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Stocks are lower as markets continue to digest the pause in tariffs. Bonds and MBS are up.
CPI inflation fell 0.1% MOM, which was well below expectations. On a year over year basis, inflation fell 2.4%, which was below the 2.6% forecast. If you strip out food and energy, inflation rose 0.1% versus a 0.3% forecast and rose 2.8% versus a 3.0% Street expectation. In normal times, this would be a cause for stock futures to rally and bonds yields to fall, but these are not normal times.
Stocks rallied yesterday as Trump suspended some of the tariffs for 90 days in order to reach agreements with some of our trading partners who have expressed interest in making a deal. This caused a massive whipsaw in the stock market, sending the S&P 500 up almost 10% and the NASDAQ up 12%. We did not see much of a reaction in the bond market, however.
Ex Bill Clinton advisor James Carville one quipped: “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
I think the bond market was the catalyst for this, not the stock market. The 10 year bond yield hit 4.5% in the Tuesday night Asian session, and that began to cause some issues in the plumbing of the bond market. There were rumors of Japanese dumping of US Treasuries overnight, although there was no corresponding movement in the US / JPY spot rate.
The Wall Street Journal had a story about another factor in the bond market rout: leveraged hedge fund bets blowing up. Hedge funds have put on positions in long Treasuries / short swaps in anticipation of a regulatory change in bank capital requirements which would increase demand for long-term Treasuries. Margin calls are forcing these funds to unwind these trades. The basis trade, where a fund buys Treasuries and shorts futures against it is another trade that is being unwound. If everyone is rushing for the exits all at once, it can create dislocations.
I think this is a pause for Trump to get some agreements with our trading partners on the page and then begin to isolate China.
Finally, we did have a good 10 year auction in the afternoon which gave players a sense of relief.
The FOMC minutes were released yesterday, although the tariff news overshadowed the release. Here were some of the highlights:
In their discussion of inflation developments, participants noted that inflation had eased significantly over the past two years but remained somewhat elevated relative to the Committee’s 2 percent longer-run goal. Some participants observed that inflation data over the first two months of this year were higher than they had expected. Among the major subcategories of prices, housing services inflation had continued to moderate, consistent with the past slowing in market rents, but inflation in core non housing services remained high, especially in nonmarket services
With regard to the outlook for inflation, participants judged that inflation was likely to be boosted this year by the effects of higher tariffs, although significant uncertainty surrounded the magnitude and persistence of such effects. Several participants noted that the announced or planned tariff increases were larger and broader than many of their business contacts had expected. Several participants also noted that their contacts were already reporting increases in costs, possibly in anticipation of rising tariffs, or that their contacts had indicated willingness to pass on to consumers higher input costs that would arise from potential tariff increases. A couple of participants highlighted factors that might limit the inflationary effects of tariffs, noting that many households had depleted the excess savings they had accumulated during the pandemic and were less likely to accept additional price increases, or that stricter immigration policies might reduce demand for rental and affordable housing and alleviate upward pressures on housing inflation. A couple of participants noted that the continued balance in the labor market suggested that labor market conditions were unlikely to be a source of inflationary pressure.
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“I think the bond market was the catalyst for this”
Agreed. Also the Washington Post Op-Ed page published the non-stupid defense of Trump’s tariffs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/10/trump-tariff-support-oren-cass/
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See also:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/opinion/ross-douthat-interesting-times.html
I think this makes some sense:
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It 100% does. Trump isn’t the greatest avatar for re-shoring and building domestic manufacturing capacity but NO ONE ELSE was ever going to do it.
The Orange Man with all his foibles was the price of entry here.
And I am never going to dismiss the idea he is intuitively playing 4D chess. I have an idea that doing this so the stock market crashes is intentional, for perhaps multiple reasons but to also definitely to underline the point to China that he’s got zero fucks to give in this game of chicken. To which, as much as a crashing market is very bad for me right now, I gotta say: respect.
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Except when he caves and reverses course due to the bond market. Then he just looks feckless.
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I don’t disagree. Like I say, I think the 4D chess is not a product of cogitation on his part. And I expect appearing feckless doesn’t matter in regards to whatever next direction his intuitions take him.
