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Feb 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My friend @SteveDaines was put in Twitter jail this morning for having this image as his profile picture. Why? ImageImage
You won’t find nicer people than Steve and Cindy Daines, and last I checked, hunting photos aren’t prohibited by Twitter.
#Free@stevedaines
Is it because Steve and Cindy are hunters? Or because they’re hunters who are (gasp) actually hunting?
Or is it because they’re prominent Republicans, and must therefore be punished?
.@elonmusk, please fix this. It looks like you need to hire some new people and fire some bad employees who are trying to undermine you. I know this isn’t the kind of Twitter you want.
This is absurd! He’s a a good man and a U.S. senator — one who has been active on Twitter since 2007. And this is how Twitter thanks him for the content and traffic he’s generated over the last 15 years, all to Twitter’s benefit. Image

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Feb 9
1. Update: @POTUS has announced a new program to provide frisizhnjubs for every American, funded by a tax on those who buy (or may eventually buy) frisizhnjubs. You may ask: “why not just let people buy frisizhnjubs on their own? Why funnel frisizhnjubs through the government?”
2. Others may ask “do we have any reason to worry that the government will eventually take some of the frisizhnjubs money and use it for something else, or mismanage it to the point that people will actually pay more for frisizhnjubs and get less?”
3. People who raise these questions—or in any way doubt the federal government’s capacity and inclination to act in the best interests of the people when it comes to frisizhnjubs—should be shamed into the understanding that they must NEVER EXPRESS DISTRUST OF THE GOVERNMENT.
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Feb 8
If false, slander. If true, war. seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-…
“The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes. ‘This is not kiddie stuff,’the source said. If the attack were traceable to the United States, ‘It’s an act of war.’”
“According to the source, some of the senior officials of the CIA determined that blowing up the pipeline ‘no longer could be considered a covert option because the President just announced that we knew how to do it.’”
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Feb 7
U.S. negotiating with Japan to secure the release of Lt. Ridge Alkonis: Image
Best trade since Brittney Griner for the Merchant of Death.
In NBA terms, this is like Kareem to the Lakers for Dave Meyers, Elmore Smith and Junior Bridgeman.
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Feb 7
Bill, are you suggesting it’s okay for Japan to imprison a U.S. Navy officer based on a traffic accident resulting from an unforeseen, unpreventable medical emergency?
And that a U.S. senator can’t express outrage over this and demand answers without threatening the demise of a relationship with a country that has benefitted for decades from the 55,000 service members we have stationed there?
If so, we have very different concepts of what’s acceptable.
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Feb 7
I look forward to this briefing because we need to know why, even though @POTUS himself apparently wanted it shot down immediately, the balloon was allowed to spend days meandering through the U.S. collecting data as it traveled. Balloons drop when deflated. They don’t glide.
Evidently the debris field was confined to a 7-mile radius when they finally shot it down. There were plenty of areas along the flight path where it could’ve been brought down safely. Why wait until it was over the Atlantic Ocean?
That begs the question: did @POTUS really ask that it be brought down as soon as possible? I’m not sure which answer I find more troubling.
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Feb 6
In any event, governments can’t create jobs because they can’t create wealth. They can collect taxes and hire people with that money, but that’s not true job creation. They can likewise create an environment in which economies flourish, but—while good—that’s not job creation.
Here’s why that matters—when presidents (or other government officials) make claims about having “created” jobs through government, they signal that they misunderstand their role in the economy.
And when they misunderstand their role in the economy—visualizing government as a creator and benefactor of jobs and wealth—they are less likely to do that which we government to do in this area, i.e., aggressively protect free markets from things that would undermine them.
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