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Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
This is all true. I’d just add that it’s a choice. There’s very little that Trump can do on taxes, tariffs, spending, or anything else that Congress can’t stop or change. Insofar as it’s watching from the sidelines, it’s choosing to.
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Corie Whalen
@CorieWhalen
People didn’t understand the extent to which they were shielded from Trump’s economic illiteracy by competent Republicans like Pence & McConnell during his first term. We are in the “find out” stage of “f around.” The economy is now officially a casino only Trump could bankrupt. x.com/tendar/status/…
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RabbitHoleRedux
@everSoTweetly4u
He is not illiterate on economics. Mike Pence never articulated *anything* in any salient way that protected us. Good grief. You make a mistake to underestimate DJTs abilities even as you accuse others of overestimating them.
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DBG8492
@dbg8492
Those "competent Republicans" allowed, and therefore, condoned adding roughly $23 TRILLION to the national debt through deficit spending since 1990. And to add further perspective, nearly $12 trillion of that has been added in just the past nine years. That debt drastically
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Never sweat
@GTTongue
So shallow.... The US fiscal situation is the equivalent of the Titanic heading toward the iceberg. The spending and debt trend is 100% unsustainable. That's the course protected by the Dems and the "competent Republicans". Anyone who doubts that fact is disingenuous or
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MAGA Media
@realMAGAMedia
I have to say, watching you on Megyn Kelly, your smugness and air of superiority is off putting to say the least. In all your pretense of elitism, your often wrong, and you'll be wrong this time also. You and everyone at NRO get all your "conservative" wish list, yet your still
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Erik Surbaugh
@JamesFingHolden
I don't know about that. Consolidation of power in the executive branch has been an issue for all US history. This perverse need to have a monarch instead of a president is a recurring theme. The post civil rights era Democrat party has given the prez a lot of power.
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RL
@rufuslex0602
He needs to be impeached and removed immediately. And Vance right after if he follows the same course. Not the first time that’s been true but it’s got potential to have the worst long run consequences.
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steve miller
@stevemiNumbers
The idea that 'if only Trump would do things like normal republicans would do it' if an argument that doesn't hold water. It will take pain to fix the mess we find ourselves in. It won't be pretty. And that means we'll have to put up with some mean tweets while he tries.
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Brian Soudi
@soudipop
This is true. The president needs to sign the bills into laws. He wouldn’t. And if they veto override him, do we really think the Trump/Musk administration would follow the laws?
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Anonymous Joe
@JoeJ45665
Really? The most prominent economic mists in our society are elected officials? Not ACTUAL Economists, business owners and Wall Street execs? Elected politicians you say. Interesting.
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Mike Pacheco
@MikePach25
I'm a bit tired of the same old people, who presided over the decline of the US, backseat drive when an outsider wants to do it differently from how they understand it. It's always the other guy who's the problem, isn't it?
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Death of the West
@deathofthewest7
They’ve watched from the sidelines or made things worse for 30 years. Congress sucks but especially Republicans. This idea of a Conservative movement has been a lie since 1995. Sold a lot of books though.
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Quipsilver
@kwipsilver
This is what happens when you hollow out a party of all principles and value loyalty to a strongman over all else. And that strongman happens to be a drug addled senile moron controlled by Russian interests and a techno fascist.
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Philip 🇺🇸
@heard03
Hard for me to panic about the economy after 4 years of Biden/Harris. The thing about a populist is that he’ll adjust to the direction of the wind. Patience is greater than panicking.
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Then What Happened
@JEsch50s
Trump added tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods in his first administration with no uptick in inflation worthy of note - look it up. So if tariffs operate like a tax, it's unlike any tax I've seen in recent memory.
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Opperdienaar
@Opperdienaar
35 T in debt hundreds of trillion in unfunded liabilities. There is no choice. Only in magical minds there is choice or the 'Triumph of the will' as that other magical thinker thought.
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A. R. Yngve
@AR_Yngve
If there wasn't a personality cult around the Dear Leader, Congress could function. And... The problem with cult leaders is that they invariably go mad. Humans are not made to be worshipped - they lose touch with reality. (Then they drag the cult with them into the abyss.)
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BellWether 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@1337bellwether
This right here may be the fundamental weakness in America right now & for a long time: a Congress that has handed over their power to the Executive Branch. How many of the Executive bureaucracies exist because of this?
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Lara (parody) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 🇬🇪
@laceltris
The problem, Charlie, is that the rest of the GOP shamefully capitulated to Trump just as you have. Who, exactly, is going to stand up to him now?
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REOvistus
@otheredtoo
I would say that this is early and no one loses that doesnt cash out but market hates instability of imputs and what not.
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Could We Not?
@DecidedlyAngry
You people are insane. We've been trying things the "normal" way for 70 years, and all we got was $35T in debt and a lousy t-shirt. We're trying something new. Will it work? I have no idea, and neither do any of the experts. What we HAVE been doing is a train wreck.
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Duke
@DukeWoodson
Congress is too polarized and equally divided to do anything since Obama’s first term. But you’re right. Unfortunately what we have now wasn’t envisioned by the founders.
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Btrnobody
@btrnobody
Pence and McConnell are Rino tax collectors for the welfare state and big supporters of the one world order. the status quo has spent America into oblivion. Trump is making progress. McConnell never did anything to slow or reduce spending
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The Intersect
@mburm201
Competent establishment Republicans outsourced our industrial base to a hostile communist regime. Reversing this dangerous mistake will not be easy.
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E. John
@ELJohn33
Funny you should name two people who are being found out to have stole taxpayer’s dollars.
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Gibby
@GibbonsMjginc
Yes let's just continue the way it was going, punishing inflation on the way to a deficit meltdown. Ordinary Americans do not care about day traders hourly freak outs.
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bitcoin=the future
@here_not17066
continuing to spend money like Biden and Obama (plus the idiocy of COVID) took a minor problem and made it life threatening. The idea that there is another choice than to bite the bullet, if you want to fix anything is the laughable part
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Stan Brown
@Stanonstuff
Democrats lied relentlessly about the economy, did massive damage with illiterate policies and outright massive fraud. The ankle-biters afflicted with brain-damaging TDS said little then. They are always too busy attacking to actually inform in an honest way. Who is paying for
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Dr, Esquire, Revd Mal
@aimtomisb3hav3
Congress hasn't done its job for decades, getting us here. Now all of the smart people are crying about Trump and Congress doing its job to stop him. So money printing, inflation, forever wars, fraud are fine with these people. Trump is their only problem.
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Charles Brown
@Charles56840801
Well Charlie your post, on its face, is sort of inarguable. Yes; the Congressional GOP is absolutely choosing to do nothing. They are deliberately farming out the most important and difficult work in all of legislation (budget-cutting) to Musk and DOGE. Surfing the Trump wave.
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homesalesguy
@homeguy8
Lol. We’ve been lied to for years by “free marketeers” about tariffs being bad. They protect and build industries and prevent trade imbalances. They ensure strong job markets. I applaud Trump for implementing them. He will get exactly what he wants.
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Brad Reed
@bwrrs66
So I think Lutnick seems to be trying to calm things down with Canada. But then Trump goes out and does another rant about erasing their border. What government would do a deal with him if he keeps saying insane nonsense like that?
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