kickingandscreaming
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As we’ve been saying … 
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This what the Iran war is doing to interest rates, a dramatic increase since the day of the 1st attack. The 10 year Treasury is the index that most commercial loans use, but the 30 mortgage rate has experienced a similar increase. $10,000 annual increase in payments for every $1mm in loan amount.
Just to point out, it grew from 1.1% to 4.9% under Biden, but it still doesn't justify what is happening now.
Desert Hound
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I like lower rates.
I would however like to see how this plays out with Iran. Not interested in boots on the ground. Just wondering how long they can last with little money coming in, rationing, etc. The regime doesn't care. Wondering how long the average person puts up with it in Iran.
I don't see any evidence that there is an end in sight. I think the administration thought there would be more resistance to the Islamic regime. The average person in Iran will just die or be killed, like you say, the regime doesn't care. A "deal" is meaningless as long as Iran is an Islamic state, and will only be used by the regime to buy time.
kickingandscreaming
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kickingandscreaming
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Hüsker Dü
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WASHINGTON—Donald J. Trump lashed out at critics of his aide Natalie Harp after she shared screenshots of the nuclear codes on her Instagram account on Tuesday.
Harp alarmed national security experts when they saw her Instagram post, which featured a clearly legible image of the nuclear codes adorned with heart and smiley-face emojis.
“Despite what the fake news says, Natalie is doing an amazing job,” Trump said. “That one post got millions of likes, from places like Russia, China, and Iran.”
In an unexpected vote of support, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also defended Harp, telling reporters, “The world is safer if she has the nuclear codes than if he does.”
Harp alarmed national security experts when they saw her Instagram post, which featured a clearly legible image of the nuclear codes adorned with heart and smiley-face emojis.
“Despite what the fake news says, Natalie is doing an amazing job,” Trump said. “That one post got millions of likes, from places like Russia, China, and Iran.”
In an unexpected vote of support, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also defended Harp, telling reporters, “The world is safer if she has the nuclear codes than if he does.”
Hüsker Dü
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Here's how we fix social security's funding problem:
First, the funding shortfall is driven by economic inequality and the way wealthy people like me currently make their money. Social Security is funded by a payroll tax capped at $184,500. When you include capital gains and dividends, half of all income is now above that cap or not subject to Social Security taxes at all.
This means a bus driver pays 12% while a hedge fund manager pays 0.12% or less.
The fix is simple. Cut the Social Security payroll tax in half, from 12.4% to 6.2%, and tax every dollar of income with no cap. Everyone pays the same rate. No loopholes, no cliffs, no exemptions.
Here's what that would do:
95% of Americans get a 6% raise overnight. That's between $3000 - $6000 for the median household.
Social Security is fixed. No more insolvency.
The economy grows. When working people have more money, they spend it. That demand flows straight to their local economies and drives hiring, driving even more growth.
What do you think?
Chelsea dad g09
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Chelsea dad g09
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Again you post without research. The widow has received the 100k benefit. What she hasnt received is the hostile pay benefit and the tax benefit. And you continue to say maga is the brainwashed cult. Pathetic.
Chelsea dad g09
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Chelsea dad g09
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Oh man, I guess she'll have to buy her goods from China then because they treat others so humanely there.
Hüsker Dü
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I'm done tolerating stupid — I'm over it. I'm so sick and tired of how low the bar is for Donald Trump and so many of the people who support him because we need to be "respectful of other people's opinions" or because we need to pander to and placate idiots.
Trump is a dumb*ss who refers to wind turbines as "windmills" and pushed unfounded conspiracies about acetaminophen — though he called it "Tylenol," which is a brand — because he's too f*cking illiterate to learn to pronounce acetaminophen, which is the actual drug he was spreading lies about.
Foreign governments don't pay the tariffs, and if you're someone who still believes that, you're an idiot.
To be honest, if you ever believed that in the first place, you're an idiot.
Why is it on the rest of us to lower ourselves to the mental capacity of a small, uneducated child to discuss these topics because millions of people, led by this total imbecile of a president, don't want to be properly informed and educated?
I don't like judging people, but when millions of people choose willful ignorance — then I'm going to judge.
Oh, "let's have a debate about climate change" — no.
It's f*cking real, and the overwhelming majority of scientists all over the planet agree. It's not a "debate." It's two groups of people:
1. Informed people who believe in science.
2. The ignorant.
That's it — that's the "debate."
Which side are you on?
