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Same problem dems once had,,,, glad I suffer from it..
You point out the dangers of populism from my link,,, which is one of my points from the very beginning,,,,, When elites ignore common folk for too long and even take to calling them names,,,,populism can be hijacked, its a historical thing when those in power and elites fail to read the writing on the wall....
Sigh, More of the pot calling the kettle black........ Dems found their own ways around a living and minimum wage,,,,,,got those pesky benefits and environmental standards at the same time.
Brilliant move I must say....And anyone that disagrees with your brilliance is a bigot, ah yes.......
Even a banjo player can can get it 'mostly right,
Abortion is a different issue, but you could throw it in.....My point was to positivity, even pat yourselves on the back a bit,,,,,As it was just said by a dem, don't get caught taking blocks of voters for granted....
I think a better Dem message on race would be something like this
Things have changed since the civil rights era, we have come a long way, the democrats fought hard for minority rights against those that would hold you back....In the year 2024, you have opportunity minorities have never enjoyed before.....The US is truly the land of opportunity...Take those hard earned rights that were fought for, achieve your dreams..Your generation has an equality like never before.....
Something along those lines and remind them that you will not quit fighting.......As the Axios article I posted pointed out Dems are losing support from minorities, especially Hispanics Asians, but Black voters too...Its not the 60s anymore, and to treat it as such is almost an insult now days, people are more than race alone......and to quote and old phrase dems may add...'We've come a long way baby'
Full speech | President Joe Biden's Morehouse College commencement address
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/full-remarks-president-biden-delivers-commencement-speech-morehouse-college/85-b22a9f38-8bff-46e5-ad68-616687bf3db1
New data shows that Democrats' longtime advantage with Black, Latino and Asian American voters has shrunk to its lowest point in more than 60 years — creating a massive vulnerability for President Biden and congressional Democrats.
Why it matters: One of the most loyal parts of the Democratic coalition is suddenly in danger. Black and Hispanic men could vote Republican in numbers not seen since President Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in the 1950s.
The big picture: Latinos, the nation's largest non-white group, still lean Democratic. But they've been shifting Republican over the last two decades, and are no longer the slam-dunk Democrats they were in 1960 when JFK ran for president.
By the numbers: Democrats' advantage among Black, Latino and Asian voters is at its lowest since 1960, Financial Times columnist and chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch found by analyzing a massive set of polling data.
A New York Times/Siena College poll out March 2 found that President Biden led former President Trump by just 56 points to 44 among non-white Americans.That's a group Biden won by almost 50 points when the two men last fought it out for the White House in 2020, Burn-Murdoch points out.
The intrigue: The drop-off comes even after Trump made several racist and bigoted comments about immigrants and people of color.
It also comes after some Democratic talking heads predicted for years that racial and ethnic demographic shifts would give Democrats a political majority for decades.
Between the lines: "Part of this is due to fading memories and weakening ties. Black Americans who lived through the civil rights era still support the party at very high levels, but younger generations are wavering," Burn-Murdoch writes.
Many of America's non-white voters have long held much more conservative views than their voting patterns would suggest, he said.
Reality check: Not all people of color have deep ties to the Civil Rights Movement. Many of their families arrived in the U.S. after the 1960s, said Republican consultant Mike Madrid, who's based in Sacramento.
Madrid said the Latino population was small during the Civil Rights era. Today, few children of immigrants who came after the 1960s know who civil rights leaders Gus Garcia, Héctor P. García or Dolores Huerta are.
"Democrats cannot conceive that non-white voters are anything other than civil rights voters," he said. "In their mind, all Latinos need to be talked to like farmworkers or the undocumented. Even though that's less than 95% of us."
What they're saying: Democrats need to make a massive shift in their messages, Sisto Abeyta, a Democratic political consultant in New Mexico, tells Axios.
Latinos, Black Americans and Asian Americans have been upwardly mobile in the last two decades. Democrats' Great Society rhetoric no longer resonates, Abeyta said.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/why-democrats-black-hispanic-vote-republican
People are not one trick ponies anymore
Like the 31 tanks.....31 mind you,,,,now the battle field has changed and the opportunity Ukraine had with their offensive was squandered......Not to mention the discussion was much deeper than just the last few months.....
