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# ![@JamesSurowiecki Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1219579814.png) @JamesSurowiecki James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki posts on X about insurance, tariffs, health insurance, york the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 9973 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[finance](/list/finance)  #1707 [countries](/list/countries)  #6736 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  #3449 [musicians](/list/musicians)  [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) 

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[insurance](/topic/insurance) #230, [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) #110, [health insurance](/topic/health-insurance) #57, [york](/topic/york) #325, [money](/topic/money), [doj](/topic/doj), [over the](/topic/over-the) #389, [maga](/topic/maga) #1340, [york city](/topic/york-city) #100, [new york city](/topic/new-york-city) #99

**Top assets mentioned**
[No Kings (NOKINGS)](/topic/no-kings) [World Liberty Financial (WLFI)](/topic/world-liberty-financial)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1219579814/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"The vice president of the United States thinks it's "pearl clutching" to criticize people who call rape "epic" say "I love Hitler" refer to black people as "monkeys" and declare "everyone who votes no is going to the gas chambers.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1978287553036828973) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-15T02:31Z 128.8K followers, 422K engagements


""I don't care about those people" is not a reasonable answer. And while abolishing the ACA might make your insurance cheaper - not insanely cheaper but cheaper - that would only be true if no one in your family ever got really sick at which point your premiums would skyrocket assuming you could even get insurance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1979204137205023021) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-17T15:13Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


""New York City felt safer in the early 1990s when there were 2500 murders a year than it does now when there are XXX murders a year" is quite a take"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981532331921068143) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T01:24Z 128.8K followers, 148.7K engagements


"The man who "brought free speech back to America" ladies and gentlemen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981908692648817047) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T02:20Z 128.8K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Blatant violation of the Hatch Act illegally using taxpayer money for political propaganda. I know - no one cares"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1976818836814127474) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-11T01:15Z 128.8K followers, 3.2M engagements


"The guy being interrogated in this video is a native-born U.S. citizen. He answered the agents' questions truthfully and gave them his driver's license. And they still dragged him in and held him for hours. So what You have to carry a passport or your birth certificate or else risk being imprisoned for hours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1977429462078677349) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-12T17:41Z 128.8K followers, 550.1K engagements


"Just from 2000 to 2008 health insurance premiums rose by 97%. So the fact that premiums have risen by XX% in the XX years since Obamacare was enacted shows that the cost of healthcare has risen much more slowly since it became law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1977536917483729382) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-13T00:48Z 128.8K followers, 113.5K engagements


"Most of these guys are not in high school or college. They're adults. And "All young men call black people monkeys and say rape is epic" is a pathetic defense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1978430383843684398) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-15T11:58Z 128.8K followers, 265K engagements


"Mississippi Alabama Tennessee South Carolina: Trump would have won all of those states convincingly without a single vote from a non-white person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1978942373460660484) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-16T21:53Z 128.8K followers, 25.8K engagements


"Oakland was XX% black in 1977. Two thirds of the population was nonwhite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980247444723323180) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-20T12:19Z 128.8K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Does James Woods think Kamala Harris can sue Trump for calling her a fascist over and over again You're allowed to voice your opinions of public figures. If you think Stephen Miller is a Nazi and a white supremacist you can say that and be protected by the 1st Amendment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980788693020316113) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T00:10Z 128.8K followers, 33.9K engagements


"The ballroom construction is being funded mainly by private contributions - meaning corporations and individuals are giving the president tens of millions of dollars to fund his pet project. It's a recipe for legalized bribery. That's much worse than having the govt pay for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980964705700282723) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T11:49Z 128.8K followers, 101K engagements


"The audience at your average bluegrass show has to be XX% college-educated liberals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981525294445187584) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:56Z 128.8K followers, 53.7K engagements


"Most New Yorkers don't live in Manhattan. And the idea that SoHo Washington Heights Red Hook Dumbo Cobble Hill Gowanus Park Slope Fort Greene Clinton Hill Crown Heights Williamsburg Astoria and Long Island City were anywhere near as safe in the early 1990s as they are today is absurd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981644722947953147) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T08:51Z 128.8K followers, 3680 engagements


