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Pretty hilarious: "... if 1 million consumers each pay a $5 tariff, $5 million has not been set on fire—it has moved from their pockets to the U.S. Treasury. The nation is not necessarily any richer or poorer. Some other tax could be reduced by $5 million."
So, effectively a tax
They’re also the publication currently hell bent on whitewashing freedom corner, which is full of people like my neo-Nazi stalker, who is pictured in this flyer. If they’re the leading force, we are fucked lol.
To be fair, they also funded an economically literate anti-Trump piece by & Sophia Bailey on the 20th.
Is that why so schizophrenic? Real bad on Covid and other stuff and then sometimes quite good and oh, here, have some actual journalism.
Is the threat that he'll use his DOJ and other Federal agencies to go after political opponents? Or is that something Dems think is acceptable now? I can't keep up.
Question: Would you say the Hewlett Foundation more aligned to Trump or to Cheney and Romney?
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Having learned an awful lot about history. This flippant use of the word authoritarian by people I feel are intelligent just makes them seem childish and/or deceitful.
Under siege and self-sabotaging at his NJ golf club, Donald Trump is reaching for old familiar faces and enablers to imbue his flailing 2024 campaign with some 2016 magic: Corey Lewandowski, Tim Murtaugh, maybe Kellyanne. Who’s next, Roger Stone? Oh wait.
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Perfect Example of a Rag that promotes Tribalism. Trump critics have been indoctrinated to hate him through relentless attacks, misinformation, and media diatribes.
Altho no one would call Oren Cass MAGA, as he is intelligent & has never been a sycophant Trumper, it is worth noting, he co-authored the Heritage Foundation’s labor section in Project 2025, drafted with the intent of being implemented by the next Republican president.
I mostly know the Hewlett Fdn for underwriting my public broadcasting addiction. Quick lookup shows pretty liberal causes. What do you think its deal is? Like, liberal but also some weird conservative economic streak? I'm just not following the logic of this claim.
They should move back to Boston. The Atlantic was always contrarian, but it had a flinty New England vibe that not even Harper's could emulate.
Press behavior is much less confusing if we first ask “does the action fit the business model?” Instead we ask if it fits our individual view of what the press is supposed to do. It is always the business model (and always has been). Model changes as communication tech changes.
There's just nowhere to go huh. Is there any major publication that hasn't totally sold out yet?
Under siege and self-sabotaging at his NJ golf club, Donald Trump is reaching for old familiar faces and enablers to imbue his flailing 2024 campaign with some 2016 magic: Corey Lewandowski, Tim Murtaugh, maybe Kellyanne. Who’s next, Roger Stone? Oh wait.
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I actually thought it was reasonable based on solid economics.
If you are still looking for a beef with the arguments made in the Atlantic article are similar to the ones he makes defending industrial policy.
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I actually thought the article was quite a solid defense of tariffs. It is one sided but no more one sided that anti tariff economists have been. The arguments are legitimate economic defenses of tariffs using real Econ research. (Eg one of Krugman biggest papers was pro tariff) x.com/mattyglesias/s…
I’m not an economist. I subscribe to The Atlantic. I read Cass’ piece. It doesn’t sound irrational. What am I missing?
Wish they'd stick to supporting universally liked PBS shows (true for most foundations tbh)
The press simply can not be trusted. It’s shameful
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They also fueled a lot of the smears and attacks against students of color by hacks like Friedersdorf who makes shit up for clicks
but it was good for business so they ran with it
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Isn't The Atlantic all paid propaganda? Hewlett Foundation or Laurene Powell Jobs
I too am baffled by 's ambivalence. If she's left leaning, why is still platforming trogs? Unless... Maybe she's not truly... Occam's Razor and all that.
A-hem. Search engines are your friend:
“Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, owns The Atlantic through her organization, Emerson Collective. She acquired a majority stake in The Atlantic in 2017.”
Let's think about other topics that The Atlantic is illiterate about. HMM
Ezra had Oren Cass on his podcast and you cannot come to any conclusion other than Cass is dumb.
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Atlantic is still last hold out for Wet Market
Dutiful to CIA... perhaps to a fault
The Atlantic is generally illiberal. Therefore they dislike some aspects of Trump's agenda, but they love economic interventionism. They are fairly consistent.
Bro, an organization is either trustworthy or it isn't. Their arguments are either rational or they aren't. Idc who buys their books, pays them, or what their favorite band is.
Pretty ad hominem, Matt. Can you make the economically literate, but non-theoretical case, for low tariffs? Can you sell it, politically, too?
The greater authoritarian threat comes from the Biden administration since they want to control online discourse.
Matthew, if these arguments are so economically-illiterate can you explain why the domestic firearms industry has been so hugely successful since the import ban, so much so that foreign manufacturers are opening up production facilities here?
He is going to cut taxes and play golf, like last time. Get over yourself you pathetic hack.
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What specifically about the piece is economically illiterate? Are anti-tariff voices from Peterson Institute or large importers somehow more credible?! As (hardly a Trump propagandist) often points out: people are not purely consumers
"authoritarian threat to American (and global) democracy"
Do you realize how ridiculous that concern is?
Every once in a while, you sound informed. Not so, regarding the Hewlett-Packard Foundation:
Boo. Debates and differing viewpoints at prominent publications should happen more. This isn't even a left right debate. Reagan, Clinton, and Bush expanded free trade, Obama, Trump, and Biden decreased it. I like free trade, but I'm glad the discussion is happening.
It’s important to provide balance for truth and observable facts. Political objectivity requires the Atlantic to publish lies and obfuscation. Even when it damages credibility built over more than a century. I don’t make the rules.
While I agree with your assessment of tariffs, I don't find much wrong with hearing out the ideas of one of the leading candidates.
From Matt, who supports corporate tax increases, that have the same effect on consumer pricing as tariffs.
Talk about illiterate. Matt is Jack of all trades master of none.
taxfoundation.org/taxedu/videos/.
Who are you trying to fool? Atlantic is majority owned or controlled by Jobs' widow Powell. She's tied in deep with The Demos and the globalists and their "agenda". Here she is with her pal, Ghislaine, evil Epstein's collaborator. Atlantic is all propaganda, and rotten.
Going without news for three days and returning to see Yglesias' unhinged culted views. It is frightening. What is Yglesias not capable of doing under propaganda? Where would he not go? 1930s Europe. People tell me, don't worry, he IS the Military Industrial Complex. This makes
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Democracy according to Democrats: involuntarily replacing the electorate with nonconsensual mass legal & illegal immigration to dilute the voting weight of American citizens to irrelevance.
They’re like directors trying to replace their own shareholders.
Is calling Trump a threat to democracy considered anti-Trump propaganda?
If the entire argument can be defused by gently reminding someone that he was already president and we're now in our third election cycle since that happened, it's worth considering that label.