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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 23:46:01 JST Warner Crocker

   The tariff/farmer's bailout points to exactly what this thugocracy intends in the same way the revenge play against law firms does.

   The thug giveth and taketh in equal measure depending on his pleasure of the moment.

   Leverage is the currency. #politics

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 23:49:12 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark I don't see that either. Yet. It is indeed vulnerable because it can shift in a blink of an eye.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 23:49:13 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @WarnerCrocker That feels like a vulnerable way to be, but I'm not seeing yet how to exploit the vulnerability.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 23:57:28 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark That's a tricky one in the leverage game. Someone has to be willing to lose before the scales will tip. We haven't seen that kind of courage yet.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 23:57:29 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @WarnerCrocker Hmmm.... When you think a business will go down, you can short its stock.

     How does one "short" Trump's largesse? if there were a way to do so, one could rig it so every time he has a big-brain moment, his enemies profit.

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:07:23 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @WarnerCrocker Ugh, I hate to suggest it, because it feels like victimizing the vulnerable, but poetic justice is quietly whispering in my ear "The people who keep voting for him would take the other side of the bet..."

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 00:07:23 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark I'm finding myself feeling less bad such whisperings. In fact I'm shouting it occasionally.