UHND.com - Notre Dame Football, Basketball, & Recruiting

(no message)

With an assist by Orange’s pal’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

He will cause inflation and price increases though contrary to his BS campaign.

(no message)

oil prices. The party in power gets the blame whether it’s their fault or not. Let’s hear the tune you sing after the Orange inflation begins next year as it will if he carries out even some of his promises. Prices gonna be going way up my friend.

We wound up doing what all the "experts" said we should do - wear masks, close businesses and schools, and develop and get a vaccine. But on your expert opinion, what else should we have done?

called for in its "Pandemic Preparedness Plan" (in the "National Strategic Stockpile"), along with advice on how to improve communication across the country on testing, etc, given to DJT during the transition...thereby leaving the nation with insufficient amounts for all our hospital staffs and front line personnel...and nothing for the hundreds of millions of citizens...thus contributing to many deaths during the early days of the pandemic...then, DJT...after telling Bob Woodward that he knew how deadly COVID-19 was, he told the nation it was nothing but a Dem Hoax...then it was just like the Flu...and finally that it would go away on its own by Easter, or when the weather turned warm...That's what you call "Mismanagement", or more accurately..."Criminal Negligence".

4 yrs and counting...still no HC system on earth prescribes HCQ+ as a treatment for COVID-19...Ride On Mr. Quixote!!

N95 masks and ventilators were largely depleted in 2009 and the Obama administration did almost nothing to replenish:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/depleted-national-stockpile-contributed-to-covid-ppe-shortage

Trump did not say Covid-19 was a Dem hoax. He said the Democrats' criticism of him was a hoax. (As an aside, why do you consistently get details wrong?)

As for "criminal negligence," Trump gave the Great Fauchino the megaphone early and often. No one didn't know how bad the virus was.

As for HCQ+, the fact that major health systems don't and didn't use it is a great failure and a damning testament to the Great Fauchino's influence, who single-handedly caused the deaths of over 500,000 Americans (per Dr. Risch's excellent research) because he falsely said HCQ+ didn't work when it most certainly did. And there are thousands of people alive today who otherwise wouldn't be because their doctors did use HCQ+, such as Dr. George Fareed.

I don't expect you to read this link (although you hypocritically insist others read your endless ones), but Dr. Fareed lays out a great case here on why HCQ+ works.


Link: Fareed Open Letter to Great Fauchino

...with your tax dollars.

office, that one

(no message)

(no message)

(no message)

I thought tariffs were to protect US jobs and protect US national security.

(no message)

(no message)

Especially when they fund terrorist organizations with cash? Why do you still support helping to fund terrorist organizations? A smiley face just makes your support of terror more heinous.

(no message)

...here is an excerpt from that article...
--------------------
US officials said cash had to be flown in because existing US sanctions ban American dollars from being used in a transaction with Iran and because Iran could not access the global financial system due to international sanctions it was under at the time. The details of the how the transaction occurred were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. CNN reported in January that the transfer of funds had been arrangement.

The money was procured from central banks in Switzerland and the Netherlands, official said, and an unmarked cargo plane loaded with Swiss francs, euros and other currencies were flown to Iran.

“They were totally cut off from global banks and there was no other way to get them the money,” one senior official with knowledge of the transaction said.

While the cash transaction took place the same day as the release of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and the other Americans, administration officials insist the payment did not constitute ransom and that there were was no quid pro quo for the payment. They said the agreement on the release of the prisoners dovetailed with the resolution of parallel negotiations over the dispute of the failed arms deal.

“It’s against the policy of the United States to pay ransom for hostages,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.

He described the payment as a “conscious strategic decision that was made on the part of the Obama administration as we were implementing the deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon to resolve other longstanding concerns we had with Iran.”

“That included securing the release of five American citizens who had been unjustly detained in Iran, and closing out a longstanding financial dispute in a way that saved the American people potentially billions of dollars,” he said.

n return for the US citizens’ release, the US dropped extradition requests for 14 Iranian citizens and freed seven. Former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, remains missing.

