Dark | Light
[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

[@matthewstoller](/creator/twitter/matthewstoller)
"Try asking 'the left' and Matt Yglesias about tariffs China and offshoring and you'll get the same answer they'll just offer different flavors of annoying words"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980246893134590170) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T12:17Z 156.2K followers, 13.4K engagements


"One reason tariffs are such an easy thing for lefties/shitlibs to hate is because they are tools designed to help producers here make things. That's just contra lefty/shitlib culture which is wholly consumer-oriented"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978518963492450747) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-15T17:50Z 156.1K followers, 9699 engagements


"Google is a tax on the entire economy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978983321800413431) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T00:36Z 156.2K followers, 61.1K engagements


"@buccocapital You should read my newsletter and invest in who I hate. Its probably a good portfolio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979002475337203792) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T01:52Z 156.1K followers, 1999 engagements


"The U.S. used to have the monopolies so we were pro-monopoly and pro-patent. Today the Chinese have them which is turning Scott Bessent into an anti-monopolist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979540473241883064) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-18T13:30Z 156.2K followers, 4965 engagements


"@dieworkwear Your weird insecurities aside you consistently lie that native born Americans cant and never have made clothes and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you talk about your left wing views. Youre slime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1977509800171995301) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-12T23:00Z 156.2K followers, 460.1K engagements


"Third Way's Matt Bennett takes a swipe at Graham Platner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978865865161372155) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-16T16:49Z 156.2K followers, 3716 engagements


"This is very dumb. The U.S. comes out of an Anglo populist tradition and carries it forward for better or worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978955640849522749) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-16T22:46Z 156.2K followers, 212.8K engagements


"Zohran Mamdani could truly baffle Trump and the superrich by establishing a task force to return manufacturing to New York City. The core long-term strategy was to turn NYC into a real estate-finance hub instead of a shipping and manufacturing center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979195326050230340) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T14:38Z 156.2K followers, 31.9K engagements


"Uh no. Trump was substantive Kamala wasnt. Mamdani is substantive Cuomo isnt. To do the long form teaching on social media you have to know stuff and talk about it. Dems despise substance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980056137778229497) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-19T23:39Z 156.2K followers, 68K engagements


"If the left were genuinely supportive of America you'd hear the word 'treason' thrown around all the time towards billionaires. But you don't because the left just doesn't see the American political project as linked to their values"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980283708155277707) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T14:43Z 156.2K followers, 8482 engagements


"It's critical to block the railroad mega-merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980358255118602663) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T19:39Z 156.2K followers, 10.9K engagements


"That's why all the stupid pandering over social issues is silly. You can't pander your way to substance you have to actually do work to learn things. That's why Ezra/Derek/Yglesias Abundance is also silly it's just fake smart bullshit artistry. It isn't real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980642362281062538) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T14:28Z 156.2K followers, 4446 engagements


"There are influencers on tiktok with millions of views with conspiracy theories on tariffs saying that you can't mail letters to the U.S. anymore because of Trump. Insane lies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980725447059993028) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T19:58Z 156.2K followers, 6284 engagements


"Graham Platner is very bad at salad forks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980730270409191714) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:17Z 156.2K followers, 5902 engagements


"The reason anyone pretends to care about Platner's tattoo and Reddit posts is because they think he's coming after the rich. That's it. That's all it's about. They hate populists because we actually believe in equality and that terrifies them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980752068886319166) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T21:44Z 156.2K followers, 52.1K engagements


""Funds at investment firms including BlackRock Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1976398794519609781) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-09T21:26Z 156.2K followers, 22.1K engagements


"Xi Jinping is betting that Trump will remove tariffs chip controls and flip on Taiwan for fear the stock market will decline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1977091632882389077) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-11T19:19Z 156.2K followers, 210.3K engagements


"One sad thing about this political moment is how much so many influential people on the left still despise the idea America is a nation with interests. Theyve learned so little"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1977399165048033646) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-12T15:41Z 156.2K followers, 23.1K engagements


"@RushDoshi @Dali_Yang One key policy response must be to integrate anti-monopoly frameworks into foreign affairs. China is explicit that industrial monopolies are its primary tool of statecraft along with mechanisms like predatory pricing that neoliberals discarded as meaningful XX years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1977400444495282489) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-12T15:46Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"This guy @dieworkwear consistently sneers at the notion native born Americans would do garment work promotes policies to offshore then turns around and pretends hes into American made"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1977533197748744407) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-13T00:33Z 156.2K followers, 113.1K engagements


