I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’ By Isaac Arnsdorf January 28, 2024 at 12:38 ET Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he wants to be held responsible for blocking a bipartisan border security bill in the works in the Senate as President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings. “As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America,” Trump told a rowdy crowd of supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, ahead of the state’s presidential caucus on Feb. 8. “I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me. Please.” Trump’s opposition follows Biden’s statement on Friday praising the deal and pledging to use its new authorities to “shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed” — a striking shift as he signaled openness to asylum restrictions and other enforcement measures that were previously unacceptable to Democrats. “If given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law,” Biden said. [Biden vows to ‘shut down’ an overwhelmed border if Senate deal passes] The increase in apprehensions at the southwest border has become a top-level policy challenge for the Biden administration and a core theme of Trump’s bid for a rematch this November. Biden’s management of the southern border and immigration is his worst-rated issue in polls, while survey respondents say they trust Trump more on the issue.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
Or...he's just too old for this shit. He's been in cognitive decline for a while now. He's falling for fake shit on the internet like one of his typical supporters would. He's slurring his speech. He's not looking good.
If you need, essentially, a month off three months prior to the election, you're just not up for this anymore.
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
Or...he's just too old for this shit. He's been in cognitive decline for a while now. He's falling for fake shit on the internet like one of his typical supporters would. He's slurring his speech. He's not looking good.
If you need, essentially, a month off three months prior to the election, you're just not up for this anymore.
Trump should drop out.
Maybe if Clooney and Pelosi ran the Republicans. Apparently they value the choice of their primary voters. Fortunately for you though, maybe Pelosi and Clooney will let you vote in the next primary in 3 years or so.
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
Or...he's just too old for this shit. He's been in cognitive decline for a while now. He's falling for fake shit on the internet like one of his typical supporters would. He's slurring his speech. He's not looking good.
If you need, essentially, a month off three months prior to the election, you're just not up for this anymore.
Trump should drop out.
Maybe if Clooney and Pelosi ran the Republicans. Apparently they value the choice of their primary voters. Fortunately for you though, maybe Pelosi and Clooney will let you vote in the next primary in 3 years or so.
Gosh. If this ^ ain't loser energy, I don't know what is.
Come on you little maga maniac! There is still hope yet for Trump to drop out and be replaced with someone as inspirational as Hulk Hogan....go ahead: go full Idiocracy--maga totally is dying to do so!
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
Or...he's just too old for this shit. He's been in cognitive decline for a while now. He's falling for fake shit on the internet like one of his typical supporters would. He's slurring his speech. He's not looking good.
If you need, essentially, a month off three months prior to the election, you're just not up for this anymore.
Trump should drop out.
Maybe if Clooney and Pelosi ran the Republicans. Apparently they value the choice of their primary voters. Fortunately for you though, maybe Pelosi and Clooney will let you vote in the next primary in 3 years or so.
Gosh. If this ^ ain't loser energy, I don't know what is.
Come on you little maga maniac! There is still hope yet for Trump to drop out and be replaced with someone as inspirational as Hulk Hogan....go ahead: go full Idiocracy--maga totally is dying to do so!
I read (I think in this forum) that the Hulkster’s appearance was entertaining, so, fascism aside, there’s that, I guess.
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I was so surprised by this; I genuinely thought he had died. :shrug:
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
If only he had something substantive to talk about regarding his plan or policies and how he will make America great again, again before then, amen. Coherent messaging really isn't his thing. As his cabinet would say, what a fucking moron.
How any reasonably objective person can vote for this idiot is beyond me. This is such a horrible idea and would set such a bad precedent. Cannot get over how dumb he is.
Economists criticize Trump’s plan for president to control interest rates
The Federal Reserve, which is chaired by Jerome Powell, is nonpartisan and overseen by Congress.
Former President Donald Trump recently said the president should have a role in setting interest rates that determine costs for everything from mortgages to credit card loans.
The proposal would mark a major shift from the longstanding norm of political independence at the Federal Reserve, which currently retains control over interest rate policy. The nation's central bank is in the midst of a yearslong fight to dial back inflation.