Earnest cast those using the new details about the palettes of cash as people “flailing to justify their continued opposition to the deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

The $400 million was Iran’s to start with, placed into a US-based trust fund to support American military equipment purchases in the 1970s. When the Shah was ousted by a 1979 popular uprising that led to the creation of the Islamic Republic, the US froze the trust fund. Iran has been fighting for a return of the funds through international courts since 1981.

In announcing the agreement, Obama said that paying the $400 million – plus $1.3 billion in interest – was saving American taxpayers billions of dollars. The Iranians had been seeking more than $10 billion at arbitration.

“For the United States, this settlement saved us billions of dollars that could have been pursued by Iran,” Obama said in January. “There was no benefit to the United States in dragging this out.”

As it was making the January cash delivery, the US also imposed new sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missile testing. At the same time, the White House unfroze a larger pool of Iranian assets, estimated at $100 to $150 billion, as part of the nuclear deal, though administration officials cautioned that Iran would only pocket about $50 billion after legal claims.
----------------==

In point of fact, the U.S. not only got the release of hostages...but importantly achieved the JCPOA agreement that the IAEA verified had achieved its goal of keeping Iran from accumulating sufficient Uranium and/or Plutonium to make a nuclear weapon...i.e. we, and other signatories to the agreement, got what we wanted from Iran...it was not a hostage deal or they would have never agreed to have IAEA inspectors on the ground in their country, personally verifying compliance.

Now, aren't you glad you have someone to keep you educated on important events? ;-)


Link: https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash/index.html

That explanation was bullshit, by the way. It is ok to avoid sanctions by using cash?...that's your position? Or, were you just addressing the mechanics of the transfer (easier to use cash)? You don't seem to have commented whether you support the cash being released in a form that helps Iran support terror. Not possible to have an actual discussion with you.

Of course now he’s backing away from it but he promised to lower prices during the campaign. Suckers,

Link: https://oklahomavoice.com/2024/12/03/donald-trump-promised-to-bring-down-prices-but-experts-say-his-tariff-plans-will-do-the-opposite/

If they can truly slash regulations, then perhaps a boom could happen, which would help to pay the debt...but who am I kidding. We've passed the point of the last remaining good options for the debt. Either they layoff half the government and cut benefits and spending (causing deflationary depression) r they super-inflate the dollar. Tariffs are noise, and it looks like he will primarily use the threat of tariffs to motivate other countries to behave more in our interests...doesn't seem to be a price lever.

sack of shit campaign. It was clearly a voting issue that he ran on. Backing off on it now.

(no message)

circumstances. However to say that price increases and inflation are non voting issues is to put it charitably, not true and you know it. Only now when it’s over and he doesn’t have to run again does he grudgingly admit the truth.

He may succeed briefly, but in the long run, we have to choose between (i) DOGE, severe government cuts in spending, and laying off a million US civil servants...and likely a resulting deflationary depression, and (ii) inflating the USD to make our interest payments possible (with accompanying economic chaos and hardship for the world as it scrambles away from the USD back to gold or some other standard).

I don't think the rich and powerful will allow deflation because it would devastate their holdings, and I don't think voters will allow cuts in spending, so option 1 is absolutely dead on arrival. DOGE will help, assuming they actually get anything done. It is the first sign that anyone seems to want to take deficit spending seriously, so who knows. They might be able to extend the time we have to act...although I wonder if that is really a good idea, since repeatedly extending the time to act is what got us here.

But, in the end, we will most likely have to inflate the dollar, regardless of how people voted. In that respect, voters are always suckers, regardless of which party they voted for, because either they voted thinking their candidate can fix the situation or they voted on issues that were less important. Either way, they don't really understand the financial situation this country is in.

He and all of his minions can live with the results.

Meanwhile, Tyrone can keep trying to force everyone to vote, so that even more people who don't understand the issues are deciding which party wins, and we can each make fun of the other side as morons and suckers even more than we do now.

(no message)

Economics is pretty speculative, with a lot of variables affecting the future. Each of us can only make our best guess, and then call the other person a moron. It's the American way.

(no message)

Funny how liberals don't care if prices go up for that reason, though.

…..they are our best leverage. China and others will capitulate. They have to do so.

This is SO much better than more appeasement and check writing.

(no message)

(no message)

(no message)