David Rothschild

David Rothschild

@davmicrot.bsky.social

economist. Posts Reflect Me Only! collects/analyzes: poll, market, social media/online data, to study: news, public opinion, ads, market design

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Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.

Look, sorry, you just don’t understand what good journalism means! You have to be *neutral* to get access to Republicans, to hear their side of every story, so you publish every lie about Democrats and select just enough bad things Republicans have done to *balance* out the coverage <sarcasm emoji>

Corporate Media: we cover fake Democratic scandals & ignore real Republican scandals because Republicans spoon feed us lies and we must take their lies seriously. Democrats: here are details of Trump raping & sexually trafficking girls. Corporate Media: don't say that about our Special Little Boy!

Thing that ties together Trump's 2nd-term initiatives: Doge, Tariffs, War on Immigrants, War on Iran is that (1) all choices which would not have happened without Trump (2) >99% of US loses in all four initiatives.

And, outside of those directly harmed (i.e., government workers, immigrants, military) one of group most negatively impacted are his hardcore supporters (white working families) who are losing government support, paying tariffs, suffering from inflation and job losses.

I often think about the fact that the person Trump has chosen to burn the most rule-of-law on personally destroying is one of the people most responsible for putting him in the White House.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Comey: Well, they're back again. It would almost be funny if it weren't such an appalling abuse of the DOJ. One that we cannot become numb to. Nothing's changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.

Very unscientific observation: I go to X sparingly to confirm something, click on 1 or 2 things and leave. Their algorithm is really intense: when I return I get incredibly overwhelmed with content pertaining to the few clicks I did last time. Really warps your reality of the platform's conversation

Ride share situation at airports is getting insane: spending way more but also waiting way more. Clearly the math is just not working that well in a post-subsidized market.

Crazy part is 10,000+ words is about washed-up anti-woke comedian? All kidding aside, as scary as it is to know that President's brain no longer works, I take solace that @jaketapper.bsky.social is on a 4 year vow of silent reclusion and won't need to see this. It would break his fragile heart.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

Remember when Media & Political Elite promised US that Trump was tapping into “economic anxiety” not racism?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

Trump can pardon everyone in regime who committed crimes against US for him, Supreme Court can validate those pardons & concur on his immunity, but, if we reconstitute rule-of-law, neither of those preclude US from national-level investigations to reveal truth of crimes & state-level prosecution.

For those egregious crimes that are proven by investigation, but have no state-level equivalents, we must determine how to create accountability that ensures both punishment, but more importantly: ensures these crimes are not repeated against US in the future.

Hey Corporate Media, it is important that person (1) personally funding Republican Party (2) most prominent funder & supporter of white supremacy (3) dominant purveyor of deepfake child-porn (4) uniliteral controlling publicly traded defense-contractor SpaceX & Tesla are, in fact, exact same person!

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Person personally funding Republicans & worldwide white supremacy with uniliteral control over US defense contractor wants US to believe that only reason most of US want to defend democracy in EU against Russian aggression is imaginary cabal of pro-democracy Elite kicking money back to US politicos?

This madman is the Elite, he is personally funding an entire party & running US military decisions in region. He wants US to back flailing authoritarian petrostate over democracy & freedom & opportunity because it will make HIM richer & more powerful. Just deranged propaganda flowing through SpaceX.

Why do people keeping assuming that Matthew Yglesias wants Democrats to win & do good things, when all of his advice makes Democrats lose & otherwise be ineffective at doing good things regardless if they win or lose? His entire existence makes more sense as Republican plant to undermine Democrats.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

All kidding aside there is a massive cost to Democrats in being so respectful of such pernicious & dangerous advise as Matthew Yglesias provides: Popularism ensures that Democrats always lose. It demands surrendering on critical policy fights, so no fight when opposition and no action when in power.

Hey Corporate Media, it is important that person (1) personally funding Republican Party (2) most prominent funder & supporter of white supremacy (3) dominant purveyor of deepfake child-porn (4) uniliteral controlling publicly traded defense-contractor SpaceX & Tesla are, in fact, exact same person!

Fact that Musk uses wealth from SpaceX & Tesla to fund Republicans & white supremacists makes it important. Fact that Musk uses SpaceX's tech for deepfake child-porn & white supremacism makes it important. Fact that Musk uses Republicans to subsidize & protect SpaceX & Tesla makes it important.

Upon further review, turns out that what Jared has been doing is already very very illegal, and if he does not face a massive criminal investigation & accountability we cannot pretend to have reinstated either democracy or rule-of-law.

