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Politics & Religion / Political Economics, Dems abandon term Bidenomics
« on: March 27, 2024, 08:16:13 AM »
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/biden-democrats-ditch-bidenomics
Sorry that isn't their term to ditch. We started it, and there never was anything positive about it. The most neutral description you could give it is " cluelessness". But it is far worse than that.
Build back broker is the description that stuck.
But of course the term isn't neutral, it's negative, it's hurting people. What does it really mean?
No one knows how Democrats economic theories really work. They are designed to win elections, not grow , or make people better off. The common thread is that it is government-centric.
My question is, what is the name for the opposite? What's a new name for supply-side economics that can be used in the current political environment?
I'm going to name it private-sector-nomics.
Sounds cumbersome, but Trump has a way of slowing down and enunciating, what he wants to and it's time to put the focus on the private sector, not the government. It's as simple as that.
Recall the recent post about government workers making 40% more than private sector workers, and benefits 80% more than private sector workers , or didn't I post that? It won't be easy to turn that around, but that's an example of where things have gone astray.
Exhibit B is all the rich counties around Washington DC. That ties in very closely with Trump's war on the swamp. We don't want any harm to these people or to the incomes of their families. We just want those not needed in government to go out and get productive sector jobs with all their great talents.
Marco Rubio had a great line when he was running for president. I can't remember it verbatim but he said something like, I'm going to look at every bill comes across my desk and ask whether it helps to grow jobs and incomes or not.
Trump or someone needs to diffuse this politics of envy and now is the time. Biden is once again trying to punish the rich. Jack Kemp was questioned on that in the 1980s and said, what we need in America is more people rich.
Every tax on the rich, every tax on the corporations, every tax on the employers, every tax on the people, is a tax on the economy, a tax on everyone. We need taxes, and we need lots of them because we're falling further and further in debt. But the main problem is spending. We need our tax code to raisee the the most money and do the least damage as possible.
The central Focus must always be the health of the private sector economy. Driving a wedge between employers and employees or the rich and the poor isn't how you do that.
Sorry that isn't their term to ditch. We started it, and there never was anything positive about it. The most neutral description you could give it is " cluelessness". But it is far worse than that.
Build back broker is the description that stuck.
But of course the term isn't neutral, it's negative, it's hurting people. What does it really mean?
No one knows how Democrats economic theories really work. They are designed to win elections, not grow , or make people better off. The common thread is that it is government-centric.
My question is, what is the name for the opposite? What's a new name for supply-side economics that can be used in the current political environment?
I'm going to name it private-sector-nomics.
Sounds cumbersome, but Trump has a way of slowing down and enunciating, what he wants to and it's time to put the focus on the private sector, not the government. It's as simple as that.
Recall the recent post about government workers making 40% more than private sector workers, and benefits 80% more than private sector workers , or didn't I post that? It won't be easy to turn that around, but that's an example of where things have gone astray.
Exhibit B is all the rich counties around Washington DC. That ties in very closely with Trump's war on the swamp. We don't want any harm to these people or to the incomes of their families. We just want those not needed in government to go out and get productive sector jobs with all their great talents.
Marco Rubio had a great line when he was running for president. I can't remember it verbatim but he said something like, I'm going to look at every bill comes across my desk and ask whether it helps to grow jobs and incomes or not.
Trump or someone needs to diffuse this politics of envy and now is the time. Biden is once again trying to punish the rich. Jack Kemp was questioned on that in the 1980s and said, what we need in America is more people rich.
Every tax on the rich, every tax on the corporations, every tax on the employers, every tax on the people, is a tax on the economy, a tax on everyone. We need taxes, and we need lots of them because we're falling further and further in debt. But the main problem is spending. We need our tax code to raisee the the most money and do the least damage as possible.
The central Focus must always be the health of the private sector economy. Driving a wedge between employers and employees or the rich and the poor isn't how you do that.
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Politics & Religion / Re: RFK Jr. to pick money, ex-wife of Google founder
« on: March 26, 2024, 11:26:06 AM »https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-nicole-shanahan-vp-pick/
She paid for his Super Bowl ad.
She is known for herexpertise in economics, foreign policymoney.
We'll see. He floats a new name quite often.
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1772644255430762551
RFK jr self identifies as far-Left with VP pick.
This is good, I think.
Kennedy was treated badly by the Democrats? Biden wouldn't debate? Well now he has money and at least some ballot access.
