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I am not cherry picking anything... I bought eggs two days ago local and they were sub $4.00, Regular gas (I use premium), was $2.59. I did not say the economy is good, but it clearly is improving and is likely to do so. The futures are up big this morning (Dow 1,000 pts / NASDAQ 891 pts), as a result of the trade deal with China. I believe the deal sets the baseline at 10% on both sides. I certainly don't think Trump is going to replace the income tax with tariffs, but his strategy (which absolutely needed to be done), does appear to be working. I don't do truth and while my "echo chamber" is to focus on the positive yours is all negative.

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If they are going to set the price of the drug, that's bad. Price controls are never a good thing. But if they are going to establish rules by which pricing must be fair across trading partners, that's an entirely different thing altogether. This is a perfect example of how other countries take advantage of the United States by methods other than tariffs. We don't participate in the same sort of fuck fuck games, so using tariffs as a retaliation are a simple way to make the problem go away.

Come on brother...you are smart and there are better ways to make an actual point about economic policy. Think critically...this is a FAR more complicated issue than Communist price control. This is more about trade and ending a sweet heart deal the Pharmaceutical industry has had for FAR too long. It is not a free market when the rest of the world limits the price and the only "free" market is in the U.S. The United States represents 4% of the world's population but we generate 66% of the profit in the pharmaceutical industry. The high price of new drugs has always been falsely explained as the cost of research...true or not it is now time for the rest of the world to share in that development cost.

I think we both reside in our personal bias. I have been clear that I do not blindly follow Trump...he is so caustic I wish there was another option but he obviously has a death grip on the base and it turned into a binary choice (again). As much as I despise his mouth I checked his name on the ballot because IMO electing Harris would have driven us over a cliff. Lets be clear on anecdotal evidence, you quoted anecdotal evidence first...I quoted the national average of wholesale which will eventually matriculate down to brick and mortar stores. The whole egg story is stupid anyway....it was not the fault of either party, rather the confluence of some bad events and several outbreaks of Bird Flu which led to culling of millions of chickens. Chickens breed quickly and flock are recovering rapidly, some regulation of the edges would likely help. With regard to oil futures, it is NOT just about refined gas but for some reason that is what people lock on to, I guess because they see it on the pump everytime they fill up. I am sure you know oil still powers our economy and as the price of crude so does all of the cost associate with producing and transporting goods. Also, energy costs are always in lag and will likely show next quarter. The beginnings showed in March as core inflation decreased. With regard to currency and our reckoning, we need another thread but yes turbulent times ahead. Tariffs...I applaud what Trump has done, as long as it remains part of bargaining. The imbalance of tariffs against the U.S. and our industry is staggering and we turned a blind eye for so long it became the norm. I do not believe the Tariff talk was anything more than bargaining bluster which is standard for Trump and luckily in this case we have the upper hand on the Chinese which is the key to all of the other deals. As far as other policies...in my other post I referenced Trump's willingness to raise taxes on the wealthy...we all know that is very symbolic unless they substantially change the laws on trusts and borrowing against wealth to avoid taxes (trust me I personally benefit from it). What is more important is he said it out loud...again, a Republican President said it out loud. There is symbology here and while it might not make it through the house, it stymies the DNC argument. He is also supposed to sign an executive order today that limits prescription drug prices...pharmaceutical donors to the GOP are not happy today.

So I assume everyone on this forum is having a conniption about the communist policy coming out? Would love to hear why central price control is different now - think critically.

Dreamliner will do just fine.

sounds like TDS bro...gas is $1.98/gal!

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mother of all thread derails jesus dude