"China's rare earth monopoly is a good way to demonstrate that the Chicago school framework is a disaster. China is threatening to incinerate our economy and they can do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978077770526703641) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-14T12:37Z 156.2K followers, 103.6K engagements


"Ok fine but Obamacare has been in law for XX years now. What's the alternative The truth is that GOP opponents of the ACA are mad that it doesn't spend enough on wasteful middlemen and corrupt private equity clowns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978802650985742609) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-16T12:38Z 156.2K followers, 12.2K engagements


"I crap all over Obamacare all the time because I'm talking to Democrats who don't understand what they did. But the ACA built on a corrupt system designed by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The right has no agenda except even more graft and corruption. Fix that guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978802994763178256) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-16T12:39Z 156.2K followers, 4863 engagements


"Now imagine that this level of aggressiveness and financing was dedicated to rare earths and getting off of dependence on China and you'll see the lost opportunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978921736046293327) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-16T20:31Z 156.2K followers, 19K engagements


"Thats why theres such hostility to tariffs now and why they cant grapple with China. They dont really see value in a nation-state so the idea of re-shoring or addressing Chinese coercion makes no sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979911209219494332) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-19T14:03Z 156.2K followers, 6444 engagements


"The GOP considers deeply pro-China Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to be a surrogate. The right is totally cooked on foreign economic statecraft. @oren_cass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980008272682783107) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-19T20:28Z 156.2K followers, 15.6K engagements


"Medicare was going to pause payments to physicians as part of the government shutdown but then decided not to. Why Well because the shutdown is completely arbitrary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980078078828392724) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T01:06Z 156.2K followers, 6363 engagements


"Joining MAGA soybean farmers now MAGA supporting U.S. cattle producers are going to take it on the chin to help Bessents hedge fund buddies. (The high prices are a result of processing)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980236593110876462) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T11:36Z 156.2K followers, 12.9K engagements


"@SimmsTokuha It's easy. Just rally around the American political project and attack Wall Street as traitors. But that's annoying for cosmopolitan elites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980247323692138568) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T12:18Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Janet Mills who will be the nominee is a XX year old who opposes raising taxes on big corporations and millionaires while fighting bitterly for trans athletes to compete in girl's sports. She's a obviously scandalous candidate it's just she's Bluesky-approved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980975302844055639) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T12:31Z 156.2K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Democrats should embrace a traditional fire and brimstone anti-sin agenda. Crack down on gambling drugs liquor pornography speculation and other evils that enslave us to our worst impulses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1973824972348142057) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-02T18:58Z 156.2K followers, 545K engagements


"Obama entered with a Dem supermajority in Congress and left with Trump as President a GOP Congress and a shattered Democratic brand. Dems will never govern until they reject Obama"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979001909005406559) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T01:49Z 156.2K followers, 87.7K engagements


"@grahamcclark1 @Goatvillager Yup. The left and liberals have the same conception of America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980245538487533602) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T12:11Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"The more I see of this guy the more I dislike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980348403029799405) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T19:00Z 156.2K followers, 59.7K engagements


"It's easy to beat the right. Just say Republicans care about THEM (Wall Street Arab princes China corporate CEOs) not YOU. Why is this message is so hard to deliver The left/libs/Dems don't believe in a THEM and a YOU. They don't believe in America as a political community"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980246525067636910) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T12:15Z 156.2K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@LeBuzzdilyacin1 I had never heard of Totenkopf until you just said it. Move on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980733777102967054) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:31Z 156.2K followers, 4240 engagements


"Even the 'Platner has apologized and learned' stuff annoys me. What's with the therapeutic garbage talk Who cares He was a young person who did stupid stuff that didn't hurt anyone. This is normal. Maybe there's badness lurking there but so far I just hate Dem oppo more now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980748121476063553) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T21:28Z 156.2K followers, 37K engagements


"There's an interesting question here about Madden football. Since the NFL granted Electronic Arts an exclusive franchise on gaming and pro ball innovation has stagnated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1981027446792102320) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T15:58Z 156.2K followers, 3693 engagements


"No one can explain why health care costs have been skyrocketing for the last three years. Hospitals and pharmacists are closing doctors are burning out health care stocks are in the toilet. Where's all the money going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1981039207570149564) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T16:45Z 156.2K followers, 38.6K engagements