The head fake Libertarian didn't make any sense though they still may try it for more ballot access. There is absolutely no connection between far-Leftism and libertarianism IMHO.
My question, what primary did he win to get on ANY ballot. Why don't all the independents have to face off like real parties do?
To consolidate the Democrat-Left vote and try to win, Biden-Harris should drop out.
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Sounds like she has very brief but lucrative marriages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan
The divorce was finalized in 2023.[2][3] In 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported that a reason for the breakup was a "brief affair" in 2021 between Shanahan and Elon Musk.[35][32] Shanahan[7] and Musk denied the report.[36] The Wall Street Journal said: "We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting."[7]
Unverified, but if true she risked her marriage with a google founder to sleep with the world's richest guy. Kamala must be jealous.
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / 'carbon free' wind energy - continued
« on: March 26, 2024, 11:07:29 AM »
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/offshore-wind-now-costs-more-than-double-the-original-estimates-in-new-york/
It's the wind. It's free, or something. The know-it-all Green-Left tells us exactly what we need and why we need it and how it actually costs less and then they get the cost wrong by double.
Try sending in half your electric bill payment sometime and see how that goes for you.
Whatever costs they incur, we pay all of it. One way or the other.
California is paying twice what other states are paying for electricity, but that tells half the story. The other states are loaded with mandates and green energy goals too. Recall the Texas winter storm outage a few years back. So-called red Texas is one of the worst.
We are all paying twice too much for someone else's agenda, except for those paying twice that, and it isn't the best way to cut emissions.
Women and children and poor families are hit the hardest. Who cares, certainly the Democrats.
It's the wind. It's free, or something. The know-it-all Green-Left tells us exactly what we need and why we need it and how it actually costs less and then they get the cost wrong by double.
Try sending in half your electric bill payment sometime and see how that goes for you.
Whatever costs they incur, we pay all of it. One way or the other.
California is paying twice what other states are paying for electricity, but that tells half the story. The other states are loaded with mandates and green energy goals too. Recall the Texas winter storm outage a few years back. So-called red Texas is one of the worst.
We are all paying twice too much for someone else's agenda, except for those paying twice that, and it isn't the best way to cut emissions.
Women and children and poor families are hit the hardest. Who cares, certainly the Democrats.
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Politics & Religion / Biden Administration, DOT?
« on: March 26, 2024, 10:57:39 AM »
Horrible tragedy this morning:
https://twitter.com/ThevoiceAlexa/status/1772622937570332829
I don't know how this can be political, time will tell the meaning of it, but without causation attached we have our attention diverted to diversity equity bs, we have plane parts falling from the sky and ships running into bridges. Next time we hear from our cabinet secretary Pete Buttigieg about anything other than federal transportation safety issues I hope someone will nicely tell him to sit down and shut up.
https://twitter.com/ThevoiceAlexa/status/1772622937570332829
I don't know how this can be political, time will tell the meaning of it, but without causation attached we have our attention diverted to diversity equity bs, we have plane parts falling from the sky and ships running into bridges. Next time we hear from our cabinet secretary Pete Buttigieg about anything other than federal transportation safety issues I hope someone will nicely tell him to sit down and shut up.
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Politics & Religion / Zhou Bie-Den (pResident Biden) before the decline
« on: March 26, 2024, 10:38:24 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJMF7mflGE
Joe wasn't honest, wasn't sharp and used memory issues to cover up false statements 36 years ago.
I think this is valid material to use campaigning against him now.
Friends of mine can't vote for Trump because of "ethical" reasons. This guy is worse in every way. If you demand ethical, find someone else or sit this one out.
These are big names of Left media writing his political obituary, Sam Donaldson, David Brinkley, David Gergen, Ted Koppel, Leslie Stahl, Eleanor Clift, McLaughlin, and so on. They weren't wrong about him. They were wrong about us.
In his non-apology he explained, "I've done some dumb things and I'll do dumb things again".
Put that on a bumper sticker.
Joe wasn't honest, wasn't sharp and used memory issues to cover up false statements 36 years ago.
I think this is valid material to use campaigning against him now.
Friends of mine can't vote for Trump because of "ethical" reasons. This guy is worse in every way. If you demand ethical, find someone else or sit this one out.
