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Quote:Democrats have not forgotten that Republican Pres. Bush ignored all warnings: An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored warnings, including some that were far more detailed than previously revealed. What the CIA knew before 9/11: New details
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
for a few years the whole of the internet was covered with '911 Never Forget'
now its a bunch of instagram, tiktok, gamer, snapchat, pop culture silly media stuff.
https://www.politico.eu/article/attacks-will-be-spectacular-cia-war-on
-terror-bush-bin-laden/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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You can get radio from any part of this world online
Remember that Never Forget Thing...I think I finally figured out the meaning of 'Conservative'
I never once called myself Conservative,
but
I had to go to Canadian morning radio news to find 911 mentioned.
Radio on in the early hours of this morning in the USA bla bla Taxes, bla bla vote Left vs Right or Leftwing vs Righting bal bla bla, Trump rape case, noisy Rap 'music, some Mexico Hispanic noise like a slow out of tune trumpet not the good Salsa Bosa stuff, there might have been an Arabic radio thing, some redneck country noisey stuff, more politics bla bla Trump Biden, Some person who sounded like Black guy on a morning show was blabbing about schools people calling making slang rap jokes on air and called in about kids dress, kids going to school in pajamas and starting fights, everyone sounded like they were in their own Bubble and Balkanized. There was a song playing on a California station that sounded by a really bad 8-bit video game. the composition was ok, it was layered, had melody, texture but the 8-bit like samples were terrible, New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Ontario and Quebec in Canada maybe they will mention it more...maybe it is almost forgotten it just becomes a note in history like the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Sinking of the RMS Lusitania the Fall of Saigon
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Democrats have not forgotten that Republican Pres. Bush ignored all warnings: An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored warnings, including some that were far more detailed than previously revealed.
maybe little Bush was and still is worse than Biden...but little Bush was there for 2 terms.
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Here are 23 of Joe Biden’s greatest accomplishments as president of the United States.
1. Passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package to increase investment in the national network of bridges and roads, airports, public transport and national broadband internet, as well as waterways and energy systems.
2. Helped get more than $500 million life-saving COVID-19 vaccinations in the arms of Americans through the American Rescue Plan.
3. Stopped a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that created enhanced background checks, closed the "boyfriend" loophole and provided funds for youth mental health.
4. Made a $369 billion investment in climate change, the largest in American history, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
5. Ended the longest war in American history by pulling the troops out of Afghanistan.
6. Provided $10,000 to $20,000 in college debt relief to Americans with loans who make under $125,000 a year.
7. Cut child poverty in half through the American Rescue Plan.
8. Capped prescription drug prices at $2,000 per year for seniors on Medicare through the Inflation Reduction Act.
9. Passed the COVID-19 relief deal that provided payments of up to $1,400 to many struggling U.S. citizens while supporting renters and increasing unemployment benefits.
10. Achieved historically low unemployment rates after the pandemic caused them to skyrocket.
11. Imposed a 15% minimum corporate tax on some of the largest corporations in the country, ensuring that they pay their fair share, as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act.
12. Recommitted America to the global fight against climate change by rejoining the Paris Agreement.
13. Strengthened the NATO alliance in support of Ukraine after the Russian invasion by endorsing the inclusion of world military powers Sweden and Finland.
14. Authorized the assassination of the Al Qaeda terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, who became head of the organization after the death of Osama bin Laden.
15. Gave Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices through the Inflation Reduction Act while also reducing government health spending.
16. Held Vladimir Putin accountable for his invasion of Ukraine by imposing stiff economic sanctions.
17. Boosted the budget of the Internal Revenue Service by nearly $80 billion to reduce tax evasion and increase revenue.
18. Created more jobs in one year (6.6 million) than any other president in U.S. history.
19. Reduced healthcare premiums under the Affordable Care Act by $800 a year as part of the American Rescue Plan.
20. Signed the PACT Act to address service members' exposure to burn pits and other toxins.
21. Signed the CHIPS and Science Act to strengthen American manufacturing and innovation.
22. Reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act through 2027.
23. Halted all federal executions after the previous administration reinstated them after a 17-year freeze.
https://www.upworthy.com/joe-biden-s-23-greatest-achievements-as-presi
dent-of-the-united-states-so-far
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-democrat-candidate-posted-se
x-acts-husband-online-soliciting-tips-report
Meet Susanna Gibson, AKA ‘HotWifeExperience’ Candidate Who Has An X-Rated Profile
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperien
ce-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-democrat-candidate-posted-se
x-acts-husband-online-soliciting-tips-report
Meet Susanna Gibson, AKA ‘HotWifeExperience’ Candidate Who Has An X-Rated Profile
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperien
ce-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile
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Gibson did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire asking whether the “good cause” was her Senate campaign. But she appears to acknowledge to The Washington Post that the videos are authentic, claiming that they are “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”
Though she posted the videos online for her nearly 6,000 followers on Chaturbate, she now claims it to be a “sex crime” to shed light on the existence of her account.
“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told the Washington Post.
Oh no, honey... That's not a sex crime.
You are a whore. Your husband is a cucked simp. And it appears that you might be in violation of a few federal laws yourself, having sucked and fucked dudes off when you're not just flicking your bean for perverts to watch while paying you to fund your political campaign.
It's smart that you didn't admit to that one. You better have a good accountant.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suffers assassination scare — Armed man posing as U.S. Marshal arrested at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. event at Wilshire Ebell Theatre
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1703032863648530461
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break way secession and Active Separatist Movements SECOND blames Trump, others might blame Biden?
https://ibb.co/R2PBX6g
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Quote:I blame Trumptards for their problems:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
break way secession and Active Separatist Movements SECOND blames Trump, others might blame Biden?
https://ibb.co/R2PBX6g
The Death Spiral of an American Family
Kristal sat on the bed and started sifting through the first box. There was Dave Sr.’s Army enlistment form, where he’d lied about his birth date to make himself a year older, so he could serve in Vietnam. There was his associate’s degree in criminology, his police badge and a picture of him posing with his wife in front of a little red Mustang at their three-bedroom house, just before things began to unravel. That marriage had ended in divorce. Dave Sr. sank his half of their money into Detroit-area real estate, only to see values drop 82 percent from 2006 to 2008 in the Great Recession. He lost his house to foreclosure. His next wife became addicted to opioids and stole what little money he had left. He had his first heart surgery in 2010 and went thousands of dollars into medical debt. He moved in with his son and tried to redeem himself by opening a string of businesses, each more desperate and more leveraged than the last, until they seemed to Dave Jr. more like delusions. He was starting a photography business in the backyard. He was buying and reselling Tasers on the Internet. He was trying to make TikTok videos for a profit. He was hoarding the family’s household items and hiding them in his room — cellphone chargers, magnets, pencils and razors that Dave Jr. found now at the bottom of the cardboard boxes.
“How do you go from being a police officer to basically stealing people’s trash?” he said, lifting out one of his daughter’s old toothbrushes. “It makes no sense, but I know I shouldn’t be mad at him. He was suffering. He kept trying.”
It had been almost a month since Dave, 39, found his father lying unresponsive in bed next to his cellphone and a bill from a collections agency, having died of a heart attack at age 70, and ever since then Dave had been trying to make sense of what his father had left behind. He’d read through his father’s credit card statements and then talked to a banker, who concluded that the final estate of David Ramsey Sr. was of “inconsequential value.” Like a record 23 percent of Americans who’ve died in the past five years, the ultimate financial worth of his father’s life was nothing — a number somewhere below zero.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-death-spiral-of-an-american-fam
ily
All the East Texas Trumptards I know are following approximately the same path as this family, but maybe in other parts of America the Trumptards are not as retarded.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Tim Gurner, an Australian real estate titan and multimillionaire, made international news last week by being recklessly honest about his desire for unemployment to spike and regular workers to suffer. Gurner has been understandably condemned for this across the globe and has now issued a weak, vague apology.
“We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,” Gurner said. “There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. It’s a dynamic that has to change. We’ve got to kill that attitude, and that has to come through hurting the economy.”
What truly deserves attention is why Gurner feels the way he does — and how it’s precisely explained in an essay written in 1943, titled “Political Aspects of Full Employment.”
In it, Polish economist Michal Kalecki argued that government spending could ensure a permanent economic boom with both low employment and increased business profits. Crucially, however, Kalecki predicted that business executives would hate having what everyone else sees as a good economy, because it would allow regular people to be less subservient to them. For the business class, no amount of money can replace the daily joy of watching your inferiors grovel when in your presence.
Kalecki perfectly understood the psychological suffering that low unemployment caused executives like Gurner 80 years ago.
He was writing in the midst of World War II, at a time when capitalism had produced catastrophic recessions for the past 100 years. Enormous swaths of the population had been intermittently thrown out of work and into terrifying destitution. This had culminated in the Great Depression of the 1930s, when John Maynard Keynes and other economists proposed a solution for these vertiginous falls: The government could just spend money to get the economy going again.
This had been proven to Kalecki’s generation by what they saw right in front of their eyes: a gigantic world war that put everyone back to work. Kalecki started his essay by declaring “a solid majority of economists is now of the opinion that, even in a capitalist system, full employment may be secured by a government spending program.” It didn’t require armed conflict, though: Socially productive spending or just handing out money to everyone would do just as well.
The key limiting factor, Kalecki believed, was not some shortage of money, since the government could create as much money as it wanted. Rather, it was the productive capacity of the economy. For this perspective he is recognized as a key forerunner of modern monetary theory (especially by people who hate him). As Stephanie Kelton, an economics professor and present-day proponent of MMT, has put it, “the government really could give everyone a pony … so long as we could breed enough ponies. … [The ponies] have to come from somewhere; the money is conjured out of thin air.”
At the time, given the incipient Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, you might imagine that business leaders would rejoice at this argument. After all, they could largely eliminate pressure for radical change, while keeping capitalism. Moreover, Kalecki argued, “higher output and employment benefit not only workers but entrepreneurs as well, because the latter’s profits rise.”
There was a big, big problem, however. Here’s how Kalecki described it:
Under a regime of permanent full employment, the “sack” would cease to play its role as a disciplinary measure. The social position of the boss would be undermined, and the self-assurance and class-consciousness of the working class would grow. … “[D]iscipline in the factories” and “political stability” are more appreciated than profits by business leaders. Their class instinct tells them that lasting full employment is unsound from their point of view, and that unemployment is an integral part of the “normal” capitalist system.
More at https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/
The Joss Whe
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Once the layoffs happen, the price of food goes down and I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar.
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Quote:The Houston Food Bank gives away free food. I assume there is free food available where you live, 6ix, without the need to starve while waiting for layoffs to happen. https://www.houstonfoodbank.org/
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once the layoffs happen, the price of food goes down and I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar.
And "I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar." That's every Saturday at a million garage sales and estate sales all across America.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Houston Food Bank gives away free food. I assume there is free food available where you live, 6ix, without the need to starve while waiting for layoffs to happen. https://www.houstonfoodbank.org/
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once the layoffs happen, the price of food goes down and I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar.
I'm not starving. I have plenty of money even with your president killing the value of it for the last 2.5 years.
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And "I get to buy all the shit you didn't need for pennies on the dollar." That's every Saturday at a million garage sales and estate sales all across America.
I'm talking the good shit, bro. Not the crap that I took to Goodwill or left out on the curb for the pickers because I can't be bothered with haggling with a bunch of strangers for an entire weekend.
Got my house back in 2011 for next to nothing the last time you losers did this. I think this time I'll get a nice car.
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Superbugs are gaining ground via economics, not evolution
September 25, 2023 at 11:43PM
We need new drugs to fight the surge of antibiotic-resistant bugs that have been making the rounds in recent years. And we have them! But there's a catch:
Six startups have won Food and Drug Administration approval for new antibiotics since 2017. All have filed for bankruptcy, been acquired or are shutting down.
The problem turns out to be a simple one: there aren't really that many superbugs out there. This means that demand for super-antibiotics is fairly low, which makes them very expensive, which in turn reduces demand even further. A million bucks for a cancer drug is pretty ho-hum these days, but apparently we haven't quite gotten ourselves used to million-dollar penicillin:
About 13,000 people in the U.S. each year develop a severe type of drug-resistant infection that Achaogen’s drug Zemdri was developed to defeat. Up to half of people hospitalized with such infections die. They are among the more than 35,000 people in the U.S. who die annually from drug-resistant bacterial or fungal infections, a toll that has risen in recent years.
The year Zemdri was approved, Achaogen spent almost $200 million on manufacturing, marketing and other costs and generated $800,000 in sales of the drug. Achaogen’s stock price fell more than 96% from approval in June 2018 to the end of the first quarter in 2019.
I don't know how much $800,000 represents in doses, but it's way less than 13,000 people. For some reason, thousands of people die every year from this particular type of infection, but almost none of them were prescribed Zemdri to treat it. This is not a good thing for the future development of super-antibiotics.
https://jabberwocking.com/superbugs-are-gaining-ground-via-economics-n
ot-evolution/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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In the United States, the political charge of socialism tended to carry a peculiar meaning, one forged in the white supremacist backlash to Black civil rights in the 1870s.
In 1867, Congress passed the Military Reconstruction Act, extending the vote to Black men in the South. White southerners who hated the idea of Black people using the vote to protect themselves started to terrorize their Black neighbors. Pretending to be the ghosts of dead Confederate soldiers, they dressed in white robes with hoods to cover their faces and warned formerly enslaved people not to show up at the polls.
But in 1870, Congress created the Department of Justice to enable the federal government to protect the right of Black men to vote. Attorney General Amos Akerman oversaw the prosecution of more than 3,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, winning more than 1,000 convictions. Meanwhile, Congress passed laws to protect Black voting.
Suddenly, it was harder for white southerners to object to Black rights on racial grounds. So they turned to a new argument, one based on economics.
