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5 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

People like JP Morgan/Chase are trying to say that everything is ok due to the Fed navigating a soft landing, but in the 60-year history of reverted yield curves signaling a recession, the danger zone is usually in that 6 to 12 month time frame.

I would have difficulty trusting anything someone named “JP Morgan/Chase” says. 

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1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I would have difficulty trusting anything someone named “JP Morgan/Chase” says. 

That's what I'm hinting at, the big investment hitters don't want the confidence in short term investment to tank so, so they'll try anything to bullshit their way out of it. Having the big banks/firms going out of their way to talk about a soft landing makes me wonder if a serious 2-4 year recession for the mid to back half of 2025 is imminent. History definitely says so, as there hasn't been a case of an inverted yield curve period that didn't trigger at least a minor recession, in the 6 to 12 month period after reverting to normal, for at least 50 years I believe. 

Trying to decide where to hide my money to see if it happens, then buy in on the crash if it does. 

Democrats better be preparing to hammer the shit out of trump and Republicans for causing it if it happens, even though it would have been their actions from 2017 to 2021 that would be culpable not now. But "we the people" are far too gullible and ignorant to understand any of that. 

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Here’s a real life example of what the EOs are doing. The federal hiring freeze means that if there is a vacancy at the (famously well-funded and staffed already) VA, it’s not getting filled. 

Something to remember as Hesgeth is touted as proof of how much we will take care of “warriors.” 

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12 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

I don’t think it’s going to take them all that long do you?

Aileen Cannons, Reed O'Connors, and Matthew Kaczmaryks are fewer and further between than people think.

And the plaintiffs will get to pick the fora, so the Trumpist jurists will be far less in play than during the Biden administration.

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1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I would have difficulty trusting anything someone named “JP Morgan/Chase” says. 

JP Morgan does sound like he has his dick halfway up your ass before you even start, doesn't it?

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41 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here’s a real life example of what the EOs are doing. The federal hiring freeze means that if there is a vacancy at the (famously well-funded and staffed already) VA, it’s not getting filled. 

Something to remember as Hesgeth is touted as proof of how much we will take care of “warriors.” 

Just another name for the “eh, fuck em” pile. Aren’t they “losers” according to our brave and strong CiC?  Maybe try getting a real job, you military vets who served our country and are only looking for the adequate health care they’ve earned through their service. 

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On 1/22/2025 at 6:33 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

And to many in the reconfigured GOP, the J6ers will be running as heroes — a recent CBS poll found that 72 percent of Republicans supported pardoning those who forced their way into the Capitol. Some will view them as not entirely different from courageous prisoners of war from yesteryear like John McCain or Jeremiah Denton, both of whom returned home after harrowing imprisonment and soon thereafter won election to Congress.

These fuckgards comparing J6 assholes to John Fucking McCain? JFC. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

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37 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

f the rules about changing the constitution ....

Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has drafted a constitutional amendment to allow Donald Trump to be president for a third term.

 

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That is not how this works.  What a fucking idiot. Ladies and Gentlemen, a Member of Congress from, checks the shit ass red state, Tennessee. 

This jackwagon seems like a real winner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ogles

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31 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

That is not how this works.  What a fucking idiot. Ladies and Gentlemen, a Member of Congress from, checks the shit ass red state, Tennessee. 

This jackwagon seems like a real winner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ogles

What an epic lying piece of shit.  Hilarious that he worked for the Laffer Center.

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On 1/22/2025 at 8:20 PM, Brisketexan said:


The very thought makes him spontaneously ejaculate.

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19 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

A bit more clarity on the refugee. EO.

1- More than just afghans.

2- Afghans in transit stuck at US sponsored sites

3- If in the US can continue to receive benefits.

4- SIV (Afghan allies) are exempt.

This is per CNN. Highlights. URL included so Ana does not have a conniption.

Approximately 10,000 refugees had travel booked, which is now canceled, according to a source familiar with the data. A breakdown by country was not immediately available, but refugees generally come from a range of countries, including Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Syria and Burma.

The cancellations could be particularly troubling for refugees whose medical exams or security checks, for example, are on the cusp of expiring. The memo also states that case processing is suspended, effectively shuttering the program.

“It is not clear what is going to happen to those individuals,” the official said. “They could be stuck there, we don’t know for how long.”

There are more than 1,000 Afghan refugees in Doha, the official said, and several thousand, up to as many as 10,000, in Pakistan. But there are other Afghan refugees in “many, many countries around the world … whose cases will now just be stopped,” the official said.

Special Immigrant Visa holders, which includes those who worked for the US abroad, are exempt. They can travel to the United States, according to the memo. Those refugees who are already in the United States can also continue to receive services.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/refugee-flights-canceled/index.html

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Of those 10000 immigrants ...