These are big names of Left media writing his political obituary, Sam Donaldson, David Brinkley, David Gergen, Ted Koppel, Leslie Stahl, Eleanor Clift, McLaughlin, and so on. They weren't wrong about him. They were wrong about us.
In his non-apology he explained, "I've done some dumb things and I'll do dumb things again".
Put that on a bumper sticker.
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Politics & Religion / Re: "bloodbath"
« on: March 26, 2024, 08:59:53 AM »More leftist media hypocricy:
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/03/18/media-hypocrites-have-often-used-the-term-bloodbath-themselves-1446088/
Unbelievable.
Without hypocrisy and projection, their airwaves would be silent.
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Politics & Religion / The Way Forward, Example of getting a message out
« on: March 26, 2024, 08:46:54 AM »
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/25/voter_i_am_leaving_the_democratic_party_over_healthcare_everything_they_said_was_not_true.html
9.5 minute video, zero expense, powerful persuasive message. Nothing fancy. I can put this under healthcare politics but we've already covered the points there. The real question is how do we reach more people and not just preach to our choir.
This guy told his story, detailed and meaningful, heartfelt and real life. Not propaganda or repeating talking points. And if it is, it's really brilliant.
He made a self video, put it on Twitter, and somehow got it linked with the main columnist of real clear politics this morning.
The Forum here is an amazing resource. We have millions of page views, but don't know if that's just the government surveilling us. We follow the day to day. We follow the nation and the world and history and explore the most difficult topics, but when do we try to summarize what is most important of what we have learned and share it to a wider audience?
We have national elections decided by 40,000 votes? What if you (or I) had nine and a half minutes to talk to a million undecided voters between now and the election, what would you want to tell them?
Young people watch video-based media and this guy is clearly trying to reach young people with what he has learned, in quite a non-threatening, non-imposing sort of way.
9.5 minute video, zero expense, powerful persuasive message. Nothing fancy. I can put this under healthcare politics but we've already covered the points there. The real question is how do we reach more people and not just preach to our choir.
This guy told his story, detailed and meaningful, heartfelt and real life. Not propaganda or repeating talking points. And if it is, it's really brilliant.
He made a self video, put it on Twitter, and somehow got it linked with the main columnist of real clear politics this morning.
The Forum here is an amazing resource. We have millions of page views, but don't know if that's just the government surveilling us. We follow the day to day. We follow the nation and the world and history and explore the most difficult topics, but when do we try to summarize what is most important of what we have learned and share it to a wider audience?
We have national elections decided by 40,000 votes? What if you (or I) had nine and a half minutes to talk to a million undecided voters between now and the election, what would you want to tell them?
Young people watch video-based media and this guy is clearly trying to reach young people with what he has learned, in quite a non-threatening, non-imposing sort of way.
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Politics & Religion / Free Beacon spells out RonnaGate context
« on: March 26, 2024, 07:52:57 AM »
This is the biggest thing in their small world. Bigger than 10-7. Bigger than 9/11. This is a bomb dropped right in their lap.
Remember that Ronna is not a fire-breathing right winger. She is Ronna McRomney, the peacemaker in the Republican Party.
I never knew I liked her until I saw the uproar.
Free Beacon compiles a list of things that didn't offend the same parties.
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What in the Actual F— Is Wrong With These People? (NBC News Edition)
Andrew Stiles
March 25, 2024
We regret to inform you that America's journalists are in the midst of another temper tantrum. This one is in response to NBC News's decision to hire former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor. The network's own employees are in open revolt, incensed at the prospect of having to share screen time with a Republican who hasn't completely disavowed Donald Trump.
NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd, a former Democratic campaign aide, slammed NBC executives for hiring someone with "credibility issues" and a history of "gaslighting." Democratic scion Mika Brzezinski urged the network to "reconsider its decision." Host Kristen Welker issued a trigger warning over the weekend before airing her interview with McDaniel on Meet the Press. Nicolle Wallace read a passage from a book about tyranny and bemoaned the degradation of "our sacred airwaves."
It wouldn't be the first time so-called mainstream journalists have revealed themselves to be hopelessly out of touch with the average Americans they claim to care about. The partisan tantrum over McDaniel's hiring suggests they are incapable of self-awareness.
