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paulcalhoun_rivals397471

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Sigh, so the FED just spent a year draining funny money out of the economy with high interest rates and job cuts, and now the plan is to throw a bunch of fresh liquid into the pool. Great. If you can't fix things by the midterm then just buy them, I guess.

The only saving grave here is that the tariff money is real money and won't appear out of thin air. The problem is that goods that people will buy are sparse so it will cause a small price jump, but hopefully won't shoot inflation through the roof or spook the FED.
I don't buy that was the Fed was doing at all. Imo all the Fed was trying to do was suppress the economy under Trump. The saying is saving grace not grave btw.
 

notFromhere

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Brandon Echols made a great play for the Steelers just now. TFL against the Chargers.

From there, the offense and special teams handed the Chargers their easiest win of the season. Looked like a keystone cops production for those 2 units tonight. Keeping everyone else on pace in their division.

When you see Rodgers miss wide open receivers for TDs and big gains, and special teams muffins punts in the pros, it's not a sign of a good team. Just ugly. Even Bos shanked one. Lol

Defense says "... we're keeping you in the game." Offense says, "hold my peyote." Special teams says, "let me take a hit of that..."
 

HymanKaplan

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Hmmmm, the Democrats "bailing out" the Republicans seems, to my way of thinking, an odd way to frame this. The Republicans were not the protagonist in the government shutdown, the Democrats were. So what exactly did the Dems bail the Republicans OUT of?

Unless there is a wrinkle that has been thrown in there that I'm not yet aware of. (not entirely out of the question)
 

HeismanWinner

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“ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt claims the organization is gradually gaining influence over social media algorithms, saying it will take time but “eventually it will all happen.”

He says he wants to control which sources AI can use and insists that fixing the “problem” of social media means acting early and pushing companies to do the right thing.

Greenblatt criticizes platforms like X and Instagram for harming public discourse.”
 
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ukalumni00

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Nobody wins from these shutdowns. It’s nothing more than an attempt to gain power by the Dems and people have such short term memories now that it will be a blimp in their minds come midterms once time has passed a bit. Air travel has been a disaster for a long time yet people keep coming back for more because they have no choice.

Trump’s tweet about throwing out “free” money was probably the tipping point to make the Dems “cave in”. The whole system is being run by criminals owned by even richer criminals while “the People” continue to take their tribal sides while the libs obsess over the Orange Man in the WH. Crazy stuff…
 

Beatle Bum

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Nobody wins from these shutdowns. It’s nothing more than an attempt to gain power by the Dems and people have such short term memories now that it will be a blimp in their minds come midterms once time has passed a bit. Air travel has been a disaster for a long time yet people keep coming back for more because they have no choice.

Trump’s tweet about throwing out “free” money was probably the tipping point to make the Dems “cave in”. The whole system is being run by criminals owned by even richer criminals while “the People” continue to take their tribal sides while the libs obsess over the Orange Man in the WH. Crazy stuff…
a lot of federal workers have been working without a paycheck for over a month now. That kind of “leverage” really sucks.
 

warrior-cat

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Too bad Pat Paulsen is dead. He'd probably be leading.
My mother and step father had one of his albums.

With homage to Pat Paulen.

He was fast I can't deny,
at 50 yards he'd hit a fly.
So when that day finally came
to meet the man or murder and fame,
I felt the clutching hands of fear,
and saw the eyes so cold and clear
Of Ringo.

When at last my knees were shaken,
I faced the man who'd never been taken
before I started my lightning draw
casual like he lifted a paw
smothery un gave his lips a licken,
drop his guns and said, Man I'm chicken.
 

Lost In FL

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Fed workers will get back pay per the agreement made with the Republicans. It happens every time and why I never feel sorry for them when these shutdowns happen. They always get their money.
i've said previously, the thing that sucked about this one was the uncertainty. We were told to expect to wait until 2026 for a paycheck. So, the cash flow ... how long do you cash flow? I am/was okay, but others, esp younger people, they were under serious stress. let someone keep working ... with no idea how long the adult children will throw their hissy fit. It didn't help the dude in OMB saying "we found a loophole so we dont have to pay furloughed workers".
 
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LineSkiCat14

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Hmmmm, the Democrats "bailing out" the Republicans seems, to my way of thinking, an odd way to frame this. The Republicans were not the protagonist in the government shutdown, the Democrats were. So what exactly did the Dems bail the Republicans OUT of?

