Author: Doug Santo

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Fed rate increases before November?

Wholesale prices rose 0.5% in April, more than expected

“…Stripping out volatile food and energy prices, the core PPI also rose 0.5% compared with the 0.2% Dow Jones estimate. Excluding trade services from that core group showed a 0.4% increase on the month and 3.1% on a 12-month basis, the highest level since April 2023…”

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Senator Kennedy: “Mr. Bragg … my observation is that if you want to hide something from him you put it in a law book.”

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Liberal Mental Disorder – German edition…

Liberals in Germany are just as deranged as liberals in America.

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The new racism same as the old racism. Still comes from unhappy, deranged Democrats. Only the skin colors have changed…

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Michael Cohen’s Former Attorney Exposes His Lies From Trump Testimony In Hearing

Extended testimony:

Related. Jonathan Turley Reveals Michael Cohen May Have Perjured Himself AGAIN: ‘Didn’t Make Any Sense’:

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Watch this teacher teach. Ask yourself why he was fired. Was that a good and proper decision?

Warren Smith Learns It’s Not Enough to Be Right

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California Democrats are determined to make your life difficult and in the process make you as unhappy as they are…

Democrat-Run California About to Get Hit with 50 Cent per Gallon Gas Tax

“…In today’s edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to get hit with a 50 cent per gallon gas tax.

Remember, California voters have handed the Democrat party full power over the former Golden State. Democrats run everything from the governorship on down. Democrats not only hold majorities in the state legislature, they hold veto-proof majorities. In other words…

Republicans are powerless in California. And so…

According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in California today is $5.29. That’s nearly $1.70 more than the national average. In some parts of California, gas costs $6.32 per gallon. The lowest cost for a gallon of gas in that Democrat-run shithole is $5.02.

Now add 50 cents to those prices…”

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Political persecution of Trump jumps the rails as former fixer flops…

Trump trial’s OJ glove moment: Cohen tape undercuts prosecutors’ main story to jurors

Democrats have politicized and corrupted our justice system.

Turley: Trump Judge Should Grant A Directed Verdict, Do Not Send This Case To The Jury

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Byron Donalds…

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Where are her parents? I blame them…

Before woke:

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After woke:

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This is an extreme case of Liberal Mental Disorder. Victimhood. Self hatred. Self mutilation. Blame others for your sickness. Next step, violence against strangers.

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More:

Eurovision.

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Liberals everywhere are just liberals…

Obama set the mark for cockamamie art as a fashion statement for the liberal elite.

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Headline of the day – Democrats are clueless jerks edition…

Mayor Eric Adams Floats Giving NYC Lifeguard Jobs to Migrants Because They’re ‘Excellent Swimmers’

More evidence that Democrats are clueless jerks. Skin color as determinative factor in emergency services:

Also, Democrats are just simply stupid. Stupid.

Democrats.

That’s who they are.

Vote for Democrats and this is what you get.

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Bad decisions over decades have cost the U.S. Navy and American taxpayers dearly…

In Red Sea, US Navy paying the price of shipbuilding failures

“…The Navy is struggling to meet some of its operational requirements in part because it simply doesn’t have all the ships it expected. The current threat to navigation in the Red Sea is precisely the scenario for which the Navy invested so much time and resources building the Littoral Combat Ships. The LCS program was sold to the American people as a “networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the littorals.”

The Houthi rebels launching missiles and drones from shore and hijacking commercial shipping in the confined waters of the Red Sea meets the textbook definition of an asymmetric threat in a littoral region. Yet the “little crappy ships,” as they have come to be known, are nowhere to be seen inside the Red Sea. Rather, the Navy has to keep a carrier strike group composed of Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers on station longer than anticipated in an attempt to keep an important maritime choke point open.

The Littoral Combat Ship is one of two major shipbuilding failures from the past 20 years. The other is the Zumwalt-class destroyer. Both programs began in earnest in the years after 9/11 and almost immediately ran into trouble. The Zumwalt program saw massive cost growth which forced Navy leaders to slash the planned fleet size from the originally planned 32 to 7 and finally to the three which were actually built. These three ships cost nearly $8 billion each while failing to deliver promised combat capabilities.

The Littoral Combat Ship program cost $28 billion to build a fleet of 35 ships. According to the Government Accountability Office, the Navy expects to pay more than $60 billion to operate the fleet for its expected 25-year lifespan. Like the Zumwalt, the LCS program’s combat functionality is far less than expected. The ships were designed to be modular with crews swapping out mission systems in port for different missions. Engineers could never get the mission modules to work properly, so the scheme was abandoned.

The LCS program does excel in spectacular breakdowns. The USS Milwaukee famously broke down shortly after it had been commissioned and had to be towed into a Virginia port while its crew attempted to sail the ship to its intended San Diego home for the first time. Other ships suffered from saltwater corrosion, cracked hulls, and broken-down water jets. The Freedom-class variant LCS had trouble with the combining gear linking its diesel engine with the ship’s turbines. The problems grew so bad that Navy leaders essentially threw up their hands and began retiring ships decades before they should have smelled mothballs. The Navy decommissioned the USS Sioux City after a single deployment and less than five years after the ship entered service…”

Doug Santo