derfelif.bsky.social
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What, No "Mission Accomplished Banner"?
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They say the first casualty in war is the truth. I guess Trump/Vance felt they needed a head start!
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And, of course, the old, old, standby - Aeschylus: “In war, truth is the first casualty.”
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Sigh. Just to be clear: this is a silly paper, a curio, probably written by AI for all I know, just passing along for a giggle.
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Soon it will be:
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Always thought Joe was a master of Republicanspeak!
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And can be fed words that will manipulate the engine to produce results that are coincident with the ideological bias of the programmer/owner.
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If the shortfall were made up from the general fund would it be inflationary? It would increase the deficit but there would be no increase in demand since the recipients would not see an increase in income - and thus spending. They would just not suffer a decrease.
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How is it the only draft-dodging president insisted on a military parade for his birthday and got one!
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Anyway, Tl;dr: We're gonna miss Jay when he's gone, not only because he got it as close to right as was likely possible, but because what's coming next is going to be absolutely disastrous. And we wasted so much time & energy on bashing him & it was deeply unseemly & folks should apologize.
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UnRealPolitik
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There are also plenty of trigger-happy "cowboys" in this country that might intervene in some arrest perpetrated by a masked, unbadged, plain-clothes law enforcement officer. Also probably more than a few masked punks claiming to be ICE shaking down unsuspecting civilians.
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Better be careful that could melt ice.
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Scott Walker still being Foxxed after all these years!
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More like a flat-lined economy!
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Laffer. Is it a curve if its vertical? |
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It doesn't work when most of the extra cash goes into investment. Say's law doesn't work when investment goes into marketing and stock buybacks. Not much money left to generate the necessary demand for consumption to put people to work and raise wages. Just more upward wealth transfer.
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Extremely misleading graphic! Why are the Democrats on the left when their preference generally lines up on the right? The color indicator is not enough at first glance to interpret this correctly!
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When you had highly placed Republicans, McCarthy, McConnel, etc. condemning it in the first 24 hours and then falling in line it becomes even more of a mystery to me.