Unless there is a wrinkle that has been thrown in there that I'm not yet aware of. (not entirely out of the question)

I took that wording of "bailing them out" to sort of mean, the dems screwed up with 8 voting to reopen, and that they sort of fumbled the ball allowing repubs to take over. But yeah the wording of that wasnt the best.
 
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notFromhere

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Hmmmm, the Democrats "bailing out" the Republicans seems, to my way of thinking, an odd way to frame this. The Republicans were not the protagonist in the government shutdown, the Democrats were. So what exactly did the Dems bail the Republicans OUT of?

Unless there is a wrinkle that has been thrown in there that I'm not yet aware of. (not entirely out of the question)

Exactly. It's laughable. Just the worriers, whiners, and chicken littlers needing to stick with the script that Trump was failing (again in their minds). Every.single.time.
 
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notFromhere

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“ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt claims the organization is gradually gaining influence over social media algorithms, saying it will take time but “eventually it will all happen.”

He says he wants to control which sources AI can use and insists that fixing the “problem” of social media means acting early and pushing companies to do the right thing.

Greenblatt criticizes platforms like X and Instagram for harming public discourse.”


They already have that control. It's just not absolute/complete.
 
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George Soros, WEF, Chyna

Whoever leads the anti us faction, its no one that anyone would recognize. True power can stay hidden and have others be the lightning rods.

Its the kind if insane power that can have all the battleground states suddenly have emergencies at once. That gave the excuse for everyone to go home, except someone kept making votes and by the morning biden was installed.

The power to install an obviously rigged administration and jail anyone that argued against it is power beyond comprehension.

Imo its someone or some people in America. Soros is the face, but we know he got rich from ngo money. Data republican had ai do a web of ngos and it was mind blowing. Some person or group designed all this and used taxpayer/American money as their tool.

We will probably never really know who they are.
 

HymanKaplan

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Constitutional Congress...

I don't think most of America even knows this exists, or rather, WHAT it is.

If there really IS a "Centrist and reasonable majority" in this country that wants to kick the lunatic fringe to the curb and remove corrupt influences from our Federal government, then this is the way. In fact, it is the ONLY way.

People need to be educated about this.
 
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notFromhere

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Whoever leads the anti us faction, its no one that anyone would recognize. True power can stay hidden and have others be the lightning rods.

Its the kind if insane power that can have all the battleground states suddenly have emergencies at once. That gave the excuse for everyone to go home, except someone kept making votes and by the morning biden was installed.

The power to install an obviously rigged administration and jail anyone that argued against it is power beyond comprehension.

Yep.

Imo its someone or some people in America. Soros is the face, but we know he got rich from ngo money.

Soros was rich before ngo money. He just used ngo money to keep from tapping into his own.

Data republican had ai do a web of ngos and it was mind blowing. Some person or group designed all this and used taxpayer/American money as their tool.

There are people in many countries leading this. It isn't just one. Never has been. They started with corrupting secondary schools and education in the late 1800s. Got their foothold here after the Civil War and once the establishment of the fed was rigged, they got us into 2 world wars and a never-ending series of regime changes and conflicts to drain us, while completely corrupting our govt, healthcare, and educatHealthcare,

It's something no one has wanted to talk about on boards since the 90s even while the last acts of destroying the republic were being set in place and orchestrated. WTA protests in Seattle set it all in motion.

We will probably never really know who they are.

We don't need to know who they are if we stop the process, but that means someone has to propose bills that we want even if they know they won't pass. Over and over again until the public finally asserts itself and says, "YES, MF, pass that **** bill!"
 

HymanKaplan

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Much more efficient, and definitely simpler, to get 38 state legislatures to get together, and put the Federal government in "time out" while the adults take over for a while.
 

notFromhere

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LSU should sue the governor for making this situation worse. Landry never should've commented on the situation.


There's no reason for Kelly to settle for less than he's owed. The Tigers handled this very poorly
 

notFromhere

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Much more efficient, and definitely simpler, to get 38 state legislatures to get together, and put the Federal government in "time out" while the adults take over for a while.

Sure, but a constitutional congress won't matter if the right people aren't leading it nor proposing the right bills that need to be codified. People need to stand up and demand constitutionality, root out corruption, and ditch the cult of personality/ pageant nonsense that this has become.
 
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