Perhaps we can look forward to further discussion of this "scandal" on Inside with Jen Psaki, the MSNBC weekend show hosted by the former press secretary to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Psaki could invite MSNBC contributor Robert Gibbs, another Obama press secretary, to share his thoughts on the matter. In the following segment, MSNBC contributor Ben Rhodes, the former Obama national security adviser who bragged about manipulating "clueless" reporters, could explain why McDaniel's hiring is good for Iran.
Better yet, MSNBC host Joy Reid could deliver an unhinged monologue denouncing the network for endorsing "white supremacy." Reid was promoted in 2020 to fill the time slot vacated by Chris Matthews, the former Democratic aide who argued it was racist to refer to Barack Obama as "Obama." Matthews resigned abruptly after being accused of sexual harassment, whereas Reid did not resign after online sleuths uncovered bigoted posts on her old blog. She blamed it on hackers. (It wasn't hackers.) She got promoted anyway.
Reid could continue the conversation with MSNBC political analyst Al Sharpton, the formerly obese racial agitator who instigated deadly anti-Semitic riots in New York City during the 1990s. Sharpton continues to use his platform on MSNBC to sow racial division. For example, he argued that criticizing Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned in disgrace earlier this year amid a flurry of scandals involving serial plagiarism and anti-Semitism on campus, was "an attack on every black woman in this country."
This is the same network that hired Martin Bashir, who compared criticizing the IRS to using the n-word and ultimately resigned after inviting his viewers to defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth. This is the network that employed Melissa Harris-Perry, best known for making fun of Mitt Romney's adopted black grandchild, and Ed Schultz, best known for calling Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," and Brian Williams, best known for lying about coming under fire in Iraq, and Touré Neblett, a 9/11 truther accused of sexual harassment who suggested Holocaust survivors benefited from "the power of whiteness." The less said about former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann the better.
This is the network that could have broken the story of Harvey Weinstein's long history of sexual misconduct in 2017. Alas, reporter Ronan Farrow said NBC stonewalled his investigation after Weinstein leveraged his Democratic political connections and threatened to expose Today anchor Matt Lauer's own history of sexual misconduct. Farrow gave up on NBC, published his story in the New Yorker, and won the Pulitzer Prize.
NBC is hardly unique among so-called mainstream media networks. The top journalist at ABC News is George Stephanopoulos, who served as White House communications director under Bill Clinton and was exposed by the Washington Free Beacon for failing to disclose his $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation while reporting on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2015. The network's longtime investigative journalist, Brian Ross, was eventually forced out after reporting a false story about Donald Trump in 2018. Ross won several journalism awards in 2012, the same year he baselessly accused a Tea Party member of committing a mass shooting in Colorado.
ABC News anchor Amy Robach complained in 2019 that the network refused to air her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers in part because it involved Prince Andrew and the network was worried about losing access to the British royal family. On a related note, Epstein threw a dinner party for Prince Andrew in 2010 following Epstein's release from prison for sex crimes. Stephanopoulos attended along with other prominent journalists, including Katie Couric and Charlie Rose.
Then there's CNN, where Dan Rather used to regularly appear on a show called Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter, the media reporter who once ran an entire segment on Donald Trump's typos. Rather was a longtime CBS News anchor until his abrupt termination in 2006 after reporting a false story about then-president George W. Bush's service record in the National Guard. Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as a commentator earlier this year despite announcing his "last day" at the network in 2022. He is best known for masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues, as well as for sleeping with his coworker's daughter and then pressuring her to have an abortion.
These are the people who are mad at NBC News for hiring a Republican. They still can't figure out why most Americans don't trust journalists to tell the truth. They don't deserve to be taken seriously. They are full of shit.
Remember that Ronna is not a fire-breathing right winger. She is Ronna McRomney, the peacemaker in the Republican Party.
I never knew I liked her until I saw the uproar.
Free Beacon compiles a list of things that didn't offend the same parties.
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What in the Actual F— Is Wrong With These People? (NBC News Edition)
Andrew Stiles
March 25, 2024
We regret to inform you that America's journalists are in the midst of another temper tantrum. This one is in response to NBC News's decision to hire former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor. The network's own employees are in open revolt, incensed at the prospect of having to share screen time with a Republican who hasn't completely disavowed Donald Trump.
NBC chief political analyst Chuck Todd, a former Democratic campaign aide, slammed NBC executives for hiring someone with "credibility issues" and a history of "gaslighting." Democratic scion Mika Brzezinski urged the network to "reconsider its decision." Host Kristen Welker issued a trigger warning over the weekend before airing her interview with McDaniel on Meet the Press. Nicolle Wallace read a passage from a book about tyranny and bemoaned the degradation of "our sacred airwaves."