"Ted Cruz Princeton grad retweets a chart showing that the cost of family health-insurance rose at a much faster rate before Obamacare went into effect than it has since but nonetheless tweets "This is what Obamacare has produced." How stupid does he think his followers are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981767679699452049) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T17:00Z 128.8K followers, 33.8K engagements


"@Mithrandir48 @MrTate It absolutely made care affordable for tens of millions of people who either couldn't get insurance or had to pay obscene rates in order to be insured"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981772812231844043) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T17:20Z 128.8K followers, XX engagements


"@SixTwoLiters @conor64 What's a recent example of a deadly attack ordered by someone other than Trump without congressional authorization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981812675677212743) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T19:58Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"If your ancestors were not here when the country was founded you are not a heritage American"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981875272832918004) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T00:07Z 128.8K followers, 18.6K engagements


"Trump imposed tariffs on countries that we have trade surpluses with too. And the case for free trade does not rest on what other countries do as Reagan understood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981885675424333978) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T00:49Z 128.8K followers, 6673 engagements


"@carney Smartphones and computers have been exempted from the tariffs so weird to mention them as evidence that the tariffs are having no effect on prices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981890555207455155) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T01:08Z 128.8K followers, 4098 engagements


"@Smith4Gm @wil_da_beast630 That's because instead of just deporting him to Mexico or Honduras they fucked up and then doubled down on their mistake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982067816833401258) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T12:52Z 128.8K followers, XX engagements


"@h17253 Literally all of the money going to the government is coming from US importers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1953577364216328382) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-08-07T22:01Z 128.8K followers, 89.1K engagements


"Dr. Oz used to be an actual surgeon. Now he's pretending you can cut prices by more than XXX% because he can't contradict his boss' innumerate comments. Trump makes everyone around him a clown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1977063885409587311) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-11T17:28Z 128.8K followers, 199.7K engagements


"Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1977090962855018555) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-11T19:16Z 128.8K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Good to see Newsmax on this list. High-profile media organizations should recognize that the thing Trump cares most about is attention. Stop covering the Pentagon's briefings. Stop airing Trump's Oval Office stream-of -consciousness sessions. See what happens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1977871170079699425) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-13T22:56Z 128.8K followers, 13.4K engagements


""We live in a 65/35 country in which no Republican presidential candidate has won even XX% of the vote in XX years. I am very smart.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1978910496788017171) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-16T19:46Z 128.8K followers, 196.5K engagements


"Having the president unilaterally and illegitimately impose tariffs on the rest of the world shows no respect for capitalism or the rule of law. Having the president coerce businesses into handing over XX% of their company or XX% of their revenue is not capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1979207021594300802) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-17T15:25Z 128.8K followers, 54.3K engagements


"@HMBohemond The Rosenberg were traitors but it's very silly to argue that the Soviets would not have eventually figured out how to build an atom bomb on their own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1979484144825475324) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-18T09:46Z 128.8K followers, 15.8K engagements


"@ArgileNoland @David_J_Bier Please cite the statute that requires citizens to carry proof of citizenship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1979572144322265325) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-18T15:35Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"There's nothing paradoxical about this. Republicans and Democrats are relatively evenly distributed in most of New England (unlike in the rest of the country). There are just more Dems. There is a Maine district that voted for Trump. But the GOP ran an inexperienced former NASCAR driver against Jared Golden in that district and he lost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1979705053679063326) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-19T00:24Z 128.8K followers, 15.9K engagements


"@MericaCulture The men on the left side of that picture were all traitors who made a choice to not be Americans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980220134108365158) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-20T10:30Z 128.8K followers, 32.5K engagements


"@HowlingKirk Confident that if you went to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Oakland today you could avoid black people if that's what you wanted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980717534111494203) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-21T19:27Z 128.8K followers, 1971 engagements


