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William Lindsey :toad:"I’ve said before that Trump does not think of policy the way most of us do, operating instead like a low-level mob boss running a protection racket. Unfortunately, a bunch of rubes decided to give him another bite at the apple, and now the entire global economy has to pay up."~ Marlon Weems<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mob</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extortion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bullying</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> /6<a href="https://thejourneyman.substack.com/p/here-comes-the-pain" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thejourneyman.substack.com/p/here-comes-the-pain</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"The only legible purpose of the tariffs is for Trump to arrogate more power to himself: so that nations and corporate leaders and labor unions come begging him for relief, and so that he can shake them down."~ Brian Beutler<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mob</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extortion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bullying</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PutinsPoodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PutinsPoodle</a> /5<a href="https://www.offmessage.net/p/fighting-means-fighting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.offmessage.net/p/fighting-means-fighting</a>

William Lindsey :toad:And what did Trump do yesterday as the market crashed? Stelter quotes Jeff Zeleny on CNN: Trump did not "fly to a factory"; "he did not use the presidential bully pulpit to sort of sell this tariff plan." Instead, he flew to Florida for a LIV Golf event.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StockMarket</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/crash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crash</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:Brian Stelter points to an AP article in March drawing attention to these words of Trump last August:"If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash, a 1929-style depression. 1929. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StockMarket</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/crash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crash</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> /3<a href="https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17437726770173f149ef9ebf8/raw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17437726770173f149ef9ebf8/raw</a>

William Lindsey :toad:CNN's graphic depiction as of 9:05 A.M. EST of what's happening to the stock market after the man running the show crashed it, with his party cheering the crash on and 77 million Americans voting to accomplish this.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StockMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StockMarket</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/crash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crash</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recession</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inflation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> /1<a href="https://www.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/markets/fear-and-greed</a>

William Lindsey :toad:(cont.): "from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.But also, we have the government we deserve."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mob</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:“Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right. …We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state," (continued in /4)~ Jonathan V. Last<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mob</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extortion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bullying</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupidity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PutinsPoodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PutinsPoodle</a> /3<a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Trump’s son Eric appeared to confirm that the tariffs are a shakedown when he posted: 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with [Trump]. The first to negotiate will win—the last will absolutely lose. I have seen this movie my entire life.…'”~ Heather Cox Richardson <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mob</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extortion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bullying</a> /2<a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-3-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-3-2025</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"It is not at all surprising that Trump sees the appeal in sanctions. It is no different from a mob boss moving into town and sending his thugs to every business on Main Street, roughing up the proprietors and asking for protection money so they don’t get pushed out of business. … It’s a mentality fit for someone repeatedly linked to organized crime."~ David Dayen<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mob</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extortion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bullying</a> /1<a href="https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-theyre-sanctions/</a>

Infinity Counter 🟦So VP & orange stain ambush and tag team Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Because *that's* what strong alpha males do: berate a man in his third (or fourth, or...) language, talking over him, not allowing him to answer, in the office of a more (militarily) powerful world leader while the world press is watching? No, that's how an uncouth wannabe strongman behaves. It's the playbook of a pathetically weak man who thinks he's a mob boss. <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/MobBoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobBoss</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/OvalOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvalOffice</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

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