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TigerIron
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…is wrong. The strongest central banks in the world all maintain independence from the government. The terrible ones are directly controlled. If you can find an example at odds with this description, then I’d welcome it.
If the Fed chair could be fired and hired on a president’s whims, our interest rates would simply go to whatever is most politically popular. You would get whiplash from the rate at which interest rates change. Economically it would be a disaster because the person who caused it could be out of office before the negatives really hit.
1) We don't have a government in which the people get to decide what the government does unless it's too important or tricky for them. If it is indeed so important that the people get no say in interest rates, then write that into the constitution.
2) We have one of those "strong central banks" and the dollar has done nothing but decline in value--nearly 100% since 1913. Nor did the Fed prevent the great depression or many other financial crashes since then. They "fixed" 2008 and 2020 with money policies that are making the dollar increasingly worthless.
3) Even if I am wrong about 2), see 1); if the Fed is so great then it should be no problem to amend the constitution to add it as a 4th branch of government.
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That post was written with chatGPT100%. That doesn't definitely make it fake but it makes me think it's very likely fake. It's also weird that is about a supposed confession but doesn't actually have or linked to the confession. And it has a link in it that seems like it's an ad for a trading site? The whole thing seems super fake.
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magine being called as a doctor to speak at a hearing on abortion medication, and then some a-hole politician asks you a question that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. A yes or no question was absolutely weilded as a political tool for a douchebag to create a viral social video for himself. Her mistake was politely trying to deflect an off-topic question instead of just telling him to frick off.
So your deflection is that abortion has nothing to do with pregnancy. And the Dems constantly yammer about women's rights to abortions but can't tell you who women are. OK.
A doctor who cannot admit that men don't get pregnant should not be listened to on any topic at all.
Hard to imagine why your side continues to stack massive Ls on this issue, all in the service of defending something obviously untrue (men are women if they say they are and we all have to go along with pretending).
It's truly something how the trans people can bully leftists into staying in line.
re: Does Austin, Texas have the most nature diversity east of the Rockies?
Posted by TigerIron on 1/15/26 at 8:02 pm to BluegrassCardinal
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East of the Rockies, you’re on the air!
Let's go to the wild card line.
re: The most political biased Federal Reserve Chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.
Posted by TigerIron on 1/15/26 at 1:19 pm to SlidellCajun
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Trump should have vetted him better. Seems to be a pattern
There's no reason (and it's unconstitutional) that the entity in charge of the monetary supply should be run by someone the President cannot fire. People will say we need the Fed, it has to be that way, but it doesn't. And having the Fed has not prevented the total erosion of the value of the dollar, nor the Great Depression, Black Friday, crashes in 2000 and 2008 or 2020.
There is no reason that one of the top 2 or 3 most important things the government does should be run by people who are not elected and are not in the control of people who are elected. The president (of either party) should be able to fire all fed board members on the first day in office, if he wants.
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I think SCOTUS is going to obliterate the whole "fluid gender" nonsense. This is a made up activist movement that intentionally refuses to rely on science in order not only change society perception, but change laws to its benefit. I see no way that SCOTUS will be kind to this from a legal posture and have a very harsh opinion.
You should listen to the argument. No one on the court says "this is all bullshite" or even says that in legal speak. They focus on technicalities and convoluted hypotheticals. Most worryingly, they seems to accept that it comes down to "what the science" says, when the science on this topic is totally agenda-driven to support the trans ideology and suppresses scientists who confirm the obvious truth of biological sex.
I think probably they will uphold the sports bans, but they really should come out and say that sex is the meaningful category both under the constitution and Title IX (and Title VII), and that made-up "gender identity" doesn't give anyone any special rights, ever. Unfortunately Gorsuch and Roberts already gave it a foot in the door a couple years ago in the worst Supreme Court decision since Roe.
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Shouldn't Justice Affirmative Action Jackson be REQUIRED to recuse herself from considering this lawsuit? She’s already admitted that she cannot tell the difference between a man and a woman. She cannot even define what a woman is. Therefore, how in the f*ck can she possibly render a non-biased and logical decision in this case?
I listened to the argument. The argument for the trans side was that the word "sex" in Title IX doesn't have a meaning, doesn't need to have a meaning, and doesn't mean biological sex. So, the statute says you can't discriminate based on sex but we don't know and don't need to know what sex means.
I'm not kidding or exaggerating.
re: SCOTUS Arguments On Men in Women's Sports
Posted by TigerIron on 1/13/26 at 11:56 am to RelentlessAnalysis
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Do you feel the same way about Clarence Thomas?
ZERO percent chance he would have gotten Thurgood Marshall's former seat, if he were White.
