whose services I sell at a profit to myself.
NEW: On deployment of thousands of additional U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia, Pres. Trump says, "Are you ready: Saudi Arabia, at my request, has agreed to pay us for everything we're doing. That's a first!"
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Possibly the worst aspect of Trumpism is the way he encouraged people to act like jerks. Allowed at scale, this makes civilized society impossible. The GOP's House speaker circus is a small glimpse of how bad it can be.
"Republicans have spent years building a party that encourages members to be their worst selves. Perhaps Ken Buck is a sign that’s changing, if only slightly. He’s a bizarre canary in the fascist coal mine -- but that’s the only type of canary the GOP has"
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Another anomaly is how these school shootings occur almost exclusively in the US and very rarely elsewhere. Why is that?
Dan Crenshaw claims on CNN that bc school shootings "are so random & unexpected, it's hard to prevent. They seem like they happen a lot, but they're still anomalous events, & they're very difficult to build a pattern behind" (One pattern is that many of them involve AR-15s)
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@mtgreenee
Your own state voted blue in the most recent presidential and senatorial elections.
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Elon Musk is an African-American immigrant from one of those "shithole" countries. You can't both celebrate his achievements and be angry he's here.
Congratulations
@ElonMusk
and
@SpaceX
on the successful
#FalconHeavy
launch. This achievement, along with
@NASA
’s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!
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"Donald Trump’s poetic undoing will be his unplanned winning of the White House. That unanticipated victory is bringing him the deep scrutiny by federal authorities that Trump and his flimflam business empire long needed, but never got."
@TheSpyBrief
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Hope is being able to see there is light despite all the darkness.
- Desmond Tutu
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DeSantis and others are doing this clever trick where they pretend the content of *AP* classes, where students are all 17-18, is somehow corrupting first graders.
DeSantis is asked during a news conference about the state's rejection of an AP African American history class. He says "this course on Black history, what's one of the lessons about? Queer theory ... that's the wrong side of the line for Florida standards."
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@HouseIntel
@RepMikeTurner
The House has the power to declassify any information in its possession. You don't need to ask Biden or the senate. Just do it, if this is anything other than a political stunt.
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In Denmark, where they DNA-sequence *every* positive COVID case, the B117 variant is growing 70% per week, yes, per week, despite strict lockdown.
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Trump to GOP donors: I will proceed with cutting your taxes as soon as I finish kicking this hornet's nest.
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@AdamKinzinger
Maybe a better question is how we got to the point where your party thinks that being kind to people with disabilities is an electoral disadvantage.
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Peter Wang was a JROTC cadet. He should get a military funeral, posthumous commission and a medal for valor.
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The same tech kingpins who a week ago were wondering how many more layoffs they could get away with …
… are now very very concerned innocent people might lose their jobs. 🤔
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39,000+ Americans died since he sent this tweet.
The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American.”
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@ZelenskyyUa
Most of your party’s House caucus appears to disagree. Maybe you could speak to them.
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Powerful rebuke from Mollie Tibbetts' father: Don't distort her death to advance racist views
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@elonmusk
Fact check: Joe Biden never ordered a single lockdown. Some governors and mayors, many of them Republicans, imposed some restrictions but no part of the US ever had anything like the *actual* lockdowns in China... about which Musk has said nothing.
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Ted Cruz is the guy who microwaves fish in the office kitchen.
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It is a problem that some companies and billionaires can routinely ignore the law, do what they want and consider any fines or civil penalties a cost of doing business.
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PRO TIP: When telling people about your suffering, avoid illustrating it with a pic of yourself in $1,000 suit and a giant Rolex in front of your private jet.
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Living with Huxley would be a Brave New World.
This is Huxley. He hopes you had a good day, but if not, he’s conveniently right here and an excellent listener. 14/10
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@DavidAFrench
Please explain the thought process of someone who “abhors tyranny” but vigorously supports Donald Trump.
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@FrankLuntz
@RonnaMcDaniel
Declining to give someone a network contract is not "silencing" them. She is free to say whatever she wants in many other places.
