Economist / Finance Guy / (Classical) Liberal-Conservative #PrinciplesFirst / Oh, and Go Blue Devils!

Joined January 2019
Robert Buschman retweeted
Ossoff: When he first announced the tariffs, you remember that? He called it Liberation Day, and it crashed the markets because it was clown policy. You remember that? OK, so follow me through on this. He announces the tariffs on April 2 of last year. The markets tank nonstop for like a week because it’s a disastrous trade policy, and six days into the crash, April 8, Trump buys millions in stock. I’m talking Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and then the very next morning, April 9, he posts on Truth Social, quote, “This is a great time to buy.” Three exclamation marks. OK, now listen to this. Three hours and 41 minutes after that post, one day after he bought millions in stock, he canceled the tariffs and triggered one of the biggest same-day rebound rallies in market history. He’s trying to get money. And you saw, now he’s offering paid subscriptions to presidential announcements, right? Just understand what’s for sale here: The sitting president’s pronouncements on war and peace and economic policy delivered first to paying customers. What an absolute crook.
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Robert Buschman retweeted
Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out. The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing. Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees. The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in. Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal. The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals. The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion. This is your tax money. It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close. We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us. google.com/url?q=https://www…
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In today's @ajc, from my friend and former colleague, @RepBourdeaux. In short, our economic well-being and our national security are being jeopardized for an unauthorized war of choice. edition.pagesuite.com/html5/…
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Robert Buschman retweeted
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." (Video: @DropSiteNews)
Greg Bovino: "An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots…This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."
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Video shows Alex Pretti, permitted U.S. ICU nurse, filming with phone in both hands when agents pepper-sprayed and tackled him. Gun holster-removed while pinned; fatal shots followed. Contradicts claim of approaching with drawn handgun amid resistance. theguardian.com/us-news/video/… abcnews.go.com/US/alex-pretti… kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…
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via @SPGlobal regarding Trump's massive tax increase
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Robert Buschman retweeted
Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
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Not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel, but if you think his show should be canceled for this, you’re a hack and a total fraud who should never pretend to care about free speech
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If you want people to stop calling you fascists, then stop acting like fascists.
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"A toxic mix of stubbornness and lack of intellectual curiosity." -- @chrischristy, speaking of Trump and his obsession with tariffs
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A clownish mob boss for a president, with his boot-licking sidekick of a VP. These people are a disgrace.
Trump and Vance have declared themselves to be on Russia's side in the Russo-Ukraine war.  This is a catastrophic mistake for America's national security.  And let's be clear:  Trump and Vance now personally own that policy.  It is not the view of a majority of Americans of either or no political party.
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This is enraging and if you’re a red-blooded American, it should piss you off. I’m sick for the Ukrainians dying everyday to protect their homes and families, but also sick for my own country. These people are tearing down everything we represent.
Wow, Vance and Trump are attacking Zelenskyy in the Oval Office
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Trump regime makes it official, @RepMcCormick: America has changed sides. The US voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries today on a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. wapo.st/41gmlOo
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Aside from the general issues about Trump‘s tariff and his economic nationalism strategy, today’s actions against Canada and Mexico are inexplicable and dangerous. 1/8
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