Comments by "Grim Affiliations" (@grimaffiliations3671) on "Styxhexenhammer666" channel.

  1. 20 years as senate leader is crazy
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  2. it is tho
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  3. indies didn't like him before, they certainly wont like him now that he has an indictment. He will probably have other indictments soon too
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  4.  @LuciusC  mail in is still a thing
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  5. he was gonna counter all the rinos who will vote for rfk instead of trump
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  6. Milei is a WEF guy so it makes sense he wants to protect the dollar
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  7. nah kari had a wire, she recorded her dem opponent too
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  8. capitalism is literally economic liberalism
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  9. isn't the stock market literally at all time highs?
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  10. ​ @treelineresearch3387  That isn't true at all
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  11. people were even saying this after he lost in 2020, like he has some gran scheme to get back in. Are y'all ok?
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  12.  @kj3n569  kari pretty much always has a wire, i think she secretly recorded her dem opponent too
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  13. we'll get the results on election this time because most states are starting the mail ballot count way before election day
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  14.  @hashbrown4278  rent is hardly biden's fault tho, we have a serious housing shortage in america. average gas prices are at like 3.50
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  15. they're pretty socialist out there
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  16. isn't he invested in them?
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  17. car dependent infrastrucutre in general is good at ristricting movement
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  18. the nordics are very far left for the most part
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  19. wages don't stay still either, they rise to match inflation. Prices have gone up more than inflaiton since covid
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  20.  @Barad-Dur_IsACapitalOfMordor  why do you think nothing will happen? Trump doesn't have the immunity that comes with the presidency anymore
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  21. You can tell the economy's doing well because even Trump has pivoted to trying to take credit for it
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  22. are you saying they're as wrong now as they were in 2020? Trump massively outperformed in that election despite the loss
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  23. Second job havers are around 5%, where they always are. And part time jobs aren't even included in the U3 numbers so that can't be it either
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  24. how would we know that?
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  25. they won;t swap him out when he's already beaten trump and did super well in the midterms
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  26. Trump is in quite a bit of trouble if the economy keeps booming like this. Over 350k jobs just posted, over 3% growth last quarter, almost 5% growth the quarter before that and this quarter expected to shoot up a further 4%, unemployment below 4% for the longest stretch since the 60's, inflation running below 2% for the past 6 months and the stock market at all time highs
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  27. by disaster you're referring to not refusing to unseal the results? or did he do something else?
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  28.  @iggytheincubus  what stupid plays are they making
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  29. most of the states are going to start counting mail ballots before election day like they so in Florida do we should get the results same night
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  30. Polls swing quickly, they're pretty much meaningless this far out. Especially when Trump tanks in support if convicted of the cases aginst him
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  31. they're marking up their prices, meaning they're charging more than the cost of production
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  32. how has he been dictatorial? Trump is out here literally saying he'll be a dictator
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  33. Don't see how a maga vp helps him. He needs someone that would make suburban women more likely to vote for him, a group that have turned away from republicans in alarming numbers
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  34. i disagree, Newsome will probably be next in 28. Doesn't really matter what race the prez is anyway, it's about their policies
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  35. i've been hearing that for decades but this hyperinflation thing never shows up
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  36. It's what he's being indited for this time, he will still have to deal with the Georgia case and the jan 6 case
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  37.  @OriginalBongoliath  then i think we've found our reason
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  38. the welfare state and powerful unions or just the guns?
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  39. getting the dems out in force is not a good idea, look what happened in 2020. We need low turnout elections like 2010,2012,2014, and 2016.
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  40. nah, swift is the biggest star in the English speaking world
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  41.  @iggytheincubus  wouldn't it be taxing the benefactors of the inheritance?
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  42.  @BrisLS1  Rubber is naturally produced by god, so why shouldn't it be taxed enough to cover it's natural value?
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  43. probably senior gop officials. They don't think she can win having lost to hobbs
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  44. he's a trump guy so he believes it was rigged too
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  45. They're not trying to stop him from running, they just want to weaken him further
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  46. is she really more of a war monger than trump?
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  47.  @tomhollingsworth8201  you meen the ukraine aid? didn't trump also say he'd ass that if putin didn't liesten to him?
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  48.  @scottshoemake3941  Not for lack of trying. he bombed other countries, massively scaled up the drone war killing tens of thousands of civilians, supported reigeme change, pardoned war criminals and assassinated forign generals
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  49. inflation is the rate of increase
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  50. how come we don't see any trump ads, is all the money going to his legal defense
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  51. im pretty sure the gas car ban comes into affect in 2035
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  52.  @aniconic3424  you're allowed to remove them even after the 10 strikes if they are shown to be partisan in one direction or the other. The 10 strikes is only for getting rid of people for any reason. After that, you have to have a good reason, and following anti trump social media accounts qualifies as a good reason
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  53.  @joquin4618  no such thing as "money we don't have", the government makes the money, so they always have the money.
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  54.  @johndoe-lp9my  trillion dollars is nothing compared to the productivity of the economy. The government only causes inflation if it prints beyond the capacity of the economy. Corporations are seeing record profits thanks to these price rises, so no it's not gov spending
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  55.  @nmmeswey3584  yes, the government doesn't print production, but our economy has a certain level of productive capacity. There won't be inflation (related to printing) as long as we don't spend beyond our productive capacity. We hardly ever operate at full capacity
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  56. fascism involves being super nationalistic
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  57.  @strategery101  is this current adminstration tho?
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  58. literally everyone knows storage is an important part of the transition
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  59.  @JM-vp8zc  you save a fortune on gas
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  60. they couldn't get him while he was president because you can't indite a sitting president
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  61.  @BelMarduksBizarreBazaar  isn't she only in that role because of trump?
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  62.  @Jacklyn-zc8dc  or cus she's getting 2% in these primaries?