"No it's not a threat of a coup. It's just people making clear that they think their boss is a joke - which we all know he is - and that they wish Trump would replace him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980785702242820186) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-21T23:58Z 128.8K followers, 9896 engagements


"Pete Hegseth was completely unqualified to become Secretary of Defense and nothing he has done since taking office has reassured people that he knows what he's doing. Of course generals have lost confidence in him. It's a miracle they ever had any confidence in him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980787233465725265) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T00:04Z 128.8K followers, 6714 engagements


"@sarahcbedford Are you seriously suggesting the DOJ which is under Trump's control could "agree" to pay him $XXX million and have that not be an absolutely unacceptable conflict of interest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980789842058572263) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T00:14Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"It's not a deal breaker because no one believes that Spanberger actually supports Jay Jones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980797264168915079) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T00:44Z 128.8K followers, 7447 engagements


"It's always the ones you expect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980799018574966896) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T00:51Z 128.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@ebeth360 What's your theory If someone commits crimes and then runs for office you have to let him get away with the crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980962728161190156) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T11:41Z 128.8K followers, 2016 engagements


"@ebeth360 That was not a case brought by the DOJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980978877712511219) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T12:45Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@mindak67 @ebeth360 Was that case brought by the DOJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980979124077465905) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T12:46Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@72greengrocer Why is a video of a guy riding as a passenger in a jet "INSANE""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981072013272949081) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T18:55Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@coconuttreebark Congress did not give the president the power to impose permanent tariffs on every country in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981124750287261831) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:25Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"How will you restore "health insurance freedom" while also ensuring that every American will be able to buy health insurance at a reasonable price regardless of pre-existing conditions or health history Because the 2nd part is what Americans want"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981125430750179755) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:28Z 128.8K followers, 9331 engagements


"Today's GOP discourse around Obamacare skips over the fact that before the ACA millions of Americans could not get health insurance because of their health history and millions of others were stuck in jobs because they couldn't risk losing health insurance. Any new healthcare plan has to ensure we don't go back to that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981126711405162954) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:33Z 128.8K followers, 6119 engagements


"@Cryptadamist @coconuttreebark SCOTUS has not ruled on it which is why Trump is trying to work the refs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981128756161806539) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:41Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@Cryptadamist @coconuttreebark They're going to hear the case this session and issue a ruling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981130684312772727) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:48Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@firewalled540s @atrupar Please cite the statute that gives the president the power to impose tariffs on every country in the world (other than the ones we're sanctioning)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981131108306583686) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:50Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@HoleDigger2016 The ballroom won't be attached"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981133602151944702) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T23:00Z 128.8K followers, 7842 engagements


"@nerdsnipe Who is arguing that it harms unemployed people The vast majority of people who get ACA subsidies are working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981185556785823798) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-23T02:27Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@OldPatriot_1776 @WallStreetApes @catmrow0 Anyone who wants to be able to leave their job and still get health insurance or who might lose their job and need insurance that's cheaper than COBRA benefits from the ACA though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981521045241942146) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:40Z 128.8K followers, XX engagements


"@AlphEatsCats @ChrisGeorgeBerg My tweet is obviously referring to the rate of growth of the cost of health insurance. The average premium for a family of X rose XXX% between 1995 and 2010 which is quite a bit greater than the XXX% it's risen since then"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981523157883506756) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:48Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@ChrisGeorgeBerg @skrossa "Doubled" is precise. It describes a rate of increase. If I had written "that increase of $14000 was greater than the increase in health-insurance costs in the XX yrs before Obamacare" you would have reason to complain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981523657735246291) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:50Z 128.8K followers, XX engagements


"@BuckSexton XX million who didn't have insurance before the ACA got it because of the ACA. Is that really "worse in every way""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981545550186238367) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T02:17Z 128.8K followers, 3320 engagements


