What's the point of this strategy?
To turn the MAGA crowd against Ron. Use their anxiety against them and turn Ron into their scapegoat.
If you fell for this, I'm sorry for you. I get it. But it's dumb. /4
Is Ron perfect? No. Is he taking money from bad people? Apparently so.
But it's April folks, where's Ron's ground game in IA, SC, NH? Where's the 'exploratory committee'?
Where's the Ron DeSantis for President Beef, FFS?
I don't see it. /5
What I see is a new coordinated campaign to make Ron into the Devil by the very same people who tried to do so during COVID. Remember every Monday used to be a new #DeSantisIsEvil campaign.
And you are all falling for it... again. /6
Now, what if Ron v. Don was a rope-a-dope? What if Ron makes it look like he's disloyal to Trump and Trump, who never lacks for impulse control, goes along with it?
Would this not be the biggest con of all time?
/7
By indicting Trump you make him into a martyr. By turning the MAGA folk against DeSantis you try and clear the field for the @GOP wasteland of Romn-bots and McCainiacras.... Hello Nimrata? FFS.
/8
But what if the clock has really run out on Ron as a 2024 candidate? It is April. He's not a thing outside of Florida. His national polls suck.
So, if that's the case why would Ron even run?
What if Ron's disloyalty to Don was purposeful to clear the field for Don /9
This leaves @georgesoros and @manhattanDA no other option but to invent a Kafkaesque crime which even the Federal courts wouldn't touch.
And, btw, who owns the SDNY courts?
Who told Laetitia James to stand down?
Wall St.
This indictment puts Bragg out on an island. /10
He now has zero friends and if the @WEF games things to convict Trump of what should be a misdemeanor it only makes him stronger.
If you wanted to turn Trump into the ultimate martyr for Free Speech, please Alvin put out that Gag Order. /11
Trump's biggest fault is his big mouth. It makes people in the middle squishy on voting for him whenever he opens his mouth. Shutting him up is actually a good thing.
/12
Back to Ron v. Don. Going down this line of thinking the indictment indicates that they don't own Ron anymore than they own Don.
If anyone owns these two guys it's the NY Boys, not the Brussels Mafia. That's far more believable than this entire Ron as @WEF stooge... /13
What are NY and the Fed trying to accomplish?
Survive into the next decade. Recapitalize and reindustrialize the US w/ Wall St. providing the lending.
Who represents that thinking more than any other potential Presidential candidate? Donald Trump. /14
The indictment by @manhattanDA may be the biggest political mistake in history. If he just toyed with it, there's no poop on his shoes. But, he stepped in it and now they can go after him.
Last year when the @PeterZeihan's of the world were calling for a 5 million bbl/day collapse of output I told you about the importance of the ESPO pipeline, which could double it's flows to 1 million bbls/day.
/1 archive.ph/nTTZk
Now look for Russia to double ESPO again after finishing the port upgrades at Kozmino
After this weekend's upside results for @AfD in Hesse and Bavaria I want to remind everyone that this time is different for them as compared to 2018.
They have transformed into the "solutions for Germany" Party, like I said they needed to become then. /1 tomluongo.me/2018/06/18/cro…
Because they didn't rebrand themselves in 2018-19 they were easy pickings during COVID which saw their support drop to a low of 10%. They failed to cross the 16% chasm and fell back.
But, they were on the right side of the issues, German voters needed to catch up to them. /2
They would do so because once Merkel was gone, the rebrand under Alice Weidel could finally take root. They went from the "Anti-Merkel" party on immigration to the "Pro-Germany" party on immigration, war, and the economy.
/3
As ICEs are being legislated out of the market, unsafe EVs will come with higher insurance costs all through their lifecycle.
Your True Cost of Ownership will rise as the depreciation curve steepens and initial cost rises thanks to complexity.
Simple, straightforward trucks are leaving the market.
RIP the Nissan Titan whose footprint is too small to stay in the market, like the Ram 1500 Classic. All full-sized trucks shorter than 146" wheelbase can't be sold at scale without huge CAFE fines. carscoops.com/2023/08/nissan…
So, let's talk Yellen wanting Blackrock to be regulated as a SIFI. Moving Non-banks into this pile, which now gives them access they didn't have before.
BLK doesn't want to be a SIFI. But, now that they are in trouble, thanks to Powell they do? /1
So, what's changed? Clearly that BLK didn't 'use leverage' but invested everyone's pension funds in stocks and Sovereign Debt at insane prices... 10 year German bunds at -0.8%... mmmmm... tasty!