@JackPosobiec The GOP is still paying at the ballot box for running on repealing Obamacare 24/7 for two election cycles and then spiking the ball to spite Trump.
@FischerKing64 An alien menace would be the greatest justification for increased defense spending since WW2. The government would have zero incentive to cover it up. Not a chance aliens are real.
@politico I reject the idea that people should be punished for success but SOMEONE has to pay taxes. The burden certainly shouldn't fall disproportionally on young people who earn less than their boomer parents and are less likely to ever own a house. Ray can pay his fair share...
@JackPosobiec We have a much better chance for an acceptable Iran deal if part of a large multi-lateral agreement that ends the Ukraine war and reduces tensions over Taiwan.
@SarahHuckabee You are a spoiled nepobaby punching down at the very white working class voters that gave Trump - and you - everything you have. Too bad the Democrats have to win for the GOP to loose because you richly deserve to get destroyed in November.
@FischerKing64 Predestination and adjacent theological perspectives - of which the idea that world is simulation is certainly one - are always fundamentally about avoiding personal responsibility. And denying human agency is the central spiritual vice of this age.
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Prices aren't going up. The value of the dollar is going down. EVERYTHING doesn't double in value over a short time span. Not long ago (historically) economists were fretting over deflation and the falling velocity of money. They got what they wanted and we are paying the price.
Interest rates have been artificially low for decades now. Did people really think that opening an indescriminate firehose of money into the economy year after year wasn't going to lead to the price of absolutely everything going up?
You can't have an economy underwritten by debasing the currency to fund "stimulus checks", endless wars, endless waste, shameless corruption, and blatant pork barrel electioneering schemes and not expect the dollar to massively lose spending power.
The status quo is not working for most Americans. That is why Trump won and why the extreme left is dominating dem primaries.
MAGA was the alternative to the DSA and Hugo Chavezism. The shriveled up mumies that run the GOP rejected the former and are now going to get the later.
We are paying the price today for the unprecedented peacetime expansion of the monetary base during the Covid insanity. EVERYTHING is more expensive because the dollar has lost a large part of its value.
Greatest transfer of wealth from the many to the few in human history.