"My biggest frustration with the right is that they are in charge but still blame some all-powerful left for the problems they refuse to solve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979163880749220106) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T12:33Z 156.2K followers, 10.4K engagements


"@Goatvillager @grahamcclark1 @Cincinnati_Son Graham's point is that your gobbledygook rhetoric sounds like exactly like that of Kamala Harris hence left and liberals are the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980322322356793550) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T17:16Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Of course this is false its UPS that has screwed up. But then @dieworkwear hates the idea of making things in America. Classic left poseur snob"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1977398066186494157) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-12T15:36Z 156.2K followers, 551.2K engagements


"I was in Maine recently saw a lot of Graham Platner signs including inside small independent businesses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978428009695592606) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-15T11:49Z 156.2K followers, 17.2K engagements


"There's a certain vibe of people who make things and grow things and it's a conservative but constructive vibe. It's different than the finance or tech bro vibe which is also right-wing but deeply utopian/dystopian and creepy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978516943893090329) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-15T17:42Z 156.2K followers, 234.2K engagements


"Its a fitting representation of his Presidency and career. An opportunity to do something grand turns into an ugly disappointment everyone has to pretend contains some wisdom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1978568852465136102) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-15T21:09Z 156.2K followers, 157K engagements


"These Democrats have engaged with Obama's Wall Street-friendly framework they just happen to like it or they feel nothing better is possible. And it's not just some upper class whites it's boomer black voters too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979209311688556656) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T15:34Z 156.2K followers, 16.4K engagements


"Hillary Clinton beat Bernie because of black primary voters and Joe Biden won in 2020 because of black primary voters. Trump peeling off younger black voters is the best news for Democrats in XX years it means the neoliberal hold on the party is ebbing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979209625657299426) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-17T15:35Z 156.2K followers, 6042 engagements


"I read the indictment against John Bolton. He leaked classified information to family members helping him with a book that made him $X million. Obviously Trump is vindictive but Bolton wanted the death penalty for Ed Snowden for doing something similar (except without $$$ gain.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979555723584405670) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-18T14:30Z 156.2K followers, 17.1K engagements


"This guy draws a multi-million dollar salary from a law firm that unethically promised to do free work for Trump likely in return for political favors for its corporate clients"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1979645814126571611) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-18T20:28Z 156.2K followers, 140K engagements


"Bessent is just handing our money to Argentine currency speculators"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980235531192877468) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T11:31Z 156.2K followers, 12.8K engagements


"A pretty obvious rhetoric approach would be to accuse most of Wall Street as treasonous for selling out American working people. But to believe that you have to actually be chauvinist towards America and towards work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980247715352375344) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T12:20Z 156.2K followers, 4356 engagements


"@watertankrd You and Elon Musk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980271026836521257) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T13:52Z 156.2K followers, XX engagements


"Of course the Trump FTC is deleting Khan-era blog posts saying 'committing fraud with AI is still fraud.' She's icky"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980281997764264094) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T14:36Z 156.2K followers, 7055 engagements


"Also amusing that Andrew Ferguson is signaling that the Trump White House doesnt support open source AI. I know you guys hate Khan but come on open source vs monopolizing AI is beyond this partisan nonsense. @DavidSacks @mkratsios47 @sriramk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980282785857183847) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T14:39Z 156.2K followers, 3239 engagements


"Few things better illustrate the problem for the left as the ACLU having $XXX million in the bank while doing de facto lobbying work for Meta and Google under the grounds that government regulation of industry violates the First Amendment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980310966224261355) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T16:31Z 156.2K followers, 25.3K engagements


"This is interesting the private equity roll-up of port-a-potties a firm called United Site Services has been written down to zero. It's Tom Gores's Platinum Equity Partners which also did a prison phone monopoly rollup that screwed up this industry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980313082640708030) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T16:40Z 156.2K followers, 11.9K engagements


"I'm not dismissing pre-WW2 history I'm saying you're wrong. The U.S. had the biggest trade surpluses in the world by far in the 1950s. And the dollar was a fixed exchange. You cannot say that Cordell Hull created our current predicament. He didn't. We made a series of choices in the 1970s and 1990s to deal with the end of the Cold War and the beginnings of the post-Cold War and those choices had assumptions that were very different than what Hull thought. Hull hated Wall Street and the hot money flows of the 1920s the choices of the 1970 and 1990s were to return us to an era of speculative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980315063182397482) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T16:47Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@Charles_Benoit "For Dems President Wilson gives infamous vicious speech to Joint (Dem-controlled) Session of Congress in 1913 saying that every American producer and worker should be in unfettered price competition with the entire world." Do you have a link to this speech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980341035235701111) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T18:31Z 156.2K followers, XX engagements


