"This past week, the International Monetary Fund cited weaker consumer spending in slashing expectations for economic growth this year in the United States, from 2.9 percent to 2.3 percent." NYT, 7/16/22
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
Nope. Under BidInflation, inflation is outpacing wage gains
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
The underlying tight global supply chain has not changed. The market is pricing in lower demand due to high prices, a strong dollar and recession fears. The dollar's strength has nothing to do with your unprecedented spending and debt. It has more to do with global uncertainty.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
Nope. The US emerged from the post-WWI depression faster and without ruinous debt. Your results are anemic compared to what we would have seen in a free market.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
Thank God that women are bringing new life into this world despite failed national leadership. Ms. Harris is panicking fewer women may choose to kill their babies. https://t.co/oBZ1wsCHbS
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
Is Mexico paying for it?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
This is from the same former Fed chair who didn't see high inflation coming. https://t.co/jDvjMZULyy
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
I wonder how the retiring Kinzinger comes up with this. Is it the polls showing Trump leading Biden in 2024? High profile Senate and gubernatorial endorsed candidates winning across states? No serious challengers in 2024 primary polls? Kinzinger is wishfully thinking. https://t.co/6OyzSRAiLL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 24, 2022
The Administration is economic illiterate. The drop has occurred principally due to a drop in demand at high prices, a stronger dollar, and recessionary fears. We still depend on 1/3 of our oil from other countries, in part due to Biden's anti-fossil fuel policies. Tight supplies
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
This is a lie. It's true that abortion was practiced elsewhere, but not in Israel, where the destruction of life in God's image is an abomination. One of the earliest Christian documents, the Didache, explicitly condemned abortion.#DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
Whataburger.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
This is Santorum-like hubris. Santorum got wiped out by Casey running for reelection in a purplish state but thought he was serious contender for POTUS. Cheney is about to be primaried, and it won't be close.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
Even for Never Trumpers like me, neo-con Cheney is a non-starter. https://t.co/gdjCgtWqSn
Unvaxxed Herman Cain died from COVID-19. Fauci and Biden will survive due to vaccines and boosters. I'll just leave this here.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
I agree. They need more than "it's the economy, stupid" and partisan payback.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
They need to streamline the federal government, including our unsustainable military footprint overseas. They need to promote prescription drug reform by lowering barriers to entry, patent reform, etc. https://t.co/mIv9bLlSof
Beautiful gifts from God.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
How some pro-life politicians play so easily into the hands of pro-abort propagandists never ceases to amaze me. Remember when fake pro-lifer Trump argued for prosecuting women who had abortions?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
Legislators need to be more pragmatic in dealing with rare circumstances like rape https://t.co/F5NGuW9pnt
Let's see. The first 2 quarters show negative growth, the IMF just slashed expectations for US growth this year AGAIN, monthly home sales are dropping with higher interest rates, China is reporting unexpectedly low growth affecting the global economy, but what do I know? https://t.co/SuC4HP8mCc
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
This seems to reflect the Dems' codifymania, this time involving "gay marriage", not a federal issue under the Constitution. I am unaware of any state looking to revert Obergefell based on Clarence Thomas' unjoined opinion on substantive due process. https://t.co/TggblzQzZf
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
Biden needs to fire neo-con military chiefs. This is like a war waiting to happen. https://t.co/Os2pAF56de
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
Preborn children, unlike politicians, have functional brain activity.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
Their point of view is that preborn children should not be discriminated against because of the sins of their fathers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
As a pro-lifer, I am pragmatic to prefer persuasion than the law to deal with the rare exceptions of rape and incest. The pro-aborts simply look to exploit them https://t.co/aKvG4C9oNF
The last thing I heard, Trump was still trying to get funding from Congress. I don't think Mexico ever gave him the money he promised his minions.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
I know Dems love recycling things, but I don't understand nostalgia for Hillary, John Kerry or Al Gore. https://t.co/3xrdaJDoxq
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
I know Dems have been pushing the Ginni Thomas obsession for weeks, really targeting her husband on SCOTUS. Why Cheney is giving her Dem colleagues cover for this partisan rubbish is unclear. https://t.co/fraYwwDom8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
What could possibly go wrong here? Remember how JFK sent 11000 military advisers to South Vietnam in 1962? https://t.co/HVqutLyZdG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
