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They need to alternate between Dallas and Houston just to see if attendance picks up.

Trump’s Tariffs Collect $81.5 Billion in Revenue, Expected to Grow to $2.8 Trillion in the Future!

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In wrapping up this session the Supreme Court finished strong.
In the last couple of days we have:
Trump v. Casa - The Supreme Court said that federal district judges have been greatly overstepping their authority in issuing universal injunctions. As an example from what I googled, G W Bush had 12 universal injunctions in 8 years. Obama had 20 in 8 years. Trump has had 40 in less than 5 months. Of those, 35 were issued in only 5 districts. So out of almost 100 federal district courts, 5 have been used as a hatchet job. Anything that Trump does, take it to one of those federal courts and end it. Had Obama had this happen so the same pace as Trump, he would have had 900 universal injunctions, not 20.
Mahmoud v. Taylor - In Montgomery County, Maryland, the school board decided that several LGBTQ books would be used from Pre-K through 5th grade. The district however had an opt out option if the teacher used the books for class assignments. Not so shockingly, the school district was stunned at the volume of opt out requests. So they changed the policy to no opt outs allowed for any reason. The Supreme Court struck down the ban on an opt out choice as it violated the First Amendment right to freedom of religion. Apparently some people have forgotten or haven’t understood that freedom of religion at school doesn’t mean only that religion can’t be pushed at public schools but it also can’t be denied. Seriously, who thinks that reading books on sexuality starting at 4 years old is a good thing… much less forced. 
Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton - Yep, a Texas case. Texas passed a law where accessing online adult content sites required age verification. The FSC claimed that it violated the free speech of adults to require age verification. The Texas law did not ban anything but only required age verification. The FSC claimed that showing your age violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court said that the state governments already restrict such material from over the county sales and a person can be asked to verify age by producing an ID. The same is true for tobacco and alcohol sales as examples. So why should digital media have less of a standard? The Supreme Court said that it didn’t and having as age requirement for online material that minors might access is no different than face to face, over the counter transactions.
Overall it seems like a great couple of days from SCOTUS.  

Expected.
Yes, I expected a one word response rather than addressing my comment.
It should appear quite obvious to anyone that the original post was to try to make it seem like this guy was the head of Homeland Security “terrorist prevention” as in, having some authority over the military, CIA and so on. I wonder how many people reading the opening comment believed that it was a person of some real authority and not a group of less than 20 people who coordinates to give out grants to non-profit private organizations and universities.
Yep, absolutely expected! 

To be honest, outsmarting folks that hate Trump based on his personality rather than his policies is not very difficult, they are literally rooting for the failure of common sense ideas.

OUCH!
We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.
Justice Barrett in Majority Opinion

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SCOTUS has made a ruling about this case. No more lower court universal injunctions. It has a bearing on birthright citizenship as it only applies to those who brought the suit. It doesn’t block Trump’s EO about negating birthright citizenship.
This is HUGE!
Sounds like a class action lawsuit will have to be pursued. Very difficult. Makes it ‘seem’ SCOTUS is going back to the original intent of the 14th which applied to former slaves.

Actually a good point!

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Would have been nice if that rule had been in place in 2018. Maybe the idiots in Houston wouldn’t have been able to force Lina Hidalgo on the rest of us in Harris County. She’d only been naturalized from Columbia for 5 years, not even 30 years old, zero experience, and they elect her to lead the 3rd most populous county in America.
What a clusterf***k.
Oh well. There’s always Arnold.

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up   Dow jumps 500 points, oil prices tank as investors bet Israel-Iran truce will hold

The Tale of the Tariffs: Where’s the Inflation?

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Winning Bigly: Tariff Receipts Top $16 Billion in April!

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I guess you’re discounting the fact that—with inflation at almost record highs in the last Administration (along with a union friendly Administration)—many union, hospitality, and grocery workers received very large pay increases right along with UPS, auto workers and others that increased the cost of doing business with human workers in perpetuity?
Unless you’re a plumber, HVAC tech, mechanic, or skilled tradesperson of some sort, AI is coming for your job. Even the famous coders will be obsolete.
As far as gas, I’d be most concerned about diesel. That’s what commerce runs on. Typical, personal blends should be down to around $2.65-2.75 after Labor Day when the summer blends aren’t needed. Maybe even less in the lower tax states.
I also think some businesses are just using tariffs as a convenient excuse to pad profits.

Lyondell Basell Houston has been basically shut down for almost a decade. They’ve had major expansions at newer polymer/petrochem facilities in La Porte & Chocolate Bayou. This facility was only kept running for as long as it was for feedstock for their primary businesses.
They tried to sell for years. But, no one saw feasibility in trying to retrofit/modernize. Plus, the regulations imposed by Harris County & the Feds made refinery operations almost unbearable. Technically, the facility was located in Houston. The progessives in charge locally made their operation a living hell. Very similar to California.
This had absolutely nothing to do with tariffs & shows the author’s ignorance of the subject.

Also my point is, and trying to convey, is if you are diversified you can weather any situation.  

How many do you think entered during JoeBama's open border policy?  

Just thought I would bump this up to show how wrong some of you were about Tariff's hurting the stock market..... 

That’s it!
 
 I am not voting for Trump in 2028!!

It's a shame that this is how it has to be done! 

True dat!!

It’s also been said that we need two weeks to pursue known sleeper cells in this country before we strike.

Israel has also said they could take care of the underground nuclear sites by blowing up access areas and monitoring any activity to gain access.  They don’t need any help from us to handle Iran, they only need support if bigger players engage.  

However, I’m sure they are enjoying the support of a strong administration.

I've heard two scenarios for the "up to two weeks" decision.  But first, let's not confuse some here.  He said up to two weeks, could be tomorrow.  Anyway...
1)  He may want to take the full two weeks to possibly give the Shah's son enough time to start the movement to regain control of Iran.  
2)  If nothing is done by two weeks, it was stated that Israel has probably assured Trump that they will/can take care of the nuclear site.  
As an addition: I heard that Israel could possibly drop the 30,000 pound bunker busters by refitting a 767.  So...

The way he handled himself in 2016 with Covid, Russia Gate, Sexual harassment charges from the 1800's, then aftermath of Jan 6th, New York, Georgia, survived two assassination attempts  and the man still played golf and won the popular vote. 
In comparison, this is a walk in the park. While he makes the final decisions, he's got a ton of advisors and support staff.
My prediction is Iran makes a deal and we don't get involved (although there is enough support to warrant it) and Russia/Ukraine is done before Christmas,