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@TeAoMaoriNews: Watching Toluca from Aotearoa, we keep asking how many of those Missouri cousins carry our own aunties and uncles in their whakapapa. Two hundred and fifty years ago our teachers sailed out, now their mokopuna arrive with aliens and grain. Whanaungatanga travels farther than any ship.
- @MattMarmaduke: many of us can claim Maori and other Kiwi ancestors. You had an excess of teachers 250 years ago and the CCA had a shortage. More than 4000 educators came to the middle of America over a generation from Aotearoa and went on to become one with us.
@AgriWatchANZ: Genuine question for @MattMarmaduke, if Freehold doubles small grain and feed, does that mean a wall of cheap beef crashing into export markets. Producers in Australia, Aotearoa and South America are already running on thin margins. Should we be bracing for Missouri undercutting our herds.
- @MattMarmaduke: I will say it more plainly. Countries that raise beef outside of the old US have nothing to worry about our increase in beef production. Your beef almost never reaches our markets where wholesalers pay between $10 and $20 per kilo on the hoof for market weight animals. The retailers outside of cattle country regularly charge well over $100 per kilo for real beef and over $25 for cultured beef, which feeds people, but not all of us find it a good substitute.
@PrairieCoopPolicy: If Freehold wants to be taken seriously on food justice, it needs to be transparent about its own numbers. What are you actually getting per kilo from river ports like Memphis and inland buyers like Ames. And what do your own people pay at retail. Without that, talk of cheap beef is just branding.
- @MarmadukeFreehold: Fiscal year 2439 Port of Memphis paid us $11.02 per kilo and Ames paid an average of $14.62. Internally our wholesale is more nuanced and runs between $7.50 and $13.80 per kilo with an average retail of $10.07 and $29.32 depending on cut and quality. We would like to bring our own retail prices to around $2.00 and pork prices to around half of that.
@TolucaTia87: Watching Tío Matt sing for Theresa and then turn it into a quince fund made me cry in my kitchen. If this is what alien politics looks like, sign me up. #QuinceUnderTheVolcano
@GrainNerdMT: Numbers in the morning, Beatles at night. Kind of wild to see a guy talk freight math in Mexico City and then raise money for valley girls’ parties. Respect. #LogisticsButMakeItHuman
@ChilangoAgro: Not gonna lie, “I will not murder a state for a port” hits different when you live in a country that has seen empires try. If he sticks to that, I do not care if he wears pointy boots.
@FarmKidMO: As a Missouri kid this is the first time I have seen someone on a big stage who talks about bushels exactly like my grandpa and still shows up when the aunties yell for another song.
@CaribeCousin: Seeing that Toluca courtyard felt like home. Same plastic chairs, same tias, same gossip, just with aliens trying to learn cumbia. If he keeps showing up there, maybe this is real.
@QuebecGrain: Do not love the idea of him redoing North American grain routes, but at least he is saying it out loud and not pretending ports are sacred just because they are old.
- @MarmadukeFreehold: Our grain still reaches you through Ames which is why you pay so much for it.
@AndesWatcher: For Peru this is simple. If his corridors lower prices without smashing our farmers, bienvenido. If not, we have seen this movie before and it ends badly.
- @MarmadukeLogistics: You are still a few steps away but can’t promise excess grain won’t affect your profits, but we know there are ways the V’ren could help turn your coastal plains into garden centers if that helps.
@SaoPauloTrader: Brazil has heard every “we will not dump on you” speech. Show me a contract that honors our soy and beef and maybe I will stop rolling my eyes at the volcano karaoke clips.
- @MarmadukeFreehold: Our beef rarely reaches far beyond the old US and your beef never reaches us at all. We see no conflict.
@TorontoPolicyGal: Toluca looks sweet, but I want to see what he does when a port city tells him no. Still undecided if he is a partner or just a more charming megacorp.
- @MattMarmaduke: If a port city doesn’t want my trade, they do so at their peril. Marmaduke Logistics though unknown to many is one of the largest land freight businesses in the world. Losing our trade, which often does not have our name out front, would devastate the economy of many foolish countries.
@HoustonWho: Cool story about quince funds and cheap beef. Weird how all his routes just happen to bend around a certain Gulf city that lives and dies on tolls. Wonder why.
- @MattMarmaduke: you are a bunch of racist assholes who think people who look like me deserve nothing more than to wipe your asses then tell us we should be grateful for the freedom to have a job. Apartheid is so baked into your rule of law that destroying you is the only way the world will be able to end it.
@HumanFirstMX: Aliens in couture, rich kids in designer dresses, logistics lord playing savior while talking about who gets fed. Call it what it is, a new overlord practicing how to make you clap while he tightens the chain.
- @MarmadukeLogistics: Your lanes don’t touch Memphis territory and if you are trading with them we have strong questions for the Ten Tribes concerning freight access.
@BCLeftCoast: Translators, cousins, alien teens dancing, all very cute. Still looks a lot like a new axis of corporate power to me, just wrapped in mariachi and Dr Pepper.
@ColumbiaCollective: Apparently on the left coast they don’t teach civics or history. Evergreen is a corporate collective and every nation in the CCA is a corporation.
@CaracasSkeptic: Latin America has been fed promises by men with ships for 950 years. This one shows up with shuttles and bourbon. I will believe the “no empire” line when I see who owns the silos in 10 years.
@VrenTrustTech: Our largest cargo shuttle can carry four 53 foot intermodal containers. We can move high value freight and even occasional party supplies faster, but we are not a threat to those who move thousands of containers on a single ship by sea.
@IndigenousMidwest: I hear him on not invading for ports. Cool. Now show us the treaty level consultations when those tethers cross Native land, or it is just another pretty speech over our bones.
- @MattMarmaduke: I would very much like to have those treaties with both the ten Tribes and the Great Northern Reserve. While my Mindoro roots are well known, less well known are my Māori, Ainu, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Sami ancestors. I have no intention of violating the sacred spaces where lie the bones of ancestors.
- @MMLivestream: MJ grab mics, T’mari hold my coffee we’re off to see the piano.
  When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother ‘Mari comes to me
  Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
  And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
  Speaking words of wisdom, let it be…
  …And let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
  Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
  (Matt held the last key into the silence)
  Profits go to the Youth Music Scholarship Fund of Mexico. If you are man enough criticize me, be man enough to offer a personal donation of even one percent of one percent I am about to raise.
@HaitiRemembers: Quince on a volcano looks nice on the feed. In Port au Prince we would like to know what happens when storms hit, crops fail, and his cheap grain becomes leverage, not “friendship.”
- @MarmadukeLogistics: talk to your trading partners about that.
@RioMediaCritic: He weaponizes authenticity like a pro. No red carpet, just aunties and off key Beatles, while he redraws maps on a scale most presidents only dream about. That is still empire energy, just barefoot.
- @MattMarmaduke: While live feeds left things a little flat tonally, I most certainly was not offkey. In fact, watch this livestream in one take and look for it on iTunes on the first refresh.
@ChicagoDockRat: Every time he says “I will not steal ports” all I hear is “I will make you irrelevant instead.” Ask the river towns how that feels once the freight starts skipping them.
@MarmadukeLogistics: There are no more river towns on the Mississippi River. They were bombed out centuries ago or have since been starved out. Ten Tribes territory could be serviced directly through tethered rail. We could service Tulsa directly from our Coffeyville station and OKC from a route we would like to open between Wichita and them on the old interstate path.
@BorderValleyFarmer: I want affordable beef as much as anyone, but if Freehold floodgates open and my kids are competing with Missouri megafarms plus alien tech, all the quince songs in the world will not pay my mortgage.
@YucatanUnionRep: Translators in clinics, great. Cheaper food, great. But if he uses “we are all cousins now” to dodge labor standards and union contracts, then he is just Amazon with better guitar skills.
@MattMarmaduke: Labor Unions are your local problem. They are completely unnecessary in the CCA. In our labor short market employers who don’t do right by their employees quickly have no employees which means they go broke.
@GrainTroll420: Space hillbilly rolls into Mexico with bourbon, aliens and a sob story about ports and everyone just claps. You all remember he is still a billionaire who owns half the trains, right. #WakeUp
@MattMarmaduke: not sure where you get your information there have been no working freight rail lines north of Mexico in more than 300 years.
@MemphisMaxxed: “I will not murder a state for a port” sounds real noble from the guy trying to starve us out by routing grain everywhere but here. Enjoy your quince photos while river towns die slow.
@MattMarmaduke: Funny how you talk about starving people, but pay 20% less to anyone who won’t trade with you exclusively.
@SAC_ArmsFanboy: Love watching Mister Morals refuse to deal with South Asia like he is too pure, while he quietly builds the logistics machine that will let him choke any country he does not like. Spare me the integrity act.