This was because the Democrats would never have allowed a white person to fill Marshall's seat. There were only 41 Republican senators at the time. The Republicans weren't into DEI ins 1992, and they weren't getting any black votes at the time anyway. PS the Dems still tried to take Thomas out by smearing him.
Sorry your whatabout gotcha blew up in your face.
re: Agitator Swipes BP Agents Arm When He is Told to Get Back He Finds Out
Posted by TigerIron on 1/12/26 at 9:22 am to SixthAndBarone
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As much as I hate these douchebags, why would you celebrate a government agent forcing someone practicing his first amendment right to “get back”?
There's a first amendment right to engage in speech. The idea that it allows you to crowd around and harass officers while filiming them, getting within arm's/ weapon's length, is wrong. If the courts say that is first amendment activity, they're wrong.
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It's even worse nowadays, FFS do we need a phone app for everything?
That one is so they can leech all the data off your phone like your location and such.
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Here’s the actual issue
In 1980, the U.S. population was around 226.5 million, predominantly White (about 80%), with Black residents at 11.5%, Hispanic/Latino at 6.5%, and Asian Americans at 1.8%
Compare that to now. The foreign-born population hit a peak of 53.3 million in January 2025 (15.8% of U.S. population)
Whites make up 57-59%
Hispanic/Latino 20%
Black 13%
Asian 7%
We’ve imported the Third World in the last 45 years. So, of course things won’t be the same
One example particularly relevant to the point of this book is that both Reagan and O'Neill were Irish (the Kennedys too) and that probably helped establish a baseline of trust and common ground to work from.
Also one of the nails in the coffin of the old America was the 1986 amnesty, which was one of the fruits of this supposed great cooperation between Reagan and O'Neill.
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You are like a pharisee. I'm not talking about legality. Legality is like lowest bar of ethics/morality. I support the legal system, it's useful, we need it, but, it's only the arbiter of right and wrong for pharisees and idiots.
Morally, the woman who spent all day every day fricking with law enforcement and then crossed the line into driving her car towards them to get away from them is not in a superior position to the law enforcement officer who approached her car, saw the car coming at him, and made a split second decision to draw and shoot to protect himself.
The moral case here is actually easier than the legal one unless you start from the premise that ICE is inherently evil and it's ok to do whatever you can to stop them.
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The board sinks lower everyday with its lack of substantive, rational discourse…
I accept your apology.
re: Officer cell phone footage released
Posted by TigerIron on 1/9/26 at 12:48 pm to IvoryBillMatt
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I'm just here to improve my understanding of topics that interest me. I don't care what you think my motives are.
What did the cellphone video prove that we didn't know?
That you are who we thought you were.
re: Officer cell phone footage released
Posted by TigerIron on 1/9/26 at 12:21 pm to IvoryBillMatt
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So he dropped his cell phone to grab his weapon.
Other than Agent Ross's quick reflexes and the fact that Good wasn't blocking the whole road, what is this supposed to prove?
No one buys your "I'm with you guys, I just have a few questions, here's a good video from the NYT" bullshite.
re: NY Post: Renee Good Was Trained In Anti ICE Resistance
Posted by TigerIron on 1/8/26 at 6:04 pm to LuckyTiger
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To listen to commands,
Going along with the summer of Floyd, and the COVID madness, fricked the country up for 4 years. Using that example is if anything the best reason not to cave in and go along with the narrative everyone is screeching about this shooting.
re: Woman in Minnesota tried ramming ICE Officer gets unalived. NSFW
Posted by TigerIron on 1/7/26 at 1:21 pm to Harry Caray
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Or shoot the tires...but that's expecting our law enforcement to be thoroughly trained, which isn't a reality in America.
"Shoot the tires" = The surest sign that someone is an idiot who has gained all knowledge of these things from watching action movies.
Shooting the tires does frick-all when a car is about to run over someone standing right next to it.
And there is no law enforcement anywhere that's trained to "shoot" the tires when a vehicle places them in fear of harm.
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Watch this angle. She was clearly trying to go around him, he was out of the way, but still pulled his gun and fired.
No way you can honestly say she was trying to run him over.
She was blocking the road to stop them getting through, she tried to back up as they approached, she gunned it as they got to the vehicle, with one of them standing right off her driver's side headlight. It doesn't matter whether she was "trying" to hit him, he had a more than reasonable belief he was going to be hit.
Also given the course of absolute stupidity she engaged in up to that point she almost certainly thinks ICE agents deserve to die.
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Not seeing any injured ICE agents in the video.
Yes, shooting her worked.
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lots of teams would have gone 11-2 with their schedule last year
Indiana was not one of those teams for about the past 130 years of it having a football team.
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