All_Pro_Bills

The belief the U.S. is ordained to control the Western Hemisphere is typically referred to as the Monroe Doctrine first articulated by President James Monroe in 1823.

And likewise would not worry about the deficit or the national debt either. Reality is a real pain in the ass. We're boxed into a corner by the high debt load and obscene levels of government spending. As a nation we're faced with the inevitable decision that we need to cut our spending and standard of living somewhere, someplace, and for someone. But where? To cut the deficit in any meaningful way one or all of the following biggest spending items need to be addressed: 1) Social Security 2) Medicare 3) Medicaid 4) Defense 5) Interest Payments on the debt Pick one or pick two of them to address and then fight the special interests that will refuse to budge on any cuts or baked in future fiscal year increases. Address the interest payment problem by cutting spending and running surpluses to pay down debt. Or like Trump is doing, take the easy way out of it by moaning and groaning and complaining until the Fed cuts rates to save the government from borrowing more at higher rates. Who is going to entertain a political fight to cut anything? Nobody yet. The most likely scenario is neither political party will have any interest in addressing the growing national debt until something breaks, causing an "emergency". The the Fed will step in but they can only do so much. Basically, save two of the three items below. Pick two. 1) Save the equity markets 2) Save the bond and credit markets 3) Save the dollar. You can't save all three. My guess is they're pick 1 & 2. So at that point everyone can be happy with all-time highs in the stock market and big 401K balances denominated in dollars that don't buy much as each unit of currency is worth very little. Which leads me to conclude getting a good percentage of your assets out of the dollar, like we've seen with this tariff madness, and into things like emerging markets and hard assets, is a good idea.

Its obvious these store owners are racists. Even the African-American, Hispanic, and Asian minority store owners are racist, or racist adjacent. Because they won't rebuild in under-served and un-policed communities. That's the liberal view. But the view of reality is maybe the don't want to take the risk of getting their store burned down and looted a second time with the current Mayor and Governor in change of the City and State respectively? While the riots in the name of drug addict and street hustler George Floyd gave the liberal sect their moment of happiness the lasting impact is going to be quite negative for the citizens of this city. Much like the riots after the MLK assassination impacted cities like Detroit, Newark, and Buffalo socially and economically the same fate might fall to Minneapolis. I'll say one thing about the 60's. At least the death of Dr. King was worthy of the response. George? Not so much. But there are still plenty of other criminals the Democrats can get excited about defending against common sense.

The current Atlanta Federal Reserve Q2 2025 GDP estimate is 4.6%.

I know. And for a while it was very effective. Not so much lately.

50 bonus points if you can correctly name the 1st Democrat Senator or House Representative that will demand their release!

I doubt it. China's not in the fiscal position to be handing out charity.

What we had under Biden was the permanent Washington beauracracy making presidential decisions instead of the crash dummy fake President. That seems autocratic, and i dare say a coup.. Unelected, nameless, unidentified someone's hiding in the shadows acting as President. Let's find out who they where and arrest them all for treason.

The Democrats have been lecturing about toxic masculinity and pushing the effort to feminize men, and inside 100% push girl power, for at least couple decades and they wonder why young men reject their parties candidates and agenda? They're willing to do everything except whats necessary. Throw out the fringe left nutjobs from position of power inside the party and change their agenda. Let's see how that messaging change works!

J6 did happen. The official story from the Democrats and the J6 committee is 150,000 angry protesters, with direction and under orders from the outgoing President, attacked the Capitol with the objective of taking over the government and installing the outgoing President as the new President. Some claim a for life job. Yet they failed to achieve or even come close to their objective. The "insurrection" was a failure both in planning and execution. In subsequent months and years almost every person entering the Capitol was arrested and convicted of one charge or another. Are you with me so far? Now the part which to this day goes without explanation and very little discussion and no questioning. Even with such a simple question. Which is, faced with a token force of Capitol Police, and no National Guard reinforcements, how could 150,000 protesters challenged by only about 200 police officers fail to take over the Capitol? Just stopping a crowd that large with such intent with only about 200 officers armed with sidearms seems impossible. Because it is impossible. What stopped them? To believe that 200 officers stopped the takeover of the Capitol is to raise this event to the legendary performance of the 300 Spartans that repelled the entire Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. In order to believe the official J6 "story" you need to suspend reality and dismiss critical and logical thinking. Because the logical explanation is the crowd failed to take over the Capitol and achieve their aims because they had no intent to take over the building, overthrow the incoming administration, and reinstall the former President, or stop the electoral vote count. A small number of people attending the protest resorted to violence with the possibility of government agency infiltration into their ranks and some official incitement of the violence. Those responsible for the violence should and were held responsible. The government under Biden refused to divulge specifics or comment on government involvement. The J6 Committee wouldn't touch or entertain the topic lest it spoil their preconceived conclusions. Expectations are soon we will know more facts and details.

As their forecasting models have historically demonstrated a high error rate I'm 100% confident this year's forecast will be shown to be inaccurate at the end of the season.

It is a democracy. The president was elected by the voters winning the required electoral votes and also the popular vote. And unlike other "democracies" no candidate was disqualified like in Romania nor was any party outlawed like they're looking to do in Germany because the ruling powers were threatened so they resort to restricting the options presented to the voters to retain power. Or punish free speech like the UK. So our democracy works pretty well. Anyone looking for potential dictatorships should cast their gaze to Europe.

Its $16 for the GWB and another $9 to drive into lower Manhattan. $25/day. Over $6 grand a year. If you want to make some contention about States rights to soak drivers with high commuting costs have at it.

Somebody told me a while back that you can tell a lot about a person's situation by how much time and effort they spend thinking about the future. Generally, people well off or wealthy spend a lot of time worrying about the future vs. focusing on the present. The poor on the other hand, do not. A lot of the education problem has to do with the culture of poverty. People that value education are people that think a lot about the future. If you've got a decent job and a stable home life you're in a good position to do that kind of thinking. Those White and Asian households that you mention where education is deemed important provide that environment. A lot of black and hispanic households provide this kind of environment too. These are homes that produce the most proficient students and learners. These people learn that putting in the work in the present produces gratification and results in the future. The ability to defer gratification and rewards is a trait almost every single successful person in any field of work share. But if you're working poor or live at or below the poverty level, no matter your race and national origin, its hard to focus on the future when the present is a struggle for survival. In those circumstances, putting a lot of time and effort focusing on the future is not only a waste of time but can hinder the ability to survive under the present circumstances. You can't defer gratification and results or worry too much about the future, you need results and money now to survive. That these people need results now, not later, should be obvious because there may not be a later for them.

I have very little interest in the NBA and absolutely zero interest in the WNBA, but these black lesbians should be happy Clark is making their game more popular. That's the kind of thing that translates to higher salaries and potential sponsorship deals. They just can't stand the idea a white girl is more popular. These black players are racists.

Despite your efforts to absolve the medical community of any responsibility when politicians that instituted lock downs met any resistance they cited the advice of their medical experts and "the science" as the basis of their lock down proclamations. And as an aside, any medical professional that objected to the "consensus" view regardless of how credible their case or the power of their credentials in medical practice and research were threatened with fines and revocation of their medical license along with subtle and not so subtle threats of being blacklisting from the profession. Politicians may have held the medical community hostage to push their agenda but most were willing participants in the operation.

In 2020, Sweden had no lock downs and had a mortality rate 2/3 of the U.S. Its a developed nation comparable to the U.S. The average age of the population is about the same. Perhaps a generally more healthy population could explain the disparity? And if that's correct then I'd argue generally poor health makes people susceptible to all kinds of viruses, bacterial infections, and environmental hazards like air quality. So isn't the real problem in the U.S. we have a disproportionate number of overweight, out of shape citizens with poor eating habits and generally unhealthy lifestyles. Isn't that something RFK Jr. is targeting as a problem?

What exactly does the Democratic party stand for? 1. Love illegal immigrants and prioritize their "needs" over those of Americans. 2. Think men can be women, women can be men simply by believing it. 3. Hate white people while strangely most of them are white people. 4. Think anyone that doesn't embrace the above are racists and fascists. 5. Can't figure out why their message isn't resonating with the public.

One guy expressing displeasure with Trump is just one man's opinion not evidence of some consensus of ex or current military and by the looks of the surge in enlistments it appears most citizens inclined to consider military service as an option are happy with the direction being taken by the administration regarding the military. If you recall enlistment numbers under Biden sagged considerably as a result of DEI and other social justice practices.

The Sargent at Arms reports into the Speaker. No board is present and convened at the Capitol to debate and vote on necessary immediate operational securiy measures. The optics excuse is just that, an excuse because they were assembled about six blocks away. And the optics suddenly didn't matter when the call to deploy was finally made hours after the protest was over. Why avoid the fact Nancy's office dropped the ball? And if it wasn't her then who on site made the call to not deploy? We still don't know as they refuse to say. While the original J6 committee avoided asking questions a new inquiry likely will not. Lies live in the darkness and the truth will once again see the light of day.

The fake news craze went mainstream with Hillary's Russia collusion hoax. The democrats are still getting residual hype from the reruns without ever being able to confirm and prove anything. Just by following the practice of repeating a lie over and over until people believe it. So how stupid are liberals?

In alignment with the separation of powers, the office of the House speaker is accountable for providing security for the Capitol, not the President and the Executive branch. This has been noted and discussed on PPP already. So you're question is irrelevant. And do you remember who the Speaker was at the time of J6? The person in charge that rejected the offer to deploy the National Guard.

This is exactly correct and its been the case since Nixon's executive order eliminated the convertibility of the dollar into gold. And every administration since then has been on a quest to increase the national debt. Now about $36 Trillion. I saw numbers that speculated this bill will add $5 trillion to that figure. Something's got to give and its going to be the US dollar. Where I disagree with Massie is I believe we're a lot closer to the day of reckoning than he suggests. Trump's approach while politically different leads to the same result as Biden. We can argue politics all we want and blame one party or the other but in my view its merely a cleanest pig in the mud hole debate.

Or MOSSAD.

Except in America they're hiding ruthless street crime gang members armed with AK-47s selling drugs and running sex trafficking operations. But I sure can't wait to read the book or see the movie. What Trump's doing seems to be executive overreach and don't worry about Harvard. The US District Court for the District of Columbia will issue an injunction before the weekend.