Also as I’ve said, Trump brings a lot of negatives but I don’t think there was anyone else who was ever going to bring the same positives. And while his critics and many of his fans can just dismiss that, I feel like a lot of the people who voted for him probably feel that way to one degree or another.
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This caught my attention from the NYT piece:
“And do you buy the idea that you could do some sort of grand renegotiation of U.S. debt?”
I could see Trump doing the biggest sovereign debt default of all time just to screw over China.
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Is that what is holding China back, re Taiwan? They certainly cannot believe we’d send troops.
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I have to imagine they are worried about the entire west staging an effective boycott, issuing sanctions, etc. I don’t think they’d want Europe and Japan, et al, on Team Trump at all.
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I can see that as well. Just listened to the opening of Ben Shapiro’s show this morning and he is butthurt that anybody thinks Trump is playing 4D chess or had some sort of plan here, but I think he’s missing the big picture.
Trump’s 4D chess is intuitive. It’s an instinctual talent, not something he was trained in and involves careful and meticulous analysis and writing out elaborate decision trees. He has ideas, is often flexible about his next move, and follows his instincts in ways that often seem stupid or insane yet could also be seen as genius, if you squint. But it’s not planned the way Ben Shapiro does a business plan, it’s a kind of series of intuitive epiphanies that end up moving him further and faster than almost anybody else could go—but yes, I think he likely had some sense he would be comfortable with maintaining giant tariffs on all the world OR using them to negotiate OR using them to isolate China. Whatever feels right. And then he’s illustrated to China he’s serious as a heart attack, illustrated to other countries he’s ready to negotiate (Shapiro keeps saying he could have accomplished the same thing by picking up the phone, but I think the actual doing of it or “nearly doing it” probably influences their negotiating stance), the voters that he does what he says, and so on.
I just think you can’t dismiss the 4D chess idea just because it’s operating at a subliminal or autistic level, or because he’s flexible about what he does—-and will go another direction shortly after swearing he totally would not, because now that approach looks superior.
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(Shapiro keeps saying he could have accomplished the same thing by picking up the phone, but I think the actual doing of it or “nearly doing it” probably influences their negotiating stance)
I think this is right, he had to demonstrate a willingness to tank an overvalued stock market that is due for a large correction anyway. He “paused” the tariffs only because the bond market seized and rates shot up – he needs to get those 10 years below 4.8 to reasonably refinance the huge short term debt that Biden’s handlers left him. I also believe that he exchanged the pause for some Republican House votes to pass the budget resolution this morning. To coincidental not too have negotiated that.
Finally, impulsive and crazy is his brand and he leans into it as a strategy. These countries are probably worried that if they don’t lock in a deal he’ll follow through. That story floating around that he has zero fucks left to give was intentionally placed.
But the 10% tariff on everybody? That is going to stay and the tax for the privilege to do business in our market.
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We would send drones.
See this piece from the NYT on testing anti-amphibious landing drones in Ukraine:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html
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Drones to fight China?
Interesting. I don’t know one way or another as to if we would, but as a layperson that doesn’t sound like a great strategy unless we are way more advanced there than is publicly known.
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The thing is, I guarantee that China has the latest drone plans and have created effective countermeasures. There is not a defense contractor in this country that is not comprised by the Chinese. Sad but true. Bottom line, I predict Taiwan will be part of Red China before the decade ends and whatever boycott we manage to cobble together wont last. Hell, Europe cannot even agree on what to do/provide to Ukraine, and it borders the EU.
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“Trump’s 4D chess is intuitive”
4D chess implies an actual thought through plan.
Trump definitely has instincts and they contain some insights vis-a-vis the problems the United States currently has. However, that’s not the same thing has having a plan and the “4D chess” analogy gives him too much credit.
Of course, one of the few advantages of not having a plan is that it makes it easier to change course when things aren’t working out.
Trump seems more akin to the Joker in The Dark Knight:
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I’d be willing to split the difference in those analogies. There are chess masters who play brilliantly without necessarily having a thought out plan, where their brilliant stratagems are detailed through post hoc reasoning.
And yes I may be giving him too much credit but again I’m not giving him the credit per se. Like a runner who is preternaturally fast through an unusual combination of genes that results in just the right muscular and skeletal structures, hormonal balance and metabolism, he indeed just does stuff but the stuff he “just does” is on point more than the stuff any other fifty million people might “just do” in similar circumstances. And potentially more positively paradigm breaking than any conscious attempt at playing 4D chess in the political space would ever get us.
