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To the extent Biden is responsible for actually raising the rates, he's to be congratulated for doing the right thing and not extending the bubble even longer.

Not really. I think it's well known here that I complained about Trump not only not raising rates, but trying to get them even lower. Biden simply did the same thing from the other side of the pendulum.

Trump should have slightly and slowly raised rates a couple of points instead of going for lower rates. Biden should have slightly and slowly raised rates a couple of points instead of going hog wild sending rates to where they are now. Which, yes, it's not as simple as that since policies, like taxes and regulations (especially energy regulations) are part of the inflation effect.

While I'm raking in dough via interest because of the current rates, I'm also paying a lot more for stuff. In general, we are better off having $20 and paying $10 for groceries than we are having $40 and paying $30 for groceries.

Current inflation in incontrovertibly a result of the extended ZIRP post 2008. While Trump isn't uniquely responsible, Trump did agitate specifically the keep interest rates low and threatened the Fed when they started raising them. Of course the inflation didn't show up until rates were raised under Biden, but blaming inflation on Biden is wrong. To the extent Biden is responsible for actually raising the rates, he's to be congratulated for doing the right thing and not extending the bubble even longer. Trump, deserves zero praise on the economy.

Under Trump my pay went up over 25% and my taxes were lowered. I was able to buy a house at low interest, about 2.3%, and buy new vehicles at similar or lower interest rates. Business was going gangbusters, and I rapidly advanced in my career.

Under Biden you’re looking at about triple those rates, grocery costs have skyrocketed, and gas has hovered at $3/gal for most of his presidency. What my salary buys is a lot less and the economy slowing is going to affect my paycheck directly, quite possibly if it gets slow enough I won’t have a job anymore.

I don’t care too much for people on the internet jawing about how what Biden did is a good thing because it sure as *expletive deleted*ck ain’t good for my wallet in real life.

I think they want to get it over with early, so by autumn it's a distant memory. That way, Biden can't be accused of being afraid to debate.

Also, they'll claim Trump was a big meanie in debate one, as a pretext to forego any future debates.

Malarkey Joe is hot-tempered. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump made him angry enough to goad him into rage-quitting mid-debate, or some other embarrassing behavior.

Oh, they'll have him on the good drugs.  Or body double.

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The assumption you’re making is that there was some continuous presence there that somehow became Israel. Unless you accept the bible as authority, there is absolutely no such presence.

I would agree that there was no continuous Jewish government entity that became Israel.  Likewise, there was no continuous Palestinian government entity that could become Palestine.

There has been, however a continuous Jewish and non-Jewish presence in Israel for thousands of years.

So you accept the Palestinians right to keep their home, you just don’t accept their tactics?

Which specific Palestinians are we talking about?  And which "home" are they keeping?

Do I like the regular use of terror attacks - funded and encouraged by people with no interest in the wellbeing of the Palestinian people - to further the Palestinian cause?  No.

If your neighbours used terrorism to resist a Mexican takeover, I suppose you’d be out there condemning them and offering up your home out of shame?

No more than you have given up your house out of shame for how its land was taken from previous owners.

Jews who were forced out of the US allied gulf states definitely should have the right to return to their homelands.

Do they?

They are not and never have been a significant fraction of the Israeli population, which is almost entirely European immigrants within a single generation (including Russia).

  No.  Yes, Europeans made up the majority of immigrants, but hundreds of thousands of early immigrants were Jews that had been expelled by Muslim nations.  The Russian immigrants largely came post-USSR.

You’ve made a conclusion about Israeli land claims which is directly contradictory to your own views about your rights.

What, praytell, are my conclusions about Israeli land claims and my own views about rights?

Let us all just hope that Disney does not get ahold of this.

Why?  You like Dune … Disney will give you Dune. 18 live action movies,  12 live action shows, 36 animated shows, all with completely fresh perspectives on what the plot should be untainted by knowledge of the original books and with a new and modern social message.