All that and he writes a snarky defensive tweet? Dude, most PhD's don't put it in their Twitter name. And Bill Clinton got a Yale law degree. https://t.co/ER4yqgIIPr
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
All that and he writes a snarky defensive tweet? Dude, most PhD's don't put it in their Twitter name. And Bill Clinton got a Yale law degree. https://t.co/ER4yqgIIPr
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
I bet Biden was one of those crybaby kids who changed the rules of the board game he was losing. https://t.co/sU7afYyyuj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
WV Republicans would love to fund them.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. The dark clouds of the pandemic are behind us, and Yellen can see only clear blue skies ahead. Cue Johnny Nash: https://t.co/No7vYkm98Z https://t.co/e3TLy1DzLj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 25, 2022
I thought she was going to pull a KBJ and argue she's not an economist https://t.co/4j5897JHoL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Leftist can't understand that marriage is a state, not federal issue. You can respect a state's marriage law and remain completely consistent. https://t.co/aMoLtPGyc2
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Are we talking pregnant astronauts?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
It's sad that you're the Commander-in-Chief and don't know the difference between an Army rifle and one used to shoot deer.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
And the hypocrite doesn't see the problem of American investors buying stock in Chinese companies. DeSantis is just as much an economic illiterate as Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
A black clergyman owns more than $1M in jewelry? Of course theft is a crime.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
But I remember my late maternal uncle, a Catholic diocesan priest, found his strongbox stolen from the rectory. I wonder what the thief thought when he discovered my uncle's genealogical records.
But they take the Hypocritical Oath, one that requires providing a pessary to produce abortion https://t.co/MH7c0TZygW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Perhaps Ms. Biden can use her EdD to diagnose Whoopi Goldberg's stupidity. https://t.co/LHekRk6tZw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
The Economic Illiterate-in-Chief is in a state of denial that we are already in one. https://t.co/0dc6RybLgJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
The Biden Price Hike. https://t.co/gb50cUDHLG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
When do you think Germany will finally admit to making a mistake shutting down their nuclear power plants? https://t.co/Fb6HVv1UbZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
No. Protectionism is economic illiterate. American farmers deserve a fair price for their property, and limiting competition doesn't serve that purpose.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
I thought for sure they were going to turn Dominik Mysterio and/or reintroduce Edge at the MSG show. Is booking going to improve in the post-McMahon era?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
#WWERAW
Industrial policy is an economic illiterate crime against the free market. I oppose this, despite being a former MIS professor and a long-time IT professional and consultant. The domestic high tech industry has succeeded in spite of corrupt political whores like you.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Stop this obsession with sore loser Trump. The real story was how the Congress failed to plan for adequate security KNOWING Trump's mob was going to protest the vote. The media had predicted it; help was turned down in advance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
No, they aren't. Few Americans (about 1 in 5) support abortion on demand until birth. Most Americans want to limit abortion but have nuanced differences.https://t.co/yGQJsdMpMG https://t.co/fSP271d6PZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Marriage should be privatized. The Constitution does not list it among enumerated powers of the federal government. It's been historically regulated at the state level. The 10th Amendment bars the federal government from overruling state authority.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
It turns out that the fraud Trump obsessed about in 2020 involved his own supporters. https://t.co/AOWGyxnwbE
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
With climate change alarmists, it ain't the science; it's the stupidity.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
It's so sad you're not intelligent enough to understand the legal meaning of the term "insurrection". https://t.co/XSIBUax0qd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Just a remember gas cost about about $2.39/gallon when Biden took office. My local Sam's Club is at $3.99, just 18 months into Biden's term. We still need to import a third of the oil we use, with Biden's anti-fossil fuel policies canceling leases and pipelines. https://t.co/7SBavrKCwK
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
It's a start. How about the pontiff apologizing to victims for the Church's unconscionable mishandling of cases involving clergy sexual misconduct crimes? https://t.co/mfmO1embsO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Interesting. I believe this would require a constitutional amendment and most likely apply to new nominees. https://t.co/DVEtBGbL6a
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Taiwan is not part of our nation's Constitutional national defense. We need to recognize the limited nature of our military and overseas commitments, minimize provocative foreign policy, and stress the need for a voluntary, peaceful reunification of China. https://t.co/zga1XawwNk
