Michael Blair
@economike502
Ideas and Principles transcend people | People are fallible and multifaceted | Implications for likes & (re)tweets | Opinions my own
"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man... The difficulties of the subject would be great enough, but they are multiplied a thousand fold by a factor insignificant in physics, mathematics or medicine—the special pleading of selfish interests."
"The lowest level in decades" as if the country can't remember the lows of just five years ago with COVID, and a list of made-up prices as if the country can't read the prices when pumping gas.
Trump: "The gas has gone to the lowest level in decades. You're seeing $1.99, $1.98, I saw $1.95 at certain states."
Tapping the sign:
How many foreigners are we supposed to allow into the country if they can swing a hammer? A million? 5 million? 20 million? 200 million? A billion? We either have immigration laws or we don’t. wtf does it matter if they found a roofing gig?
Keeping the country safe from (*checks notes*) middle-aged Purple Heart veterans. hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/06/24/us-…
Emphasis on "[painting] them as bad people," as the administration is conducting blind sweeps for quotas while conflating everyone with violent criminals in interviews — when not grabbing the accidental citizen and lying about how or why they were arrested.
People like VP Vance who suggest that undocumented immigrants could just leave and come back in "the right way" want people to resent undocumented immigrants for not "fixing their papers" because it makes their efforts to paint them as bad people easier . He's spinning fantasy.
"The only free cheese is in the mousetrap." 🧀 #TANSTAAFL
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" -July 4, 1776
Paramount folded because it wants the admin to approve its merger and not hassle it with regulation. The broader lesson: regulation is a threat to speech. The more tools the state has to coerce, the less the First Amendment protects. Free speech depends on a free economy.
BREAKING Paramount has settled the lawsuit President Trump filed against it for the 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris. Paramount will pay $16 million in total including fees and expenses. The money, minus fees and expenses, will go to President Trump’s future…
Remember: these are the same propagandists who claimed that everyone sent to Guantanamo Bay was the "worst of the worst," until they had to release information on who was sent there and it turned out 1/3 of the people sent there had no criminal record at all.
Alligator Alcatraz will give us the space and beds needed to detain the WORST OF THE WORST safely. This facility will be a blueprint for detention facilities across the country. @TriciaOhio
The road to tyranny is paved with “emergencies,” Hayek warns
Look at this Orwellian nonsense. “We are taking away your legal status, we encourage you to obtain to legal status.” It’s insulting that our government is this dumb and evil
I really am going to have to sit down and watch 'Idiocracy.' 😑
This person had an Oval Office meeting with the president of the United States to complain about her perception that several National Security Council staffers were insufficiently loyal, leading to their termination.
"Imports and exports both fell in May, but exports fell more." If only there were a field of study that might explain or even predict such things. Alas.
The nation's trade deficit widened to $96.6 billion last month -- up 11.1% from April. Imports and exports both fell in May, but exports fell more.
Maria Salazar: I didn't think the leopard would eat the faces of MY constituents
Maria Salazar: I didn't think the leopard would eat the faces of MY constituents
The end of another depressing but enlightening 🧵 from BB, with the succinct lesson of the story. ⚰️
The drug war created a system where lies become raids—and raids sometimes end in body bags. Tomorrow night in DC, I’ll be debating for @reason why this failed war must end. Join us. /end reason.org/event/reason-v…
If you don’t take the Rule of Law seriously when it comes to the constitutional division of war powers between Congress and the president, then you don’t take the Rule of Law seriously.
The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino’s Kern County sweep, which a federal judge says likely violated the Constitution. cal.news/4laaPwC 📝 @WendyFry_ & @MrOlmos
The immigration raids across Los Angeles have all the hallmarks of Gregory Bovino’s Kern County sweep, which a federal judge says likely violated the Constitution. cal.news/4laaPwC 📝 @WendyFry_ & @MrOlmos