They did not want Black men voting, they said, because formerly enslaved people were poor, and they would vote for leaders who promised to build things such as roads and hospitals. Those public investments could be paid for only with tax levies, and most of the people in the South with property after the war were white. Thus, although the infrastructure in which the southern legislatures were investing would help everyone, reactionaries claimed that Black voting amounted to a redistribution of wealth from white men to Black people, who wanted something for nothing.
Black voting was, one magazine insisted, “socialism in South Carolina.”
The argument of poor Black workers being dangerous socialists offered justification for former Confederates to block their Black neighbors from the polls, to read them out of American society and ultimately to lynch them. It’s a peculiarly American version of “socialism.” It might have been a historical anomaly. A small group of business leaders and southern racists resurrected it in the 20th century.
After World War II, most Republicans joined Democrats in believing that the federal government had to oversee business regulation, welfare programs, and infrastructure. They knew what businessmen would do to the economy unless they were checked; they had seen people homeless and hungry during the Depression.
And they scoffed at the notion that the New Deal system was a bad idea. They looked around at their homes, at their candy-colored cars that they drove on the new interstate highways built under what was then the biggest public-works project in U.S. history, and at their union-boosted paychecks in a nation with its highest gross domestic production ever, and they dismissed as a radical fringe the people trying to undermine this wildly successful system.
But the federal protection of civil rights added a new element to the liberal consensus that would threaten to tear it apart. Between 1967 and 1977, a North Carolina billboard urged people in “Klan Country” to “help fight Communism & Integration.”
The stagflation of the ’70s pushed middle-class Americans into higher tax brackets just when they needed their income most, and helped spread the sense that white tax dollars were being siphoned off to help racial minorities. As towns and governments tried to make up their declining funds with higher property taxes, angry property owners turned against the government. Republicans were courting white workers by painting the Democrats as a party of grievance and special interests wanting to pay off lazy Black supporters. Rather than their being interested in the good of America as a whole.
In 1976, former California Governor Ronald Reagan ran for president with the story of a “welfare queen” from the South Side of Chicago—code words for “Black”—who lived large on government benefits she stole.
“She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veteran’s benefits on four non-existing de
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Biden condemns Hamas attack on Israel
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20 or more Americans "are missing" in Israel.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1711822705136140555
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I'll bet they are.
Gotta get the voters to back another war, yanno.
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
I'm an actual, registered Democrat.
But I'm not sure what the topic is. Democrats can post in here,
and talk about themselves ... about why they are democrats ...
or what democrats believe in?
My parents were Republicans.
I was an adult in my 40's before I found out I was a democrat.
I didn't really know what the 2 parties stood for, so I asked a
friend who loves politics what I was.
Republicans tend to be conservative. Democrats tend to be liberal.
Can I even say what those words mean? Not very well.
Conservatives stand for law & order. i.e., Authority.
Democrats believe in human rights and equality. i.e., Freedom.
Anarchists believe in every man for himself?
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
Miss ya...
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Opinion | An Economics Nobel for Showing How Much Women Matter
Paul Krugman
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/opinion/columnists/claudia-goldin-n
obel-prize.html
Technological progress is a key source of economic growth, but its effects aren’t always fully captured by its effects on gross domestic product. Sometimes a new technology changes everything — the way we work, the way we live, the way we relate to one another in society.
Consider, for example, the effects of the birth control pill.
If it never occurred to you that modern birth control was a transformative technology, or more broadly that expanding women’s ability to choose had profound economic as well as social effects, you have plenty of company. There have been innumerable books and articles about the economic impacts of, for example, globalization and information technology.
But in 2002, when Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz published an article titled “The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women’s Career and Marriage Decisions,” they were entering a sparsely populated field.
On Monday, Goldin, a professor at Harvard, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of her role in advancing our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes. It was a richly deserved honor.
In fact, if you ask me, the Nobel announcement sold Goldin a bit short by failing to note her hugely important contributions beyond the issue of women’s work. In particular, it didn’t mention her work on inequality more broadly, notably her role in documenting the sudden and drastic decline in inequality that took place in the 1940s, creating the middle-class society I grew up in (which has now been destroyed).
Which is not to say that women’s work is a minor issue. It’s an immensely important subject, one whose study Goldin pioneered.
Put it this way: For most of the 1960s, American women in their prime working years were less than half as likely as men to be part of the paid labor force; by 2000 three quarters of the gender gap in labor force participation had been eliminated.
This represented a large increase in the economy’s labor supply, and hence in potential G.D.P.; my back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the impact of rising female employment on economic growth was comparable to, say, the effects of globalization.
But the effect on G.D.P. was only part of the story.
In 2006 Goldin published an extraordinary, panoramic overview of the history of women at work in America. As she documented, the percentage of women in the paid labor force rose steadily between around 1930 and 1970, a rise Goldin attributed to the combination of the economy’s shift away from manual labor toward clerical work and rising female education, along with the diffusion of household technologies like refrigerators and washing machines that freed more married women to work outside the home.
But these changes, she argued, did not at first fundamentally change the way society and women themselves thought about women’s work. For the most part, women were seen and saw themselves as secondary earners, working to supplement their families’ income but ready to drop out of the work force if they had children or their husbands earned enough that they didn’t need the money.
Around 1970, however, there was what Goldin called a “quiet revolution” in the economic role of women, as women began to view work much the same way that men did. They saw themselves as likely to remain employed even after marriage, which led them to get more education, get married later and, as men always had, see their jobs as an important part of their identity. This was a profound transformation of society — I would say for the better.
And one important enabler of this transformation was the birth control pill, which made it easier for women to delay marriage, which in turn, Goldin wrote, meant that they “could be more serious in college, plan for an independent future, and form their identities before marriage and family.”
That said, you shouldn’t buy into
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Fuck you Paul.
Your party is dead, and you haven't made a correct prediction in at least 4 years.
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VP selections aren’t taken seriously enough
Kamala Harris is the rule not the exception
Matthew Yglesias
Oct 16, 2023
https://www.slowboring.com/p/vp-selections-arent-taken-seriously
Two new profiles of Kamala Harris — one by Astead Herndon in the New York Times, the other by Elaina Plott Calabro in The Atlantic — both add a lot of texture and detail to a pretty well understood situation.
Harris has a job, Vice President of the United States, that essentially everyone who ever gets it ends up finding awkward and unrewarding. But her awkward and unrewarding version of it is unusually high-profile because her boss is unpopular and she is even more unpopular. To make matters worse, he is very old so there is more attention on her than there normally would be, and while she’s a pretty good politician, she’s not a great politician who electrifies every room she steps into. And, crucially, her team is caught between a conviction that many of her struggles are rooted in sexism and racism and a profound desire to avoid the conclusion that this means only white men should be nominated for office.
It’s a sticky situation.
I have, in the past, offered my thoughts on what she should do about it. But reflecting on these pieces, I’m struck by how fundamentally ordinary the problem facing the Biden-Harris administration is.
Joe Biden selected a likely future leader of the Democratic Party, but he did so without ever saying explicitly “I am picking ____ because I believe ____ would be a good future leader of the Democratic Party.” That’s an irresponsible error of judgment on his part, but it’s an extremely common one. In fact, the whole reason he is president is that Barack Obama picked him to be VP because Obama thought Biden wouldn’t run for president in the future.
Because time and again, we see presidents make VP selections for unimportant short-term reasons that underplay the real stakes of the choice.
VP selections matter a lot
There have only been 46 presidents, and nine of them (nearly 20 percent!) took office due to the death or resignation of a predecessor.
Over and above the fateful nine, there are also the cases of John Adams, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, and Joe Biden — VPs who used the national platform afforded them by the vice presidency to win election on their own terms.
And then there is the Al Gore / Walter Mondale / Nixon 1960 model where the vice presidency lofts you to a major party nomination but you lose anyway.
The point is that even though the day to day work of vice president is kind of a weird nothing job, the vice presidency is a genuinely huge political prize. And this seems to be more true in contemporary times than it was historically because the more “open” presidential nominating process has in practice advantaged candidates who are already well-known. A Gilded Age nomination process might have looked at Joe Biden and said to themselves “everything you are saying is totally correct and that’s why we’re picking Steve Bullock.” But voters had no idea who Steve Bullock was. Biden, as a former VP, just dominated the brand of “normal Democrat who wins to win and not be too left-wing.” It’s hard to beat the Veep.
That means that picking a vice president is a choice that presidential candidates ought to take very seriously.
Candidates ought to play to win. But I think even the cynical among us (like me) still believe candidates should pay attention to the real world consequences of the things they say and do. And the VP selection has very large real world consequences. What’s more, there’s almost no evidence that a VP pick has ever helped anyone win. You can certainly hurt yourself by doing something bizarre like the John McCain choice of Sarah Palin. But VP selections have minimal upside, so you might as well pick the right person. Unfortunately, this is not how anyone approaches it.
All the wrong reasons
The Herndon profile in particular is really clear on two things:
Biden was facing a lot of pressure from various inside party actors
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Kamala Harris is an idiot.
Everybody knows that she is an idiot.
Democrats are just praying that Biden* doesn't die before the election.
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Kamala Harris is an idiot.
Everybody knows that she is an idiot.
Democrats are just praying that Biden* doesn't die before the election.
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Having a niwit VP is a President's term insurance. Can you imagine how fast Biden* would have been out of office if Camel-like Harris was even halfway competent?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Kamala Harris is an idiot.
Everybody knows that she is an idiot.
Democrats are just praying that Biden* doesn't die before the election.
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Having a niwit VP is a President's term insurance. Can you imagine how fast Biden* would have been out of office if Camel-like Harris was even halfway competent?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Yeah... but what are they going to do if they run Biden* again? One way or another, whether he dies or deteriorates mentally to the point that it would be impossible for the media to defend him any longer, Joe* would not last another 5 years from now. They'd finally get the first female US President with a big ole' asterisk on her name, and the damage she would cause the nation might keep women from being president for another 100 years after her.
They can't very well replace Harris as VP with anybody else outside of Michelle Obama, and I doubt very much that Barry would allow his "wife" to be the VP for his idiot ex-VP simply on a matter of pride, even if the idea were to only pretend Joe* was President for a year before making Michelle President.
It doesn't matter if they even came up with a media campaign to totally discredit Harris, or if Harris herself were to do something so abominable in the next 13 months that nobody would ever vote for her again. Whoever they tried to replace Harris with, she'd have to be a minority and a woman.
Who does that leave? Stacey Abrams? AOC or anybody else from The Squad?
Outside of Michelle Obama, I can't think of any Democrat they could run with Biden* that isn't white and/or male that would do anything but further harm Biden*'s chances at re-election.
They're running out of time to ditch Joe*, and if they're stuck with him AND Harris in the end they lose 10 times out of 10.
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The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apotheosis
No problem in the American system at this moment is as acute and disruptive as the one posed by the Republican Party.
Yes, of course, there are a number of structural problems facing American politics.
Our system of elections — first-past-the-post voting, the Electoral College, single-member districts and partisan gerrymandering — feeds into and amplifies our partisan and ideological polarization. Our system of federalism and dual sovereignty between state and national government allows for laboratories of autocracy as much as testing grounds for democracy. Our counter-majoritarian institutions and supermajority rules stymie democratic majorities and turn stability into stasis, putting terrible stress on our entire political system.
But it’s hard to deal with any of those, or even just live with them, when one of our two major parties is on a downward spiral of dysfunction, with each version of itself more chaotic and deviant than the last.
For years, it has been evident that the Republican Party can’t govern. When Donald Trump was in office, it was revealing to see the extent to which Republican majorities in Congress struggled to write and pass any legislation of consequence. To wit, after an unsuccessful herculean lift trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act and a successful effort to cut taxes (the lowest hanging fruit on the conservative menu), congressional Republicans essentially stopped legislating until they were dislodged from control of the House in the 2018 midterms.
What’s become clear of late, in the midst of the chaos that has left the House without a speaker at a particularly fraught moment in foreign and domestic affairs, is that Republicans are as unable to organize themselves as they are incapable of leading the affairs of state.
The worst of the problem of the Republican Party, however, is evident in the rise of Jim Jordan and the ascendance of the insurrection wing of the party, with only modest opposition from supposedly more reasonable Republican lawmakers.
Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas, for example, has a reputation for being reasonable. He is staunchly conservative, but his feet are mostly planted in reality.
Crenshaw has been publicly critical of the most disruptive and intransigent members of the House Republican conference, especially those in the House Freedom Caucus, and even wrote an essay in The Wall Street Journal condemning the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. A small gesture, all things considered, but still more than most of his colleagues could manage.
Crenshaw seems like the kind of Republican who would oppose Jordan’s bid to be speaker of the House. Jordan, first elected to the House in 2006, is a far-right ideologue and conspiracy theorist whose most notable accomplishment in office was helping to organize his fellow ideologues and conspiracy theorists into the House Freedom Caucus in 2015. Jordan, who represents the Fourth District of Ohio, was one of Trump’s leading supporters in the months leading up to and following the 2020 presidential election, accusing Democrats, repeatedly, of trying to steal the election.
“Jim Jordan was deeply involved in Donald Trump’s antidemocratic efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Thomas Joscelyn, one of the authors of the final report from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, told CNN last week. “Jordan also helped organize congressional opposition to counting Biden’s certified electoral votes. None of Jordan’s efforts were rooted in legitimate objections. He simply sought to keep Donald Trump in power, contrary to the will of the American people.”
Crenshaw’s stated contempt for exactly the kind of rhetoric and behavior exemplified by Jordan has not, however, stopped the Texas Republican from backing his colleague from Ohio for speaker of the House. In an interview on Sunday with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Crenshaw claimed that Jo
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Why it's impossible for right-wing governments to handle a crisis
By Thom Hartmann | Oct 18, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/right-wing-government/
Over at The New York Times yesterday, Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner writes about the horrors of the past two weeks and the worries Israelis have for how the ongoing war against Hamas may go.
“All this is happening,” she notes in the article’s third paragraph, “amid a total breakdown of trust between the citizens and the state of Israel, and a collapse of everything Israelis believed in and relied on.”