Drill, baby, drill?
The United States has been the world's top energy producer for nearly a decade — so why the hell is gas over $4 a gallon due to a war on the other side of the world?
Oh, I know why — because oil prices are set by the global market, so it really doesn't matter how much we "drill, baby, drill" within the United States if the majority of that oil is going to be sold at whatever the market price is — a price that's heavily influenced by global markets.
But, yes, let's keep letting the Republican Party push its bullsh*t lie about how "America needs energy independence by drilling more" because stupid people who don't know how any of this works believe it.
Oh, they want to push conspiracies about Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden regarding COVID, but say nothing about Donald Trump, the president when the pandemic started, the country shut down, and the vaccine was developed — the same moron who initially said it would "go away very quickly" and suggested that people might possibly inject themselves with bleach?
That's willful stupidity and fake, bullsh*t "outrage."
They really think the country is more respected than ever under Trump?
By f*cking who?
It certainly isn't any of our allies who all can't stand us right now. It certainly isn't our enemies who are sitting back laughing at this orange diaper stain tearing apart the country from within — so who?
It's beyond my comprehension to even try to grasp how stupid someone has to be to actually believe that.
Speaking of stupidity that's impossible to grasp — Democrats are rigging elections!
There's no logical, rational, factual, or reality-based argument to be made for such an asinine and moronic belief.
As of now, Republicans control the House, Senate, and the White House — all power they obtained while Democrats were in charge.
Trump's won the presidency twice, both times when a Democrat was in the White House. In addition to that, in those elections, he won in Democrat-run states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Meanwhile, in 2020, when Biden won, Trump was president, and Biden won in the "red" states of Georgia and Arizona.
If Democrats are "rigging elections," then they're either doing a terrible job at it or they're "rigging" them so that Republicans win.
Either way, anyone who actually believes Democrats are "rigging" elections isn't just among the dumbest people on the planet — they're total f*cking brainwashed morons.
If you want to have a debate over abortion, sure, let's discuss that. There's key context there that's at least somewhat subjective. If you want to talk about transgender people in sports, or how we should handle children who are transgender, okay, again, there's a lot of context there and aspects of that topic that aren't black and white. If you want to have a discussion over regulations and taxes concerning how we should build an economy that benefits most Americans, let's have at it. There's a lot to discuss there, and opinions, while I might disagree with them, are at least based on some level of subjectivity.
But what I'm done having are "debates" over reality vs. whatever MAGA fan fiction, delusional bullsh*t people who choose to be willfully ignorant and fake outrage claim to believe.
You know, all the people who were totally against the United States getting into new wars, claiming that it was Democrats and Kamala Harris who would end up getting us into a war with Iran — only to now be all on board with Trump's Iran war, completely contradicting their previous propaganda.
People who we all damn well know would be going ballistic if Harris or any Democrat started that same war.
You know, the same people who blamed Biden for $4 gas linked to a war he didn't start, who now make excuses for $4 gas tied to the war Trump did start.
Absolutely shameless hypocrites.
But here's the truth: If any Democrat did even 1/1000th of the things Trump's said and done while in office, the GOP, the conservative media, and Republican voters would be losing their damn minds.
Yet, when Trump decides to blatantly sell insider trading and market manipulation via "early access to his market-moving social media posts" for $100,000 per month — they're okay with that.
I'm not tolerating that bullsh*t anymore. If someone wants to defend this president doing three incredibly terrible things:
1. Profiting from the presidency by unethically selling insider information.
2. Investing based on the very same insider information he's selling on his social media platform.
3. Blatantly selling insider information and manipulating markets based on the very policies he's setting.
If they want to try to defend that: f*ck them.
I'm done with it.
It's sickening how all these standards have been lowered simply because this president is a bottom-feeding, low-IQ, bumbling nitwit, lowlife piece of sh*t supported by tens of millions of easily triggered snowflakes who would rather live in a land of MAGA delusions so that they can "own those libs" than simply face reality and admit that they were duped by a con artist and they were wrong.
The same people who want to talk about "Christian values" — when they're not Christians. You cannot be a Christian and a Trump supporter; the two aren't reconcilable. He's the antithesis of everything real Christian values represent. That's like claiming you're a vegan while you chow down on a ribeye covered in butter.
They all have the freedom of religion that our First Amendment rights give them, but I'll be damned before I call any of them a Christian, and if any of them want to make that laughable claim around me, I won't hesitate to correct them. I'm done tiptoeing around these fake "Christians" tarnishing the faith, trying to make themselves feel better and justified for being selfish, hateful as*holes.
