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All true. Especially that McConnell's words mean nothing, it's all about him retaining power and nothing's off the table, to that end. Interestingly, his 3 daughters from his first marriage have all become publicly and vocally liberal.
If Trump were still in office, his pal Vlad would now be in Finland and trying to get back into Germany.
There's a reason that Finland and Sweden wanted to be fast tracked into NATO.
What ever you do, please don't read up on stuff before you post. Oil companies are holding back production, how you gonna make them increase output? Nationalize them?
"President Joe Biden noted that the oil and natural gas industry has 9,000 permits to drill that it isn’t using. In other words, 9,000 chances to increase the supply of oil and gas — and drive down prices."
"The oil industry already has at least 10 years’ worth of unused leases at its disposal, even with the leasing pause."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/business/food-prices-profits.html
"The federal oil and gas leasing program is broken and doesn’t work for anyone except oil executives—the same ones who pocketed more than $10 billion in COVID-19 relief payouts"
Tuition loan forgiveness bad, but $1T tax cut good. Forgiving PPP loans to politicians good. Subsidizing fossil fuel, big ag, and defense industries good. Just don't give any $$$$ to the poors, amirite?
Your claim is that repeat offenders are not being arrested and prosecuted is verified how / where? Did Uncle Tucker whisper that in you ear?
Aha, yes, I was unfamiliar with the term, thanks.
To make matters worse, Crowder was on the DW the other night saying that Putin is desperate for a Republican takeover of Congress. It's apparently widely believed that the only hope Russia has of winning its war is if the US stops supplying Ukraine with military equipment.
Which is exactly what the Republicans are stating they want to do. Putin's useful idiots.
From Krugman's column, today:
"In September, consumer prices were 15 percent higher than they were on the eve of the pandemic. However, average wages were up by 14 percent, almost matching inflation. Wages of nonsupervisory workers, who make up more than 80 percent of the work force, were up 16 percent."
"And they have every right to point out that while Republicans may denounce inflation, Republicans have no plan whatsoever to reduce it."
You understand that most of the people who win those big lotteries have to go into some form of a witness protection program?
For one thing, if you win a mega amount, it automatically makes you and everyone in your family potentially prime targets for kidnappers.
And other stuff.
What's auto-credit?
Just now starting the new David Corn book, American Psychosis, about the Republican's party descent into fascism. Definitely worth a look, the roots of it go back almost 200 years.
Yes, but I don't get any credits. It should be automatic, no? We pay for services then don't get them and are still charged? The Republican way!
A lot of these companies, like our cable provider, have "retention" departments set up to give percs to customers who are vocal about leaving the fold.
For example, every couple of years, or so, we get in touch with the cable company and say we're considering going to the "dish" and they then give us some premium streaming services for free for a year or two.
Try it with all of them, what's there to lose by it?
Yes, you deserve a medal for believing the lies that Trump spewed and his ignorant followers, followed.
Yes, gas prices were lower, there was a fucking pandemic and demand had dropped. But not as low as Trump lies about:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/politics/fact-check-trump-gas-prices
Ditto for inflation:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-112809830820
You seem to be a pretty run of the mill Trump supporter. Got White Nationalism much? That's about the only thing that grew during his disastrous reign.
What is this, the political stock board for delusional penny stock "investors"? The silliness of thinking that a sub-penny stock will make them rich goes hand in hand with political silliness, I guess.
The inability, or unwillingness, to process data without having to resort to "alternative facts" or straight-out bias confirmation works equally poorly in both arenas.
An awful - white Nationalist - man, before we called them that. I believe Princeton University, of which he was President, is re-naming the school named after him. Just goes to show that brains and bigotry aren't mutually incompatible.
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-renames-wilson-school-and-residential-college-citing-former-presidents-racism
Yeah, that shorts in winter thing is an east coast preppy affectation, I believe, I mean what's the point? Fetterman did grad school at Harvard, but undergrad and MBA from non-Ivies.
I hope he wins, nothing good ever results from the election of Trumpists.
Also, keep an eye on Arizona, Lake vs Hobbs - at some point the people in this country are going to have to decide whether embracing authoritarianism is the way we want to go.
Yes, but Pres. Wilson was incapacitated and his wife did his job for him running the country, and ditto for Pres. Reagan.