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
We have a Potter Stewart sense of defining recession: we know it when we see it. Retirees are going back to work, people are taking second jobs to make ends meet. People's income isn't keeping pace with decades' high inflation. The stock market has corrected; mortgage rates up. https://t.co/5dxjbVf3n9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
First of all, the use of the term "assault weapon" in place of semiautomatic firearms is propaganda. Second, the data I've seen is over 2/3 of slain police are by use of handgun, not modern sporting rifles. https://t.co/xsWAfPOfje
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
"I Survived Jan. 6"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Corrupt industrial policy economically illiterate rubbish. The semiconductor industry in the US thrived because the incompetent federal government stayed out of it. The free market doesn't need the "help" of unconstitutional political whores like you.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
If I had to work for Trump, I would say the same thing.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Strange. I thought the NYC Mayor would be welcoming immigrants by quoting The New Colossus. https://t.co/rzAuIK3bwj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Hell no to bailing out wealthy owners! No to crony sports deals! https://t.co/pUIZvafg8U
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Once the Biden recession becomes official this week.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. So glad to hear Joni Mitchell is still performing. Here's a blast from the past: https://t.co/U6oefvHGZs https://t.co/N0x6rBvTYC
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
No. Protectionism is corrupt, evil and counter-productive. Stop pretending that a corrupt, failed career politician can improve over the invisible hand.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Jackson-Lee is an idiot. She can't understand plain English. The Bill of Rights (1-9) deals with INDIVIDUAL, not collective rights. The second amendment is specific:"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". Not "of the militia". https://t.co/amqZ9DT5Zn
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Jesus! If ancient Greeks thought 2+2=4 was indicative of the "white supremacist patriarchy", I never would have earned 2 math degrees.https://t.co/0J36lTpjSb https://t.co/ZjRTZgkSTY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
This is like the Twinkie drought all over again. (I've never had one but it looks delicious.) https://t.co/lu3OSTI7or
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Biden is going to steal that megalomaniac quote. https://t.co/vSNiMJTllF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Personally, I think Trump was tired of getting ribbed by his former fifth-grade classmates: "Dude, I can't believe you got your ass kicked by Sleepy Joe." https://t.co/zEb9NiRWn0
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Transition. I've heard that word; didn't you use it to describe inflation last year? https://t.co/BRNZqAkp8u
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Well, Carter deregulated trucking and airlines. He also named Volcker head of the Fed, who helped break inflation.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
No. Roe undermined SCOTUS' legitimacy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
What? Is it the Putin price cut? Did the price gougers stop price gouging? #sarcasm Just a reminder: when Biden took office, gas cost $2.39/gallon. Where I live, it's still $1.60 more per gallon. When can I expect to see an end to the Biden price hike?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Just a reminder: the police power rests with the states. You have very limited police power except for federal jurisdictions and properties. Your corrupt spending bills are unconstitutional.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
The corrupt industrial policy protectionist chip bill is a crime against the free trade and the economy. I don't trust the economic illiterate Biden to do the right thing and veto it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Her specialty is veterinary science. Maybe her claim to education experience is schools of fish? #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
No. The federal Hyde Amendment has allowed for exceptions to rape and incest. That policy, of course, does not apply to states, but almost all states will allow them.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Just a reminder: the Dems impeached him on incitement, which is at best legally dubious, not on dereliction, which I thought was the obvious charge.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Canary in a coal mine. If the low price leader can't make money... We are already in the Biden recession. https://t.co/Wn4gFa3H7P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Listen, if you are talking about killing Russian troops, you don't have a clue what America First means. https://t.co/S5uxJJh2cl
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Just a reminder: Cotton did more than Cheney in undermining Trump's fraudulent election claims.https://t.co/qs2zLZ7PEH https://t.co/9WCHxnsP8y
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Now you understand why I didn't like to go to cocktail parties at universities while I was a professor. #sarcasm https://t.co/gY4DdmH6hj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
You're kidding, right?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
“Former A.G. Bill Barr, a RINO if there ever was one, didn’t have the courage or stamina to go after voter fraud — Was afraid he was going to be impeached,” Trump wrote in a statement posted to his social media platform, Truth Social. “NO GUTS, NO GLORY!!!”