"I feel the president should have at least [a] say in there," Trump said during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week. "I feel that strongly. I think that in my case, I made a lot of money, I was very successful, and I think I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman."
The policy idea elicited opposition from both liberal and conservative economists who spoke to ABC News.
They warned that any president, including Trump, would likely seek low interest rates in an effort to improve the nation's short-term economic growth. That approach would risk runaway inflation that could wreak significant economic damage long after a given president has left office, they added.
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"It's an absolutely bad idea," George Selgin, senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the libertarian Cato Institute, told ABC News.
"Presidents are known to be very shortsighted when it comes to monetary policy," Selgin added. "They're happy to try and take advantage of a temporary boost that easy money can give to economic activity and downplay or overlook the longer-run consequences, which can include inflation getting out of control."
Paul Wachtel, a professor of economics at New York University who studies monetary policy, echoed that rebuke.
"I can't think of anything that economists across the spectrum agree upon more than the importance of central bank independence," Wachtel told ABC News.
In response to a request for comment from the Trump campaign, a representative of the Republican National Committee (RNC) faulted the Biden administration for a rise in inflation in recent years that prompted the Fed to raise interest rates.
"The president's policies already affect interest rates -- the failed Harris-Biden economic agenda has led to the fastest increase in mortgage rates since 1981," RNC spokesperson Anna Kelly told ABC News. "As the deciding vote on the so-called 'Inflation Reduction Act' that actually spiked prices and made housing unaffordable for families across the country, Kamala Harris co-owns the disastrous impact of Bidenomics, and no one can afford another four years."
The proposal from Trump arrives at a time when the Fed has held interest rates at their highest level in more than two decades. The central bank has helped bring inflation down significantly from its peak, but elevated interest rates risk tipping the U.S. into a recession.
Scrutiny over the Fed's role in a potential economic downturn reached a fever pitch earlier this month when a weaker-than-expected jobs report showed that the economy may be slowing faster than previously known.
"It's one of those occasions when people can second-guess the Fed and wonder whether Trump would've made a better decision, but one can't just base a decision on who should govern monetary policy on a single event," said Selgin.
Critics of an expanded role for the president point to a bout of high inflation in the 1970s and 1980s. Before the inflation took hold, President Richard Nixon had urged Fed Chair Arthur Burns to cut rates in the run-up to the 1972 presidential election.
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Nixon's advocacy is widely viewed as a contributing factor for lower-than-necessary interest rates that enabled inflation to get out of control, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, told ABC News.
"Allowing the president, any president, to help set monetary policy would eventually wreck the U.S. economy," Zandi said.
President Donald Trump and Jerome Powell, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve and Trump's nomine...Show more
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
To be sure, the Fed does retain direct ties to the federal government. The Fed chair is appointed to a four-year term by the president and must receive confirmation from the Senate. Further, the general guidelines for interest rate policy are rooted in legislation approved by Congress.
Selgin, of the Cato Institute, acknowledged that the Fed doesn't retain full political independence.
"The Fed's independence is far from absolute," Selgin said. "Precisely because it's so limited, it's important to keep as much of that independence as exists."
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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said on Friday that she disagreed with the proposal voiced by Trump.
"The Fed is an independent entity and as president I would never interfere in the decisions that the Fed makes," Harris told reporters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Fed is guided by a dual mandate to keep inflation under control and maximize employment. In theory, low interest rates help stimulate economic activity and boost employment; high interest rates slow economic performance and ease inflation.
The chances of an interest rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in September are all but certain, according to the CME FedWatch Tool, a measure of market sentiment. Market observers are split roughly down the middle about whether the Fed will impose its typical cut of a quarter of a percentage point or opt for a larger half-point cut.
An interest rate cut in September would arrive during the final months of the presidential campaign.
Last month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said coming rate decisions would depend solely on economic conditions.
"Congress has, we believe, ordered us to conduct our business in a nonpolitical way at all times, not just some of the time," Powell said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., last month.
"We never use our tools to support or oppose a political party, a politician, or any political outcome. The bottom line is, if we do our very best to do our part and we stick to our part, that will benefit all Americans," Powell added.
