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Gas prices slamming $4.55+ nationally with Illinois diesel hitting a insane new record at $6.06 has feeds exploding. Democrats are hammering Trump over the war link and inflation jumping to 3.8%. We’re paying $4.55 for a gallon of gas because Trump started a war with Iran based on a lie – just like the wars …
City leaders pitch “local business” and “environment” while pushing tighter travel and zoning rules. They wreck economies then lecture the little guy about flying too much. Foreign tourism has fallen off a cliff. This is a $100B domestic industry largely concentrated in NYC, southern Florida, southern California, and Las Vegas. Hotels, airlines, restaurants, and tour …
For those arguing the GDP data "isn't that bad" due to the gov't shutdown, the ACTUAL data DISAGREES. The GDP Deflator came in at 3.6% – meaning most of the 1.4% GDP was inflation, NOT real growth. Forget the shutdown excuse. The weakness is real, and productivity is terrible. https://t.co/W13nd3nZAh pic.twitter.com/f88eUhdNRX — Gordon Johnson (@GordonJohnson19) …
They are already making excuses byu/TonightSpiritual3191 inconspiracy Megyn Kelly thinks you should look at the difference between raping a 15 year old and a 5 year old. This is what republican pundits are arguing about. It’s sickening, they are preparing excuses if this bombshell gets worse. Don’t let them try and make that distinction Link …
Violence getting worse. Anyone stand against system, they in danger. People not safe. Speak out, you can get hurt. Politics and ideas make people attack each other. Media protect the ones start it. No one take real responsibility. Ordinary people live in fear, don’t know who can talk, who survive. Danger is not far, it …
Mayorkas excuses Biden’s unilateral mass amnesty for illegal aliens because “we need people who are willing to work” byu/wossnarp inConservative People aren’t willing to work because the left has spent the last 15 years telling everyone that you shouldn’t work in entry level jobs for less than $15 per hour. Once companies moved towards that …
Tel Aviv — Under pressure from the U.S. and other allies to flood the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid, Israel insists it’s doing everything it can, and it blames the United Nations for the starvation of thousands of Palestinians in the war-torn enclave. In a Wednesday morning social media post, the Israeli government said it …
The stupidity has gone full-tard times 1000x “Code of the District of Columbia § 22–1319. False alarms and false reports; hoax weapons. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully or knowingly give a false alarm of fire within the District of Columbia, and any person or persons violating the provisions …
via politico: “Even if there were surveillance cameras, unless you were waving it around, it may not have been caught” by the cameras, added the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity given that it’s an ongoing investigation. “It’s a bit of a thoroughfare. People walk by there all the time.” Yeah sure…. h/t EuphoricTrilby