All_Pro_Bills

In 1980 Paul Volker was intent on crushing inflation and in 2022 Jerome Powell is just intent on talking about it. In 1980 the US economy could survive higher rates but in 2022 the US so called "service economy" cannot as its totally dependent on low rates and foreign sourced goods. Can you imagine 14% interest rates in today's service economy, financial markets, housing markets, consumer credit markets, government debt markets? If you're not preparing for the biggest financial disaster in history then you're leaving yourself exposed.

If I was casting a movie that had a role for The Devil he'd be the first guy I'd think of calling for the part.

I suspect Ms. Abrams' campaign is concerned with associating her with a President and Vice President with very low approval ratings and will focus their messaging on what's good for the people of Georgia rather than what's good for the progressive agenda in general.

The stranglehold that the pharmaceutical industry holds over the US government is hard to comprehend. I've watched through two administrations policy being steered toward big pharma vaccine-centric solutions while promising treatments from smaller firms have been stonewalled and rejected by the FDA and slammed by the CDC. Used only through compassionate use to treat the sickest and generally too late to do any good. Most of these treatments showing greater efficacy and safety results that far exceed the approved Merck and Pfizer pill at $700 per treatment. I've watched networks that receive the majority of their revenue from drug ads toe the company line. I've watch doctors and medical professionals that express views and opinions counter to the official stance beaten into silence. While their colleagues stay silent with many others complicit in the arrangement. I've watched drugs like Ivermectin and HCL, both of which are safe and highly prescribed in the US already, used in poor countries with limited resources suppress the curve and treat the sick effectively while both these and other cheap and available drugs suffer ridicule and rejection. The entire charade of this vaccine only approach has been laid bare by Omicron. Its time. Time to ignore the politics and reject the money and actually do what they've been claiming for 2 years. And that's actually to "follow the science". But I'm not holding my breath for all that to happen. Most likely the idiots will double or triple down here. Can this failure get any more obvious?

In the AFC East the last few seasons: The Dolphins own the Patriots The Bills own the Dolphins The Patriots own the Jets The Jets own nobody.

Knox makes the catch. Burn the clock to finish Q3 and get the wind in the 4th.

This cute pic is what you post when you have no good response. It's your "tell". So point for me. But curious, was this reaction before or after your idol Hillary read her sad and pathetic acceptance speech a couple weeks ago on national TV? I mean, give it up already.

I remember last November when Trump supporters working polling locations in large urban cities in several swing States stopped vote counting activity at around 11 PM election night, shoed away opposition party observers, and resumed the count augmented by boxes of suddenly discovered mail-in ballots that pushed their candidate to victory in those States. Then locked away the boxes of ballots, refused to allow anyone to inspect them, and fought all court challenges while flooding the media with "there's nothing to see here messaging". We need to make sure those cheating scum don't try to pull this off again.

This is the left's "wet dream" fantasy. Trump perp walked in the middle of the night by a bevy of Pretorian Guards and CNN media celebrities. Tried, convicted, sentenced, and jailed for life. After they wake up from this orgasmic and euphoric experience in the middle of the night they head off to the bathroom to change their shorts one more time. But it's just a dream because the only bigger farce than all these allegations is the committee "investigating" them. Let me know when any of this sees the inside of a courtroom.

Much fewer than a couple thousand knuckleheads entered the building. I'm going to take a wild guess that somebody called off the reinforcements because the House Democratic leadership wanted to let it happen in order to use the event as a premise and justification for weaponizing the forces of the Federal government, law enforcement, the DOJ, and the intelligence services against their political enemies. So far with much fanfare but little to no tangible benefit. But not without a lot of drama like yesterday's hilarious recollection of the lethal threats faced by members of Congress. Some of which were not even present at the time. Of maybe they wanted to create an epic historical story for the ages rivaling the Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans are said to have held off 100,000 Persians for several days. In this case 16 to 20 Capitol Police held off an attacking horde of 100,000 protesters who breached the Capitol, met close to zero resistance from government forces, and with victory clearly in reach collectively decided to leave and just call it even. And I should add, went home and waited to get arrested for the high crimes of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Both of which Democratic DA's in major cities do not even consider indictable offenses. But in the case of 1/6 demands for maximum sentences are loud and persistent from the soft on crime collective.

A big fat check billion dollar check from the CCP for some phony hedge fund investment and a $67K a month spot on the Burisma BOD says you're wrong. And prove anything? Hold yourself to the same standard.

Not if you're feigning ignorance.

Your yanking my chain here, right?