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@yaf
This is the opposite of reality. Young people lead most revolutions and social movements precisely *because* their finely-tuned BS detectors make them difficult to indoctrinate.
Old people are much softer targets, which is why Fox News so easily influences them.
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@DarrenMays11
There are certain subjects on which men should not opine. This is one of them.
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We never heard of Russia
We never talked to Russia
We talked to Russia but it wasn't collusion
We colluded with Russia but it was legal
We illegally colluded but Obama authorized it
Sure, we colluded but no one cares.
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Michael Cohen paid the CIO of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to rig online polls in Trump's favor, and now he talks on the record to WSJ because Cohen stiffed him on the bill. You can't make this up.
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Someone should research where Kissinger traveled recently and where he shows up next week. Carrying very private messages between leaders is his specialty.
🚨Happening Now:
President
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@thejackhopkins
If Tucker Carlson is there too, I’d suspect Musk and Trump are getting a private message from Putin.
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The free market healthcare plan is simple: Let the sick people die if treating them costs more money than they have, can borrow or can beg from charity. That is why every developed nation but one has decided not to make people depend on markets for their lives.
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Right after shootings is not the time to discuss gun control but let's talk about forest management while homes are still burning. Got it.
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
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Imagine a stadium that holds 100,000 people. Admission is free but a random 0.1% of those who enter will be executed.
Your survival odds are 99.9%. Would you go in? Would you take your children or elderly parents in?
If not, then stop saying
#COVID
is no problem.
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@GregAbbott_TX
@KAGSnews
The “taxpayers” in this case are consumers who paid excessive sales tax, not property owners. So your idea is really a tax *transfer* from one group to another.
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Maybe not coincidence this is the 30 year anniversary of Branch Davidian siege near Waco.
In the last couple hours we learned that Trump reportedly plans to surrender to authorities if indicted and he also plans to hold a rally next weekend in Waco. Normal presidential campaign stuff.
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@bcmerchant
Trying to imagine how naming board members is a distraction. The boss was so busy looking for an LGBTQ person in San Francisco he forgot to hedge the bank's interest rate risk?
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@JonSchweppe
@LindseyGrahamSC
Decades of telling people anything less than a full no-exception ban = complicity in a holocaust isn't reversible in a few months.
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We are borrowing money from China to rescue our farmers from the harm inflicted on them by our quest to punish China.
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I feel like it should get more attention that the Federal Reserve Board of Governors hasn't held a single open meeting in 2 1/2 years, while holding 82 closed meetings in that same period.
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@GovGoneWild
@newtgingrich
@BrendonLeslie
Your text shows a bill that would do exactly what Gingrich and other media reports say.
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If you endorsed Roy Moore knowing he wants Muslims barred from Congress and gay people jailed, it's not hard to excuse sex with a teen girl. Morality is not high on your list.
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Texas bars try to require vax, state threatens to pull licenses.
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@GregAbbott_TX
Whelan was discharged for bad conduct in 2008. He is not currently a marine and calling him one insults those serving honorably.
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When *physicians* start unionizing, it's pretty clear the game has changed.
BREAKING: Over 500 doctors and health providers with Allina Health clinics in Minnesota have filed to unionize with
@DoctorsCouncil
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If successful, they say they will form the largest group of unionized private-sector clinicians in U.S. history.
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@joelpollak
Please describe these "sacrifices" you think Trump made for the country. The record shows the opposite. He consistently puts his own interests first.
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Prediction: Even if rock-solid proof emerges that Trump knew of (or participated in) Epstein's abusing young girls, almost all Republicans will still support his re-election.
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@DavidSacks
No, that's not it.
You were arguing that people and companies who signed contracts agreeing their accounts were FDIC covered only up to $250K should get unlimited protection, even at taxpayer expense.
That is "big government" by any definition.
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"No amount of fact-checking, nor attempts at shaming, will stop Fox from supplying its viewers with the lies they desire."
@atrupar
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@SawyerHackett
@serrano_alej
Possibly relevant that Llano’s Confederate Memorial is right across the street from this library and may survive longer.
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