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@JosephPolitano "frustrating part of tariff discourse is that a lot of the answer to "why haven't tariffs been as bad as economists warned" is "Trump has ex-post exempted XX% of goods from tariffs" (most things from Mexico/Canada plus computers smartphones oil drugs etc all remain exempt)"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-25 22:07:18 UTC 84.6K followers, 91K engagements

"Senator Smoot could not be reached for comment"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-29 17:22:12 UTC 84.6K followers, 210K engagements

"Worth remembering that in any other administration a XX% tariff on our largest trade partner & some of our closest allies would be considered the worst trade war in more than a generation"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 16:30:03 UTC 84.6K followers, 167.9K engagements

"I'm starting to think Scott Bessent is just in this for the quarterly European vacation"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 15:22:36 UTC 84.6K followers, 75.1K engagements

"If they waive the tariffs on French wines and keep the tariffs on coffee I am going to LOSE IT"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-23 16:03:10 UTC 84.5K followers, 56.8K engagements

"@runyonhills Ive dug deeper and found out it doesnt make sense because its stupid policy"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 19:50:59 UTC 84.6K followers, 72.5K engagements

"It's also just an insane collection of countries we've sent letters to so far. Iraq and Kazakhstan for some reason. Brazil but nobody else in South America. The top and bottom of Africa but no countries in the middle"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 00:30:17 UTC 84.6K followers, 5897 engagements

"more people also need to take the Kevin Erdmann pill that a lot of what makes cities like LA expensive is not a surplus of wealth and economic opportunity but just a deficit of housing that pushes out anyone that doesn't already have wealth and/or economic opportunity"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-26 21:27:45 UTC 84.6K followers, 5083 engagements

"They made a book vending machine God Bless the District of Columbia"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-21 15:52:23 UTC 84.6K followers, 73.1K engagements

"@EHPlimsoll1 I trust Von Der Leyen and the more official statements here"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 20:52:45 UTC 84.5K followers, 1810 engagements

"US investment in computers continues to skyrocket to record highs amidst the AI boomimports of computers also rose to new record highs as they remain almost entirely exempt from tariffs"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-30 12:59:32 UTC 84.6K followers, 3130 engagements

"The year is 2210. American & Chinese officials meet in Lisbon for the ceremonial "extending of the tariff deadline" celebrating the two countries' trade relationship in an annual tradition whose origins are now lost to history"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-22 14:23:27 UTC 84.6K followers, 623.3K engagements

"I can't even parody Trump era trade policy anymore. They're unironically celebrating tariffs on ice cream"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-23 17:38:55 UTC 84.5K followers, 40.7K engagements

""Good news guysmy state got an exemption from the tariffs The other XX of you can suck it""
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-28 18:11:06 UTC 84.6K followers, 45.4K engagements

"How long will this zombie anti-YIMBY talking point persist Post-COVID we've seen the largest exodus of economic activity from "superstar cities" in a generation When is it enough equalizing that it has solved the housing crisis When is it okay to build housing in SF/NYC/LA"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-26 21:27:43 UTC 84.6K followers, 20.2K engagements

"Always hilarious whenever these turbo-protectionist reindustrialize people reveal that they want tariff exemptions for all their inputs but want to keep tariffs for their outputs. Oh now suddenly tariffs are bad when you're the one paying them"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-28 17:52:50 UTC 84.6K followers, 94.8K engagements

"YOU LITERALLY ALREADY ANNOUNCED THIS ONE LAST WEEK I AM GOING INSANE"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-22 19:50:08 UTC 84.5K followers, 39.6K engagements

"the people of America cried out "Mr. President housing is too cheap it is too easy to afford a home in this country" and Donald Trump took immediate action"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-25 19:48:54 UTC 84.6K followers, 76.8K engagements

"Trump announces XX% tariffs on Japan. Another trade deal thats even worse than what we had before he took office"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-22 23:25:32 UTC 84.5K followers, 64.4K engagements

"Trump says XX% tariffs will go into effect on goods from the Philippines another trade deal that leaves us orders of magnitude worse off than before Trump took office"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-22 17:35:28 UTC 84.5K followers, 23.1K engagements

"NEW: US Real GDP came in at a X% annualized growth rate in Q2 2025. Consumption & public-sector output increased investment declined (primarily due to inventory drawdowns) & the trade deficit shrank Nominal GDP growth (unadjusted for inflation) came in at X% annualized"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-30 12:36:29 UTC 84.6K followers, 12.6K engagements

