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Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
Imagine if 9 puppies had to die for every 1 you adopted. And even then, your 1 puppy would be far more likely to die than if you'd left it alone. We'd never accept that.
NEW from me
90% of sloths captured in the wild for import will die before reaching the U.S. More die prematurely once here. There is no good reason to continue importing sloths.
Extremely grateful to @RepMaxwellFrost and @RepLaurelLee for introducing the SLOTHS Act!!
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
Please support the #DeportClavicular movement
In a time when Americans are so divided, there is one issue that unites us. Do the right thing, President Trump, and
#DeportClavicular
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
Nah.
You understand that the attack ad affirmatively took the side of an indicted sexual abuser, who fled the charges rather than face them, and you observe that Vivek is standing by the "really bad attack ad," making it a character flaw, not a mistake.
So you don't.
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
Your regular reminder that the NewsBusters guys define "conservatism" purely as being a loyal pro-Trump Republican. This piece on @Alyssafarah illustrates it perfectly. Not one example of her "abandoning her conservatism." Just complaints about her being insufficiently partisan.
Pick-Me: How Alyssa Farah Griffin Abandoned Her Conservatism For Liberal Popularity
The "conservative" co-host has been able to survive because she no longer pushes back.
dailywire.com/news/pick-me-h…
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
Guess what, everybody!
Adolf Weebler has declared that the age of discourse is over.
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
Narrator's Voice: She was not in fact vindicated, and she is still ridiculed by mainstream economists.
At the height of the pandemic, @IsabellaMWeber was ridiculed by mainstream economists for arguing that corporate price hikes were driving inflation.
Since vindicated, she tells Jacobin how we can save democracy from the crisis of capitalism: jacobin.com/2026/10/weber-in…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Weber has not been vindicated. To the contrary, peer-reviewed empirical studies find no evidence for a rise in corporate markups during recent inflation phases
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Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
I just found out about recency bias.
Honestly, it may be the most important bias there has ever been.
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
This is just embarrassingly incompetent "economic" reasoning.
Tariffs affect a consumer surplus transfer to the beneficiary industry by specifically and intentionally raising prices. Wishcasting about some future price decrease in their wake is not a serious argument.
Tariffs of this sort don't aim at raising prices for their own sake, but on establishing incentives for investment in American industry which, once productive, has its own reasons to reduce prices. | @michaelbd
nationalreview.com/corner/no…
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
The only products that compete with each other in this post are Cholula and Frank's RedHot.
Both are already owned by McCormick.
The single example she gave of competing products being "controlled" by the same company after the merger... are already owned by the same company.
Robert Upshaw🀄 retweeted
True story: in 1985 there was a proposed merger between RJ Reynolds and Nabisco, and among the doomsday scenarios cited by opponents of the merger was tha Chung King and La Choy would be under the same ownership. That's right, a dystopian monopoly that would economically rape of millions of buyers of shitty canned Chinese food