It wouldn't be the first time so-called mainstream journalists have revealed themselves to be hopelessly out of touch with the average Americans they claim to care about. The partisan tantrum over McDaniel's hiring suggests they are incapable of self-awareness.
Perhaps we can look forward to further discussion of this "scandal" on Inside with Jen Psaki, the MSNBC weekend show hosted by the former press secretary to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Psaki could invite MSNBC contributor Robert Gibbs, another Obama press secretary, to share his thoughts on the matter. In the following segment, MSNBC contributor Ben Rhodes, the former Obama national security adviser who bragged about manipulating "clueless" reporters, could explain why McDaniel's hiring is good for Iran.
Better yet, MSNBC host Joy Reid could deliver an unhinged monologue denouncing the network for endorsing "white supremacy." Reid was promoted in 2020 to fill the time slot vacated by Chris Matthews, the former Democratic aide who argued it was racist to refer to Barack Obama as "Obama." Matthews resigned abruptly after being accused of sexual harassment, whereas Reid did not resign after online sleuths uncovered bigoted posts on her old blog. She blamed it on hackers. (It wasn't hackers.) She got promoted anyway.
Reid could continue the conversation with MSNBC political analyst Al Sharpton, the formerly obese racial agitator who instigated deadly anti-Semitic riots in New York City during the 1990s. Sharpton continues to use his platform on MSNBC to sow racial division. For example, he argued that criticizing Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned in disgrace earlier this year amid a flurry of scandals involving serial plagiarism and anti-Semitism on campus, was "an attack on every black woman in this country."
This is the same network that hired Martin Bashir, who compared criticizing the IRS to using the n-word and ultimately resigned after inviting his viewers to defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth. This is the network that employed Melissa Harris-Perry, best known for making fun of Mitt Romney's adopted black grandchild, and Ed Schultz, best known for calling Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," and Brian Williams, best known for lying about coming under fire in Iraq, and Touré Neblett, a 9/11 truther accused of sexual harassment who suggested Holocaust survivors benefited from "the power of whiteness." The less said about former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann the better.
This is the network that could have broken the story of Harvey Weinstein's long history of sexual misconduct in 2017. Alas, reporter Ronan Farrow said NBC stonewalled his investigation after Weinstein leveraged his Democratic political connections and threatened to expose Today anchor Matt Lauer's own history of sexual misconduct. Farrow gave up on NBC, published his story in the New Yorker, and won the Pulitzer Prize.
NBC is hardly unique among so-called mainstream media networks. The top journalist at ABC News is George Stephanopoulos, who served as White House communications director under Bill Clinton and was exposed by the Washington Free Beacon for failing to disclose his $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation while reporting on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2015. The network's longtime investigative journalist, Brian Ross, was eventually forced out after reporting a false story about Donald Trump in 2018. Ross won several journalism awards in 2012, the same year he baselessly accused a Tea Party member of committing a mass shooting in Colorado.
ABC News anchor Amy Robach complained in 2019 that the network refused to air her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers in part because it involved Prince Andrew and the network was worried about losing access to the British royal family. On a related note, Epstein threw a dinner party for Prince Andrew in 2010 following Epstein's release from prison for sex crimes. Stephanopoulos attended along with other prominent journalists, including Katie Couric and Charlie Rose.
Then there's CNN, where Dan Rather used to regularly appear on a show called Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter, the media reporter who once ran an entire segment on Donald Trump's typos. Rather was a longtime CBS News anchor until his abrupt termination in 2006 after reporting a false story about then-president George W. Bush's service record in the National Guard. Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as a commentator earlier this year despite announcing his "last day" at the network in 2022. He is best known for masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues, as well as for sleeping with his coworker's daughter and then pressuring her to have an abortion.
These are the people who are mad at NBC News for hiring a Republican. They still can't figure out why most Americans don't trust journalists to tell the truth. They don't deserve to be taken seriously. They are full of shit.
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Politics & Religion / Re: State Farm to drop 72 K CA Homeowner Policies
« on: March 26, 2024, 03:18:31 AM »
"Unaware of the irony, CA insurance commission says they plan to investigate:"
- this says it all, although unaware dramatically understates their hostility to the freedom required in the concept of forming private contracts. How can you have consenting parties, essential element of a contract, if the parties don't have the right to not consent?