*yawn* That sophist nonsense again? cool I'll play. Sorry about the GO thread derail: This isn't about generals, this is a larger austerity project than the author intimates. Yeah I see you (the royal you). I've heard that pitch at least 3 times before in my career as an AFRC baby. It's the same ol song and dance that if your position is primarily stateside, you shouldn't wear a uniform. And I got the same retort I've always had for these doublespeaking austerity hawks: FUPM. That expeditionary force myopia is not suprising, given this admin is the party of FAFO, but you're assaulting/gutting your Reserve component capacity with that kind of deployment-supremacist view. More to the regAF point, wildly overestimating the degree of active duty retention you think you have by attempting to extend that COA into AD end strength. Typical FAFO hubris from the "I won't be here when the grenade goes off" dum dum Willie types. To say nothing of AD largesee for me but not for thee run amok. Matters not. You think you can operationally staff DOD congressional pork barrel economy garden spots with 60 cents on the dollar 'local' blue suiters? Go right ahead, let me run to the microwave real quick and get the corn bag. Fact is nobody with a scintilla of existing corporate continuity/tactical expertise is going to do this job beyond the journeyman level (get the civilian transferable training and immediately bounce, brain drain jobs program) in present circumstances as an ART equivalent or worse, no military code GS, when they have to punch out of that 1960s decaying empire Boeing-betrayed POS. No buck no buck rogers homey. And there's a hell of a lot more to that buck than W2 wages. Serious people recognize than nuance, unserious austerity clowns don't. This not conjecture, they cannot staff ART billets to save their lives even if you threw in a free Oprah car with it. They gutted FERS with that multiplier nonsense (1.0 vs 2.5 or even 1.7 for LEO, good grief, and a 4.4 fee since '14 as of last reading), pushed the sunsetting of ART Tricare ineligibilily to FY30 (a fucking theft, when no such imposition is made of retirees who go straight GS employees). And you want to backstop your baseline regAF capacity with that kind of retail level turnover job offers? lulz. It's also the same reason you're not going to retain talent by trying to send career tactical experts (aka technicians, in the occupational meaning of the word) to warrant payscales. That's not a programmatic quip either, they're not doing that to end up paying operators *O(SP)-4/5 money to do the job. (*that's my ficitious O-4/5 equivalent to the ARMY exintct specialist SP tables, non-commanding track, latter which my late English-illiterate grandfather retired from the army in 1966). The point of their COA is the paycut. FAFO. The level of myopia in that austerity pitch is wild. It's all good though, we already got IPT early exit polls in AETC already brewing a real sweet track record on the FAFO front. Add some Boeing malfeasance on the T-7 side and you got yourself a real boondoggle. I could tell y'all what Boeing plans to do to meet IOC contract legalities this summer, but I'd straight up doxx myself at this point and betray the confidence of my sources, so I'm gonna digress. DOD management (leaders they are not) is starting to show their arsecrack once again when they bend over to pick up pennies while walking over dollars. Now back to GO officer drawdown kabuki theater potato.

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Being against Hamas is not the relevant metric. By the time of October 7th I believe Hamas had already lost a support of the majority of the Palestinians living in Gaza as political leadership. However there was practically no daylight between the "citizens" of Gaza and Hamas on the key issue: October 7th was to be celebrated and the Jews are to be killed. To further clarify using your distinction, I believe that Hamas needs to be exterminated with lethal force. I believe the people of Gaza (who have not individually murdered Jews, but pray for it daily) must be forcibly relocated from Gaza to another part of the world where they are with and/or surrounded by other Muslims. We could not exist peacefully with Mexico as a neighbor if a core identity of the Mexicans was the religious calling to murder, rape, and otherwise dominate Americans. And yes, of course an alternate solution would be to move the Israelis, but since they have no stated or apparent desire to rape and murder every Palestinian they can find, I think they get the benefit of the doubt.

"affirmative action, anti-racism, critical race theory, discrimination, diversity, gender dysphoria, gender identity and transition, transgender, transsexual and white privilege." please tell me why my kid needs to be exposed to CHILDREN's books talking about cutting their genitals off. and books telling my kid she is inherently racist and has white privilege. hypothetical argument because i'll never let my child be in a educational setting that pushes that trash.

Not even close to the dumbest thing I’ve seen from the boom operators.

DOGE said they can't afford to pay the 145% tariff

Here's a story relayed to me:. Iranians were sent to the US for pilot training and wore red helmets for identification purposes. One day, a couple instructors grab a couple red helmets and saddle up in a T-38. They launch and return to the T-38 pattern using an Iranian-ish accent. On the first touch and go, the IP in the front seat ducks down so the RSU sees an Iranian student solo in the back seat. The RSU freaks out and queries the "solo" who responds " I will fix.". On the next pass, the IP in the back seat ducks down so the red helmet is now in the front seat. Not sure that practical joke would be appreciated today. BTW, this was at Columbus pre-Ayatollah.