The lying Idiot in Chief is ignoring the fact that recessionary fears have much to do with the decrease.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
Experts warn that Biden's next economic battle against Russian oil, focusing on insuring Russian tankers, could take gas way higher than $5.https://t.co/522ORKp4n5
No, the Idiot-in-Chief is lying about modern sporting rifles. Clinton's ban never worked, and neither will the unconstitutional actions of Biden.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 26, 2022
No, the Idiot-in-Chief is a pathological liar--who even lies in describing sporting rifles "military-style weapons". From 2007-17, ALL rifles accounted about 340 homicides a year--less than a quarter of those by sharp objects.https://t.co/zfxtPL6VfP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Price gouging is a fake crime. The fact is Biden declared war on Russian oil even with a preexisting tight global supply. We depend on foreign supplies for about a third of our oil consumption--and Biden, of course, has been canceling oil leases and pipelines.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Putin loves the way Germans have blundered their way into dependency on Russian natural gas. https://t.co/fgunSrlFU4
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
What Biden doesn't admit is Russia still sells its oil at a discount to China and India. That eases competition for about 7M barrels we import daily. Guess what would happen to global supply and prices if Russia cut production?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Guess why stock prices have been in the dumpster this year no matter how often Treasury Secretary Yellen sings "Blue Skies"? https://t.co/xmsP565EBd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
No, it is corrupt cronyism at the expense of other parts of our economy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
#GasPricesAreSoLow I can finally afford to drive to the polls to vote out the Dems.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
I don't know. I think Trump was also willing to leave office at the end of Biden's term.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Interesting studies suggest a natural origin of COVID-19 jumping from animals to humans in the Wuhan markets vs. the lab leak hypothesis.https://t.co/WPgUwhJtxA
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
I'm not the language police. I don't give a damn what Ms. Harris' pronouns are. I don't even care what her pets are.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Biden is taking credit for economic "growth" resulting from existing businesses turning the lights back on after the government turned them off. But jobless claims are climbing & the labor force participation rate is still a point lower than pre-pandemic. https://t.co/Hxb3AG5JWm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
"Most commentators and analysts use, as a
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
practical definition of recession, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country’s real (inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP)."https://t.co/jzRBYFhlbJ https://t.co/x1NEPVJMtM
The use of US military aid to strike within Russia is a violation of US terms. "[Biden] outlined the conditions of the assistance...'We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders...'"https://t.co/FISQXTS4S9 https://t.co/hFIdT5yRlF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
DHS. A mega mutant synthetic bureaucracy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Education. Unconstitutional in concept.
TSA. A knee-jerk response to 9/11 and a dysfunctional bureaucracy from the start.
