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Could do that but have to be careful about derogatory language, as per Article 88 of the UCMJ.
That’s the way the US Coast Guard does it.
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
It would all be important if there was one piece of real data or statistics that showed keeping interest rates high actually reduces inflation.
That’s good they lowered rates. Only impact on inflation will be a slightly lower rate next year, my take using the best methods, on 40 years of data. Other factors are more important, so the effect will be invisible.
Now you know what a police state looks like.
I’ve been at these protests because I feel like our leaders don’t care. I do.

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Statistics using data already baked in says 4.3% yoy July2025-July 2026 Rsq 0.69
I call it “trickle up.”
Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.

You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.
Without the tariffs, my model predicts 4.4% through 2026. Nobody knows what these huge tariffs will do because they are unprecedented.
You forgot #5: Some small firms that depend on imports for raw materials will go out of business
Four things can happen when a tariff hits:
1) Foreign firms cut prices
2) Retail margins get squeezed
3) Retailers pass it on to you
4) Some imports just stop
Latest data: #1 didn’t happen, #2 a lot at first, #3 a bit so far, and #4 in spots.

Bottom line: Americans (#2, #3) are paying the tariffs.
The murder rate in St. Louis, MO is 4 times that of D.C.
There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
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[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
You’d be surprised to find out that raising rates well above the current inflation rate has no near term reduction effect on inflation but is positively correlated with increased inflation in 12-18 months
Suppose he intends to sell Alaska back to Russia?
GHF he says is unprepared and incapable of providing the required relief at scale. He says they must be shut down and turn everything over to the UN.
Just listened to a long interview with a retired LCOL who had been working as a security contractor in Gaza. His description of what’s going on there is frightening and appalling. All the PR by Netanyahu and cronies is false.
He did the same thing in 2019-2020
The whole idea that Fed funds rate has any effect whatsoever on reducing inflation is pure fiction not supported by any data studies. My studies show that raising the federal funds rate today is followed by an increase in inflation next year. The effect is small but significant.
An accusation of treason by a traitor whose treason was on live TV for hours.
No, she will pass away unexpectedly.
Yeah but here’s the problem. Starting in 2018, Trump was urging Powell to open the purse strings, presumably to rescue the stock market. In 2020 the FOMC reduced FFR to zero and flooded the system with unneeded money, triggering the 2021-2022 inflation.