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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
No self respecting tribe would ever claim her as a member. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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Lighten up and laugh |
The oil situation seems manufactured. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom |
Well OPEC is a cartel. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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The dems measure the economy by how many are on food stamps and welfare. The more, the better for democrats. Thus, people going to work and getting off of assistance is hollowing out their base and is seen as a bad thing. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
The economy is doing quite well, and inflation isn't an issue. Fundamentals that can't be ignored by any rational observer. Plus, more stock market gains could be at hand for ANYONE with a portfolio. Choke on it Dems. http://video.foxbusiness.com/v...7001/?#sp=show-clips | |||
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Trump is Transforming America From CNN, believe it or not. Tim Stanley is an historian who writes for the UK Telegraph.
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| women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll |
That’s unfair to bricks, they are useful objects. | |||
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Indeed. In 20 years Nancy will be bashing a rubber gavel in the retirement home demanding the other residents give their evening chow to the birds outside because "it's not fair!"....while she slurps up her portion of course... | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom |
I had an odd idea. From a Keynesian perspective, the economy is showing signs of over-heating. According to the Keynesian theory this would be the time to raise interest rates, raise taxes, and cut spending. Only the the last of those would be palatable as far as I'm concerned. But Trump, who is known to be a master of three and four dimensional chess, may have found another way. A trade war. Not only could it ultimately resolve long standing foreign trade barriers and imbalances thus making America great again. Tariffs imposed by the US are inarguably tax increases while tariffs imposed by foreign countries also reduce demand. Together they may help cool the economy just enough (but not too much) to keep things humming along nicely. It makes sense from a Keynesian perspective. Although I am not a fan of the Keynesian school, he wasn't wrong about everything. Admittedly, a trade war is not a precision instrument and leaves much in the hands of foreign governments. But if you can't fight a trade war when the economy is starting to boom, then you can never fight one. At this time in the cycle, a trade war may actually have collateral benefits. How many wars can you say that about? As I said, an odd idea. God Bless and Protect the Once and Future President, Donald John Trump. | |||
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^^^ Decent thoughts, besides all the trade-war critics look at it as if it is a long term strategy "tariffs are bad" etc. We are getting econo-raped on the world stage and have been for many decades. A short term trade war will end and we'll be in a much position after. Some short-term pain, long term gain. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Not a Liberal/Progressive strong point. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...interview/ar-AAzH0qE President Trump’s lawyers set new conditions on Friday on an interview with the special counsel and said that the chances that the president would be voluntarily questioned were growing increasingly unlikely. The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, needs to prove before Mr. Trump would agree to an interview that he has evidence that Mr. Trump committed a crime and that his testimony is essential to completing the investigation, said Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s lead lawyer in the case. His declaration was the latest sign that the president’s lawyers, who long cooperated quietly with the inquiry even as their client attacked it, have shifted to an openly combative stance. Mr. Giuliani acknowledged that Mr. Mueller was unlikely to agree to the interview demands. Mr. Mueller could subpoena Mr. Trump to answer questions if he does not agree to voluntarily sit for an interview. Mr. Giuliani left open the possibility that the president, who has said in the past that he would be eager to sit down with the special counsel, would still agree to be interviewed. The president’s lawyers want Mr. Mueller to explain how the Justice Department gave him the authority to investigate possible obstruction of justice by the president in what began as a counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s election meddling. The order appointing Mr. Mueller authorized him to investigate possible links between Moscow’s interference and Trump associates, as well as any matters that arose from the inquiry. The lawyers also want evidence that the special counsel exhausted every other investigative measure before asking the president to answer questions, and that he is the only person who could provide them with the information they are seeking. The gambit by Mr. Giuliani was the latest maneuver in an all-out assault by the president and his legal team in recent months to alter public opinion about the inquiry. They have come to believe that, if the Democrats win control of the House in November, the chamber will vote on whether to begin the impeachment process no matter the outcome of Mr. Mueller’s investigation. So they want to sway Americans — and by extension, lawmakers. Mr. Trump’s lawyers are quietly more combative, too, contesting a request from the special counsel to interview John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff. Emmet T. Flood, the lead White House lawyer in dealing with the investigation, has demanded to know what investigators want to ask Mr. Kelly and has tried to narrow the scope of their questions. A month after the request was made, Mr. Kelly has not been questioned, though a White House official said he was willing to be. “That’s the new position. If they had made the request eight months ago, they would have said yes because they thought there was a group of people on Mueller’s team who had an open mind and were objective,” Mr. Giuliani said of the president’s previous lawyers, most of whom have left the legal team. in April, Mr. Trump concluded that Mr. Mueller and Justice Department officials were determined to find wrongdoing after federal investigators in New York, acting on a referral from the special counsel, raided the office, hotel room and home of Mr. Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael D. Cohen. After the raid, Mr. Trump decided to double down on his more aggressive strategy, according to people close to him. He hired Mr. Giuliani to replace his lawyer John M. Dowd, who had convinced Mr. Trump of the value of the earlier, more cooperative approach Mr. Dowd said that the public did not appreciate the damage the investigation had done to both Mr. Trump and the presidency over the past year. He said he had come around to Mr. Trump’s view, first voiced by the president last summer, that Mr. Mueller is acting in bad faith. “That’s the way the president was at the beginning,” Mr. Dowd said, “and the president was right.” | |||
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 The Trump administration announced Saturday evening that it is temporarily freezing billions of dollars of payments to health insurance companies intended to help them manage higher-risk patients, sparking backlash from the industry’s lobbying arm as insurers continue to struggle to adjust to the administration’s repeated attacks on Obamacare. The federal government provides Obamacare insurers risk adjustment payments, which are supposed to cushion insurers from taking steep loses on high risk patients in the Obamacare marketplace. The government paid out over $10 billion in these in 2017. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service announced the abrupt halt of these payments Saturday evening, citing a February 2018 ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico that invalidates them. “We were disappointed by the court’s recent ruling,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement. “As a result of this litigation, billions of dollars in risk adjustment payments and collections are now on hold. CMS has asked the court to reconsider its ruling, and hopes for a prompt resolution that allows CMS to prevent more adverse impacts on Americans who receive their insurance in the individual and small group markets.” The insurance industry is already speaking out against the administration’s decision, calling it a crucial blow during a time when insurance companies are trying to come up with premiums and packages for 2019. “We are very discouraged by the new market disruption brought about by the decision to freeze risk adjustment payments. This decision comes at a critical time when insurance providers are developing premiums for 2019 and states are reviewing rates,” trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) said in a statement Saturday. “We encourage the Administration to reevaluate its decision and work with all stakeholders to make health care more affordable for all Americans..” Insurers themselves are voicing concerns for market destabilization following the announcement. “This action will significantly increase 2019 premiums for millions of individuals and small business owners and could result in far fewer health plan choices,” Blue Cross Blue Shield Association President and CEO Scott Serota said in a statement. “It will undermine Americans’ access to affordable coverage, particularly those who need medical care the most.” Over the course of his first 18 months in office, the president has slowly targeted Obamacare with a series of moves intended to undermine the system and disrupt the marketplace. The president has rolled back funding for a program intended to help individuals navigate the insurance marketplace, Obamacare’s navigator program, signed an executive order to allow for groups to purchase insurance across state lines, stopped federal funding for Obamacare subsidies, pushed for consumer access to more affordable short-term, limited duration health insurance plans, cut Obamacare’s open enrollment period in half and its advertising budget 90 percent. http://dailycaller.com/2018/07...amacare-legacy-blow/ | |||
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Haha, that is some serious winning ^^^, like, Charlie Sheen level winning! “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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| Info Guru |
Trump tweeted this today. You have to go to the link and watch the video  https://twitter.com/realDonald.../1016079192604139520 “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Every time I hear this crap I respond with impeachment for what? What is the impeachable offense?? Somebody please tell me what the President has committed that can bring about impeachment? Seriously, what has he done that they think they can go forward with any sort of legitimate impeachment procedures! I'm sick of hearing and reading this nonsense! "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
High crimes and misdemeanors. Whatever a majority of Representatives say it is. Of course, it takes a supermajority of Senators to accomplish anything. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I understand, but what high crime and what misdemeanors? I don't believe Mueller has a damn thing he can prove about collusion. Do they have the slightest understanding of what impeachment of this President could bring about if there is not clear and indisputable evidence of some serious wrong doing? Like Gowdy has said if you got something bring it or shut up and stand aside! "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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Thanks that was awesome to watch and remember. “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
YES that was GREAT. | |||
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