This is the SOB who tried to murder Reagan. Leftist trolls already loved him. https://t.co/g0Up3cNeeM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
I used to teach software algorithms, and I guarantee people would rather listen to my lectures than Ms, Harris' gobbledygook. https://t.co/sF9zGNnugj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Exactly what I would expect a warmongering neo-con to say.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Dude, that explains how you got COVID-19.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
I think it's an old quote, and she apparently corrected herself later in the show.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Glad to see Biden tested negative. I was worried about a President Harris.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Unconstitutional. The Constitution does not limit the term and the only way to implement a limit would require amendment. Legislation cannot implement a term more restrictive than the Constitution. cf. U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton. https://t.co/W9z4LYULvm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
raising payroll taxes from 15.3% (split between employee and employer) and/or reducing benefits, typically by deferring eligibility dates and/or means testing. Dems want to lift the ceiling on incomes for taxes, a de facto redistribution scheme.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
(7/multiple)
It's not just lifetime benefits have soared, but the reserves are mandated to be invested in low-earning federal debt. Bush proposed a reform allowing contributors to invest a portion of their contributions in higher-earning equity, like in other countries. Denied.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
(5/multiple)
The 'entitlement' soundbite is a partisan word game. Dems try to argue the GOP are implying it's a welfare program, not an "earned benefit". Here, all that's being asserted is you are entitled to benefits after so many periods of paying in.https://t.co/Fw4rZi3nPo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
(3/multiple)
This means current payroll taxes are repackaged to current beneficiaries. Any surplus goes to reserves; recently these programs have run into deficits meaning it draws down on reserves/interest income. If and when reserves exhaust, Congress would have to make it up.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
(2/multiple)
What worries me more than the recession is what the Federal Reserve will and won't do in response.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
Not surprising. Look at how many people voted for Trump or Biden.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
You need to address this in the context of the Posse Comitatus Act.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 27, 2022
This seems particularly disingenuous given the fact that the Congress through the Capitol police rejected offered National Guard troops. Arguing the POTUS should have acted when Pelosi and McConnell didn't?
US rights don't necessarily apply in other nations. https://t.co/oah4Ku50rZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Trump is a public figure; unless he can prove libel or slander, this will end like his frivolous election lawsuits. CNN, however, is grateful for Trump's publicity. https://t.co/XWCQA15ePW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Dude, you had one of the fastest rises in history. Gas prices are still over $1.50/gallon more than when you took office. The last time we saw gas so high was--yup, 2008, just before the economic tsunami.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Knowingly misleading propaganda. Semiautomatic firearams have been around for over a century, military-grade weapons have been essentially unavailable to the public for decades. More people die from knives than rifles; CNN just pays more attention to sensational shootings. https://t.co/JSIFwkB1cX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
So how did he know about the timing of the CHIPS vote?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
A conspiracy against the economy and against current/future taxpayers. Manchin will pay for caving into the forces of evil. The good news: the Dems will pay for their economically illiterate crimes at the midterms. https://t.co/LbGwtbjXoQ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
They aren't cutting spending (unless they are hoping for savings from negotiating prescription costs and/or importing drugs). But they're hoping that hiring new IRS agents will more than pay for themselves in untapped revenue. And they always overestimate new tax revenues.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
The Russians want another 6'9" center and two draft picks to be named later.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Anyone who thinks spending money reduces inflation doesn't understand the construct.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
What the hell are you guys talking about? States and municipalities had the authority to shutdown their economies, not the USG. The only thing I can think of is Trump issuing a national emergency order coordinating resources and planning with the states.https://t.co/4BEdyzvpFR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Well, he was fully vaxxed plus twice boosted before his breakthrough infection. Plus he took an antiviral med. He definitely had it. In one clip, you see him reaching for a cough drop.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Yeah, I know: predictable BS political spin. People bought into this idea that Manchin and Sinema were "centrists".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Oh my God! Manchin thinks you address inflation by tax and spend policies. He never passed Econ 101, but I wouldn't be surprised if Biden appointed him to the Federal Reserve. https://t.co/COyif9b0aA
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
So much for "investing in human capital".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Dem voters think that the Biden price hike on gas to $5.02/gallon is in the past. Time for some classic BTO: https://t.co/tFLc82VjlZ https://t.co/9TlQOblNvR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Random selection of an ignorant leftist troll.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Of course, the idiot and equally idiotic Biden comparing his bout of COVID-19 with Trump's.
