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Biden Judge Rules That Michael Fanone's Full Body Cam Footage Must be Made Public

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Just in time to clear SOL for perjury charges when the lying SOB is exposed?

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Two bus loads of Messican men and no women.

Why? Someone explain it to me.

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Was this the bus?

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Yes, there were supply shocks pertinent to 2020. Caused by massive infusion of cash, and empty supply chains.

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A collapse in demand is not a “supply shock.”
The "shock" comes from massive supply-demand mismatch.
The latter was not a 2020 component. It was a 2021 issue.

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Without the shutdowns

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Totally different issue. You argue those were not necessary. Regardless, they occurred. It is a separate subject and a separate debate.

The economic question, the question we are addressing, is as to what follow-up response should have been.

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supply chain disruption ... was doomed to happen on re-opening.

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Not anywhere near the levels of supply chain disruption we actually experienced.

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Yes, being anti war like MAGA was just a few months ago is delusional.

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The Beijing summit was originally scheduled for March 31 – April 2, 2026. It was postponed by Trump d/t the Iran war. Prior to that, rumors swirled that Xi intended to announce to Trump, and then to the public that “China will reunify with Taiwan,” basically a proclamation China would take Taiwan.

As it turns out, Xi did not go there.
It would appear something changed. We can speculate on what that "something" was. IMO, it was related to Iran.

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generational battleground

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Dumb take.

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DOJ drops fraud case vs Indian billionaire who hired Trump lawyer, promise 15k jobs in US

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A terribly minor detail is that the DOJ didn't actually have a winnable case. Aside from that one minor point the New York Times article is interesting.

The accusation is based on whistleblowers from a separate company who claim that Adani passed out bribes in India. The problem is, no charges have been registered in India, the Indians are not cooperating with the investigation at all, so the case has basically been on hold for a couple of years. This was a way to resolve it.

Adani will pay several million dollars in civil settlement restitutions along with the business promises detailed, the latter of which the DOJ said has no bearing on their findings.

Adani may be guilty as hell, but proving it would've been a different matter.

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This board would like 99% of the policies Massie writes.

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First, I am not aware of a single policy Massie has written.
Has he ever written policy?

But taking your post as I believe it was probably intended, and addressing Massie's viewpoints rather than written policy, it would not surprise me if I did not agree with his views 100%. The problem is when one element of his views conflicts with major legislation, he does everything in his power to attempt to obstruct that legislation.

For example, Northern and West Coast Republicans demanded that the OBBB be passed as an omnibus so they could add legislative perks to offset SALT issues for their constituents. The problem Johnson had was, if the Trump tax policies were not extended, we would revert back to Obama tax policy. That would be a huge win for Democrats and undercut the administration. But for republicans from high tax states, elimination of SALT deductions in the 2017 legislation was wildly unpopular, and in many cases, a reversion to Obama tax policy would be viewed as the lesser of two evils. So to attain OBBB passage, Mike Johnson went with his only option, the Omnibus option.

Now, frankly, I don't like Omnibus legislation anymore than Thomas Massie likes it. But under circumstances in which omnibus was the only mechanism to get this legislation passed, you have to take one for the team. Period!

Massie refused, and given the tight majority at play, his stubbornness threatened a catastrophic result. In the past, when there was a wider majority, or the GOP was in the minority, those Massie antics were nothing but inconsequential background noise. Given current house margins though, his vote now mattered.

As opposed to his moderate District GOP colleagues, whose reelection was dependent on items in the Omnibus, Massie faced no such elective consequence, regardless of his vote. Massie's position was/is that if his personal obstinance resulted in legislative failure, and the loss of 20 or 30 house seats, with the rise to power of Hakeem Jeffries and Democrat Socialists, that was just fine by Thomas Massie.

Well, it may be fine by Thomas Massie, but it ain't fine by me!

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My opinion is that another couple of weeks without pumping hardly any fuel into the economy would have caused catastrophic and possibly irreversibly catastrophic damage and destruction. Thus the unfortunate yet critical move being discussed here was unavoidable.

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100%.
Virtually unarguable.

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Here we go with empty phrases and obfuscation.

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NO!
Sorry Rog.
Your TDS-driven critical theory is going to get eviscerated here.

I hate it has come to this, but given the situation in March 2020, there is ZERO chance we were going to avoid depression without government compensation for unemployment.