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That includes more than 1,600 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort, as well as relatives of active-duty U.S. military personnel.

https://apnews.com/article/refugees-flights-trump-immigration-border-resettlement-33ebaa34bc4d0c069a22ee7aa5f8ff6d

There is no place in hell hot enough ...

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11 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

WUT

 

Yeah he also called out OPEC, saying they need to lower the price of oil and that if they do, inflation will be conquered and the Ukraine War will end ... when he's the one who brokered the2020 deal with OPEC & Putin to limit production and raise the price of oil in the first place. When added to the already-awful economic conditions brought about by COVID, Trump's oil price increase well and truly got the inflation murderball rolling. When you look at the oil and inflation charts, inflation tracks right along with the oil price rise that was the result of that Trump - Putin - Bin Salman deal Trump pushed specifically to raise the price of oil.

Then it was time for Q&A and in typical Trump fashion, he rambled all over the place & didn't even attempt to answer the questions. Just told random stories that had little or nothing at all to do with the actual questions.

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10 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Credit where credit is due. Blind squirrel and all that. 

But if dumbshits like you truly have their finger on the pulse of America, we're all fucked anyway. So congrats.

It's difficult for me to get my head around how to even begin to process the staggering, colossal level of irony associated with Helo calling out other posters over errant predictions. Nostradumbass strikes again.

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7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

f the rules about changing the constitution ....

Republican Congressman Andy Ogles has drafted a constitutional amendment to allow Donald Trump to be president for a third term.

 

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Article on CNBC, at the end of discussed other was to possibly extend Trump to a third term

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-third-term-amendment-constitution-ogles.html

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Other ways to stay in power

Amending the Constitution is not the only way that Trump could stay in power after his current term ends.

“Though the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected president again, it does not prohibit him from serving as president beyond Jan. 20, 2029,” wrote Philip Klinkner, a professor of government at Hamilton College, in a recent article in The Conversation.

“The reason for this is that the 22nd Amendment only prohibits someone from being ‘elected’ more than twice,” Klinker wrote. “It says nothing about someone becoming president in some other way than being elected to the office.”

Klinker wrote that one hypothetical scenario would be for Trump to run for vice president in 2028, and have Vice President JD Vance run at the top of the ticket, for president.

“If elected, Vance could then resign, making Trump president again,” Klinker wrote. “But Vance would not even have to resign in order for a Vice President Trump to exercise the power of the presidency.

 

The 25th Amendment to the Constitution states that if a president declares that ‘he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office … such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.’ ”

 

Another scenario Klinker imagined is for Trump to encourage a family member to run for, and win, the White House. Once elected, they would serve as little more than a figurehead president, while Trump made the key decisions.

Truthfully, I thought this dumbfuckery deserved a separate thread because it throws away the constitution as we know it. But I'll let this play out, before throwing up and joining a resistance movement.

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15 hours ago, cmontexas said:

While the GOP is America's abusive stepfather, the Dems are the enabling mother who feels bad but won't leave him and has his dinner on the table every night

That would be a good analogy if divorces happened every four years and sometimes the wife wins her freedom and sometimes she’s forced to remarry her abusive spouse. 

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This week has to be icing on the cake of the most perfectly executed grift of all time at this point. Create a bunch of social justice crises to capture a certain subsect of the US population, get elected, sign a bunch of EO’s and then tell them how much you have done, enrich yourself along the way, and go into midterms patting yourself on the back for all that has been accomplished with your proclamations. It’s not like the Dems are going to post ads saying wait a second, there are still brown people at Home Depot, Haitians in Ohio, trans/gay people among us, etc. They are just hoping egg prices stay up so they can use that at this point.

Half the country is celebrating like the US is fixed and they can’t wait to go on vacation to the Gulf of America and the Dems aren’t going to be willing to go low enough to explain the grift to them. The idiots have been enthralled with the sideshow at the circus while getting fleeced all along the way.

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TN has to have the dumbest bunch of elected officials of any state at this point. I don’t know what it is about Middle/East TN specifically, but they are a special group of idiots.

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TN has to have the dumbest bunch of elected officials of any state at this point. I don’t know what it is about Middle/East TN specifically, but they are a special group of idiots.

Man, it’s a race to the bottom in the former Confederacy. AL, GA and TX all give TN a run for their money. I’d throw in AR, MS and LA, but I’m not sure if they have running water there yet, so I can’t fault them as much for living in the 1860s.
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23 minutes ago, Brew said:

TN has to have the dumbest bunch of elected officials of any state at this point. I don’t know what it is about Middle/East TN specifically, but they are a special group of idiots.

Oklahoma would like a word.

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And the next grift begins, make a bunch of noise about the 22nd knowing it will not be changed, attack the legislature for not changing it over the next 3 years, run him as a VP on a ticket with a figurehead top of the ticket, and the sideshow continues.

