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@fairwarning4267
I doubt that you're a patriot, and you don't seem to know anything about liberalism.
Liberalism, a large group of philosophies that emerged across the West in the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, is what put an end to the Middle Ages. It is not satanism, it is humanism.
Far from being the enemy of humanity, it is one of humanity's best efforts so far at expressing itself, developing itself, and protecting itself -- against ignorance, stupidity, disease, and all its other enemies.
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Biden is being ver-ree canny: he gets to make half-a-dozen speeches to the whole media audience, time after time saying the same thing, be calm, I'm the boss, everything's going back to normal, be calm.
Never boasting once. Just being quietly but clearly in charge!
And then, at a time of his own choosing, after everybody has gotten used to the fact that he's won, only then will he come out and make The Big Speech.
Acceptance, not proclamation of victory! Damn, but that's smart!
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@neilprintz8428
Neil,
I dunno, I can't take this buzzword-of-the-day thing seriously. Where did "cancel culture" come from? Women's Wear Daily? Some afternoon TV show with a bunch of Anaheim housewives in the audience?
Whenever "people" say that X is "a thing," the way cancel culture is a thing right now, my tendency is to tune out.
Kaleigh McElvaney seems to me an interesting character in exactly the same way as Sarah Sanders was. Both of them are strong women, both with a solid twenty or thirty IQ points on poor Donnie, and both of them with the same very difficult job, making sense out of a totally incoherent policy program.
They have a basic simple problem: Trump's "program" is the dumb shit that half-wits talk in bars all the time. It's the meat and potatoes of Fox programming -- all the stuff that twelve-year-old Roman Catholic boys believed in 1970. It's nonsense because it doesn't make sense in the real world. You can write novels about it, and Ayn Rand and any number of pessimistic mitteleuropisch novelists have done so.
That is not the kind of thing you can hold a pep rally for in the White House Briefing Room.
The Evangelicals have a different set of problems but the same hard situation: they've backed themselves into a corner. They've voted for destroying their own pensions, health care, and even their furshlugginer soy-bean markets. All in the name of a white, blue-eyed Jesus. At the margins, 12~20% of all families, the kids are just looking at their parents funny.
I come from a little village where there is a Camp Zion, where they have Holness Meetings every summer. The people who go to those meetings are perfectly nice people. But they didn't vote for a narcissistic failed real-estate hustler to run their lives when I was a kid.
All across America something like 10% of the people, a third to a quarter of the Republican base, have made a mistake, and if they don't know it, they very certainly feel it.
This doesn't make them suddenly Aristotelian logicians. It leaves them more like chickens with their heads cut off.
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I'm not sure that's true. Trump's entire career has been a downward slope, starting with the years he spent destroying his father's and grandfather's fortunes and very much impairing his siblings' inheritances while he was at it.
He started out rich and loved, and he's never gotten back to where he was when he was five years old.
He has confessed from time to time in offhand ways that he ran for President as a promotion. I think of it as a way, his typically flamboyant way, of pretending to be a New York Republican for the sake of the New York banks. Fail, but another horse came along just in time, lo! the Evangelicals.
And so it goes. He's on the skids now -- but he would probably have been on the skids had he lost the election, too. Suppose he'd lost, given a sweet and sucky concession speech, and gone off to Moscow? He'd have been hit by service-servers on his stop-off in Scotland, Oleg Derispaka's thugs at the airport in Moscow, and a flock of warrants, bills, and sour, incompetent, unemployed children when he got back.
He's a loser every step of the way. You can tell it from the fact that he has no friends.
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@Curunir
I think there's an answer to that: Blagojevich and Kerik were both guilty as hell, but they are both the types who appeal to Trump's hardhat tough-guy followers. His pardoning them is clearly an appeal to the barstool Democrat vote, Blue-collar Pabst Blue voters.
