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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 13h

When all the cockroaches and worms of the Trump admin try to rehab their images after he's gone, we can't let this go. Rubio promised that PEPFAR wouldn't be impacted. It happened anyway. When he tries to be a "Normal Republican" in 6 years, remember he let hundreds of thousands die for no reason.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know that tech people can be annoying, but can anyone explain the galaxy brain take behind "introducing regulation on AI for safety" makes it *less* likely that other impacts of AI would be regulated?

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No actually the President is the most powerful villain

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Inauguration Day 2029 is going to be sick

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gee that sounds like a very serious sanction. Let me just check who is buying all that Iranian oil...

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Time and again we keep seeing people believe that conflict is determined simply by which side can cost the other more. Willingness and ability to accept those costs is determinative.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

High implicit marginal tax rates creating poverty traps is something Chicago economists (Friedman in particular) talk about all the time.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It's astounding how much bullshit rehab Nixon has had. His economic policies were a disaster. "But he was good at fopo!" completely ignores that his management of Vietnam was a disaster and the Sino-Soviet split had reached "Moscow thinking of nuking Beijing" levels before Nixon did anything

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It'd be nice if the American people could trust CENTCOM to not lie to them all the time. Our Kwantung Army needs to go.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It's nice that they let us skip the train car and go right to signing our surrender in Versailles.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Genuinely incredible that Trump has signed, not one, but two surrender agreements.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I don't get the point of all of these studies determined to understand what material facts are driving consumer sentiment, when underlying consumer sentiment looks like this:

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Kevin Anderson is the most important person for the establishment of the EU (maybe tied with Zahn)

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Nothing to brighten up the week like some bonus ACOUP content

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It's a genuine problem that modern conservatives are so stupid they can't recall events from 1.5 months ago. We already tested the theory of whether assassinating Iran's leaders in the middle of negotiations would produce the concessions we wanted! That's how we got here!

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Yes, he lied. No it's not why he's in office. He's in office because Republicans want an anti-vaxxer or care more about appeasing Trump. Everyone with two brain cells knew RFK was an anti-vaxxer and that he'd do this.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

All of these dumbass Republicans saying "oh man NATO will have to change because of this" - NATO has already changed. The US threatened to invade a NATO country earlier this year (after threatening less directly to annex another NATO member last year). NATO is dead.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

GOP won the house pop vote by 2.6% in 2024. The tipping point district is somewhere between even and R+2. Here's the list of midterms where the margin has shifted by less than 4.6% away from the WH party: - 1990: -0.26% - 1998: -1.24% - 2002: +4.53%

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The retconning of Nixon as a "master" of foreign policy has been disastrous for US foreign policy

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Prophetic commentary on Trump 2.0

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

But I don't want to sleep in the bed I made!

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

All of the Trump sanewashers who portrayed his betrayal of Ukraine and destruction of NATO as a way to reprioritize countering China should walk into the ocean.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I remember in high school being shocked to learn that Nixon portrayed himself as the "Peace Candidate" in 1968. Given everything that followed and Nixon's general demeanor, wasn't it obviously bullshit at the time? And now I've seen in realtime: yes it was and voters are still dumb enough to buy it

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Kavanaugh: "We can't strike down these tariffs because refunding them would be too difficult!" Gee if only there was some sort of relief courts could provide to prevent the government from committing irreparable harm!

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The funniest aspect of Trump's tariffs getting struck down is the total shitshow that is the refunds. Legal incidence means importers should be entitled to 100% of the refund. Economic incidence means they passed on a significant portion of the tariffs to consumers and business partners.

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BernankesBeard @bernankesbeard.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A reminder that Oren Cass is a lawyer by training, doesn't understand how comparative advantage works and is a "chief economist" because he founded a think tank and gave himself that title.

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