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re: What rinos need to be primaried?

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 2:08 pm to SirWinston

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Note to self: remove Ben Sasse from this list.

Come on man, you gotta read the room.

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re: Trump admin to seize wages of student loan borrowers in default starting next month

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 1:37 pm to LSUTANGERINE

If you borrow money, do not borrow so much that you have to continually pay it back with interest, while having to borrow even more money as to continue living beyond your means while paying back what you originally borrowed.

Now, what were you saying about student loans?

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re: What rinos need to be primaried?

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 1:22 pm to Rohan Gravy

You can’t primary all who are tainted…But a good start would be with the ones who AIPAC 100% supports and funds.

Make no mistake, Israel will, in the very near future, start again with the Iran “threat”. Get the guys out whose first response is going to be…”2 weeks from having a bomb”, “our closest ally”, and “we stand with Israel”.

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re: Trump not interested in reducing Housing Prices

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 11:38 am to RogerTheShrubber

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Yessir, I do think we've already established "too big to fail" will be perpetually subsidized

Amazing to see all the principles of (r)epublicanism evaporate to the roars of thunderous applause.

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re: Trump not interested in reducing Housing Prices

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 11:19 am to RogerTheShrubber

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We should on all economic fronts. However we seem to be going backward.

Yeah, I should have added but that ship has sailed.

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re: Trump not interested in reducing Housing Prices

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 11:11 am to SallysHuman

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Question... if today's 20-30yr olds are in favor of longer term mortgages- do you think they should be allowed that option?

Hypothetically I would say let institutions, markets, and buyers make that decision, but this whole house of cards is anyone’s guess.

Allow? I suppose, but the insanity being thrown about on this subject isn’t going to be good for anyone except lenders, until it’s not. Then someone gets bailed out and the beat goes on.

I am not being confrontational. I just wanted to insert my opinion that doing something just for the sake of looking busy on a matter is a fool’s errand.

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re: Trump not interested in reducing Housing Prices

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 10:50 am to SallysHuman

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Still- what he's doing is better than denying there are issues.

Actually, not doing ANYTHING would be better while admitting it is not in his purview to fix it.

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re: Trump not interested in reducing Housing Prices

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 10:44 am to SallysHuman

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Feel free to submit your solutions to the housing issues to Trump's team

Mine would be:
Stay away from the housing market. Tell Congress to stay away also.

Know what is worse than shite? Setting shite on fire.

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re: Schiff introduces bill to create a 'Housing Boom'

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 10:39 am to stout

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If the Fed gov stayed out of the market and let it naturally reset

Not only that market but almost every other market also. Everything they put their hand on turns to shite.

They spend decades in office spending trillions trying to fix problems they created.

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re: Tucker’s wide ranging interview with Matt Gaetz is really worth the listen.

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 10:32 am to Wednesday

I watched one recently with Matt Walsh. Tucker talked at length with him about basic tenants of decency in general and how it relates to politics. He then turned it on him and asked Walsh if it was a bad thing that so many children were dying in Gaza. It was funny in a clever way, but not funny seeing Walsh dance around the subject.

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re: Tucker’s wide ranging interview with Matt Gaetz is really worth the listen.

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 9:45 am to Sassafrasology

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It's not odd when you understand the dispensationalists view that the reestablishment of the modern state of Israel (in 1948) as a partial fulfillment of biblical prophecies.

Oh, I am well aware of all the dispensational stuff. The odd part I refer to is their belief that AIPAC’s doting on them is somehow affection instead of manipulation.

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re: Tucker’s wide ranging interview with Matt Gaetz is really worth the listen.

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 8:35 am to Sassafrasology

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The problem is religion is driving congressional appropriations. Just ask Ted Cruz, Mike Johnson and Mike Huckabee

One of the oddest things about this dynamic is that their religion is despised by the very people who are the recipients of the appropriations.

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re: US economy beats expectations!

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 8:29 am to WeeWee

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Increased exports is good but I do not know about increased government spending.

Our economy is propped up by the never ending increase in government spending. We serfs must enjoy the micro-economy for as long and as much as we can.

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re: It would be really easy to deport 10 million+ in 6 months

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 8:19 am to burger bearcat

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Offer $2,000 and a free plane ticket to self deportation

Hard pass. The other stuff should be common sense though since it just means enforcing the law.

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re: Any guesses at what the purpose was of appointing Jeff Landry as Envoy to Greenland?

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 8:12 am to Pragmatist2025

But seriously, it is odd outside of some kind of quid pro quo.

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re: Any guesses at what the purpose was of appointing Jeff Landry as Envoy to Greenland?

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 8:10 am to IvoryBillMatt

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Any guesses

What better way to attempt empire expansion than with a coonass?

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re: Trey Gowdy and Mike Pompeo Agree: We must continue to arm Ukraine to defeat Putin

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/23/25 at 8:05 am to udtiger

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I sense sarcasm

I am thinking many did not. The ‘blank check’ was a nice touch.

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re: $1776 warrior dividend checks to US military before Christmas

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/22/25 at 5:16 pm to Wildcat1996

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If there is an issue, it lies in the legislative, not the executive.

You are correct. Our legislative branch has abdicated almost all of their duties and turned our representative republic into a farce.

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re: $1776 warrior dividend checks to US military before Christmas

Posted by Pragmatist2025 on 12/22/25 at 5:13 pm to Adajax

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So military members get a Christmas bonus. Good for them.

Yes, good for them. My wife is a doctor at an army hospital. Some of our best friends are in the military.

This does not alter the fact that money taken from taxpayers under (eventually) threat of death should go through proper channels.

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