Milken was certainly guilty on a whole host of technicalities, but he has a wide following among financial types, including me: I think his insight into the irrationalities of the market were valuable. He's given a ton of money to good charities, paid $600 million in fines, put in his time in jail, so he's entitled to some sympathy. Color me 50-50 on that one. (Incidentally, I know of no evidence that Milken has ever been a Democrat: he's a pretty hard-ass floor-trader type, 95% likely to be a Republican. But in many ways a good guy.)
DeBartolo was a straight out crook, trying to buy a gambling license. My guess is he appeals to Trump because he owns a football team -- going for the barstool vote again, doncha think?
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Bella,
I doubt that he really has an agenda: his behavior is much too squirrely for a person with an agenda.
I think he has a bunch of rules of thumb -- "win," "stick with your friends," "use deodorant" and so on -- and these help him somewhat, modulo the fact that the meanings of key terms like "win" and "friend" keep changing every damn day.
A good rule when you're confronted with bad behavior is "Hate the act, not the person." As with Trump, so with poor Lindsey, I think our attitude should be personal sympathy for the poor stupid little bugger, but strict awareness that they are threats not merely to our interests but to the entire American experiment, the idea of a democratic republic, conceived in liberty and trying to become multi-racial, peaceful, wealthy, well-educated and decent -- all of which are works in progress. At best: i.e. when you don't have a bunch of clowns pulling in the opposite direction.
Cheers,
-dlj.
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Doug Richardson
I forget the exact psephology, just which state(s) got switched, but yes, the Greens already proved that in 2016, didn't they?
That seems less of a likelihood this time around, I'd guess. If the election is even faintly fair it will be a numerical replay of Reagan-McGovern, or what was that FDR one, "As go Vermont and Maine, so go Vermont and Maine"?
A few people are still musing about the possibility of Trump stealing it, but even at this late date they don't realize how stupid he is.
I met a lady online this morning who lives in Orange County, California. I don't know whether she wears running shoes but she was little and old. She seemed to believe that the President is a genius. He isn't. He's the loud proud kid who scrapes into Mensa by a hair, so they make him Chairman of the Comic-Book Committee just to make him shut up.
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Doug Richardson
I don't have a horse in that race. 2016 is over and gone.
I think the key thing about both Biden's VP search and the Democratic primary race has been the huge field of talent the Democrats are showing off. Trump, by contrast, has only had three, perhaps four, capable people in all his circles all along, and the only one who remains, Mnuchin, has still managed to make a fool of himself remarkably often. He's a right-winger, but he's competent, and, together with Powell at the Fed, the only thing keeping the damn country afloat amidst the shit-storm.
The Democratic Presidential primary candidates are a fine show of cabinet material, eight down to that sweet but also intelligent spiritualist lady. (I can't think where I'd put her in any Cabinet, but I'd certainly have her, Marianne Williamson, in for coffee every now and then, and she should be a fixture guest at state dinners...)
All those possible vice-presidential ladies? Every one of them is fine Cabinet, Senate, Ambassador, Governor or other public service material. I very much hope that the excellent Stacy Abrams will be elected to the Senate and, if she succeeds there, then become President down the road. She is clearly a first-class intellect, a capable organizer, and through and through a very decent person.
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But he's up against a real conundrum: his career so far has been a good deal more honest than his father's. His father started out as an anarchist but then bowed down to the Christianists on getting the government into your bedroom in order to woo the extremist "Evangelical" vote.
Rand, the kid, has avoided that, mainly by avoiding rural peckerwoods as a constituency, and indeed some of what he has done reflects a genuine spirit of libertarianism. Dentists certifying themselves is not perhaps the happiest development I can imagine for the health of the people, but at lest one can understand his principle.
Now, however, he has had thoughts of being a national figure. He might if he stays principled and if the GOP splits, into a Blue Dog Democrat majority and two principled reactionary and libertarian minorities. If he doesn't do that, and if the GOP doesn't evolve in that or some similar way, he has no future as a Republican without running on the government-in-your-bedroom ticket.
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@CeeJay611
Well said, but you're still left with the problem "...but if the salt hath lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."