As a society, we have to demand better. We have to stop allowing the dumbest among us to bring us down to their level, all so that we don't offend these fragile little snowflake losers.
If they don't like it, tough sh*t.
As many on the right have told all of us when we've called for common-sense gun reforms following one of the many mass shootings we've had in our schools in the United States: f*ck your feelings.
If they don't like reality, facts, important context, or logic, or having the idiotic, stupid things they believe thrown back in their faces, then they need to do better.
We don't need to "adapt" to them — they need to grow up, be better, and actually earn respect.
Until then, if they want to worship an idiot, believe in dumb*ss things, and deny indisputable facts and reality while unabashedly contradicting themselves anytime this orange idiot does something that forces their hypocrisy to shine, then I'm going to keep on calling them some of the dumbest motherf*ckers on the planet.
And I'm not going to feel the least bit sorry about it.
Trump is a dumb*ss who refers to wind turbines as "windmills" and pushed unfounded conspiracies about acetaminophen — though he called it "Tylenol," which is a brand — because he's too f*cking illiterate to learn to pronounce acetaminophen, which is the actual drug he was spreading lies about.
Foreign governments don't pay the tariffs, and if you're someone who still believes that, you're an idiot.
To be honest, if you ever believed that in the first place, you're an idiot.
Why is it on the rest of us to lower ourselves to the mental capacity of a small, uneducated child to discuss these topics because millions of people, led by this total imbecile of a president, don't want to be properly informed and educated?
I don't like judging people, but when millions of people choose willful ignorance — then I'm going to judge.
Oh, "let's have a debate about climate change" — no.
It's f*cking real, and the overwhelming majority of scientists all over the planet agree. It's not a "debate." It's two groups of people:
1. Informed people who believe in science.
2. The ignorant.
That's it — that's the "debate."
Which side are you on?
Drill, baby, drill?
The United States has been the world's top energy producer for nearly a decade — so why the hell is gas over $4 a gallon due to a war on the other side of the world?
Oh, I know why — because oil prices are set by the global market, so it really doesn't matter how much we "drill, baby, drill" within the United States if the majority of that oil is going to be sold at whatever the market price is — a price that's heavily influenced by global markets.
But, yes, let's keep letting the Republican Party push its bullsh*t lie about how "America needs energy independence by drilling more" because stupid people who don't know how any of this works believe it.
Oh, they want to push conspiracies about Anthony Fauci and Joe Biden regarding COVID, but say nothing about Donald Trump, the president when the pandemic started, the country shut down, and the vaccine was developed — the same moron who initially said it would "go away very quickly" and suggested that people might possibly inject themselves with bleach?
That's willful stupidity and fake, bullsh*t "outrage."
They really think the country is more respected than ever under Trump?
By f*cking who?
It certainly isn't any of our allies who all can't stand us right now. It certainly isn't our enemies who are sitting back laughing at this orange diaper stain tearing apart the country from within — so who?
It's beyond my comprehension to even try to grasp how stupid someone has to be to actually believe that.
Speaking of stupidity that's impossible to grasp — Democrats are rigging elections!
There's no logical, rational, factual, or reality-based argument to be made for such an asinine and moronic belief.
As of now, Republicans control the House, Senate, and the White House — all power they obtained while Democrats were in charge.
Trump's won the presidency twice, both times when a Democrat was in the White House. In addition to that, in those elections, he won in Democrat-run states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Meanwhile, in 2020, when Biden won, Trump was president, and Biden won in the "red" states of Georgia and Arizona.
If Democrats are "rigging elections," then they're either doing a terrible job at it or they're "rigging" them so that Republicans win.
Either way, anyone who actually believes Democrats are "rigging" elections isn't just among the dumbest people on the planet — they're total f*cking brainwashed morons.
If you want to have a debate over abortion, sure, let's discuss that. There's key context there that's at least somewhat subjective. If you want to talk about transgender people in sports, or how we should handle children who are transgender, okay, again, there's a lot of context there and aspects of that topic that aren't black and white. If you want to have a discussion over regulations and taxes concerning how we should build an economy that benefits most Americans, let's have at it. There's a lot to discuss there, and opinions, while I might disagree with them, are at least based on some level of subjectivity.
But what I'm done having are "debates" over reality vs. whatever MAGA fan fiction, delusional bullsh*t people who choose to be willfully ignorant and fake outrage claim to believe.
