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LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:30 am Turned on the TV this morning and... for the past 10 months it's been "the fed can't cut rates before the election because they can't make it look like they are working for Biden." Today, when it appears they overshot unemployment and inflation is almost at target and will likely overshoot at present rate, the first thing I hear is "be careful what you wish for. Cuts demonstrate a broken economy." Turned the TV off.

Also the Harris statement is exactly what I wanted.

em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:57 am The market tanked today in Japan. Likely won't be good for the democrat side. Somebody better get to spinning.

em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:57 am The market tanked today in Japan. Likely won't be good for the democrat side. Somebody better get to spinning.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:09 am Trump already has. He's blaming Kamala for not being black enough.

geezer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 12:03 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:09 am Trump already has. He's blaming Kamala for not being black enough.

Apparently it’s “Kamabla” today, whatever that means. The guy has the brain of an 8-year-old.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 12:27 pm

geezer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 12:03 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:09 am Trump already has. He's blaming Kamala for not being black enough.

Apparently it’s “Kamabla” today, whatever that means. The guy has the brain of an 8-year-old.

I'd give him 12.

geezer wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 12:03 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 9:09 am Trump already has. He's blaming Kamala for not being black enough.

Apparently it’s “Kamabla” today, whatever that means. The guy has the brain of an 8-year-old.

TheMix wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:30 pm I assume it's another one of his "well thought out" nickname/insults and is short for "blah". You know, because she's so... boring, or something? Happily I don't understand how his mind works. But I think that it being short for "black" would be way too nuanced for him.

Unagi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:35 pm

TheMix wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:30 pm I assume it's another one of his "well thought out" nickname/insults and is short for "blah". You know, because she's so... boring, or something? Happily I don't understand how his mind works. But I think that it being short for "black" would be way too nuanced for him.

not just short for 'black', but "short of" black, i.e. 'not black enough'

TheMix wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:30 pm I assume it's another one of his "well thought out" nickname/insults and is short for "blah". You know, because she's so... boring, or something? Happily I don't understand how his mind works. But I think that it being short for "black" would be way too nuanced for him.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:37 pm Well, it's a new word and it trends . Like covvefe.

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:56 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:37 pm Well, it's a new word and it trends . Like covvefe.

covvefe is the past tense of covfefe when used in a sentence.

Archinerd wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2024 7:57 pm Are you sure? It's been awhile since I've been in health class but I thought covvefe was a veneral disease you could get from unportected sex with a La-Z-Boy.

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:34 pm
The Inflation Reduction Act (that tackles climate change for the first time and authorizes Medicare to negotiate drug prices)

Medicare’s new power to negotiate drug prices will lead to an estimated $6 billion in savings for the federal government and a $1.5 billion reduction in out-of-pocket costs for seniors when the lower prices take effect in 2026, the Biden administration announced Thursday.

The negotiation program, which was authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, has been a central talking point of the White House’s efforts to lower Americans’ cost of living, including for prescription medications, after inflation skyrocketed during President Joe Biden’s term. Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to continue campaigning on reducing drug prices in the runup to November’s election.
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Biden and Harris are expected to trumpet the results of the program in Maryland on Thursday afternoon in their first joint appearance since Biden announced he would not run for reelection and Harris replaced him as the Democratic nominee.
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Medicare wrangled savings of between 38% and 79% off the 2023 list prices of 10 drugs subject to negotiations, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The $6 billion in savings for Medicare represents a 22% reduction in total net spending on the medications, which factors in the rebates and discounts. Officials cannot provide details about the net cost cuts for each medicine since it is competitive information.
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The medications are Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica and Stelara, as well as Fiasp and certain other insulins made by Novo Nordisk, including NovoLog.

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 2:05 pm I'm glad I don't live in a contested state. We get a little splash damage from advertising in NH, but it's fairly minor.

I wish there were a way to limit campaigns to a few months, as many other countries do. I think Kamala is benefiting a lot from being a fresh option in a campaign that's dragged on for four years, effectively.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 10:48 am I think we're all hoping it's an extinction burst.

em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:57 am The market tanked today in Japan. Likely won't be good for the democrat side. Somebody better get to spinning.

Scraper wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 2:30 pm

em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 7:57 am The market tanked today in Japan. Likely won't be good for the democrat side. Somebody better get to spinning.

Isn't it weird how we haven't heard anything more out of Em2 on this subject?

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge refused to take Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name off presidential ballots in the battleground state on Thursday, a day before the first batches of November absentee ballots are slated to be sent to registered voters who requested them.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Rebecca Holt denied the temporary restraining order sought by Kennedy to prevent county elections boards from distributing ballots affixed with his name and requiring it to be removed. State law directs the first absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 elections be mailed to requesters starting Friday. A Kennedy attorney said the decision would be appealed and Holt gave him 24 hours, ordering election officials not to send out ballots before noon Friday.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina appeals court on Friday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name must be taken off state ballots for president, upending plans in the battleground state just as officials were about to begin mailing out the nation's first absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential election.

The first absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 election were supposed to be mailed out Friday, but the court ruling forced election workers to delay so they can make new ballots without RFK Jr. as an option.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:06 pm Interested to see the spin on the 50 basis point cut today. The economy is so horrible they had to cut by 50 points or this was done to win Harris the election and never should have happened.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:06 pm Rates are still at lows

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:26 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:06 pm Rates are still at lows

Say what, now?

20 year fixed rates are barely below 7%.