Protip for pundits: If someone with a smaller following than you calls you out with a bad-faith reading of something you wrote, don't respond. They're doing it for attention, trying to get you to give them free eyeballs by arguing with them.
Corollary: If someone with a much *bigger* following than you calls you out with a bad-faith reading, don't be afraid. They've just given you a freebie. Explain repeatedly why their bad-faith reading is incorrect, and you'll get free eyeballs. Remember to save screenshots.
Note that the first tip works whether or not you want more attention at all, and the second tip works even if you only want positive, healthy attention for saying good and reasonable things.
A 0.6% m/m core inflation rate is an annualized 7.4% rate. Remember that core inflation is what the Fed targets, and its target is 2% (though it targets PCE inflation and this is CPI, which can differ slightly).
Interesting thread, but I'm not sure this sort of rhetoric will get anyone's notice. Elected leaders are expected to say this stuff, so people tune them out.
The Twitter activists and media figures who people see -- rightly or wrongly -- as the true face of the progressive movement are not going to praise Columbus or say America is a great nation. So I don't think it really matters what Biden and Harris say here.
Biden already did this with "defund the police". He said, very clearly, from day 1, that he didn't want to defund the police.
But Republicans still run on the message that Democrats don't just want to defund the police, but did, in fact, already do it!
Imagine a future where this chart becomes standardized and every Hispanic or mixed-race person has to shout out their skin color number at the beginning of business meetings (so that blind people will know how to treat them).
I swear if this happens I will become Chris Rufo.
This country is just getting absolutely ridiculous