The Priests at the time of the reconstruction of the First Temple faced a similar problem. Jerusalem was ruled by a flaky Establishment and religious observance seemed to them false of heart. Their response, in despair, was the one Biblical text most flawed, the pamphlet demanding reform, magically, but quite falsely, claimed to have been "found" in the wreckage of the Temple being torn down, the cobbled-up book of Leviticus. Later this was movingly quoted by Matthew (5:13), above.
As in Leviticus's time, we have corrupt and incompetent White House -- and Trump's incompetence has probably been America's salvation -- and a louche religious machine. A loud but stumbling fifth of the population, a heavy chunk of America, is not working properly.
There are two heralds of good news. The ship is sound and the passengers are decent. The Constitution is resilient for all its flaws, and the American people(s) are decent and concerned. CJ611 is an example of the latter.
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Hey, get reasonable, folks. Impeaching Trump is up to the Republicans. Democrats should be overjoyed to have him there, bashing everybody with his likkle wattle. Bash, Bash, Bashbashbash on the GOP. Bits and pieces flying in all directions.
If the Republicans had a whole wit to rub together, they would have started impeachments proceedings around about the time George Bushlet uttered those wise words "Strage shit." I.e while he was still on the platform at the Inaugural.
If Democrats take the House, devoutly to be wished, then it might be nice to start up an investigations committee. My idea is it should be very careful. Very, ver-ree, careful.
Benghazziiii-iiii careful...
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Too many people leap to the dopey assumption that "The Chinese are taking over the world."
The opposite is the truth: China is succeeding by adopting much of what is best of the west. They've adopted the British Industrial Revolution. 19th-Century German applied science, and a few dribs and drabs of Anglo-German Marxism -- Hegelian hooey married to billiard-ball physics and the best of Victorian-age charitable social policy. They tried Leninism for a while but it was crushed in blood by Chiang Kai-Shek in 1929 and its remnants ground into the mud by Stalin over the succeeding generation.
One might have thought that the reforms of Deng Xiao-Ping would have some relation t the thought of the English industrialist Freidrich Engels. This didn't happen, because Engels never stirred any knowledge he might have gained in his factories into his politics. I think he has only made two contributions to world history, buying Karl Marx a few years' groceries and writing some hilariously self-parodic sections of The Communist Manifesto, in which the manifesto denounces bourgeois prigs exactly like, wait for it, Freidrich Engels.
The current main program of China is Xi Jin-Ping thought, essentially Western supply-chain management writ large. Very large.
This he may have learned during his stay in Kansas in which case it would be a curious mix of political strains: the political economy of the American Midwest is pretty much Stalinism, "socialism plus electricity equals communism," moderated by the Shredded Wheat practicality of Vice-President Henry Wallace, a stumble-bum Red but to hi credit a sound agronomist. It would make perfect sense if America's "Red States" had been given in honour of Wallace's love affair (at a safe distance) with Stalinism, but the seems not to have happened. Neither are they called red because of their budgets, always in deficit and bailed out by Washington.
Perhaps it's because so many of their politicians are so perennially apoplectic from jumping up and down denouncing the socialism and the Washington on which they are so totally dependent.
But China didn't export all this red stuff to us. It crossed the Pacific from America to China, and Eurasia via the Trans-Siberian Railroad, but mostly from Marx in the British Museum.
They aren't going to conquer us because we have already conquered them. What happens next is, the Trump interlude fades into the mists, and sensible people get on with the Great Mixing.
Here's the History:
The Gunpowder Years: 1400 to 1945, with raggedy edges at both ends. Europe conquers the world, including a number of cultures superior to its own, through the wanton use of gunpowder.
The European War: 1908 to 1998, from the North African Naval Crisis through the rise and then collapse of Imperialism, Fascism, and Marxism. Huge death resulting in developing peace.
The Great Mixing: 1868 to 2150, from the Black Ships introducing America to Japan (already acclimatizing itself to Holland, Korea, and Britain) through the admixture of China and America, Adam Smith plus Buddha, etc. etc.
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Léon ,
The fake Christians still delivered 62% of the white vote for the anti-Constitutional, lookin' fer a chile-bride, half-wit.