"Obamacare had no negative effect on people with employer-provided insurance which includes most prime-age Americans. And insurers that provide insurance to large employers don't underwrite individual employees or segregate the "uninsurable" - they insure the whole workforce. Very few employees complain about this - why should it be different if it's a large pool of people who are buying insurance on the individual market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981567876310982806) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T03:46Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"The core problem for black voters in the South is that even though the black population of many Southern states is large white Southerners vote as a near-monolithic bloc which means GOP candidates need essentially no black votes to win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1978940518538059858) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 128.8K followers, 615.1K engagements


"This tweet is a perfect encapsulation of the MAGA understanding of presidential power: since Trump was elected he can do whatever he wants ignore the Constitution and ignore the law. But that's not how US democracy is supposed to work. The president is not a king"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1979887661293981950) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-19T12:29Z 128.8K followers, 156K engagements


"If this happens it will be a level of corruption honestly unimaginable in the history of the U.S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980786683848323225) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T00:02Z 128.8K followers, 314.8K engagements


"Every tweet from Trump administration spokespeople sounds like it was written by a North Korean apparatchik circa 1974: "The running dog members of the evil press have failed in their quest to destroy our Glorious Leader" Embarrassing un-American nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981121145987616960) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:11Z 128.8K followers, 7228 engagements


"This guy like most Americans is receiving a massive subsidy for the cost of his health insurance because he pays zero income tax on all the money his employer pays for his insurance. But he's blissfully convinced he's had no one else subsidize his insurance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981133203441406458) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:58Z 128.8K followers, 21.4K engagements


"The greatest grifter in the history of American politics pardons a bunch of grifters and his followers say "He must have been advised badly" How can anyone be this gullible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981512365276561437) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:05Z 128.8K followers, 40.5K engagements


"No - the average cost of a family insurance plan for a family of X is $27000. So the price of health insurance has roughly doubled in XX years. That's not great but it's a much smaller increase than we saw in the XX years before Obamacare was put in place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981518439673192516) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:29Z 128.8K followers, 7995 engagements


""It's corrupt but it's constitutional.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981530427962565120) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T01:17Z 128.8K followers, 168.3K engagements


"There is no provision in the Constitution or the law that allows the president to "just kill people" he thinks are criminals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981704139659956349) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T12:47Z 128.8K followers, 414.5K engagements


"@Publius215 Yes and what branch of govt is given the exclusive power to declare war and call the militia into service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981708939336335667) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T13:06Z 128.8K followers, 2898 engagements


"@texpatriot79 The Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce - which health insurance is obviously part of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981740620826718416) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T15:12Z 128.8K followers, 5253 engagements


"@ItIsHoeMath @AliceFromQueens Why choose to be so willfully stupid You know essentially all homicides get reported and that the NYPD is not concealing them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981765311046332843) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T16:50Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@ScatPack500hp So the theory is that he can label anyone a terrorist and once he does just murder them without consequence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981877963550277718) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T00:18Z 128.8K followers, 3058 engagements


"Given that that's an old photo and not a picture of a boat the U.S. bombed it's completely irrelevant to the discussion of whom Trump is killing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981888132455764149) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T00:58Z 128.8K followers, 31.9K engagements


"@grok @tosino007 @MatthewTortora_ @amechi_nwandu There is no Congressional oversight. Fentanyl is not imported from Venezuela and there is no "imminent" threat - the boats were blowing up aren't even on their way to the U.S"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981905121232531571) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T02:06Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@LarryChaffin @ScatPack500hp Where is that in the Constitution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982055534703656960) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T12:03Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements


"People who have lived through many presidencies are well-positioned to understand that Trump is unique in his flouting of norms laws and the Constitution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980251035147927590) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-20T12:33Z 128.8K followers, 230.7K engagements


"Yesterday every big MAGA influencer on this site put up posts falsely claiming that footage of the No Kings rally in Boston was taken from 2017. Those tweets got millions of views. Today big MAGA influencer account falsely claims a photo of a boat from a 2024 drug bust by Spanish authorities is a boat the US blew up. MAGA followers inhabit a fantasy world constructed by people who happily lie to them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980324071096070655) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-20T17:23Z 128.8K followers, 39.6K engagements