She then quotes a Tel Aviv author, Dorit Rabinyan, who speaks of the sobering reality Israelis are facing because they’d chosen Benjamin Netanyahu as their prime minister:
“We have woken to a terrible sobriety about whose hands we put our fate in. … We thought we had military superiority, but there’s a feeling that someone up there forgot why he is there.”
What happened? Instead of taking seriously now-confirmed warnings about a coming Hamas attack shared by Egyptian and, apparently, US intelligence, the prime minister was instead occupied by “months of political and social turmoil over the divisive plans of Mr. Netanyahu’s ultranationalist government to curb the judiciary and undermine the country’s liberal democracy.”
And even now, she notes, one of the great frustrations of Israeli citizens is “Mr. Netanyahu’s refusal so far to openly accept any responsibility for the Oct. 7 disaster.”
Netanyahu’s authoritarianism and corruption are making it more difficult for Israel to deal with the horrific crisis Hamas has inflicted upon them. To deal with the crisis, he had to surrender some power to form a coalition/crisis government.
Here in the US, we had a similar experience, although, unfortunately, nobody moderated the corruption and incompetence of the Bush administration. President George W. Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, were repeatedly warned that Bin Laden was “determined to strike inside the US.”
Bush, however, was busy trying to get Congress to pass a trillion-dollar tax cut for billionaires and Cheney was in secret meetings drawing up maps of the Iraqi oil fields that he and George would pass out to crony companies if they could find an excuse for a war.
Bush got his final and most alarmed warning from the CIA on August 6, 2001, a full month before the attack. Instead of putting the FBI and airport security on full alert, Bush decided to leave DC and take the longest vacation in presidential history, keeping him out of town until after the attack.
This was all just one month after Bush had attended a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, where the Italian government had mobilized a battery of anti-aircraft missiles to protect the venue because of credible threats that Osama Bin Laden was planning to have his men hijack passenger jets to crash into Bush’s hotel, a threat that was well known to Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
Similarly, Donald Trump was warned by both China and his own scientists in December of 2019 and again in January of 2020 about how deadly and contagious Covid was and how it could potentially kill over a million Americans. He largely ignored the warnings (other than telling Bob Woodward about it), instead attending rallies and doing rightwing media hits non-stop, until hospitals in New York and Connecticut were having to use refrigerated trucks as morgues.
After only one month (March) of paying attention to his scientists and locking down the country, when the April 7th, 2020, New York Times front page headline proclaimed that the majority of non-geriatric Covid victims were Black people in Blue states, Jared Kushner came up with the bright idea that letting people die and blaming it on Democratic governors would be “an effective political strategy.”
Thus, that was the week Trump ended the lock-downs and began pushing people back to work, leading America to suffer the highest Covid mortality rate in the world with at least 500,000-700,000 unnecessary deaths. People who believe Trump
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In an era blessed with unprecedented resources for reasoning, the public sphere is infested with fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and “post-truth” rhetoric.
A Rational Look at Irrationality: Steven Pinker
Download the free book Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Steven+Pinker+Rationality
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Why it's impossible for right-wing governments to handle a crisis
By Thom Hartmann | Oct 18, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/right-wing-government/
Pure trash.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why it's impossible for right-wing governments to handle a crisis
By Thom Hartmann | Oct 18, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/right-wing-government/
Pure trash.
Quote:
Unfortunately, nobody moderated the corruption and incompetence of the Bush administration. President George W. Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, were repeatedly warned that Bin Laden was “determined to strike inside the US.”
Bush, however, was busy trying to get Congress to pass a trillion-dollar tax cut for billionaires and Cheney was in secret meetings drawing up maps of the Iraqi oil fields that he and George would pass out to crony companies if they could find an excuse for a war.
Bush got his final and most alarmed warning from the CIA on August 6, 2001, a full month before the attack. Instead of putting the FBI and airport security on full alert, Bush decided to leave DC and take the longest vacation in presidential history, keeping him out of town until after the attack.
This was all just one month after Bush had attended a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, where the Italian government had mobilized a battery of anti-aircraft missiles to protect the venue because of credible threats that Osama Bin Laden was planning to have his men hijack passenger jets to crash into Bush’s hotel, a threat that was well known to Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:From that same story:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why it's impossible for right-wing governments to handle a crisis
By Thom Hartmann | Oct 18, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/right-wing-government/
Pure trash.Quote:
Unfortunately, nobody moderated the corruption and incompetence of the Bush administration. President George W. Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, were repeatedly warned that Bin Laden was “determined to strike inside the US.”
Bush, however, was busy trying to get Congress to pass a trillion-dollar tax cut for billionaires and Cheney was in secret meetings drawing up maps of the Iraqi oil fields that he and George would pass out to crony companies if they could find an excuse for a war.
Bush got his final and most alarmed warning from the CIA on August 6, 2001, a full month before the attack. Instead of putting the FBI and airport security on full alert, Bush decided to leave DC and take the longest vacation in presidential history, keeping him out of town until after the attack.
This was all just one month after Bush had attended a G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, where the Italian government had mobilized a battery of anti-aircraft missiles to protect the venue because of credible threats that Osama Bin Laden was planning to have his men hijack passenger jets to crash into Bush’s hotel, a threat that was well known to Bush and Condoleezza Rice.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Yeah. Fuck Republicans. Especially warmongering Bushite Republicans.
The article isn't trash because it trashes Republicans. It's trash because it pretends that Democrats are any fucking better.
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Quote:Pretends? 6ix, you and Trumptards in general truthfully lack understanding of what is going on all around you. Here is something else for your kind to misunderstand:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. Fuck Republicans. Especially warmongering Bushite Republicans.
The article isn't trash because it trashes Republicans. It's trash because it pretends that Democrats are any fucking better.
A new paper by economic historians Richard Hornbeck and Trevon Logan with the thesis that the costs of the slave system greatly exceeded the benefits is more important than you might think.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31758
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31758/w31758.pdf
The slaveowners among America’s “founding fathers” generally understood the institution to be bad.
George Washington embraced perhaps the most chillingly real version of this in that he freed his slaves upon his death — he knew it was the right thing to do, he just liked profiting from slavery too much to do it until it wouldn’t cost him anything. But there were real ideological and policy elements to this, too.
Slavery in the territories became controversial later in American history, but the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that prohibited it in the area that became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin wasn’t particularly controversial at the time. Thomas Jefferson was a major force behind the legislation, and he wasn’t pushing to expand slavery into the northwest. He was extremely racist and not at all prepared to live side by side with a population of free Black people, but the Founding generation was generally not enthusiastic about trying to spread the slave-plantation socioeconomic model.
Later, though, as slavery came under more severe criticism from abolitionist and Free Soil types, the ideological currents in the South shifted.
During the 1820s, southerners started instead articulating the “positive good” theory of slavery. Or, as governor Stephen Miller of South Carolina put it in 1829, slavery was really awesome. Not just convenient for the slaveowners or an alternative to racial equality, but “a national benefit” that drove the prosperity of the whole country:
“Slavery is not a national evil; on the contrary, it is a national benefit. The agricultural wealth of the country is found in those states owning slaves, and a great portion of the revenue of the government is derived from the products of slave labor—Slavery exists in some form everywhere, and it is not of much consequence in a philosophical point of view, whether it be voluntary or involuntary. In a political point of view, involuntary slavery had the advantage, since all who enjoy political liberty are then, in fact, free.”
This was an important shift in American political discourse in the first half of the 19th Century. Free Soilers and the early Republican Party had developed the concept of the “Slave Power,” a mechanism by which a group of plantation owners who were a numerical minority even in the South, managed to drive national policy to serve their interests. The Positive Good theory was designed to debunk this. Over time, it failed to convince the majority of northerners, but it did convince the majority of southerners, leading to political fracturing and the American Civil War.
You would think that 160 years later this would be a definitively settled issue. But in a weird way the old Positive Good idea keeps ricocheting around as people look for cute history theses to advance, and most oddly of all as leftists try to indict capitalism by agreeing with Positive Good theorists’ exaggeration of slavery’s benefits.
So a new paper by economic historians Richard Hornbeck and Trevon Logan with the thesis that the costs of the slave system greatly exceeded the benefits is more important than you might think.
The bleak economics of slavery
I think the most straightforward way to think, economically, of enslavement is that it functions like theft. If I take something of your
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Tommy Tuberville, the moron senator from Alabama, has been holding up hundreds of military promotions for months. This weekend the commandant of the Marine Corps collapsed after suffering a heart attack, which leaves the Corps leaderless since Tuberville has blocked the confirmation of Lt. Gen. Christopher Mahoney as assistant commandant. So now we have this:
On Tuesday, Tuberville began circulating a petition, which would need signatures from at least 16 senators, to force the chamber to consider the nomination of Mahoney....That maneuver is the same one that lawmakers used in September to vote to install Gen. Charles Brown Jr as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
wtaf? Tuberville is now trying to force a confirmation vote for a man whose confirmation he's blocking?
This whole affair is crackers. It's preposterous that a single senator can hold up nominations on a whim, and in any sane world the Senate would ditch this rule. But they won't. Why? Because every single one of them wants to retain this power in case they themselves want to use it someday. Idiots.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/tuberville-pushes-to-confirm-marin
es-no-2-after-commandant-hospitalized-feaade86?st=ubfmtb8wczkr3mr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Pretends? 6ix, you and Trumptards in general truthfully lack understanding of what is going on all around you. Here is something else for your kind to misunderstand:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. Fuck Republicans. Especially warmongering Bushite Republicans.
The article isn't trash because it trashes Republicans. It's trash because it pretends that Democrats are any fucking better.
I'm done reading any of your propaganda or bothering to even have a real discussion with you. You're borderline retarded with a God complex.
Get some help.
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The GOP playbook, since Reagan:
1. Run up the debt with tax cuts.
2. Blame socialism for the debt.
3. Wait for a Democratic president.
4. Blame them for the debt.
5. Block their attempts to fix it.
6. Call them failures.
7. Use it to win next election.
8. Repeat.
https://www.investmentnews.com/tax-cuts-vs-debt-reduction-gop-presiden
tial-debate-illustrates-conundrum-241496
Quote:6ix, you are the guy who misunderstands everything, knows nothing, and never will, but you cannot stop running your mouth, just like Trump, and pretty much every Trumptard I have ever known. Here is 6ix on his money difficulties:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm done reading any of your propaganda or bothering to even have a real discussion with you. You're borderline retarded with a God complex.
Get some help.
“Yeah, I'm going to end up paying about $650 more over the next two years than I would have before the housing market went out of control in BidenFlationLand, and that increase will persist every year from here on out, but if I didn't fight this it would have cost me close to $2000 above that over the next 2 years, and about $1,350 per year every year after that instead of only about $360 per year.
And when you're managing to track on living with only spending $7k for an entire year in 2023, saving around $1k per year on taxes is cutting your future cost of living by over 14%.”
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“the fact that the cold unheated basement is wide open it is quite expensive to heat this place. That's why I had the thermostat at only 52 degrees all winter last year with the insane gas prices. The only time I ever turned it higher than that was when it got so cold I was worried the pipes in the crawl might freeze.”
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“It was just miserable here though because of the high cost of natural gas and how cold I kept my house. I'm not hearing any horror stories about natural gas prices this year, so hopefully they've stabilized and gone down. But maybe they're just not reporting on it anymore because we're all conditioned for the high prices and/or they don't want to make Biden* look any worse than he already does.”
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Tell me more about your political beliefs, 6ix. I want to know why your life is so impoverished. I have found that boneheaded political beliefs and personal financial problems go together in most people. The principle is that stupidity in one thing will manifest itself in everything you do, especially money. Trump, supposedly rich, has abundant money problems because he is the poster child for boneheadedness, a mental disorder even high-income people can have.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
6ix, you are the guy who misunderstands everything, knows nothing, and never will, but you cannot stop running your mouth, just like Trump, and pretty much every Trumptard I have ever known.
Hehe. Have fun at work today honey?
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Here is 6ix on his money difficulties:
“Yeah, I'm going to end up paying about $650 more over the next two years than I would have before the housing market went out of control in BidenFlationLand, and that increase will persist every year from here on out, but if I didn't fight this it would have cost me close to $2000 above that over the next 2 years, and about $1,350 per year every year after that instead of only about $360 per year.
And when you're managing to track on living with only spending $7k for an entire year in 2023, saving around $1k per year on taxes is cutting your future cost of living by over 14%.”
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Yeah. I just saved $1,350 per year going forward on my property tax and severely lowered the base from which they will make future increases. All without a lawyer or any legal advice. For the second time since I've lived here.
My property taxes when I first bought the house were going to be $2400 per year. I lowered them to $900 the first time, and even after the super inflation of Joe Biden and the out of control housing prices I'm still only paying $1,550 next year.
I've lived here 12 years now. On property taxes alone I've saved over $20,000 because I'm smart and stubborn enough to fight them instead of just rolling over like a pussy and getting fucked in the ass by Uncle Sam like you apparently do.
It costs me less than $20 per day to live, even with that tax increase.
I don't have any money issues.
Quote:
“the fact that the cold unheated basement is wide open it is quite expensive to heat this place. That's why I had the thermostat at only 52 degrees all winter last year with the insane gas prices. The only time I ever turned it higher than that was when it got so cold I was worried the pipes in the crawl might freeze.”
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Again. I chose to do that. It costs me less than $20 per day to live.
Quote:
“It was just miserable here though because of the high cost of natural gas and how cold I kept my house. I'm not hearing any horror stories about natural gas prices this year, so hopefully they've stabilized and gone down. But maybe they're just not reporting on it anymore because we're all conditioned for the high prices and/or they don't want to make Biden* look any worse than he already does.”
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Yeah. Bidenflation raised natural gas prices 125% over the course of two years. I chose not to pay it.
It costs me less than $20 per day to live. I don't have any money issues.
Quote:
Tell me more about your political beliefs, 6ix. I want to know why your life is so impoverished. I have found that boneheaded political beliefs and personal financial problems go together in most people. The principle is that stupidity in one thing will manifest itself in everything you do, especially money. Trump, supposedly rich, has abundant money problems because he is the poster child for boneheadedness, a mental disorder even high-income people can have.