Trump is not America's problem: America's problem is an electorate in which 37% or so of the people are vindictive, reactionary, often racist, haters. They worship a Christ dead and bleeding, not a Jesus alive and teaching. They believe they are saved and you are't but you need to be for some reason. This is a medieval, authoritarian, patriarchal and wicked set of beliefs. It is the real harm, and Trump is just a small bit of the result.
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Devin,
I think you're using "governmentintervention" like a mantra of evil. The fact is government intervention very often causes huge increases in the general wealth, well-being and freedom.
The elementary example is the traffic light, which tells people unambiguously when they have to stop or when they have the state's permission to start. All enforced by jack-booted men with guns. Bossy, bossy, bossy -- but a huge net increase in everybody's mobility hence freedom, and safety, hence well-being.
In due course, a generation or so after everybody else, the US will end up with a Canadian style single-payer health insurance system. If you're lucky you'll get Canadian style independent medicine. In the worst case you'll end up with the current US-style of commercial and bureaucratic medicine. Either way, insha-Allah, you'll end up with socialization of the insurance function.
This will make you richer and freer. Hillary, even now, is entitled to a good deal of the credit.
Best,
-dlj.
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+Devin Waddell
Devin,
"Failed policies" is the whimper of a guy who didn't invest when Bush left the Dow-Jones at six thousand and change, before No Drama Obama brought it back up into Clinton-type territory, north of 16,000. Better luck next time.
Trump does not have better sense in business. Trump has not made a cent in business since his father died. The old man was an excellent developer of working-class housing, and made enough money at it to bail poor little Donald out every now and then.
For a Google giggle, search on "Trump, Plaza Hotel." And laugh. The guy has the judgment of a kid in a candy store, and the poor banks financed him because they thought Daddy was part of this "Trump Organization" thingie. He was -- until he wasn't.
Little Donald can't borrow in New York anymore without Daddy around, and has to hustle his funnypaper in Hong Kong and the Middle East. I'm not sure having a President in debt in those two places is a terribly wise idea...
Trump's claimed net worth now, a little over $4 billion, is less than his shareholders' and creditors' losses in his companies' serial bankruptcies. I.e. the guy is a net net business parasite. Luckily he was able to land an honest job, playing the part of a loud-mouthed businessman on TV.
This seems to have paid fairly well. He's probably unusual for a Republican in hiding his taxes because they show how little, not how much, he's worth.
There's a new free app called "Grammarly" out there, and you should take a look at it. It's much too American in its promiscuous use of the Harvard comma, but it would save you from the several errors that mar your post above. https://www.grammarly.com/
Cheers,
-dlj.
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daddyadam 1971
In 1967, I interviewed Col. James R. Corson, a war hawk. He was the real thing: if America had been able to produce 500 soldiers like him, the Vietnamese would have lost and the French puppets the US was supporting would have won. America did produce 500 of his quality -- but most of us opposed the war.
At one point he pulled an M-16 down off the wall on his stairs as we sat in his living room. "You lefties don't seem to understand this sorta stuff," he shouted at me, squeaking melodramatically as right-wingers tend to do. "I think I do, sir," I answered. "I can can take your head off ten times out of ten at 1300 yards. With a Lee-Enfield. Or an FN-C2."
"Oh," he said in a rather small voice.
We got down to chatting, first about riflery, at which we were both very good, and then about the war, on which we disagreed but I gave him full credit for his tactical skill and personal decency -- though not for the aims of the colonialist Saigon government he was supporting.
We became friends over the years, and worked together on a couple of national security issues where we were both on the same side, America's.
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@elkslayer7399
The old Lee-Enfield rifle was accurate to 1,350 yards, which was the longest target on the Canadian Army ranges. At that distance, for the last half or third of the bullet's flight, you can see it, or at least the shock-wave around it is visible. Its path is a spiral, and I've often wondered whether the effect of the spiral was connected to the Earth's Coriolis in any way.
The bull on the targe, however, is a foot square, so the movement of the air which you judge by looking at the plant life very carefully is more important than the circumference of the spiral...