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  63. His election ceiling is a lot higher than Trump's. Most of the people dissatisified with Biden will vote for him anyway, where as Trump will likely lose a lot of moderate Republicans just like the maga candidates lost them in 2022. Especially if convicted of all these felonies
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  64.  @Raskolnikov70  Sadly a lot of places have single family home mandates, which mean sall other kinds of homes are banned. This means that housing supply is way below demand, causing prices to explode
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  65. You might want to sit down for this: The government doesn't actually use "tax payer money" for anything. Your federal taxes are deleted at the IRS, or shredded if you pay by cash
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  66. how dare they follow the constitution
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  67. why? they;ve been doing well or overperforming for most of the past 8 years
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  68.  @johncameron2241  a huge chunk of republicans don't agree with you
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  69. politics is pandering, pretty much everyone is equally qualified to be a poltiicans so it doesn't mean much
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  70. Can't believe Trump was named
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  71. You're not who they intend to put off, independents and moderate R's are the target
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  72.  @OlliGarch  I'm not saying they shouldn't make profit, their original prices still allowed for plenty of profit. Im saying if they raise prices without an increase in production costs, they're doing it just to rake in even more profits. Most of them are bragging about it on conference calls too
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  73. crypto currencies are decentralized and have the same scarcity levels as gold. But ironically that's why bitcoin and gold are both bad as money. You need money to be able to eb and flow, fiat is the best money
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  74. @@ilmanticore5111 what kind o questions would you put in tho, it could be easy to pass even without prep
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  75. he was found to have participated in insurrection by a judge
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  76.  @lobomedina6312  that's still a day more than biden ever said he'd be
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  77. record stock market, superlow low inflation and unemployment is a pretty good economy
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  78.  @keyser456  economic sentiment always follows the media narrative. Sentiment is starting to rise because people report hearing about positive economic news now
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  79. ​ @keyser456  my point is economic sentiment follows media narratives, so the bad outlook on the economy we've seen over the past year has been largely media driven. Now that's starting to change, and so it the sentiment
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  80.  @dustinrisinger1958  that would be super inflationary
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  81.  @m_d1905  if it were just the cities dems wouldn't have a trifecta
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  82. Trump's on tape admitting to crimes tho
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  83. That's actually a good argument. Don't take the governments stuff
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  84.  @Iceaxe0410  President's already have immunity for things they did within the scope of their office, Jack's argument is that Trump's criminality was outside the scope of his office
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  85. trump learned well
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  86.  @FrankS111  that book was written by a socialist to warn of the encroaching clouds of right wing authoritarianism. Republicans used to call dems socialist, the only reason they switched to calling them fascist is because that's what the left called them, they're following rules for radicals to a T
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  87.  @johnnydjiurkopff  goodman?
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  88. that's how it works for any politician. If any dem had provable criminality, republicans would hold them accountable too
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  89.  @BaltimoreAndOhioRR  yes. You're naïve you think they wouldn't go after her if they had anything on her
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  90.  @BaltimoreAndOhioRR  No, even james comey admitted there wasn't enough evidence to prove she “intended to violate laws", which you'd need to prove to take her down regarding the emails. It's laughable that you think Trump didn't go after her to "bring the country together". The same guy who literally got impeached for pressuring Zelensky to open an investigation into Biden
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  91. Comey himself said he didn't have enough evidence to prove intent, so they had nothing. It's laughable that you think trump stopped going after her to "unify the country" when he's literally been impeached for trying to pressure foreign leaders to open investigations into biden
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  92.  @dragonage2112  they keep deleting my comment but no, comey himself admitted he couldn't prove intent in the email case, so they had nothing
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  93.  @darkdawnbringer  yes they can, or they would not have indicted
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  94. The appeals court was jumped plenty of times in recent history, and he was righfully appointed
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  95.  @icestationzebraassociates2460  ?
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  96. only trump fans will see him as a martyr. Many, even among republicans, will not vote for a convict
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  97. sure helps
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  98. his handlers have been really kind to my 401k
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  99.  @CBaller2020 ok?
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  100. @ch if the tidal wave isn;t coming maybe people should stop with thw bold predicitions? And the water isn't really rising at my waist, price growth under biden and reagen has been virtually identical
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  101. prince growth under biden and reagen has been pretty much identical
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  102.  @thetapheonix its not bad right now actually, its at 2% over the past 6 months
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  103.  @ankorag no rising water at my waist either
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  104.  @ankorag 5%?
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  105. @ch 6% a year is hardly hyperinflation, and these periods of higher than normal inflation are ocunter balanced by other periods of lower than usual inflation. Thats why average inflation since 1900 is 2%
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  106. yall have no idea what hyperinflation is
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  107. no one has a problem with america being great, leftists just see it as an empty slogan
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  108.  @davidlewis6728  all the states had mail and electronic voting
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  109.  @davidlewis6728  mail and virtual voting have been around way before covid
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  110.  @davidlewis6728  every state has had mail and machine voting for a long time now
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  111.  @davidlewis6728  mail in voting has been a thing since the civil war, and machine voting has been with us for decades
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  112.  @davidlewis6728  what do you mean no longer viable? im simply pointing out that mail and virtual voting were a thing before the lockdowns
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  113.  @davidlewis6728  you said it was fixed in the states that stopped mail and machine voting, no state stopped mail and machine voting. Both have been a thing for a long time
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  114.  @davidlewis6728  yeah im pretty sure you're mistaken
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  115. they contacted the secret service to make sure the court room was secure, it's happening
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  116.  @BaltimoreAndOhioRR  Musk made sure there was a special plug for the tesla fast charging network so only teslas could use it. They might be making him generalize it tho
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  117. the economy doing well doesn't mean everyone is doing well
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  118. even more chaotic? They've been a well oiled machine since the midterms. They're smoking R's in terms of fundraising, ground presence and election results. Meanwhile on the republican side state parties are going broke, money is being diverted to trumps legal bills, and they're hardly putting anything on the airwaves
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  119. nevada is like 85% urban lol
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  120. trump is talking about a rigged primary again so that probably means he's not as confident as he was
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  121. that would allow the president to do almost anything, essentially creating two tiers of justice
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  122. Trump is quite hawkish himself
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  123.  @edwardsaucedo9223  loosening the rules of engagement on drone strikes costing the lives of tens of thousands of civilians, bombing syria and bragging about giving their oil to exxon mobil, attempting regime change in south america, puttin ships in the taiwan straight more often than other presidents, threatening nuclear war on twitter often and and being open to strikes on mexico
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  124.  @Fiddleslip  but trump didn't just mouth off. He bombed countries, assassinated foreign generals, ramped up the drone war and engaged in coup attempts abroad. I'd say he's more of a jacksonian hawk than a regular neocon hawk, less likely to go to war for idealistic reasons like toppling foreign dictators but more aggressive than anyone when it comes to perceived threats to US interests
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  125. cough up the money
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  126. You ever considered the votes are legit?
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  127. it didn't wake anyone up, look at the elections since
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  128. They want to move on from jan 6, it has been a disaster for republicans
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  129. isnt he the main reason republicans have the supreme court?
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  130. how have dems engaged in fascism?
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  131.  @joelellis7035  nothing wrong with trying to remove someone from the ballot who you believe to be constitutionally ineligible. And even if there were something wrong with that, the disqualification lawsuit was brought by a republican group. Nothing wrong with holding criminals accountable for their actions, if Trump did the things he's being accused of, he should face legal consequences. If he's innocent, we'll find that out at trial, the same trial trump is hell bent on delaying. There was no federal requirement to get a vaccine passport
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  132.  @brawndothethirstmutilator9848  though subsidies?
