Badlands Daily: 8/20/26 - Bitcoin's Big Endorsement, Michigan Signature Games & Israel Strikes Syria
CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with a spirited debate over the national debt, the Federal Reserve, and whether the president can actually fix an economy that constitutionally belongs to Congress, sparked by a rant from the chat and a batch of new Trump comments on Bitcoin and interest rates. They also work through a chat claim about Bitcoin's origins that does not survive contact with the numbers. From there it is a look at University of Michigan scrapping letter grades for freshmen and the Army walking back tougher ROTC academic standards. The back half covers Michigan's election bureau…
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