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"They've managed to put us in a recession and triggered the highest inflation in 40+ years.  What's their solution?  Do more of the same.  Profligate spending triggered inflation, so they're going to spend more.  The GDP has gone negative, so they're supposedly going to stimulate the economy by draining more money from the private sector.  They seem determined to make the misery index a thing again.  And the Dems are convinced that everything will be okay if they call their plan the Inflation Reduction Act.  Right."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/democrat_logic_reduce_inflation_with_more_inflation.html

 

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Democrats are working Saul Alinsky’s eight steps as hard as they can. Wonder how far down in the ranks knowledge of this goes. 

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/update-still-havent-started-counting-az-since-shutting-last-night-lawless-katie-hobbs-not-updated-primary-results-since-7/

 

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A recession by any other name hurts the same.

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Senate Ratifies Sweden, Finland Request To Join NATO; Sen. Hawley Stands Alone In Dissenting.
U.S. Senators formally signed off on expanding the Western military alliance Wednesday by ratifying NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, which obligates American forces to defend the European countries in the event of an attack.
While the war between Russia and Ukraine continues, Finland and Sweden submitted applications to join the alliance after NATO leaders formally invited the countries into the 30-member organization. Of those, 22 have already approved the two Scandinavian countries’ bid for accession.
The resolution passed, 95-1, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) dissenting, citing that expanding American security commitments in Europe would only make the problem worse and the nation less safe. Hawley argued that the Chinese Communist Party is America’s greatest foreign adversary at the moment.
“Our foreign policy should be about protecting the United States, our freedoms, our people, our way of life,” Hawley said. “And expanding NATO, I believe, would not do that.”
“The United States must prioritize the defense resources we have for the China effort while there is still time,” Hawley said. “Until our European allies make the necessary commitments to their own national defense, we must not put more American lives at risk in Europe while allowing China’s power to grow unchecked.”
Now that the Senate passed the resolution with well over the required two-thirds vote, it now heads to President Biden to submit to the allied leaders.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-ratifies-sweden-finland-request-to-join-nato-sen-hawley-stands-alone-in-dissenting

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In ‘Damning’ Capitol Hill Testimony, Scientists Contradict Fauci’s Claim That NIH Never Funded Gain-Of-Function Research.
WASHINGTON — During a congressional hearing examining the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and gain-of-function research, multiple scientist witnesses contradicted Dr. Anthony Fauci’s claim that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) never funded gain of function research.
“The statements made on repeated occasions to the public, to the press and to policymakers by the NIAID director, Dr. Fauci, have been untruthful. I do not understand why those statements are being made because they are demonstrably false,” Rutgers University microbiologist Dr. Richard Ebright said Wednesday, responding to a question from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Wednesday afternoon that this contradiction, backed by the other witnesses, was the most “damning” thing to come out of Wednesday’s hearing, the first hearing examining the role of gain-of-function research (a process in which researchers may stitch viruses together to make a “chimeric” virus for the purpose of studying a response).
“I was told directly to my face, and the quote is there from Dr. Fauci, they had never ever funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan,” Paul told The Daily Wire as he left the hearing, referring to Fauci’s May 2021 assertion that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
“All three witnesses contradicted that,” Paul continued. “I think that’s a big deal because the first hearing we have had where scientists who actually look at this information [and], as informed as he is, completely disagree with him and say that the research was gain-of-function and the NIH paid for it.”
The witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing called for significantly greater oversight of gain-of-function research. Dr. Steven Quay, the founder of Seattle-based Atossa Therapeutics Inc., warned that “the work of this committee is critical to protecting the American people and, really, the world at large, from future manmade pandemics.”
Paul has previously called for Fauci to resign from his position for refusing to admit that the agency funded such risky research.
“Until you accept responsibility, we’re not going to get anywhere close to trying to prevent another lab leak of this dangerous sort of experiment,” the Kentucky Republican told Fauci in November. “You won’t admit that it’s dangerous, and for that lack of judgment, I think it’s time that you resign.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-damning-capitol-hill-testimony-scientists-contradict-faucis-claim-that-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research

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9 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Senate Ratifies ...Finland Request To Join NATO

Top-quality AKs. Korth-like.

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