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WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: I cannot figure out how that happened!
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Try using the pause button at just the right time, dude.
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THREATENING
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WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: This means the war is going to go on a lot longer.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Even Tom Friedman, after some time in Europe, has no f-ing idea how this ends, seeing “three possible outcomes, some totally new, some familiar, but all coming with complicated and unpredictable side effects:
Outcome 1 is a total Ukrainian victory, which risks Putin doing something crazy as defeat and humiliation stare him in the face.
Outcome 2 is a dirty deal with Putin that secures a cease-fire and stops the destruction, but it risks splintering the Western allies and enraging many Ukrainians.
Outcome 3 is a less dirty deal — we go back to the lines where everyone was before Putin invaded in February. Ukraine might be ready to live with that, and maybe even the Russian people would, too, but Putin would have to be ousted first, because he would never abide the undeniable implication that his war was completely for naught.”
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MIDTERMING
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WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: The House is too complicated, all I focus on is the Senate.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: You need to read Mark Mellman’s column, which points out that the latest data suggests that real disposable income is up (with trends mattering more than absolute numbers), which explains (perhaps as much or more than abortion) why Democrats’ prospects are fundamentally better than before (and than history suggests they should be), and/but you also need to look at the new New York Times graphics, which show why the Republicans remain a near-lock to take control of the House.
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PRESSING
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WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: I thought I was supposed to focus on the special master and on Georgia.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Donald Trump still cares more about money than political power: You can take the developer from Queens out of Queens but you can’t take the Queens out of the developer.
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RAISING
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CNBC:
It’s not what the Federal Reserve does, but what it says it could do in the future that will be most crucial when the central bank ends its two-day meeting Wednesday.
The Fed is expected to fire off another three-quarter point rate hike — its third in a row. It will also release quarterly forecasts for inflation, the economy, and the future path of interest rates Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET….
Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks at 2:30 p.m. ET, and he is expected to emphasize the central bank will do what it takes to fight inflation and it is unlikely to reverse its rate hikes anytime soon.
WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Watch what the markets do today.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: The rate increase level matters less than if Powell can convince elites he actually has what it takes to get the job done here – and part of the measure of that will be if his on-camera statement is actually treated seriously and as a big deal, as opposed to what it is likely to be treated as, a/k/a a non-event. Wars need generals.
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CRUZING
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is embarking on a cross-country midterm campaign swing as he weighs a possible 2024 presidential bid.
Cruz will travel to 17 states to campaign for GOP candidates this fall, including three states — Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada — which are home to early contests on the GOP presidential nominating calendar. The month-long tour, which begins Oct. 1 and wraps up Nov. 4, will bolster more than two-dozen contenders, several of which are running in high-profile statewide races.
WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: I’m more interested in what Glenn Youngkin is doing for the midterms.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: In a Trump-less field, Cruz remains one of the more undervalued stocks in the GOP array; he knows what it means to wake up every day and ask “What are the ten things I must do today to get elected president?” and has a willingness to chew through handcuffs to get it done. Many of the so-called stronger candidates have neither of those.
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MOVING
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A record-breaking number of Empire State residents switched their driver’s licenses to the Sunshine State version last month, according to a Post analysis of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles data.
A total of 5,838 New Yorkers made the switch in August — the highest recorded number for a single month in history, the numbers show.
WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: The last one to go should turn off the lights.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Paying income taxes is for fools and patriots.
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PERFORMING
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British singer Elton John will perform on the South Lawn of the White House Friday in an event celebrating “the healing and unifying power of music,” the White House announced on Tuesday.
The concert, dubbed “A Night When Hope and History Rhyme,” will be hosted by A+E Networks and The History Channel.
WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL ASK ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Why is the United States government playing host to a cable channel special?
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: I think the political pundit Elton John said it best a few years back, per the Associated Press:
John was critical of Republican President George W. Bush, telling a British magazine in November 2004 that Bush and his administration “are the worst thing that has ever happened to America.”
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would've liked to know you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
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DEEP-FAKING
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WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: You need to watch this!
WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS!
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