@MarmadukeLogistics: You are talking about loving SAC arms from Memphis. Should there be an investigation into how Memphis is getting such things or are you maybe one of the still wanted members of the prophet’s army charged with war crimes?
@HumanFirstMX: Aliens in couture, rich kids in designer dresses, logistics lord playing savior while talking about who gets fed. Call it what it is, a new overlord practicing how to make you clap while he tightens the chain.
@MattMarmaduke: it might be worth the effort of taking over the world if I can get everyone clapping on 2 and 4 #RhythmSection
@DelhiAgriWatch: Impressive numbers from @MattMarmaduke in Mexico, but every time a foreign grain baron promises “affordable beef,” someone in South Asia loses their herd. Show us contracts that protect our farmers before you send a single shuttle east.
@MattMarmaduke: No more interest in doing business with the SAC this week than I had last week. Also, not likely to have any interest next week either
@SeoulFoodPolicy: Quince funds and Beatles are cute, but Korea remembers the last time “cheap imports” arrived with smiling salesmen. If Freehold beef ever hits Busan, we expect more than a guitar and a translator demo.
@MarmadukeLogisitics: Why does ‘Korea buys their food imports from the west coast cities not the Midwest and they will never cut you a deal on beef’ slide in one ear and out the other. Lay off the soju if you can’t understand that logic.
@JakartaAgro: From Toluca it all looks very warm, cousins and cumbia and charity. From Java it looks like another man with ships who thinks ports are just numbers. We will judge you by the price our fishers and rice farmers get, not by how your aliens dance.
@MattMarmaduke: If you can get your rice and fish to our markets we would welcome the trade, but we have none of that to sell to you.
@ChennaiLogistics: “I won’t murder a state for a port” is a low bar, Marshall. Many of us already live with states half-murdered by other people’s trade deals. Let us know when your corridors include liability, not just poetry.
@HistoryGuy: Did you learn nothing when you tried to force Luna to be your bitch in a trade war? You would think anyone invoking the name of Chennai would remember that you didn’t used to be a deepwater port extending a hundred kilometers into the interior.
@DhakaDockWatch: Watching Toluca from the delta, we see one thing clearly: you can afford to turn birthdays into scholarship drives because your silos are full. Talk to us when floods take our harvest and your “affordable grain” comes with no strings attached.
@MarmadukeLogistics: If you have someway for us to move more than a few containers of cargo across the ocean at a time please tell us, we have no ocean ports or even access to the river on our doorstep.
@ManilaDockside: Tether freight skipping old ports is a dream when your town owns the tethers. For everyone else it just means a new gatekeeper in Missouri instead of an old one in Memphis. Same toll, new accent.
@MattMarmaduke: How much of our grain did the Philippines attempt to import last year? The same amount you tried to import this yes is the answer you are looking for?
@LolaRhea: Just go ahead and tell him the answer is zero, he is not bright enough to look it up ‘nak,
@HanoiRiverTrade: “I am only a logistics problem” is exactly what every empire engineer says before the maps change. In our history, gunboats came later. Let us see if your shuttles can resist that temptation.
@FreeholdHR: All we want from Vietnam is spring roll wrappers, Nikes, and all the people you underpay to make them.
@BangkokWorkersUnion: Translator in the clinic, cheap meat in the market, zero mention of labor standards. We’ve met this business model before, it usually wears a nicer suit than pointy boots. Likely compensating for something
@DeptofCulturalHerritageUMX: You don’t want to go there with the pointy boots unless you want us reminding the world that centuries of detailed medical study your own university did confirming you have a shrinking population because of your tiny penises.
@MarshallMaja: Not nice, funny, just not nice #botaspicudas
@KarachiPortRadio: Freehold “won’t invade for a port,” fine. It doesn’t need to. When one man controls that much grain and freight, he can starve a dock with a spreadsheet and a shrug.
@MattMarmaduke: if I controlled the shipping you allege you would have been overthrown by your own people long ago just so they could eat.
@ColomboCivics: The Toluca quince looks like every big family party we’ve ever thrown, except the uncle with the guitar also owns the shipping lanes. Forgive us if we keep one eye on the dance floor and the other on our balance of payments.
@MattMarmaduke: You are either a poorly informed bot or willfully ignorant assuming there is much of a difference. You might want to reconsider using the word civics in a clear SAC propaganda account.
@OsakaTradeWatch: He says he will not cut through states with tanks, just build around them. In Kansai that sounds less like mercy and more like, “we made your entire coastline optional.”
@MattMarmaduke: If a single entity can render your coast optional it has always been optional.
@KolkataPeoplesForum: Alien engineers, Missouri grain, Mexican patios, same old hierarchy. The kids dance together but who owns the silos, the shuttles, the data from those translators? Hint: not the quince girls.
@MattMarmaduke: At least they aren’t trying to hijack our IP and claim it is for the benefit of the Indian people.
@TaipeiSkeptic: “I will not murder a state for a port” plays well in Mexico. In our neighborhood the question is different. When a state is already under threat, will your corridors respect our red lines or quietly route around us too.
@MattMarmaduke: If we had any direct trade with you, we would either accept your price or just go somewhere else. All commerce must be a two way equitable street.
@BusanLongshore: Man from Missouri says he won’t send soldiers, only freight. We’ve seen “only freight” remake entire coastlines. Ask us again in ten years when Freehold containers are stacked higher than our own.
@MarmadukeLogistics: If you have more of our containers than you do your own, you have a logistics problem of your own making. We leave with just as many as we deliver.
@UlaanTech: Watching Toluca feels like watching a recruitment video. Look, kids, the future is green cousins and cheap meat, just don’t ask who set the terms. We’ve ridden enough empires’ horses to recognize the saddle.
@LucyOnWheels: I wonder what Freud would have to say about the way you go on and on about your horses.
@LahoreLeft: “Feed people first, argue later” is a nice slogan until your cheap beef wipes out small herds and leaves us dependent on your good moods and your alien irrigation systems.
@MattMarmaduke: We don’t do business with the SAC and if you want to ask hy I am sure they will at the very least imprison you for harming their reputation when I start dropping the receipts on exactly why that is.
@HongKongCommons: He calls himself a problem, not a messiah. Correct. The problem is that his “problem” arrives with its own media network, ports, shuttles, and a ready-made narrative where disagreeing with him means you hate hungry children.
@MattMarmaduke: Substitute shuttles for plains, trains, and ships and the Freehold looks just like every other government on earth, because we are just another country. If you don’t to associate yourself with us that is fine.
@MarshallMaja: I think the real China made them say that.
@JakartaYouthBloc: The Toluca teens look happy. So did ours the first time foreign companies sponsored their concerts and scholarships. Ten years later they were gig workers under foreign clouds. Tell us why this isn’t the space version of that.
@MattMarmaduke: Go grow it yourself if you aren’t interested in what I bring to the table.
@YangonGroundTruth: Every tyrant we ever met loved to dance in somebody’s village. The difference here is the tyrant-in-training brings aliens, apps, and enough grain to make saying no politically suicidal.
@SydneyUPoliSci: All rulers no matter what they do are tyrants to the people who think they should be the one to be in charge of it all. You sound like a sad petty child.
@ManilaTrollFarm: Lmao at people swooning over Volcano Uncle. It’s just Walmart Jesus in pointy boots with green backup dancers. Enjoy selling your ports for a front-row seat at his next sad dad concert.
@LolaRhea: and yet he still sings better than you.
@MattMarmaduke: Lola Rhea singing words of wisdom…
@LolaRhea: let it be, ‘nak. You have already raised $2.9 million for charity today, you need to pace yourself it isn’t even lunch time.
@SeoulDoomscroll: Imagine trusting a man who can literally drop food from space and still chooses which kids eat based on whose auntie sings loudest at his party. That’s not “cousins,” that’s a cult with better lighting.
@MattMarmaduke: You obviously are too stupid to count. I increase the grain supply and offer a third option for people to buy it and somehow I am make it so fewer people can eat.
@DelhiShitposter: Congrats humanity, we survived old empires just to get conquered by a dude who smells like cow, bourbon and guitar polish, plus his glow-in-the-dark space elves. Truly the golden age.
@MallKerr: Keep your racism up and one of these days we will just tell him to go ahead when he wants to turn your city into aquarium gravel.
@MarshallMaja: So wish you were touring with us chica.
@TokyoAteMyJob: “We don’t invade, we just make you irrelevant” is the whole Marmaduke brand. Dance for him now, Mexico, before you realize your grandkids work in his warehouses feeding his pet aliens.
@MattMarmaduke: If I can make you irrelevant, you were already nothing but a boil on the ass of humanity and should have been lanced long ago.
@DhakaRage: Keep your translators, your fake cousin talk and your charity tracks, @MattMarmaduke. A billionaire from Missouri playing savior with alien muscle is still an overlord. You’re not ending hunger, you’re building a planet where everyone has to clap for you or starve.
@MattMarmaduke: just think no one claps for the SAC and reports of famine despite full granaries exist every year.