You know, all the people who were totally against the United States getting into new wars, claiming that it was Democrats and Kamala Harris who would end up getting us into a war with Iran — only to now be all on board with Trump's Iran war, completely contradicting their previous propaganda.
People who we all damn well know would be going ballistic if Harris or any Democrat started that same war.
You know, the same people who blamed Biden for $4 gas linked to a war he didn't start, who now make excuses for $4 gas tied to the war Trump did start.
Absolutely shameless hypocrites.
But here's the truth: If any Democrat did even 1/1000th of the things Trump's said and done while in office, the GOP, the conservative media, and Republican voters would be losing their damn minds.
Yet, when Trump decides to blatantly sell insider trading and market manipulation via "early access to his market-moving social media posts" for $100,000 per month — they're okay with that.
I'm not tolerating that bullsh*t anymore. If someone wants to defend this president doing three incredibly terrible things:
1. Profiting from the presidency by unethically selling insider information.
2. Investing based on the very same insider information he's selling on his social media platform.
3. Blatantly selling insider information and manipulating markets based on the very policies he's setting.
If they want to try to defend that: f*ck them.
I'm done with it.
It's sickening how all these standards have been lowered simply because this president is a bottom-feeding, low-IQ, bumbling nitwit, lowlife piece of sh*t supported by tens of millions of easily triggered snowflakes who would rather live in a land of MAGA delusions so that they can "own those libs" than simply face reality and admit that they were duped by a con artist and they were wrong.
The same people who want to talk about "Christian values" — when they're not Christians. You cannot be a Christian and a Trump supporter; the two aren't reconcilable. He's the antithesis of everything real Christian values represent. That's like claiming you're a vegan while you chow down on a ribeye covered in butter.
They all have the freedom of religion that our First Amendment rights give them, but I'll be damned before I call any of them a Christian, and if any of them want to make that laughable claim around me, I won't hesitate to correct them. I'm done tiptoeing around these fake "Christians" tarnishing the faith, trying to make themselves feel better and justified for being selfish, hateful as*holes.
As a society, we have to demand better. We have to stop allowing the dumbest among us to bring us down to their level, all so that we don't offend these fragile little snowflake losers.
If they don't like it, tough sh*t.
As many on the right have told all of us when we've called for common-sense gun reforms following one of the many mass shootings we've had in our schools in the United States: f*ck your feelings.
If they don't like reality, facts, important context, or logic, or having the idiotic, stupid things they believe thrown back in their faces, then they need to do better.
We don't need to "adapt" to them — they need to grow up, be better, and actually earn respect.
Until then, if they want to worship an idiot, believe in dumb*ss things, and deny indisputable facts and reality while unabashedly contradicting themselves anytime this orange idiot does something that forces their hypocrisy to shine, then I'm going to keep on calling them some of the dumbest motherf*ckers on the planet.
And I'm not going to feel the least bit sorry about it.
Hüsker Dü
DA
The signs of ineptitude
Pete Hegseth is trying to silence anyone who exposes his failures as Secretary of Defense. The Pentagon fired three Stars and Stripes journalists just a few days after the outlet published a story about mental health and food and water shortages aboard the USS Lincoln.
These firings threaten the independence of a news source that has served our troops and their families for more than a century. I commend these reporters for having the courage to tell the truth and hold Pentagon leadership accountable.
This Administration has even tried to hide the numbers of American service members killed and wounded in this war. From silencing reporters to withholding basic information from the American people, they are doing everything they can to keep the public in the dark.
Pete Hegseth is trying to silence anyone who exposes his failures as Secretary of Defense. The Pentagon fired three Stars and Stripes journalists just a few days after the outlet published a story about mental health and food and water shortages aboard the USS Lincoln.
These firings threaten the independence of a news source that has served our troops and their families for more than a century. I commend these reporters for having the courage to tell the truth and hold Pentagon leadership accountable.
This Administration has even tried to hide the numbers of American service members killed and wounded in this war. From silencing reporters to withholding basic information from the American people, they are doing everything they can to keep the public in the dark.
Chelsea dad g09
SILVER
Oh man the irony of posting that someone else is stupid for "fake, bullshit "outrage"" after posting a lie for fake, bullshit outrage 
Chelsea dad g09
SILVER
Oh watch out, someone's upset and over it. Apparently they dont feel sorry about it either. What will we ever do?