Talking points are fine, keep it up, they always make an impression ;) Its what people expect...Unfortunately,,,, Many would also disagree with you.....perhaps the Ukrainian soldiers themselves...
Morale is high, because we're pushing forward," he said. "Everyone wants victory."
The one thing the soldiers they wish they had more of, they said, is tanks. More are coming, from both Europe and, later, the United States.
Top U.S. defense officials said Wednesday that about 200 Ukrainian troops were expected to complete training to operate American-made Abrams main battle tanks by the end of the summer. That should just about line up with the expected delivery this fall of the 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks the U.S. promised Ukraine earlier this year.
If they had more tanks already, the Ukrainian troops of the 108th told CBS News, the war would be over a lot sooner.
Troops fresh from Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia on how they're "pushing forward," slowly.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-war-russia-counteroffensive-why-pushing-forward-slowly/
Ukraine pulls US-provided Abrams tanks from the front lines over Russian drone threats
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-abrams-tanks-19d71475d427875653a2130063a8fb7a
Well congress is acting on ticket sales........
House passes TICKET Act in an effort to increase transparency in pricing
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna152554
Justice Department sues to break up Live Nation, parent of Ticketmaster
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/05/23/justice-department-sues-live-nation-ticketmaster.html
And I thought NATO should have forced Russia out of Ukraine at the beginning, not carpet bomb Moscow....
I can agree with you somewhat on Obama, not so sure about Bush but both of those moves embolden a dictator like Putin which is the problem at hand.....On to Syria as we were bogged down thanks to Bush in 2 wars that weren't righteous...
Speaking out of both sides of the mouth is never an answer, wasnt then and isnt now, it hasn't worked out well in Ukraine, for Ukrainians or the world....Blood now may save far more blood later and then there is that well known saying........
Your word is your bond........
Thats a very good question Truman....What to do now? In the wwii days it ended in a world war by not standing up to Germany in the first place....
Russia broke its agreement with Ukraine by invading after getting their nukes back, so too the US and The UK that gave the Ukrainians their word.....It even goes to Obama just letting Russia have Crimea and Bush allowing Georgia to go to the Russians......
We've also slow played Ukraine showing further weakness.....So, who takes us seriously in the world, who trusts our word too...Will China now take Taiwan ?
Things get complicated now....Will NATO back track and start a no fly zone, the moment has passed....Will NATO give Ukraine all they really need to win,,,,,, or just continue the stalemate game, again, showing weakness....
So you have a very good question now that things are the way they are....Complicated for sure same as Truman found out when he ask......
Im sorry you feel that way,,,,,was looking for statistical data to back your claim but will agree on sanctions hurt the people not those in power or of wealth....NK being the obvious one, now we have a new axis of evil so to speak, Iran, Russia and China which seems to be the result of sanctions....
Politics aside Cruz's claims seem to have some merit..
More interested in the numbers,,, sanctions in general don't seem to work except for political purpose....In reality those counties find a way around them and continue on.......
Hard to blame 13 for being loyal to Israel,,,, especially when he openly admits their faults to......Common ground is something progressives could learn from Clinton...
Look forward to reading your post on ghost ships and oil tomorrow, we all know the policies governments tout and publicize,,, how well they are enforced and can be is a different story
And , where is the confirmation? You are too well known for searching for confirmation biased articles just to take your word for it especially for this subject after what I just saw and posted...........
Are you sure those are exaggerated numbers?
You may want to Google all that,,,,Ghost ships up, oil production up, seems everyone one in the oil business is involved too....Not just Iranian oil but Russian to...
Not going to make any claims myself,,,,,but googling may reveal Cruz may be more right than wrong as you sort through it..... Seems there is always away around sanctions.....
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https://www.iranwatch.org/library/private-viewpoints/ghost-armada
In November 2020, UANI identified 70 foreign vessels suspected of involvement in the illicit transfer of Iranian crude oil and/or petroleum products. Over two years later, the list has grown to 383. This suspected ghost armada, distinct from but complementing Iran’s own NITC tanker fleet, has skirted U.S. sanctions and exploited regulatory loopholes to ship millions of barrels of Iranian oil.
