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Don't worry. These types of price increases won't show up in the CPI. The current methodology assumes consumer substitution when faced with higher prices. So high beef prices will result in consumers substituting lower cost chicken. Hocus, pocus, no inflation.

It was either Trump and his circus act or Harris and a continuation of an insane liberal agenda. And we all know the circus is more fun than being subjected to constant pontificating on alleged and most times imaginary social injustice and racism. The cleanest pig in the mud hole analogy in practice.

It was really never about following the science. It was following the scientist.

Parents that don't want their daughters raped by swarzy foreigners that have no respect for their host country or its customs or laws doesn't make them anarchists.

That's the reason banks and other financial institutions employ an army of property appraisers. They just don't take your word for it. I had reason to visit my local bank branch last week and the manager I was sitting with brought up Home Equity credit lines as a way to "unlock" the equity in my home. But taking on more debt by borrowing against my house isn't something I'm interesting in doing at the moment. She asked me how much my home is "worth" and I threw out a number. In the fantasy world where banks just take your word for it and you can "induce" them to give you more money she would have took my number, processed and approved an application, and ran with it. But in the real world, with real money changes hands, the bank will send out an appraiser to make the determination for lending purposes. That's how it works. So these stories like plute and montrose peddle that are absent of any actual facts or figures are meaningless other than to demonstrate people can make up pretty much anything they want to make up.

At some point the locals need to appeal to officials for the application of decency and common sense. And when that fails they need to go all Braveheart on their asses.

What laws are these "MAGA" people breaking? And by MAGA I mean your ordinary run of the mill average citizen.

The consistently low workforce participation rate invalidates your claim we need more immigrants. Add in the high utilization rate for social assistance by recent immigrants, mostly illegal, and the case crumbles. Most of the new arrivals are not here to work. Let's take H1B tech worker visas for example. Tech companies claim they need to import technical workers because of a lack of domestic labor to fill positions. Disregarding the fact that unemployment among newly graduated computer science majors is very high. Higher than liberal arts majors I've seen reported. So much for the learn to code mantra. What those tech firms using visa programs do is keep wages low. And unemployment high among domestic workers. I've lived through and witnessed the decline of America's tech work force. Now most of the jobs are outsourced to sites in India along with companies importing foreign workers that displace domestic workers. Maybe 1/5 of the jobs are held by native born citizens. Companies are enjoying lower labor costs while peddling the myth that the domestic workforce doesn't exist to fill these jobs. it does. While the administration is focusing on bringing back manufacturing, which I expect will never happen, they're completely ignoring the tech work force where on-shoring would be much easier to accomplish.

I know how we can end inflation right now. Its very simple. Raise interest rates and shrink the money supply. As long as everyone is willing to accept a 30 to 50 percent drop in the value of their 401K and IRA accounts. And maybe an uptick in the unemployment rate of a percent or two or three. I'm guessing everyone is not okay with those consequences of solving the inflation problem. Do you have a better idea?

I think you're right. Most people don't care about woke. That's why its so unpopular now. It was a construct of the intellectuals running and working in the university systems across the country. Academic environments insulated from the workings and functions of the "real" world. What happened is these academics gradually assumed control of the positions of power inside the democratic party causing their dogma to bleed out into the realm of reality where most of us work and live. Forced on businesses, government, and public affairs. They pretty much destroyed the traditional base and mission of the Dem party. Which gave rise to the Trump phenomena. Now its being pushed back where it came from, the academic fantasy world. If you don't like Trump blame the intellectuals running the party that created the conditions for his rise to power. And here we are.

My understanding of the Intel arrangement is the government is receiving an equity stake in the company in exchange for financial and other assistance to ensure the ongoing ability of the firm to continue effectively operating. Much like another company or private equity would receive. As a minority shareholder, I don't envision the US government getting into the boardroom and dictating strategy or using its influence and power to elevate Intel to some dominant position in the market. I expect there would be objections, especially from the industry, if this arrangement was "controlling interest" rather than minority ownership. That would be equivalent to the topic title "seizing control of the means of production". This isn't that.

What Trump is doing is bypassing the leaders that claim to represent the interests of inner city residents by directly acting to address their concerns about crime and unsafe neighborhoods. Which leave democrats mumbling to each other about authoritarians. It's an effective end-around strategy and makes the libs look weak and. Impotent.

Maybe playing games with what constitutes a "crime"? Is a crime a complaint or a police report? Is it an indictment, a conviction? If the police arrest somebody, gather evidence, then send the case to the DA and they refuse to indict or charge the suspect is that a crime? It sounds like the only thing they can't hide or fudge is murder if only because there's a dead guy.

