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@GHHILL1911 here’s one a friend sent me a while back.
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BREAKING: President Trump reveals his new anti-fraud program set up to reward people who expose fraud with a 1% commission on the money uncovered.
"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%."
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DOJ's published guidance caps individual whistleblower rewards at up to $30,000 per tip, not an uncapped 1% of fraud uncovered, with a total program fund of $25 million. A $1 billion fraud tip would not yield a $10 million payout under the official program rules. newsweek.com/trump-vance-of… foxnews.com/politics/trump…
I’ve noticed a plague of pessimism that seems to infect people as they age.
Sports aren’t what they used to be. The economy is collapsing. Religion is dying. Society is falling apart.
Maybe the world isn’t getting worse. Maybe you’ve just stopped seeing what’s good about it.
I hope I never become that person.
Agree with the principle. Government shouldn't go after people for their politics.
But the last few years had an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, two federal indictments, a Manhattan felony case, a New York civil case, and a push to keep Trump off state ballots. Where was this post then?
"If this becomes the new normal" is doing a lot of work here. The new normal started years ago, and a lot of people cheering then are only worried now that the tables turned.
Same rule should apply no matter whose name is on the case.
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
Tennessee’s biggest mistake this season might have been starting Faizon Brandon before he was ready.
The talent and upside are undeniable, but experience and confidence matter at QB.
Watching George MacIntyre grow into this offense, it’s hard not to wonder whether Tennessee would have beaten Texas if George had been under center that day.
Tennessee is becoming a dangerous football team.
Jim Knowles is settling in, taking control, and establishing his defensive identity. George MacIntyre is gaining confidence and finding his rhythm at QB.
What excites me most is that this team is still growing. The talent is there, the pieces are coming together, and they’re getting better every week.
The ceiling for this Tennessee team might be a lot higher than people realize.
My Top 10 after Week 7:
Ohio State
BYU
Ole Miss
Tennessee
Indiana
Georgia
Miami
Notre Dame
UCLA
Kentucky
Strength of schedule matters. Quality wins matter. Being undefeated against weak competition shouldn’t automatically earn you a top-10 spot.
Win big games. Earn your ranking.
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I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.
Should’ve been the easiest decision an airline CEO has ever made.
DELTA NEEDS A CEO WHO WILL PUT STARLINK ON EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT.
I'm tired of paying for Wi-Fi that can barely load an email at 30,000 feet.
Starlink already works, it's fast, and it's American.
Any airline that actually cares about its customers would have jumped on it yesterday.
Delta, time for new leadership.
Plenty of the big tech companies already push employees to pledge stock to charity. Multiply that by trillions in new value and you've got a few founders steering more money than most governments. Left or right, that's a lot of influence in very few hands.
Chamath explains the political calculus behind Obama’s anti AI speech
“This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is that the world is about to endow 3-6 companies with about $10 trillion of wealth.”
“And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he and the people around him will be beneficiaries of."
“That is the truth. We already know this because we know that some of these frontier corporations actually ask you to sign up DAFTs and have a portion of your stock that you're willing to pledge. So this money is going to go to things other than consumption or savings. It's going to go into PACs, it's going to go into political movements, and they stand to disproportionately benefit."
“So this has nothing to do with prosperity. This is a very simple political calculus. If you freeze frame the economy the way it is today, a handful of organizations that will disproportionately be able to affect the Democrats will win, they will capture the lion's share of the economic gains. And then they will help the Democrats win power. That's all this is."
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The presumption that the Fed raising short-term rates reduces inflation is predicated on the belief that higher rates reduce demand and investment.
But what if higher rates don’t reduce demand and investment because the demand for intelligence and energy is unaffected by higher rates because winning the race for super intelligence has a near infinite ROI and the demand for compute will remain incalculable.
Why won’t higher rates at this unique moment in history therefore lead to more inflation as interest costs are embedded in everything?
And the problem is compounded as the more the Fed raises rates, the more inflation we will have and the more the Fed will need to raise rates further and so on.
But what if the old models don’t apply to the current paradigm and the Fed is wrong?
I think the Fed might have just made a mistake. Am I right or am I wrong?