Michael Tracey

As we have seen, the Administration can sometimes struggle to come up with clear and unified positions -- but definitely not on this issue https://t.co/OH9jW0aha2

There are going to be so many absurd anecdotes from the past week that will look utterly hilarious in hindsight, like people earnestly declaring it was our new Patriotic Duty to only buy Kona Coffee from Hawaii, or that shoe factories were on their way back to Upstate New York

RT @helen: me giving my dog a bath

Color me unconvinced that a full-blown Trade War with China is obviously in anyone's interests despite the emerging consensus that this is obviously awesome. Especially given the military/geopolitical issues relating to China, which cannot be neatly disentangled from a Trade War

Trump's boosters and influencers are more committed to maintaining his appearance of consistency than Trump himself. Trump openly acknowledged today that he suspended his landmark Tariff policy because people were getting "yippy" and "afraid" -- after he'd just gotten done

Well done to all the principled pro-manufacturing influencers who had to spend the last week coming up with reasons why the Tariffs were amazing

There's an argument that the people who should be most apoplectic if everything goes economically haywire are longtime advocates of protectionism who also grasped the need for rational, deliberative, coherent implementation, and may now find their philosophy discredited

"Explain to me like I'm five" why a volatile, bellicose, and rapidly escalating Trade War with China will obviously lead to positive outcomes for anyone, especially if I'm not inclined to stomp around gravely intoning that the "Chinese Communist Party" is the source of all evil

Are you supposed to handle a firearm in such a way that it’s pointed at the guy next to you’s head

Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem

Human traffickers. Drug Smugglers. 18th Street Gang members. Spent the morning in Phoenix with our brave @ICEgov and Arizona law enforcement arresting these dirtbags and getting them off of our streets. https://t.co/yH13jWwF1S

Perhaps "The Art of Politics" is convincing people they always deeply believed or wanted something that they hadn't even thought of until 10 minutes ago, when the issue was strategically introduced. This includes the US declaring some profound Chinese threat at the Panama Canal https://t.co/aU5XHHda5j

Netanyahu, fresh off meeting with Trump, says the upcoming Iran "negotiations" will be based on the Libyan model, which would require Iran to "blow up" its own nuclear facilities under US supervision. Of course, the "Libyan model" resulted in Gadaffi getting regime-changed anyway https://t.co/R57QTfodvw

The GOP-controlled House committee on China is trying to claim that China has deployed forces to the Ukraine war and is now an active belligerent! Clearly looking to derail any ongoing negotiations, which were already looking increasingly questionable!

Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party @committeeonccp

🚨BREAKING: Ukraine has captured Chinese nationals fighting alongside Russian forces. This is a major development—following repeated reports that the CCP has been bankrolling and supplying Russia with ammunition, body armor, and assault rifles. Beijing is no longer sitting on

If the basis for these "direct negotiations" is that Iran must agree to allow the US to "explode" and/or "dismantle" their entire nuclear program, then it's not difficult to foresee how the "negotiations" could just be a pretextual tactic to pave the way for military action

Barak Ravid @BarakRavid

🚨Netanyahu said in a video released by his office before departing Washington back to Israel that a nuclear deal with Iran would be acceptable only if it included the "explosion" of all of Iran's nuclear facilities and "the dismantling of all equipment - under American