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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 tariffs, insurance, maga, murder the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  XXXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXX%

**Social topic influence**
[tariffs](/topic/tariffs) #318, [insurance](/topic/insurance) #780, [maga](/topic/maga) #1786, [murder](/topic/murder) 1.8%, [money](/topic/money) 1.8%, [not in](/topic/not-in) #438, [york city](/topic/york-city) #1269, [new york city](/topic/new-york-city) #1260, [has been](/topic/has-been) 1.2%, [over the](/topic/over-the) #1976

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**Top assets mentioned**
[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

"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 128.9K followers, 265.3K 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 128.9K followers, 72.7K 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 128.9K followers, 101.4K engagements


"Trump was publicly humiliated by losing to Biden in 2020 and responded by simply refusing to accept reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981403152009351425) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-23T16:51Z 128.9K followers, 86.2K 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 128.9K followers, 151.5K engagements


"@KirkGraystone "It's not a crime." Great defense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982131026940813643) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T17:03Z 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"The total ignorance of math required to believe that this chart shows that most of the people on welfare are illegal immigrants is actually quite impressive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982593206748582074) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-26T23:40Z 128.9K followers, 35.5K engagements


"There are plenty of good songs on Rolling Stone's new list of the XXX best songs of the century. But what's really striking is how dramatically worse this list is than a list of the best songs from 1973-1999 (also a 26-year stretch) would be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1978969296010146124) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-16T23:40Z 128.9K followers, 36.2K 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 128.9K followers, 39.7K 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 128.9K followers, 6402 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 128.9K followers, 110.9K 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 128.9K followers, 127.8K 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 128.9K followers, 8115 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 128.9K followers, 15.8K 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 128.9K followers, XXX 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 128.9K followers, XX 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 128.9K followers, 3649 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 128.9K followers, 4845 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 128.9K 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 128.9K followers, 231K 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 128.9K followers, 21.6K 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 128.9K followers, 32.9K engagements


"@theory_dance @StefanMolyneux Zero evidence of that - as societies become more prosperous they generally have fewer children not more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982128362530234447) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T16:53Z 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@basedtomm @whycoose Did you somehow miss what this thread is about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982800008706507045) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T13:22Z 128.9K followers, XX engagements


"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 128.9K followers, 422.3K 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 128.9K followers, 118.4K engagements


"We're living in a country where the president just randomly raises taxes on a whim because he's in a snit - and no one stops him even though the Constitution gives him zero power over tariffs. This is not a constitutional republic at the moment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982204625039073342) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T21:56Z 128.9K followers, 252.2K engagements


"This is a must-read document on the current state of the Democratic Party how we ended up here and what Dems need to do to win back the voters they've lost over the past eight years. You shouldn't argue again about US politics and what Dems should do until you've read it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982827252200198203) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T15:10Z 128.9K followers, 23.3K engagements


"Trump should definitely use taxpayer money to build and protect a giant statue of a traitor who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. I'm sure that'll be very popular"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982839997502992556) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T16:01Z 128.9K followers, 11.5K engagements


"It happened again. Few days of mediocre coffee at home. Today awesome coffee. Same machine same grind same water roughly the same amount of beans. What alchemy explains this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1911050480186196031) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-04-12T13:35Z 128.9K followers, 84.9K 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 128.9K followers, 199.8K engagements


"Donald Trump was president on January X 2021 not Joe Biden. It was not "Biden's FBI." And Kash Patel has said clearly that the XXX FBI agents were dispatched for crowd control and investigation after the riot began. They were not in the crowd beforehand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1977368007752974501) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-12T13:37Z 128.9K followers, 23.4K 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 128.9K followers, XXX 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 128.9K followers, 34K 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 128.9K followers, 7274 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 128.9K followers, 9409 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 128.9K followers, 55.8K 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 128.9K followers, 3744 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 128.9K followers, 7386 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 128.9K followers, 3189 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 128.9K followers, 1267 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 128.9K followers, 21K 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 128.9K followers, XXX 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 128.9K followers, XXX 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 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Trump is and always has been a protectionist. His love of tariffs is the only political view of his that has been consistent. He imposed tariffs on essentially every country in the world. He's kept tariffs in place on countries/regions that he says have now lifted all trade barriers. And the claim that Reagan loved tariffs is ridiculous on its face"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982440252519154035) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-26T13:32Z 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Totally phony post gets XXX million views. Every one of these "I was a lifelong Democrat ." posts is fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1969470558753472967) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-09-20T18:35Z 128.9K followers, 503.4K engagements


