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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15420 on: June 20, 2019, 04:23:53 PM »

BTW, the Trump Campaign’s focus only on turning out their supporters rather than promoting policy with broader appeal gives away the game on GOP voter suppression tactics.  It’s all about getting their people to turn up, and putting barriers in front of the others. 

That’s their plan.  That’s how they want to run the world’s greatest democracy.  If that in and of itself isn’t disqualifying I don’t know what is.
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"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."  -  The impeached "president" on Feb 27, 2020

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15421 on: June 20, 2019, 04:27:52 PM »

Another shooting, apparently.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/us/pennsylvania-allentown-shooting/index.html

Ten people were injured in a shooting early Thursday outside a lounge in the eastern Pennsylvania city of Allentown, and police are looking for what they believe are several shooters, authorities said.

Several people -- likely three -- opened fire just before 2 a.m. outside the Déjà Vu nightclub, Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin and Allentown Police Chief Tony Alsleben said in a joint statement.
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Witnesses and some shooting victims have been uncooperative with the police investigation, Martin and Alsleben said.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15422 on: June 20, 2019, 04:28:21 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.
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« Reply #15423 on: June 20, 2019, 04:37:28 PM »

This is big news!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/politics/saudi-arm-sales-vote/index.html

The Senate voted to block the President's proposed "emergency" arms sale to Saudi Arabia!

The president will likely veto the Senate bill, but still.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15424 on: June 20, 2019, 04:53:45 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
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"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."  -  The impeached "president" on Feb 27, 2020

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15425 on: June 20, 2019, 05:06:10 PM »

He also likes it when, like right now, inflation is higher than wage growth.

Pity him though. He is a victim.

http://www.theweek.com/articles/848086/party-victims
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15426 on: June 20, 2019, 05:13:21 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
So do investors.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15427 on: June 20, 2019, 05:20:55 PM »

https://wjla.com/news/local/supreme-court-rules-bladensburg-peace-cross-stand-public-land

The Cross can stand, 7-2.
Atheists not faring well this SCOTUS term.

I drive by the cross numerous times a month for many years. My biggest gripe is how the folks fighting to preserve have let it fall into disrepair.

It’s a monument to the area’s WWI dead... so, in my opinion, the man monument reflects the time in which it was erected:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

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« Reply #15428 on: June 20, 2019, 05:23:15 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
So do investors.

Suppressing wages and benefits are also loved by investors.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15429 on: June 20, 2019, 05:28:04 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
So do investors.

Juicing the economy with lower rates is not a sign that the economy is doing well.  Its a sign the economy needs to be juiced.

When Obama was President your people were complaining that rate cuts were artificially propping the economy (easy money!) and that was immediately following a recession.  Now that they might cut rates again the economy is doing great!

A position that is as inconsistent as it is transparently political.
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"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."  -  The impeached "president" on Feb 27, 2020

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15430 on: June 20, 2019, 05:48:04 PM »

 Red got a tax cut.
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« Reply #15431 on: June 20, 2019, 05:58:39 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
So do investors.

Juicing the economy with lower rates is not a sign that the economy is doing well.  Its a sign the economy needs to be juiced.

When Obama was President your people were complaining that rate cuts were artificially propping the economy (easy money!) and that was immediately following a recession.  Now that they might cut rates again the economy is doing great!

A position that is as inconsistent as it is transparently political.
LOL
Good luck with the your portfolio, though.
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« Reply #15432 on: June 20, 2019, 05:59:59 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
So do investors.

Suppressing wages and benefits are also loved by investors.
Let us know when that happens.
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« Reply #15433 on: June 20, 2019, 06:22:41 PM »

S&P sets record, Dow within less than 100 points of its highest mark set just a half a year ago. Inflation steady and under 2 per cent. Rate cut May come next month. Economy doing super.

REDSTATEWARD thinks the Fed cutting lending rates is a sign that the economy is doing super.
So do investors.

Juicing the economy with lower rates is not a sign that the economy is doing well.  Its a sign the economy needs to be juiced.

When Obama was President your people were complaining that rate cuts were artificially propping the economy (easy money!) and that was immediately following a recession.  Now that they might cut rates again the economy is doing great!

A position that is as inconsistent as it is transparently political.

Let us not forget Red’s assertion the unemployment numbers under Obama didn’t count because they didn’t reflect those who had given up on the workplace.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #15434 on: June 20, 2019, 06:28:46 PM »

News Item


California begins purging inactive voters from registration rolls.
Could exceed 5 million past voters.


Gee.
A deep blue state follows common sense.
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