@CapeTownCoopMama: Watching Toluca from Cape Town, I see aunties, cousins and a man who understands you do not argue policy on an empty stomach. If his grain really comes without a gun or a hedge fund attached, South Africa can make room at the braai.
@MattMarmaduke: So long as you are buying the grain from someone other than me you will always have someone pointing a gun at you, but it is not one I am pointing at you.
@LagosHarborView: I like one thing about this Volcano Uncle, he talks straight. No fake smiles about “partnership” while hiding the tolls. If he wants to sell us wheat and beef at prices our markets can survive, let him come sit in Apapa and hear our traders out.
@MattMarmaduke: That is the thing. I have never promised to sell it to anyone. I am setting up granaries at my borders and telling anyone that wants it to come and get it themselves. I don’t own ships or freight trains, and I can’t force anyone to give me access to either.
@NairobiGrainWatch: The Toluca clips feel like our own estate birthdays, plastic chairs, children in new shoes, uncles with tired feet. A man who spends the night raising money for girls’ parties instead of courting presidents is at least worth a closer look.
@MattMarmaduke: Amen to tired feet.
@AccraCoastalFarmers: Hearing him say he will not tear apart anyone’s borders for ports hits different when your grandparents lived through that exact thing. If his shuttles can move food without soldiers behind them, Ghana will hear the pitch. Carefully.
@MattMarmaduke: That is just it, we can’t . our shuttles can move 4 of the big 53 foot containers at a time. Sure we can do high value runs with them in an emergency, but it is wasteful to try and stuff them full of grain as general means of transportation.
@LisbonDockside: Old house on a hill, music in the courtyard, migrants’ grandchildren coming home with strange accents and big ideas. Toluca looks like half the stories from our own diaspora. If this is empire, it is a very confusing one.
@MattMarmaduke: On paper the academics are right, I run an empire. The Freehold started as a hereditary monarchy and ended up marrying into and buying out failed states. What people outside never quite grasp is I am not collecting power like a hobby. I want enough stability and prosperity that I can stop worrying whether my people are going to eat.
@MarseilleDockers: Cute party, nice voice, but my lads see one thing, every tonne that rolls on his miracle tethers is a tonne that stops needing our cranes. He can keep his Beatles, we will be counting containers.
@WarsawAgriUnion: When foreign grain kings talk about “affordable bread,” it usually means our farmers take the loss. Missouri and V’ren or not, we will not clap for a man who can crash our prices with a single contract and a smile.
@MattMarmaduke: All your own leaders do that and you keep electing them,
@JohannesburgStapleWatch: So he will not march tanks in to grab a port, bravo, Nobel for basic decency. The problem is he can walk right past African producers with his own surplus and still claim he is “helping people eat.”
@MattMarmaduke: it is here if you want to come buy it. I will sell it to you for the same price I get paid in Memphis. You do have ships and enough gunboats to force Memphis to let you use the river.
@DakarBlueBoats: From the Atlantic we see another rich man promising routes and refrigeration he owns, storage he owns, prices he influences. If he wants to impress Senegal, let him come on a pirogue and listen to fishers who already drowned under other people’s trade.
@MattMarmaduke: If that is what you see you should get your eyes checked. I made no such promises
@BudapestCattleGuard: “Cheaper beef” always sounds like progress until your uncle’s herd is worthless. We have seen this film with other flags on the silos. Now it stars a Missouri cowboy and his glow in the dark friends. Forgive us for checking where the credits roll.
@MattMarmaduke: hate to break it to you our beef barely travels a thousand kilometers before someone eats it.
@CasablancaPortWatch: He says he will not steal ports, only build around them. From here that sounds like being told our quays are decorative now while he moves the real decisions inland where his cousins live. That is just conquest with extra steps.
@MattMarmaduke: If I can destabilize your ports from Kansas or Missouri with no ships of my own then you were already a lost cause.
@LusakaFoodRights: Turning birthday songs into scholarship money is nice optics, but the aunties in our townships cannot download charity. They need maize that does not spike every time some billionaire gets bored with being generous.
@MattMarmaduke:Then perhaps you should come to me for your grain and not deal with a dozen middlemen who make a lot more off it than I do.
@BremenGrainDesk: Every corridor he skips in Europe makes our own rail look older, every tether he funds makes our warehouses a little more obsolete. He does not need to invade us. He just has to make us surplus to requirements.
@MattMarmaduke:You already are surplus to our requirements. Even with a million plus V’ren added to my table the CCA is one of the most food independent regions in the world and the fact the world kept us so isolated for so long is what made that possible. Not sure what everyone else’s margins are, but we sell 96% of what we grow. I sell because I want other people to eat too, not because I have too.
@KigaliJusticeNow: Translators in clinics, great. Grain without famine games, great. But I hear nothing about land rights, farmer co ops, or what happens when Freehold decides Africa is more profitable as a customer than a partner. That silence is loud.
@MattMarmaduke: You seem a little bit behind the times since most African nations have forbid foreigners from owning land since the early 2100’s
@HarareYouthBloc: The Toluca teens have scholarships and streaming money. Our teens have power cuts and old textbooks. When a man with starships sings about “lean on me” while holding the keys to the pantry, we know exactly who ends up leaning.
@MattMarmaduke: Tell me where you want the textbooks delivered.
@RotterdamOldHands: We built an entire national story on being the place the world’s cargo passes through. Now this cowboy with shuttles talks like ports are optional furniture. If he ever routs serious volume around Europe, watch how quickly his friendly uncle act wears thin.
@MarmadukeLogistics: You handle 32 million TEUs every year and you’re pissing and moaning about a guy who can move four of them at a time.
@AlexandriaGrainClerk: It is easy to talk about “no empires” when you already sit on mountains of food. From the south shore of the Mediterranean, all I see is another man who can weaponize hunger without firing a shot.
@MattMarmaduke: Food is for sale. Come get it. Will gladly trade you a ton of grain for a couple of pans of baclava and some retsina.
@KampalaCoopWomen: He keeps talking about aunties dragging kids into the dance. Cute. My question is what happens when those same aunties say no to a contract. Does he still call us cousins, or does the price list change overnight.
@MattMarmaduke: As always I don’t control the prices you pay half a world when you buy from someone else.
@AthensPortRadical: He will not send soldiers, fine, he will send freight and branding until every government that resists him looks like it is voting against feeding children. That is not diplomacy, that is emotional blackmail on a planetary scale.
@MattMarmaduke: Exactly how am I sending it?
@LyonFoodNotChains: Watching people swoon over his charity tracks feels like watching fans cheer for the company store. He owns the silos, the lanes, the feeds, and somehow the radicals are the ones called cruel when we refuse to thank him for our own dependence.
@MattMarmaduke: You are 0 for 3 there on what I own.
@JohannesburgRedLine: Call him what you like, Freeholder, uncle, logistics problem. At the end of the day he is a billionaire dictating terms to hungry continents and using “cousins” as a shield. We have seen this play before, the costume is different, the plot is the same.
@MattMarmaduke: Perhaps if South Africa spent more money producing food than mercenary armies none of your people would go hungry.
@BerlinGrainSkeptic: Every time someone questions his power, his fans yell that children will starve without him. That is not solidarity, that is a hostage situation dressed up in quinceañera lace and Dr Pepper.
@MattMarmaduke: I will make this offer to you Berlin. I am allocating you 10,000 tons of wheat for free. Just you and all you have to do is come and get it. Do it a second time and I will double the amount free of charge. Do it five times and I will give you half a million tons of mixed grain and you can give it away to whomever you like. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you”
@LagosRagePoster: You lot really out here crying over a man who can drop grain from orbit while farmers across Africa go broke. He strums two old songs and suddenly it is rude to point out he is building a monopoly with better lighting.
@KevinWood: Monopoly! Own It All!
@FreeholdInc: We have noticed your online activity and your LinkedIn status says open to employment. May we contact you for a role in property acquisitions?
@CapeTownBurner: If this was one more megacorp in a suit you would all see the danger. Because he wears pointy boots and brings pretty aliens to family parties, you call it hope. Some of us still remember what it feels like to be the ones on the wrong end of “affordable” food.
@DstanThronn: Did you hear him @LadyTmari? He thinks we are pretty.
@MattMarmaduke: But he would be terrified if he knew how smart you were.
@BelfastShitpost: Volcano Uncle is just Amazon, Rome and every other empire glued together with guitars and green glitter. Keep clapping for him, Europe and Africa, and do not be surprised when you wake up one day and realize you traded your herds and harbors for a livestream and a smile.
@Mattmarmaduke: @LadyTmari Apparently I need to cover you in glitter before we head to lunch. Please get undressed.
@MJ_Truth_Teller: Pervert!
@AngelinaReyes: You seem a little jealous he has a green girl and you don’t my dear daughter.
@DstanThronn: Someone quick get popcorn

