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David Rothschild
David Rothschild
@davmicrot.bsky.social
economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design
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I often think about the fact that the person Trump has chosen to burn the most rule-of-law on personally destroying is one of the people most responsible for putting him in the White House.
Comey: Well, they're back again. It would almost be funny if it weren't such an appalling abuse of the DOJ. One that we cannot become numb to. Nothing's changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.
Very unscientific observation: I go to X sparingly to confirm something, click on 1 or 2 things and leave. Their algorithm is really intense: when I return I get incredibly overwhelmed with content pertaining to the few clicks I did last time. Really warps your reality of the platform's conversation
Crazy part is 10,000+ words is about washed-up anti-woke comedian? All kidding aside, as scary as it is to know that President's brain no longer works, I take solace that @jaketapper.bsky.social is on a 4 year vow of silent reclusion and won't need to see this. It would break his fragile heart.
The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.
Remember when Media & Political Elite promised US that Trump was tapping into “economic anxiety” not racism?
Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."
Hey Corporate Media, it is important that person (1) personally funding Republican Party (2) most prominent funder & supporter of white supremacy (3) dominant purveyor of deepfake child-porn (4) uniliteral controlling publicly traded defense-contractor SpaceX & Tesla are, in fact, exact same person!
Person personally funding Republicans & worldwide white supremacy with uniliteral control over US defense contractor wants US to believe that only reason most of US want to defend democracy in EU against Russian aggression is imaginary cabal of pro-democracy Elite kicking money back to US politicos?
This madman is the Elite, he is personally funding an entire party & running US military decisions in region. He wants US to back flailing authoritarian petrostate over democracy & freedom & opportunity because it will make HIM richer & more powerful. Just deranged propaganda flowing through SpaceX.
Why do people keeping assuming that Matthew Yglesias wants Democrats to win & do good things, when all of his advice makes Democrats lose & otherwise be ineffective at doing good things regardless if they win or lose? His entire existence makes more sense as Republican plant to undermine Democrats.
Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.
All kidding aside there is a massive cost to Democrats in being so respectful of such pernicious & dangerous advise as Matthew Yglesias provides: Popularism ensures that Democrats always lose. It demands surrendering on critical policy fights, so no fight when opposition and no action when in power.
Hey Corporate Media, it is important that person (1) personally funding Republican Party (2) most prominent funder & supporter of white supremacy (3) dominant purveyor of deepfake child-porn (4) uniliteral controlling publicly traded defense-contractor SpaceX & Tesla are, in fact, exact same person!
Musk spending $1 billion or so to help Republicans, while devastating for democracy, is very reasonable investment for person worth $1 trillion or so (1) He has committed a lot of crimes against US and Republicans block accountability (2) Republicans will pay him back 100x in subsidies & regulations
I suspect that, in general, a company would do better (not worse) if the founder who nurtured the business did not have vetoproof control when it faces an existential disruption forcing a potential innovator's dilemma. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...
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Example: NYT ran series of articles in the fall of 2024 with their pollsters celebrating Trump's great inroads with Latinos, who were excited about Trump's policy of removing criminal "illegal aliens" but letting other immigrants flourish. NYT was implicitly confirming that that was Trump's plan.
Poll-based pundits did terrible harm to US in 2024 (1) they leaned into a narrative going into election about how well Trump was doing with Latinos & working-class whites that perpetuated lies about what Trump would do if he won. This gave these folks reinforcement that their misinformation was true
(2) Going into 2025 these same poll-based pundits promised Trump (& US) how popular his policies were despite his policies being really unpopular. They misidentified Trump's popularity on immigration with popularity of his actual policies on immigration (and so forth). They gave Trump a fake mandate
We should shun people who participate in the rape & abandonment of a 12 y/o girl (and her little brother), we should say unequivocally that raping & abandoning children is always bad. We should judge harshly the political culture the Vice-President lives in that compels him to disagree on this.
JD Vance defends Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s abusive mother, who stayed with her husband who was indicted for raping Acton starting at 9 years old: “Politics is a tough business... Stop whining about an advertisement.”
Until this morning Witkoff, in my mind, was just Jared's corruption accomplice, absurd villain's sidekick. But after seeing this video of Witkoff kissing-up to Putin in person, I feel it is imperative that, when we restore rule-of-law, he receives full accountability for his crimes against US.
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”
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Media & Political Elite: it is huge problem that Democratic intelligencia lives in left-wing echochamber BlueSky Republican Elite: we sent all day in our right-wing-extremist echochamber X, and decided to go all in on mocking Democratic gubernatorial candidate for being raped & abandoned at 12 y/o
The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit
Nationalization of SpaceX is the moderate/common-sense position for US, allowing a drug-addled white supremacist authoritarian to continue to have unilateral control over a critical defense company is an insanely radical position.
BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
How Trump Family stole $10+ billion: ✈️plane from Qatar 🏢real-estate "deals" 💵crypto from their supporters 🚀defense deals for Eric/Jr. foreign policy for/by Jared 🛢️insider trading on oil/stocks 💰random kickbacks 🎥licensing deals (movies!) 👟selling tchotchkes (phones, sneakers, etc.) ⛓️💥selling pardons