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Ike Beard

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If/when due to all the bullshit indictments etc Trump is not allowed to run is this our guy? It seems so at this point.

It appears to me the Trump team has chosen Vivek to pass the baton to.

No coincidences.

Truth Social?

Vivek Campaign slogan?

Vivek doesn't hate on trump at all and calls him the best prez?

Trump will take some swings at vivek but they will end up harmless.

Looking forward to watching the pass-off.
 

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“My big worry — and you know this — is if the Fed focuses on 2% in a relatively rapid time frame, we will end up in recession,” El-Erian said. “There is no reason for the US economy to fall into recession. The endogenous elements of this economy are strong enough to power through this period. The big risk is that we follow the wrong inflation target and end up tipping this economy into recession.”

 
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Some people need to understand that they love Keynesian economics even if they claim otherwise.

There's also a significant monetary side to this. Paul Krugman argued last year that the 1981-82 recession was "deliberately created by the Fed to bring down inflation":

The Fed raised interest rates sky-high, causing a plunge in home construction, which was the main driver of the slump. When Paul Volcker believed that we had suffered enough, he cut rates, housing sprang back—and it was housing that mainly drove the recovery. Reaganomics was basically irrelevant.

But let's get back to the fiscal stuff. James K. Galbraith contended in 2009 that closet Keynesianism continued into the 21st-century, well after the theory was supposedly abandoned and discredited:

The political instinct remains to react to recessions with a "stimulus package." Under Republican presidents, at least until this year, this policy was usually called "supply-side economics"—Reagan was a great practitioner of it, as was George W. Bush in 2001–04. This is short-term Keynesianism in disguise, always accompanied by professions of budget piety and promises that "fiscal responsibility" will return as soon as normal conditions are restored. But it is Keynesianism nonetheless. It is government intervention to support total spending, and especially the use of public spending power, in the military or elsewhere, to bring the economy out of a ditch.

 

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Homeless Program in Washington State Has Burned Through $143 Million to House Less Than 1,000 People​

By Mike LaChance Sep. 14, 2023

Washington State has been trying to deal with their homeless problem, but they haven’t had much success.

A program designed to close down tent communities and get homeless people into housing has already spent $143 million dollars to house less than a thousand people. That’s a horrible ratio.

And now they want more cash, because they think this program has been so effective.

Blue state’s $143 million homeless program got less than a thousand people housed. Now governor wants more
An initiative to remove homeless camps from roadways needs more money to continue next year, according to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, after burning through $143 million in a little over a year.
“You can’t do this with zero dollars,” Inslee, a Democrat, told KOMO News. “We’ll need the legislature in January to step up to increase funding so we can continue the progress we’re making.”
Inslee’s statewide Rights-of-Way Safety Initiative began in June 2022 with the goal of removing homeless camps from state property near roads and offering housing to the people living in the camps.
On Friday, Inslee toured a tiny home village in Olympia funded by the initiative that will soon provide shelter to 50 people who previously lived in an encampment along I-5, KOMO reported. The governor said during the tour that the safety initiative is out of money and, come January, camps will remain on state lands if the legislature does not allocate more funds.
“We’re very proud of the work state agencies have done in our right of way initiative working alongside local officials and service providers,” a spokesperson for the governor told Fox News in an email. “We will take as much funding as we can get to continue this work.”
Only a liberal government would think this is a success.

 

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I mentioned this the other day when Mittens said he would not run again.


With every passing day the DC cesspool of corruption is being exposed.

Homeless Program in Washington State Has Burned Through $143 Million to House Less Than 1,000 People​

By Mike LaChance Sep. 14, 2023

Washington State has been trying to deal with their homeless problem, but they haven’t had much success.

A program designed to close down tent communities and get homeless people into housing has already spent $143 million dollars to house less than a thousand people. That’s a horrible ratio.

And now they want more cash, because they think this program has been so effective.


Only a liberal government would think this is a success.

It's everywhere. Dallas is being overrun by crime. Dallas is 1,000 police officers short. So what did the city do to address this? They voted to spend over $120 million, including $71 million, to rebuild the Convention Center. That would have put a lot of police back on the streets.
 

