Author: Lone Candle

MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question | The Ezra Klein Show

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The clearest success that worked against Covid was the vaccines, and it is the main thing Trump, RFK, MAGA, and MAHA are attacking. These substantial attacks will result in deaths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCaD4vh4XhI

Trump’s Ineffective D.C. Crackdown: Nearly 2,000 Officers Made Fewer Than 400 Arrests in 10 Days

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“The president deployed nearly 2,000 law enforcement officers into a city supposedly teeming with criminals. And yet the effort netted some 380 arrests in 10 days, and many of the charges the administration has bragged about are for low-level nonviolent offenses, such as possession of narcotics or carrying a pistol without a license.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/19/trumps-ineffective-d-c-crackdown-nearly-2000-officers-made-fewer-than-400-arrests-in-10-days/

Trump’s Plans for Intel Take a Page From Bernie Sanders’ Playbook

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“The Trump administration is seeking a 10 percent stake in Intel, Bloomberg reported this week, which would involve converting some or all of the company’s CHIPS Act grants into equity in the company. The exact terms of the deal remain unclear”

https://reason.com/2025/08/19/trumps-plans-for-intel-take-a-page-from-bernie-sanders-playbook/

National Guard troops in D.C. begin carrying firearms

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“More than 2,200 National Guard soldiers and airmen, a majority from out of state, have been deployed to D.C. to support what Trump has framed as a concerted effort to tackle crime and homelessness in the nation’s capital.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/national-guard-troops-d-c-225235010.html

President Trump threatens Chris Christie with new ‘Bridgegate’ investigation

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Trump and Republicans for years lied and exaggerated about Democrats using the justice system against them. Now, in full honesty, Trump repeatedly uses the justice system against people who criticize him. U.S. democracy is on shaky grounds.

“President Donald Trump threatened to open an investigation targeting Chris Christie over the former New Jersey governor’s decade-old “Bridgegate” scandal after Christie criticized Trump on television earlier in the day.

The threat came just days after the FBI searched the home and office of another Trump critic, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, as part of an open criminal investigation. Trump lashed out at the former friend-turned-foe Christie in an evening Aug. 24 post on Truth Social, remarking that he just watched “Sloppy Chris Christie” on ABC’s This Week.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/president-trump-threatens-chris-christie-024621347.html

Are ‘Forever Wars’ Always Bad?

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In certain situations, a forever war may be the best option. If the cost of the war is low, the cost of total victory too high/total victory is not possible, and the consequences of defeat great, then the best of bad options may be forever war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkKPV8n1YI

Tariffs Begin Taking a Bite out of the Economy

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“Even as some Republicans mocked economists for predicting prices would rise as a result of tariffs, there was a whistling-past-the-graveyard quality to the snickering. Yes, tariffs that had been threatened, delayed, and only partially implemented hadn’t yet much increased costs for consumers, but there were clear signs that importers were rushing to beat high customs duties, and that trouble was on the way. Now we’ve had a weak jobs report and a higher-than-expected producer price index (PPI), and it’s clear that tariffs perform just as we were warned: They raise prices for domestic businesses and consumers.”

https://reason.com/2025/08/20/tariffs-begin-taking-a-bite-out-of-the-economy/