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  133. he gon need it with all the money he owes
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  134. we grew at 4.9% last quarter lol that's unheard of. Nothing close to a flatline
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  135.  @elagabalusrex390  economic sentiment lags, we're just starting to see sharp upticks in approval on the economy
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  136.  @elagabalusrex390  check out the umich sentiment polls, took a sharp ward swing in the last couple of months
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  137. This is false. They tried that same argument against Mueller and it was rejected. There's nothing unconstitutional about his appointment
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  138. pretty sure that's florida
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  139.  @jamesbizs  all kinds of insurance are through the roof too. Florida is known as the inflation capital of the country
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  140.  @debanydoombringer1385  it hasn't already been taxed, It's a free windfall of money for the heir. And the type of people who would pay inheritance tax certainly do not have to worry about upward mobility. It doesn't really apply to people like you, it applies to the elites like bill gates. But the money from those elites would go to people like your family before the money
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  141.  @ReallyAwesomeBoy  facts
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  142. yeah, some of these polls trump winning women but losing men, or say that young people are apposed to abortion by double the amount of the next closest age group. Not to be taken seriously, espeically when they don't line up with actual elections
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  143.  @Charmayne7  I don't think Biden will fall for it
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  144. because the blue counties have way more people
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  145. they were always going to keep him in. Not only is he polling against Trump better than everyone else, but he's got the incumbency advantage and has beaten him before
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  146.  @matthewparker235  could take 3 seconds on google to find out thats nonsense
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  147.  @Mr_C5627  No, he's polling better than all other dems against him. they didn't stop counting at the same time
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  148.  @NoobTamer  yeah, and polling better than other dems means there's no point in replacing him. By "find" ballots do you mean, simply count?
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  149. Is biden really a globalist when his signature IRA bill was a massive violation of WTO rules designed to bring manufacturing to the US above other nations? The Europeans crying about it for months. Also i very much doubt they'd back someone who is socially and economically conservative
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  150.  @johndoe-lp9my  fake news
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  151.  @Tyler_W  That wouldn't be a ruling, that would be the supreme court just making laws, which they obviously don't have the right to do
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  152. No, a sitting president would only be vulnerable to legal repercussions if he engaged in criminal behaviour outside of his official duties like Trump is alleged to have done
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  153.  @madtabby66  dude was a senior member of trump's campaign, quite literally a trump guy. The people back east clearly want someone who didn't lose to the worst candidate ever, nothing ominous about that. Basic strategy
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  154. he wasn't under investigation until he became president, but that came with immunity. Now that he's no longer immune, the stakes are higher
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  155. Obviously someone from the right would claim it was illegitimate, i personally have seen as much evidence for that claim as i have for the claim from the left that 2016 was illegitimate
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  156. You're not accounting for the shy Biden voter
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  157. only people who like trump see it that way
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  158. why do you say that?
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  159. His policies have been quite good, some of them were promised by trump but were not delivered
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  160. pay for the bottom 20% has risen drastically
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  161.  @winry2357  im not talking about minimum wage hikes, im talking about wages rising on their own. That tends to happen when the labour market is tight. Also what's your evidence for the minimum wage hikes cause inflation take?
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  162. clearly not, since they did so many times under trump. For issues far less important than presidential immunity
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  163.  @TheAmbientMage  how do we know their values are antithetical?
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  164. under the previous guy, i and many other were laid off. The economy was in the toilet when Biden took over
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  165. false, he is a special council
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  166. That's a small part of the crimes alleged tho, Smith is also charging Trump with the false elector scheme, the plot to steal voting machines, pressuring foreign secretaries of state to find ballots after the election and so on
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  167. calling up secretaries of state and pressuring them to find votes or refuse to certify is not an official act
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  168. why did christians ever normalize interest?
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  169. scott
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  170. he's gonna cause an economic mess with his 20% tarrifs on all goods
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  171. its on target if you take out owner occupied rent, which no one pays
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  172.  @Penguinzero1  did trump not do those things?
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  173. that's fiction
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  174.  @stevehartwell1861  i follow a decentralized non-government inflation tracker called Truflation, and they have inflation lower than the government
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  175. lake wearing a wire
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  176. that would be dumb
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  177. believe it or not taxes don't actually fund anything the federal government does
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  178.  @ChimpFromSpace  nepotism?
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  179.  @andrewswift2683  There isn't much of a constitutional crisis here tho, president's are not kings
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  180. i don't think Biden is all that worried of a trump debate, kinda made himself look foolish las time
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  181. our economy is far from collapsing lol
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  182. Groceries cost less as a share of income than they did in 2019 according to the CBO. And the stock market matters a lot since most retirement accounts are linked to it
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  183.  @mghegotagun  stocks aren't a great indicator of the health of the economy, but the economy outside of stocks is very good as well by all major indications. Wages are outpacing inflation, growth is strong, unemployment is sub 4% and net worths are increasing
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  184.  @mghegotagun  Wages compound too, and they've been well above inflation for a year now. Prime age labor participation is at record highest. Labor force participation alone doesn't account for old people aging out of the work force. You're right, the economy isn't good, it's very good and the envy of the developed world. Biden plugged the hole that was created by the previous administration, he inherited an economy in the toilet. Don't forget under whose administration the money supply started to explode
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  185.  @SunwardRanger83  plenty of great things happening outside the stock market
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  186.  @marcmelvin3010  why should a county with less population than a building in chicago decide how everyone in the city lives? Every vote counts the same, and that's the way it should be. You're arguing for rural votes to be elevated, which wouldn't be fair
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  187.  @marcmelvin3010  why should a county with less population than a building in chicago decide how everyone in the city lives? Every vote counts the same, and that's the way it should be. You're arguing for rural votes to be elevated, which wouldn't be fair
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  188.  @nickpavia9021  dems won a trifecta in michigan...
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  189. That's actually impressive. An economy our size growing that much in real terms in an expansion is great
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  190.  @SunwardRanger83  no
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  191.  @SunwardRanger83  no to the trolling
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  192. How did trump turn america for the good? His only bill signed was a tax giveaway to the rich, essentially what any necon would pass
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  193. to add even more economic illiteracy to his platform?
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  194.  @Tundra.  according to the major metrics
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  195. ​ @themeangene  that would be the opposite of integrity, since there's nothing in the constitution that gives the president absolute immunity
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  196.  @kneetotheface  what american values have been abandoned?
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  197.  @kneetotheface  people still have all of those things in abundance. What gov policies are nefarious?
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  198. neither party is stalinist
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  199.  @500dollarjapanesetoaster8 i wouldn;t be surpirsed if all vehicles were voulentarily electric by 2035
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  200. Biden has been much better than Carter in terms of jobs creation and inflation. He has been much better than reagen too in terms of jobs and they're about the same in terms of inflation
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  201. damn she got almost 40, trump might be in more trouble than i thought
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  202.  @HBFTimmahh  where does it say that in the constitution or case law?