I'm not impoverished. I chose to live this way because I'm a real man and not a little pussy born with a silver spoon up his ass.
Meanwhile, I haven't worked a day since July of 2019 and I'm still getting work done on my house when I feel like it, at my own pace.
Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.
I'll be napping.
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The UAW won pay hikes for everyone in the auto industry
Honda boosts pay for workers
Hey, look what's happening in the auto industry:
Honda Motor is giving many U.S. factory workers an 11% pay bump and making other improvements for these employees, a move that follows major gains secured by the United Auto Workers union in Detroit last month.
The base wage increase is effective in January, according to a memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The Japanese automaker is also cutting the time it takes to reach the top wage in half to three from six years, a change that is similar to one won by the UAW in its negotiations with General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler-parent Stellantis.
Unions have long been important not just because of the gains they win for their members, but because even non-union shops are forced to keep pace. Toyota raised its pay scales a week ago, and even Tesla is going to have to raise pay if they want to stay competitive for assembly line workers.
Now all we have to do is revive unions throughout the country.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/honda-gives-u-s-factory-workers-11-
pay-bump-following-uaw-wins-in-detroit-eb484398?st=rhj3u0buc192jnt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
By Abe Streep | December 1, 2023
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-1-5-trillion-nuc
lear-weapons-program-youve-never-heard-of/
This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/report/the-new-nuclear-age/
Whether the U.S. is turning the screw a little tighter to assure allies in the wake of Russia's newly aggressive stance and rising Chinese power or merely furthering a profitable, decades-old militarized political agenda depends on whom you ask. Either way, the upshot is clear. “I expect the coming decades are going to be a boom time for the nuclear weapons industry,” says Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Calif.
Robert Webster, deputy director of weapons at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, told me that Americans have lost their fluency in nuclear weapons — that is, because of decades of relative stability, we've forgotten how to think about them. “You need everybody in the world to be on the same level of understanding so you can maintain this deterrence,” he says. But global powers treat nuclear weapons as bargaining chips, and history shows that one country's escalation follows its rivals'. The worst-case scenario is apocalyptic.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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If someone at your Thanksgiving table wants an administration that will ban abortions
and cut rich people’s taxes, it absolutely is true that Trump wants to do those
things and Biden doesn’t. But if the big concern you’re hearing from your more
conservative family members is that radical leftists want to curb American energy
production without regard to the economic consequences, that doesn’t reflect the
actual existing policy stakes.
So for those of you sitting down this Thanksgiving with moderately conservative
relatives who are not professional Republicans, but who do get most of their
information from right-leaning sources, here are a few points about America in 2023
that they might actually be open to hearing.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/17-points-to-raise-with-center-right?utm_
source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share
1. The United States has had the strongest inflation-adjusted recovery from the pandemic
of any major global economy and has the lowest inflation rate in the G7 this year.
Since the pandemic, wages have risen faster than prices.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/7-reasons-the-u-s-economy-is-
among-the-strongest-in-the-g7/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20U.S.%20economy,are%20still%20performing%20below%20trend.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374823/inflation-g7-forecast/
https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1724440766255145354?s=20
2. The price of a Thanksgiving dinner is lower this fall than it was in 2022.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/15/thanksgiving-dinner-turkey-is-cheaper-
this-year.html
3. American crude oil and natural gas production are both at all time highs,
as are American energy exports.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-natgas-output-demand-hit-re
cord-highs-2023-eia-2023-10-11/#:~:text=EIA%20projected%20dry%20gas%20production,to%2088.38%20bcfd%20in%202024.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-natgas-output-demand-hit-re
cord-highs-2023-eia-2023-10-11/#:~:text=EIA%20projected%20dry%20gas%20production,to%2088.38%20bcfd%20in%202024.
4. After a huge increase during Donald Trump’s administration,
murder has fallen since Biden’s inauguration.
We are on track to have about 15 percent fewer murders this year than
during the final year of the Trump administration.
https://www.ahdatalytics.com/dashboards/ytd-murder-comparison/
5. The Trump administration proposed cuts to state and local law enforcement in
every budget submission, while the Biden administration has invested in local law
enforcement.
https://pascrell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4444
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/0
9/fact-sheet-president-bidens-budget-makes-our-communities-safer-and-combats-crime/
6. The budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2023 is $1.4 trillion lower than it was
in Fiscal Year 2020.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-defici
t/#:~:text=In%20FY%202023%2C%20the%20federal,referred%20to%20as%20deficit%20spending.
https://www.gao.gov/blog/larger-federal-deficits-higher-interests-rate
s-point-need-urgent-action#:~:text=At%20%242.8%20trillion%2C%20the%20FY,2020%20deficit%20of%20%243.1%20trillion.
7. Donald Trump ran and won in 2016 promising to have Medicare negotiate
the price of prescription drugs with pharmaceutical companies,
only to flip-flip and abandon this in office.
Democrats passed a law to do this, and it’s now actually happening.
https://ashpublications.org/ashclinicalnews/news/4842/Trump-Backs-Off-
Medicare-Drug-Price-Negotiations
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-names-10-prescrip
tion-drugs-medicare-price/story?id=102643930#:~:text=%22Today%20is%20the%20start%20of,said%20at%20the%20White%20House.&text=The%20Biden%20administration%20on%20Tuesday,lower%20rising%20health%20care%20costs.
8. Beyond price negotiation and its well-known climate provisions,
the Inflation Reduction Act also finally closes the “donut hole” on
Medicare pharmaceutical coverage.
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I don't share Thanksgiving day with cunts that talk politics.
Everybody hates you already, Second. If you actually are invited anywhere tonight, don't be that guy.
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Quote:In the real world, I never talk politics or religion because I am a Democrat who is surrounded by Republicans and I am an atheist surrounded by Christians. But I do listen to other people's beliefs and correlate that with what happens to them. The faux Christians thank me for my "Christian" virtues and tell me I am blessed by God. Meanwhile, God (or the Devil) is testing the faux Christians' faith by sending them wave after wave of troubles. I never correct them by truthfully telling them trouble follows them because they don't act in any way like authentic Christians. I know how real Christians act because there are some in the family. Their lives run very smoothly, lacking the drama of the faux Christians who don't know how to behave. The funny thing is the real Christians detest Trump and faux Christians love him.
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I don't share Thanksgiving day with cunts that talk politics.
Everybody hates you already, Second. If you actually are invited anywhere tonight, don't be that guy.
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You should just stay at home, you miserable piece of shit.
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Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.
By Rogé Karma | November 25, 2023, 6:30 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/new-deal-us-economy-
american-dream/676051/
If there is one statistic that best captures the transformation of the American economy over the past half century, it may be this: Of Americans born in 1940, 92 percent went on to earn more than their parents; among those born in 1980, just 50 percent did. Over the course of a few decades, the chances of achieving the American dream went from a near-guarantee to a coin flip.
What happened?
One answer is that American voters abandoned the system that worked for their grandparents. From the 1940s through the ’70s, sometimes called the New Deal era, U.S. law and policy were engineered to ensure strong unions, high taxes on the rich, huge public investments, and an expanding social safety net. Inequality shrank as the economy boomed. But by the end of that period, the economy was faltering, and voters turned against the postwar consensus. Ronald Reagan took office promising to restore growth by paring back government, slashing taxes on the rich and corporations, and gutting business regulations and antitrust enforcement. The idea, famously, was that a rising tide would lift all boats. Instead, inequality soared while living standards stagnated and life expectancy fell behind that of peer countries. No other advanced economy pivoted quite as sharply to free-market economics as the United States, and none experienced as sharp a reversal in income, mobility, and public-health trends as America did. Today, a child born in Norway or the United Kingdom has a far better chance of outearning their parents than one born in the U.S.
This story has been extensively documented. But a nagging puzzle remains. Why did America abandon the New Deal so decisively? And why did so many voters and politicians embrace the free-market consensus that replaced it?
Since 2016, policy makers, scholars, and journalists have been scrambling to answer those questions as they seek to make sense of the rise of Donald Trump — who declared, in 2015, “The American dream is dead” — and the seething discontent in American life. Three main theories have emerged, each with its own account of how we got here and what it might take to change course. One theory holds that the story is fundamentally about the white backlash to civil-rights legislation. Another pins more blame on the Democratic Party’s cultural elitism. And the third focuses on the role of global crises beyond any political party’s control. Each theory is incomplete on its own. Taken together, they go a long way toward making sense of the political and economic uncertainty we’re living through.
“The American landscape was once graced with resplendent public swimming pools, some big enough to hold thousands of swimmers at a time,” writes Heather McGee, the former president of the think tank Demos, in her 2021 book, The Sum of Us. In many places, however, the pools were also whites-only. Then came desegregation. Rather than open up the pools to their Black neighbors, white communities decided to simply close them for everyone. For McGhee, that is a microcosm of the changes to America’s political economy over the past half century: White Americans were willing to make their own lives materially worse rather than share public goods with Black Americans.
From the 1930s until the late ’60s, Democrats dominated national politics. They used their power to pass sweeping progressive legislation that transformed the American economy. But their coalition, which included southern Dixiecrats as well as northern liberals, fractured after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” exploited that rift and changed the electoral map. Since then, no Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority of
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GOP Senators wish to keep Federal judgeships vacant until 2025 to cause malfunctions in the Federal Court System. There are only 890 Federal judges, which is not enough for 50 states. 2,500 judges (50 per state) are needed, but Congress won't pay for them.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-
judicial-vacancies
GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Its Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
"It's called precedent," the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
By Jennifer Bendery | Nov 30, 2023, 09:18 PM EST
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-durbin-judiciary-committee-biden-j
udges_n_6568fef4e4b066e398b6fb64
Durbin was giving Republicans a taste of their own medicine.
“The two preceding chairs of this committee violated the letter and spirit of Committee Rule IV,” he said, referring to a committee rule that requires at least one member of the minority to vote with the majority to end debate on a matter before moving to vote on it.
Durbin said one former chair, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), violated this rule with a vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, and Graham was chair when he broke the rule to advance a partisan immigration bill without Democratic input.
“In doing so, Republicans established a new precedent that I followed on one occasion last Congress and will follow again today,” said the Illinois Democrat. “I’ve said time and again there cannot be one set of rules for Republicans and a different set for Democrats.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) suggested it was petty for Durbin to break rules just because previous chairmen did it, too.
“So Mr. Chairman, you’re saying because you think Sen. Grassley violated the rule, you’re going to violate the rule?” he asked.
“It’s called precedent, senator,” replied Durbin.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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GOP Senators wish to keep Federal judgeships vacant until 2025 to cause malfunctions in the Federal Court System. There are only 890 Federal judges, which is not enough for 50 states. 2,500 judges (50 per state) are needed, but Congress won't pay for them.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-
judicial-vacancies
GOP Melts Down As Dick Durbin Uses Its Tactics For Advancing Biden Judges
"It's called precedent," the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
By Jennifer Bendery | Nov 30, 2023, 09:18 PM EST
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-durbin-judiciary-committee-biden-j
udges_n_6568fef4e4b066e398b6fb64
Durbin was giving Republicans a taste of their own medicine.
“The two preceding chairs of this committee violated the letter and spirit of Committee Rule IV,” he said, referring to a committee rule that requires at least one member of the minority to vote with the majority to end debate on a matter before moving to vote on it.
Durbin said one former chair, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), violated this rule with a vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, and Graham was chair when he broke the rule to advance a partisan immigration bill without Democratic input.
“In doing so, Republicans established a new precedent that I followed on one occasion last Congress and will follow again today,” said the Illinois Democrat. “I’ve said time and again there cannot be one set of rules for Republicans and a different set for Democrats.”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) suggested it was petty for Durbin to break rules just because previous chairmen did it, too.
“So Mr. Chairman, you’re saying because you think Sen. Grassley violated the rule, you’re going to violate the rule?” he asked.
“It’s called precedent, senator,” replied Durbin.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Oh. We're going to pretend that this never happened before Kavanaugh was on SCOTUS and this was the first time this rule was violated by Democrats now, huh?
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America’s White Evangelical Problem
Sarah Jones reviews the book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory | Dec 6. 2023
When the journalist Tim Alberta’s father unexpectedly died, another ordeal awaited Tim. His father had pastored the Cornerstone Evangelical Presbyterian church in Michigan, where the Alberta family now gathered to honor his life alongside the congregation the father had nurtured.
In his eulogy, Alberta urged the Christians before him to seek out “discipleship and spiritual formation.” They could listen to his father’s old sermons, perhaps, or the pastors of the church could help them. “Why are you listening to Rush Limbaugh?” he asked them. “Garbage in, garbage out.” Hours later, a woman handed him a note from a church elder. In it, the elder expressed his disappointment. “I was part of an evil plot,” Alberta recalls, “to undermine God’s ordained leader of the United States.” He was guilty of something “tantamount to treason” against both God and country. If he investigated “the deep state” instead, he “would be restored.”
How did his father’s congregation get to this point? In Alberta’s new book, he tries to answer that very question. His journey spans the United States, taking him from Cornerstone to the sprawling campus of Liberty University with various stops at other churches.
What distinguishes The Kingdom from other entries in the genre is Alberta’s dual role as a person of faith and a political journalist. He is a product of the church who became a critic from within. That’s fraught territory, and there’s much to explore.
Nationalism always had a grip on the white Evangelical church. When I attended a conservative Evangelical college, I realized just how deeply those hatreds ran. Barack Obama’s election disturbed my classmates, maybe even frightened them. Here was a Black liberal with a suspicious name, and here was the loss of power they abhorred. In The Kingdom, Alberta reflects on the Obama years after speaking with Robert Jeffress, a megachurch pastor and prominent Trump supporter. White Evangelicals “had spent Obama’s presidency marinating in a message of end-times agitation. Something they loved was soon to be lost. Time was running out to reclaim it. The old rules no longer applied. Desperate times called for desperate — even disgraceful — measures,” he writes. Jeffress, he adds, “was inviting an obvious question: Once a person becomes convinced that they are under siege — that enemies are coming for them and want to destroy their way of life — what is to stop that person from becoming radicalized?”