Come on guys. He's no George Clooney, but he is important enough to speak on the most important night of the RNC Convention of course.
It's not like he wrote an OpEd or something. Kid Rock and Hulkster would never sink that low and express a complex opinion. Ripping shirts, yelling and shooting at beer cans with an AR are core values of the GOP.
Come on guys. He's no George Clooney, but he is important enough to speak on the most important night of the RNC Convention of course.
It's not like he wrote an OpEd or something. Kid Rock and Hulkster would never sink that low and express a complex opinion. Ripping shirts, yelling and shooting at beer cans with an AR are core values of the GOP.
How any reasonably objective person can vote for this idiot is beyond me. This is such a horrible idea and would set such a bad precedent. Cannot get over how dumb he is.
Economists criticize Trump’s plan for president to control interest rates
The Federal Reserve, which is chaired by Jerome Powell, is nonpartisan and overseen by Congress.
Former President Donald Trump recently said the president should have a role in setting interest rates that determine costs for everything from mortgages to credit card loans.
The proposal would mark a major shift from the longstanding norm of political independence at the Federal Reserve, which currently retains control over interest rate policy. The nation's central bank is in the midst of a yearslong fight to dial back inflation.
"I feel the president should have at least [a] say in there," Trump said during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week. "I feel that strongly. I think that in my case, I made a lot of money, I was very successful, and I think I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman."
The policy idea elicited opposition from both liberal and conservative economists who spoke to ABC News.
They warned that any president, including Trump, would likely seek low interest rates in an effort to improve the nation's short-term economic growth. That approach would risk runaway inflation that could wreak significant economic damage long after a given president has left office, they added.
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"It's an absolutely bad idea," George Selgin, senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the libertarian Cato Institute, told ABC News.
"Presidents are known to be very shortsighted when it comes to monetary policy," Selgin added. "They're happy to try and take advantage of a temporary boost that easy money can give to economic activity and downplay or overlook the longer-run consequences, which can include inflation getting out of control."
Paul Wachtel, a professor of economics at New York University who studies monetary policy, echoed that rebuke.
"I can't think of anything that economists across the spectrum agree upon more than the importance of central bank independence," Wachtel told ABC News.
In response to a request for comment from the Trump campaign, a representative of the Republican National Committee (RNC) faulted the Biden administration for a rise in inflation in recent years that prompted the Fed to raise interest rates.
"The president's policies already affect interest rates -- the failed Harris-Biden economic agenda has led to the fastest increase in mortgage rates since 1981," RNC spokesperson Anna Kelly told ABC News. "As the deciding vote on the so-called 'Inflation Reduction Act' that actually spiked prices and made housing unaffordable for families across the country, Kamala Harris co-owns the disastrous impact of Bidenomics, and no one can afford another four years."
The proposal from Trump arrives at a time when the Fed has held interest rates at their highest level in more than two decades. The central bank has helped bring inflation down significantly from its peak, but elevated interest rates risk tipping the U.S. into a recession.
Scrutiny over the Fed's role in a potential economic downturn reached a fever pitch earlier this month when a weaker-than-expected jobs report showed that the economy may be slowing faster than previously known.
"It's one of those occasions when people can second-guess the Fed and wonder whether Trump would've made a better decision, but one can't just base a decision on who should govern monetary policy on a single event," said Selgin.
Critics of an expanded role for the president point to a bout of high inflation in the 1970s and 1980s. Before the inflation took hold, President Richard Nixon had urged Fed Chair Arthur Burns to cut rates in the run-up to the 1972 presidential election.
Recent Stories from ABC News
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Nixon's advocacy is widely viewed as a contributing factor for lower-than-necessary interest rates that enabled inflation to get out of control, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, told ABC News.
"Allowing the president, any president, to help set monetary policy would eventually wreck the U.S. economy," Zandi said.
President Donald Trump and Jerome Powell, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve and Trump's nomine...Show more
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
To be sure, the Fed does retain direct ties to the federal government. The Fed chair is appointed to a four-year term by the president and must receive confirmation from the Senate. Further, the general guidelines for interest rate policy are rooted in legislation approved by Congress.
