And yet an article in the NYT yesterday said Trump was on a winning streak because he strong-armed the EU into accepting a tariff deal that will hurt both parties. Why does the media take him as a serious good faith actor?
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Not to mention VCs can impact the success rate of their investments yet their investments still fail the vast majority of time. BLS is just a passive data consumer with, in theory, prior to Trump, no skin in the game. Bad job numbers are just as useful bec they shine light on policy needs.
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Umm. Where have you been? The POTUS and his justice lawyers? Pressure on the Fed? Putting demagogue/delusional sycophants in charge of Defense, Education, HHS, OMB, etc
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The NYT framing of Trump “displaying his volatile side” implies that he sometimes veers from normalcy. EVERYTHING he does is volatile. His “winning” an EU trade deal? The NYT ignores that only congress can legally ratify trade. It’s not normal nor a “win” - unless you frame it by Trump’s ego alone
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Wait, there's a non-volatile side?
How are these people still writing things like this?
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He’s living proof that 5 out of 4 people don’t understand statistics.
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Or creating a museum of corruption so that we might never forget. Mandatory visits for visiting school kids.
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Perfect description.
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🔥 Russia: Height of the fireball from a Ukrainian drone strike at the oil refinery in Samara calculated to be 213 Putins - 350m / 1,151 feet. Putin is 1.65m tall, 5' 5".
💥 Russia: Epic explosion at the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery following a Ukrainian drone strike. 1,000km from Ukraine in Samara region. Refining capacity of 8.8 million tons per year - 176,000 barrels per day.
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Maybe it’s a desperate cry for help and the GOP is trying to signal the trajectory of doom that trump is putting us on? Yeah, probably not. Just dickish trolling.