If there was not some sort of genetic level 4D chess being played then Bernie Sanders would be president, or AOC, or Ron DeSantis whose record of productive and sober governance is certainly better than Trump’s. IMO.
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“The thing is, I guarantee that China has the latest drone plans and have created effective countermeasures.”
Maybe. One thing that the Ukrainians have proved vis-a-vis Russia’s Black Sea fleet and that the Houthis have proved with their current antics is that ships are vulnerable to swarms of cheaply made drones.
China is at a disadvantage with an amphibious assault.
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I would posit that Russia and Iran do not have, literally, hundreds, if not thousands of spies in the DoD and defense industry as China does. It is very dangerous for us as a country not to recognize that. The only reason it’s not discussed more publicly is because of the business interest the media and elected class has in China. Our response to China’s takeover of Taiwan will be essentially nothing and I suspect that Taiwan will be forced to negotiate their entrance into Red China.
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They would have to attempt to annex Taiwan under the Trump presidency for there to be any meaningful pushback from America I am expecting. Even JD Vance would likely be “eh none of our business”.
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I have worked for CEOs like Trump before. Their gift is that they never succumb to paralysis by analysis. They act and then make mid-course corrections.
They are generally not wedded to a particular course of action either. If it isn’t working, they change. They are also capable of running an audible. Which government cannot do.
I think Trump in his gut recognizes when a counterparty is in a stronger or weaker position than him. And he is a businessman, so he probably believes in the truism that “time is the killer of deals.”
I am not defending him, not at all. But I recognize the archetype.
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Mark, you may find this of interest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/11/trump-tariffs-global-imbalance/
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Thanks, Joe.
I agree with Pearlstein, and think what Brent wrote was correct as far as it went, but Pearlstein also addresses the inept execution of the idea by the imposition of blanket tariffs.
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The most inept thing IMO was literally presenting a list of “tariffs” from other countries that were in fact percentage representations of trade deficits and had nothing to do with tariffs or even non-tariff market constraints at all. From the most transparent administration ever in the history of the world, that was some bullshit. I don’t know who provided him that info but that guy should be fired.
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I suspect the marching orders to the staffer was “give me the ammo to sell this.”
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First, there is no meat on the bone in this article, it’s all anecdotal from the Chinese.
Second, I found this quote astounding,
In what world is Trump’s policies “befuddling”? Literally everything he is doing and has done he campaigned on for two years.
https://archive.is/pW6EP
I find this stupefying,
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More nonsense,
“Chinese could not wrap their heads around why the United States would want to dismantle the multilateral trading system that had created so much prosperity in the United States and around the world.”
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Of all the things that didn’t happen, this didn’t happen the most.
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One final quote.
“ In reality, many of China’s leaders are highly ideological; corruption is widespread; political purges still occur; information is controlled; scientists (both physical and social scientists) face substantial barriers to intellectual freedom; unfair regulatory restrictions on markets abound; and industrial policy puts foreign business at a distinct disadvantage—all of which threatens China’s development prospects and relations with others”
Other than that though, it’s a great place!
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China is two years into a burst real estate bubble and has massive asset deflation. Their only way out is to export. They need us more than people think
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One might have think he planned this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/world/europe/europe-china-dumping-tariffs.html
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I’m fascinated by the Democrats dying on this hill.
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That’s actually a hill worth dying on. Trump is completely in the wrong here.
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The illegal gangbanger (as determined by 2 different judges) that is a citizen of El Salvador and was in this country illegally?
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“The illegal gangbanger (as determined by 2 different judges)”
That’s bullshit. They (the Trump administration) fucked up and won’t take responsibility for it.
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It’s not bullshit, it is, to my knowledge, due process. As for fuck-up, the admin’s position is that the Aliens and Enemies act makes the deportation non-reviewable, judicially. So, the criminal has received more due process than any J6er ever got and he was legally deported back to his home country. If the legislature objecst, they can change the Alien and Enemies Act.
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jnc:
That’s bullshit. They (the Trump administration) fucked up and won’t take responsibility for it.