Biden's doing fine, he's doing well, but concerns about a candidate's health are legit. Also right now Sen. Feinstein is widely thought to be suffering from real dementia, so who's actually doing her job?
Ronnie Reagan was bad enough but the knowledge that his wife and her astrologer were running things is pretty scary.
I can't stand Oz but it's not binary, I'm also concerned about a guy who's had 2 strokes this year, at least he won't be President, though.
I think Fetterman with his hoodie and before him, Beto with his skateboard, are trying too hard to be non-conformist to appeal to a younger demographic - it's too bad ideas and a track record can't do that. They're actually not fooling anyone, I don't think, being in politics is about as conformist a career ambition as you can have.
What an unhappy, old man, grade C actor he is. Nothing like making your child feel responsible for your self-imposed misery. Blaming everybody but himself, a true MAGA type.
"His wisdom, in truth, is worth nothing". Hard to misinterpret that, either he's claiming that Socrates was overrated or that wisdom is.
If the latter is meant, then what's the point of deferring to the various sages on the basis of their education or experience? Hence, Trump.
So, again, no facts, only bullshit. Ok, enjoy!
Ok, I know you won't answer, but which part of that was bullshit? Or is this just sort of a lame schoolyard type comeback?
I'm guessing the latter, because I can back up what I posted with some "fact" things.
Volcker was during the Carter administration, isn't the current guy Powell?
I appreciate the effort you made in finding this link and posting it, but it's a little over my head.
You state that to trust this guy is our best choice but then post a comment by Plato that refutes the benefits of experiential knowledge. Hmmmm.
I did post a link to a very short piece that claims that inflation is, in fact, self correcting. I mean we still have economists claiming that Trickle-Down works, so go figure.
You are funny / clueless. Unemployment is down, stock market going up, wages rising, dollar super strong (which makes imports, aka Walmart, not to mention foreign travel, cheaper), it's a terrible state of affairs.
If you fall back on the tired meme of gas prices, in order to compare apples to apples you'd have to go to pre-pandemic prices, before covid killed demand, which then averaged nationally about $2.50 per gallon.
If you factor in the Russia situation, the oil companies absurd price gouging, and the Saudis cutting production you can account for the current, higher prices. How Biden gets the blame for this is only by simplistic and ignorant analyses.
By the way, what's your / Trump's plan for fighting inflation? Put Jared on it, I guess, his track record of successes was impressive.
Interesting article in today's NY Times about some changes taking place in some parts of Texas:
"A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted to challenge Mr. Trump’s defeat, a New York Times analysis found — a pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing status shaped the movement to keep him in power."
Trumpism & MAGA = racism, period
“A lot of white Americans who are really threatened are willing to reject democratic norms,” she said, “because they see it as a way to protect their status.”
No harm, no foul, we're all good.
Thanks, that's some food for thought. Although, I'm not sure I'd take Volcker's word about this, his interest is too vested:
"The Federal Reserve board led by Volcker raised the federal funds rate, which had averaged 11.2% in 1979, to a peak of 20% in June 1981. The prime rate rose to 21.5% in 1981 as well, which helped lead to the 1980–1982 recession, in which the national unemployment rate rose to over 10%."
Was this really better than inflated prices? It strikes me as being similar to the concept of "trickle down economics", which, as Krugman describes it, is a zombie theory. I'd like to see a more hands-off approach, although, it's true, that no one's asked my opinion:
https://www.mrmedico.info/apps/blog/show/42117689-how-does-the-economy-self-correct-from-inflation-
Next question: how does raising interest rates, as the Federal Reserve is doing, fight inflation? It causes the manufacturing costs of everything to go up which means those manufacturers and, then, retailers have to charge more, which raises the costs of stuff which causes inflation. Are they increasing inflation to fight inflation?
Things will become more costly which will lead to people not buying stuff which will depress various enormous sectors of the economy. And as business profits decline, people will need to be laid off and be further unable to buy stuff.
So the Federal Reserve is jump starting a recession in order to cure inflation? Isn't that a bit top down in that companies can maintain some semblance of their profit margins while people need suffer a decline in living standards? Is inflation worse than a recession?
Is it possible that inflation is just part of the normal business cycle and will abate on its own in the same way that it begins rising on its own? Sometimes, he who helps least, helps most.
