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    Price Gouging in the headlines

    Wouldn't it make sense to quote an aggregate price increase? Or a price increase by category or something? That the price of a 12-piece pot and...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    No Russia Collusion

    The primary sources quoted in the article don't seem to say what Gabbard says they say (that the Obama Admin engaged in a treasonous conspiracy to...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    2 minutes and 53 seconds

    If I take off my conspiracy hat and put on my gullible hat, I can imagine an innocent explanation of the missing 2:53. The first tape ended at...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    2 minutes and 53 seconds

    I don't really think so, not without some extraordinary political intervention. SOP would be to maintain confidentiality to refrain from accusing...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    Most MAGA, I suspect, really think Trump was clean. It the influencers and politicians who know better and cynically weaponize child rape. And...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    The only problem is that Trump doesn't need his base anymore because he is firmly ensconced and so he can do whatever he wants with no repercussions.
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    All that you say is true. But I guess I haven't given up my liberal ideals just because our government turned fascist.
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Zohran Mamdani on pace to become NYC Mayor in major upset over Cuomo

    I regret wasting my time in you.
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Zohran Mamdani on pace to become NYC Mayor in major upset over Cuomo

    No, didn't go to grocery stores when I was in Manhattan. I do, however, work in an industry where private companies compete against government...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    To that end of holding Trump accountable for stoking conspiracy theories all this time, I'm happy to have these efforts by Congress to force...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Zohran Mamdani on pace to become NYC Mayor in major upset over Cuomo

    I'm digging Mamdani. I hope he wins. That said, city-run grocery stores is a terrible idea. And some of his other programs of largesse will...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    Honestly, it wouldn't be appropriate to just release all the Epstein documents wholesale to the public. Every person named in any document would...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    The Big Beautiful Bill - "So Let It Begin"

    I don't think you're on medicaid or living in a one-light town in rural America, so you're probably not going to feel the dissolution of the...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Do you support a state income tax?

    The rainy day fund is completely full at $28.5 billion. That's the current cap. Revenues that continue to pour into it spill into the General Fund...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Do you support a state income tax?

    Data centers and commercial customers in general do not pay a premium. They get a volume discount. Data centers do put upward pressure on prices....
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion