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0.6% increase in one month added to the 0.4% increase last month meaning inflation is now rising at a 6-7% annual rate. https://www.businessinsider.com/cpi-inflation-september-consumer-price-index-2026-10
And unlike previous surges caused by worldwide economic conditions, this one is almost completely caused by US policies i.e. war in the Middle East and tariffs.
@no1marauder saidI suspect we're not gonna be hearing anything about this from the far-right crowd here, except maybe a limp "Biden did that".
0.6% increase in one month added to the 0.4% increase last month meaning inflation is now rising at a 6-7% annual rate. https://www.businessinsider.com/cpi-inflation-september-consumer-price-index-2026-10
And unlike previous surges caused by worldwide economic conditions, this one is almost completely caused by US policies i.e. war in the Middle East and tariffs.
@Suzianne saidIt's all Biden's fault. If Biden had clapped him in prison his first day in office, none of this would be happening now. The Strait would be open, Gaza would be intact, Goode & Pretti would be alive, and the bi-partisan border bill Mikey Johnson killed would be law. If only Biden had taken Trump seriously--biggest mistake the Dumbocrats ever made was thinking Trump was a write-off.
I suspect we're not gonna be hearing anything about this from the far-right crowd here, except maybe a limp "Biden did that".
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@moonbus saidYou think this election season is bad, wait until November 2028.
It's all Biden's fault. If Biden had clapped him in prison his first day in office, none of this would be happening now. The Strait would be open, Gaza would be intact, Goode & Pretti would be alive, and the bi-partisan border bill Mikey Johnson killed would be law. If only Biden had taken Trump seriously--biggest mistake the Dumbocrats ever made was thinking Trump was a write-off.
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For the first time ever, there are armed feds at our postal facility where I work, presumably to make sure the ballots are handled correctly. I wonder if we'll see cages of ballots sitting around here for weeks like past elections.
@Suzianne saidAre you allowed to open carry out there?
You think this election season is bad, wait until November 2028.
For the first time ever, there are armed feds at our postal facility where I work, presumably to make sure the ballots are handled correctly. I wonder if we'll see cages of ballots sitting around here for weeks like past elections.
BTW are you getting hit by Tropical Storm Rachel? It's been hot and sunny until this week here in LA and is just starting to cool off.
@AThousandYoung saidYep, and yep.
Are you allowed to open carry out there?
BTW are you getting hit by Tropical Storm Rachel? It's been hot and sunny until this week here in LA and is just starting to cool off.
AZ is open carry, but you still must be licensed, which I am. Also licensed for concealed carry, which I sometimes do.
Rachel is now old news. It hit last weekend, Saturday and Sunday it blew past us, headed for Las Vegas, probably way past that by now. Where I live, I was on the eastern edge of it, the sky looked all weird all day Saturday.
Rain, soft rain, not a deluge, all day long.
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@no1marauder said"unlike previous surges caused by worldwide economic conditions, this one is almost completely caused by US policies i.e. war in the Middle East and tariffs."
0.6% increase in one month added to the 0.4% increase last month meaning inflation is now rising at a 6-7% annual rate. https://www.businessinsider.com/cpi-inflation-september-consumer-price-index-2026-10
And unlike previous surges caused by worldwide economic conditions, this one is almost completely caused by US policies i.e. war in the Middle East and tariffs.
Wrong. That is what they want you to think. Like the oil embargo by the Saudis in the 70s the money supply was increased and blamed only on oil prices. That is how they made us pay for the expensive Vietnam war, with inflation. Now they are doing it with the Ukraine and Iran wars.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/22/us-m2-money-supply-recently-grew-at-fastest-pace/
https://www.fool.com/terms/q/quantitative-easing/
increasing the money supply to cause inflation is a class warfare scam. Inflation disproportionately hurts the poor.
I created a thread about QE. Did you notice it? It is another inflation (class warfare) scam. More inflation is in the pipeline. It will get worse before it gets better.
https://roitv.com/the-fed-is-printing-again-what-the-return-of-quantitative-easing-means-for-2026/
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@Suzianne saidOver on FoxNews dot com, the front page top three stories are about Ilhan Omar, Hillary Clinton, and the holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial.
I suspect we're not gonna be hearing anything about this from the far-right crowd here, except maybe a limp "Biden did that".
You have to scroll WAY down, past news about Sydney Sweeney's new haircut, to find anything about inflation.
@wildgrass saidWait, Sydney Sweeney has a new haircut?
Over on FoxNews dot com, the front page top three stories are about Ilhan Omar, Hillary Clinton, and the holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial.
You have to scroll WAY down, past news about Sydney Sweeney's new haircut, to find anything about inflation.