And they would argue back to me, without using the f word, doug, welcome to california, what is it you don't understand about fascism?
- this says it all, although unaware dramatically understates their hostility to the freedom required in the concept of forming private contracts. How can you have consenting parties, essential element of a contract, if the parties don't have the right to not consent?
And they would argue back to me, without using the f word, doug, welcome to california, what is it you don't understand about fascism?
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Taibbi: Freedom of Speech, Government is the most dangerous source of misinfo
« on: March 25, 2024, 12:54:43 PM »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkoAn9x4-JM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt
Column on video avoids the pay wall.
Government is the most dangerous form of misinformation.
Matt Taibbi discusses the Murthy case and his experience with government misinformation and government quashed dissent speech.
Unless I'm missing something, I can't believe this case isn't an easy call for every constitution based Justice.
Column on video avoids the pay wall.
Government is the most dangerous form of misinformation.
Matt Taibbi discusses the Murthy case and his experience with government misinformation and government quashed dissent speech.
Unless I'm missing something, I can't believe this case isn't an easy call for every constitution based Justice.
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Politics & Religion / Chuck Todd ballistic over Ronna McDaniel
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:50:58 AM »
https://twitter.com/Mike_Hixenbaugh/status/1771915375501860980/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1771915375501860980¤tTweetUser=Mike_Hixenbaugh
What a bunch of BS.
Here is the full video:
https://youtu.be/sQRX5LqCqoc?si=PTw_CoS2tVSjMcYk
Is it an interview or a debate? Kristen is so mean and bullying. Ronna comes across as very reasonable. Keeps pushing forward when she can but keeps getting shouted down and interrupted.
Meet the press, a great American institution, has been destroyed. Completely unwatchable.
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Morning Joe, a threat to our narrative :
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2024/03/25/morning-joe-nbc-fire-ronna-mcdaniel-well-never-have-her-show
What a bunch of BS.
Here is the full video:
https://youtu.be/sQRX5LqCqoc?si=PTw_CoS2tVSjMcYk
Is it an interview or a debate? Kristen is so mean and bullying. Ronna comes across as very reasonable. Keeps pushing forward when she can but keeps getting shouted down and interrupted.
Meet the press, a great American institution, has been destroyed. Completely unwatchable.
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Morning Joe, a threat to our narrative :
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2024/03/25/morning-joe-nbc-fire-ronna-mcdaniel-well-never-have-her-show
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Politics & Religion / David Brooks tries to explain Hamas war to NYT readers
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:38:46 AM »
https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Fopinion%2Fgaza-israel-war.html
Hopefully this link gets around the pay wall.
Brooks goes to great research and great effort to explain what is readily obvious to us. There is no alternative and there is no easy way to defeating Hamas.
I can't get into the thousands of comments but I imagine their readership is appalled.
Hopefully this link gets around the pay wall.
Brooks goes to great research and great effort to explain what is readily obvious to us. There is no alternative and there is no easy way to defeating Hamas.
I can't get into the thousands of comments but I imagine their readership is appalled.
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Politics & Religion / 2024, RFK Jr now hurting Biden, helpingTrump
« on: March 25, 2024, 09:05:56 AM »
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-the-polls-say-today-kennedy-hurts-biden-helps-trump.html
He can't escape that he is a Democrat dissatisfied with the incumbent, as nearly all Democrats should be.
He can't escape that he is a Democrat dissatisfied with the incumbent, as nearly all Democrats should be.
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Politics & Religion / Re: are we already at the peak of the Laffer Curve?
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:27:06 AM »and are tax cuts at this point actually counter productive and will no longer pay for themselves:
https://patriotpost.us/articles/105324-tax-cuts-a-reappraisal-2024-03-20
He makes some good points but misses a few things.
He says 2017-2018 tax rate cuts were unpopular, maybe so, but the voting public trusts Trump more than Biden on the economy by a huge margin, enough to win the election perhaps, and that happens to be what he did to get his results.
Trump tax cuts did pay for themselves. Revenues never dipped. The casual observer misses how profound that effect is. Real incomes had to rise an offsetting amount, and they did! Under Biden, real income fell with spending based inflation.