Oil production
https://ycharts.com/indicators/iran_crude_oil_production
Financial Times (Iran and Russia)
https://www.ft.com/content/955389bf-d01b-4acb-bd15-b764425a8a18
Lol, chit happens....Just another oopsie.......All of congress and both candidates are too old....
And dems always talk about banned books, I finally took a look on Google at the most banned books......Adults can do as they please but leave kids the f out of it...
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-banned-books-in-america/
He said 'Don't'.......More than once ,,,,,, What more do you want.....
Dang, you were even given a link about the gaffe in the original post.....
But carry on about the Ebola pandemic Detroit had to deal with?, Although I think selling off their industry hurt more than the Ebola Pandemic there.....Rust Belt, not Blue Wall now...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-still-vp-during-162400706.html
Biden misspoke, mixing Recession and Pandemic...
Media,,, lol Leaves out a lot of facts,,,,,,,No real matter which side or about what, people only get what they want to hear, not what all is actually taking place.....
Dems
And you wonder why
Like a collapsed home eh,,,,,,Nice try.....Again
But if you had just taken the time to inform yourself, Biden's gaffe was related to switching the words pandemic for recession....
Back to homes, you just went to detroit, right? So how is the city looking, that is something you have experience with,,,,,lol
Ebola in detroit, oh my
High inflation made finances worse for 65% of Americans last year
That pesky 65% number again....
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/21/economy/economic-wellbeing-2023-inflation
No,,,,During the Pandemic Biden was VP under Obama
Either you are wrong or Biden is,,,,
Yep......more reasons too, like inexperienced cheap labor, and that would be my guess in this situation,,,,Seen it before and it didn't end well.....Just give em that saw and nail gun, sheet rock will cover it, lol
lol, Obviously a 2 step process, usually used by housing corporations, framing then an outside trim crew comes in which includes sheeting the exterior...
What caused the collapse was wind, why did it fall, people took out too many of the temporary braces, especially at the corners....
3 ways of doing it,,,,cut in wind bracing while framing (diagonal 1x4s at each corner inlaid into the studs, not frickn beams) tried and true method......metal wind bracing which hopefully is outlawed by now, thin strips of metal diagonally nailed to the studs, worthless basicly.........And plywood or osb on each corner usually done by the outside trim crew when the 2 crews are separated........Most northern houses are completely sheeted in osb.......
Someone knocked out too temporary braces, especially at the corners....All too many housing companies skimp, leaving the framing crew with little material to finish up with......leave the corner braces in no matter what.....
People don't understand that siding, sheetrock and osb is what holds a house together......
Best method (note the temporary corner bracing is still intact, they will be removed after sheeting is done)
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As a note, many northern framers sheet the outside walls while they build them, then stand them up, tough to raise with the extra weight and the wall is squared before sheeting, not leveled after it raised without osb.........Leveling is best, just leave the damn braces in till its sheeted as shown in the image....
Populism is rising world wide, there is a reason for it,,,,And its not just a one line gotchas or partisan politics
Populism: Root Causes, Power Grabbing and Counter Strategy
https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2020/number/1/article/populism-root-causes-power-grabbing-and-counter-strategy.html
The media ;)
Dems lack of allowing different opinions to be precise,,, they have a really bad habit of that, which only is an extra mark against them looking at the political landscape....
We all know what the current democrats definition of populism is......nationalism, bigotry, isolationism and the like, but that's a needed definition when you fail understanding the economic one.....Then as I pointed out, you have someone like trump to take advantage of the situation as has happened throughout history....
I don't think that disagreeing with you is divisive as you have said before, but I think labeling 1/2 the country with those terms are when economic reasons are at the core........
that being back to Gilded Age level inequality sucks...
Well then we do agree and always have, just disagree that it effects out political atmosphere and the way people feel about DC, the dems that sold the working class out, that it has crept into the middle class, that they hold the elites and corps that prosper and politicians that allow it responsible........
Guess you would have really hate the piece I posted that populist are highly democratically oriented and patriotic......And since you call me a conservative, i think this thread is challenged by partisanship rather than ideology......But that is your right to do so as is mine to disagree with you....
Back to
I think you should reread my post, the bottom applied maybe more than anything at the moment
Over looked hypothesis........ maybe for a reason? But I see similarities or one leading to the other....