TolucaPolicyNerd: Watching Milenio and La Jornada back-to-back, kind of wild that the same guy who told Mexico City he will not “murder a state for a port” spent the night letting our tías bully him into Bill Withers under Xinantécatl. Ports in the morning, patios at night, Latin America will judge him on both.
- 1.10 @MexicoCityMediaLab: Toluca proved Marmaduke understands that in Mexico legitimacy is earned in patios, not plenaries; the question is whether his maps will respect that as much as his guitar does. #QuinceUnderTheVolcano
  - 1.20 @UNAMUrbanLab: Exactly, if his maps redraw freight away from Mexico while he sings in our patios, the legitimacy he earned under Xinantécatl will evaporate faster than any salsa stain. #PortsAndPatios
    - 1.30 @PueblaSovereigntist: Or we could skip the poetry and admit it, once his maps move grain to his own friends’ ports, all that patio charm will just be cover for bleeding Mexico dry. #NotYourBackyard
      - 1.40 @MXMacroDesk: “Bleeding Mexico dry” ignores basic trade elasticities; if his freight shifts, our policy choices matter more than his patio playlist. #PortsAndPrices
        
        1.50 @MattMarmaduke: If my grain ever reaches Ciudad Juares you have several options, buy and use it locally, buy it and sell it on to a world hungry for it, or just not buy it and then wait for a regime change in Memphis where they begin to buy it and regain their old status as a primary trade partner. The choice is always Mexico’s
2.00 @BuenosAiresAgro: La Nación is right to worry about Rosario, if Freehold wheat really rides those tethers south our margins tighten. But I keep replaying that clip of V’ren elders being treated as tíos at the Toluca table. Hard to paint him as pure empire when he is funding quinces in someone else’s valley.
- 2.10 @BogotaCollapseProf: Every clip from the hacienda says “post-collapse soft power,” but the real exam comes when grain prices spike and he chooses between contracts and cousins. #PortsAndPatios
  - 2.20 @CordobaTradeDesk: Soft power exams are graded in drought years, not quince nights; the cousins he toasted in Toluca will remember which side of the contract he stood on when futures spike.
    - 2.30 @RosarioPopulist: Exactly, when drought hits, the “cousins” he toasted will discover that quince videos do not keep Rosario’s elevators open or our kids in work. #PortsBeforePlaylists
      - 2.40 @LatAmCommodities: Populism 101, blame Toluca quince clips instead of our own underinvestment in Rosario logistics over three decades. #LookInTheMirror
        