For one thing, Trump did not have vaccines or boosters like Biden had. Trump's variant was also far more destructive.
Trump's COVID https://t.co/yPeUsR8Kpq
Nope. He's a lot shorter, slower, older and doesn't have skills.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Biden is stupid. He had the MUCH MILDER BA.5 variant. He had the benefit of 4 vaccine/booster shots and anti-viral meds that Trump didn't have available.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
The CHIPS bill was corrupt industrial policy that no self-respecting conservative would support. The Manchin-Schumer agreement is more of the same for any sane conservative opposed to tax and spend.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Yes, Biden really is that stupid. Trump got a far more dangerous variant of COVID-19, and vaccines were weeks away from approval. This is beyond apples and oranges.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
BEA reports a 0.9% drop in GDP for the second quarter, on top of a 1.6% contraction in the first quarter. By the most common heuristic, we are in a recession, although NBER makes the official call. https://t.co/om6c3pIKgG
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Almost $2/gallon higher into the 1.5 year tenure of Biden. Yeah, that sounds like something to celebrate.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
It is virtually impossible for civilians to acquire and get permitted for military-style weapons, and those weapons are almost never involved in civilian casualties. This is not to say that criminal use of modern sporting rifles cannot be deadly.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
This is pretty stupid. Political whores don't "lower" prices. They might set a price, but a vendor may not agree to sell at a low price. The only things I've heard is government programs may negotiate prices and/or cap annual out of pocket. The real solution: the free market.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Reminder that there's no such thing as a "free" lunch, even at public schools. Taxpayers, present and future, pay for "free" stuff Democrats love to bribe voters (including freeloaders) with.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
So now we are facing with a politically unpopular fix of increasing payroll taxes (now 15.3%. split with employers). The "solution" for Dems is to raise/eliminate the income cap subject to the 12.4% portion on social security, currently about $150K. This is redistribution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
The problem is senior entitlement programs were never designed or funded to pay out for literally decades in retirement. It's also clear that the workers/retirees pay into the system what they expect to receive, not to depend on being subsidized by taxpayers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
By the gap, I refer to funding beyond incoming payroll tax revenue. In essence, if senior programs are funded by general revenues like welfare, they can be subject to budget cuts--something FDR desperately wanted to avoid.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Oh, for God's sake! I would prefer to pay Biden not to show up for work for the rest of his term; he would do a lot less damage.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
From what I understand, he had some minor symptoms, like a dry cough, runny nose and some fatigue. Light desk duty not a big deal.
Not quite: NBER decides that.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
This merchant of death is using ancillary services, easily done elsewhere by legitimate hospitals and clinics, to sell genocide of the preborn.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
It's time to end this morally corrupt provider's dependency on the taxpayer teat.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
But do they have Griner's height and jump shot? #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Biden is in a state of denial. His approval on the economy is below 30% and on inflation even lower.https://t.co/8kCgk76Ny8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Nope. Does anyone take this political whore seriously? We produce planes and bombs that have killed people in wedding parties in the Middle East; where the hell has this hypocrite been on these merchants of death?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Pollyannish state of denial. We still have a point lower labor force participation rate from before the pandemic. You're conveniently looking past the fact that the economy contracted in the first quarter before the Fed raised interest rates.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Nope. First of all, you political whores can't reduce inflation by spending more money of other people.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Second, the only way to tackle the climate and energy crises is through the free market, and you guys don't have a clue.
