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Hero-worship makes for such a convincing argument. At least it does to hero worshipers.

This is from Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary: "There could be numerous countries, and it may not be the actual trade document, but we will have an agreement in principle and be able to move forward from there," he added. https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-pressed-fast-negotiations-105125985.html Lowering the bar much?

More nonsense from you. I've repeatedly cited the first Amendment. The first amendment does not apply to private institutions. What don't you understand about that? As for Woodrow Wilson et alii, how many times has the government tried to suppress or criminalize free speech and been prevented by the courts because of the First Amendment?

What don't you understand about why the First Amendment bars governments from restricting speech but not non-governmental institutions? Private institutions may have perfectly legitimate reasons to regulate speech and enforce respect for members of the community. But the government has no such right and no legitimate reasons for punishing speech which it judges to be disrespectful or hateful. The Founding Fathers were justifiably wary of government attempts to encroach upon the practice of free speech.

Yes, that has happened in the past occasionally. But not for a long time despite occasional government attempts to restrict speech. And what does that have to do with your attempt to equate non-governmental institutions that impose speech rules with thegovernment doing the same? What really makes this funny is that right wingers complained about Facebook or and Twitter imposing restrictions on speech but favor governments doing the same. It's like they live in opposite world.

Well criminal libel is pretty much on the backfoot due to various court rulings. And that group libel law in Illinois hasn't been invoked since about 1950. I doubt it would pass Constitutional muster today. And there is no Federal law establishing libel as a criminal offense. As for the rest. What don't you understand about the fact that it's a university imposing rules. Not the Government. The First Amendment forbids governments from regulating speech. It says nothing about other entities. No, the executive can't pass laws that limit free speech. Where did you come up with such a preposterous notion? It could sign into law such a bill from the Congress. But the courts can still overturn it.

Not surprising that you would like the Bell Curve. After all, most of it was based on the work of Mankind Quarterly and the PIoneer Fund: "No fewer than seventeen researchers cited in the bibliography of The Bell Curve have contributed to Mankind Quarterly. Ten are present or former editors, or members of its editorial advisory board. This is interesting because Mankind Quarterly is a notorious journal of “racial history” founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race." https://archive.ph/VwlFd#selection-1589.22-1602.1 "The Pioneer Fund was incorporated on March 11, 1937. The incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes. The first, modeled on the Nazi Lebensborn breeding program,[17] was aimed at encouraging the propagation of those "descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and/or from related stocks, or to classes of children, the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended". Its second purpose was to support academic research and the "dissemination of information, into the 'problem of heredity and eugenics'" and "the problems of race betterment".[18]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

Laws against defamation and copyright infringement are civil matters. Not criminal. The executive branch has nothing to do with this. There are no federal laws against "hate speech" as such. Americans are free to espouse communism, racism, and they are even free to defend Adolph Hitler. "do you seriously think governments do not have the prerogative to determine what is free speech and what isn't? " The issue isn't governments in general, it's the US government that's the subject. Clearlly, you don't know that the courts have repeatedly put limits on what the the executive branch and congress can and can't do with regards to free speech. Stop making things up. Your proposal to ban political activism really runs against the heart of First Amendment. Good luck with that.

And it's down 16.11% compared to the Euro. Does that mean the Euro is a stronger currency than the dollar? https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=EUR&view=10Y

Every time you tell these lies I have to shoot you down. it's getting tiresome. What you fail to note that 10% for the big guy quote was a question not a statement. And later Hunter Biden is on the record in that laptop saying that his father gave him an "emphatic no" about getting involved with Hunter in the business." So there is absolutely no evidence that Joe Biden ever profited in any way from his son's schemes. I remember the last time you brought this up and you used Hunter Biden's use of LLCs as proof that he was up to something suspicious. I replied with evidence showing you that Trump used LLC's many more times over than Hunter Biden ever did. At which point you evaporated as per usual.

You mean the posters who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop proved Joe Biden's criminality?

Did you miss the part about him being native-born? Bigoted much?