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  203.  @joannleichliter4308  A president can only be threatened with future prosecution if they acted criminally outside of their official duties like Trump is alleged to have done. So future president's would not be vulnerable to prosecution
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  204.  @debanydoombringer1385  it wouldn't turn us into a banana republic to make presidents who act criminally outside of their official duties vulnerable to prosecution. It's a much needed check on executive power
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  205. you just made that up
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  206. if they find you to have shown partisan opinions on social media you'll be removed
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  207. Adams is close with the powerful police union. They gave him a heads up before the raid
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  208. Nah, trump covetts power above all else, he's always going to take the easiet route to it. He's running as a republican
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  209. inflation is that rate of increase, so thats the only way to measure it
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  210.  @settame1  which case did they misinterpret?
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  211.  @goji059  i did, but it was inacurate. We can see multiple job havers, and they're around 5% where they always are. And part time jobs aren't even included in the U3 numbers so that doesn't work either
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  212.  @Bullfrog-pk6pl  According to the polls economic sentiment is actually turning around big in Biden;s favor. It's up 29% in the last 2 months alone, the biggest jump since 91. And it's up over 60% from the 2022 lows
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  213.  @monkeygraborange  only accepting numbers that agree with your world view is pretty childish
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  214.  @monkeygraborange  i don't, i accepted government numbers under Trump and i still do now
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  215.  @alanakafang6143  that isn't a record deficit at all is it? you miss 2020,21?
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  216.  @FrankS111  source for the -8k?
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  217.  @FrankS111  source?
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  218.  @darienford860  jobs posted doesn't mean employed 😅
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  219.  @edwardfala7723  im talking about econmic sentiment, as in peoples thoughts about the economy going forward. They've jumped up considerably over the past two months and are way up over 2022
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  220.  @edwardfala7723  multiple job havers are obviously distorted by the fact that unemployment was almost 7% when Biden took over. Compare it to where they were before the pandemic in 2019 and the number of multiple job havers are actually lower now than back then when Trump supposedly had the best economy of all time
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  221.  @edwardfala7723  unemployment was near 7% no matter whose fault it was, that obviously distorts the numbers. It's not disputable that multipe job havers are currently lower than they were in 2019 prior to the pandemic. The share of part time jobs is also lower now than it was in 2019, and U3 numbers don't even include part time numbers, so yout gig economy claim wouldn't make sense anyway
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  222.  @Penguinzero1  read above comment
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  223. did it to himself how?
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  224.  @kelleymcbride4633  can't keep up with something you won't elaborate on
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  225. we wont crash as long as the government continues to support private sector balance sheets with deficit spending. Crashes tend to happen when the govenrment tries to "balance the budget"
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  226.  @robertsmith4681  lol why would the government fail to make a payment due in its own currency?
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  227.  @Soundsinthevoid  yeah, the corporations have spent over a hundred years convincing people through propoganda that market fundementalism was a key part of the american dream and that any involvemnet from government was wrong. They rebranded private enterprise to "free enterprise" and used it as part of the "tripod of freedom" on which america was built
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  228.  @janbo8331  True but i doubt that government will be in power for long given the mass strikes in the country
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  229. have you seen the polling? they knew
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  230.  @DigitalApex probablt will do something in the general tho
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  231. Not to mention Biden just got one of the best midterm results ever. That being said, Desantis won't have much of a shot either, he can only get the nomination after an ugly primary, people don't win after ugly primaries
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  232.  @paulgarduno2867  pray tell
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  233.  @nmmeswey3584  This is quite obviously not true. We saw deficits explode during world war 2 and inflation remained at the 2% target. Same thing happened throughout the 2010's and inflation didn't elevate beyond target then either. Japan raked up a debt to gdp ratio over twice the size of it's entire economy and they never saw excessive inflation. In fact they were struggling with deflation for much of that time. New money is only inflationary if it enters an economy already at full capacity. And no, im not liking my own comments
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  234.  @nmmeswey3584  If your claim that new spending inherently devalues dollars already in circulation is true, then all deficit spending would be inflationary, which it isn't. Not sure what distinction you're making between deficit spending and debt spending, deficit spending is debt spending as it adds to the national debt. Also the national debt is not supposed to be paid off over time through tax increases. Taxes do not fund anything the government does on the federal level. They're debited out of existence at the IRS, the government only makes us pay them to create demand for the dollar. If you don't believe me, try to pay your federal taxes in cash at a physical IRS location, they'll literally throw your money in a shredder
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  235. if your claim that every new dollar in circulation devalues existing money is true, then all deficit spending would be inflationary, which it isn't. Not sure what distinction you're trying to make between debt spending and deficit spending, they're they same. And no, taxes would not be increased to pay for the national debt because taxes do not pay for anything the federal government does. They're debited out of existence upon payment at the IRS
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  236.  @nmmeswey3584  You've got that wrong. Deficit spending is debt spending, because the fed sells bonds equivalent to that deficit. If the government deficit spends by a hundred bucks, the fed will sell a hundred bucks worth of bonds thus adding 100 bucks to the national debt. "Borrowing" is the process of selling bonds. By "taxes don't pay for spending" i literally mean taxes don't pay for anything the federal government does. Taxes are debited out of existence at the IRS, they're deleted. You can test this out yourself by paying your federal taxes in cash at a physical IRS location. They'll actually throw your tax money in a shredder. They make us pay federal taxes to create demand for the dollar, not because they need our money. The money we're using to pay taxes came from them in the first place
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  237. You got that wrong, deficit spending is debt spending because whenever the government deficits spends, the fed matches that deficit with bond sales. If they deficit spend by a hundred, the fed will sell a hundred dollars worth of bonds thus adding a hundred to the national debt. By "taxes don't pay for anything the government does" i mean taxes literally don't pay for anything they do. Taxes are debited out of existence at the IRS, they're deleted. If you pay in cash at a physical IRS location, they';; throw your money in a shredder. I've seen it myself. The federal government taxes us to create demand for the dollar, not because they need our money
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  238. Dems have better policies tho. All Republicans seem to care about is tax cuts for rich corporations and cutting people's fixed incomes
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  239. Whose aggressive?
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  240. the dollar is backed by production and taxes
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  241.  @circlestarranch3761  production + taxes
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  242. according to polls people are doing really well personally, but they still think the economy's bad because that's what the media reports
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  243.  @TheSulross  nothing unconstitutional about jack smith's appointment. Challenging that would reek of desperation
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  244.  @CoffeeEnjoyer117  better than tyranny
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  245. If they believe Trump is inelgible to run, they have no choice but to take him to court.
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  246.  @10011110011  So your argument is that we should just start with tyranny?