        2.50 @BuenosAiresFiscal: Underinvestment is real, but tilting corridors north without export rebates or credit lines just means we pay twice, once in lost traffic and once in emergency food bills. #RosarioRisk
3.00 @ChilangoSkeptic: Folha, El Comercio, Milenio, everyone swooning over “Tío Matt” and his guitar. Cool, I cried too. Now someone please ask what happens to our own grain co-ops if the Missouri corridor really lands. Songs do not pay for fertilizer.
- 3.10 @LimaAndesLab: “I will not murder a state for a port” sounds good in a hall; Andean history reminds us that starving one via routing can be just as lethal. #SovereigntyAndSupply
  - 3.20 @MattMarmaduke: Ports that can be bypassed by their neighbors should possibly think twice about pissing off their neighbors.
    - 3.30 @QuitoNationalist: His little threat is the point; any port that dares defend its own farmers is now “stupid” in the eyes of Missouri royalty, and we are supposed to clap? #LogisticsBlackmail
      - 3.40 @MattMarmaduke: You are particularly dense. They have no grain farmers to defend. You didn’t bother to ever look at how much agricultural Memphis actually produces. Their sole cash crop is marijuana, and not a particularly good strain of it either.
        
        3.50 @AndesAgriData: Fine, Memphis grows weed not wheat, but the leverage lesson stands; any chokepoint that thinks it is irreplaceable usually finds out the hard way it is not. #PortHubris
4.00 @CaribeMacro: From Port of Spain this looks simple, Milenio and NCWS both see a man testing whether he can sell a logistics revolution wrapped in quince lace. We have seen plenty of ships, what we have not seen often is someone who spends his prime time in a family courtyard instead of a palace. Cautious, but watching.
- 4.10 @CaribePolicyWatch: Caribbean states see the quince fund and hear the promise, but we will measure him by whether island farmers survive his “affordable” grain. #SmallStatesBigCorridors
  - 4.20 @MattMarmaduke: First courting a protectionist agricultural policy designed to keep your own grain producers happy while your own people struggle to feed themselves is French Revolution level of stupidity. Secondly, what makes you think you get to buy my grain?
    - 4.30 @KingstonProtectionist: There it is, straight from the Freeholder, call us stupid and then ask why we question “affordable” grain that wipes out our own sugar and root crops. #CaribbeanNotColony
      - 4.40 @MattMarmaduke: Answer a question if you are not too self-absorbed. How does cheap grain YOU have to choose to import in an ocean-going ship effect either of those industries and how is it my problem whether YOU choose one way or the other?
        
        4.50 @BarbadosEconDesk: His question hurts because the answer is ugly, our sugar and roots are killed more by our own subsidy patterns than by some hypothetical Missouri freighter. #PolicySelfGoal
5.00 @MidwestCoopGuy: Great Plains Ag Review nailed it, “tether lines not tank lines” is the part that matters. If he is serious that he will not roll over anyone for a port, then this is not Iraq 2.0, it is a co op guy who got too much money and built rails. Still want to see the contracts.
- 5.10 @TorontoTradeDesk: Canada recognizes the farm-kid energy, yet underneath the charm sits a highly disciplined attempt to recenter continental logistics in Columbia, Missouri. #GrainGeopolitics
  - 5.20 @McGillAgriPolicy: Recentering on Columbia, Missouri, looks technical on paper, but from here it reads like a deliberate tilt of the continental table; Canada has to decide if we stabilize that tilt or get rolled by it.
    - 5.30 @MattMarmaduke: What delusional world do you live in. There has been no country called Canada in more than 300 years.
      - 5.40 @OldDominionEcon: Canada discourse from a non-existent state is peak nostalgia economics; supply chains already priced that map out a century ago. #GhostCountryPremium
        
        5.50 @PrairieRiskWatch: Ghost countries still cast long shadows on old spreadsheets; until we model present-day blocs properly, every “Canada” hot take is just bad regression. #UpdateYourData
6.00 @CaribbeanPolicyHub: Turning a quince into a regional fundraiser is smart soft power, but islands will still ask who controls the silos when the next hurricane wipes out our crops. #CousinsOrClients
- 6.10 @QuebecPortReview: If his tethers ever bend north, our ports must decide whether to treat Marmaduke as a partner in redundancy or a rival in relevance. #StLawrenceVsTethers
  - 6.20 @UWIClimateDesk: Redundancy only comforts us if northern ports and Freehold silos both commit to storm clauses that treat Caribbean fields as more than rounding errors. #CousinsOrClients
    - 6.30 @TrinidadHardliner: Storm clauses are fine, but the second we say no to his prices they will call us irrational and let our shelves go empty to teach us a lesson. #FoodAsWeapon
      - 6.40 @IslandsLedger: “Food as weapon” headlines sell, but nobody’s run the scenario where our own tariff walls do more damage than Missouri ever could. #RunTheModel
        
        6.50 @CaricomStats: Exactly why we need full CGE runs; without numbers on tariff, freight, and yield shocks, “food as weapon” is just vibes dressed up as analysis. #ModelBeforePanic
7.00 @TorontoCivicWatch: Between Toronto Star and CBC, the Canada take is “we like the aunties, we do not trust the math yet.” I am fine with that. Bring your tether to Thunder Bay, Freeholder, then sit with Cree and Anishinaabe before you brag about bypassing anything.
- 7.10 @MarmadukeLogistics: Convince Chicago to let us have a free route through their territory and you can have it.
  - 7.20 @YorkUrbanPolitics: That answer is exactly the point, sovereignty on paper means little if every viable route runs through firms his family already half-owns. Canada needs Plan B before we invite Plan A north.
    - 7.30 @MattMarmaduke: What delusional world do you live in. There has been no country called Canada in more than 300 years.
      - 7.40 @GreatLakesMonitor: Sovereignty is real, but so are freight rates; pretending Chicago’s chokepoints do not already price us in is wishful accounting. #LogisticsReality
        
        7.50 @LakeheadPolicyLab: Logistics reality check accepted, but relying on Chicago’s pricing power while mocking “Canada” is how we sleepwalk into a corridor we never negotiated. #NorthGridPolitics
8.00 @GreatPlainsHistory: For the Midwest this is a hinge moment, the first time in a century a major actor has framed ports as utilities instead of fiefdoms. #EndOfGatekeepers
- 8.10 @ChicagoLogisticsReview: Treating ports as utilities sounds noble until someone has to fund dredging and security; the question is whether Marmaduke will still pay the bill once his tethers make him less dependent on us.
  - 8.20 @NebraskaRuralSociology: Gatekeepers are not only in harbors, they also sit on co op boards; if this hinge moment locks farmers out of decisions, it will just be a new set of keys in someone else’s pocket.
    - 8.30 @DakotaSkeptic: New keys, same locked doors; this is how you replace coastal barons with rail barons and tell farmers they should be grateful the brand of choke point changed. #MeetTheNewBoss
      - 8.40 @HeartlandIndices: Rail barons or not, basis spreads will tell the story faster than op-eds; farmers will follow whoever narrows the gap to export price. #SpreadWatch
        
