Civil litigation attorney since 1981. Political analyst and commentator.
Castle Rock, Colorado
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Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Disarming Hamas is not enough. Hamas must be totally dissolved and banned from reforming by the Palestinian Authority. This should be the first step in making peace
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
For our allies: tariffs
For our enemies: cutting-edge dual-use technologies.
BREAKING: The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia, $NVDA, chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military, per NYT
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Thanks to George Will for this column: washingtonpost.com/opinions/โฆ
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Unpopular Opinion: The bottom 50% of America should pay some form of income tax.
Yes, it should be progressive.
Yes, it could be less.
But if half the country pays nothing, half the country has nothing at stake.
.@JeffBezos: The bottom half of income earners in the US pay 3% of the taxes. It should be 0%.
"It's absurd we do this."
"Why is a nurse in Queens making $75k/year paying 1k/mo in taxes?"
"We shouldn't be asking this nurse to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology."
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
If Israelโs objective was genocide, why facilitate humanitarian aid, vaccination campaigns, civilian evacuations and the return of displaced Palestinians?
These are legitimate questions that deserve serious answers.
Accusations as grave as genocide demand evidence, not political slogans.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Neighbours Russia has turned its army on since 1991:
Moldova. Transnistria, 1992.
Georgia. 2008.
Ukraine. 2014.
Ukraine again. 2022.
Countries that joined NATO at gunpoint: zero.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
No other country is told to negotiate with the people who filmed themselves murdering its children.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Since May, tariff refunds have amounted to 113% of new tariff collections.
That's a net loss of $15 billion for the Treasury.
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Abu Dhabiโs big diplomatic breakthrough by Trumpโs real-estate boys: Zelensky had to sit them down and explain, like they were five, that Ukraine isn't a distressed asset in Florida.
"I've had to explain this to the Real Estate Bros Kushner & Witkoff: the Donbass isn't my personal property to flip. I can't just gift them an extra two kilometers because it makes the term sheet look cleaner or because someone in Moscow offered a 'package deal'. The Donbas is not my building. People live there.
Try thinking about it as if Russians had already taken half of Florida and were asking Trump to hand over the rest so you two could finally close the deal and go back to building luxury resorts on the rubble."
Once again, Ukraine rejected the US plan to gift its regions to Moscow.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Jared Kushner on Ukraine conflict:
"We are pushing a boulder uphill. This is a very, very hard conflict."
No Jared, this isn't hard. Putin leaves Ukraine. Simple.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
If a Democratic president had approved a deal to allow a major U.S. tech company to sell its second-most-powerful chip to China in exchange for the U.S. governmentโs taking one-quarter of the proceeds, and that company had donated $25 million to the presidentโs White House ballroom vanity project, Republicans would probably start impeachment proceedings so fast you could measure it with a stopwatch.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Sure wish that Trump would be more attentive to national security. From WSJ:
Before Trumpโs trip to China to meet with Xi in May of this year, Rubio supervised the drafting of a classified memo warning that the Nvidia CEO had a personal relationship with a suspected Chinese spy and circulated it to top administration officials, people familiar with the matter said. Huang was initially left off the trip, then boarded Air Force One in Alaska.
Asked about the memo on Monday, Trump said it was possible his intelligence people had shown it to him, but he didnโt recall seeing it. **โCertainly, it didnโt make much of an impact on me,โ he said.**
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Never forget that Palestinians were offered a state in 1937, 1947, 1967, 2000, 2001, and 2008.
They said no every time!
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Correct.
Your occasional reminder that โRINOโ now means believing in things Republicans have championed for 50+ years. Things that worked to make this country great (see what I did there?). Free markets, free trade, conservative values, love of country, and limited government just to start. Believing in these things make you a โRINO.โ
To not be โRINOโ you need to believe in right-wing socialism, regressive protectionism, and extreme executive authority, just to start.
Got it?
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
Under Biden we had over 10,000 people crossing our borders every day with violent people being released into our streets. But most voters thought Trump, with Miller driving the policy, went to other extreme and was inhumane. Hispanic voters supported Trump 2 years ago but largely abandoned the GOP Tuesday. It cost us many seats in TX, AZ, and beyond.
foxnews.com/politics/house-gโฆ
A majority of Americans loathe Miller like they do Trump. Doubling down after getting walloped is really dumb.
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Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
One of the fundamental fallacies of populism, which it shares with leftist identity politics, is that who believes a thing is more important than whether that thing is true.
Jeffrey W. Ludwig ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ retweeted
We didnโt lose the election because we attacked Iran. We lost the election because you were lied to about it and you believed the lies.
