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Matthew Yglesias

I guess it's reassuring to know that some members of the administration privately know that they're fucking up.

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Rohit Chopra

@ChopraUSA

Sep 29

This photo shows the Treasury Secretary reading a text from the Agriculture Secretary. She's worried China has outmaneuvered the US by buying up Argentine soybeans at the expense of our farmers, even as the Administration plans to bail out Argentina with billions of dollars.

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also reassuring to know cabinet members get their geopolitics tips from X, the everything app

@Bernard22190947

‘Outmaneuvered’ implies the Trump administration had developed a plan & policy considering Chinese responses. In reality Trump just pulls shit out of his ass, largely made up of 1970’s artifacts of a diseased brain.

Victor Ambrosio

@diseloatuperra

Let’s remember this the next time she’s on camera, lying through her teeth to praise Trump.

It’s actually worse knowing that they are going along with something they know to be bad.

Mitchell Wexler

Doesn’t China need a lot of soybeans?

Slowly Boiled Frog

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Donald is pissed!

most conservatives actually do know better, it kinda makes their dedication to the grift all the more despicable. its why some of them run as democrats then flip etc

Bassett bailing out his billionaire buddy...

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

Sep 29

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

They know they're fucking up but they're not going to stop. The guy in charge doesn't understand economics and explaining things to him is a daily chore of repeating the same shit.

Penguin Cavalry

So that's why they are advising Trump to bail out Argentina?

If Bessent had one iota of Common Sense, instead of just Bailing out his Hedge Fund friend who invested too heavily in Argentina, he could have made Argentina buy up

Soy Beans, as a Condition of the Bail out. To then Sell on to their Chinese Buyers, who won't buy from

.

Well, yes, sorta. But those who would have bought the Argentine soya are now in the market for soya they haven't got and so might buy American soya. It is, after all, a commodity, eminently fungible....

The treasury secretary is using an iPhone that no longer gets security updates

Why is someone in government using an 8 year old phone with out a privacy screen…

Hairy's Bar & Grill (The Sequel)

Bessent has always known he's just hedging his bags dawg

If only people had warned them this would happen.

hahahahahaha I think you are giving them the benefit of the doubt. I look at this administration and think ... YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID. Buckle up.

Sure but now journos need to question trump on that. Repeat the key pts. Might get some consideration or the Ag Sec gets sacked which just confirms all we know about trump

Glad taxpayers will bail out Argentina.

just buy the crops from farmers...why let this insecurity keep going? if needed, then help them transition to new crops

Someday all these sycophants will write books about our president and it won’t be pretty.

It’s reassuring that our leaders openly read messages when cameras are present.

I like how the text labels the information as “intel” as if an 18 year old in an economics 101 course couldn’t have told anyone this would happen

Of course they know but still go along with it in order to appease the orange fuehrer.

The Satanic Mechanic

@Armand456082300

Is feeling out on your competition so they can increase their market share America first?

HoldingmyBreath

@BernardMalmamud

the farmers are taking their rage out on Rollins because they can’t get to Trump …

That kind of latent competence can be career limiting with Trump!

Jennifer Larson

@Buffyfanlarson

And yet they keep on keepin’ on

Of course they do. But power.

How are US tariffs on imports to the US to blame for exports to other countries? If those countries increased tariffs on us, I was told thats idiotic and just hurts their own citizens? Which is it?

I think “some” is an understatement.

@Matt_J_Kimball

Is that an iPhone 8?

Alicia E. Stallings

Sort of is. Yes.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They're convinced they are winning

I suppose.

VoteBlueAmerica

@SaveOurDemocr11

Cold comfort in an authoritarian onslaught.

@Jerry_DurhamPT

THEY ALL DO

@Diana_E_Prince

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See how long it takes for her to be fired for having common sense.

We all know they do, but they have no balls to speak out on this insanity and therein lies the problem. Except for lutnick, I legitimately think he is an idiot.

No. No it doesn’t. Fuck them

FlimerMithrandir

The important Thing to know is it doesnt matter to them at all because they can do literally whatever. Trump could shoot someone on Streets and you Guys would still pray for him and call him King or even God. Thats where you are at now these Days.

Not very reassuring when you consider they don't give a shit.

Globalize Humanity #NAFO

et tu Matt? didn't China already "outmanuever us" in May?

And you publicly have no idea what you are talking about.

Well, the good thing is that at least

knows that he needs to fix Brazil, India, and Switzerland- because China is fixing Trump.

Scarlett Jomanson

@HenryBrownstone

I’m continually confused as to what exactly you are. A journalist? A sensationalist? A grifter looking for likes on X? How is it possible you’re so stupid and yet apparently rich?

OutsideContextProblem

@YouDownWithOCP

"What if the rest of the world just decides to trade with each other instead of America"

@MatthewNowak20

But then she will publicly praise Trump for his "bold and strong position to help American farmers"

@0311OpEssexman

Yeah but Trump more interested in helping Argentina President Milei & if pissing China off helps Argentina sell soy beans well that's the price he's willing to pay to help out a buddy. American farmers can maybe move to those coal mining states where Trump's investing big money.

I mean... I appreciate you looking for a silver lining, but when has anyone privately acknowledging his insanity ever proven to do any actual good?

Well, the media’s never going to report it as such, so they don’t have much to worry about.

tRump will fire Ag Secretary within the week, probably.

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