Selgin, of the Cato Institute, acknowledged that the Fed doesn't retain full political independence.
"The Fed's independence is far from absolute," Selgin said. "Precisely because it's so limited, it's important to keep as much of that independence as exists."
Recent Stories from ABC News
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said on Friday that she disagreed with the proposal voiced by Trump.
"The Fed is an independent entity and as president I would never interfere in the decisions that the Fed makes," Harris told reporters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Fed is guided by a dual mandate to keep inflation under control and maximize employment. In theory, low interest rates help stimulate economic activity and boost employment; high interest rates slow economic performance and ease inflation.
The chances of an interest rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in September are all but certain, according to the CME FedWatch Tool, a measure of market sentiment. Market observers are split roughly down the middle about whether the Fed will impose its typical cut of a quarter of a percentage point or opt for a larger half-point cut.
An interest rate cut in September would arrive during the final months of the presidential campaign.
Last month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said coming rate decisions would depend solely on economic conditions.
"Congress has, we believe, ordered us to conduct our business in a nonpolitical way at all times, not just some of the time," Powell said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., last month.
"We never use our tools to support or oppose a political party, a politician, or any political outcome. The bottom line is, if we do our very best to do our part and we stick to our part, that will benefit all Americans," Powell added.
Why should the executive branch have so much power?
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
are you saying "grievance tour/campaign 2024" is on hold because trump does not have any need for revenge against harris yet?
for someone that fancies himself a strongman, trump looks incredibly weak not campaigning.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
are you saying "grievance tour/campaign 2024" is on hold because trump does not have any need for revenge against harris yet?
for someone that fancies himself a strongman, trump looks incredibly weak not campaigning.
Harris won’t answer questions or do an interview. Has no platform on her website and never received a primary vote in 2020 or 2024. But Trump looks weak…,OK
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
are you saying "grievance tour/campaign 2024" is on hold because trump does not have any need for revenge against harris yet?
for someone that fancies himself a strongman, trump looks incredibly weak not campaigning.
Harris won’t answer questions or do an interview. Has no platform on her website and never received a primary vote in 2020 or 2024. But Trump looks weak…,OK
He’s an old weird dude who can’t speak unless he has his dentures in place! He’s totally freaked out about KH, he likes his women subdued
I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
are you saying "grievance tour/campaign 2024" is on hold because trump does not have any need for revenge against harris yet?
for someone that fancies himself a strongman, trump looks incredibly weak not campaigning.
Harris won’t answer questions or do an interview. Has no platform on her website and never received a primary vote in 2020 or 2024. But Trump looks weak…,OK
he looks really weak...he looks 80, his makeup is haphazard, hair looks like cotton candy, can't keep his teeth in, can't stop lying about helicopters, etc.
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I would think if someone almost killed you and there was another planned plot in NY. I might be a little “gun” shy. Maybe wait until SS gets their shit together.
Also his rallies were all centered on Biden. Their campaign had to pivot to a candidate that has no platform yet.
I have seen more television ads for Trump lately going after Harris record on the border and specific mentions of crimes committed by the influx of illegals.
Guessing they wait it out until after the DNC and the debate. They need Harris to talk, Democrats need her to keep quiet and on script. It’s a standoff!
are you saying "grievance tour/campaign 2024" is on hold because trump does not have any need for revenge against harris yet?
for someone that fancies himself a strongman, trump looks incredibly weak not campaigning.
Harris won’t answer questions or do an interview. Has no platform on her website and never received a primary vote in 2020 or 2024. But Trump looks weak…,OK
he looks really weak...he looks 80, his makeup is haphazard, hair looks like cotton candy, can't keep his teeth in, can't stop lying about helicopters, etc.
Lots of people are saying he's the greatest air accordion player in a generation.
Good inflation numbers today...economy must be crashing
It’s all fake. Unemployment is really 18-19-20%, many people are saying as high as 26-27-29-35%. Crypto has crashed, can’t buy eggs, hamburder? Forgetaboutit! Electric sharks, wind boats, helicopters, country’s a mess. And the crowds? A-I generated.