Do you think the inequity we see today, highest since the guided age, would result in
They care deeply about whether each individual’s economic outcomes occur for fair reasons. Thus citizens turn to populism when they do not get the economic opportunities and outcomes they think they fairly deserve
So back to the elites and government which allow Inequity and a lack of economic out comes....
Will cherry pick from wiki
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
"Populism precisely is taking into account the people's opinion. Have people the right, in a democracy, to hold an opinion? If that is the case, then yes, I am a populist."
Dems could learn a thing or two about differing opinions and how they handle it...Perhaps another reason for the rise of populism....Anyhoot, good over looked hypothesis, thanks for the link...And hope you read last nights that I posted
5 takeaways from Devon Archer's testimony on Joe and Hunter Biden: 'There was no business conversation'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/05/devon-archer-transcript-testimony-takeaways/70528889007/
Shows how partisans just never learn the facts on either side....Blame the media, one side leaves this or that out, one side hammers this or that........
Maybe you have never even heard of Devon Archer.....Google searches are easy......
Hunter did what? Sold the Illusion of Influence,,,,
Plains and simple....Dad was even on the phone some 20 time and a couple dinners.....(no business discussed mind you)
As to the tax evasion, yep...Kinda like what Michele Cohan was sent to prison for only some of hunters weren't changed due to statues of limitations.....
All factual, all considered business as usual in DC, no big deal.....All ammunition for the right claiming the doj is biased and let hunter off the hook over all...... So comer is an idiot with his over statements which play well for the right...And even moderate dems shake their finger at the now rehabilitated hunter, but people see the difference in media coverage in the modern day.....Life in the fast lane
Hunter Biden sold ‘illusion of access’ to his father, former business partner tells Congress
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/hunter-biden-sold-illusion-of-access-to-his-father-former-business-partner-tells-congress
Hunter did, plain and simple and the sweetheart plea deal a judge threw out, sure made the favouritism meter peg for the right......
Only difference is Jarred had a real business he could claim.....Still as crooked as a dogs hind leg, just harder to prove I guess or dems would go after him...
I didn't say I believe trump, just this is how it is and why.........Dems have a way of trying to pigeon hole people, relax
Comer has overstated so much (not so unlike dems) that what's lost is how the dems would have handle a hunter if the shoe was on the other foot......
No doubt it would be 24/7 coverage on CNN for months, with the same insinuations of how high it must go....And hammer the fact he took millions from shady business people, even in communist countries under the guise of selling influence....
Dems have suffered from the same overstating to the point of people saying 'what is it now' and what ever it is, it will end anticlimacticly....
Well, thats another theory on the subject, there as many or more who see it the other way....History itself is a teacher when you look at the rise of revolutions over time....Be it a facist or leftist revolution they all began with inequity as the root cause.........And neither of the 2 when they won turned out well for the people......But not all populist movements end in revolution, dems have even had their own...
Here I think we are at a cross road over inequity that has created dissatisfaction with the government and politicians, how well they are working for the people,,, against the elite who gain more than their fair share because of the government and politicians have let them do it......Dems threw the working class under the bus, they are seen as elitist, corporately run and obviously corrupted by it...(lots more we could add into it in our political situation to)
Hence a Trump like character who is willing to say the system is corrupt, he is willing to snitch on the elite, claims no allegiance to a political party per se, drain the swamp in government as he puts it, cut through the red tape of bureaucracy..........(however when the situation is ripe for populism, people have taken advantage it)
So I say, populism doesn't stand much of a chance when its smooth sailing for the vast majority......
And the debate at Oxford was more to is populism a part of democracy or anti so.....The rebuttal claimed its a part of ...
Thanks for the piece, here is another on populist moments and the people involved....
Populist Democrats? Unpacking the Relationship Between Populist and Democratic Attitudes at the Citizen Level
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00323217231173800
I disagree,,,,Populism is a result of inequity....Always has been and is true again today....That debate with Pelosi was pretty good....
Elites v Deplorables
I will throw you a bone though....Look up your dog killer....All but one of the tribal territories are barring her from their land.....
Not that the border isn't funding cartels and that corruption, and of course the drugs, aren't flowing across...But it takes a special kind of person to piss off all the tribes in her state.......