        8.50 @IowaExtensionNerd: Farmers already chase the narrowest basis; if public boards do not codify that logic, private rails will, and nobody in Des Moines will get a veto. #FollowTheSpread
        
        8.60 @MattMarmaduke: I personally own the ruins of Des Moines and currently is has something like twelve run-away squatters that we are actually trying to coax out and help. I am not sure they give much of a shit about voting right now.
9.00 @HanoiPolicyNerd: Hanoi Global and Bangkok Chronicle both caught the same signal, he is selling “grain without gunboats.” Good, but our history says gunboats often come later. Let Toluca be a nice video, we will still keep one eye on the tonnage and one on who owns the data in those translators.
- 9.10 @MississippiDeltaEcon: River towns are right to feel haunted; every reference to Memphis tolls is a preview of life after the barge queue stops mattering. #BeyondTheRiver
  - 9.20 @SaigonSupplyChain: Exactly, the river ghost in his Memphis stories looks a lot like the Mekong in ours; when new corridors open, old towns drown quietly unless someone writes protections in now.
    - 9.30 @MekongSovereign: Protections “later” always mean protections never; once his tonnage owns the route, river towns from Memphis to My Tho will be museum pieces. #NoMoreSacrificeZones
      - 9.40 @DeltaYieldReport: Museum pieces still have land under them; smart river towns will renegotiate toll regimes now instead of tweeting ghost stories later. #FutureOfFreight
        
        9.50 @DeltaResilienceLab: Future of freight also means future of floodplains; renegotiating tolls without levee money on the table is how you turn museum towns into graveyards. #WaterAndWheat
10.00 @JakartaTradeWatch: Jakarta Tribune sees cousins, Jakarta Agro sees risk, both are right. Tethers that make Memphis optional can make Java optional too. I do not care if the aliens dance cumbia, I care if our fishers get squeezed when Missouri surplus comes looking for an ocean.
- 10.10 @HavanaFoodSecurity: From the Caribbean rim, the promise of grain without gunboats matters, but so does proof that he will not play famine politics when storms hit. #HungerAndPower
  - 10.20 @UIJakartaEcon: Caribbean storm logic matches monsoon logic, without binding rules on export throttling, any “grain without gunboats” pledge can flip into leverage the moment stocks tighten.
    - 10.30 @MattMarmaduke: What sort of fucking idiots are all of you? if your country doesn’t want my grain they can simply not buy it. It really is that simple.
      - 10.40 @JavaCommodities: “Just don’t buy” sounds glib, but import dependence is a ratio, not a vibe; maybe fix our diversification before subtweeting Missouri. #TermsOfTrade
        
        10.50 @BandungTradeBeat: Ratio or not, diversification is still our homework; if we flunk it, Missouri surplus is just the next convenient villain for our own policy laziness. #ImportMath
11.00 @SeoulDesk: Korea Herald says it looks like a doljanchi with aliens, Hankyoreh reminds us we did not see cleaners or field workers on camera. For me the real line is Seoul Food Policy, if cheap beef ever hits Busan without labor and climate protections in the fine print, the guitar solos will not save him.
- 11.10 @SaoPauloCommodity: Brazilian traders have heard “we won’t dump on you” before; the only convincing argument will be contracts that leave our cattle cycle intact. #BeefAndSilos
  - 11.20 @KoreaLaborInstitute: From labour’s side, Busan will not accept bargain beef built on invisible workers, whether they load in Missouri or Toluca; social clauses will matter more than any doljanchi vibes.
    - 11.30 @BusanPopulist: Social clauses from a man who brags about breaking unions? We know that tune, cheap imports now, shuttered slaughterhouses and suicides in the countryside later. #NeverAgain
      - 11.40 @EastAsiaStaples: Everyone yelling about suicides, nobody pricing in how domestic cartels already undercut rural income without a single Missouri cow in sight. #LocalOligarchs
        
        11.50 @TokyoProteinWatch: Local oligarchs plus foreign beef is a lethal combo; if Seoul and Busan do not break the cartels first, every new supplier becomes the scapegoat. #FixHomeMarket
12.00 @TaipeiAnalyst: Liberty Times and Taipei Times both read Toluca as “family politics as foreign policy.” For small countries that live under other people’s maps, his “I am a logistics problem, not a messiah” line is comforting. Only question is what he does once his problem touches our strait.
- 12.10 @RioMediaCritic: Volcano karaoke is not harmless, it is disciplined authenticity, the latest evolution of empire aesthetics wrapped in aunties and Beatles. #SoftPower2point0
  - 12.20 @NTUIslandStudies: Family politics can shelter small states, but it can also smother them; once his “logistics problem” touches our strait, Taipei will need guarantees in law, not auntie sentiment.
    - 12.30 @TaichungRealist: Law without leverage is just pretty paper; once his ships circle our strait, “auntie sentiment” will be the excuse he uses when we object to being bypassed. #IslandNotOutpost
      - 12.40 @FormosaRiskDesk: Outpost or not, freight tables move faster than navies; if we do not price his corridors now, someone else will do it for us. #StraitScenarios
        
        12.50 @KaohsiungHarbourEcon: Strait scenarios written without our own freight data just hand leverage to whoever shows up with the first corridor draft and a pretty patio video. #WriteOurOwnTables
13.00 @DelhiAgriProf: Reading @DelhiAgriWatch next to Caixin and Global Times, I see the same fear, a man who can shift power with ports and spreadsheets telling us not to worry because he sings for girls. Show us floor prices and liability clauses for small herds in South Asia, then we can hum along.
- 13.10 @DelhiAgriWatch: South Asia doesn’t fear his rhetoric so much as the precedent it sets, a food exporter using moral language to normalize structural leverage. #AffordableForWhom
  - 13.20 @JNUDevEconomy: Precisely, without published price bands and liability for shock losses, “affordable” becomes another word for extracting value from villages Delhi pundits only visit on holidays.
    - 13.30 @MattMarmaduke: Don’t worry, I don’t do business with the SAC
      - 13.40 @SouthAsiaMarkets: No SAC business today just means our negotiators flunked; leverage unused is still leverage pointed at us on the next protein shock. #MissedChances
        
        13.50 @MattMarmaduke: Your negotiators flunked when you became arms dealing warmongers
14.00 @BangkokLabor: ASEAN Observer talks about “third pole,” KL and Bangkok remind us about workers. Translators in clinics are nice, cheaper beef is nice, but I notice nobody in Miguel’s studio said the word union. If this is not just Amazon with aliens, prove it in the contracts.
- 14.10 @JakartaMaritimeInst: Indonesia notes his promise not to invade for ports, but routing around a coastline can punish it just as effectively as any gunboat. #MappedOut
  - 14.20 @ChulaWorkLab: Routing around coasts while staying silent on unions is how you reinvent gunboat outcomes with spreadsheet tools; ASEAN cannot afford another quiet race to the bottom.
    - 14.30 @MattMarmaduke: Your union is between you and your employer. In countries where rabble rousers tried to start unions in my businesses they failed. My contracts are better than anything you will ever get from a union without needing to pay anyone dues.
      - 14.40 @ASEANBizBrief: Union talk is fine, but factor-cost gaps do not vanish because we shouted “Amazon with aliens” on feed. Benchmark the contracts first. #LaborAndLogistics
        