The only thing they did wrong was to deport him to his own native country. He was illegal. He had deportation orders against him. He was denied asylum. Deporting him to literally anywhere else on the planet would have been fine, which is pretty strange if you think about it. I find it incredibly bizarre that the case getting most attention and objection is the one guy who got deported to his own country, and not the hundreds of others who have been deported to a country not their own.
His case does indicate the utter insanity of our immigration laws. The fact that a person can enter the US illegally and remain there for years (8 years in his case) without getting caught, but are still allowed to plead persecution as a defense from being deported, is nuts. If you are genuinely fearful of persecution, you should have to proclaim it affirmatively upon arrival, not only of you are unlucky enough to be caught. Such a claim 8 years after the fact ought to be presumed to be false on its face, and not allowed.
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I have also read that, although the non-removal order (to El Salvador) remains in effect, the rational behind it no longer exists. Specifically, his claim was that if he returned to El Salvador’s he would be subject to persecution by another El Salvadoran gang, but apparently that gang no longer exists. If that is the case, then the primary Trump admin screw up was to have simply failed to have that order removed.
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The bullshit comment was in reference to the claim that he has been determined to be a gang member by two different judges. I haven’t seen any sourcing for that. I think that’s something the Trump administration is trying to float after the fact.
Also, deporting is one thing. Sending him to CECOT and having him held there at the behest of the United States despite there being no criminal charges on him is another thing.
“I find it incredibly bizarre that the case getting most attention and objection is the one guy who got deported to his own country, and not the hundreds of others who have been deported to a country not their own.”
This one seems to be the most blatant in the disregarding of orders from a federal judge.
It’s always exhausting trying to sort through the various claims about Trump overreach because as Taibbi noted one time, Trump is both the President who lies the most and the one who is lied about the most.
In this case I think they just screwed up and they are playing games with jurisdiction claims to avoid oversight by the courts.
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Here’s a source for this gangbanger’s MS-13 affiliation:
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-ms13-ties-terrorist/
This needs context. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Abrego Garcia in 2019 as he was looking for day labor outside a Home Depot in Maryland. A police informant told police Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 member. Immigration judges denied Abrego Garcia bond, both initially and on appeal, citing the informant’s accusation.
In the initial denial, the judge said the determination of Abrego Garcia’s gang membership “appears to be trustworthy and is supported” by evidence from the Gang Field Interview Sheet which, in part, referenced the informant. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys have repeatedly said in court that the informant’s accusation was fabricated.,
That is due process with judicial review, right there and is entirely unnecessary. Dude was illegal and I’m fine with INS determining that on the spot. This due process for illegals is complete and total bullshit and it’s demand is merely designed to prevent the deportation of people here illegally, period -full stop.
We can blame various administrations for allowing it to happen but in the end, these people are here illegally and should be deported.
Also, deporting is one thing. Sending him to CECOT and having him held there at the behest of the United States despite there being no criminal charges on him is another thing.
I have not seen any sourcing that the United States sent him to CECOT, or even asked that he be held there. He was deported as he was in the country illegally and had an active removal order. He is not TDA/Venezueala that does have an arrangement with the United States
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jnc:
Also, deporting is one thing. Sending him to CECOT and having him held there at the behest of the United States despite there being no criminal charges on him is another thing.
I agree with you, if that is indeed what happened. I have to admit that I do not like this whole CECOT arrangement at all.
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I’m not sure it’s been demonstrated that Abrego Garcia was sent to CECOT at the request of the US, it has not been demonstrated that he was under the agreement that houses TDA illegals as Venezuela is refusing repatriation so Trump arranged them to be housed there. Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadorean and I’m guessing Bukele sent him there because he’s MS-13.
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I understand. I did say “if” that is what happened with regard to Garcia.
