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Is that post deliberately misleading or is Liz that incompetent ? She doesn’t specify which Boelter it was that withdrew money from the bank.

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It seemed pretty clear to me. Boelter refers to the suspect. Boelter's wife refers to the suspects wife. I have a bigger issue from writers using pronouns without a clear antecedent.

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Wars? They had to fight wars and be ravaged by them. That's a far cry from any war we've had in decades. We are insulated from wars.

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Not insulated at all. We've been fighting and paying for wars for decades, and piling up the debt. We've also been piling up debt from our welfare state, bureaucratic bloat, waste, corruption. You don't have lose wars to pay the ultimate cost if they come one after another and are accompanied by multiple other grave financial errors.

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Inflation? It's about 2.3%

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We've been downward "adjusting" the inflation data for decades; hedonics, substitution, owner's equivalent rent, etc. This is the game govts play when they don't want to admit they're abusing their currency. But, I understand. Everyone wants to see the whites of hyperinflation's eyes before admitting inflation is a big problem. We would've seen it already, but we discovered we could offshore production that became too expensive at home. That's not a solution, it's a patch and it's coming to an end because the rest of the world can no longer ignore our out of control debt. This recent run-in with double digit inflation wasn't an aberration, it was a precursor of something much worse.

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Chaos? No, chaos was the result of those other things and a lack of consistency from a very weak king.

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The list I used was a sequence, with chaos being the end game. It's where we're headed because of debt. Government debt becomes a currency problem when it's unpayable and growing faster than the economy. US Federal debt alone has grown four fold faster than the economy since 1980, and speeding up. That's a currency problem and it's too big to avoid.

So yeah we're headed for chaos. If you prefer to blame what comes next on "a lack of consistency from a very weak king", doesn't change the outcome. It started a long time ago and there is zero support for hard medicine.

I appreciate the info you bring to the board. We obviously have some folks who'd like to be arbiters of "disinformation". That's not uncommon these days and those folks are usually among the biggest purveyors of disinformation.

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It's complicated.

But y'all still need us to help pay for the illegals free healthcare while ours is costing us an arm and a leg?

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People defending illegal immigration can't seem to understand that the US is drowning in debt and that's a huge problem. Illegal immigrants collectively don't earn enough to pay taxes and support themselves without govt assistance. The more illegal aliens that come here, the sooner America resembles the destitute countries they left behind.

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The interstate has been cleared!!!

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It's time to make blocking streets a federal crime. Use the interstate commerce clause or whatever's available. That's not a non-violent protest, it's an attempt to hold people hostage by blocking their means of transport.

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The kid is also here illegally.

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It's confounding that people support virtually unlimited illegal immigration of the world's poor, and oppose virtually any reasonable attempt to return those immigrants back home. Common sense would tell most people that it's not possible for a welfare state to financially survive that policy. But I tend to think that a big portion of this obstruction is propaganda sponsored by unfriendly foreign entities.

The response may not have even started yet. I don't know what they have in mind, but I wouldn't want to find myself in the same zip code as Zelensky.

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Trust me. They want this to happen.

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The news media have been stoking violence for decades. They may be close to inciting a true insurrection this time, the kind with guns and and destruction.

$25 billion's not a very large number considering how many illegal aliens are in the country. I'd be more interested to know the cost of state and federal benefits paid to illegal immigrants, including legal costs and unreimbursed health care services. I'd also like to know how much illegal aliens draw in wages and collectively pay in state and federal taxes, and how many crimes they collectively commit. Our govt collects stats for every imaginable sort of economic minutia, but doesn't seem eager to create a publicly available database for those kind of annual numbers.

When mainstream media start supporting Trump in any way, I start to worry.