A guy who's family has taken plenty of pay off money from China and skimmed US aid money to Ukraine while secured positions for his unqualified son? We should all agree that the standards for excellence and performance have dramatically fallen if Biden is some sort of benchmark. And the cleanest pig in the mud hole comparisons to Trump are well past their expiration date.

Initially most Americans agreed with you but Biden's approval ratings have been in a consistent downtrend since he took office. My issue with the slick drama show production of 1/6 is the fact that not a single person or participant has been indicted for insurrection, sedition, treason, or anything resembling those actions. How can you have an "insurrection" without "insurrectionists"? Even the FBI agrees with me.

Apparently Joe was broadcasting today from the fake oval office set across the street from the actual White House. Why Biden can't use the real Oval Office in the real White House? Does he really work there? Or maybe the shadow administration actually running the Executive branch is using it? I don't know. But as of yet there's no sufficient explanation about any of this movie set Oval Office. Seems like everything about this administration is fake from fake votes to fake White House w/fake snow showers today. What a circus. The laughing stock of the world. Or as Irv says, what a mess..

Well no legitimate insurrection has ever succeeded without commitment to the cause and incurring some casualties. But seriously, a lot of posters here like me have explored the question what stopped them from carrying out their mission to the end? If their mission was insurrection and overthrow of the elected government. A logical answer has proved to be elusive. For starters. there just wasn't a security force on duty to stop the large number of protesters from occupying, attacking, damaging, or burning down the Capitol if that was their intent. Yet they did little if any harm to the building or its contents nor did they harm any members of the Congress. They had no command structure or arms or weapons or equipment to pull off such a task. Especially against the most powerful and well-armed government in the world. Its not like they're trying to take over the government of Haiti against an ill-equipped, unmotivated, and untrained Army of a couple hundred troops that don't get paid on time. If that was their plan it was a terrible plan. Who in their right mind would agree to participate in certain failure? And when asked to leave almost every person in the protest voluntarily complied with that request. Frankly it makes no sense. That's why I conclude the idea of an insurrection is more fiction than fact. its a great story but so are lots of other fairy tales.

Why did it fail? Because right now it looks like they all just decided on their own to leave and go home.

Its been all downhill for the party since then. Can they take a hint? Nobody cares about this anymore other than the hardcore kooks and neurotics that have to check under their beds before going to sleep every night to make sure Trump isn't hiding under there so he can steal their souls when they go to sleep.

Its the 1970's all over again! Where is Charles Bronson when you need him?

I've heard the same thing from friends and co-workers here. My take is Omicron has revealed the vaccine only strategy as a folly. A variant that looks to be more infectious, has shed its bio-engineered attributes, and is more or less a bad cold for the healthy. And the narrative shifts from protection from illness to minimizing the severity of the illness. Under the premise that if you are un-vaccinated the case of COVID you'll experience will be more severe than if you are vaxed. If you get infected try this. 10 days of ivermectin, dioxycyline, tylenol, vitamin c & d, zinc, and a multi-vitamin. That's what they used in India to suppress the Delta outbreak. For under $3 bucks a patient. More like $20 here I expect. Our medical community is starting to push the newest Pfizer and Merck treatments at $700 bucks a pop. With all kinds of adverse drug interactions to things like satins which a lot of people take. Good luck with that. What's the goal? To eradicate or control the pandemic or to destroy the economy, revoke all civil liberties, and kill as many people as possible? Irv is right. What a mess..

Just for reference, this is how a real insurrection looks. Please note comparison to fake 1/6 insurrection.

I saw some footage taken by cell phones a few months ago from some news clips but need to do some searching. If I find it I'll post some links.

I'd love to hear the official answer to this question. A question which I 100% expect the committee will avoid asking or seeking an answer to at all costs. Maybe their buses were leaving or the restrooms ran out of toilet paper but from what little video the government released and from video taken by participants in the demonstration it appeared that Capitol Police on duty politely asked them to leave and they complied with that request. Even the kooks "occupying" the House chamber left when asked. So the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War was ended not with violence met with violence or force met with force but by two simple words, "please leave".

I disagree with you both that things are better than before. A handful of news monopolies control the majority of the business. Like I said maybe 7 or 8 people own most of the world's media. And while the web has provided the ability for peer-to-peer and peer-to many communication of news, ideas, and views that ability is slowing and surely being censored and blocked by government interests and big corporations. Starting in earnest in the US after the 2016 election. Most Americans don't get their news from boutique and independent news sites. And as a whole I think Americans are less informed and generally more clueless about what's going on in the country and the world at-large than ever before. Post an expert sourced story or video about vaccine safety in the US or criticize President Xi in China and see what happens to media freedom.