And, and, and who lets another planet buy those cringles? You know, the ones in a tube? Like chips but better? Now they’re owned by another planet! Not even another state or country but a planet! What’s next? GM being sold to XM? Country has gone to hell.
Good inflation numbers today...economy must be crashing
It’s all fake. Unemployment is really 18-19-20%, many people are saying as high as 26-27-29-35%. Crypto has crashed, can’t buy eggs, hamburder? Forgetaboutit! Electric sharks, wind boats, helicopters, country’s a mess. And the crowds? A-I generated.
You know, I was listening to MSNBC in the car the other day, and the radio ads, even on MSNBC, sure are extra. Apparently, we're in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, a war, and an ongoing economic crisis, therefore we all should be investing our savings in gold and crypto. I'm not exaggerating: these all were reasons offered to use the investment vehicles/ scams these ads were promoting. I was expecting to hear "Due to the ongoing pandemic" as well. I almost -- ALMOST -- wished for the "thigh fold, butt crack, underboob" woman instead.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Good inflation numbers today...economy must be crashing
It’s all fake. Unemployment is really 18-19-20%, many people are saying as high as 26-27-29-35%. Crypto has crashed, can’t buy eggs, hamburder? Forgetaboutit! Electric sharks, wind boats, helicopters, country’s a mess. And the crowds? A-I generated.
You know, I was listening to MSNBC in the car the other day, and the radio ads, even on MSNBC, sure are extra. Apparently, we're in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, a war, and an ongoing economic crisis, therefore we all should be investing our savings in gold and crypto. I'm not exaggerating: these all were reasons offered to use the investment vehicles/ scams these ads were promoting. I was expecting to hear "Due to the ongoing pandemic" as well. I almost -- ALMOST -- wished for the "thigh fold, butt crack, underboob" woman instead.
You aren't wearing enough deodorant!!! Don't forget bottom of your feet. (mods this is a joke FYI)
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Good inflation numbers today...economy must be crashing
It’s all fake. Unemployment is really 18-19-20%, many people are saying as high as 26-27-29-35%. Crypto has crashed, can’t buy eggs, hamburder? Forgetaboutit! Electric sharks, wind boats, helicopters, country’s a mess. And the crowds? A-I generated.
You know, I was listening to MSNBC in the car the other day, and the radio ads, even on MSNBC, sure are extra. Apparently, we're in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, a war, and an ongoing economic crisis, therefore we all should be investing our savings in gold and crypto. I'm not exaggerating: these all were reasons offered to use the investment vehicles/ scams these ads were promoting. I was expecting to hear "Due to the ongoing pandemic" as well. I almost -- ALMOST -- wished for the "thigh fold, butt crack, underboob" woman instead.
I had an elderly client a few years back (probably around 2013) who had a son that helped her with getting her taxes done, etc. He was a big Ron Paul fan. Bumper stickers all over his car, etc.
That same narrative was floating around back then after Obama won his second election. He convinced her to transfer her IRAs from whomever it was invested with to some Gold Bullion trust because he was so certain the economy was going to tank and gold would be the surviving currency. I forget how much she lost but it was significant. I want to say her account balance went from $400K to $200K over a few years. Not necessarily because gold dropped in price but because the trust was a complete ripoff. All because her son hated Obama so much.
I remember seeing her account statements and they looked like something Bernie Madoff would have printed off of an excel spreadsheet. Clearly not managed correctly. She passed away some time after that so he had to feel the cost of his own stupidity because he would have inherited it.
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Good inflation numbers today...economy must be crashing
It’s all fake. Unemployment is really 18-19-20%, many people are saying as high as 26-27-29-35%. Crypto has crashed, can’t buy eggs, hamburder? Forgetaboutit! Electric sharks, wind boats, helicopters, country’s a mess. And the crowds? A-I generated.
You know, I was listening to MSNBC in the car the other day, and the radio ads, even on MSNBC, sure are extra. Apparently, we're in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, a war, and an ongoing economic crisis, therefore we all should be investing our savings in gold and crypto. I'm not exaggerating: these all were reasons offered to use the investment vehicles/ scams these ads were promoting. I was expecting to hear "Due to the ongoing pandemic" as well. I almost -- ALMOST -- wished for the "thigh fold, butt crack, underboob" woman instead.