"AWS was down so surely Amazon's stock took a big hit. Oh wait it's good to be a monopolist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980344744992788510) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T18:45Z 156.2K followers, 18.8K engagements


"@Charles_Benoit I don't read it the way you do. He says nothing about unfettered price/wage competition. And later on he makes it clear that it's an attempt at constructive industry. Cutting tariffs then passing the Federal Reserve FTC and Clayton Acts show it was an anti-monopoly agenda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980346465265623250) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T18:52Z 156.2K followers, XX engagements


"Remember all those nifty smart meters subsidized by the Obama administration Utilities won't let customers have access to their own power usage data so they can't band together to cut usage and reduce the amount of power generating equipment needed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980355675197960703) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T19:29Z 156.2K followers, 6104 engagements


"Meanwhile California regulators vote to let San Diego Gas & Electric cease giving customers real-time power usage information meaning that customers can't easily adjust how they use power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980356118070305135) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T19:31Z 156.2K followers, 4158 engagements


"People don't get why Mamdani works. It's substance not slickness. Mamdani explains how and why the stuff works the way it does. In this Talarico video by contrast he doesn't actually explain how tariffs translate into higher prices. It's just Kamala Harris-like gobbledygook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980366371566329878) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T20:11Z 156.2K followers, 341.6K engagements


"People think Trump is superficial because he's a loud-mouthed jerk who lies all the time and sounds uneducated. But he's actually substantive in that he's making policy arguments all the time. They usually have some grain of truth in them even if it's mostly bullshit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980367505924477084) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T20:16Z 156.2K followers, 19.6K engagements


"@Charles_Benoit @americanmoment There was never a divide within populists. Populists were a coherent political party in the 1880s and 1890s. And they largely merged into the Democratic Party via William Jennings Bryan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980381607313002570) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T21:12Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@Charles_Benoit @americanmoment The communist in the 1930s who fought against Franco in Spainnamed themselves the Abraham Lincoln brigade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980381890696868036) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-20T21:13Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"I don't know if Zohran Mamdani will do a good job as mayor what makes him unusual is he knows stuff. He's substantive. Dems usually put up fake smart bullshit artists from Barack Obama to Pete Buttigieg to Mallory McMorrow to James Talarico. That's parlor tricks not politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980641666685182256) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T14:25Z 156.2K followers, 16.8K engagements


"The death spiral for the ACA is here. Whether Dems like it or not we're going to have to replace Obamacare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980692027340911079) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T17:45Z 156.2K followers, 86.2K engagements


"They are claiming Trump tariffs are a strategy to prevent Americans living abroad from voting. This is crazytown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980725801025741226) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:00Z 156.2K followers, 4112 engagements


"These videos making have millions of views. Big business is probably clearly paying for a big influencer campaign here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980727053533212810) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:05Z 156.2K followers, 3044 engagements


"A soldier got a skull and crossbones tattoo Oh noes So far the oppo on Graham Platner reminds me of the false accusations that made Dems want to kick Al Franken out of the Senate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980731081830854800) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:21Z 156.2K followers, 41.5K engagements


"Graham Platner has a skull and crossbones tattoo he got as a soldier James Talarico is a Teach for America grifter funded by casino interests Mallory McMorrow has a secret AIPAC plan for donors. Guess what pearl clutchers think is scandalous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980738242543555065) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:49Z 156.2K followers, 598.7K engagements


"@LeBuzzdilyacin1 @deckard12829 I love that you imagine I self identity as the left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980738931198181787) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T20:52Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@IssacBabel Says the person with the Ukraine flag in her bio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980752657808515213) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T21:46Z 156.2K followers, 2310 engagements


"I want a vigorous examination into Platner. This oppo dump on his tattoo and Reddit posts isnt that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980760026596732947) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-21T22:16Z 156.2K followers, 63.4K engagements


"Bluesky HATES Graham Platner. It's hilarious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980794918722281765) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T00:34Z 156.2K followers, 90.6K engagements