Or, as they used to say in Brooklyn, back in the day (and I never actually lived in Brooklyn back in the day) "the wisest guys are the ones who know that their wisdom is worth nothing."
Or you don't change with it. Instead, you sit in your house getting zonked on opioids or meth, feeling sorry for yourself, and blaming dark skinned people, uppity women, immigrants, and queers for your misfortunes.
It's often referred to as the MAGA Way.
To your last point, no, I'm poorly read about these guys. I do know that one was a student of the other, that they were collaborators of a sort. In a possibly similar fashion to Lennon and McCartney who famously fell out when the Beatles broke up, wrote songs harshly critical of each other and were only reconciled at the end.
My idea was that, maybe, Plato and Socrates had a similar end to their collaboration, with one trashing the other.
It just irked me that someone (Plato) thought he had wisdom enough to declare the wisdom that someone else had accrued (Socrates) to be worthless. If all wisdom is worthless, however, what was his freakin' point, since he's instructing people to not take him seriously, either.
Why listen to someone who comes out and says that no one is worth listening to?
The search for knowledge certainly isn't ceaseless amongst the MAGA crowd, it interferes with their certainty about things they're clueless about.
Otherwise, though, two thumbs up. If only you had been there to have been Plato's speechwriter.
Interesting. Maybe your name should be up there in the pantheon of noted philosophers throughout the ages. We could do worse.
Noted. But there's sometimes enough fuck you to go around.
Jeez, can't you find something better to do than being insulting about something that's, basically, none of your business. I mean, do you feel empowered by being an asshole about things?
And, oh, yeah, before I forget, go fuck yourself.
I wouldn't categorize it as hung up, I'm curious about an explanation from someone who holds the statement dearly. How can you claim to be knowledgable about something and at the same time discredit knowledge? Wouldn't that make your point moot?
If you don't find the quote illogical or egomaniacal (on Plato's part) and are uninterested in the topic, fine, then this dialogue will have to struggle along without you.
Is our moderator claiming that, like Plato, only his knowledge is worthwhile? (this is meant as a joke) Maybe Plato and Socrates had a bit of a war of words going on between themselves, like the relationship between Lennon and McCartney became.
Yes, but it's your "signature" line and it's circular logic at best.
Everyone's wisdom is folly except for what Plato is dishing out? Either the man's ego was out of control or someone needs to examine his writings a little more carefully.
I'm ignorant about the Plato / Socrates / Whomever canon, but when something doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense, ancient Greek or not. Why should we care about Plato's opinion if it's based on experiential wisdom which is folly at its core?
It seems almost Trumpian in its megalomania, that only he can emit the good wisdom, no one else knows what they're talking about.
So, Plato is trashing Socrates' wisdom, while dispensing more worthwhile wisdom of his own?
"It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
So Plato is giving wisdom about something, Socrates' knowledge, and at the same time implying that his (Plato's) wisdom is worth nothing? So, then, what's his point?
Is this a joke, some philosophy grad students' inside joke? To me it makes no sense, it's absolutely illogical.
Way before Reagan. LBJ's Great Society and the Voting Rights Act were in the early 60's. FDR did the New Deal, which pissed off Republicans.
You might have to go back to 1912, when Wilson won the presidency to get the full switch effect. Wilson was a nasty racist, who, like Reagan, became incapacitated and had his wife do his job for him.
https://millercenter.org/president/wilson/essays/wilson-edith-1913-firstlady
Exactly. Act like amoral sociopaths and care about no one but yourself. Be like Trump!
Open borders, CRT, anti-abortion, socialism, anti-trans / gay, gas prices: these are the issues, both imaginary and real, that Republicans are running on this time around.
I challenge anyone to come up with one proposal for any solution to any real problem put forth by any Republican in any election this year.
I had not previously checked out that link. From personal experience, I know that when I went to one of their houses for a tour, it was $20 or thereabouts, and from the crowds when I was there, I figured that maybe 1000 people were going in that day.
I sort of doubt people go there specifically because of the royals, weddings and funerals aside, but if you're in London you're probably going to something like the changing of the guards. And if you're near one of their other pads, anyway, you might as well have a look around.
I believe we went to the place where Anne spends most of her time, these days, can't recall the name. Interesting to find out that back in the day, whenever the king slept there, it was an honor to be invited into his bedroom to watch him fall asleep.
And people wonder how Trump was elected.
Roger that.