Category: Corporate Statism

People who don’t learn from history, etc.

~ susie

Donald Trump was already president once. He illegally imposed a bunch of tariffs, and the predictable retaliatory tariffs hit US agriculture hard. Billions of dollars worth of US crops rotted in storage, as foreign competitors (eg in Argentina) picked up the business.This happened. Brad was there.

— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) 2026-05-03T15:31:25.103Z

Hi! I'm a farmer!This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

— Sarah Taber (@sarahtaber.bsky.social) 2026-05-04T04:17:36.539Z

Sure, let Joe decide

~ susie

Fda Launches Real-Time Access Plan For Clinical Trial Data With AstraZeneca And Amgen — The FDA announced a new initiative that would let its reviewers access clinical trial information in real time, aiming to speed and strengthen oversight. AstraZeneca and Amgen are already…

— BizToc (@biztoc.com) 2026-04-28T23:01:03.419Z

"This is setting off alarm bells because it suggests the president is doing an end-run around the FDA’s normal scientific processes, quite possibly because he wants to quiet a politically influential podcaster who has been giving him grief over Iran."

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-04-28T23:00:59.278Z