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swraith

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  1. Trump...do it. Fire Barr over twitter.
  2. Could we wait till after Jan 20 to say the pardon is invalid. No reason to give Trump a second chance.
  3. I mean...what's holding him back. Do it already.
  4. The host for Teams has to have Office365 license. Guests can be invited and can join the Teams meeting/session. No license required. Our Board of Directors meetings went virtual this year. The last 2 have been hosted in day long Teams calls. 2 members do not have an O365 license.
  5. One of my kids basically screams barbarian war cries throughout the day and it ramps up in the afternoon when he gets to play games. It annoys me to no end...but I have become accustomed to it. Coworkers...not so much. In the past 24 at least 2 meetings where my mic picked him up in another room and had people say...WTF was that sound...with me sheepishly responding...oh that’s my kid...ignore him.
  6. AISD, please reopen next week. No technical issues were had today...but having the kids around all day was a total beating. Work productivity cut by at least 60%.
  7. At the elementary level, things are still going well at my kid's school. We have been enjoying in-person school and the kids prefer in-person rather than being at home on zoom.
  8. Thank you for this recap. I often lament being represented by Pool. I really hope Kelly loses. Austin doesn't need the lulz or chaos that will bring about.
  9. None of his supporters in Alabama will care about these type of "flubs".
  10. I read a decent portion of that Cato paper. Quoting Austrian economists who say the government cannot be trusted with responsibility for our currency/money. It seems very fantasy land type talk in today's political environment. The Federal Reserve's authority/power comes from the U.S. government. Without the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve ceases to function/exist. The bond proposal in the Cato paper is a non-starter. Congress is not going to support that kind of bond. Further, the idea that China would cede sovereignty over its own currency to the market is naive. I don't see a viable path back to sustainable economic theory for the U.S. There is no cultural willpower to taken on the burden of that kind of austerity. Further, there is no support globally for that kind of action either. So the U.S. is on the path it is own....take any action possible to "kick the can down the road" until it can't be kicked any longer and deal with a massive shakeup at that point. I have no idea when that might be. I'm fairly gloomy about overall asset valuations given real interest rates....but advocating for a return to the Gold Standard....its not functional conversation today.
  11. I don't see McConnell approving student debt relief in the next 2 years. I'm assuming POTUS can't do this this unilateral.
  12. I assume Cunningham is going to try and disappear for a while. I don't see him having an upside in public at the moment.
  13. Uh, to whom are you referring? Only announcement we have seen so far is Chief of Staff.
  14. I’m not a huge fan of current Fed policy, but Shelton is not what America needs today.
  15. I just bought a used Nissan Leaf. 2017. Super cheap. Purely an in town car. Can be charged nightly if needed...but with COVID it’s get charged once every 3 days. It is no where close to the performance of a Tesla. But it is a tiny fraction of the cost of a Tesla and seems to serve its in town purpose well. We still have an Internal combustion car for long range trips.
  16. Does Trump rally his base for the GA races? Hold some rallies in GA? Or does he abandon the GOP to itself? I think that will be an aspect at play.
  17. Seems like AOC would be better off and more effective continuing to agitate for change from the left flank in the House rather than getting buried inside the Biden administration.
  18. Since this is all wild speculation...I am going to assume Biden's administration will focus heavily on domestic efforts. Yes, he can dispatch people to re-engage in foreign affairs but likely just a return to Obama era policies. I don't see Biden's administration focusing on leading in foreign affairs. Plenty of work exists just in rebuilding institutions that have been damaged over the past 4 years. There are plenty of issues to take care of domestically that speak to showing voters that democrats can produce.
  19. The problem isn't going away any time soon.
  20. No clue what you are trying to say. I will point out that a billionaire, Bloomberg, dropped over $100 million in states that Trump won. So uh...why didn't Bloomberg with those states if he has the gold and money talks?
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