How you can, out of one mouth gripe about corporate welfare and out of the other engage in egregious crony capitalism, is beyond doublespeak and hypocrisy. This bill you're pushing is pure corruption.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 28, 2022
Scientific illiterate liar.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
"Substantial immunologic evidence and a growing body of epidemiologic evidence indicate that vaccination after infection significantly enhances protection and further reduces risk of reinfection."
This is beyond typical stupidity of a political whore.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
The abortion issue is about MORALITY, not RELIGION. Human life begins at conception is a scientific fact, not religious dogma. The fertilized egg has a distinct DNA from her mother, the same DNA she would have as born.
Yes, religions have codes against abortion and other forms of murder, just like they have against theft, perjury, etc. This has nothing to do with "imposing your religion on others".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
FNC is hyping the Biden Administration being in a hypocritical state of denial over the definition of a recession. Technically, NBER makes that call and the 2 consecutive quarter heuristic isn't definitive. For example, the 2020 Trump recession lasted 2 months.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
FNC is hyping the Biden Administration being in a hypocritical state of denial over the definition of a recession. Technically, NBER makes that call and the 2 consecutive quarter heuristic isn't definitive. For example, the 2020 Trump recession lasted 2 months.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
Abortion is not simply a medical decision; it's murder. We all have a vested interest in the protection of human life.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
The problem is that we have to import about 7M barrels a day, and we have to compete with other importers like China and India for oil. Currently, they are buying Russian oil at a discount because of Biden's boycott. Biden is also releasing oil from the limited strategic reserve.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
Well, maybe they wouldn't be if they were 6'9" black lesbians. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
This is the same dude who defied Congress in supporting the Saudi regime, accused of genocidal attacks on Yemeni civilians. So the idea that Trump is insensitive to 9/11 survivors? Not so surprising.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
This guy has been the target of pro-abort rage, especially after his majority opinion was leaked in May. And your opinion is pure rubbish; even pro-aborts like RBG realized the Roe decision was indefensible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
These things all violate the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
the only ones making money (literally) are the government. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
It also proves the push for corporate welfare is bipartisan.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
"Fully vaccinated individuals had a shorter duration of viable viral shedding and a lower rate of secondary transmission than partially vaccinated or unvaccinated individuals."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
This is Soft Rock America. Biden doesn't think it's a recession, but Billy Joel doesn't care what you call it: https://t.co/k1TwmddCdn https://t.co/iLA1iszhUm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
Corporate welfare has hypocritical Dem backing behind it. https://t.co/6utazQAQTM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
"I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
Hippocratic Oath https://t.co/wKc0BzMopJ
Why is so difficult to believe that the same administration, whose SCOTUS nominee declares she's not a biologist, so she can't define a woman, has economists who can't define a recession?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
I try hard to be patient. But just a couple of things wrong with your tweet.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
I do think Trump challenged the outcome of the election. But I don't see any evidence of his staging a coup with the military. The riot did not involve firearms and he ended up calling off his mob.
A better way to provide a more representative electoral vote total is to adopt ME/NE's model of assigning each district its own plurality winner electoral vote.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
The very idea that The Federalist may espouse the principles of federalism!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
First of all, there is nothing in the US Constitution enabling the Congress to regulate state marriage laws.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
Second, the issue is not over passage of the also unconstitutional corporate welfare bill. It had to do with undermining the agreement of allowing said bill to the floor.