"I agree with this analysis. Platner's family background is upper class what I've liked about him isn't his working class vibe. It's his actual views on the stuff I know about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980797334922420563) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T00:44Z 156.2K followers, 42.4K engagements


"Hanes is being bought by Canadian apparel giant Gildan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980804859550134555) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T01:14Z 156.2K followers, 5530 engagements


"This is a disturbing story about AWS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1980807712368898073) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T01:25Z 156.2K followers, 7615 engagements


"Why is inflation so sticky Why are costs so hard to move down There's a concept I'm trying to define called 'corporate sludge' which are the hidden costs of market power not accounted for on a balance sheet. Like the AWS outage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1981076118959448337) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) 2025-10-22T19:12Z 156.2K followers, 14.1K engagements

[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

@matthewstoller "Try asking 'the left' and Matt Yglesias about tariffs China and offshoring and you'll get the same answer they'll just offer different flavors of annoying words"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T12:17Z 156.2K followers, 13.4K engagements

"One reason tariffs are such an easy thing for lefties/shitlibs to hate is because they are tools designed to help producers here make things. That's just contra lefty/shitlib culture which is wholly consumer-oriented"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-15T17:50Z 156.1K followers, 9699 engagements

"Google is a tax on the entire economy"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T00:36Z 156.2K followers, 61.1K engagements

"@buccocapital You should read my newsletter and invest in who I hate. Its probably a good portfolio"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T01:52Z 156.1K followers, 1999 engagements

"The U.S. used to have the monopolies so we were pro-monopoly and pro-patent. Today the Chinese have them which is turning Scott Bessent into an anti-monopolist"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-18T13:30Z 156.2K followers, 4965 engagements

"@dieworkwear Your weird insecurities aside you consistently lie that native born Americans cant and never have made clothes and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you talk about your left wing views. Youre slime"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-12T23:00Z 156.2K followers, 460.1K engagements

"Third Way's Matt Bennett takes a swipe at Graham Platner"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-16T16:49Z 156.2K followers, 3716 engagements

"This is very dumb. The U.S. comes out of an Anglo populist tradition and carries it forward for better or worse"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-16T22:46Z 156.2K followers, 212.8K engagements

"Zohran Mamdani could truly baffle Trump and the superrich by establishing a task force to return manufacturing to New York City. The core long-term strategy was to turn NYC into a real estate-finance hub instead of a shipping and manufacturing center"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T14:38Z 156.2K followers, 31.9K engagements

"Uh no. Trump was substantive Kamala wasnt. Mamdani is substantive Cuomo isnt. To do the long form teaching on social media you have to know stuff and talk about it. Dems despise substance"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-19T23:39Z 156.2K followers, 68K engagements

"If the left were genuinely supportive of America you'd hear the word 'treason' thrown around all the time towards billionaires. But you don't because the left just doesn't see the American political project as linked to their values"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T14:43Z 156.2K followers, 8482 engagements

"It's critical to block the railroad mega-merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T19:39Z 156.2K followers, 10.9K engagements

"That's why all the stupid pandering over social issues is silly. You can't pander your way to substance you have to actually do work to learn things. That's why Ezra/Derek/Yglesias Abundance is also silly it's just fake smart bullshit artistry. It isn't real"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T14:28Z 156.2K followers, 4446 engagements

"There are influencers on tiktok with millions of views with conspiracy theories on tariffs saying that you can't mail letters to the U.S. anymore because of Trump. Insane lies"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T19:58Z 156.2K followers, 6284 engagements

"Graham Platner is very bad at salad forks"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:17Z 156.2K followers, 5902 engagements

"The reason anyone pretends to care about Platner's tattoo and Reddit posts is because they think he's coming after the rich. That's it. That's all it's about. They hate populists because we actually believe in equality and that terrifies them"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T21:44Z 156.2K followers, 52.1K engagements

""Funds at investment firms including BlackRock Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent.""
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-09T21:26Z 156.2K followers, 22.1K engagements

"Xi Jinping is betting that Trump will remove tariffs chip controls and flip on Taiwan for fear the stock market will decline"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-11T19:19Z 156.2K followers, 210.3K engagements

"One sad thing about this political moment is how much so many influential people on the left still despise the idea America is a nation with interests. Theyve learned so little"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-12T15:41Z 156.2K followers, 23.1K engagements

