Altair76

I'm assuming the emails are true. But the significance of the 2017 deal is limited by the fact that Joe was a private citizen then. I think the average guy is gonna think "if some Chinese guy wanted to give me 10 million dollars to introduce him to people I know from politics, I'd take it."

I sure as hell would. If you say you wouldn't you're lying.

Rudy can release a photo of Chinese guys stuffing money in Joe's pocket, this is what a lot of women (and some men) will remember about this Hunter hard drive story - that he's a caring dad:

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Assuming this is accurate, the text says Biden was making Naomi give him half her salary.

That's what the text says. It doesn't say Biden was making Hunter give him half his salary.

So then Trump fans will be left to argue, yeah, but what the crackhead really meant to say is ...

Where did I express concern? I'm no particular fan of Biden, but I can't wait to see Trump leave the White House. Reagan would be horrified to see what has become of his party.

I also take 20 mg lisinopril a day. If I stop taking it, how long will it take my ACE2 levels to go down to normal? Wondering if I can just wait til I show symptoms of the virus.

" Put some substance in the post or don’t bother starting threads."

Nah, I think I'll do what I want.

Clicking is hard.

I never have understood why Tate Reeves got to be such a major figure in Mississippi politics. He's not very articulate, he's not very likeable, he doesn't have "good old boy" relatability for the country folks, he's made a ton of enemies in Jackson.

Why exactly did he become so powerful?

The fact is that these trillion-dollar deficits we're running have to be paid for by selling treasury bonds, and those require an ACTUAL BUYER. Some real-life nation, individual, corporation or whatever who decides that they want to loan us money. The problem is, irrespective of what the Fed does, those bond customers need to be paid a higher interest rate to encourage them to buy our bonds when they see we're running huge deficits. That's why when the huge tax cut was passed, the Treasury immediately had trouble finding customers for all the bonds it was having to issue, and so of course it had to offer a more generous interest rate to encourage them to buy. These rising interest rates directly affect other long-term rates like mortgages.

Now the truth is that, long term, we're all going to pay for the huge deficits. Maybe not if you are going to die in the next 10 years or so, but certainly if you plan to be drawing social security and medicare in the coming decades.

There's two possibilities for how you will pay. Either Congress will say in 15 years or whatever "oops, we can no longer even sell bonds to finance these social security payments" so we will have to give you, say, a 30% haircut on your social security payment, raise the retirement age, or whatever. Or they can just print money and use it to pay the social security checks. But even if they do that, you will still pay, because that printing money will cause inflation as surely as night follows day. So your social security check or savings simply won't buy as much as they did yesterday.

The Fed is currently doing what it was CREATED to do, namely to be a non-political entity that, by raising short term interest rates, provides a check on the inflationary tendencies caused by these reckless fiscal policies. Now if you just care about your life right now, like Trump does, then I guess it makes sense to just put another bottle of vodka in the punch bowl, borrow some more money for our kids, and hope it will work out ok.

But the Fed is being the adult in the room here. Whether you Fed-haters realize it or not.

And incidentally, regardless of what the Fed does, the reckoning for our fiscal irresponsibility is coming. I strongly recommend you plan for your retirement accordingly- save a lot more than it seems now you might need.

There's zero chance they would get 2/3 of the Senate to vote to convict, even if the House did impeach.