“Welcome aboard folks, we’ve substituted your regular pilot with a more well-rounded man who competed in sports, studied a bit when needed, likes taking risks, using his instincts and has fun tinkering. Enjoy your flight”

It turns out that people who have spent decades studying economics knew more about tariffs than a reality TV game show host Who could have guessed?!

The more i look into Gianforte's trip, the funnier the maga outrage is. Turns out, the reason he's meeting with business leaders in India and NOT indian politicians is because selling US agriculture products to India is EXTREMELY unpopular and farmers are a huge voting block.

Couple things have become apparent in the “cut boomers social security” nonsense. There’s a large and growing push to dehumanize the boomer generation. It’s fairly common when a group is trying to take the property of another group. Every common thief convinces themselves that their victim “doesn’t deserve” the property being stolen. The people who are pushing your buttons and funding this op have convinced you that’s it’s your tax dollars that boomers want. It’s not and you are being manipulated. The second issue is that you are trying to bully a subset into having their money taken away and they are not allowed any objection. This is odd because normally a bully is good at choosing their victim. This time you’re not. The boomers have resources and they vote. The means testing part of the discussion is the exact same as the “tax unrealized gain” argument. You think it’s up to you to decide who needs how much to live the life they want. We will fight you in that. Rich people are way better directing their capitol then the government is. If you just step back you’ll allow for the possibility that you are being manipulated.

The trade deficit in August was $36 billion larger than the Biden average. Trump's tariffs have failed.

Exactly.

New from @NewYorkFed: Trump's 2025-26 tariffs contributed 2.9 percentage points to US goods price inflation, via higher prices for imports AND domestic goods. Without the tariffs, "goods prices would have fallen slightly." 😯

It was great to join Minister @PriyankKharge for a productive meeting on the many parallels between India and Montana and begin discussions on future areas of collaboration in quantum, photonics, aerospace, precision agriculture, and bioscience.

The Montana governor at this point already knows that Twitter is not real life and most of his constituents don't read any of the comments. They will in a few years see their business going up due to the trade deals he may secure, and they'll be happier than before. Let this be a lesson that groypers and loud mouths on twitter don't have any power in real life.

Montana is competing for the industries and investments of tomorrow. In Delhi, we met with technology leaders, investors, and manufacturers to put the Treasure State at the top of the list for creating more good-paying jobs for Montanans. news.mt.gov/Governors-Office…

However you feel about the migrants in custody, no Catholic should be deprived of the sacraments because of interference by the state. We’re a religion, not a meme. Jeeze.

People of Somali descent make up approximately 0.08% of the total United States population. 🔗 kcra.com/article/somalia-imm…

The big idea in conservative thought this week is that "no real American studies for the spelling bee." With Indians every day curing diseases, founding successful businesses, and all around being great citizens and a blessing to the country, this is what they have settled on as their main gripe: Indians are too hard working when it comes to the spelling bee. They actually study for it, while real pure blooded Americans would never do such a thing. This is such a brilliant argument that if true we would have to accept their views on immigration. Nothing could be more important than the sanctity of the spelling bee as a low-effort pastime, and if we have to wait a decade or two to cure cancer to preserve mediocre spelling bee champions, that is a sacrifice we will have to make. The casual spelling bee has now become the fundamental truth on which conservatism rests. But is is true? Shockingly, with the help of a fellow friend of Indians, I've been able to find a series of clips of TV sitcoms from decades past portraying children studying for spelling bees. I've collected them into this thread. First, here's Charlie Brown in 1969 saying he's going to "study the whole dictionary." Sounds like something an Indian would say.

RT @LJS527: "Are we really not allowed to care about rapid cultural change?" You can care about whatever you want. God knows, you'll certa…

Governor Gianforte realizes Twitter isn’t real life and that the comments replying to him are either bots, paid influencers or NPCs The average Montana voter probably doesn’t even know he took a trip to India. They’ll just see the increase of local jobs & not investigate further

Rightists are not interested in *reforming* the immigration system. Sure, they'd love to halt all immigration. But really, what they're interested in is targeting immigrants, in order to prove that they still have the power to exclude someone from American society.

The "we don't produce enough" America First crowd just watched a governor go sell American crops abroad and decided the problem was the customer. Gianforte went to India to sell American lentils, peas & chickpeas, yet the replies are treating it like he went there to hand out H-1Bs. India is the biggest market in the world for those crops and Montana grows more than any other state. If American farmers don’t close the sale, Canadian & Australian farmers will. H-1Bs abuse is real — it’s a gov’t policy so blame gov’t for the rules. But when grievance makes you oppose your own stated goal, grievance itself has become the politics.

Our focus remains on creating more opportunities for the people who grow, build, and make things in Montana. Kicked off our first trade mission to India by meeting with business leaders and making the case for more investment and strong partnerships to benefit Montanans.

Meritocracy is good when it lets you be racist towards black people and bad when it gets in the way of being racist towards indians. its not any more complicated than that

These people want to burn down actual America, the one whose values of hard work & ruthless meritocracy, has made it the wonder of the world. Burn it down & build their version of of it on the ashes - & their version is the facsimile of every loser shithole we left in the dust.