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BREAKING: Justice Alito has paused the order banning Biden officials from contacting tech platforms, that was set to kick in this coming Monday. The Justice Department asked SCOTUS to block the injunction while it files a formal petition for the justices to take up the case.

The MO & LA led lawsuit outlines how the Biden administration violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by pressuring companies like Facebook, Twitter (now X) and YouTube to remove content that questioned the 2020 election,
Covid vaccines, criticism of government policy and agents of the state, and topics involving Hunter Biden’s laptop, much of which was revealed in Matt Taibbi’s Twitter files drop beginning in December of last year.

The lawsuit also suggests the administration threatened the platforms with antitrust enforcement and reforms to tech platforms’ liability shield (Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) if they didn’t comply with the government’s takedown requests.

As we saw with our own eyes in the Twitter Files, the Feds were meticulous in their efforts to avoid explicit or specific language regarding the implied threats, however, employees at the companies internally expressed fear of the looming consequences if they did not abide by the government’s draconian requests to censor Americans.

The Justice Department continues to insist there was no coercion— that is, beyond the private and public persuasion of companies by officials, naturally:

“Rather than any pattern of coercive threats backed by sanctions, the record reflects a back-and-forth in which the government and platforms often shared goals and worked together, sometimes disagreed, and occasionally became frustrated with one another, as all parties articulated and pursued their own goals and interests during an unprecedented pandemic,” they said in a statement.

In my opinion, no matter how they dodge the existence of a power dynamic and sidestep, dress up, & redirect their abuse of power, the US Government has categorically and unequivocally exerted influence over the speech and expression of the American people, by every measure.

From my perspective, Justice Alito’s pausing of this order demonstrates the Supreme Court’s interest in taking up what appears to be the largest organized violation of free speech to happen in America since the Seditious Libel Law under King George.

In the meantime, while I am optimistic about where this will all lead, I expect a double down on censorship, particularly on YouTube and Facebook, while the Feds retain the power to do so.
 

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BREAKING: Justice Alito has paused the order banning Biden officials from contacting tech platforms, that was set to kick in this coming Monday. The Justice Department asked SCOTUS to block the injunction while it files a formal petition for the justices to take up the case.

The MO & LA led lawsuit outlines how the Biden administration violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by pressuring companies like Facebook, Twitter (now X) and YouTube to remove content that questioned the 2020 election,
Covid vaccines, criticism of government policy and agents of the state, and topics involving Hunter Biden’s laptop, much of which was revealed in Matt Taibbi’s Twitter files drop beginning in December of last year.

The lawsuit also suggests the administration threatened the platforms with antitrust enforcement and reforms to tech platforms’ liability shield (Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) if they didn’t comply with the government’s takedown requests.

As we saw with our own eyes in the Twitter Files, the Feds were meticulous in their efforts to avoid explicit or specific language regarding the implied threats, however, employees at the companies internally expressed fear of the looming consequences if they did not abide by the government’s draconian requests to censor Americans.

The Justice Department continues to insist there was no coercion— that is, beyond the private and public persuasion of companies by officials, naturally:

“Rather than any pattern of coercive threats backed by sanctions, the record reflects a back-and-forth in which the government and platforms often shared goals and worked together, sometimes disagreed, and occasionally became frustrated with one another, as all parties articulated and pursued their own goals and interests during an unprecedented pandemic,” they said in a statement.

In my opinion, no matter how they dodge the existence of a power dynamic and sidestep, dress up, & redirect their abuse of power, the US Government has categorically and unequivocally exerted influence over the speech and expression of the American people, by every measure.

From my perspective, Justice Alito’s pausing of this order demonstrates the Supreme Court’s interest in taking up what appears to be the largest organized violation of free speech to happen in America since the Seditious Libel Law under King George.

In the meantime, while I am optimistic about where this will all lead, I expect a double down on censorship, particularly on YouTube and Facebook, while the Feds retain the power to do so.

This is a layup for the DOJ. They are doing their jobs by being in contact and making recommendations to the businesses that make up this country.

Furthermore, the national security interests are immense. There is simply no grounds to limit the government’s right to administration and speech.
 

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