Canadian troops in Afghanistan have claimed sniper victories at well over a kilometre, but their refiles these days are nothing you or I would recognize, $35,000 assemblages of electronics and weirdity far different from anything in my time. The NATO FNC-2, itself from a planet different from the one the Lee-Enfield inhabited, was the most advanced thing I ever trained on.
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@jld9822
Joel,
Of the two videos you suggested above, the Trump 9/11 piece is a moving and very competently presented bit by the President. It reminds us that he remains an accomplished television presenter when given professional writers and direction.
The Mark Levin piece is criminal and will have gotten people killed by now, weeks after it aired. The man is a nut job with politics bordering on treasonous anyway and now he has added a murderous psychopathy to his profitable political entertainment act.
You owe it to your family and to people close to you, Joel, to get informed. If you are going around maskless you could very well be an asymptomatic carrier and end up accidentally killing your parents.
No. I'm not kidding.
{Later: In your note to @jorgemtds you miss a small but important point: the virus certainly originated in Wuhan, China. Its main entry point to the US, however, was New York, from Europe. You already have "leaders" like Trump, in Hungary, Poland, and Britain. This is ironic because we can expect future outbreaks of viral disease from Central Europe where animals are still bred in conditions close to the families that own them.}
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@josephpeeler5434
Re your advertising piece, https://www.rmegold.com/blog/what-money-meant-to-founding-fathe...
That's insane, Joe, if it's not a lie. Let me know, do you prefer to be considered mad, stupid, dishonest, or some graduated combination?
Money meant Mexican or English coins, IOUs at the grocery store, wampum if they did business with the Americans, and lists of debts settled quarterly or annually, often in crops or labor.
To the "Founding Fathers," the leaders of the successful uprising, gold meant gold.
Since you are such a total fucking gullible babe in the woods, Joe, let me point out what that site is really doing: they are selling stuff to suckers. Mainly they are buying gold at the ever-varying market price and selling it to people who will swallow a good line. Everything on that site is half-truths, some nonsense, and sales patter.
If you actually need some gold, maybe for your electronic or model railroad hobby, I would encourage you to talk to your dentist and ask them where they buy theirs. You'll get more gold for less money that way.
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Forgiven debt is taxable income. Trump is co-signer on about $1.5 billion, payable in 1998, in debts left from the mess he made and ran away from in Atlantic City. The debt is placed with friendly creditors, probably Russian oligarchs and/or gangsters.
Trump has not yet declared the income represented by these debts not being collected. When he declares it, or when the IRS decides "time's up!" then he will owe tax, at the old, pre-Bush giveaway, pre-Trump giveaway, rates. Plus income. Since 1998.
If it goes to litigation, he could be hit with penalties, too. This is not going to be nice -- particularly for a man whose few actual businesses (as opposed to his successful acting career) has been operated for the past few years by, uh, koff, choke, Eric and Donald Junior, also we may assume, very stable geniuses.
Sad.
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Anonymous Troll @Bluesjet1234 ,
Neither one of them is organized. Both of them are slogans and both of them have roots in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and before.
"Black lives matter" is a simple slogan meaning "a black life is as important as a white life; you don't have the right to just forget some poor guy killed at random by the police because he's black," get it?
AntiFa was a small group of lefties at Berkeley and was probably organized enough to have coffee together once a week -- all six of them. They only went national when the Republicans i the Senate gave up on being Republicans and became straight no-balls Trumpoids. At that point, a lot of young people said "This is Fascism and I'm against it." Still no organization, just a lot of people sharing a slogan.
There is an underground press, and some of them talk to one another, a lot of them hate each other. "too pornographic," "too much sports news," all that kind of crap.
The only organization is the Internet, and the most organized thing on the Internet is "a rouble a post" trolls and their script-kiddie followers in the West, a sad bunch of little losers.
They aren't thugs, and they aren't organized.