Why are we wasting our time with this inflation nonsense?
EDIT: To tell the truth, I never noticed she had hair before.
@wildgrass saidThe media play up shootings by police. Last year in Chicago, they were less than 1% of the total.
Over on FoxNews dot com, the front page top three stories are about Ilhan Omar, Hillary Clinton, and the holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy trial.
You have to scroll WAY down, past news about Sydney Sweeney's new haircut, to find anything about inflation.
The Chicago video that features four black suspects assaulting a white man has sparked another discussion about “hate crimes,” but it also highlights a phenomenon that has been underreported by a liberal media more interested in political correctness.
Crime reporting these days seems more focused on the behavior of the police than on the behavior of criminals. Police shootings of black men are rare, for example, but they get far more media coverage than when black civilians shoot one another, which is much more common. There were 4,368 shootings in Chicago last year, according to the Chicago Tribune’s crime database. Almost all of the shooting victims were black, and more than 99% of the shootings were carried out by civilians, not cops. Obviously, young black men in Chicago don’t roam the streets in fear of getting shot by police.
When the media aren’t indulging liberal activists by pretending that police shootings drive black homicide rates, they’re playing down the very real episodes of black criminality shown in the video. For years, Asian students in public schools have complained of racially motivated harassment and bullying by black students. Surveillance cameras have caught young black men playing the “knockout game,” which involves sucker-punching random white pedestrians. Cities from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to Baltimore have experienced “wilding” incidents, which involve flash mobs of black youths rampaging through a mall or park or convenience store and physically attacking people in the process.
Most violent crimes involve a perpetrator and victim of the same race. But when they don’t, incidents of black-on-white crimes far exceed the reverse scenario. “In 2012, blacks committed 560,600 acts of violence against whites (excluding homicide), and whites committed 99,403 acts of violence (excluding homicide) against blacks,” writes the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, citing federal Bureau of Justice Statistics data. “Blacks, in other words, committed 85 percent of the non-homicide interracial crimes of violence between blacks and whites, even though they are less than 13 percent of the population.”
When the mainstream media discuss relations between poor black communities and law enforcement without including data on black crime rates, readers and viewers aren’t getting the full picture. Racially motivated attacks on blacks shouldn’t be ignored or played down, but neither should racially motivated attacks perpetrated by blacks.
Nationwide, crime is down from where it was in the 1990s, but it has ticked up in recent years in some major cities. Chicago’s murder rate in 2016 was the highest in two decades. Violent crime in Los Angeles has increased for three straight years. Liberals are quick to blame poverty or economic downturns or racial bias in policing, but those explanations can’t withstand scrutiny.
Crime began spiking in the 1960s, when the U.S. economy was strong and jobs were plentiful. The economic boom of the 1980s coincided with a steady increase in crime. Police officials in Los Angeles have attributed the higher crime rate to increased homelessness, among other factors, but homelessness has also risen in New York City, where violent crime has fallen.
Hiring more police officers to flood crime-ridden neighborhoods could help. In 2015 the LAPD sent extra officers to South Los Angeles after an increase in shootings. “By the time the emergency operation ended on Oct. 1, the rate of violent crime had stabilized in South L.A.,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “But with resources concentrated there, some other parts of the city experienced upticks in crime.”
Last fall, Chicago announced plans to hire 970 officers over the next two years. Increasing police presence alone, however, may have limited effect if cops feel they are being targeted by the press and scapegoated by activist groups like Black Lives Matter.
Despite the national downward trend over the past two decades, people remain concerned for their safety. In a Gallup poll last March, 53% of respondents said they worry “a great deal” about crime and violence. That’s up from less than 40% in 2014 and a 15-year high. Respondents who were low-income, nonwhite and less educated expressed by far the most concern, which you would expect from the people who bear the brunt of violent crime in the U.S., however it’s trending.
Donald Trump made clear throughout the campaign that his instinct would be to support police in a way that they haven’t been supported under the Obama administration, which made a habit of second-guessing law enforcement and politicizing police investigations. Let’s hope the incoming administration’s sympathies will be with the mostly law-abiding residents of poor neighborhoods for a change. And let’s hope it doesn’t take another group of criminals who are stupid enough to live stream their offenses in order for the media to present a more accurate picture of crime in America
@mike69 saidSounds like this idiot is posting in the wrong thread.
The media play up shootings by police. Last year in Chicago, they were less than 1% of the total.
The Chicago video that features four black suspects assaulting a white man has sparked another discussion about “hate crimes,” but it also highlights a phenomenon that has been underreported by a liberal media more interested in political correctness.
Crime reporting these d ...[text shortened]... stream their offenses in order for the media to present a more accurate picture of crime in America