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  247.  @10011110011  no i said democracy is better than tyranny, you seem to think since it leads to oligarchy (debatable) that justifies skipping straight to tyranny
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  248.  @10011110011  not sure how that would work as tyranny and democracy are incompatible
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  249. nah, biden will stay on because of incumbent advantage + hes doing better against trump than any other dem
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  250. whaddya like about him?
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  251.  @wasdwasdedsf  the election
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  252. economic populism is at odds with conservative ideals. Conservatives are neoliberal, which means they worship the free market. This means no workers protections, no unions, no decent minimum wage, no sick leave, no holding the big corporations accountable etc
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  253.  Gimil38  it's less than 3 bucks in most states
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  254. What collusion hoax?
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  255. Nah, they've been worn down by constant defeat. Trump has led Republicans into 3 big losses in a row, the 4th will come in 2 years. Assuming he's still a free man
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  256. going to the supreme court is pretty normal
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  257. all of trumps vp picks are as bad to the dems as any of the candidates on the left are to republicans
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  258. when did she say that?
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  259. because they offered lake step aside money?
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  260. we dont gotta hand it to the nazis
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  261. what's an america first policy? 10% tarrifs?
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  262.  @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal  sounds like massive inflation
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  263.  @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal  they're a tax
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  264.  @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal  i don't see the economy surivive such a large surge in prices
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  265. Didn't they say the raid on his house would guarantee a 22 victory?
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  266. Why would they refuse to come?
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  267.  @jamesbass9797  No i mean if the house were to summon them, they'd probably just show up. If anything it would reflect poorly on the house for trying to intervene in a state investigation
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  268. he was relying on friends on high places as president, now he doesn't have those folks to cover for him. This is his first actual indictment, ans theres the jan 6 and Georgia investigations going on too.
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  269. He will
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  270. 3.4% inflation aint insane lol and most od that is just rent
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  271.  @egobrain6826  I know a few dems who are pissed he's getting indited because they think he can't win
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  272. Trulfation is a private de-centralized inflation measure and it says inflation is actually lower than the government is saying
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  273.  @seansimmons73  there's nothing in the constitution preventing criminal prosecution for crimes conducted while in office. It won't invite moral hazard because you need evidence to impeach anyone, if there's evidence the president acted unlawfully outside of his official duties, then he should face accountability
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  274. he is
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  275. Not sure his shadow looming large is a good thing for R's. They got smoked in the last 3 elections
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  276.  @Parcha64  maybe its just the policies. Republicans need to embrace pro worker policies
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  277.  @notarussianbot9435  Florida has machines and drop boxes tho
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  278.  @joelgonzales8342  biden has drilled more than any president in history, and we're currently number 1 exporters in the world for oil and gas
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  279.  @reconjitz  We don't have a production issue, growth is very high and productivity is hitting the 3% mark which is great. Most remaining inflation is in "owner occupied rent" which no one actually pays and other countries don't even count. We don't need people to buy our debt, we can buy our own debt or just stop selling bonds altogether. Also Trump is proposing a 20% tarrif on all goods, that would make inflation explode
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  280. then why did BMW just declare an EV tipping point with EV sales jumping 75% in 2023? They expects to sell 500,000 EVs in 2024
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  281.  @ronzombie6541  they aren't the onl company to make this tipping point comment
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  282. he is sadly
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  283. he's pretty economically illiterate
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  284.  @EricTheActor805  keeps calling for a balanced budget while we have trade deficit
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  285.  @EricTheActor805  it's not mathamatically possible to balance the budget when you have a trade deficit without causing a depression
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  286.  @EricTheActor805  because the 3 sectors of the economy (private sector, public sector and foreign trade sector) can't all be in surplus. The only way for the private sector to run a surplus (which it needs to do to stay out of recession) is to draw that surplus from one of the other sectors. And since it can't draw the surplus from the foreign sector because of our trade deficit, it must draw it from the government. So until we get rid of our trade deficit (which can't happen unless the US loses it's reserve currency status) the private sector will rely on government deficits to stay afloat and calling for a "balanced budget" is basically calling for a downturn
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  287.  @echoesofmalachor3700  what good would he do heading up the treasury?
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  288. pretty sure she's been investigated on her emails and bengazi, what more is there?
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  289. lol no
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  290. sbf's company funded both sides
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  291.  @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal  he funded the R's in dark money
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  292. 350k jobs is pretty thriving
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  293.  @marcodarko6941  isn't she running for senate? But he if she loses again i can see her wanting to be in a low tier position like press sec
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  294. to be fair some people were saying the presidential records act allows presidents to take classified documents after leaving office because they heard trump say it
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  295.  @slimm420  that's false
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  296.  @madtabby66  wasn't the brotherhood a kind of controlled opposition?
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  297.  @EricTheActor805  of course it is. Over 350k jobs just posted, over 3% growth last quarter, almost 5% growth the quarter before that and this quarter expected to shoot up a further 4%, unemployment below 4% for the longest stretch since the 60's, inflation running below 2% for the past 6 months and the stock market at all time highs.
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  298. @laynestaley4957 fudging = numbers i don't like
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  299. both sides think the other side cheated when they win, quite childish
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  300.  @DanielBagavan  big tech can't fortify anything
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  301.  @DanielBagavan  you're saying big tech switched votes to biden?
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  302. i dont think we do, i doubt it actually happens
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  303. why would he apologize to the GOP? Getting Lake to not run was done to pick a candidate more likely to win
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  304. president can hardly do anything without congress
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  305. bears have been getting destroyed what do you mean
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  306.  @thefool8224  Demanding the supreme court win an election for you reeks of entitlement
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  307. no such thing as a low info voter. You know all you need to know about someone based on the letter next to their name. And the only way to have a viable third party is through ranked choice voting
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  308. false
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  309. You've got to remember, he survived all those investigations into him simply because he was president. He no longer has the immunity that comes with the presidency, he's very vulnerable. Just yesterday he lawyer was forced to testify aginst him and bring forward notes and recordings
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  310. no, it's 3.5% over the year
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  311. the left wants him to get extreme
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  312. democrat presidents created 96% of all the jobs created since 1989. That can't be a coincidence
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  313.  @wigletron2846  multiple job havers are around 5% the same as in 2019
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  314. you just said obama was a career politicians, doesn't that make you perfectly qualified to be prez?
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  315. they already have the crime tho, the campaign finance violation
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  316.  @sarahg2653  Most of the things he's been investigated for in the past didn't go anywhere because he was president, now he doesn't have his people covering for him so i expect we'll start seeing things happen with regards to this case, the tax fraud case, the Georgia case and the jan 6 case
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  317. infrastructure is finally being addressed, people can afford to eat, and boeng being a lousy company wont cause bad times ahead
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  318. dude was republican lol, you need turmp jr to moderate?
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  319. clearly both parties don't hate Trump since he has the most endorsements in this race
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  320. did they discuss policy?
