JD Vance is even more pro-Russia.
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JD Vance is even more pro-Russia.
I know of a couple of good Russians. Garry Kasparov and Ilya Somin come to mind. They are strongly opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, responded sharply to Hungary’s decision to ban him from entering the country, where his father was born: “Shove your sanctions and entry ban where the sun doesn’t shine, Mr. ‘dancer on graves’,” he said, referring to PM Orbán.
Leaving Russia would get him arrested per the decision of the ICC. He'll go to Alaska and not get arrested, hence...
Right , it means many will not be able to stay in business.
Not really. A glut in the US market from local wines might mean lower prices in the short term, but they will cut production due to cost constraints and raise their prices due to the fall in competition from abroad. The US will produce less, and American wines will be more expensive.
These are the four principles of the IHS. Trump and Vance are not "liberals" in any of the senses. American contemporary conservatism has mostly rejected the "classical liberalism" of its past, and is fundamentally illiberal, nationalistic and corporatist/mercantilist.
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Affordable = With no rent controls.
The problem isn't with the initial concept, but the populist Farage types who took over, along with the "liberal leavers'" bending to the political winds.
Every MAGA person in my replies.
Turns out, mass deportation is a major economic disruptor… When farmers can’t make their harvest and restaurants can’t put food on their tables, people start to notice. A *stunning* change in strategy here. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
Putin's way of messaging that he doesn't take Trump seriously.
kyivinsider.com/how-hungaria... #Orbán #Szeklers #NicușorDan
Pharma prices in the US are low in generics and high in patented drugs. Instead of rewarding companies with monopoly power and then forcing them to lower prices, govt should propose patent reform to increase competition.
“And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.” (Exodus 23:8)
Pretty low bar there.
NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)
Giving up on Greenland?
I'm an optimist: Today is going to be better than tomorrow.
Too much assuming, contrary to all evidence, that Putin doesn't want war. He started the war, continued the war, and is the only one who has it in his power to stop the war right now if he wanted to. #RussiansGoHome
I know you can relate, as cats have nine lives: Jesus was dead, but he rose again from the dead. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!
And when in November 2009 Hungarian PM Vikor Orbán returned from meeting Putin in St Petersburg. Funny how these things happen.
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Beginning at 4:15 on this vid, the chilling info that when DOGE created access to the database, a player in Russia immediately used those credentials, thru starlink to gain access to the Database. ( this is surely happening also at IRS, Treasur and Social Security ) THEY DON’T WORK FOR US.
This is insane. Deadly serious and very troubling. #CFPB #DOGE www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
What an idiot. Congress has the authority to impose tariffs, and the executive branch negotiates them and sends the proposals to Congress for approval.
Trying to keep up with Trump on bad economic policy ideas?
You can negotiate free trade agreements without imposing tariffs (and indeed more successfully) but I don't think you can negotiate being a member of the #EFTA (and not the EU) without having left the EU.
The difference being that support for Brexit was really a coalition of different ideas and ideologies, including people like Dan Hannan who wanted to leave the EU but remain in the single market (similar to Norway or Switzerland). I think this is still a possibility, but it will take time.
youtu.be/D30LAzub2gs?...
Those of us who have lived in highly protectionist countries know what it's like to be forced to decide between paying high prices for rubbish domestic products or pay exorbitant prices for the quality stuff that is cheap in other countries.
Is America great yet, or does it get even worse?
You'd think with so much practice, he'd improve his swing a little.
Future submarine.
The real question is does it matter? The net capital inflows are positive, which balance out the trade deficit. #EconSky
How did she get her job? 🍈🍈
Who's going to tell him.
I use Signal all the time.
#EFTA pls.
This is the way it starts. bsky.app/profile/marc...
Watch them go after Goldberg and The Atlantic for publishing it.
The FSB has been poisoning her for a while?
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Read this and then consider that Russia was the horse that Reform Party Akela and societal canker sore Nigel Farage was backing No wonder Donald Trump is so gushing about Vladimir Putin given he has so much in common with many of the Russian troops
This video on tariffs has been circulating widely this week. The issue of protecting domestic winners is a perennial one. However, kudos to the team from the CEA or NEC who contributed to the speech. #EconSky #FinSky #AcademiaSky youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?...
Time to dust off the old copy of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Still waiting.
I would think this would only be agreeable to the Ukrainian side if there were to be a massive increase in military aid during that period to counterbalance the advantages that Russia would gain through a ceasefire.
Interesting to re-read this article by @ilyasomin.bsky.social in light of the disqualification of #Georgescu by Romania's election authority. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sect...
To make sure we don't forget that the Republicans don't have a monopoly on bad economic policies.
I would like to see the results of the poll that asks: do you trust the Russians not to break a quick negotiated settlement without security guarantees?
The opinion poll says that they want to be invaded again by Russia? That's what I was referring to.
Just as a reminder... www.proekt.media/en/guide-en/... #Ukraine #Russia
That doesn't look like ashes on his forehead. Looks more like paint.
There's a huge difference between cuts based on decisions by a panel of economists and legal experts and those by an out of loose cannonball hacker with his teenage accomplices. Cuts are good, but they shouldn't be random and haphazard.
Nobody wants that save Russia and maybe Trump, since he seems to hate Ukraine as much as he does.
You do know historically what has happened with ceasefires and peace treaties with Russia in the absence of adequate security guarantees.... Nobody wants that.
My quick take on the car crash of a summit between Trump and Zelensky. open.substack.com/pub/maxboot/...
Russia now realizes that America will in no way act on article 5.
What must his inlaws be thinking.
Same here.
.@washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos says editorial page should defend "personal liberties" and "free markets." So WP writer @danamilbank.bsky.social wrote this piece outlining ways in which Trump threatens those values. In process, he quotes me extensively. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
He's not loyal to anyone but himself. Sure, he's given to flattery, but he'll turn on anyone if it's to his advantage.
Poilievre would be best because he's anti-Trump but can't be just dismissed as a leftist.
Please send us a whistleblower who will leak the whole thing. Thanks.
A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
My question to the reporter: "Why haven't you asked Elon that question?"
I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni
Please enjoy this Hungarian rap song about a prime minister who loves money. English subtitles youtu.be/f2iQfEcO39A?...
Neither should the Magyars. Sigh.
In Romania, they arrest politicians who are Russian agents. In the US, they elect them president.
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I agree that it's basic appeal is transgression. But wasn't that, in many ways, the basic appeal of Nazism? Not some coherent ideology, but permission to shed conventional morality and be as bad as you secretly desire to be?
He's probably kicking himself for having stepped down.
You're right.
"Trickle down" is a term used by the opponents of tax cuts on the wealthy, not by its supporters. The point wasn't that the wealth "trickles down" but that high taxes stifle the economy.
Várunk türelemmel.
Bit of a straw man there.
Jeff 