You will know them by their fruits, the Bible says. Behold: conspiracy theories, prejudice, and fear; eventually, Donald Trump.
To his credit, for all the time Alberta spends with the radical Evangelical right, he is not desensitized to what he uncovers. Instead, he is scandalized. “Would a serious Christian see fit, I wondered, to condone this brutish behavior in any other area of life?” he writes of the Road to Majority conference where Trump had spoken to an enthralled audience. “Would they condone vicious ad hominem attacks if they were launched at the office? Would they condone the use of vulgarities and violent innuendo inside their home? Would they condone blatant abuses of power at their local school or nonprofit or church?” A “serious Christian” might not, as Alberta defines the term. He goes on to ask why these Christians accept a certain brutality in politics that they may not accept in other areas of their lives. “This compartmentalization of standards is toxic to the credibility of the Christian witness,” he writes.
More at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/tim-alberta-book-review-americ
as-white-evangelical-problem.html
Download Tim Alberta’s free book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?&req=Tim+Alberta
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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They try to hide what they are deep down inside but then they blurt it out to surveyors:
The Republican Worldview
Recent survey results
Watched Fox News this month
Voting machines hacked in 2020
Barack Obama not born in US
Lots of discrimination against white people
No human-caused climate change
Will not get future COVID shot
Abortion should almost always be illegal
We are in a recession
Christians face a lot of discrimination
Inflation had big impact
Trump cannot get a fair trial
Education worse than ten years ago
Government lying about UFOs
Trump treated harshly by justice system
Biden didn’t win legitimately
See fake news frequently
Should send troops to the border
China is a serious military threat
COVID originated in Chinese lab
Biden is dishonest
Country is out of control
Illegal immigration is a serious problem
https://jabberwocking.com/the-republican-worldview-in-one-chart/
To me, all this explains why Trumptards struggle, suffer, and die early, never knowing how crazy and stupid they are. I sure wish American politics was truly about Republicans having different values than Democrats because political compromises would be possible, but it comes down to Republicans aren't capable people and that makes them angry at the complete unfairness of being a dullard. Trumptards lament, "Why doesn't America treat us (the retarded) to the easy life that normal people have?" Since Trumptards think of themselves as smart, the apparent unfairness of their lives infuriates them, driving them crazy.
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The Republican Worldview
Recent survey results
No citations whatsoever in idiot Kevin Drum's article, as per usual.
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Haven't watched Fox News unironically in my life, EVER.
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Voting machines hacked in 2020
Voting machines were not hacked. Democrats stole the 2020 election via en masse unsolicited mail-in-fraud ballots, ballot harvesting and drop boxes in several swing states.
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Barack Obama not born in US
Who's to say? Birth Certificates were a lot different back when he was born. I could reproduce his BC in a free program named Paint.NET, and I'm not even a graphic artist.
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Lots of discrimination against white people
Everything under the sun in America is discriminatory against white people in the 2020s.
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No human-caused climate change
I've never argued this. Your solutions are stupid and untenable.
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Will not get future COVID shot
Never got an original COVID shot, mudblood.
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Abortion should almost always be illegal
Anything past the 3rd month, barring inscest, rape or the mother possibly dying by giving birth.
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We are in a recession
We've been in a recession for years now.
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Christians face a lot of discrimination
Everything under the sun in America is discriminatory against Christians in the 2020s.
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Inflation had big impact
Yes. It did. On everything. Up to and including Joe Biden*'s future loss next November.
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Trump cannot get a fair trial
Not when all the judges are Obama and Clinton appointees in pure blue jurisdictions he can't. Particularly when judges won't even allow a trial by jury.
It's alright. He will appeal any wrong decisions and win.
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Education worse than ten years ago
The fucking kids can't read or do math anymore. The fact that you're in denial of this says everything anybody needs to know about you and Kevin Drum.
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Government lying about UFOs
Who gives a single shit about UFOs?
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Trump treated harshly by justice system
Harshly? The Democrats don't even hide the fact that they've weaponized the entire apparatus against anybody who doesn't toe the line. Just ask Democrat NYC mayor Eric Adams.
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Biden didn’t win legitimately
Democrats stole the 2020 election via en masse unsolicited mail-in-fraud ballots, ballot harvesting and drop boxes in several swing states.
Trump and Republicans will now use these rules in 2024 to destroy Democrats.
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See fake news frequently
I only partake in fake news to show the constant hypocrisy of the Media. Which I guess is rather frequently.
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Should send troops to the border
Should pull all troops out of foreign nations and put them on the border. Line up the aircraft carriers along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and put one by Hawaii and Alaska while you're at it.
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China is a serious military threat
China is not a serious military threat. They've got all your data from your smartphone though, particularly if you use TikTok. They've stolen every trade secret that they can get their hands on. 90% of the world's pollution is generated in China which has unfair business advantages to any country with "Green" laws in place, and they're polluting the fuck out of the planet to make all that shit you constantly buy that you don't need.
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COVID originated in Chinese lab
It did.
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Biden is dishonest
Biden* and his entire administration is full of nothing but serial liars.
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Country is out of control
Crime? Check. Inflation? Check. Quality of life for the average American?
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Even Michael Rappaport said he's going to vote for Trump. And that dude is a Lefty psychopath.
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Book Review: Mount's 'Caesars' Examines How Wannabe Dictators Rise and Fall
A new book looks at how Julius Caesar’s legacy informs the strongmen of today.
By Daniel W. Drezner | December 10, 2023
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/10/mount-big-little-casears-book-rev
iew-wannabe-dictators-johnson-trump/
We appear to be living in an age of aspiring Caesars.
Consider Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and, of course, former U.S. President Donald Trump. All were democratically elected in political systems with varying degrees of freedom and fairness. All weaponized their newfound state control in attempts to preserve their respective grips on power. Though some were more successful than others at doing so, all of these leaders weakened the democratic regimes that facilitated their rise.
This plague of wannabe strongmen is the topic of Ferdinand Mount’s Big Caesars and Little Caesars. To use a Britishism, Mount is a classic “wet Tory” who mixes establishment values with more liberal politics. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church college at the University of Oxford. He holds a family baronetcy; that family includes his first cousin once removed, former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. Mount headed up then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit in the 1980s before losing faith in Thatcherite ideological zeal. He subsequently edited the Times Literary Supplement in the 1990s and has taken to writing for the Daily Telegraph and the London Review of Books in this century.
The first words of his text are these: “Caesars are back, big Caesars and little Caesars, in big countries and little countries, in advanced nations and backward nations.”
From that Seussian opening, Mount’s book explores the concept of Caesarism and Caesars in politics: what causes their rise, and what causes their downfall. In Mount’s telling, a Caesar is an aspiring dictator intent on destroying existing institutions and establishing themselves as the maker and breaker of laws. Big Caesars differ from little Caesars in their ambition and their success. For Mount, where big Caesars distinguish themselves is that “their violence, their law-breaking, their lying, are on a huge, often limitless scale,” whereas little Caesars “go only as far as they need to” in rigging the system to suit their ambitions.
The subtitle of Mount’s book is “How they rise and how they fall—from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson.” This captures one possible problem with the book before it even begins: The text mixes analysis of dictators such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler with the likes of Johnson, the erstwhile British prime minister. The former are most definitely big Caesars, while it is hard to view Johnson as anything but a little Caesar. Fortunately, the book tackles this disparity well: As Mount explains, “the tricks and techniques [are] common to all Caesars, big and little. … They all operate along the same spectrum.”
Chapters exploring episodes such as the 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy—when a small group of radical activists plotted (and failed) to behead the entire British cabinet—or the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich—in which Hitler’s fledgling Nazi Party attempted to forcibly overthrow the Weimar Republic—demonstrate how close tin-pot dictators can become to the real thing. Caesarism that might be viewed as “little” in the West, such as Indira Gandhi’s state of emergency that lasted from 1975 to 1977, had serious repercussions. Gandhi’s moves had costs in the short term in the form of mass arrests and forced sterilizations designed by Gandhi’s son Sanjay to limit population growth. According to Mount, in the long-term, Gandhi’s actions provided an illiberal precedent for Modi to exploit.
In the case of Hitler, history repeats itself, first as farce and then as tragedy. His failed, illegal putsch paved the way for a
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For example, Trump and his supporters like to present the so-called Make America Great Again movement as an unstoppable force. This spin elides some inconvenient facts. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 by nearly 3 million votes; he lost the 2020 popular vote by more than double that number.
This is why California keeps breaking our hearts when they promise that they will secede from the Union and they never follow through.
2016 Presidential General Votes by State:
California: 8,753,788 Clinton / 4,483,810 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 4,269,978
New York: 4,556,124 Clinton / 2,819,534 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 1,736,590
Illinois: 3,090,729 Clinton / 2,146,015 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 944,714
2020 Presidential General Votes by State:
California: 11,110,250 Biden / 6,006,429 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 5,103,821
New York: 5,244,886 Biden / 3,251,997 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 1,992,889
Illinois: 3,471,915 Biden / 2,446,891 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 1,025,024
TOTAL 2016 VOTES: 65,853,625 Clinton / 62,985,106 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 2,868,519
TOTAL 2020 VOTES: 81,284,666 Biden / 74,224,319 Trump / Surplus Democrat Votes: 7,060,347
In 2016 if California was not part of the Union, Trump won the popular vote among all 49 other states combined by 1,401,459.
In 2020 if California was not part of the Union, Trump only lost the popular vote among all 49 other states combined by 1,956,526. Remove New York too, and Trump won the popular vote among all 48 other states combined by 36,363.
Neither of these examples even need to remove Illinois from the popular vote totals for Trump to win.
This is why the Electoral College exists. So California and New York don't end up making policy for the entire fucking rest of the country that doesn't agree at all with how California and New York run things.
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Why are Americans getting shorter?
By Andrew Van Dam | December 15, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/15/why-are-americans-g
etting-shorter/
Elementary school children in the 1950s often received full meals, cooked that day, sometimes as part of a government-funded program. (Camerique/Getty Images)
You already know we’re getting heavier. Rising obesity rates are as American as apple pie — a cliché that seems freshly relevant in this context. But did you know we’re also getting shorter?
We didn’t! At least, not until we tried to use the National Health Interview Survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out which professions boast the tallest workers.
We split the rankings by gender, so our analysis didn’t simply lead us to the most male-dominated jobs, such as mechanics and engineers. Among women, the tallest are public officials — a category that includes top executives as well as legislators — and a broad category that includes writers, artists, entertainers and athletes. Among men, the tallest are, again, public officials, who share that distinction with sales representatives.
This made us wonder: Heights are self-reported in this survey, and the tallest professions are known for their spin skills. So, could the great American height slump somehow be fueled by Americans growing more honest about their stature?
Well, no. We saw similar results in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a separate, gold-standard CDC data set that deputizes trained personnel to measure people’s height, weight and other dimensions according to a 91-page-manual. If anything, that source shows an even sharper decline in America’s height — though we’re still talking about fractions of an inch. Height shifts slowly, especially at the national level.
Similarly, a truly immense analysis of expert measurements in 200 countries and territories found that height had slipped among 19-year-old Americans in the late 1990s and 2000s. Nineteen-year-old American men were the 36th-tallest globally in 1985, but by 2019, they were 47th. Women the same age fell from 38th to 58th, behind China and Lebanon.
Also, we’re not as bad at guessing our measurements as you might think. In a 2020 analysis, American Cancer Society researchers asked more than 2,600 Americans to state their height and weight, and then — without warning — weighed and measured them. Their findings show that a large majority of us know our height within two inches, and our weight within 10-plus pounds. (Though we all tend to err on the svelte side.)
If anything, self-reported heights underestimate our national shortening, according to a separate U.S. comparison of self-reported and expert-measured heights. “Data showed that overreporting of height increased over time in both men and women,” the report’s authors write, “while underreporting of weight increased in men but not women.”
And there may be a perfectly reasonable explanation why public officials and sales representatives are so tall: bias. We prefer towering politicians — we last picked a president of below-average height for his era, William McKinley, in 1896 — and studies of people such as hiring managers often find that they believe a taller salesman, for example, will impress customers.
The most diminutive occupations hold another clue. The shortest men work on farms, while the shortest women clean. Both professions hire the highest share of immigrant workers for their respective genders. And Americans who were born outside the country tend to be much shorter than folks who were born here — it’s one of the biggest height gaps we saw.
The immigrant share of the U.S. workforce has almost doubled since 1994, from 11 percent to 20 percent, according to our analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Could immigration explain American shrinkage?
It’s certainly a major factor. But it’s not the only one. Even among native-born Americans, heights have slipped. That inspired us to look at the other subtle-but-seismic shift in the
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I guess women are going to have to stop swiping left on guys under 5' 10" if they want a hookup in the future.
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Quote:You're short, unemployed, toothless, and a diabetic with an insulin pump. I can see your dating future will be worse than now, especially if Trump loses, and that causes you to buy a gun to kill Democrats. Women tend to avoid lazy, poor, and angry white trash men with guns, especially the ones with strong opinions opposing abortion and women's rights.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I guess women are going to have to stop swiping left on guys under 5' 10" if they want a hookup in the future.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I guess women are going to have to stop swiping left on guys under 5' 10" if they want a hookup in the future.
Yeah. I'm diabetic, retired and average size. I'm also great looking with an athletic build, extremely skilled and without a want in the world.
I have no desire to date, brother. Have I ever once even said anything that would give you the slightest hint that I'd even be interested in dating since you've known me? The lowest common denominator in all of my failed relationships is me. After the Honeymoon period in a relationship is over and a relationship becomes actual work, I always lose interest and break somebody's heart. I'm better off alone and man enough to admit it. Quite a few people, male and female, are built that way, so you're not going to shame me on this issue.
I already have a gun. As long as there aren't any Democrats breaking into my house to steal something, they're not going to get shot by me.