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  321. they said their wouldn't be a midterm, all nonsense
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  322.  @furtherdefinitions1  indcitments
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  323. then why not have the supreme court put the kabosh on it right away?
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  324.  @TheSulross  That's complete nonsense, they've been more trigger happy about jumping over appeals courts than any supreme court in recent history
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  325. they're useful everywhere with decent whether when you have rooftop solar
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  326.  @patrickweaver1105  peanuts comapres to savings in energy and gas
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  327. i doubt she'd take out desantis
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  328. political punishments like impeachment have nothing to do with the criminal justice system
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  329. they do
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  330.  @GeosRealityReport  they are
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  331. it did, pce inflation is back on target, and thats what the fed cares about
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  332. Thats called being in the minority. There are 3 liberals for every con in this country
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  333. not true
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  334. The economy can't roar if you're committed to austerity
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  335. hated by both sides but he's got the most endorsements?
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  336. they're powered through electric engines
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  337.  @jaggedskar3890  depends
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  338.  @pbxn-3rdx-85percent  electric motors are electric engines genius
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  339.  @pbxn-3rdx-85percent  did i claim to be in the industry? completely irrelevant contribution
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  340. all that golf wasn't gonna play iyslef
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  341. 2016 was eons ago, Republicans have been getting smoked since. I know we desperately want to relive 2016 but a lot has changed since then
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  342. trump did very little to affect the economy as president. He gave a tax cut to his rich buddies, but that had virtually no impact on the wider economy. There isn't a single economic metric that broke trends set in the obama admin. And now he's running on a 20% tarrif on all goods. Good luck with inflation if that happens
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  343. They will, and it's looking even worse for trump in the other case
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  344. average gas prices were above 5 bucks in 2022 and dems still swept. They likely will again, especially thanks to this abortion ban scandal
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  345. what's hard to believe about 81 million votes? You thought 2020 would have as low a turnout as 2016?
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  346. ​ @twentysecondnomad8177 It's called discoragement. The attorney general has the right come after you for your ill gotten gains on behalf of the state
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  347. and wages?
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  348.  @cavediver8385  the whole economy doesn't revolve around my personal friend group
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  349.  @cavediver8385  no, me not knowing someone who got a raise like that doesn't mean wages in general haven't kept up with inflation. They've gone up more than inflation. There's someone in this very comment section who says their wages have gone up 64%
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  350.  @cavediver8385  What do you mean really? just look at the numbers yourself. This isn't secret wisdom i've got here. Real wages are up from the pandemic
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  351. yes, really. The numbers are free and easy to access
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  352.  @cavediver8385  that has 0 baring on national numbers
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  353.  @Tracy-wr7mj  that was taken out of context i believe
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  354.  @tillbot8  but we knew that from the beginning
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  355. How's that tolerating going?
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  356. cuba is technically an enemy nation
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  357. Dude, they haven't even finished the interviews, literally wasn't possible to be on Tuesday
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  358. i thought global warming was obviously happening but that it was fine because co2 was plant food
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  359.  @tomdemay6147  does co2 not capture more heat then? or was that fake too
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  360. trump is no caesar
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  361.  @Fraser-369  sadly theres nothing unconstitutional about Jack smith's appointment
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  362.  @lazertroll702  His appointment is valid, they tried this same argument against Mueller in the Russia case, it failed.
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  363.  @RockstarRomania  that explains why he was getting booed so much
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  364. dems have a unified world view
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  365. there really isn't a constitutional crisis, president arent kings
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  366.  @RichardDanielli  If the grounds were indeed as flaky as you claim, Trump should be hoping for a speedy trial instead of delaying so aggressively
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  367. What are republican fiscal policies? Giving tax cuts to rich corps?
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  368. they found a bunch of nuclear secrets so that aint nothin
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  369. why would she end her career by helping dems?
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  370.  @Duranous.  i wouldn't say she's burning all bridges, there seems to be many republicans who don't want trump
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  371. haven't early and mail voting always bee nlegal?
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  372. source?
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  373.  @Machi74005  What's wrong with the IRA? As far as i can tell it helps out energy security by diversifying production, and the bill generates a lot more money than it uses so it actually reduces the deficit
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  374.  @Machi74005  then what are the big stuff he helps dems with? Everything else he voted for was bipartisan
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  375.  @Machi74005  I guess so, but he certainly doesn't fold the line with the hard left. If he did, they would've put paid family leave, free community college and universal pre k in the IRA bill
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  376.  @djhergert1995  on what basis would the Supreme Court over rule?
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  377. Did they get a pass for colluding with russia, pressuring sectaries of state to "find votes", tax fraud?
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  378.  @VioletDeathRei  So even the Republicans couldn't argue against disqualification on the merits?
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  379.  @mgaeeeee9150  i mean a court said he engaged in an insurrection, that counts as a conviction. Personally i don't think the supreme court will uphold the decision, but he did have his day in court before the decision. As for the insurrection, i think jan 6 itself was only a small part of the wider conspiracy. The stuff he was doing behind the scenes is what they're going after. Pressuring local election officials to "find votes" or refuse to certify, fake electors, plot to steal voting machines etc
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  380. If i wanted to throw the race i wouldn't keep unemployment below 4%, bring manufacturing back, support booming growth and oversee an all time stock market
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  381.  @elLooto  if you're a conservative sure
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  382.  @elLooto  sure
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  383. i agree, even moderate republicans hate trump now so i don't see a path for him
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  384. if monetarists were right, we would've collapsed a long time ago
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  385.  @BartimaeusAurelius  But Trump has only made it out of all those investigations unscathed because you can't indite a sitting president. Now that hes out of office, and he doesn't have his guys at the DOJ, he's very vulnerable
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  386. what is the name of that wsj article?
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  387.  @seesea-sv3xw  I think 401k's should be cut before social security is
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  388.  @do-uc6xj  Or we could all say we have bone spurrs like trump did to avoid Vietnam. The left would melt down
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  389.  @peggyobrien3943  Record low unemployment, manufacturing returning to america, revitalization of our infrastructure, medicare negotiated drug prices. Biden's done plenty of stuff right
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  390. probably the RNC, they dont think she can win
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  391. hes done better than i though he would tbh
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  392. what did he say in the speech?
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  393.  @Foxentails  Should we let the people decide whether obama can run again?
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  394.  @johnsmithers8913  Are you talking about modern monetary theory? No, they don't advocate that. They advocate for weighing the inflation potential of a bill before passing it, instead of looking at whether or not it causes a deficit. They point out that deficit spending isn't inherently inflationary, so it doesn't make sense to focus on whether or not a bill is deficit neutral
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  395. it's obviously gonna be scott. Dropped out early, relatively moderate and probably believes the polls that show him winning 20% with blacks lol
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  396. most people believe economic data, only really partisan people ignore the same economic data they believed when a republican or was in office
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  397.  @MidlifeCrisisJoe  why are government numbers propoganda now but weren't under trump? You considered that maybe your just being tribalistic?