And I am also OK with using CECOT as essentially a “detention” center for illegals from nations that are refusing to accept deportations. But Trump doesn’t seem to be marketing it as such, and it isn’t clear that it is being used as such. The Trump admin keeps trumpeting the fact that he is sending hardened, gang member “criminals” there, not simply illegals whose government won’t accept them back. So even Trump is drawing the focus to their criminal status, which is a problem because not all of them, and possbily quite a lot of them, have not actually been convicted of any crimes at all. If they are being sent because they are hardened criminals, but they haven’t actually been convicted of any crimes, that is going to rightly raise due process flags. And if, indeed, he was using it as merely a detention center for illegals who either have deportation orders against them or are simply awaiting their immigration court appointment, he wouldn’t have had to invoke the Alien Enemies Act in order to put them there. So why did he? Also, if the only reason he was keeping people in CECOT was because their own nation would not accept deportees, then they would be removed from it once the nation in question changed policy and began to accept deportees. My understanding is that Venezuela has indeed signed an agreement to accept deportees, but the Venezuelans he sent to CECOT are still there. So, again, it isn’t clear to me that CECOT is indeed being used in the way that you suggest and that I would accept.
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To my knowledge, the Administration has not stated that Van Hollen’s homie was sent to CECOT specifically, only that he was lawfully deported because he had an outstanding deportation order and that it was a mistake to send him to El Salvador but since he is now in El Salvadorian custody, there is no judicial remedy that does not involve Article II powers.
Regarding housing TDA members in CECOT versus Venezuela, I have read conflicting reports on whether on not they are accepting deportees. I suspect that they are refusing some, specifically, TDA members and hence the need to house them somewhere, and Trump picked El Salvador, since they were willing to accept them, if they could be housed at CECOT.
Regarding Trump, he says a lot of things, including a desire to house American citizen criminals at CECOT. That said, Trump, when being questioned, tends to default to “I’m thinking about it” or “It would be nice to do…” and I suspect reporters game that a lot. I further suspect Trump likes that so the behavior gets reinforced, call it the Stray Voltage strategy. He also says a lot of controversial things regarding foreign policy and he has said in the past that he does this specifically to keep foreign countries convinced he’s batshit crazy.
I don’t worry that Trump will send American citizens to foreign prisons however, as I would love to send some Americans to foreign prisons but would not, if I had the power. I suspect all of us think those things at times but would never do so.
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McWing:
To my knowledge, the Administration has not stated that Van Hollen’s homie was sent to CECOT specifically…
I get that, but it also has not explicitly stated that it did not, which would be easy and obvious if they hadn’t. Margot Cleveland of The Federalist has been pointing out for a while now that the obvious and best argument for the Admin to make in front of Boasberg is that Garcia is not being held under the terms of the deal that the US cut with El Salvador. In other words, he is not being held pursuant to US authority. But apparently they have not made that argument. On the back of Holland’s visit to Garcia last week, I did read that he is being held at an entirely different facility, not CECOT. If that is the case, why is the admin not making that argument/point?
Regarding housing TDA members in CECOT versus Venezuela, I have read conflicting reports on whether on not they are accepting deportees.
Yes, that would be a useful thing to get clarified. I think it matters. If they are being held in CECOT only because Venezuela won’t take them, then that is on Venezuela. But if Venezuela will take them, yet Trump is keeping them in CECOT anyway, he needs a different reason to do so, and due process would require that reason to be litigated at a court, which has not happened with at least some of them.
Regarding Trump, he says a lot of things…
Yeah, I get that too. I am not taking every blustery thing he says at face value, nor am I worried about him turning into the authoritarian dictator of progressive wet dreams. But his public justification of what he actually is doing (and not just saying), namely that “They are criminals!”, is not just unnecessary but it is completely counterproductive, if indeed CECOT is merely being used as a detention center because Venezuela won’t accept repatriation.
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“If that is the case, why is the admin not making that argument/point?”
I feel there is some disorganization in the administration. “Chaos”, as the MSM’s talking points suggests. There definitely does seem to be a fair amount of chaos within the administration.
I think there are a lot of competing motiviations, from various people who have Trump’s ear. And I think there are some people who want to muddy the issue to keep it looking juicy for the MSM and Democrats, because they don’t believe any approach to “save this illegal alien terrorist gang member” is going to play, and so those stories and that focus is a lot better on a lot of companies of various sizes looking at going out of business thanks to tariffs and the constant downward trajectory of 401k values . . . There is a lot of stuff either actually going on or apparently going on with Trump where I think the Democrats and the media could really hurt him, so it’s in their best interest to keep the focus on 80/20 issues where there’s almost no approach the media can take that will win normies over.