I'm not poor or lazy. I've got plenty of money and everything is paid for. I get a lot of work done around my house, and I know how to fix pretty much anything whether it's house or car related. Most 20 year old men don't even know how to change the oil in their car or change a tire.
On abortion, my belief is that Republicans should just STFU and let the Democrats have it. If there is a God and he doesn't approve, they'll be dealt with after they die. If not, no harm no foul.
I'm fine with woman's rights too, so long as we're talking about equal rights. Feminists are not for equality. They're for superiority. I'm an egalitarian.
And, by the by... If you were diagnosed diabetic tomorrow you would kill yourself by the end of the year because you're a soy-infused pussy.
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What became of politics in the Long 2010s.
By Mark Dunbar | Dec 20, 2023
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/presentation-and-pow
er
Reviewed Here
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By Vincent Bevins
New York: PublicAffairs, 2023.
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession
By Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger
New York: Verso Books, 2023.
Download the books for free from the mirrors at
https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Vincent+Bevins
https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Borriello+Jager
I “joined” the Occupy movement in my junior year of college. It was my first taste of political activism. Since turning eighteen and having my first real job (security guard), I'd been vaguely socialist. Before then I’d been vaguely right-wing. I was nervous during the first meeting. I didn’t look the part — six-four, athletic-ish, Nike shorts and Under Armour hoodie — and, worse, I knew I didn’t. I didn’t know the lingo. I didn’t know the etiquette. I didn’t know anything. I just knew I didn't like following orders from people who weren’t accountable to me.
The meeting was packed. It was conducted (we wouldn’t want to say “led,” would we?) by a guy who looked the part — short, skinny, long hair. The first red flag was when we were advised (not told, of course) to use spirit fingers rather than clap. The second red flag was when we voted to divide between town and campus groups — the town group would focus on housing, the campus group on student debt. In the campus group, all the ideas for what we should do were theatrical — hold up a banner during a football game, project student debt numbers on the side of a bank. That didn’t interest me. I was there for power, not presentation. But I stuck around for numerical strength, until, one night, after police removed us from occupying the political science building, a fellow Occupier accused me of being an undercover cop. In her defense, I did look that part.
This was during the Long 2010s (2009-2022), a decade during which there occurred more mass protests than any decade in history. The protests were against the usual suspects: capitalism, racism, imperialism, greed, corruption. Two new books, Vincent Bevins’s If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution and The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, are about these protests and why they seemed to summon more of what they protested against — more greed, more racism, more corruption. They take different approaches. The Populist Moment is an academic investigation into the electoral failures of left-wing candidates in Europe and the United States (Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Greece’s Syriza party), while If We Burn is a journalistic account of street protests in the Third World (Brazil, Indonesia, Chile) as well as Turkey and Ukraine.
While the electoral and protest approaches are different, they yielded the same result. The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies. Protestors couldn’t make demands because they shunned the formal structures of decision-making that could have led to change; protest candidates couldn’t advance concrete policies because they had no confidence those policies would be electorally sustainable. In other words, where there was a will there was no way, and where there was a way there was no will. Still, the shell of failure can contain kernels of success. Bernie Sanders, for example, didn’t become president — he wasn't the Democratic nominee — but he was a viable candidate. And the skill and knowledge acquired during that time (campaign discipline, policy formation, ideological communication) did not disappear overnight. We see these qualities now in the ambition and vibrancy of the labor movement, which has recently won big victories in the film and auto industries, among other plac
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Biden's migrant crisis: Illegal border crossings have jumped 277% from Trump's term
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12930845/Biden-migrant-border
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What became of politics in the Long 2010s.
By Mark Dunbar | Dec 20, 2023
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/presentation-and-pow
er
Reviewed Here
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By Vincent Bevins
New York: PublicAffairs, 2023.
The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession
By Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger
New York: Verso Books, 2023.
Download the books for free from the mirrors at
https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Vincent+Bevins
https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Borriello+Jager
I “joined” the Occupy movement in my junior year of college. It was my first taste of political activism. Since turning eighteen and having my first real job (security guard), I'd been vaguely socialist. Before then I’d been vaguely right-wing. I was nervous during the first meeting. I didn’t look the part — six-four, athletic-ish, Nike shorts and Under Armour hoodie — and, worse, I knew I didn’t. I didn’t know the lingo. I didn’t know the etiquette. I didn’t know anything. I just knew I didn't like following orders from people who weren’t accountable to me.
The meeting was packed. It was conducted (we wouldn’t want to say “led,” would we?) by a guy who looked the part — short, skinny, long hair. The first red flag was when we were advised (not told, of course) to use spirit fingers rather than clap. The second red flag was when we voted to divide between town and campus groups — the town group would focus on housing, the campus group on student debt. In the campus group, all the ideas for what we should do were theatrical — hold up a banner during a football game, project student debt numbers on the side of a bank. That didn’t interest me. I was there for power, not presentation. But I stuck around for numerical strength, until, one night, after police removed us from occupying the political science building, a fellow Occupier accused me of being an undercover cop. In her defense, I did look that part.
This was during the Long 2010s (2009-2022), a decade during which there occurred more mass protests than any decade in history. The protests were against the usual suspects: capitalism, racism, imperialism, greed, corruption. Two new books, Vincent Bevins’s If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution and The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, are about these protests and why they seemed to summon more of what they protested against — more greed, more racism, more corruption. They take different approaches. The Populist Moment is an academic investigation into the electoral failures of left-wing candidates in Europe and the United States (Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Greece’s Syriza party), while If We Burn is a journalistic account of street protests in the Third World (Brazil, Indonesia, Chile) as well as Turkey and Ukraine.
While the electoral and protest approaches are different, they yielded the same result. The protests and protest candidates failed because they lacked organizational structures and concrete policies. Protestors couldn’t make demands because they shunned the formal structures of decision-making that could have led to change; protest candidates couldn’t advance concrete policies because they had no confidence those policies would be electorally sustainable. In other words, where there was a will there was no way, and where there was a way there was no will. Still, the shell of failure can contain kernels of success. Bernie Sanders, for example, didn’t become president — he wasn't the Democratic nominee — but he was a viable candidate. And the skill and knowledge acquired during that time (campaign discipline, policy formation, ideological communication) did not disappear overnight. We see these qualities now in the ambition and vibrancy of the labor movement, which has recently won big victories in the fi
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Raw data: Social welfare spending
By Kevin Drum / Jan 23, 2024
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-social-welfare-spending/
The top chart shows total federal social welfare spending (adjusted for inflation) since 1960. The bottom chart breaks out the categories for 2023 so you can see exactly what I'm including.
The trendline in the top chart is for 1960-2019, extended through 2023. Social welfare spending surged during the pandemic for obvious reasons, and is now back on its pre-pandemic trend.
NOTE: All data comes from OMB Table 11.3 except for recent SNAP figures, which come from the USDA. All figures are adjusted for inflation using the PCE index.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/historical-tables/
https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Kamala Harris is an idiot.
Everybody knows that she is an idiot.
Democrats are just praying that Biden* doesn't die before the election.
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Kamala Harris is an idiot.
Everybody knows that she is an idiot.
Democrats are just praying that Biden* doesn't die before the election.
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Having a niwit VP is a President's term insurance. Can you imagine how fast Biden* would have been out of office if Camel-like Harris was even halfway competent?
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What's that tick tock for?
Are you counting down the days to Kamala Harris being President now?
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Not Just Putin: Why the Right Falls in Love with Dictators
How the American Right Fell in Love With Dictators, Over and Over Again
Trump and Putin are nothing new.
By Casey Michel | March 10, 2024
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/not-just-putin-why-the-right-f
alls-in-love-with-dictators.html
For years, an imperialistic, hard-right European dictator unleashing bloodshed across the Continent cultivated supporters across the U.S. This despot claimed he was leading a “unique, anti-Western culture,” and, in so doing, cultivated allies and fellow travelers among conservatives across America, all of whom were disgusted by “corrupt Western liberal values” and who “scorned Western liberalism as a bankrupt ideology.” Nor was this appeal just rhetorical; as investigators later discovered, this right-wing revanchist bankrolled both propaganda efforts and agents on the ground, successfully turning Americans, especially on the right, to his cause.
To modern readers, the story is a familiar one — not least as it pertains to Donald Trump’s affections for Vladimir Putin, to say nothing of how Russian forces have cultivated conservative Americans from Tucker Carlson to the National Rifle Association and beyond. But the aforementioned case has nothing to do with Putin or with Trump. Instead, it took place a century ago, when conservatives across the U.S. flocked to the cause of Germany’s militarist tyrant, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In so doing, as Jacob Heilbrunn successfully argues in his new book, America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance With Foreign Dictators, they created a blueprint for how foreign dictators even decades later could cultivate conservative communities to their cause — and could, by the early 21st century, help propel one as far as the presidency. The story of the Americans who worshipped Wilhelm is just one of a range of pro-dictatorship efforts that Heilbrunn excavates, threading a century-long conservative infatuation with right-wing dictators. It’s not only a corrective to the voluminous (if also accurate) investigations on how communist tyrannies fostered leftist supporters in the U.S., but also an able — and wildly timely — effort to stitch together nominally disparate views, from different epochs and eras. It all adds up to a convincing conclusion: that Trump, in “lavishing praise on Putin and other dictators … wasn’t creating a new style of right-wing politics,” Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest and author of a previously acclaimed book on the history of neoconservatives, writes. “Instead, he was building on a long-standing tradition.”
It’s a tradition that has seen surprisingly little scrutiny, allowing Trump’s treacly fealty to Putin to seem like an aberration. To be sure, there are elements unique to Trump’s personal predilections — not least his history as a luxury real-estate developer, an industry that profited arguably more than any other from the illicit, kleptocratic flows linked to foreign dictators, laundering untold millions of dollars (and potentially more) in the process. Never before could foreign despots so easily, and so effectively, patronize the company of a sitting American president.
But in other far more conspicuous ways, Trump is simply building on a legacy long predating his rise. There were, for instance, the early devotions to the Ur-Fascist himself, Benito Mussolini. Il Duce presented himself not only as a guarantor of order and stability — and a bastion against left-wing forces in Italy and beyond — but as someone who posed “as a defender of whites,” Heilbrunn notes, who prioritized “family values” and who, “in stark contrast to hedonistic America, cherished manliness.” (He also cherished Wall Street with JP Morgan organizing a loan for the Fascist government worth nearly $2 billion in modern currency.) Conservatives in America lapped it up, fêting not only Mussolini but salivating for a similar leader in the U.S. One conservative writer, Irving Babbitt, bleated that circumstances “may arrive when we may esteem ourselves fortunate if we g
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Oh... get fucked dude. Hitler was a Democrat. He was one of yours.
Joe Biden* and his administration are currently doing every single thing you're suggesting that Trump is going to do when re-elected, which are also things Trump didn't do when he was President the first time.
The terminally braindead among us vote Democrat because they're so easy to manipulate by leftist shit rags like New York Magazine.
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Oh... get fucked dude. Hitler was a Democrat. He was one of yours.
Joe Biden* and his administration are currently doing every single thing you're suggesting that Trump is going to do when re-elected, which are also things Trump didn't do when he was President the first time.
The terminally braindead among us vote Democrat because they're so easy to manipulate by leftist shit rags like New York Magazine.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
#Rootin4Putin
51#1189451
6ix, it was only a few weeks ago I told you about Joe Duncan, a pilot for Eastern Airlines back in 1962. He made the same kind of arguments you do. Predictably, he dropped dead early in life, in 1965 from choking on a chicken bone. Joe was a fat, greedy, loudmouth asshole, the same as Trump or the average angry poor white trash Trumptard.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Oh... get fucked dude. Hitler was a Democrat. He was one of yours.
Joe Biden* and his administration are currently doing every single thing you're suggesting that Trump is going to do when re-elected, which are also things Trump didn't do when he was President the first time.
The terminally braindead among us vote Democrat because they're so easy to manipulate by leftist shit rags like New York Magazine.Quote:http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64887&mid=11894
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#Rootin4Putin
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Yup. That was me.
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6ix, it was only a few weeks ago I told you about Joe Duncan
Oh, did you? I ignore most of what you post.
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, a pilot for Eastern Airlines back in 1962. He made the same kind of arguments you do. Predictably, he dropped dead early in life, in 1965 from choking on a chicken bone. Joe was a fat, greedy, loudmouth asshole, the same as Trump or the average angry poor white trash Trumptard.
I'm fucking awesome dude. Have fun at work tomorrow, bitch.
You ain't never going to retire.
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Not Just Putin: Why the Right Falls in Love with Dictators
How the American Right Fell in Love With Dictators, Over and Over Again
Trump and Putin are nothing new.
By Casey Michel | March 10, 2024
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/not-just-putin-why-the-right-f
alls-in-love-with-dictators.html
By Kathleen Culliton, Matt Laslo | March 12, 2024
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-hitler-2667497580/
WASHINGTON — A Republican House representative burst into laughter Tuesday when a Raw Story reporter asked him to comment on former President Donald Trump's remarks praising autocrats that included Adolf Hitler.
"You guys still paying attention to what Trump says?" Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) said with a giggle. "Oh my God ... journalists never learn."
Harris, a Freedom Caucus member whose ties to Trump include attendance at a meeting in 2020 to discuss keeping the former president in the White House, admitted that he does not listen to the words that come out of the leading Republican presidential candidate's mouth.
"You guys don't listen to Trump?" Raw Story asked.
"No, of course not!" Harris said. "You look at what he does, not what he says."
Harris' assertion comes as the release of a new book — "The Return of Great Powers" by CNN's Jim Sciutto — details warnings from former Trump advisers over their onetime boss' admiration for autocrats.
https://www.amazon.com/Return-Great-Powers-Russia-China-ebook/dp/B0CDF
TP82H/
https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Jim+Sciutto
“He likes dealing with other big guys, and big guys like Erdogan in Turkey get to put people in jail and you don’t have to ask anybody’s permission,” John Bolton, who served as national security adviser under Trump, told Sciutto. "He kind of likes that.”
