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  • in reply to: Mick, just for you… #6796
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    in reply to: speaker saga #6786
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    Party discipline and the Dems mean it when they punish people for non-compliance.

    in reply to: Let the winds of freedom blow. #6764
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    in reply to: Biden frees the Merchant of Death #6722
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    On the Cardboard, there’s a post talking about how the trade shows the relative moral values of the US and Russia, and how Vicktor Bout is now a known quantity and therefore neutralized. All posted sincerely, with a sig line that begins “In 1938, Neville Chamberlain said there would be “Peace in our time.”

    The talking points are pollyanna-ish nonsense. Foreign policy isn’t about the feelings of the parties. We knew what Bout was doing, but we couldn’t stop him until we lured him into a trap. There’s no indication that he won’t simply tap into his old networks and go from there. Maybe I’m wrong, and in the long run foreign policy success is determined by who has the purest motives, but I am cynical about the short term and long term effects of the weakest and dumbest foreign policy administration in my lifetime.

    in reply to: Biden frees the Merchant of Death #6714
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    in reply to: Biden frees the Merchant of Death #6713
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    It’s a tracking poll, released today. I think people are just so used to this administration that they aren’t mad anymore.

    in reply to: Biden frees the Merchant of Death #6711
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    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

    Rasmussen, hardly a Biden-friendly pollster, finds that he’s only one point underwater.

    in reply to: Imagine the outcry if the prior admin did this #6706
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    Good summary in this reply.

    in reply to: Debate night #6567
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    Mick,

    Here’s your former associate gaslighting her state.

    in reply to: Once leading in the polls, Democrats now behind #6551
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    in reply to: Once leading in the polls, Democrats now behind #6550
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    If I had sold in May, when I posted a stocks thread, I could have avoided a 25-30% drop.  Would have had to pay capital gains, but would have a lot of capital to deploy in a few months.

    in reply to: Once leading in the polls, Democrats now behind #6548
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    You can’t run an economy by slamming down the gas pedal (Congressional spending) and simultaneously slamming on the brakes (the Fed raising interest rates). One or the other is going to fail.

    What makes me mad about inflation is that it erodes savings. It takes most people a lot of sacrifice to build up a nest egg. To have it devalued by 13% (being generous here) means a lot more time, sacrifice, and effort just to build it back up again. Not to mention main store of savings (stocks) are down 25% lately.

    https://nypost.com/2022/10/16/average-american-is-losing-34k-and-everything-else-on-bidens-watch/

    Not to mention that real wages have declined every month for 19 straight months. An astonishing “accomplishment.”

    This administration used unified party control to enact every progressive fever dream policy. They have proven that the left doesn’t understand economics or human nature. MMT is wrong, and the Democrats have broken the economy. KJ-P bragged about how the American Rescue Plan passed without a single Republican vote. Great. I hope when Biden claims that inflation will be worse under the Republicans, they hammer his press secretary over the head with her own words.

     

     

     

    in reply to: Once leading in the polls, Democrats now behind #6544
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    But Yamiche Alcindor and Claire McCaskill are credible on this topic. They crushed Matt Gorman on the panel.

    Don’t be pokerguylp.

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    in reply to: OPEC payback #6543
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    Don’t worry. We have this thing that we can use up for political purposes.

     

    in reply to: Can’t imagine why Iranian women are protesting the regime #6542
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    Or being North Korea. I mean, the ayatollahs have adopted the Shah’s late regime tactics?

     

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