Checking in with the dow a week after Donald Trump said we were close to a "depression:"
"remember alternative facts? this is the alternative dow jones industrial average. it's really not this high. like all the fake polls, this is the fake index."
-trump, probably.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
CNN sure did enjoy the doomsday headlines all through that day. The next the market was back up and you couldn't even find a mention of it. Market? What market?
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Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
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Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/27/trump-border-biden/
Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
By Isaac Arnsdorf
January 28, 2024 at 12:38 ET
Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he wants to be held responsible for blocking a bipartisan border security bill in the works in the Senate as President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings.
“As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America,” Trump told a rowdy crowd of supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, ahead of the state’s presidential caucus on Feb. 8. “I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me. Please.”
Trump’s opposition follows Biden’s statement on Friday praising the deal and pledging to use its new authorities to “shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed” — a striking shift as he signaled openness to asylum restrictions and other enforcement measures that were previously unacceptable to Democrats.
“If given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law,” Biden said.
[Biden vows to ‘shut down’ an overwhelmed border if Senate deal passes]
The increase in apprehensions at the southwest border has become a top-level policy challenge for the Biden administration and a core theme of Trump’s bid for a rematch this November. Biden’s management of the southern border and immigration is his worst-rated issue in polls, while survey respondents say they trust Trump more on the issue.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
If you need, essentially, a month off three months prior to the election, you're just not up for this anymore.
Trump should drop out.
Come on you little maga maniac! There is still hope yet for Trump to drop out and be replaced with someone as inspirational as Hulk Hogan....go ahead: go full Idiocracy--maga totally is dying to do so!
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-role-setting-interest-rates-economists-bad-idea/story?id=112773679
Trump wants a role in setting interest rates. Some economists say it's a bad idea
The proposal risks focusing on short-term growth over economic health.
Economists criticize Trump’s plan for president to control interest rates
Former President Donald Trump recently said the president should have a role in setting interest rates that determine costs for everything from mortgages to credit card loans.
The proposal would mark a major shift from the longstanding norm of political independence at the Federal Reserve, which currently retains control over interest rate policy. The nation's central bank is in the midst of a yearslong fight to dial back inflation.
"I feel the president should have at least [a] say in there," Trump said during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week. "I feel that strongly. I think that in my case, I made a lot of money, I was very successful, and I think I have a better instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the Federal Reserve or the chairman."
The policy idea elicited opposition from both liberal and conservative economists who spoke to ABC News.
MORE: What could the economic slowdown mean for the election?
They warned that any president, including Trump, would likely seek low interest rates in an effort to improve the nation's short-term economic growth. That approach would risk runaway inflation that could wreak significant economic damage long after a given president has left office, they added.
"It's an absolutely bad idea," George Selgin, senior fellow and director emeritus of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the libertarian Cato Institute, told ABC News.
"Presidents are known to be very shortsighted when it comes to monetary policy," Selgin added. "They're happy to try and take advantage of a temporary boost that easy money can give to economic activity and downplay or overlook the longer-run consequences, which can include inflation getting out of control."
Paul Wachtel, a professor of economics at New York University who studies monetary policy, echoed that rebuke.
"I can't think of anything that economists across the spectrum agree upon more than the importance of central bank independence," Wachtel told ABC News.
In response to a request for comment from the Trump campaign, a representative of the Republican National Committee (RNC) faulted the Biden administration for a rise in inflation in recent years that prompted the Fed to raise interest rates.
"The president's policies already affect interest rates -- the failed Harris-Biden economic agenda has led to the fastest increase in mortgage rates since 1981," RNC spokesperson Anna Kelly told ABC News. "As the deciding vote on the so-called 'Inflation Reduction Act' that actually spiked prices and made housing unaffordable for families across the country, Kamala Harris co-owns the disastrous impact of Bidenomics, and no one can afford another four years."
The proposal from Trump arrives at a time when the Fed has held interest rates at their highest level in more than two decades. The central bank has helped bring inflation down significantly from its peak, but elevated interest rates risk tipping the U.S. into a recession.
