re: Hey Biden Bros!! Come on in and let’s talk todays economic numbers!!

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This is an absolute crock of shite. Largest weight of the calculation and somehow being suppressed to 4.4%. Housing prices and rent nationwide are up double digits YoY but somehow only showing up as 4.4% in the CPI calc.

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Just a guess, but they’re talking about the aggregate. The vast majority of Americans have not moved, bought/sold homes. If you own your home and have been in it for more than a few years, your monthly payment has actually gone down with refinancing. Those households are balancing the others that are caught up in housing’s 20% or more spike. Just my guess.

This is why I continue to expand my backyard garden. I’m just going to have to keep working toward self sufficiency.

You have this in your front yard, don't you?

Where's the line on bottom that should read "Dems are jackasses".................

Ok. I’ve got a little break here, but only enough to respond to one of you guys. Scruffy I want to circle back to you eventually, you’re alright.

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Please give examples.

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“Ivanka Trump is involved in policymaking in a way that’s simply unheard of for a presidential child, especially one with zero prior experience in politics and government:

She has overseen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants.
She represented the United States at the G20 summit.
She was involved in shaping the 2017 tax cut that stands as her father’s main legislative achievement.
She was even involved at a high level in a search for a new World Bank president.
While not qualified for any of these roles, she’s also managed to repeatedly break the law in public service. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington once documented a 48-hour period in early October during which she violated the Hatch Act eight times. She then violated it 11 more times by October 20…

Ivanka is not just someone who lacks the résumé for such a position; she has an extremely checkered career in business that’s involved extensive excursions into legal gray areas:

Donald Trump’s tax returns, as leaked to the New York Times, suggest that he may be illegally disguising gifts to Ivanka as consulting payments to avoid estate taxes, something Donald’s father did but that we didn’t learn about until the statute of limitations had expired.
Ivanka was involved at a very high level in a Panamanian real estate development scheme where her key partner was a money launderer for various organized crime figures (oops).
She was also the most senior official from the Trump Organization involved in a real estate development project in Azerbaijan that appears to have been a money-laundering scheme for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (double oops).
Last but by no means least, back in 2012, Ivanka was nearly indicted by the Manhattan district attorney for fraud, but the inquiry was quashed by the DA himself after a timely $25,000 campaign contribution from the Trump family attorney Marc Kasowitz…

The combination of a vast policy portfolio, no obvious qualifications for government, and a large fortune inherited from his criminal father has left Kushner with myriad financial conflicts of interest. Consider the real estate investment firm Cadre where Kushner has a 25 percent stake that he initially failed to disclose on government forms.

Cadre has benefited from Opportunity Zone tax breaks that were created by the 2017 tax reform law and, while intended to help low-income communities, were in fact structured with such lax terms that they’ve been a windfall for people like Kushner. The Guardian reported in 2019 that Cadre has received $90 million in opaque investments from offshore vehicles, meaning that we don’t really know who Kushner’s foreign business partners are. But as David Corn reports, we do know that Cadre was actively seeking investment opportunities related to the pandemic even as Kushner was coordinating the nation’s medical supply procurement...

Kushner’s conflicts of interest are so vast as to almost defy accounting. But a few highlights:

Joshua Harris, founder of Apollo Global Management, attended a series of White House meetings about infrastructure policy and shortly thereafter refinanced a loan on a Chicago skyscraper for Kushner.
While working on Middle East policy, Kushner’s family company sought loans from a Qatari sheikh.
The family business has also done a series of deals with Israeli investors.
Oscar Health, another Kushner family company, was tapped to build a federal Covid-19 testing website.
Somehow Kushner has also been getting coronavirus emergency money from the Small Business Administration...

Foreign money has poured into the Trump International Hotel near the White House, and Trump’s sons’ international travel has cost the Secret Service hundreds of thousands of dollars. Of course, security expenses for the president’s family are a public investment worth making. But it does seem notable that a large share of that Secret Service tab has ended up being paid to properties the Trump family owns. In other words, it’s not just that Eric and Donald Jr. are touring the world at taxpayer expense to use their family connections to cut business deals; they are personally pocketing some of the government’s cash as they do it...”

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“ Political and special interest spending
In the past four years special interest groups, foreign governments, and political groups together held more than 250 events at 14 Trump properties, likely resulting in tens of millions of dollars of revenue for the Trump Organization. President Trump’s properties offer these groups unbridled access to the nation’s most powerful policy makers. Many of these events have been attended by high ranking government officials, and sometimes even the President himself. In all, special interest groups have hosted 142 events, political groups have hosted 100, and foreign governments or foreign government-sponsored groups have hosted another 13...

Special interest spending
It’s clear that some special interests have received something they wanted from the Trump administration after spending massive amounts of money at Trump properties. According to research by CREW, as many as 30 special interests have received favorable policy outcomes from the Trump Administration around the time that they held an event at a Trump property…

His brand has also expanded existing properties overseas while Trump was in office, raising the same types of conflicts concerns that new developments would. In the past four years Trump’s company continued to develop its overseas projects and sent its top executives to meet with foreign business partners and sell Trump properties, with American taxpayers footing the bill for nearly $100,000 in Secret Service costs incurred during the trip. In coming years, the Trump Organization is expected to revisit or pursue new projects in foreign countries such as India, China, Colombia, Brazil, and Turkey...

Ivanka Trump has similarly seemed to use her father’s power to expand her brand abroad. Last year, her clothing brand received trademarks in Canada and China after it was shut down amid ethics concerns.”

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NY times. Lol wow

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Ukraine joining NATO (because we all know he’s Putin’s bitch)

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Oh yes I remember when Trump let Russia annex about a third of Ukraine without lifting a finger..Oh wait!

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HVAU

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Sorry you are a loser in life.

People need to be talking about what causes the inflation. Don’t just say it’s happening under Biden. Say why it was done and how.