Posted on 04/01/2022 5:57:02 AM PDT by weston
Jack Posobiec
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BREAKING: China to hold large-scale navy drill around Taiwan while US delegation is on the island
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Ukrainians could have had peace for many years, but we put a puppet government in and created the chaos. Ukraine has also partnered with Azov, the Neo Nazi's who have done much of the torture and assassination that they blame the Russians for.
BREAKING REPORT: Psaki says Fox News' Peter Doocy 'sounds like a STUPID son of a b***h' over questions asked by him and his organization..— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) April 15, 2022
To underscore how crucial it is to US power centers that no free speech be allowed:
Parler became *the most-downloaded app* in the US. The next day, AOC demanded Apple & Google ban them. Other Dems demanded Amazon do the same. One day later, it was gone.https://t.co/6xtzztorzm— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
Jen Psaki disqualified herself from the position of WH Press Secretary with her vulgar attack on Fox's Peter Doocy. She should be removed from her office immediately.— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) April 15, 2022
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Jeff Carlson
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1) He must love us - or at least our Republic.
He is, quite literally, risking everything he built to help restore Free Speech and rebalance the system.
And make no mistake, the fight for Twitter is very real.
2) Twitter’s stock price was in the low $30’s prior to Elon’s purchases.
Elon is offering $54.20 - a ~65% increase.
The offer is being fought not only by management, but by the media and government.
And shockingly, the other institutional shareholders.
3) The fact that Elon’s offer for Twitter is at a huge premium - and is being hotly contested - tells you that Twitter is NOT being run for profit.
It’s value - like most media properties - is not purely financial. It resides w/control & the ability to censor & shape narratives.
4) Our Government is panicking. They’ve initiated investigations into Elon via Tesla.
Lefty Blue Checks are losing their minds. We’ve all seen the stupidity & misrepresentations.
Meanwhile, BlackRock & Vanguard control Trillions. And
Vanguard just upped its stake.
5) One of the greatest mistakes made by Conservatives was not recognizing the incredible value that resided w/in these tech giants & media companies early on.
Media & Tech properties were valued purely on financial metrics.
That was a large error in judgment.
6) The issue is not about a billionaire’s ownership of media.
That’s precisely what they want. Centralized control.
The issue is that Elon is the singular outlier. They failed to anticipate him.
7) A mistake was made w/Twitter. It was recognized as vital for control - including Free Speech - but it wasn’t locked up w/single holder.
They thought large institutional ownership would be enough.
Now the true fight is on. And it’s perhaps the most important fight in decades.
Censor and sue (lawfare).
That’s all the Dems have got.
Good Good Friday morning, Gran.
2021-27 | October 18, 2021
More Economic Letters
Is the American Rescue Plan Taking Us Back to the ’60s?
Regis Barnichon, Luiz E. Oliveira, and Adam H. Shapiro
The American Rescue Plan provided fiscal support during a strong economic rebound, raising concerns about the risk of fueling inflation. One way to assess this risk of economic overheating uses the ratio of job vacancies to unemployment, which measures labor market slack more accurately and, hence, can predict future inflation better than the unemployment rate alone. Estimates suggest that the fiscal plan acts to temporarily raise the vacancy-to- unemployment ratio, in turn pushing up inflation by about 0.3 percentage point per year through 2022.
By the time the ARP was passed, the economy had at least partially recovered from the pandemic. The later timing and large size of the ARP stirred debate about whether it is causing an overheating of the economy and fueling a sustained increase in inflation. For example, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers stated, “there is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation” (Summers 2021).
I just wonder how they all got this way.
That sounds like so much fun! I bet it is beautiful to see.
Glenn Greenwald:
Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it.
Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed. Let's put it this way:
On Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, you are free to say the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen and fraudulent. You can't say that about 2020. Before the 2020 election, you weren't allowed to post reporting on the Biden emails.
It's all ideological. Throughout the COVID pandemic, you weren't allowed to question the efficacy of cloth masks. You weren't allowed to interrogate the origins of the virus. You weren't allowed to debate vaccines or lockdowns. No dissent from Fauci/WHO was allowed.
That second one hits home with me. I teel people that myself, I was such a tomboy through most of my childhood that the teachers and social services would have had me mess up my life.
Good Friday morning to you, Jane.
Are you watching WR?
The last segment with Navarro and Beattie was interesting.
Navarro seems to think twitter will die if Musk doesn’t buy it and that would be good.
He doesn’t get what Beattie was saying about twitter was the global market place of ideas and could be again.
Need to take twitter back to what it once was before 2016.
Isn’t that what Biden said on hot mic a little while back?
Thanks for posting the reminder.
Why yes, I think Bye-done did call Doocey an SOB a while back.
⚡️ First Rank Captain Anton Kuprin died on board of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation “Moskva”
A total of 510 crew members lost 452 sailors.
⚡️Russia is demanding that the United States cut off arms supplies to Ukraine, otherwise it threatens unpredictable consequences for European and global security.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that if Sweden and Finland join NATO, they will become a new frontier for the Alliance’s confrontation with Russia.
According to her, “the negative consequences for peace and stability in northern Europe are obvious.”
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