The biggest damage is that done to the RNC by their moronic PR people who -- back when they had money -- flooded TV with fake ads showing Philippine students and Ukrainian cops, five years and five thousand miles away from each other, but all noisy. They end up with mud on their faces broke and tarred with a lot of dirty tricks, all of which they put up with, few of which they actually commissioned, and every ounce of every one dishonorable and un-American.
There is a tiny number of drunks, of Trotskyites and Black Flag anarchists, and a few old H. Rap Brown (look it up) disorganized Blacks. That's the only thing out there that corresponds to your fantasies,
Suck on it, nameless Bluesjet: you're a sucker for Hannity, Trump, and a bunch of lunatics and clowns.
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Every video we see of Putin has him seated at ridiculous distances from his "co-workers." We see him across a ballroom, at the end of a bowling-alley length table, on one side of a half-empty hundred-foot diameter round table. His interlocutors -- audience, press reporters, underlings, whoever -- in every case is isolated from Putin but cheek and jowl with each other.
I'm sure Putin tells himself that this is all anti-Covid precaution -- perhaps with a soupcon of alpha-dog signaling build into the expense of the whole ridiculous get-up.
In fact, if he's vaccinated, he has nothing to fear from any normal working group of healthy, prudent, people. His only "signal," to the world quite instantly, to his fellow apparatchiks as the weeks go by, is that he's a scared little man.
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That's a gimme: No, Donald. They think you're a dumb SOB.
They're the last 1.3 billion catching up with what the rest of us already knew..
And, uh, one small thing: that outsourcing is profitable as all hell, otherwise nobody would be dong it. Nobody, not even "the United States" which isn't involved in the transaction, loses on the deal. For the nation as a whole, outsourcing frees up "human resourcs," that's people, who could do necessary -- and long overdue -- maintenance and infrastructure construction work.
Duh, Donnie. Duh.
Pity Daddy bought you that million-dollar degree at Penn, Donnie. The other kids did their homework and learned about trade, business, and economics.
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@kohlcooke8789
Biden isn't trying to beat "angry Bernie fans." Most Bernie fans are liberals or Social Democrats, which means they are pretty close to Biden and will support him.
There are a few hundred thousand Red Diaper babies out there, children of Communists. Some of these people, perhaps ten or twenty thousand in the entire country are not particularly "political" in any civic or contributory sense. They are emotional outsiders, often rightwing extremists.
Of the political ones, and now we're down to probably one-digit thousands, many believe in the olde tyme Leninist doctrine of "le pire le mieux," the worse is better -- making things bad will bring their revolution faster.
These are your Trump-before-Biden Bernie Bros. They are loud but they are few.
You have to keep your eye on the facts. Fact One is that Hillary beat Trump by three million votes. Trump is a glitch in the Constitution, a side-effect of the nasty compromises of 1785~87 when the current Constitution was being written after the failure of the 1776 Articles.
Trump is tall, energetic, televisual, confident, and assertive. He's attractive and convincing if you're not paying attention. A lot of people have been sucked in by him, and importantly a lot of special interests, greedheads, reactionaries and the few fascists out there have found him useful.
On the other hand he is ignorant, of mediocre intelligence and essentially negative learning, and harmful -- harmful essentially to the interests of the barstool philosopher class who have followed him.
If people pay attention and act with good sense, 2020 will be a wipeout of Goldwater-scale proportions. The GOP could be wrecked for a generation, leaving only pieces to be reconstructed in some different way.
America no doubt has a place for principled conservatives, an edge party of the Never Trumpers.
The Democratic Party of President Obama and the Cllintons stands for capitalism armed to the teeth. There is no viable administrative position to the right of that. that is the centre right, not the center left.
America needs a center-left, Social Democratic Party.
A reconstruction of the parties has to occupy most of the next few years -- up through the two elections after the 2030 census and redistricting.
For the moment the only challenge is getting a return to reasonably normal politics. That is what Biden represents, and the majority of Americans know it.
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Run when chaste? Rather redundundant, doncha think, Chris? Obviously those who don't run don't stay chaste very long.
Priests should also be allowed to wear black suits -- and should be encouraged not to take them off at the wrong times.