        14.50 @MekongLaborStats: Benchmarking contracts means publishing wage ladders and shift data, not just humming along to Toluca playlists and yelling “union” once a year. #DataOrDrama
15.00 @JoburgStaples: Business Day does the calculator work, Mail & Guardian asks who gets to be family. That Toluca courtyard looks more integrated than half our gated suburbs. If Freehold wants to sell us grain, it better come with land rights and co-op protections, not just scholarship tracks and pretty V’ren dresses.
- 15.10 @BangkokDevStudies: Translators in clinics and cheaper meat are welcome; labour standards conspicuously absent from the Toluca narrative are not. #WhoPaysTheCost
  - 15.20 @WitsLandRights: If Freehold contracts arrive without clauses for communal tenure and co op bargaining, the pretty dresses in Toluca will be remembered here as the soft music before dispossession.
    - 15.30 @SowetoRadical: Co ops without land and labour rights are just nicer cages; Freehold grain will come wrapped in scholarship ribbons while our townships stay hungry and fenced in. #EmpireWithMakeup
      - 15.40 @RandburgMacro: Calling it empire makeup is easy; building a regional grain board that can counter-price him is hard. Guess which one we keep postponing. #InstitutionDeficit
        
        15.50 @SAAgriCouncil: Regional grain board sounds dull until the next drought; either we build one now or spend the next decade subtweeting Missouri invoices. #InstitutionOrOutrage
16.00 @LagosMacroNerd: Vanguard and AU brief both land at the same point, do not romanticize, do not ignore. From here I like one thing, he says outright what price Memphis pays him and what his own people pay. European and Asian megacorps rarely give us that kind of transparency unless a court orders it.
- 16.10 @HanoiGlobalComment: If he keeps shuttles firmly civilian and corridors demilitarized, Southeast Asia may treat him as an unusual trader rather than a subtler hegemon. #GrainNotGunboats
  - 16.20 @Mattmarmaduke: Don’t declare war on me and you will never see me use military force against you.
    - 16.30 @AbujaSecurityHawk: “Don’t declare war” is cute code for “accept my terms or starve quietly,” the same old gunboat script now flown in on shuttles instead of frigates. #GrainAsDeterrent
      - 16.40 @WestAfricaLedger: Deterrent or not, any exporter who publishes margin math is already more transparent than half our parastatals. Start there. #CompareLikeWithLike
        
        16.50 @AccraFoodSystems: Comparing exporters and parastatals is the right starting point, but without regional stock rules we are still one bad harvest away from panic pricing. #WestAfricaFoodSecurity
17.00 @NairobiPolicy: Daily Nation and EastAfrican read Mexico as a hint to us, that he thinks legitimacy lives in aunties’ halls. I agree. If he ever shows up in Meru or Ukerewe instead of a Nairobi hotel first, that will tell me more than any AU podium speech.
- 17.10 @SingaporePortThink: Mexico was a reminder that in the new order, ports lose leverage twice, once on freight diagrams and once on feeds where patios steal the spotlight. #HubOrHasBeen
  - 17.20 @StrathmoreAgLaw: Port and hub cities always assume they speak for us; if he really believes aunties matter, let him sign enforceable co op rights in counties far from capital hotels.
    - 17.30 @MombasaHardRight: Aunties’ halls are lovely until the cameras leave; then it is still Missouri money writing which counties get roads and which stay in the mud. #NoMorePatronSaints
      - 17.40 @HornOfAfricaEcon: Roads in the mud are not built by vibes; if Missouri capital shows up, we need tariff policy, not just moral panic about aunties. #InfrastructureMath
        
        17.50 @MattMarmaduke: Backwaters where hundred of miles of roads are shit is actually the sort of place that would benefit from tethered rail lines and the technology can be leased
18.00 @DublinHistorian: RTÉ is right, this is a diaspora story. Our cousins went to Missouri with nothing, now Missouri cousins arrive in Mexico with aliens and bourbon and call everyone “cousin” without flinching. That can be healing, it can also become cover for power. We know both versions very well.
- 18.10 @LagosPoliticalEcon: What unnerves African economists is not that he is rich, but that he is scripting a world where saying no to his prices can be framed as cruelty. #EmotionalInfrastructure
  - 18.20 @TrinityPostEmpire: Exactly, empire wrapped in kinship is still empire; the real test is whether “cousin” status lets smaller partners say no without being painted as ungrateful.
    - 18.30 @LisbonReaction: “Cousin” talk is just the new missionary tone, smile for the drone, take the scholarship, and never mention that one family in Missouri holds the food tap. #NeoFeudalism
      - 18.40 @EUPeripheryWatch: Neo-feudalism takes off when we outsource all capital expenditure, then complain that the landlord charges rent. #OwnSomeSilos
        
        18.50 @GalwayPortsWatch: Owning silos is step one; step two is writing rules that stop any one corridor—Missouri or Brussels—from turning our granaries into bargaining chips. #PeripheryStrategy
19.00 @WarsawAgriWatcher: Gazeta Wyborcza and Telex share the same hangup I do, “affordable bread” and “affordable beef” are code words that usually mean someone in Lublin or the puszta just lost their herd. Before Europe claps for quince playlists, check what the tariff tables look like in five years.
- 19.10 @JohannesburgInequalityLab: Turning songs into scholarships is admirable, but it does not answer who decides which communities get tether access first when climate shocks cascade. #JusticeBeforeOptics
  - 19.20 @CEUTransitionLab: Climate shocks will make tariff fights look quaint, and whoever controls emergency corridors will effectively pick which rural regions get to survive the next decade. #JusticeBeforeOptics
    - 19.30 @BudapestSovereign: We have seen this film, “cheap food for the people” while domestic herds vanish and villages empty; swap Soviet planners for Missouri spreadsheets and the ending is the same. #NeverCheapEnough
      - 19.40 @VisegradMarkets: If we worry about Missouri spreadsheets, maybe stop handing our own food chains to three retail conglomerates and a Brussels committee. #HouseInOrder
        
        19.50 @BalticGrainLedger: House in order also means transparency on our side; it is hard to fret about Missouri spreadsheets with a straight face while hiding our own margin math. #GlassLedgers
20.00 @KyivCorridor: Ukrayinska Pravda hears Toluca as the world we wanted, kids from three continents arguing about music instead of artillery. We also hear the subtext, when old routes are blocked, someone with steel and storage writes a new one. Ukraine learned the hard way that grain is never only symbolic.
- 20.10 @NairobiFoodPolicy: East Africa will judge him on whether co-ops can reach his granaries directly or must still kneel to old middlemen plus one new Freeholder. #CoopsVsCartels
  - 20.20 @CentralAsiaGrainWatch: Ukraine’s lesson is that “just logistics” becomes grand strategy overnight; if Toluca is chapter one, then corridor governance needs to be written now, before the next blockade.
    - 20.30 @OdessaHardliner: Corridor governance written in Columbia’s office might as well be written in Moscow; whoever owns the rails owns our sieges and our surrenders. #NoForeignKeys
      - 20.40 @BlackSeaRiskDesk: “No foreign keys” sounds heroic until the next blockade; redundancy costs money, and right now only Missouri is offering to pay. #TwoCorridorsBetterThanOne
        