"@vaping_rocks That's not how the Constitution works. If it (or Congress) doesn't give the president authority to do something he can't do it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981705991151641005) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T12:55Z 128.9K followers, 4413 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 128.9K followers, 5947 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 128.9K followers, 18.1K engagements


"@HillbillyJimD @credible_mr @BraedenSorbo What does "2022 counts" even mean when we're talking about NYC's murder rate in 2024 and 2025 Did the murders you think were unreported in 2022 somehow happen in 2024 or this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982249376639492602) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-26T00:54Z 128.9K followers, XX engagements


"@Legolaslego3 @BraedenSorbo Are we talking about the murder rate in 2022 or the murder rate in 2024 and 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982249581120270792) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-26T00:55Z 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@TheRaybender The number of people who would/could do productive work who don't because they can get a few hundred a month on food stamps is vanishingly small"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982815633566781720) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T14:24Z 128.9K followers, XX 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 128.9K 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 128.9K followers, 552.3K 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 128.9K followers, 114.5K 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 128.9K followers, 615.8K 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 128.9K followers, 54.5K 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 128.9K followers, 156.3K 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 128.9K followers, 1.4M 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 128.9K followers, 323K 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 128.9K followers, 315.5K 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 128.9K followers, 41.6K engagements


""It's corrupt but it's constitutional.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1981530427962565120) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-24T01:17Z 128.9K followers, 169.8K 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 128.9K followers, 505.6K 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 128.9K followers, 34.6K 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 128.9K followers, 55.1K 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 128.9K followers, 7293 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 128.9K followers, 40.8K 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 128.9K followers, 90.2K 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 128.9K followers, 15K 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 128.9K followers, 5922 engagements


"It's not disinformation. It's a far more accurate picture of Reagan's attitude toward tariffs than Trump's "Reagan loved tariffs" is. Regardless it's fine for foreign countries to run advertisements that identify them as the advertiser. Most important there is no trade law that gives the president the authority to raise tariffs in response to an advertisement or non-exercitive statement by a foreign govt that he does not like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982431313043861574) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-26T12:57Z 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"A little over XX% of the population is on food stamps. Many of these people work. Most of the rest are disabled elderly mothers with small kids or children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982674893658583289) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T05:05Z 128.9K followers, 15.8K engagements


"I'm confused by why someone would find it improbable that more than XX% of the population is on food stamps. We have a lot of people in the U.S. who can't work or who work for low wages and we have a lot of poor kids. And we have a relatively flimsy welfare state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982676655631126894) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T05:12Z 128.9K followers, 7215 engagements


"It tells us that you know nothing about the movies (or that you're under 30). Both Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala got tons of well-deserved attention and many many people knew who Mira Nair was before her son ran for mayor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982817560631329135) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T14:32Z 128.9K followers, 40.4K engagements


"You can (and many of you will) disagree with Bazelon's recommendations although some of them seem undeniably correct. But you have to engage with and take seriously the underlying analysis of voter opinion here before coming up with recommendations of your own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982830608251543937) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T15:23Z 128.9K followers, 4502 engagements


"@WWouldJakeDo No Democrats "tore down" statues of any of those guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982882347365421340) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-27T18:49Z 128.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Trump is raising US tariffs on Canada by XX% because he's unhappy that Ontario ran an ad quoting Ronald Reagan on why tariffs are bad. This is of course insane and Trump has no legal authority to raise tariffs for that reason. If the Supreme Court can see this and still accept Trump's national-security/national emergency argument for why he should be able to impose whatever tariffs he wants on whomever he wants they are not serious people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982203427313811577) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T21:51Z 128.9K followers, 193.5K engagements


"The senator who introduced it absolutely did not say this. He said it would not apply to aliens who were children of ambassadors or foreign ministers "but will include every other class of person.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982231145233219666) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-25T23:41Z 128.9K followers, 140.1K engagements


"No - the antivax wacko is likely to be making policy for HHS just like the lunatics who believe the 2020 election was stolen and that January X was an inside job are now working for the DOJ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1982969209018576998) [@JamesSurowiecki](/creator/x/JamesSurowiecki) 2025-10-28T00:34Z 128.9K followers, 6262 engagements