But Young Socialist "Alliance," Roger? There's no such group, though at the time I used to think that the Young People's Socialist League (which later changed its name to Students for a Democratic Society, and later still The Weathermen) chose that name because YPSL was from Ypsilanti. (Honest. It largely was!) But no, Roger Stone, young socialists don't do "alliance." Their specialty rather tends to be fractionation, division, and infighting -- when they can't achieve total chaos, that is.
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What these dummies are missing is that sure, SALT hits the blue states -- but it hits a particular kind of family in the blue states: the very well-off but not hyper-wealthy.
Super-millionaires all have their pass-through gimmicks, so they're home free and laughing. Working and middle-class people in the blue states get their pittance in the first year or so, but they're also smart enough to figure out that a.) the increase in non-Obamacare insurance will eat those tiny gains away, and b.) they're getting phased out after the 2018 elections, which they're supposed to be stupid enough to vote Republican in.
Who's left? Who is famously getting blue-state-screwed? The country club Republican class, that's who.
These smart-asses haven't hit the Democrats. They've nailed not the red-hat-yahoos but the genuine Republican base, doctors, lawyers, small millionaire business owners.
Trump's destruction of the GOP marches on, hand in hand with his war on America.
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This is a wee bit worse than it looks: the raw Dow-Jones is expressed in US dollars, but the real world operates in a basket of currencies. Out there in the world values of stuff in America are counted in "DX," that is in trade-weighted dollars, a mixture of Euros, Japanese Yen, Pounds "sterling" although they're as paper as any other currency, Canadian dollars.
Long story short: the DX was at 102 when Trump was sworn in, and it's around 89 right now. That means a DX-DJ, a trade-weighted Dow Jones, has gone sideways since Trump moved into the White House. It lost about a quarter of a point yesterday.
Add that to the 2.9% drop in the Dow, and you get a slip of 3.2%.
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@ernpible9590 Yeah, this YouTube comment software really sucks. I'm particularly annoyed by the way it sometimes seems to indent replied so they appear directly after the comment you're addressing and at other time just drops you to the bottom of the thread (and at other times to the bottom of the visible thread, i.e. the middle of the whole mess.) The whole thing is totally amateur hour, which is particularly sucky given the colossal amount of money involved in their business.
On my father's, and many pharmacists', snark at doctors, above, note that there are very many excellent MDs, and the vast majority of them do more good than harm. Only a bare majority of American doctors, however, believe in the science-based medicine originated by Koch in Germany in the 19th Century, very many of them believe in magical, personalist hooey (which has just the faintest basis in psychological fact), and a small but not inconsiderable minority of them are dangerous psychopaths made all the more dangerous by the structure of their "profession." This has been your run-on sentence of the day.
The nut lady who is the subject of this video is probably one of the more harmless of the fringe of clowns, fascists, egomaniacs, greedheads, fools, lunatics and incompetents who travel under the flag "medical doctor."
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@ernpible9590
What country are you in?
I'm in Canada, but lived in the States, served on Congressional staff, got important legislation passed, and have had serious overseas assignments on behalf of the US in Japan, France and the UK. Ex-wife and two children are American, and all are seriously connected, so...
My business background is mainly Japan and the US: 400 coin laundries in Japan, dryers manufactured for me in Texas.
I hope that Venora Dorowolski is reading my notes above, and I owe her a note: she is serious people, slightly incorrect in some of her points, but right about most of the big ones. Importantly on this topic (and in this flaky, low-life ridden medium), she is sane and intelligent.
You seem to be handling a couple of people making apparently honest queries, above. Good work.
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Biden is being ver-ree canny: he gets to make half-a-dozen speeches to the whole media audience, time after time saying the same thing, be calm, I'm the boss, everything's going back to normal, be calm.
Never boasting once of winning. Just being quietly but clearly in charge!
And then, at a time of his own choosing, after everybody has gotten used to the fact that he's won, only then will he come out and make The Big Speech.
Acceptance, not proclamation of victory! Damn, but that's smart!
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