"Yet Another trade deal from Trump that leaves tariffs much much worse than before he took office. What a joke"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 17:44:30 UTC 84.6K followers, 212K engagements

"Another update to the graph of intense pain & suffering as tariff collections remain near record highs"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-25 19:12:36 UTC 84.6K followers, 215.8K engagements

"Official data is in today and America set a new record-high for solar power in May with generation up XX% compared to last year"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-25 16:26:27 UTC 84.6K followers, 64.6K engagements

"They're calling it the Neville Chamberlain plan to preserve Fed independence"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-22 15:25:52 UTC 84.5K followers, 28.9K engagements

"Can someone remind me why it was a good idea to put tariffs on goods that don't grow in America again"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-15 13:09:57 UTC 84.5K followers, 84.1K engagements

"@aphysicist I don't wanna go to your conference I want you to stop pushing this tariff nonsense onto the rest of the country and only lodging complaints when it bites you in the butt"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-29 01:22:41 UTC 84.5K followers, 1279 engagements

"the pitch to carmakers right now seems to be build in the US and youll have to pay a XX% tariff on your steel and a XX% tariff on your car parts. Or build in EU/Japan and youll only have to pay a XX% tariff What are we even doing here"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 18:37:05 UTC 84.6K followers, 1.4M engagements

"@besttrousers Wow surely there are no lessons for the Americans about the long-term costs of economic uncertainty and cutting yourself off from international trade"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-15 21:14:13 UTC 84.5K followers, 6075 engagements

"If the Trump Administration is aiming for $700B/yr in tariff revenue it implies theyre gonna more-than-double tariffs from here (or Howard Lutnick is lying or some combination of the two)"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 21:14:52 UTC 84.6K followers, 17.5K engagements

"If you think we need to "move economic opportunity away from a few metro areas" congratulations you won We did it In fact we've been doing it for years Can we now actually discuss housing production"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-26 21:27:45 UTC 84.6K followers, 5573 engagements

"Probably the most underreported trade news of the daythe US imports $175B in pharmaceuticals from the EU and thus far they've all been exempt from tariffs If tariffs on drugs & medicine go up XX% this week it'd be a massive escalation of the trade war"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 20:25:04 UTC 84.6K followers, 102.7K engagements

"It's very funny that Trump just randomly stopped sending the tariff threat letters after a week.but it presumably means we're gonna get like XXX letters in the next X days"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 00:30:16 UTC 84.6K followers, 17.9K engagements

"@AngelicaOung Tim Hortons being the only retailer nearby really sells this one"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-27 15:36:22 UTC 84.5K followers, XXX engagements

"heres a chart showing the price of washing machines went up after tariffs were imposed in 2018 nuh uh thats because of Biden how do we get through to these people"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-29 19:10:32 UTC 84.6K followers, 28.7K engagements

"46 states and Puerto Rico have now recovered to pre-COVID jobs levels Fastest: Idaho (+14.4%) Utah (+12.8%) Florida (+10.9%) Texas (+10.7%) South Carolina (+10%) Slowest: Virgin Islands (-9.3%) DC (-5%) Hawaii (-1.9%) Vermont (-0.7%) Massachusetts (-0.2%)"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-18 21:16:46 UTC 84.5K followers, 5660 engagements

"Walked to The Stacks at Buzzard Point in DC. Probably one of the most beautiful new projects in the city but still basically its own secluded neighborhood surrounded by Audi Stadium & some vacant-or-not-busy industrial/commercial stuff"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-29 00:38:38 UTC 84.6K followers, 8895 engagements

"Theyre making JPOW fancams on TikTok again"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-29 14:07:10 UTC 84.6K followers, 42.8K engagements

"Places in the global DC belt Brasilia Canberra Ankara Brussels Ottawa what are some others"
@JosephPolitano on X 2025-07-24 13:10:01 UTC 84.6K followers, 114.7K engagements

"I think it's hilarious that so many people got mad at BlackSTONE (private equity) for buying single-family homes but got them confused for BlackROCK (fund manager) that BlackROCK now has to do a digital apology tour and desperately try to get their name out of this narrative lol"
@JosephPolitano on X 2024-01-06 16:44:06 UTC 84.5K followers, 127.6K engagements