BUYING VOTES 101

by Jim Quinn The national debt went up by $1.2 TRILLION in the last fiscal year. Tax revenue plummeted, while spending skyrocketed. Interest on the debt soared to an all-time high. Promise more tax cuts with no plan to pay …

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Student at college in Crimea shoots and kills 19+. The news actually shows clips from the several security cameras – why don’t they do this in the U.S.?

“At least 19 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a shooting at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea. An 18-year-old student ran through the Kerch technical college firing at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian investigators say. Witnesses …

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For those asking. The President has complete authority under the Constitution of the United States (Title 8 U.S. Code § 1182) to stop the migrant horde currently on the way to the border.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182 Article 4 Section 4 of the Constitution also grants him the power. Section 4 – The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and …

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Morgan Stanley’s chief equity strategist Michael Wilson ominously warned that US capital markets have “hit the tipping point”

https://twitter.com/MI_Investments/status/1054412524613906432 THE SYSTEM DIED. THE RESET IS COMING. — Lynette Zang from SGTreport: Seven interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve since Fall of 2015 and still the 30 year sits at 3.1? Meanwhile, President Trump criticizes the Fed for raising …

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AFTER 10 YR EXPANSION: CAN’T NORMALIZE INTEREST RATES, CAN’T REDUCE BALANCE SHEET, NEED TRILLION $ DEFICITS, MORE TAX CUTS AND STIMULUS BEING CONSIDERED

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1054315366787284995 Everyone waxes about how great the US economy is. Strip out housing and autos and I suppose that's true. Fiscal sugar-high and pre-tariff ordering providing this Potemkin-like atmosphere. 2019 very clouded. — David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) October 22, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1054199129352691713 …

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Anyone else stunned by the strikingly different reactions and responses to the disappearance of Khashoggi compared to the chief of Interpol?

by axolotl_peyotl These two situations are obviously very different and involve entirely different state actors, but something is not sitting right with me here. The sketchy Deep State connections to Khashoggi aside (ie his friendship with Osama bin Laden), I found it shocking how …

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