Donald Trump selling 2028 election merch despite term limitThe US Constitution limits presidents to two four-year stints in office. Donald Trump has said he still intends to run for a third term and has started selling the hats and t-shirts that say it.
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Rates of early voting have been increasing for a long time, but reached a record high level of 2022, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. I most recently summarised these statistics at a federal level in this blog post.
For this blog post I’m going to summarise the statistics on how many people are voting early as of the end of the short 3-day week between the Easter and Anzac Day long weekends. The short answer: early voting seems to be holding steady at the record high levels seen in 2022.
He was a young American from Chicago, via South Vietnam. He was lean and clean and crew cut, and he was telling us about his experiences up there. Conditions were really rugged, he said. Charlie was unpredictable and vicious.
Addo asked him, “Who's Charlie?”
“VC,” he said.
"Oh well, I s'pose you have to be unpredictable and vicious to get a VC."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7DR3bktLk
Col. Douglas Macgregor: Walking Away from the Ukraine War & Restoring Strategic Clarity
Anzac Day again, and war still ravages the world. Someday, peace will come.
DeepT and NG talk about the financial system implications of the Trump tariffs and whether for Australia these are inflationary or deflationary, and the likely response from the RBA. That leads into discussion of whether this can actually lead to more housing construction or rising house prices and the dynamics of that, while bringing
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Westpac chief economist Luci Ellis published a note on the bank’s outlook for interest rates. Westpac believes that the Reserve Bank is certain to cut the official cash rate by 0.25% at its next monetary meeting on 20 May. Ellis notes that “uncertainty has escalated to a whole new level” following the Trump Administration’s trade
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Israeli strikes included the bombing of a school-turned-shelter, which killed 13, and the bombing of a children's hospital
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks killed at least 38 Palestinians and wounded 105 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli strikes pound targets across the Strip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5L8jbRU5eE
Megyn Kelly Fires Back at George Clooney Claiming He's More of a Journalist Than She is
Risk markets are still in a positive mood generally speaking as they digest the possible weakening of Chinese tariffs but of course the Orange Mussolini is still a bit confused on what he wants to do at the granular level with more doublespeak during the session. Stocks are still fairly well bid while the USD
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