Musk spending $1 billion or so to help Republicans, while devastating for democracy, is very reasonable investment for person worth $1 trillion or so (1) He has committed a lot of crimes against US and Republicans block accountability (2) Republicans will pay him back 100x in subsidies & regulations

On point (1) he had not right & power to summarily block congressionally approved spending, fire & harass government employees, steal data from US, interfere with military operations, etc. Safe to assume he was also involved in insider shenanigans involving both approval of M&A and other acts.

On point (2) it is not just the SpaceX & Tesla get a lot of government money, government also protects them from liability and competition. If US allowed BYD to sell in US, it would crush Tesla's market-share. If NASA chose to compete more with SpaceX, the impact would be obvious.

David Rothschild reposted

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Example: NYT ran series of articles in the fall of 2024 with their pollsters celebrating Trump's great inroads with Latinos, who were excited about Trump's policy of removing criminal "illegal aliens" but letting other immigrants flourish. NYT was implicitly confirming that that was Trump's plan.

Poll-based pundits did terrible harm to US in 2024 (1) they leaned into a narrative going into election about how well Trump was doing with Latinos & working-class whites that perpetuated lies about what Trump would do if he won. This gave these folks reinforcement that their misinformation was true

(2) Going into 2025 these same poll-based pundits promised Trump (& US) how popular his policies were despite his policies being really unpopular. They misidentified Trump's popularity on immigration with popularity of his actual policies on immigration (and so forth). They gave Trump a fake mandate

CEO of major defense firm, largest donor (by far) ever to a political party, person who ran the government for 6 month resulting 100k's of deaths threatening Congress if they investigate him is reinforcing why Congress needs to investigate him with urgency, depth, and real accountability.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Love the insinuation that Democrats not threatening to investigate Musk due to his publicly using his power as CEO of defense firm to undermine allies, control of DOGE to kill 100k's, or his $billions in direct & in-kind donations that violate all sorts of laws, but for other more nefarious reason.

We should shun people who participate in the rape & abandonment of a 12 y/o girl (and her little brother), we should say unequivocally that raping & abandoning children is always bad. We should judge harshly the political culture the Vice-President lives in that compels him to disagree on this.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

JD Vance defends Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s abusive mother, who stayed with her husband who was indicted for raping Acton starting at 9 years old: “Politics is a tough business... Stop whining about an advertisement.”

Until this morning Witkoff, in my mind, was just Jared's corruption accomplice, absurd villain's sidekick. But after seeing this video of Witkoff kissing-up to Putin in person, I feel it is imperative that, when we restore rule-of-law, he receives full accountability for his crimes against US.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

Hard to wrap head around fact that Trump started absurd war against Iran, never bothering to even justify it, then got absolutely crushed by Iran while gutting US military So he decides he can get a quick win by having US back flailing autocratic petrostate Russia over resiliant democratic Ukraine

Impossible to fully internalize the cost to our economy, security, soft-power with twin (absurdly self-owned) military losses in 2 year. Sitting on top of the absurd tariff wars, Trump has burned to the ground every ounce of power & goodwill we gained since we landed in France in 1917.

David Rothschild reposted

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It's almost like the media being in the X bubble with the right has warped *their* sense of what's normal.

Media & Political Elite: it is huge problem that Democratic intelligencia lives in left-wing echochamber BlueSky Republican Elite: we sent all day in our right-wing-extremist echochamber X, and decided to go all in on mocking Democratic gubernatorial candidate for being raped & abandoned at 12 y/o

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

Craziest part about Media & Political Elite constant attacks on us being at BlueSky is how consistently right we have been about world over the last 10+ years, while Media & Political Elite mock us for being isolated & out-of-touch.

Republican candidate functionally mocking the rape & abandonment of his Democratic opponent when she was 12 y/o is just horrifying on so many levels.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Mere seconds after Ramaswamy takes the stage in Columbus, an attendee begins yelling at him for his ad with Amy Acton's mother about childhood abuse

Nationalization of SpaceX is the moderate/common-sense position for US, allowing a drug-addled white supremacist authoritarian to continue to have unilateral control over a critical defense company is an insanely radical position.

How Trump Family stole $10+ billion: ✈️plane from Qatar 🏢real-estate "deals" 💵crypto from their supporters 🚀defense deals for Eric/Jr. 🪎foreign policy for/by Jared 🛢️insider trading on oil/stocks 💰random kickbacks 🎥licensing deals (movies!) 👟selling tchotchkes (phones, sneakers, etc.) ⛓️‍💥selling pardons

How Trump Family stole $10+ billion (con't): 🚢tariff wavers 🥬regulation wavers Trump Family is willing to sell anything of ours and that has real consequences on our economy, security, freedom.

Stop with the gimmicks: tax the rich, provide everyone healthcare, nationalize US defense companies that hate US.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

“A BIG THANK YOU to our legendary friend, Elon Musk, for his incredible generosity in giving SpaceX Stock to millions of American children through TRUMP ACCOUNTS!”