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  398. dems have been doing too well in elections to get rid of the incumbent president
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  399. go ahead and try, you'd be singing choir behind bars like the jan 6 fellas
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  400.  @strategery101  maybe they like Biden for repairing our infrastructure? Medicare negotiated drug prices? Best inflation response in the G7? Capping insulin at 35 bucks? Bringing back US manufacturing? 4.7% growth? Keeping unemployment below 4% for the longest stretch since the 60s? Near record stock market? Keeping real wages up? Setting an all time record for US oil production? Overseeing the sharpest decline in homicides ever after we saw a record spike under Trump? Why do you like trump?
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  401. yeah that's how sovereign currencies work. Multiple currencies would dampen the governments ability to provision itself
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  402.  @jasonmorgan27  if you're worried about inflation you're going to hate trump's 10% tarrif plan
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  403.  @craigholland2274  it's a tax on consumers. If he really wanted to reshore manufacturing, why did he reduce taxes on profits generated abroad to 0?
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  404.  @akidwithaclub  i agree, far better metrics are unemployment, growth and inflation. All of which are doing exceptionally well. Unemployment near all time lows, we're by far the fastest growing in the world, and inflation has been below the fed target over the past 6 months. But of course this is the part where people cope by saying all the numbers are fake
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  405.  @joelellis7035 Yes, you're right, we're the fastest growing in the g7, that's still expectional. Prime age participation is at multi decade highes. they don't stop counting you after 6 months as long as you're still looking for a job. The year over year core inflation numbers are lagging, core inflation over the past 6 months is at the fed target
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  406.  @joelellis7035  It is, but like i said, growing at the fastest rate among the g7 is exceptional. Your claim that you are no longer counted after 6 months is still nonsense. On target means 2%. That isn't avoiding the numbers. Like i said, you're clingin onto laggin numbers from a year ago, we're at 2% over the past 6 months
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  407.  @joelellis7035  The unemployment rate is not detemrined by the number of people receiving unemployment benefits. And why do you keep ignoring the core inflation rate over the past 6 months? is that not 2%? If you don't think an annualized growth rate of 8% over the past 2 quarters is exceptional growth, i don't know what to tell you
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  408.  @joelellis7035  Again, the unemployment data is not conditioned on the number of people receiving unememployment benefits. This BLS conducts a monthly survey that involves 60,000 households. These households are selected using random sampling methods designed to generate as close an approximation as possible to the larger population. And like i mentioned earlier, prime age labor participation is far more useful for assessing the labor market than simple participation, because the elderly move out of work for all sorts of reasons, and prime age participation is at multi-decade highs. Also like i said, core inflation over the past 6 months has been at 2%, i don't know what you don't understand about this. Do you acknowedge this as a fact? You annualize growth on a quarterly basis, and the 3% unnualized growth last quarter and the 4.9% annualized growth the quarter before that absolutely qualify as exceptional growth
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  409. ​ @joelellis7035 Like i said, the unemployment numbers are not based on unemployment benefits, they're determined when the BLS conducts a monthly survey called the that involves 60,000 households. These households are selected using random sampling methods designed to generate as close an approximation as possible to the larger population. And also like i said, prime age labor force participation is much better at gauging the health of the labor market because the elderly leave the work force for all sorts of reasons, especially after covid. Prime age participation is at multi decade highs. Are you denying that core inflation over the past 6 months is 2%? You annualize growth quarterly, and the annualized growth rate for the past 2 quarters was 4.9% and 3% respectively. That is phenominal growth
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  410.  @joelellis7035  Like i said, the unemployment numbers are not based on unemployment benefits, they're determined when the BLS conducts a monthly survey called the that involves 60,000 households. These households are selected using random sampling methods designed to generate as close an approximation as possible to the larger population. And also like i said, prime age labor force participation is much better at gauging the health of the labor market because the elderly leave the work force for all sorts of reasons, especially after covid. Prime age participation is at multi decade highs. Are you denying that core inflation over the past 6 months is 2%? You annualize growth quarterly, and the annualized growth rate for the past 2 quarters was 4.9% and 3% respectively. That is phenominal growth
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  411. Like i said, the unemployment numbers are not based on unemployment benefits, they're determined when the BLS conducts a monthly survey that involves 60,000 households. These households are selected using random sampling methods designed to generate as close an approximation as possible to the larger population. And also like i said, prime age labor force participation is much better at gauging the health of the labor market because the elderly leave the work force for all sorts of reasons, especially after covid. Prime age participation is at multi decade highs. Are you denying that core inflation over the past 6 months is 2%? You annualize growth quarterly, and the annualized growth rate for the past 2 quarters was 4.9% and 3% respectively. That is phenominal growth
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  412.  @harleydeclue2456  not a fan of more taxes
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  413. they obviously can, this is just to speed up trump's delay tactics
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  414.  @yvonnehudson7100  im just sayin, if we're going to to trust the polls, we should also trust the polls that show people are way less likely to vote for him if he becomes a convicted felon
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  415.  @Garvak  especially since many moderates were uweilling to vote for people like him even before the convictions. Republicans won the popular vote in 22 and still did terribly.
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  416. Trump is probably more likely to act based on his gut than Haley, she'd do as her handlers advise
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  417. only reason to want a delay is because he thinks they'll rule against him
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  418. not according to the numbers
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  419. if the dfl control everything doesn't that mean that's what the people want? Isn't that the point of having states do their own thing?
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  420.  @mudbucket1650  why is 1 or 2 person majority not a mandate when you also need at least that majority in the senate aswell plus the governorship. I think a trifecta is a pretty high bar to clear, and whichever party achieves that should be allowed to govern. And regarding the abortion thing, their law hardly changes anything from the one that was already on the books, it's also illegal and contrary to all medical codes of ethics for a doctor to perform an abortion after about 20 weeks unless the mothers life is in danger or something is seriously wrong with the child I've never really understood the "big cities override rural voters" thing. Do you think peoples votes should count for less just because they live in a city? Do you think city votes should count for more than rural votes in places like alabama?
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  421.  @mitchellferre1652  she's not the same as dems on social issues or economic issues
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  422. only coal powered if you don't have rooftop solar
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  423.  @neondystopian  Have you been following the other trump case? It's looking bad, Trumps lawyer was ordered to testify against him and bring forward notes and recordings
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  424. Vote for Trump from prison and GOP never wins again
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  425. Trump isn't loved by the republic, just a minority
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  426. My issue with Republicans is they only care about giving the elites more tax cuts.