"@RushDoshi @Dali_Yang One key policy response must be to integrate anti-monopoly frameworks into foreign affairs. China is explicit that industrial monopolies are its primary tool of statecraft along with mechanisms like predatory pricing that neoliberals discarded as meaningful XX years ago"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-12T15:46Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"This guy @dieworkwear consistently sneers at the notion native born Americans would do garment work promotes policies to offshore then turns around and pretends hes into American made"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-13T00:33Z 156.2K followers, 113.1K engagements

"China's rare earth monopoly is a good way to demonstrate that the Chicago school framework is a disaster. China is threatening to incinerate our economy and they can do so"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-14T12:37Z 156.2K followers, 103.6K engagements

"Ok fine but Obamacare has been in law for XX years now. What's the alternative The truth is that GOP opponents of the ACA are mad that it doesn't spend enough on wasteful middlemen and corrupt private equity clowns"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-16T12:38Z 156.2K followers, 12.2K engagements

"I crap all over Obamacare all the time because I'm talking to Democrats who don't understand what they did. But the ACA built on a corrupt system designed by Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. The right has no agenda except even more graft and corruption. Fix that guys"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-16T12:39Z 156.2K followers, 4863 engagements

"Now imagine that this level of aggressiveness and financing was dedicated to rare earths and getting off of dependence on China and you'll see the lost opportunity"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-16T20:31Z 156.2K followers, 19K engagements

"Thats why theres such hostility to tariffs now and why they cant grapple with China. They dont really see value in a nation-state so the idea of re-shoring or addressing Chinese coercion makes no sense"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-19T14:03Z 156.2K followers, 6444 engagements

"The GOP considers deeply pro-China Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to be a surrogate. The right is totally cooked on foreign economic statecraft. @oren_cass"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-19T20:28Z 156.2K followers, 15.6K engagements

"Medicare was going to pause payments to physicians as part of the government shutdown but then decided not to. Why Well because the shutdown is completely arbitrary"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T01:06Z 156.2K followers, 6363 engagements

"Joining MAGA soybean farmers now MAGA supporting U.S. cattle producers are going to take it on the chin to help Bessents hedge fund buddies. (The high prices are a result of processing)"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T11:36Z 156.2K followers, 12.9K engagements

"@SimmsTokuha It's easy. Just rally around the American political project and attack Wall Street as traitors. But that's annoying for cosmopolitan elites"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T12:18Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Janet Mills who will be the nominee is a XX year old who opposes raising taxes on big corporations and millionaires while fighting bitterly for trans athletes to compete in girl's sports. She's a obviously scandalous candidate it's just she's Bluesky-approved"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T12:31Z 156.2K followers, 16.6K engagements

"Democrats should embrace a traditional fire and brimstone anti-sin agenda. Crack down on gambling drugs liquor pornography speculation and other evils that enslave us to our worst impulses"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-02T18:58Z 156.2K followers, 545K engagements

"Obama entered with a Dem supermajority in Congress and left with Trump as President a GOP Congress and a shattered Democratic brand. Dems will never govern until they reject Obama"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T01:49Z 156.2K followers, 87.7K engagements

"@grahamcclark1 @Goatvillager Yup. The left and liberals have the same conception of America"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T12:11Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"The more I see of this guy the more I dislike"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T19:00Z 156.2K followers, 59.7K engagements

"It's easy to beat the right. Just say Republicans care about THEM (Wall Street Arab princes China corporate CEOs) not YOU. Why is this message is so hard to deliver The left/libs/Dems don't believe in a THEM and a YOU. They don't believe in America as a political community"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T12:15Z 156.2K followers, 10.6K engagements

"@LeBuzzdilyacin1 I had never heard of Totenkopf until you just said it. Move on"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:31Z 156.2K followers, 4240 engagements

"Even the 'Platner has apologized and learned' stuff annoys me. What's with the therapeutic garbage talk Who cares He was a young person who did stupid stuff that didn't hurt anyone. This is normal. Maybe there's badness lurking there but so far I just hate Dem oppo more now"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T21:28Z 156.2K followers, 37K engagements

"There's an interesting question here about Madden football. Since the NFL granted Electronic Arts an exclusive franchise on gaming and pro ball innovation has stagnated"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T15:58Z 156.2K followers, 3693 engagements

"No one can explain why health care costs have been skyrocketing for the last three years. Hospitals and pharmacists are closing doctors are burning out health care stocks are in the toilet. Where's all the money going"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T16:45Z 156.2K followers, 38.6K engagements

