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What turbo 4s explode at 60k miles?

Also - we must solve the underlying issue which is the American car industry is so broken that it has to do everything it can to limit competition and the record high prices of new cars is significantly hurting American consumers.
Am I allowed to say that the bulk of the inflation that occurred in the Biden years was driven by the massive cash handouts the Trump admin signed off on during Covid - or is that totally poo poo’ed on this forum
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This is the WWII of our time. This is a mild sacrifice to ensure our country isn’t turned Muslim by Iran.

Someone been drinking too much Cool Aid
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Energy is often the 2nd leading driver of inflation, right behind housing.


Though energy rapidly rising with the Iran War has pushed up the 10Y significantly which has a major impact on housing (and everything else).
I mean he went through a jet engine. I don’t think there is a ton left for them to identify
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New Mexico will slowly shift more red over the next 5 years. It will in my opinion follow Nevadas path that took place toward that Red category

It’s purely going to depend on how the Hispanic vote trends
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I guess I should say Trump just doesn’t have the willpower to take it. Too concerned with approval polls and media blowback.

I’m guessing doesn’t want to go down in the history books as a leader that ordered the genocide of millions of Persians
He’s pandering to populist MAGA voters to pull them into his tent for a 2028 presidential run. My read on his calculus: Trump is going to anoint Vance, Rubio, or Don Jr. as the MAGA successor, which closes off the GOP primary as a real contest. With nothing to vote for on their side, Fetterman wants those voters crossing over into the Dem primary — for him.
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4% in 2024 vs 4.1% 2026. (Unemployment).


Labor force participation rate
Jan-25: 62.6
Mar-26: 61.9
We’ve lost more 100k+ more jobs in manufacturing than in government employment. Did you vote for that?
There has been no job growth anywhere except healthcare
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The only thing you can compare tariffs to is jobs that came to this country to avoid them. I know there’s a lag between the two but how many jobs have been created?

Job growth is at a standstill
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Inflation in 2026 is 3.3%. It was 3% when he was elected. That .3% hurting you?

I’m a lot more worried about the fact that there’s been almost no job growth over the last year
Well there’s an economic data point mark zandi missed
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We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy. Since that day, job growth has come to a standstill, with only the non-traded healthcare industry adding meaningfully to payrolls. Also, since that day, inflation has accelerated, with the consumer expenditure deflator increasing at a 3% year-over-year pace, up from 2.5% before the tariffs and well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. And the trend lines don’t look good, especially as the economic fallout from the Iran War hits with full force. The higher energy and other commodity prices caused by the war threaten to do even more economic damage than the tariffs, further undermining growth and pushing inflation higher. The U.S. economy is resilient, but just how resilient is set to be tested.
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Average driver drives 15K miles. At 30mpg, that's 500 gallons a year. If gas is up $2 a gallon, that's 1000 a year or 83.33 a month. I saved that each month last year. Let’s wait and see if we are in the same place this time next year.

This doesn’t take into account the downstream impacts that higher oil prices have on inflation with the biggest one being the movement in the 10Y UST.
They don’t even have consistent power right now. I’m not doing the 3rd world thing on my next vacation
There would be a ton of pissed off men that couldn’t get laid and didn’t have medication to help them keep it together.

Also 7% of men between 18-49 have had a vasectomy
It would be nice to know what is not acceptable about it