A US-born man initially charged with being an “unauthorized alien” in Florida has been released after spending the night in jail on a 48-hour hold requested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol Wednesday when the car he was riding in was pulled over for a traffic stop, according to his attorney Mutaqee Akbar. Lopez-Gomez is an American citizen born in Grady County, Georgia, where he currently lives in the city of Cairo. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html He was arrested by Florida state police because Florida passed a law making it a crime for an undocumented alien to cross into the state. They reported this to ICE. ICE requested that he continue to be held despite the fact that it was quickly acknowledged that he was a native-born American.

I don't think there's much denial that it was sleazy of Hunter Biden to join the board of Burisma. It was sleazy of him and it's sleazy of Trump's sons. But nothing comes close to matching in sleaze Trump's issuing of a memecoin just before he took office.

What government are they alleged to be working for?

How is it the government's right to determine what speech is beneficial and what is not? I'll save you the trouble of looking the answer up: it's not. And it looks like you also believe that the government should also impose a dress and grooming code. Nanny state much?

U.S.′ inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a threat to its defense, warns CSIS As China imposes export controls on rare earth elements, the U.S. would be unable to fill a potential shortfall, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies — and this could threaten Washington’s military capabilities. Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs on China, Beijing earlier this month imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements and magnets used in defense, energy and automotive technologies. The new restrictions — which encompass the medium and heavy rare earth elements samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium — will require Chinese companies to secure special licenses to export the resources. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/us-is-unable-to-replace-rare-earths-supply-from-china-warns-csis-.html Not Just ‘Rare Earths’: U.S. Gets Many Critical Minerals From China Before this month, China had already restricted U.S. access to four critical minerals — gallium, germanium, antimony and graphite — in retaliation for earlier rounds of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. Those minerals are used in chip-making and have applications in semiconductors, military explosives and other weaponry. https://archive.ph/LoLxp#selection-2119.0-2119.319

It does raise this question: Why does Steve Bannon hate America?

Funny. You're actually the person who made that false claim about the roughly $4000 payment by Hunter Biden to his father. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/12/gop-misleading-claims-in-biden-impeachment-investigation/

Because if there's one thing Trump has demonstrated, it's his command of economic theory. There's also his love of facts.

Yes, breaking laws and lying about it for the sake of ends the government desires always ends well.

Please, are virtually all the world's major financial analysts trying to aggravate you, too?

Well, if I'm stupid I'm not alone. The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg's, the Financial times all think that this decline is due to the dollar. In fact, I defy you to find some financial reporting that says the sharp drop in the dollar was not due to fear about Trump's tariffs. Trying to throw something at the wall and see if it sticks. This is just argle-barge. It's very clear why the dollar suddently dropped in value. And no attempt by you to obfuscate will change that. Why Is the Dollar Tumbling? https://archive.ph/pCrSQ Dollar Falls Sharply on US Tariffs Concerns https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/dollar-falls-sharply-us-tariffs-concerns The declines came after the White House on Wednesday revealed sweeping 10 per cent tariffs on nearly all US imports, and levies of 20 per cent on EU goods and 34 per cent on Chinese goods, on top of tariffs already announced. The dollar fell 1.4 per cent against a basket of trading partners’ currencies in one of its worst days in the past year, as investors fretted about the impact on the US economy. https://archive.ph/AtRQg#selection-2211.0-2223.1 Dollar’s Losing Run Shows Wall Street Angst With Tariff U-Turns https://archive.ph/AVM3f#selection-1211.0-1211.63

You made lots of claims, and your responding only to this one? Well, obviously that's because your claim that the dollar was in decline because of inflation was nonsense. And your claim that QE contributed to post covid inflation is false. Someone could make a case for fiscal stimulus but considering how little fiscal stimulus the EU provided and that their inflation rates were similar, you'd have a tough time proving that point. And as for your claim that the central banks are still buying bonds...why would they do that with interest rates being where they are. The US prime rate is now 7.5%.

China can't cause a credit freeze. If it sells all its bonds it will create a rise in the interest rate that Treasury bonds have to offer. But that's not a freeze.