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Thomas Newton's avatar

Trump's been the best gift that Putin could hope for. Suppose for the sake of argument that Trump isn't a Russian asset. He has still: created an unnecessary trade war with our closest allies; talked of taking over Greenland and turning Canada into the 51st state, and made our allies doubt whether they can trust us to keep secrets. Then there's the matter of throwing, or trying to throw, Ukraine to the wolves.

Trump's trade wars are weakening the U.S. economy - making things more expensive for U.S. consumers; shrinking markets for U.S. exports; and trashing the stock market. He's even trying to destroy Harvard.

Is he trying to turn the U.S. into a place like Putin's Russia – which I have seen some people describe as "a gas station with nukes"?!?

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Pamela J Detwiler's avatar

Thanks for all of this!

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Laura Havranek's avatar

Caught up late with this but great podcast and content. Just hoping I can recognize the Deep AI fakes coming to us in the next election cycle. I just know that damn AI can finish editing my thoughts as I write if I pause, and continually changes words I have written turning out nonsense for responses

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Diane Lee's avatar

💙💙💙

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Douglas's avatar

The idiot Democrats are still stuck in the 1980s & we need them to master AI to help win elections???? JFC....impossible!

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Art Bedrosian's avatar

Thanks to those folks who sent in the insightful questions that Rick commented on. I learn from all of you.

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Orangeshitstain's avatar

May I suggest a Moscow summit? Rump and eyeliner Vance can take Prigozhin airlines.

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Marie Tate's avatar

You have this 83 year old woman laughing her you know what of!!!

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Diane's avatar

I think he is an agent or resource for Russia. Too many incidents point in that direction for it to be accidental.

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Jane in NC's avatar

Derek Chauvin was convicted in state court in MN. Trump couldn't pardon him even if he wanted to; a president's pardon power is limited to federal convictions.

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Sara Smith's avatar

He could pardon the federal conviction for violation of civil rights, for which Chauvin was sentenced to 20 years, but not the state homicide charges.

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Jane in NC's avatar

He could, but Chauvin will still spend the rest of his life in jail. Where he belongs.

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S L.'s avatar

He is without a doubt in my mind an enemy agent with the launch codes and top secret info. Beholden to Putin

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

The Devalued Dollar

What’s this inflation all about? The bottom line, the dollar doesn’t buy as much as it used to The dollar buys only half of what it did in the 1970’s In other words a loaf of bread, a car, or a refrigerator cost twice as much as it did in the 1970’s

This lack of purchasing power of the currency has gradually occurred over the last 50 years but if you go to the Commodities section of the stlouisfed.com and you can view this in graphic form Another way to talk about the loss of purchasing power of the dollar is called a devalued dollar

How did this loss of purchasing power occur? The central bank, aka the Fed, over the last 50 years has been footing the government spending by printing more money aka quantative easing(QE) to be put into circulation increasing the number of dollars and hence diluting the purchasing power of the dollars in circulation This has now led to a debt crisis for the government where rising bond yields with a deteriorated dollar value on exchanges Foreign investors of American bonds are wanting higher yields if they are going to service American debt

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pat.margulies@gmail.com's avatar

I do not believe him to be a spy as he is too stupid and has no control over himself.

BUT, I believe he is here and working for one or more other countries/agencies to be a spoiler, a desecrator, a provocateur, a wastrel, a scoundrel, and to take our country down.

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Patrick's avatar

Codename:

Dim Philby.

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