The key term in "international air space". We do the same thing. Its no big deal. And the balloon thing. Yeah, it was a big deal. Biden's crew let a Chinese spy balloon fly across the US and did nothing. They should have shot it down immediately after it violated our air space.

I don't believe much of anything Maxwell is saying to DOJ lawyers. Based on her deposition, she's completely innocent of anything like sex trafficking or soliciting underage women for Epstein. Who by he way, appears to be completely innocent of anything too. At least when it comes to his association with Maxwell. She also believes he didn't commit suicide. Which by extension means she believes somebody killed him, or ordered his killing, Which begs the question who would want to kill Epstien if ther is no there, there? If there is no concern of him spilling the beans on anyone of importance? Add that if everything was on the up-and-up why would he kill himself? Spend a few weeks in jail and then set free?

Its a known fact that exercise is racist and a white supremacist trait. That's why all these socialist are girly-men.

Upon further examination, it was never really follow the science. Its was follow the scientist. And trust me, no matter how ridiculous you may believe things seem, I'm an "expert". And the record shows experts are infallible and always correct.

There's not a single poster here who prefers Trump over Harris that agrees with everything this administration is doing. I know I don't. For example, I support the efforts on illegal immigration and crime but think the tariffs are stupid. But we all agree whatever it is, its still better than the chaos of another 4 years under a Democrat administration. Libs just want to believe there's some command and control thing here where people blindly follow their leader, question nothing, and support it all. I suppose because with few exceptions, that's what they do. Almost all will never admit Trump is doing anything good or the Dems are doing anything wrong.

I always thought, even when gambling was officially illegal, the reason why the NFL requires teams to disclose injuries and rate the player's chance of participating in the next game (out, doubtful, questionable) was to help the bookies set the line.

You're smart and I expect you know the rules. Congress has clear control and accountability of the Capitol. Specifically the office of the Speaker of the House. The chain of command there is responsible for making the call to deploy the national guard. They declined to deploy despite numerous requests from CP command on the ground that day. There is no legal standing, unlike for the District where law provides a specific legal clause for the President in this case, for the President as head of the executive branch to supersede or overrule decisions exclusive to the legislature. So no, Trump had no authority to deploy the NG to the Capitol. But I'm sure you knew that already and are just taking the opportunity to yank on the chain and sneak through an apples to oranges false comparison to rally the troops.

Frankly I'm skeptical of the validity of that $1 million per day number touted by The Intercept. I'd like to see their data and assumptions. And the first couple paragraphs of the article reads like a propaganda hit piece so there's obviously an agenda in play. We can also argue that if the NG is that expense to deploy in DC then its that expensive at that scale or level to deploy anywhere else for any other reason so why have a NG if you can't use it because its too expensive? That aside, I'm thinking it would be much more effective if the cities hired back most of the cops they let go when the defund the police idea was trendy. Or hire new ones. In DC's case assemble a plan to augment their current police force by an amount equivalent to the National Guard troop count.

I'm not sure what the long-term plan is here but the experience to date with reducing violence and lawless behavior through arrests and enforcement of the law proves the crime problem is solvable given the will and the resources to do something about it.

It's another big money hustle. All these NGOs get billions to support an army of otherwise unemployed activists. Governments and investment banks on Wall Street are salivating at the idea of creating carbon credits traded thru a big profitable exchange while the public gets screwed with more taxes, fees, and increased product costs. The wealthy talk the game , generate PR and make appearances, but don't play the game, yachting and flying all about. Meanwhile, China and India pump out two addition units of CO2 for everyone one unit we're coerced to eliminate. On logical inspection it's all quite ridiculous. Sadly all the slogans and bought off "scientists" are out there to thwart logic and questioning.

NATO has no other mission than addressing "threats" from Russia. A mission, I promise everyone supporting or not supporting that alliance, that will never end. If the mission was ever proclaimed complete the reasons for the existence of the alliance would no longer be valid and the alliance would have no reason to exist. No threats to address, no wars to prepare for against Europe. But civilian and military leaders invested in continuing NATO will never allow that to happen. Its simply not in their best interests to ever eliminate the Russian "threat". So they will gleefully milk the taxpayers of a couple dozen nations and keep up the ruse that Russia is intent on re-assembling the Soviet Union. Something they not only have no desire to do but also something they don't have the economic or military capabilities to pull off. So the charade will continue.

How do you know where they are? Do you have intimate knowledge of the deployment plan? Are you on the ground in DC monitoring the movements of the Guard? Or relying on some leftist clowns on the internet for your information? Did it occur to you they're deploying the NG to some areas and not others to free up DC police to concentrate on high crime areas.