Retired Marines General John Kelly told Sciutto he convinced Trump to stop praising the Nazi leader who masterminded the Holocaust by arguing Italian's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was "a great guy in comparison.”
"Hitler did some good things," Trump said, according to Kelly. "[Hitler] rebuilt the economy."
This prompted Kelly to note what Hitler did with that thriving economy: "He turned it against his own people and against the world.
"I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing.'"
News of this exchange came as a surprise to Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who told Raw Story he "didn't know anything about" Trump's professed admiration for strong men leaders and added, "That's crazy."
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) came to Trump's defense, telling Raw Story he believed Trump's praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin was simply respect for an intelligent adversary.
"Somebody could be dastardly ... but they could still be smart," Meuser said. But he added, "I'm not going to get into Hitler."
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) echoed Meuser's adversary argument and accused Kelly of stirring up a fuss because he did not have a war to fight.
"All these old generals, retire, go home, enough is enough," Nehls said. "Oh come on. Praising Hitler? They take that all out of context."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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You're an idiot.
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Quote:Trump praise for Hitler ‘disgraceful but wholly unsurprising’
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That post is a self own.
You're an idiot.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4526186-biden-campaign-trump-pra
ise-for-hitler-disgraceful-but-wholly-unsurprising/
Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler – by telling him Mussolini was ‘great guy’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/12/mussolini-trump-hitler-j
ohn-kelly-jim-sciutto-book
Former advisers sound the alarm that Trump praises despots in private and on the campaign trail
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/trump-despots-advisers-sound-a
larm/index.html
Trump Apparently Has a List of Things He Loves About Adolf Hitler
https://newrepublic.com/post/179741/trump-praise-adolf-hitler-john-kel
ly
Donald Trump says he is 'not a student of Hitler'
"I know nothing about Hitler," former President Donald Trump said.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-student-hitler-rule-dicta
tor/story?id=105875771
Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-admires-hitler-is-infatuated-with-
putin-former-staff-claim-in-new-book/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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How the US is destroying young people's future
In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off financially than ever before. He unpacks the root causes and effects of this "great intergenerational theft," asking why we let it continue and showing how we could make it end.
Read The Transcript
https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_youn
g_people_s_future/transcript
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A decent proxy for how much we value youth labor is minimum wage, and we've kept it purposely pretty low. If it had just kept pace with productivity, it'd be at about 23 bucks a share. But we've decided to purposely keep it low.
Out of reach.
Median home price has skyrocketed relative to median household income. As a result, pre-pandemic, the average mortgage payment was 1,100 dollars, it's now 2,300 dollars because of an acceleration in interest rates and the fact that the average home has gone from 290,000 to 420.
The third rail.
I'm going to talk about Social Security. It would cost 11 billion dollars to expand the child tax credit. But that gets stripped out of the infrastructure bill. But the additional 135 billion dollars a year to Social Security, that flies right through Congress. And every year we transfer 1.4 trillion dollars from a cohort that is increasingly doing less well to the cohort that is the wealthiest cohort in the history of this planet. I'm not against Social Security, but the criteria should be if you need it, not whether you have a catheter.
What can we do?
Nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed with what's right with it. We got the hard stuff figured out. There are programs to address all of these issues, they cost a lot of money, that's the hard part. And we have figured this out. In just five minutes post an earnings call, we can add a quarter of a trillion dollars to the economy. We've got the hard part figured out, the resources.
We have the money, but we decide not to do it.
This is per-capita spending on child care in the United States relative to other nations. This is housing permits. Things are doable. We increase minimum wage at 25 bucks an hour, it goes into the economy. The wonderful things about low- and middle-income households is they spend all their money. We have to have or restore or a progressive tax structure with alternative minimum tax on corporations and wealthy individuals. We need to refund the IRS. We need to reform Social Security. It should be based on whether you need the money, not on how old you are. We need a negative income tax. My friend Andrew Yang screwed up a great idea, but he branded it incorrectly. Instead of calling it UBI, he should’ve got Republicans on board by calling it a negative income tax.
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How the US is destroying young people's future
In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off financially than ever before. He unpacks the root causes and effects of this "great intergenerational theft," asking why we let it continue and showing how we could make it end.
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https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_youn
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The Greatest Reindustrialization Process in US History
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How the US is destroying young people's future
In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measures, young people in the US are worse off financially than ever before. He unpacks the root causes and effects of this "great intergenerational theft," asking why we let it continue and showing how we could make it end.
Read The Transcript
https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destroying_youn
g_people_s_future/transcript
America is set to
take off when it comes to very good
paying blue color jobs, from one end
of the country to the other. We are in
the best shape of any country on the planet.
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America Is Captive to One Ridiculous Legal Theory That Dictates Our Lives
Originalism — the once obscure legal theory now embraced by the right-wing reactionaries on the Supreme Court — should never have taken over in the first place. The originalist ideology maintains that the meaning of the Constitution is fixed at the time of its enactment, and its provisions must be understood now as the public purportedly understood them back then. Yet the Supreme Court expressly rejected that very idea in May 1954 when it decided Brown v. Board of Education and recognized racially segregated schools as unconstitutional: “We cannot turn the clock back to 1868,” the court wrote with reference to the adoption of the 14th Amendment, “or even to 1896 when Plessy v. Ferguson was written.”
Crucially, the court’s finest moment was premised on the idea that binding legal interpretation to history is not the only way — or even a good way — to make decisions about the Constitution and the country. Brown provides a welcome reminder that originalism is the tool of segregationists and that the theory should be treated with disdain.
The idea that modern constitutional interpretation can’t deviate from its alleged original public meaning continues to serve the same function today as it did in 1954 when it was invoked by the litigants defending segregation. The reason why the Republican justices on the Supreme Court and their enablers claim that legitimate constitutional interpretation must follow some version of American history and tradition is so that they can drag the country back to the oppressive eras for which they’re nostalgic.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/throw-out-originalism-do-i
nclusive-constitutionalism.html
This article is inspired by the author’s work in her book The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:Our parents' generation tried hard to give us a better life than they had. So why can’t this young generation do the same for us?
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*yawn*
https://www.gocomics.com/fminus/2024/05/08
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Our parents' generation tried hard to give us a better life than they had. So why can’t this young generation do the same for us?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
*yawn*
https://www.gocomics.com/fminus/2024/05/08
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This has nothing at all to do with Trump, but I agree.
Boomers are the last generation that is going to have a good share of the wealth and a cushy retirement. Gen X will get a few residual bread crumbs. Any Millennials old enough and smart enough to have bought a house between the housing market crash and the end of Trump's 1st term should probably be alright.
Everybody else is fucked, and their only hopes of ever owning a home is if they're left one in a will.
That's what eventually happens when everything from social programs to car insurance is built on a pyramid scheme.
The only way to save the future is for everybody to fuck and have 5 kids each, but unless they all have 5 kids each it's just going to be an even bigger problem for them when they're of age. And good luck raising all those kids in this economy. And that would just be kicking two cans further down the road because your children are by far your largest carbon footprint and overpopulation is a problem that nobody is willing to talk about now.
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Quote:How about a negative income tax benefiting the poor -- such as children living in poverty and unemployable people like yourself? Old people would hate that negative income tax.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Our parents' generation tried hard to give us a better life than they had. So why can’t this young generation do the same for us?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
*yawn*
https://www.gocomics.com/fminus/2024/05/08
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This has nothing at all to do with Trump, but I agree.
Boomers are the last generation that is going to have a good share of the wealth and a cushy retirement. Gen X will get a few residual bread crumbs. Any Millennials old enough and smart enough to have bought a house between the housing market crash and the end of Trump's 1st term should probably be alright.
Everybody else is fucked, and their only hopes of ever owning a home is if they're left one in a will.
That's what eventually happens when everything from social programs to car insurance is built on a pyramid scheme.
The only way to save the future is for everybody to fuck and have 5 kids each, but unless they all have 5 kids each it's just going to be an even bigger problem for them when they're of age. And good luck raising all those kids in this economy. And that would just be kicking two cans further down the road because your children are by far your largest carbon footprint and overpopulation is a problem that nobody is willing to talk about now.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
How about taxing capital gains at a higher rate than wages? Old people would hate that, too, but those receiving the negative income tax would love it.
How about the FICA tax being set to zero percent of wages while Social Security and Medicare are paid for by taxes on the capital gains of the wealthy? Old people would hate with a passion setting FICA to zero but it would be a wage boost for workers!
How about net-zero carbon emissions? It would create millions of good jobs and is possible but once again, old people would be opposed. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+get+a+zero+carbon+economy
All these things could be done, except all Republican Congressmen would be opposed.
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Quote:If Trump gets reelected, taxes won't be collected to pay for improvements. In particular:
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May 8, 2024
The cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts for households, small businesses and the estates of wealthy individuals enacted under President Donald Trump has expanded to $4.6 trillion, according to new estimates from Congress’s fiscal scorekeeper.
That puts a massive price tag on what is likely to be a top issue in Washington next year as lawmakers grapple with the future of Trump’s tax cuts, which are slated to expire at the end of 2025.
https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extending-trump-
tax-cuts-would-add-46-trillion-to-the-deficit-cbo-finds
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Quote:Let me check if the following fact still freaks you out, 6ix:
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Only Grover Cleveland was elected to non-consecutive terms as president. Six Presidents were shot. 6ix, are you still insisting that it is a death threat to mention the heuristic that Trump is six times more likely to be shot than be elected to non-consecutive terms? Since every Trumptard I know is certifiably insane, and has the difficult lives that follow from being crazy, I expect 6ix will freak out, once again.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123426/us-president-assassination
s-attempts/
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Only Grover Cleveland was elected to non-consecutive terms as president. Six Presidents were shot. 6ix, are you still insisting that it is a death threat to mention the heuristic that Trump is six times more likely to be shot than be elected to non-consecutive terms? Since every Trumptard I know is certifiably insane, and has the difficult lives that follow from being crazy, I expect 6ix will freak out, once again.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123426/us-president-assassination
s-attempts/
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I've never freaked out about it. You're a little soy filled pussy.
I've archived every death threat you've made though. Just to make your own life difficult if anything were to happen.
But you go right on fantasizing about all the ways the world is going to save you from Trump.
You need to get creative now because almost all of those things the Media told you were going to save you have failed and you've only got a few more left, which are going to fail.
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Quote:6ix, everything you do points to you being crazy, but you don't see it. Same with Trump. That guy is out of his mind, but you don't see it. Your futures together are going to be filled with trouble because of the way you act. But you can't see that it is your fault. You have to shift the blame to Democrats for persecuting you or claim you are not in trouble. Trumptards are drunks who insist their highs, their intoxication with Trump, isn't interfering with their life.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I've never freaked out about it. You're a little soy filled pussy.
I've archived every death threat you've made though. Just to make your own life difficult if anything were to happen.
But you go right on fantasizing about all the ways the world is going to save you from Trump.
You need to get creative now because almost all of those things the Media told you were going to save you have failed and you've only got a few more left, which are going to fail.
Tick Tock
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, everything you do points to you being crazy, but you don't see it. Same with Trump. That guy is out of his mind, but you don't see it. Your futures together are going to be filled with trouble because of the way you act. But you can't see that it is your fault. You have to shift the blame to Democrats for persecuting you or claim you are not in trouble. Trumptards are drunks who insist their highs, their intoxication with Trump, isn't interfering with their life.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I've never freaked out about it. You're a little soy filled pussy.
I've archived every death threat you've made though. Just to make your own life difficult if anything were to happen.
But you go right on fantasizing about all the ways the world is going to save you from Trump.
You need to get creative now because almost all of those things the Media told you were going to save you have failed and you've only got a few more left, which are going to fail.
Tick Tock
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Oh.. It's your future too.
Because...
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old Joe and Kamala, have they destroyed the party?
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old Joe and Kamala, have they destroyed the party?
No. They were already destroying themselves long before Biden* was sworn in.
They are the reason that states like Washington and New Hampshire are now in play for Trump though.
I'm sure the 2 huge spikes in gas prices this week aren't helping matters any, when 60% of Americans are cutting back or quitting fast food because places like McDonalds have become unaffordable for anybody who isn't making over $100k per year.
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Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan Aren’t Hiding the Bad Blood Between Them
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern | May 23, 2024, 6:18 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/supreme-court-samuel-alito
-elena-kagan-bad-blood.html
On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt yet another major blow to the voting rights of Black Americans. The court’s 6–3 opinion in Alexander v. NAACP greenlighted the South Carolina legislature’s decision to shuffle Black residents out of a competitive congressional district to shore up its Republican lean. After a lengthy hearing, a district court found that the GOP-controlled legislature targeted Black South Carolinians, diminishing their voting power in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. Now, however, SCOTUS’ conservative supermajority has absolved the legislature of racist intent, reshaping the law to make it near-impossible for voting rights advocates to win racial gerrymandering claims.
This is the same Justice Alito who, less than 24 hours earlier, was caught out flying a stop-the-steal Jan. 6 flag. And there he was, on the bench, handing down a decision that he penned. It was a decision that set aside mountains of actual fact-finding by the district court, because Alito just decided, well, all those facts are wrong.
Until now, the Supreme Court has reviewed those decisions on what’s called “clear error,” which is a fancy way of saying that unless the lower court obviously messed up, you should give deference to their findings. Why? Because they were the ones sitting in the courtroom listening, witnessing, looking at the evidence, and deciding the case on the very complex facts and law and math and geography that are unique to every redistricting case. Alito essentially overturned that principle of deference. He did so based on what he calls the “presumption of legislative good faith” — “the presumption of white racial innocence.”
Alito says, in short, that courts should pretty much never find that state legislatures acted with racist intent, because they are owed this presumption of good faith that cuts in their favor. And he just makes up the reasons why—he’s just pulling it out of his pocket. Alito says: First, state legislators are bound by an oath to the Constitution, and we should assume they’re following that oath. Second, when we accuse state legislators of doing race-based redistricting, we’re accusing them of “offensive and demeaning conduct” that bears a “resemblance to political apartheid,” and “we should not be quick to hurl such accusations at the political branches.” Finally, he says we should be wary of voting rights plaintiffs “who seek to transform federal courts into weapons of political warfare” through racial gerrymandering claims.
