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2 years ago
The federal debt limit will be reached next month. If Congress doesn’t authorize an increase, there would be a governmental shutdown of “non essential” service. This would reduce government spending by hundreds of billions. Most Americans would see no change in their lives except for parks being close, a pause in passport processing, etc.
In addition, Congress must pass an annual spending authorization for anything government does. They could cut overall government spending, or defund entire departments. Republicans have already said they will stop sending money to Ukraine. Biden would have no alternative but to accept these cuts.
Once Republicans are in control, this is their lever to force Biden to carry out an actual inflation reduction initiative. This would do more to cut inflation than what the Fed is doing.
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2 years ago
For decades, Democrats could count on a 1% or 2% margin of cheating. In 2020, the unlimited mail in voting, sending out ballots to everyone, made the potential for cheating unlimited. Millions of duplicate ballots were circulating and available.
The solution to reduce cheating is simple. Anyone who wants a mail in ballot must request it by including a photocopy of their Picture ID. That’s close to the way things worked pre-Covid.
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2 years ago
The Pennsylvania Department of State issued a memo on Friday telling election officials in all counties that a "widespread outage" is impacting Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) services. This means that the voter databases, as maintained by the state, is essentially non-functioning as election day approaches.
SURE is the state-wide system to maintain accurate voting records that county election officials can rely on when managing and facilitating polling places in their counties.
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2 years ago
Arizona, Ohio, Washington, New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia, Colorado Senate are tied and look like they could flip from Dem to Rep.The momentum is with the Republican candidate in each state. Looks like all current Republican seats will hold. That would put the Senate at 57 Republican, 43 Democrat.
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2 years ago
Or, maybe all black women just look alike to you.
Which is more plausible ?
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2 years ago
Democrats: Abortion and Orange Man are the biggest issues in 2022.
Voters: I don’t think so, Sparky!
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2 years ago
Early voting in Florida has more Republican votes than Democrat for the first time ever. Red wave is real.
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2 years ago
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TetradonI'll act nicer if you'll act smarter.
If I learn something that can improve the experience for others. I don’t bother reporting on things that haven’t change. As a result, my reviews will sometimes be rejected by the “ tell me for the twentieth time how much the cover is “ crowd.
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2 years ago
In Wisconsin, it appears that Republicans will win a veto proof majority in the legislature. The Democrat Governor has vetoed 140 bills from the Republican legislature over the last 4 years. Republicans have announced they will reintroduce all these bills and, even if the Democrat Governor stays in office ( unlikely. ), he won’t be able to stop them.
Depending on what happens on Tuesday, then in 2024, something similar could happen on a national level. the power may shift to Congress, making who wins the Presidency far less important.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Democrats are enthusiastic believers in the Keynesian Modern Monetary Theory. This theory says deficits don’t matter. More government spending, on anything, stimulates the economy. It is always wise for government spending to grow.
MMT justifies graft and corruption. The money ends up in the pockets of their supporters, like Wall Street financiers. They believe more spending is beneficial and, if it happens to flow through their supporters, that’s a fortunate side benefit.
Well, the last 2 years have shown how wrong that theory was.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Central banks globally have been accumulating gold reserves at a furious pace last seen 55 years ago when the U.S. dollar was still backed by gold. According to the World Gold Council (WGC), central banks bought a record 399 tonnes of gold worth around $20 billion in the third quarter of 2022, with global demand for the precious metal back to pre-pandemic levels.
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
Every country with inflation problems
- loaned billions of dollars at 0% interest for 15 years
- ran up billions in government debt
- locked people down for 2 years, destroying small businesses
- closed fossil fuel plants and pipelines
- assumed wind mills would satisfy energy needs
- did nothing to stop manufacturing moving to China
- had globalists in power, whatever party name they used
The solution will be to
- cut government spending
- empower the fossil fuel and nuclear industry
Which party is most likely to do this in the US ?
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2 years ago
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shailynnThey never tell you what you need to know.
If Republicans take control of Congress, they will have the power to cut government spending. That would go a long way toward controlling inflation.
Beyond that, it’s our messed up energy policy that is stoking higher prices for everything. I don’t think Congress can do much about that until there is a new occupant in the Whitehouse.
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2 years ago
The Real Clear Politics analysis, an aggregation of all polls, shows Republicans will control the House, perhaps by a margin of 50 seats.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/house/elections-map.html
Similarly, Republican prospects for controlling the Senate with at least 52 seats are very good.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/elections-map.html
Then, in 2024, there are far more Democrat Senate seats up for re-election than Republican. Republicans should increase their Senate majority in 2024.
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2 years ago
The early voting numbers for New York show FAR fewer votes from NYC, relative to 2020, while traditionally red parts of the state are over performing.
Similarly, in traditionally blue South Florida, it looks like Miami will have a Republican majority based on a surge of Republican registrations.
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2 years ago
Yes, that fancy.
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2 years ago
The only people who talk about QAnon are on the far left. It’s a bogeyman created by the left. I’ve never encountered any reference to QAnon on any right leaning source.
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2 years ago
Pennsylvania has already mailed 250,000 ballots to unverified voters. So, yes, the fix may be in. Republicans are better prepared for detecting cheating than in 2020, but it will still be a factor.
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2 years ago
Incidentally, a lot of amusing things are happening at Twitter. Elon wants to change how blue check verification works. He wants it completed within the next week. This would have been a one year project under prior management. Software engineers have been told to work 7 days a week and 12 hours a day until the project is done. A team of engineers from Tesla and Space X are supervising the work. Twitter employees have been told this is also an assessment of who will keep their jobs.
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2 years ago
I’ve been using GETTR, where most conservative voices are now publishing.
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2 years ago
Trump announced that he is not interested in returning to Twitter. He has his own platform, Truth Social, that he is supporting.
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2 years ago
Arizona is returning to its conservative roots. I expect a sweep of the major offices by America First candidates who are smart, articulate, and firm in their principles. Among other things, we will secure the border and take back control of our schools from the unions.
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2 years ago
Speaking of Illinois, here’s a fun fact. The Illinois state government has 132,188 public employees and retirees who “earned” $100,000 or more. Every one of them is exceptional and essential, I’m sure.
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2 years ago
Jack Ryan. The disclosure came from sealed records that Barack, or one of his supporters, stole. It’s the Chicago way.
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2 years ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20221029193056/https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/29/news/the-awful-truth-paul-pelosi-was-drunk-again-and-in-a-dispute-with-a-male-prostitute-early-friday-morning/7191.html