For those still thinking about voting for Donald Trump in November, a few questions to consider:
1/ If Donald Trump offered you the opportunity to invest in his next private business, would you take it?
2/ If Donald Trump offered to deliver an envelope of your cash to the bank on your behalf, would you trust him?
3/ If Donald Trump offered to write a condolence card to a deceased family member, would you expect it to be thoughtful or empathetic?
4/ If Donald Trump wanted to join your book club, would you expect him to do the reading, or suggest any good reads?
5/ If Donald Trump offered to baby sit your daughters, would you let him?
6/ If Donald Trump applied to be a beat cop in your neighborhood, would you expect him to treat all citizens equally?
Now ask whether any of those questions make you as squeamish with any other recent President or Presidential candidate.
A man who you know you would not trust with even the most basic human courtesies and trusts should never have access to the wealth and power of the United States. Now go vote. /fin
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Stephen Miller is trying to provoke people into responding to the government's unlawful use of force because he wants his own Reichstag Fire. This is an old, and very dangerous playbook. Take video. Resist peacefully. But don't give these fascists what they want.
Abraham Lincoln famously said that "in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail. Against it, nothing can succeed." The crimes they are committing are horrific but keep that public sentiment in mind: neither their agenda nor their M.O. is popular.
Miller aspires to be Goebbels. Ridicule him, mock him and RESIST in ways that are public, visible and don't give into a single one of his evil dreams. Turn him into Bull Connor.
If you were under the impression that Trump & Witkoff’s abuse of presidential power with CZ Zhao was the only situation where the Trump family was violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause with a crypto criminal, we need to now move onto Justin Sun. Buckle up:
1. Sun created the Tron blockchain which, according to some estimates has housed the majority of the illicit (read: money laundering) crypto activity. trmlabs.com/resources/blog…
2. I have no idea how you calculate that number (because if you know where all the crime is, shouldn’t you be able to stop it?) But regardless, crypto is almost perfectly designed to do crime and if your leaders aren’t ethical it will. Ethics and Sun seem not to mix.
Just updated my regular look at what power sources are driving the US electric sector on a % basis. Nice cause for optimism. Renewables still growing. Coal use slightly increasing recently but all at the expense of natural gas - which is just economic switching.
e.g, markets are still preferentially deploying and dispatching in least cost order. (In non econ speak: people prefer cheap energy). The push to export LNG has predictably pushed up domestic gas costs giving coal a slight preference on the margin but renewables still win.
Here's a simpler look, just comparing zero carbon to carbon-based generation. We aren't where we need to be yet but the trends are steady.
Here’s a brief story, with receipts about Trump administration corruption and crypto industry collusion that WILL be investigated once the majority of the House is filled with people who take ethics and the Constitution seriously:
1. First, in November 2023, Binance (a large crypto exchange) pled guilty to money laundering and agreed to pay a $4 BILLION fine. Also, their founder CZ Zhao was sentenced to 4 months in prison. justice.gov/archives/opa/p…
2. Read that again. They pled guilty. They acknowledged their guilt. And agreed to pay a lot of money. And their founder and CEO went to jail.
Lisa Cook is ALLEGED to have committed crimes by a man who was CONVICTED of 34 felonies. Due process matters. A country based on the rule of law that attracts foreign capital because of that promise should be steadfast in opposition to her termination.
When I said yesterday that this was only about racism it kicked up a nest of trolls. But the second part is the one that hurts us all - white, black, racist and tolerant alike. We will all be poorer if the world loses faith in the US economy.
@JustinWolfers noted yesterday that really bad things happen when you don't have an independent monetary policy committed to low inflation and/or don't have an executive committed to upholding the rule of law.
Van Drew is of course full of shit. He's a disposable sycophant who gets some TV time prior to his disposal. But just to humor him, let's pretend for a moment that you are Dr. Evil and are setting out to tamper with our democracy. How would you do it? (thread)
1. It's worth going through this exercise because if you want to catch a criminal, you have to think like a criminal. So assume you have nefarious intent but want to minimize your chances of getting caught and spend the fewest possible resources to flip the most possible votes.
2. Everything Van Drew describes is actually really hard on both fronts. States have voter registries. Your ballot may be slightly different from your neighbors ballot a few blocks away because you're in a different fire/school/library/judicial/etc district.