The ASTROLABE: 4/12/25 | Making Sense of TRUMP, BESSENT, & MIRAN'S China Tariff ENDGAME

Every M-F I do a livestream on Twitter and YT called The ASTROLABE, covering all the tweets, videos, articles, and memes that caught my eye. Many are saying it's the "best afternoon morning show on the internet."

SEE BELOW for the list of all the content for the 4/12 show.

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4/12 ASTROLABE LINKS:

• (4) Wade Hampton IV on X: "Lumber? This is 2025 America and it’s a new dawn. Log off boomer. It’s our turn. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/ATsIksQG6M" / X

• (18) Anticommie on X: "Love this response 😂⬇️ https://t.co/LCfruJQist" / X

• (18) The White House on X: "👀" / X

• (4) EM Burlingame - 蒲 奕 言 on X: "Tariff Signal Pulse - a 🧵 The Trump Administration's tariff notifications and subsequent pullbacks served as a sophisticated "signal pulse" within the context of an ongoing economic and financial conflict, World War Three—an informational, economic, and financial war where https://t.co/VEDDwYJYTA" / X

• (4) ☦️ Kingpilled 👑 on X: "This is basically an eastern vs western “European” map" / X

• Entering the Fall 2024 | Alarming Signs? - Fireside Chat with Scott Bessent - YouTube

• A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

• (4) EndGame Macro on X: "@SantiagoAuFund Absolutely spot on @SantiagoAuFund and this is the fatal flaw in most de-dollarization narratives. People severely underestimate how much dollar-based liabilities anchor the global system. The moment the U.S. stops exporting dollars whether via trade deficits, capital flows, or" / X

• (4) ☦️ Kingpilled 👑 on X: "All your Favorite Politics Commentators™️ aren’t seeing the macro game being played, but Bessent and Trump certainly know what they’re doing. They hold all the cards. https://t.co/bmnrMM0ZEQ" / X

• (4) ☦️ Kingpilled 👑 on X: "Put simply: the PRC is on the back foot and Trump is in the driver’s seat." / X

• (4) Matthew Schmitz on X: "Chris Caldwell has the best explanation of this I’ve seen https://t.co/kCNk31mTMS https://t.co/Q5ApoT3pNY" / X