Scrutiny over the Fed's role in a potential economic downturn reached a fever pitch earlier this month when a weaker-than-expected jobs report showed that the economy may be slowing faster than previously known.
"It's one of those occasions when people can second-guess the Fed and wonder whether Trump would've made a better decision, but one can't just base a decision on who should govern monetary policy on a single event," said Selgin.
Critics of an expanded role for the president point to a bout of high inflation in the 1970s and 1980s. Before the inflation took hold, President Richard Nixon had urged Fed Chair Arthur Burns to cut rates in the run-up to the 1972 presidential election.
Nixon's advocacy is widely viewed as a contributing factor for lower-than-necessary interest rates that enabled inflation to get out of control, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, told ABC News.
"Allowing the president, any president, to help set monetary policy would eventually wreck the U.S. economy," Zandi said.
To be sure, the Fed does retain direct ties to the federal government. The Fed chair is appointed to a four-year term by the president and must receive confirmation from the Senate. Further, the general guidelines for interest rate policy are rooted in legislation approved by Congress.
Selgin, of the Cato Institute, acknowledged that the Fed doesn't retain full political independence.
"The Fed's independence is far from absolute," Selgin said. "Precisely because it's so limited, it's important to keep as much of that independence as exists."
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, said on Friday that she disagreed with the proposal voiced by Trump.
"The Fed is an independent entity and as president I would never interfere in the decisions that the Fed makes," Harris told reporters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Fed is guided by a dual mandate to keep inflation under control and maximize employment. In theory, low interest rates help stimulate economic activity and boost employment; high interest rates slow economic performance and ease inflation.
MORE: Personal finances, net worth of Walz and Vance show stark differences
The chances of an interest rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in September are all but certain, according to the CME FedWatch Tool, a measure of market sentiment. Market observers are split roughly down the middle about whether the Fed will impose its typical cut of a quarter of a percentage point or opt for a larger half-point cut.
An interest rate cut in September would arrive during the final months of the presidential campaign.
Last month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said coming rate decisions would depend solely on economic conditions.
"Congress has, we believe, ordered us to conduct our business in a nonpolitical way at all times, not just some of the time," Powell said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., last month.
"We never use our tools to support or oppose a political party, a politician, or any political outcome. The bottom line is, if we do our very best to do our part and we stick to our part, that will benefit all Americans," Powell added.
for someone that fancies himself a strongman, trump looks incredibly weak not campaigning.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
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You know, I was listening to MSNBC in the car the other day, and the radio ads, even on MSNBC, sure are extra. Apparently, we're in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, a war, and an ongoing economic crisis, therefore we all should be investing our savings in gold and crypto. I'm not exaggerating: these all were reasons offered to use the investment vehicles/ scams these ads were promoting. I was expecting to hear "Due to the ongoing pandemic" as well. I almost -- ALMOST -- wished for the "thigh fold, butt crack, underboob" woman instead.
Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16
That same narrative was floating around back then after Obama won his second election. He convinced her to transfer her IRAs from whomever it was invested with to some Gold Bullion trust because he was so certain the economy was going to tank and gold would be the surviving currency. I forget how much she lost but it was significant. I want to say her account balance went from $400K to $200K over a few years. Not necessarily because gold dropped in price but because the trust was a complete ripoff. All because her son hated Obama so much.
I remember seeing her account statements and they looked like something Bernie Madoff would have printed off of an excel spreadsheet. Clearly not managed correctly. She passed away some time after that so he had to feel the cost of his own stupidity because he would have inherited it.
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
-trump, probably.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Phila, PA 4/28/16; Phila, PA 4/29/16; Fenway Park 8/7/16; Fenway Park 9/2/18; Asbury Park 9/18/21; Camden 9/14/22;
Las Vegas 5/16/24; Las Vegas 5/18/24; Phila, PA 9/7/24; Phila, PA 9/9/24; Baltimore Arena 9/12/24
Tres Mtns - TLA 3/23/11; EV - Tower Theatre 6/25/11; Temple of the Dog - Tower Theatre 11/5/16