"My biggest frustration with the right is that they are in charge but still blame some all-powerful left for the problems they refuse to solve"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T12:33Z 156.2K followers, 10.4K engagements

"@Goatvillager @grahamcclark1 @Cincinnati_Son Graham's point is that your gobbledygook rhetoric sounds like exactly like that of Kamala Harris hence left and liberals are the same"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T17:16Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"Of course this is false its UPS that has screwed up. But then @dieworkwear hates the idea of making things in America. Classic left poseur snob"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-12T15:36Z 156.2K followers, 551.2K engagements

"I was in Maine recently saw a lot of Graham Platner signs including inside small independent businesses"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-15T11:49Z 156.2K followers, 17.2K engagements

"There's a certain vibe of people who make things and grow things and it's a conservative but constructive vibe. It's different than the finance or tech bro vibe which is also right-wing but deeply utopian/dystopian and creepy"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-15T17:42Z 156.2K followers, 234.2K engagements

"Its a fitting representation of his Presidency and career. An opportunity to do something grand turns into an ugly disappointment everyone has to pretend contains some wisdom"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-15T21:09Z 156.2K followers, 157K engagements

"These Democrats have engaged with Obama's Wall Street-friendly framework they just happen to like it or they feel nothing better is possible. And it's not just some upper class whites it's boomer black voters too"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T15:34Z 156.2K followers, 16.4K engagements

"Hillary Clinton beat Bernie because of black primary voters and Joe Biden won in 2020 because of black primary voters. Trump peeling off younger black voters is the best news for Democrats in XX years it means the neoliberal hold on the party is ebbing"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-17T15:35Z 156.2K followers, 6042 engagements

"I read the indictment against John Bolton. He leaked classified information to family members helping him with a book that made him $X million. Obviously Trump is vindictive but Bolton wanted the death penalty for Ed Snowden for doing something similar (except without $$$ gain.)"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-18T14:30Z 156.2K followers, 17.1K engagements

"This guy draws a multi-million dollar salary from a law firm that unethically promised to do free work for Trump likely in return for political favors for its corporate clients"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-18T20:28Z 156.2K followers, 140K engagements

"Bessent is just handing our money to Argentine currency speculators"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T11:31Z 156.2K followers, 12.8K engagements

"A pretty obvious rhetoric approach would be to accuse most of Wall Street as treasonous for selling out American working people. But to believe that you have to actually be chauvinist towards America and towards work"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T12:20Z 156.2K followers, 4356 engagements

"@watertankrd You and Elon Musk"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T13:52Z 156.2K followers, XX engagements

"Of course the Trump FTC is deleting Khan-era blog posts saying 'committing fraud with AI is still fraud.' She's icky"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T14:36Z 156.2K followers, 7055 engagements

"Also amusing that Andrew Ferguson is signaling that the Trump White House doesnt support open source AI. I know you guys hate Khan but come on open source vs monopolizing AI is beyond this partisan nonsense. @DavidSacks @mkratsios47 @sriramk"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T14:39Z 156.2K followers, 3239 engagements

"Few things better illustrate the problem for the left as the ACLU having $XXX million in the bank while doing de facto lobbying work for Meta and Google under the grounds that government regulation of industry violates the First Amendment"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T16:31Z 156.2K followers, 25.3K engagements

"This is interesting the private equity roll-up of port-a-potties a firm called United Site Services has been written down to zero. It's Tom Gores's Platinum Equity Partners which also did a prison phone monopoly rollup that screwed up this industry"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T16:40Z 156.2K followers, 11.9K engagements

"I'm not dismissing pre-WW2 history I'm saying you're wrong. The U.S. had the biggest trade surpluses in the world by far in the 1950s. And the dollar was a fixed exchange. You cannot say that Cordell Hull created our current predicament. He didn't. We made a series of choices in the 1970s and 1990s to deal with the end of the Cold War and the beginnings of the post-Cold War and those choices had assumptions that were very different than what Hull thought. Hull hated Wall Street and the hot money flows of the 1920s the choices of the 1970 and 1990s were to return us to an era of speculative"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T16:47Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@Charles_Benoit "For Dems President Wilson gives infamous vicious speech to Joint (Dem-controlled) Session of Congress in 1913 saying that every American producer and worker should be in unfettered price competition with the entire world." Do you have a link to this speech"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T18:31Z 156.2K followers, XX engagements