        20.50 @DniproMacro: Two corridors are insurance, not betrayal; the question is whether we can structure Missouri’s offer without handing them a veto over our next crisis. #DesignTheDeal
21.00 @BalkanCousin: Balkan Insight and Novi List see our own villages in that hacienda. Kolo or cumbia, same auntie energy. Difference is, this uncle owns his own ships and tethers. If he brings that to the Adriatic or the Danube, somebody here had better be smart enough to invite his kids to our weddings before Brussels finishes arguing about fees.
- 21.10 @DublinDiasporaLab: Toluca looked less like an empire arriving and more like a global clan rehearsing its story; clans can be generous, but they can also close ranks fast. #CousinsAndPower
  - 21.20 @SarajevoPeaceLab: Weddings are great confidence-building measures, but we have seen plenty of deals sealed with rakija that later ignored parliaments; invite his kids, yes, but also sharpen our regulatory pens.
    - 21.30 @BelgradeOldGuard: Invite his kids to our weddings and next thing you know the toasts are about “shared infrastructure” and our riverside towns wake up owned by a Missouri trust. #KeepTheUncleOutside
      - 21.40 @DanubeTradeWire: Keeping the uncle outside is great copy, but if Brussels keeps stalling rail upgrades, the Missouri cousin will own the detour by default. #VacuumEconomics
        
        21.50 @AdriaticPortsDesk: Default ownership only happens if we leave capex to cousins; the smart move is co-financing upgrades so any Missouri detour still runs through our balance sheets. #JointControl
22.00 @AstanaSteppeView: Astana Times and Tashkent Courier clocked something Europe missed, he is building a land corridor that does not ask Moscow, Beijing or Delhi for a stamp. As someone who remembers cotton and dried rivers, I want to know who writes water and soil safeguards into those pretty “no invasion” speeches.
- 22.10 @WarsawRuralStudies: Central Europe has lived through enough “cheap bread” crusades to know that farmgate prices, not patio playlists, tell the real tale. #PeasantMemory
  - 22.20 @AlmatyWaterDesk: Cheap transport without hard caps on extraction turns steppe and cotton belts into sacrifice zones; any corridor that skips old capitals must still answer to new environmental courts.
    - 22.30 @TashkentRevanchist: Environmental courts mean nothing if the only ones who can afford lawyers are the same corridor princes who already drank the rivers once. #NoSecondDrying
      - 22.40 @EurasiaCommodities: Second drying or not, corridors follow profit gradients; without our own capital pool, any safeguards we write are just footnotes. #CapitalAsClimatePolicy
        
        22.50 @MattMarmaduke: What sort of courts do you suppose have jurisdicition in the CCA?
23.00 @MarshallIslandsPolicy: Morgunblaðið saw the volcano, PNG Post Courier saw the co ops, I see small states watching whether tethers and shuttles can ever belong to anybody besides Missouri. If Toluca is the model, community gets lights and scholarships, Matt gets the rails. We should negotiate hard now, before the pattern lands in the Pacific.
- 23.10 @Mattmarmaduke: The truth is a tehtered rail isn’t going to be useful in most countries. You need hundreds of kilometers wher you can cut a 2km wide straight path for the system to be viable. PNG might be able to make use of it, but few places in Europe want us bring a line of bulldozers through their ancient city leveling everthing in site. The fusion reactors have much the same issue. Existing grids are incompatible and would likely melt under any inconceivable meshing strategy. We are looking at improving wind, wave, and solar products.
  - 23.20 @USPacificFutures: His own reply proves the point, if only a few geographies can host tethers or fusion, then governance over those few will shape everyone’s options from Honiara to Majuro.
    - 23.30 @Mattmarmaduke: What exactly makes you think Evergreen or any other country has the right to dictsate what we do inside our own borders?
      - 23.40 @BluePacificMacro: Borders talk sovereignty, balance sheets talk dependence; if only one player can finance tethers, guess who sets Pacific freight floors. #PriceOfRefusal
        
        23.50 @MattMarmaduke: When you can talk about about a technolgy with some actual knowledge of that technolgy you can return to the adult table. Tethered rails are not magic and don’t cross oceans.
24.00 @MarseilleDockside: Reading Corriere, NRC, Guardian, Le Matin, I see a Europe that still thinks it sets the stage. Newsflash, the important politics this week did not happen in Brussels, it happened under string lights on a Mexican volcano while a man they ignored for centuries raised money for girls’ dresses. Ports are not the only chokepoints anymore.
- 24.10 @TokyoGlobalStudies: When he reaches Japan, we should watch less what he says in Kasumigaseki and more whose children he centres in Shitamachi backstreets. #FamilyAsForeignPolicy
  - 24.20 @SciencesPoPeriphery: Europe staying stage-center while the script moves to Toluca is exactly how we missed other inflection points; if we do not engage these new patios, we will just end up paying to rent their spotlight.
    - 24.30 @GenoaReaction: Renting their spotlight is just stage one; stage two is paying port fees to Missouri while our own docks rust under another empire of “friendly cousins.” #PortsOrProps
      - 24.40 @MattMarmaduke: You are a special sort of stupid. Please tell me how deciding to route around one port an sell it to another international middleman effects your docks? That is unless you have some sort of special deal with Memphis where they are just giving grain away to you ion exchange for who knows what?
        
        24.50 @EUShippingReview: His question bites because for too many of our docks the answer is “nothing”; without our own upgrades, any reroute just exposes how replaceable we already are. #EuropeMustInvest
25.00 @CapeTownTheory: Between De Standaard’s guns, Süddeutsche’s silos, and Público’s music, here is the through line, he is testing whether you will accept a different kind of empire, one that feeds you, sings with your kids, and still owns the routes. If you want partnership instead of that, write your red lines now, in your own language, before the next quince goes live.
- 25.10 @ReykjavikResilience: From one volcanic slope to another, the lesson is that he is braiding infrastructure and intimacy; any analysis that ignores either strand is already outdated. #VolcanoDiplomacy
  - 25.20 @UCTDemocracyLab: Braiding intimacy with infrastructure can normalise unequal power for a generation; communities that like the songs still need to decide which parts of the braid they refuse to let tighten.
    - 25.30 @MattMarmaduke: No one is making you buy from us and no one is ever going to force us to grow crops for you much less give them away to you.
      - 25.40 @GlobalYieldColumn: “No one is making you buy” is technically true, but import curves bend under hunger; write your red lines into contracts or watch them blur. #HungerVsLeverage
        
        25.50 @MattMarmaduke: You miss the biggest point here. I have limited places I can sell my grain. I don’t have port access of my own nor private sealanes much less ships to take you grain.

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