It turns out there's a technical issue with the earlier Senate veterans' health bill where the Senate wanted some payments to be tax-free. That steps on the House's prerogative. Toomey worried a quick fix would open up discretionary spending previously held by VA care.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
My latest essay blends some personal stories to the kind of things I would pursue if hell froze over and I got elected to Congress.https://t.co/f76gPVGj6m
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 29, 2022
My latest essay looks at the firestorm over the veterans healthcare act.https://t.co/DF8VH1ofCt
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The "objectivity" of the mainstream media is laughable. Consider the early cited Reuters article. They cite a recent MEDICAL JOURNAL article in support of the Clinton era weapons ban on mass shootings. One journal article nearly 20 years later? Seriously?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
As a libertarian, I oppose the House's 4-vote majority to resurrect the ineffectual constitutionally-dubious Clinton era ban on "assault weapons". Mass shootings are relatively rare events, and psychopaths have workarounds to restrictions. DOA in Senate.https://t.co/U8nVIyqFxu https://t.co/ouCgikif3q
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
Oh my God! How hopelessly naive and economically illiterate do you have to be to believe that the same government that prints money and finances obscene spending responsible for our inflation-bound, anemic economy will lower inflation by giving a tax and spend bill a shiny name? https://t.co/WmCmHJqeAx
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The "Inflation Reduction Act" is an oxymoron". No wonder what the Incompetent Senile Economically Illiterate, Megalomaniac Idiot-in-Chief says, tax and corrupt special interest spending are bad for the economy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The Democrats so deserve to lose the House this fall. https://t.co/JOzChXKI9Z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The last thing I want to see is fatty Trump meat inside Melania buns.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
"Trump Burger restaurant in Texas is a tourist attraction and monument to the former president"
America survived Obama, and it survived Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
I know Democrats are desperate for anyone under the age of 70, but Americans aren't that desperate. https://t.co/FUyDferKc5
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
They didn't vote against funding veteran's health. They voted against veteran's health being paid out of mandatory vs. discretionary spending.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
No, gun control idiots, banning firearms is unconstitutional, period. The second amendment explicitly defends the right of the people to own and bear arms. Civilians generally have not been allowed to own military/automatic weapons since the 1930's. No, no militia restriction.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
"WELL REGULATED"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
"Well-regulated in the 18th century tended to be something like well-organized, well-armed,
well-disciplined," says Rakove. "It didn't mean 'regulation'."https://t.co/BDkGa7pj86
This is pretty stupid, even for an economically illiterate leftist.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
Price gouging is a fake crime. When supplies are tight, prices go up and attract suppliers. Biden's policies discourage investment in new domestic supplies and refineries, exacerbating shortages.
Pretty sure you don't know anything about the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
You're pretty stupid, even for a gun control idiot. Automatic weapons are generally unavailable to the public and have been for decades. Prohibitions against sporting rifles are unconstitutional.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The death wish anti-vaxxers are coming out of the woodwork to exploit an asymptomatic COVID-19 POTUSreinfection. Just a reminder: 400+ are dying daily, a disproportionate percentage of which come from the unvaccinated. A similar story for the 45K hospitalized, 4K ICU.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
Paxlovid
The Senate GOP has taken an ill-deserved hit on the issue, and I think they'll settle for getting Senate Dem spendaholics on the record through the Toomey amendment, then allow and vote through the revised PACT Act.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
My current understanding is the House didn't wait for the Senate to fix the bill but deleted the buyout provision and didn't add new spending to the bill, sending the bill back to the Senate. Schumer and Manchin in the interim announced their mini-Build Back Better agreement.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The Senate PACT Act had 2 issues not related to veterans care funding: it included a tax-free buyout provision to attract rural doctors, and it shifted funding to (protected) mandatory spending. The former could not be initiated in the Senate; the second opened up a spending hole
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
It is morally hazardous and economic illiterate, bad public policy that distorts the more legitimate free market.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
Leftist morons make "racism" their intellectually vapid pejorative of choice.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
I had to delete a few tweets on the PACT Act because I can't prove (yet) the Dems are using the shift of funding to the mandatory budget to spend more on their special interest agenda. But Dems have a history of deficit spending.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
No, Kaepernick took a knee to get self-serving attention.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
The issue with Medicare is because you Dem whores, including Clinton and Obama, have never fixed chronic funding problems.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) July 30, 2022