Illegal immigration is not a winner for them, even with hand-picked sob stories. If they don’t pay much attention, they will be thinking: I don’t care, they were here illegally, that’s on them, now why is my cheap Chinese shit from Amazon 3 times as much? If they pay a lot of attention (and aren’t nihilists) then they probably see what’s going on in the UK and Germany and France and they don’t want that happening here–in addition to our own real problems with immigration. So I expect for some people it’s a question of “why be clear and settle this once and for all? Keep them focused on this. Make it a social media beef”.
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If that is the case, why is the admin not making that argument/point?
Margot’s reasonable suggestion notwithstanding, I can only think of 3 reasons why the Administration has not explained this. The first reason is Trump’s avowed love of Ray Cohn’s legal strategy of never voluntarily revealing any information unless demanded by, ultimately, the highest court he is able to appeal too. The second reason would be that he was included in the TDA deal, which would make him, to my knowledge, the only non-TDA person involved in that agreement. Finally, DOJ lawyers have sabotaged cases in other courts and have been relieved and this could be along those lines.
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I think the CECOT arrangement may get unwound. But it is something to try but I kind of hope Democrats are successful in ending it before it’s available for a Democratic administration to use.
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I stand corrected on the initial judicial review.
It was an immigration bond hearing, but it’s not complete bullshit like I first thought.
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Is any part of it bullshit? If so, what is each illegal alien entitled too before they are deported?
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Regarding where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held in El Salvador:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/deported-illegal-alien-suspected-ms-13-gang-member-transferred-from-notorious-el-salvadoran-megaprison
Looks like the moved him to avoid the optics.
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I think it’s more credible than most of the hills they choose. They also have a decent constitutional argument that the process used is too rushed or haphazard to provide due process to make sure they should be deported in any capacity.
I mean the Democrats 100% created this situation with the open borders but still.
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The thing is an immigration judge and an appeals court for immigration ruled he’s MS-13 and he had a deportation order. One judge stated he could not be returned to El Salvador, but could be deported to another country. The Administration sent him to El Salvador and their court argument was that the Aliens and Enemies Act invalidated the “cannot deport to El Salvador court order.
This dude has had, at a minimum 6 different courts hear him, and SCOTUS said, 9-0 that Trump should try to get him out of El Salvador but did not say he needed to be returned to the US. Operative words here are “try” and “does not have to be returned to US.”
And
I hope they die on this hill because this guy has had “due process” up the ass.
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“The thing is an immigration judge and an appeals court for immigration ruled he’s MS-13 and he had a deportation order.”
Are you talking about the same guy, Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
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Yes.
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It takes a heart of stone not to laugh.
Still the GOAT of Tweets!
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Full NYT. Ezra Klein interviews Tom Friedman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-thomas-friedman.html
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Edit: They can’t help themselves:
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The choice isn’t between people screwing parts into cars and inventing them.
The choice is between people screwing parts into cars for $25 an hour or working at Dollar General for $15 an hour.
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My Goodness, Tom sure loves top down control. Talk about an admirer of Oligarchy.
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He has always been jealous of China. Probably adores their system of social credit.
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Yes, I agree he loves the Chinese oligarchy and wishes it for here, but headed by himself.
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Flathead is a Mark 1 Mod 0 progressive. They always think they will be the ones in charge and they’ll never get anything wrong.
Dunning-Kruger academics who generally get theories but not people.
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But it always ends up back at central planning, so it’s Marxism 101. They deny the ideology though, and that I do not understand.
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Leftists think everyone else is ideological except them.
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Hilariously, pursuing non-ideology is in fact, an ideology.
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Worth noting:
https://substack.com/@hollymathnerd/note/c-110772929
They are probably implementing this to go after illegal immigrants, but the Democrats will use it for other purposes.
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Related:
https://www.persuasion.community/p/your-data-in-doges-hands?utm_source=publication-search
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Point:
“Between Mercy and Madness
the slippery slope from compassion to chaos
Holly MathNerd
Apr 20, 2025″
https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/between-mercy-and-madness
Counterpoint:
“JD Vance Pretends Due Process Is Beside the Point
By Andrew C. McCarthy
April 19, 2025 6:30 AM
The faithful execution of the law must not be a casualty of the administration’s immigration policy.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/jd-vance-pretends-due-process-is-beside-the-point/
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