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  427. rfk aint left
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  428.  @Dragonking1984  she lost to someone who didn't campaign, why would she win now?
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  429.  @Dragonking1984  how did they cheat?
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  430.  @elLooto  she didn't do the actual counting, that was done at the precinct level
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  431.  @saltynameredacted9117  yeah it's their job to certify, how was it illegitimate?
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  432. stock market isn't the economy, but they economy outside stocks is very strong too
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  433. But oil is publicly owned in alaska, so they're basically socialists
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  434. isn't trump a loser too by that logic?
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  435. can they choose not to go with trump if hes convicted given how much worse his numbers are with a conviction?
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  436.  @ReformedSauron  latest polls have Trump getting destroyed with indies. And 2022 showed indies don't like the direction of the gop at all. Wouldn't be surprised if dems flip NC
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  437. Maga is too off putting to subrubanites and moderates, i don't think it's strong enough to beat an incumebt
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  438.  @barneshomestead1240  Biden's energy policy has been great. 2023 set the all time record for oil production
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  439.  @smelltheglove2038  they've printed trillions over the past year and inflation has only gone down in that time
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  440.  @smelltheglove2038  yeah, that's how inflation works. Prices go up and then wages go up to meet it. inflation has gone up 17% since the pandemic and wages have gone up 20%. And they do deserve a lot of credit for bringing gas prices down, 2023 set the all time record for US oil production
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  441.  @smelltheglove2038  according to the numbers they are
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  442. they do it quite often actually, they've been trying to come up with alternatives for years
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  443. congress
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  444. never gonna happen, R's don't have the votes
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  445. that wouldn't work, you can't have freedom with minority rule
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  446.  @xisotopex  Colorado court, judge susan wallace
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  447.  @scroogemcduckismyspiritanimal  yeah, she ruled that president's aren't officers and the supreme court disagreed. Quite a weak argument
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  448.  @JS-bf9dw  historic overperformance
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  449. How is that a bad thing? All criminals should face justice regardless of the letter next to their name
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  450.  @thefool8224  isn't blatant about what? You epect trump not to be held accountable cus he was president once?
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  451. expect*
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  452.  @bachri7721  he's on tape discussing classified material with randoms? His fake elector scheme was illegal? Pretty sure it's illegal to ask state elections officials to "find votes" after an election? Business fraud?
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  453. aint happening, especially since interest rates are propping up inflation
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  454.  @justinmiller5660  they tried this same argument against mueller and it failed
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  455. to be fair stepping into a building that was broken in to is a crime
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  456.  @mitchelloates9406  who was held for 3 years without a trial?
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  457. he's got plenty of positives to talk about regarding the economy, inflation, the border and social issues
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  458.  @icestationzebraassociates2460  Purchasing power is up since the pandemic, unemployment near record lows, manufacturing boom, we just hit 4.9% gdp growth, median real wealth rose a record 37% since 2019, a record 1 in 7 families now having a small business, wealth inequality is at the lowest level since 2008, core PCE inflation below the fed target, bottom 50% have seen huge wage gains, stock market at all time highs
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  459. modern dems are not remotely conservative what do you mean?
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  460.  @red-stapler574  yeah he was
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  461.  @aaronspeedy7780  Trump has admitted to wanting to be a dictator, show admiration for dictators, and acted like one after his loss. And we're supposed to believe biden is the most dictatorial president we've had?
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  462.  @aaronspeedy7780  you made that up, nothing stops you being a dictator after you said you'd be one. Especially after talking about your admiration for dictators in the past
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  463.  @kirbywaite1586  not the point
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  464.  @chancelewis6674  going though it and saying what? The sentences are self contained. And there are multiple tapes
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  465. how is trump a strong candidate? Dude could be a felon by election day
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  466.  @Juan-os4hs  it is indeed federal and a reserve
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  467.  @Juan-os4hs  the fed has to turn over all it's profits to the government, it's a government entiity
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  468.  @Juan-os4hs  the district central banks make up the fed, they aren't separate entities
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  469. dude, you're not supposed to be truthful here. You're supposed to pretend you're in a great depression for political reasons. Get with the program
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  470.  @zaydeshaddox7015  yeah, it seems like the writing's on the wall for the republican party as we know it. Young people, minorities, and increasingly women are reliable dem voters. Can't overcome that with blue collar folks and boomers
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  471. Yikes
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  472.  @cameraredeye3115  a different moderate type would do, but haley would be a massive boon as well
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  473. No he can't, he was doing a hundred rallies a day in 2020 and still lost by 7 million votes.
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  474.  @Raskolnikov70  I'm noticing the ridicule even more than usual, even some Republicans appear to be done with Trump
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  475. healthy wage growth affects those things
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  476. he called desantis that
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  477.  @-KillaWatt-  sounded like boos to me
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  478.  @reinedire7872  at least you also heard boos, thought i was going crazy
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  479.  @klavier285  would we be able to hear them over the majority if it were only a few people?
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  480. wages are up more than inflation since 2019
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  481. why do so many recessions start under republicans?
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  482. That isn't in question. Jusges have already ruled that you must go through a process for declassificafion
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  483. Desanits has no authority to sop extradition
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  484. they clearly are in the habit of doing it since they;ve done it many times in trump's term
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  485. Plus the persuation shifts away from maga in all of these elections. He won't win the popular vote in a presidential year so he really can't afford those pursuation shifts among moderates and indies
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  486. Do you consider a strong social safety net selling the country?
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  487. What makes him one of the greatest presidents ever? As far as i can tell his only legacy was a massive tax cut for his rich friends and a few supreme court appointments
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  488.  @l4unchp4dgaming38  they agree on pretty much everything socially and economically, they differ on foreign policy. Haley is a regular foreign policy hawk while Trump is a jacksonian hawk
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  489. what overly liberal views does he have?
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  490.  @kathyflorcruz552  Trump survived the investigations during his presidency simply because he was president. You can't indite a sitting president, but he no longer has that immunity, he's very vulnerable
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  491.  @terridactyl5152  Exactly, like people truly think the Russia stuff was a hoax
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  492.  @bullmoose5574  they clearly can make decisions about the viablity of a candidate. Heck Niel gorsuch himself threw someone off the ballot
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  493. They're never going to rule that a president has total immunity, and i think the supreme court's plan is to refuse to intervene thus allowing the appeal courts decision to stand
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  494.  @smelltheglove2038  saying everything is fake doesn't really add anything to the discussion. The percentage of multiple job havers are actually lower than they were in 2019 so that can't be it either. And the stock market being at all time highes certainly helps a lot of people's 401ks
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  495.  @smelltheglove2038  yes, that's what inflation is. It's the rate of increase in prices, not the prices themselves. But you're skipping over wages, they've gone up more than inflation. If i eat 5k calories but i burn 5.5k, i won't be getting fat
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