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9 minutes ago, Brew said:

And the next grift begins, make a bunch of noise about the 22nd knowing it will not be changed, attack the legislature for not changing it over the next 3 years, run him as a VP on a ticket with a figurehead top of the ticket, and the sideshow continues.

According to the 12th Amendment, he's ineligible to be VP.

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6 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

Article on CNBC, at the end of discussed other was to possibly extend Trump to a third term

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-third-term-amendment-constitution-ogles.html

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Other ways to stay in power

Amending the Constitution is not the only way that Trump could stay in power after his current term ends.

“Though the 22nd Amendment prohibits Trump from being elected president again, it does not prohibit him from serving as president beyond Jan. 20, 2029,” wrote Philip Klinkner, a professor of government at Hamilton College, in a recent article in The Conversation.

“The reason for this is that the 22nd Amendment only prohibits someone from being ‘elected’ more than twice,” Klinker wrote. “It says nothing about someone becoming president in some other way than being elected to the office.”

Klinker wrote that one hypothetical scenario would be for Trump to run for vice president in 2028, and have Vice President JD Vance run at the top of the ticket, for president.

“If elected, Vance could then resign, making Trump president again,” Klinker wrote. “But Vance would not even have to resign in order for a Vice President Trump to exercise the power of the presidency.

 

The 25th Amendment to the Constitution states that if a president declares that ‘he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office … such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.’ ”

 

Another scenario Klinker imagined is for Trump to encourage a family member to run for, and win, the White House. Once elected, they would serve as little more than a figurehead president, while Trump made the key decisions.

Truthfully, I thought this dumbfuckery deserved a separate thread because it throws away the constitution as we know it. But I'll let this play out, before throwing up and joining a resistance movement.

I thought the third term was a given. Trump said we wouldn’t even have elections anymore during his campaign. I mean it’s not even a third term if the second term never ends.

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3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

According to the 12th Amendment, he's ineligible to run for VP.

Based on the text of the 22nd Amendment, I think most surly lawyers could argue that the terms have to be consecutive.

The terms shall be capped at two, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be two. Three shalt thou not count, neither count thou one, excepting that thou then proceed to two. Four is right out. Once the number two, being the second number, be reached, then the cap is reached.

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1 minute ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

The terms shall be capped at two, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be two. Three shalt thou not count, neither count thou one, excepting that thou then proceed to two. Four is right out. Once the number two, being the second number, be reached, then the cap is reached.

And four terms is right out

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1 hour ago, Brew said:

This week has to be icing on the cake of the most perfectly executed grift of all time at this point. Create a bunch of social justice crises to capture a certain subsect of the US population, get elected, sign a bunch of EO’s and then tell them how much you have done, enrich yourself along the way, and go into midterms patting yourself on the back for all that has been accomplished with your proclamations. It’s not like the Dems are going to post ads saying wait a second, there are still brown people at Home Depot, Haitians in Ohio, trans/gay people among us, etc. They are just hoping egg prices stay up so they can use that at this point.

Half the country is celebrating like the US is fixed and they can’t wait to go on vacation to the Gulf of America and the Dems aren’t going to be willing to go low enough to explain the grift to them. The idiots have been enthralled with the sideshow at the circus while getting fleeced all along the way.

Lol. The Dems can't explain the grift in a way that makes news coverage, much less on the networks the idiots watch, for half the country to even SEE. Much less UNDERSTAND. 

Just accept we're broken. I already think about the ways I teach my kid about America just being a place his parents had to live. 

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59 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


Man, it’s a race to the bottom in the former Confederacy. AL, GA and TX all give TN a run for their money. I’d throw in AR, MS and LA, but I’m not sure if they have running water there yet, so I can’t fault them as much for living in the 1860s.

I don’t know, if we’re doing a draft Burchett, Ogles, and Blackburn have to be near the top of the list federally and I can’t imagine Faison, Sexton, and their bunch wouldn’t be high up the state draft list.

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7 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

Article on CNBC, at the end of discussed other was to possibly extend Trump to a third term

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/trump-third-term-amendment-constitution-ogles.html

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Other ways to stay in power

 

 

Another scenario Klinker imagined is for Trump to encourage a family member to run for, and win, the White House. Once elected, they would serve as little more than a figurehead president, while Trump made the key decisions.

Truthfully, I thought this dumbfuckery deserved a separate thread because it throws away the constitution as we know it. But I'll let this play out, before throwing up and joining a resistance movement.

That scenario is the one I posted before -- the Ma and Pa Ferguson approach - "vote for the Ma, get the Pa!"  Vote for Don Jr, and Don Jr. openly says "don't worry, my dad will be the real president.  I'll just be his instrument.  FOUR MORE YEARS!  FOUR MORE YEARS!"

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