"A U.S. senator tweeted out this lie hours after it had been debunked. This site is hopeless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980363487642882106) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-20T20:00Z 128.8K followers, 322.8K engagements


"Pete Hegseth makes propaganda video for himself that shows him riding as a passenger in a fighter jet. MAGA: "It is so cool that Hegseth can fly fighter jets" The stupidity is mind-numbing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980959490485727294) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T11:28Z 128.8K followers, 72.3K engagements


"But conspiratorial anti-Semitism has been essential to RW movements all over the Western world including the U.S. for centuries. This is not some new innovation by Candace Owens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1980966136112992436) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T11:55Z 128.8K followers, 6371 engagements


"If the Founders thought it was important for the president to have the power to impose tariffs they would have given it to him. They didn't - the Constitution gives exclusive power over tariffs and foreign commerce to Congress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981119609685381154) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:04Z 128.8K followers, 110.7K engagements


"It's not going to look like this is it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981130523155009648) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-22T22:48Z 128.8K followers, 127.7K engagements


"You're posting a graph based on survey data that shows that a big spike in supposed health-insurance expenditures took place in 2014 which is also the year as the fine print says that the survey question about insurance expenditures was changed. Seems likely that the latter has a lot to do with the former"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981522021969191149) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T00:43Z 128.8K followers, 2158 engagements


"Trump continues with his campaign of state capitalism. It is grotesque to have a president dictating who can buy what companies - and media companies no less. Every unitary-executive advocate in America should be hanging their head in shame at what they have wrought"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981705533368467694) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T12:53Z 128.8K followers, 15.5K engagements


"Median household income in the US is $83730 a year so no the cost of family health insurance is not close to eclipsing that. And most family-insurance plans are largely paid for by employers - a benefit that is not taxed as income"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981707975614943585) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T13:02Z 128.8K followers, 7208 engagements


"Inflation is up X% year-over-year core inflation also up 3%. Both are well above the Fed's target and higher than what inflation was a year ago when Trump was going on and on about high prices. But now X% inflation is "really good" and Trump is lying about prices going down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981717629694865595) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T13:41Z 128.8K followers, 32.1K engagements


"What's the definition of "invasion" you're using There's no evidence the boats they're blowing up are going to the U.S. which is way outside their range. At most they might be transporting drugs to be transshipped to the U.S. by other boats. In what sense is that an "invasion""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981742771414118454) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T15:21Z 128.8K followers, 1060 engagements


"A) Is it 2022 No. So your map is irrelevant. And has New York City reported its crime data to the FBI in the years since Yes it has. B) More important cities report their crime data to their citizens and the NYPD has always done so. C) Murders are not under-reported nor hidden"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981876048670425389) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T00:10Z 128.8K followers, 14.6K engagements


"The sheriff who presided over the arrest of this guy and is keeping him in jail for nothing should lose his job and I hope will be sued for all he's worth. Imprisoning this guy is just repulsively anti-American behavior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981877542215713044) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T00:16Z 128.8K followers, 49.2K engagements


"I would say this has to be a joke tweet but sadly I fear it's not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981910826995855575) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T02:28Z 128.8K followers, 13K engagements


""Ronald Reagan loved tariffs" is among the biggest lies Trump has ever told - and he's told a lot of them. Here's what Reagan thought of tariffs in his own words: "Protectionism is destructionism.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982061480074768738) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T12:27Z 128.8K followers, 89.9K engagements


"It's fine if you think Reagan was wrong - most Democrats at the time did (and most probably still do). But Trump should stop pretending Reagan agreed with him about tariffs when he absolutely did not. Be an adult. Say "I think Reagan was wrong." Stop lying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982069363181302105) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T12:58Z 128.8K followers, 4637 engagements


"@KirkGraystone Trump has imposed tariffs on every country in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982083344813732037) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T13:54Z 128.8K followers, XXX engagements