So overall, he’s saying it hurts the feelings of state legislators to accuse them of racial gerrymandering. It’s so mean that courts should close their eyes to evidence of racist redistricting and give legislators a benefit of the doubt that they do not deserve and have not earned. All to ensure that the actual victims of their handiwork, the plaintiffs who are bringing this case, cannot cynically manipulate the courts into a tool of political warfare to win more Democratic representation in Congress.
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old Joe and Kamala, have they destroyed the party?
No. They were already destroying themselves long before Biden* was sworn in.
They are the reason that states like Washington and New Hampshire are now in play for Trump though.
I'm sure the 2 huge spikes in gas prices this week aren't helping matters any, when 60% of Americans are cutting back or quitting fast food because places like McDonalds have become unaffordable for anybody who isn't making over $100k per year.
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OH NOEZ!!!!!
Axios is turning on Joe Biden* after 3.5 years of blowing him.
Biden's fast food problem
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/23/biden-fast-food-prices-wages-economy
When Axios is writing articles calling it "Biden's fast food problem", this presidency is over.
Joe Biden* is fucked.
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Quote:Behold the latest deep dive from Axios about Joe Biden's economic troubles:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
. . . when 60% of Americans are cutting back or quitting fast food because places like McDonalds have become unaffordable for anybody who isn't making over $100k per year.
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/23/biden-fast-food-prices-wages-economy
Credit where it's due: the numbers are correct. But come on. Is it really plausible that Biden's big problem is that fast food prices are up 3.8% compared to wages?
Biden has three problems, ranked from biggest to smallest:
1 Fox News etc. have run a scorched earth campaign of lies about how the economy has collapsed since Biden's inauguration. This is displayed pretty obviously by polls showing huge differences in economic outlook between Democrats and Republicans.
2 The left has joined with the right because their very existence seems to hinge on convincing everyone that poor people are worse off than ever.
3 The press is biased against good news—which is admittedly boring—and seems to be really reluctant to report on our current favorable economic climate. I'm not sure why.
That's about it. Slight real increases in Big Mac prices are not the problem.
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The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it.
In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.
Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.
https://imgur.com/gallery/paradox-of-tolerance-ChYreg4
https://imgur.com/gallery/m2SJ9Jd
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The time for Biden to show restraint has long since passed.
Trump was just unanimously convicted by a jury of his peers for election interference. He had his hapless fixer pay off Daniels not “for personal gain,” as the Biden campaign statement alleges, but to defraud the American people, to deprive them of the information that they needed to make an informed decision on Election Day 2016 and to illegitimately obtain the most powerful office in the world on behalf of the country’s far right. Donald Trump covered up his affair with Daniels so he could appoint Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He committed felonies so that the insurrectionists at the reactionary Heritage Foundation could rewrite the nation’s tax laws to make rich people richer. And so on.
Biden likes to repeat the canned phrase “Don’t compare me to the Almighty; compare me to the alternative”—a motto he attributes to his father and which is about as edgy as a mid-aughts Verizon Guy commercial. But what the hush money case demonstrates clearly is that Trump is a genuinely terrible human being. What kind of man has unprotected sex with an adult film star while his wife is home recovering from labor and delivery and caring for an infant? What kind of terrible employer has an underling borrow against his own home to cover up his boss’s sordid lies and extramarital affairs?
For years, leading Democrats have danced around a truly blunt assessment of Trump without ever coming out and saying it directly: The man is an evil, amoral cretin willing to betray those closest to him without a second thought. Find some coded language that can puncture the epistemic closure of conservative evangelical Christians. Call him the worst person in the entire country, which is basically what he is. Tap into the robust public opinion of the majorities who believe that extramarital affairs are morally wrong by asking: “If Melania can’t trust him, why should you?”
Whatever path they choose requires departing from the warmth and safety of “No one is above the law” framing. Letting the conviction more or less speak for itself is a conservative strategy that would make sense if Biden were decisively leading the race and wanted to avoid unforced errors. But as hard as it might be for everyone in the White House to accept, the president’s campaign is clearly trailing, according to public opinion polling. Yes, the margins are narrow, but if the election were held tomorrow, it is more likely than not that Donald Trump would win it. You can’t run out the clock when you’re losing. And that means that Biden needs to go on the offensive, just like dozens of leading Democratic officials and strategists are asking him to.
Yet Biden and his team clearly feel that having Biden stay out of the whole thing can help legitimize the prosecutions and whatever verdicts follow. This is wishful thinking. Take one fleeting glance at how people on the right are reacting to Trump’s conviction—that should be sufficient to disabuse the White House of the notion that there is anything it could possibly do to reach hardcore MAGA voters. Former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly promised prosecutions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for unnamed offenses: “We’re going to have to look at what the statutes of limitations are on the various crimes they surely committed, “ she intoned. Charlie Kirk, the young MAGA media superstar, implored his followers to “indict the left, or lose America.” Donations to the Trump campaign surged. Nearly all Republican officeholders deemed the verdict somehow illegitimate. In other words, keeping the Trump prosecutions at arm’s length earned Biden precisely nothing from the right, which has existed in a state of continuous rage for so long that it does not have any other emotional register to draw upon.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/trump-president-biden-felo
n-alvin-bragg-democrats.html
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Pascal's Wager Triangle
https://xkcd.com/2947
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Biden should welcome their “hatred”
By Robert Reich | Jun 20, 2024
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/biden-must-welcome-their-hatred
Advice for Joe in his first debate with the convicted felon — one week from tonight.
I have only one morsel of advice to Joe Biden as he prepares for his first debate with Trump, one week from tonight: Channel Franklin D. Roosevelt by excoriating corporate America and explaining that Trump is a flack for the moneyed interests.
Eighty-eight years ago this month, on June 27, 1936, Roosevelt delivered his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president. That happens to be the same day Joe Biden will be debating Donald Trump.
FDR’s speech is as relevant today as it was then. We’re at a time like the 1930s, when the super-wealthy and big corporations were seeking to oust an incumbent Democrat who was working for the people rather than for them.
On June 27, 1936, FDR dubbed the moneyed interests “economic royalists” who “governed without the consent of the governed” and “put the average man’s property and the average man’s life in pawn to the mercenaries of dynastic power.”
They used their economic power, FDR charged, to create “a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction … The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor — these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship.”
He warned against giving these economic royalists the political power they craved.
“If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place. These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”
Then, on the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.
Quote:Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.”
The high mavens of Silicon Valley held a fundraiser for him last week. The Business Roundtable (the voice of big corporations in Washington) is preparing to pump an eight-figure sum into the Trump campaign.
Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of the biggest and most influential bank in the United States and for years the spokesman for corporate America, is coming around to Trump. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is turning his X platform into a weaponized outlet for Trump.
Trump has asked the robber barons of Big Oil for $1 billion as an advance quid pro quo for rolling back environmental regulations. Miriam Adelson, heir to the casino magnate, has pledged $100 million to Trump.
Today’s moneyed interests are far richer in proportion to average Americans and the American economy as a whole than they were when FDR took them on. Corporate profits are near record levels, and many big corporations are keeping prices high in order to reap even more. CEO pay is through the stratosphere. The stock market is hitting record highs.
The moneyed interests have done wonderfully well under Joe Biden, despite Biden’s support for labor unions and his crackdown on mon
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Californians With No Driver’s License Or SSN Can Use A Credit Card Or Gym Membership To Vote
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/25/californians-with-no-drivers-lice
nse-or-ssn-can-use-a-credit-card-or-gym-membership-to-vote/
French President Emmanuel Macron warns of ‘civil war’ if far left or far right wins
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-civil-war-far-right-na
tional-rally-far-left-france-unbowed-france-elections/
Canada supports Guyana in border controversy with Venezuela
https://guyanachronicle.com/2024/06/24/canada-supports-guyana-in-borde
r-controversy-with-venezuela/
Analysis: Why more Southeast Asian countries have signalled interest to join BRICS
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Biden should welcome their “hatred”
By Robert Reich | Jun 20, 2024
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/biden-must-welcome-their-hatred
Advice for Joe in his first debate with the convicted felon — one week from tonight.
I have only one morsel of advice to Joe Biden as he prepares for his first debate with Trump, one week from tonight: Channel Franklin D. Roosevelt by excoriating corporate America and explaining that Trump is a flack for the moneyed interests.
Eighty-eight years ago this month, on June 27, 1936, Roosevelt delivered his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president. That happens to be the same day Joe Biden will be debating Donald Trump.
FDR’s speech is as relevant today as it was then. We’re at a time like the 1930s, when the super-wealthy and big corporations were seeking to oust an incumbent Democrat who was working for the people rather than for them.
On June 27, 1936, FDR dubbed the moneyed interests “economic royalists” who “governed without the consent of the governed” and “put the average man’s property and the average man’s life in pawn to the mercenaries of dynastic power.”
They used their economic power, FDR charged, to create “a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction … The hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of their labor — these had passed beyond the control of the people, and were imposed by this new industrial dictatorship.”
He warned against giving these economic royalists the political power they craved.
“If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place. These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power.”
Then, on the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.Quote:Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.”
The high mavens of Silicon Valley held a fundraiser for him last week. The Business Roundtable (the voice of big corporations in Washington) is preparing to pump an eight-figure sum into the Trump campaign.
Jamie Dimon, chair and CEO of the biggest and most influential bank in the United States and for years the spokesman for corporate America, is coming around to Trump. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is turning his X platform into a weaponized outlet for Trump.
Trump has asked the robber barons of Big Oil for $1 billion as an advance quid pro quo for rolling back environmental regulations. Miriam Adelson, heir to the casino magnate, has pledged $100 million to Trump.
Today’s moneyed interests are far richer in proportion to average Americans and the American economy as a whole than they were when FDR took them on. Corporate profits are near record levels, and many big corporations are keeping prices high in order to reap even more. CEO pay is through the stratosphere. The stock market is hitting record highs.
The moneyed interests have done wonderfully well under Joe Biden, despite Biden’s support f
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Quote:There you go again, blaming personal financial problems on the President. A specific example is 6ixStringJack dropping out of the work force. Now he can only spend a few thousand dollars per year and depends on charity for healthcare. Another example: I got a Trumptard a job at ZXP starting the first Monday of 2024. He buys a Mercedes for $10,000 and it is justified based on the promotion he is given after a month. By the end of the next month he has been fired because he is an asshole whenever he receives a tiny amount of authority. The Mercedes was repossessed.
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That's all well and good, Robert. But it was your guy who fucked up the economy and put himself in this position in the first place.
It's why he's tied in Virginia and Minnesota.
Tick Tock
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
America is prospering. Assholes living in America are not prospering. No President can compensate for what stupid Americans do to themselves.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Democrats say Trump is an existential threat. They’re not acting like it.
If the stakes of the 2024 election are as great as the party says, there’s no excuse for inaction.
By Bryan Walsh | Jul 1, 2024, 6:15 AM CDT
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/358061/democrats-biden-
trump-existential-threat-democracy-debate
The Democratic Party has a remarkably singular message: Donald Trump is an existential threat to the country.
For the Biden campaign, the existential threat to democracy has become the overriding theme in his bid for reelection. “There is one existential threat: It’s Donald Trump,” Biden said at a fundraiser in February.
For the environmental activists in the party, climate change is the existential concern, and a Trump victory would be devastating for the planet, as Biden himself argued at Thursday’s debate: “The only existential threat to humanity is climate change, and [Trump] didn’t do a damn thing about it.”
Reproductive rights, too, are cast in existential terms. “Trump poses an existential threat to abortion rights in Pennsylvania,” Democratic US Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon said at a press conference in April. “If given the chance, he will ban abortion across the country with or without Congress.”
Existential math
As it happens, I know a little bit about existential threats, having written a book in 2019 on the subject. It refers to those threats that could conceivably risk the extinction or widespread destruction of humanity.
The real way to tell the difference between an existential threat and a more ordinary one is not what people warning say, it’s what they do. Existential threats demand existential responses. After all, if you conceivably felt the country and perhaps even the world were truly at risk, you’d presumably do everything you could to prevent that catastrophe.
When it comes to the Democrats and the left — from the Biden campaign on down to the activists — it is impossible to look at what they’re doing and conclude that they truly believe Donald Trump is an existential threat.
The nature of an existential threat is that everything else — feelings, ambition, everything — is put aside. Yet even as the chance of a second Trump presidency rises by the day, the Democratic political establishment does nothing. That’s not how you act in the face of an existential threat.
Existential until it isn’t
It’s not just politicians, though. The winners of presidential elections pick Supreme Court justices, and it was obvious that a then-83-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg might not make it through the next presidential term after the 2016 election, potentially imperiling abortion rights, among other Democratic priorities. Yet Ginsburg — buoyed by a number of Democratic supporters who viewed calls for her retirement as sexist — refused to step down. We all know what happened later.
One would think that sitting Democratic justices would have learned from Ginsburg’s example and acted differently in the face of a new supposedly existential threat from Trump. Yet Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — who are 70 and 64, respectively — have so far refused to heed increasingly desperate calls from writers like my colleague Ian Milhiser to step down and lock in their seats for decades. Each has perfectly good reasons to stay on, as did Ginsburg; none of those reasons make sense in the face of a true existential threat.
Nowhere is the gap between existential rhetoric and existential action greater than in climate change, which has emerged in recent years as one of the top priorities for Democrats.
You can’t find a climate activist — and, increasingly, a Democratic politician — who doesn’t frame climate change as an existential issue. With reason — the worst-case climate scenarios really do represent something like an existential threat to the future of not just the US, but the entire world. And given Trump’s determined opposition to actual climate policy, it’s fair to view his potential return to the White House as a part of that threat.
Yet there is a c
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Democrats say Trump is an existential threat. They’re not acting like it.
Because they know it's horseshit and they're not drinking their own Kool-Aid.
Drink up, boy.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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