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1) Inflation is at 2.4%, about half of the interest rate.
2) During Democrats’ time in office, the overnight lending rate has gone WAY below inflation, stuck at zero for almost of Obama AND Biden’s entire time in office, while quantitative easing meant the government was buying all of the government-issued debt.
3) The very time it would make sense to allow inflation to exceed interest rates would be if inflation were artificially boosted by importers passing on tariffs, since that would mean that any present inflation is not indicative of future inflation.

Even counting Crimea, there are fewer than a million ethnic Ukrainians in Russia. More than 20% of Russian citizens are, however, some other ethnic group. Most of the larger ethnic groups have their own republic within Russia, but of course a few of these (Chechens) would be happy for their republic to be allowed to secede.

Notice that EVERY spike in interest rates happened during a Republican president.

The purpose of raising rates is to prevent an over-heating economy from causing inflation-producing shortages. If you know that the cause of inflation is not an over-heating economy, why would you raise interest rates? The Fed’s failure to recognize temporary, transient causes for inflation resulted in recessions in 1982, 1991 and 2001. (Also, the Fed refused to see a developing crisis in 2007; forcing banks to make bad loans in order to be able to make good loans certainly made this recession far, far worse.)

Other than some forcible relocations (such as Gorbachev’s family from Ukraine to the Urals), why would you think anyone in Russia speaks Ukrainian?

Are there, though? Where in Russia would anyone speak Ukrainian?

About 50% of Ukrainians actually speak better Russian than Ukrainian. That makes sense, given the former Soviet domination. This chart shows which language people consider to be their NATIVE language; unlike your census question, you didn't need to appear to be loyal to a foreign power to be a "Russian" native speaker. OK, that link might be broken. See this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_census_2001_Russian.svg#/media/File:Ukraine_census_2001_Russian.svg

The question is almost like asking an LA Hispanic, “Are you American or are you Mexican?” People who’ve been in the US for several generations (and even a large portion of immigrants) will of course say that they are American. Ask which language they primarily speak, in spite of an unconstitutional repression of Russian, and you’ll find that most of Luhansk and Donetsk speak Russian primarily. The fact that up to 97% of other oblasts (states) in Ukraine DON’T primarily speak Russian tells you that this is not merely an effect of the Soviet Union’s promotion of Russian.

Crimea is absolutely dominated by Russians, and only became part of Ukraine in the 1960s to meet a goal of having plenty Russophones in every republic. It established a special status in Ukraine before seceding from the Soviet Union. That special status has been ignored and the people of Crimea have been much absued by the Ukrainian government. VERDICT: Russia

The industrial regions of Luhansk and Donestk are largely Russian. They have always been included in Ukraine, though, and the rural areas are largely Ukrainian. It would be plausible that the majority of Luhansk and Donestk residents in the urban areas would wish to be part of Russia, and Ukrainian tactics in the civil war pretty much rule out them ever being peacefully being united with Russia. VERDICT: Independent State.

Kherson and Zaporizhzhiya: Get real, Putin. This demand is absolutely unreasonable and Russia will need to march troops through Belgium before this becomes part of Russia again. VERDICT: Go f**k yourself, Putin.

Had to be suicide; he didn’t fall out of a window.

Hard to know if there’s a Bondi coverup, or if she was simply wrong. She said there was a pile of documents on her desk, needing to be looked through. The key part is that they needed to be looked through. If you know there’s a client list, and you demand all the documents, and you get all the documents, you would think the client list is among the documents. If that pile of documents is incomplete, you’re not going to know that until you go through them.

An extremely effective Russian propaganda mission that was far more effective among Democrats than among (*most) Republicans.

*I don’t have the numerical data I have for Democrats, but it sure seems like Free Republic has become quite the hotspot for neo-Soviet propaganda.

Very unsatisfying. Not so much country versions of Metallica music, but just random AI country music made using Metallica lyrics.

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She always looks like that.

Lies in the headline alone:

1) This isn’t Democrats. This is the Army Corps of Engineers, currently run by Donald Trump. The project progressed through the Biden years, but was initiated during the Trump years.

2) There are certainly no plans to go nationwide. It’s being used on an invasive plant that is identified as a crisis in Connecticut, and would be limited to the Connecticut River. This part of the Connecticut is brackish, and unfit for drinking water.

3) If the use of diquat is toxic, it’s the Republican government of Texas which has already used it on a larger scale. To be clear, diquat is toxic if directly ingested, but we’re not talking about ingesting it; as noted, the Connecticut is not a

My new theory:

The jaguar ad campaign was a Saudi plot to keep Europe rabidly consuming Saudi oil by transforming the image of electric cars from the all-time kings of torque and power into effeminite crap for the vegan-caviar set.

I think I’m joking, but I’m not sure.

Hold on, never mind; You’re just plain deceitful! I looked it up; there was no decline whatsoever before this. In fact, Jaguar had just had its best quarter in history! Why TH are you spreading lies defending the worst PR gaffe in advertising history?

I don’t understand comments like yours. Were Jaguar’s sales declining before the ad? Yes. But when you say “it didn’t cause the decline” in the context of discussing a 97% sales collapse, it’s impossible to perceive that you’re talking about the slight decay of sales begun prior to the new campaign, and not a collapse marked by a major inflection point as the new campaign was released.

I’m a proponent of adding a corrective amount of nuance to a conversation, but your comments seem more like those of a flaming nonbinary ideologue trying to gaslight The View viewers into ignoring the news than someone trying to prevent overselling the case.

Except every six minutes, The View has to retract what they said at the advice of their lawyers. It’s become quite the running gag.