"AWS was down so surely Amazon's stock took a big hit. Oh wait it's good to be a monopolist"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T18:45Z 156.2K followers, 18.8K engagements

"@Charles_Benoit I don't read it the way you do. He says nothing about unfettered price/wage competition. And later on he makes it clear that it's an attempt at constructive industry. Cutting tariffs then passing the Federal Reserve FTC and Clayton Acts show it was an anti-monopoly agenda"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T18:52Z 156.2K followers, XX engagements

"Remember all those nifty smart meters subsidized by the Obama administration Utilities won't let customers have access to their own power usage data so they can't band together to cut usage and reduce the amount of power generating equipment needed"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T19:29Z 156.2K followers, 6104 engagements

"Meanwhile California regulators vote to let San Diego Gas & Electric cease giving customers real-time power usage information meaning that customers can't easily adjust how they use power"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T19:31Z 156.2K followers, 4158 engagements

"People don't get why Mamdani works. It's substance not slickness. Mamdani explains how and why the stuff works the way it does. In this Talarico video by contrast he doesn't actually explain how tariffs translate into higher prices. It's just Kamala Harris-like gobbledygook"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T20:11Z 156.2K followers, 341.6K engagements

"People think Trump is superficial because he's a loud-mouthed jerk who lies all the time and sounds uneducated. But he's actually substantive in that he's making policy arguments all the time. They usually have some grain of truth in them even if it's mostly bullshit"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T20:16Z 156.2K followers, 19.6K engagements

"@Charles_Benoit @americanmoment There was never a divide within populists. Populists were a coherent political party in the 1880s and 1890s. And they largely merged into the Democratic Party via William Jennings Bryan"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T21:12Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@Charles_Benoit @americanmoment The communist in the 1930s who fought against Franco in Spainnamed themselves the Abraham Lincoln brigade"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-20T21:13Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"I don't know if Zohran Mamdani will do a good job as mayor what makes him unusual is he knows stuff. He's substantive. Dems usually put up fake smart bullshit artists from Barack Obama to Pete Buttigieg to Mallory McMorrow to James Talarico. That's parlor tricks not politics"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T14:25Z 156.2K followers, 16.8K engagements

"The death spiral for the ACA is here. Whether Dems like it or not we're going to have to replace Obamacare"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T17:45Z 156.2K followers, 86.2K engagements

"They are claiming Trump tariffs are a strategy to prevent Americans living abroad from voting. This is crazytown"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:00Z 156.2K followers, 4112 engagements

"These videos making have millions of views. Big business is probably clearly paying for a big influencer campaign here"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:05Z 156.2K followers, 3044 engagements

"A soldier got a skull and crossbones tattoo Oh noes So far the oppo on Graham Platner reminds me of the false accusations that made Dems want to kick Al Franken out of the Senate"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:21Z 156.2K followers, 41.5K engagements

"Graham Platner has a skull and crossbones tattoo he got as a soldier James Talarico is a Teach for America grifter funded by casino interests Mallory McMorrow has a secret AIPAC plan for donors. Guess what pearl clutchers think is scandalous"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:49Z 156.2K followers, 598.7K engagements

"@LeBuzzdilyacin1 @deckard12829 I love that you imagine I self identity as the left"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T20:52Z 156.2K followers, XXX engagements

"@IssacBabel Says the person with the Ukraine flag in her bio"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T21:46Z 156.2K followers, 2310 engagements

"I want a vigorous examination into Platner. This oppo dump on his tattoo and Reddit posts isnt that"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-21T22:16Z 156.2K followers, 63.4K engagements

"Bluesky HATES Graham Platner. It's hilarious"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T00:34Z 156.2K followers, 90.6K engagements

"I agree with this analysis. Platner's family background is upper class what I've liked about him isn't his working class vibe. It's his actual views on the stuff I know about"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T00:44Z 156.2K followers, 42.4K engagements

"Hanes is being bought by Canadian apparel giant Gildan"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T01:14Z 156.2K followers, 5530 engagements

"This is a disturbing story about AWS"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T01:25Z 156.2K followers, 7615 engagements

"Why is inflation so sticky Why are costs so hard to move down There's a concept I'm trying to define called 'corporate sludge' which are the hidden costs of market power not accounted for on a balance sheet. Like the AWS outage"
X Link @matthewstoller 2025-10-22T19:12Z 156.2K followers, 14.1K engagements

creator/twitter::2030711/posts
/creator/twitter::2030711/posts