Author misses the flip side argument of the Laffer curve. He thinks further rate cutting is not helpful, maybe so, but the issue before us is a president and ruling party that wants further rate hikes that will (most likely) bring in no new revenue. Biden will shrink incomes by the proportion of the increases, if not worse. Obama said it to Charlie Gibson, they don't care. The rhetoric is popular with the base, but the economic results of stagnation recession are not popular with anyone. If he really wanted to raise rates, why didn't he do it while he controlled all the levers of government? Even Biden's leftist guides knew what that would do to the economy.
Author misses the point of who pays the corporate tax. People noticed they benefitted but not necessarily how or why. Repatriating a trillion dollars is a lot of productive investment, benefitting those who want to work.
This is when black unemployment fell to record lows and Hispanic incomes rose to record highs. Not because they own a lot of big corporations but because we are an interconnected economy.
Without investment, the job market sucks.
Author worries about inequality and fairness but the rich already pay most of the (direct) taxes. The other 40% pay indirectly.
Our problem today is with spending.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Terror Cells here in America, Kurt Schlichter, the attack
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:40:28 AM »
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/03/25/america-is-going-to-be-targeted-for-a-massive-terrorist-attack-will-you-be-ready-n2636901
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Kurt says buy arms, train, carry. The attack is coming.
I hate being right but an open border means Islamic terror is walking right in, the ones who aren't already here, (along with Chinese espionage and migrants pursuing free stuff). Kurt makes same point.
Oct 7 is the model. Even if Russia was false flag, and now France is on highest alert for terror.
I don't think I will be at the venues where this is coming, but his advice is right. Active shooter doesn't like someone shooting back.
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Kurt says buy arms, train, carry. The attack is coming.
I hate being right but an open border means Islamic terror is walking right in, the ones who aren't already here, (along with Chinese espionage and migrants pursuing free stuff). Kurt makes same point.
Oct 7 is the model. Even if Russia was false flag, and now France is on highest alert for terror.
I don't think I will be at the venues where this is coming, but his advice is right. Active shooter doesn't like someone shooting back.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Gasparov
« on: March 25, 2024, 07:20:53 AM »
Very interesting. I had not thought of that.
Is Putin THAT evil? - yes
One thing is certain . The shooters didn't risk having armed citizens shooting back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_Russia#:~:text=Originally%2C%20handguns%20were%20only%20used,be%20concealed%20carry%20in%20public.
Is Putin THAT evil? - yes
One thing is certain . The shooters didn't risk having armed citizens shooting back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control_in_Russia#:~:text=Originally%2C%20handguns%20were%20only%20used,be%20concealed%20carry%20in%20public.
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Politics & Religion / 2024, Sasha Stone, why Trump is leading, why Biden is losing
« on: March 25, 2024, 06:40:13 AM »119
Politics & Religion / Spending, where does the money go?
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:38:27 PM »
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/watch-illegal-alien-lists-all-things-new-york/
Free Hotel, free breakfast, free lunch, free dinner, free smartphone, free healthcare, free lawyers, I might want to try leaving and coming back in.
Can you see how this drives up the cost for everyone else?
(Recording is in Spanish.)
Free Hotel, free breakfast, free lunch, free dinner, free smartphone, free healthcare, free lawyers, I might want to try leaving and coming back in.
Can you see how this drives up the cost for everyone else?
(Recording is in Spanish.)
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Politics & Religion / Re: Abortion & Life
« on: March 24, 2024, 06:06:34 PM »
I thought our position was, it should be left to the states.
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Politics & Religion / Joe's new budget, Federal spending is 57,000 per household
« on: March 24, 2024, 11:37:50 AM »
Joe's new "budget" is 7.3T.
Roughly 130 million households in US.
Federal spending is 57,000 per household.
Are you getting your share?
Revenues are at about $5T.
Isn't it a stretch to even call this a "budget"?
How do we get through to people that government spending IS a tax. It takes resources out of the private productive economy in much the same way taxes do, and drives up the cost of everything.
Roughly 130 million households in US.
Federal spending is 57,000 per household.
Are you getting your share?
Revenues are at about $5T.
Isn't it a stretch to even call this a "budget"?
How do we get through to people that government spending IS a tax. It takes resources out of the private productive economy in much the same way taxes do, and drives up the cost of everything.
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Politics & Religion / Re: VICE: dark side of the 90's : Rush Limbaugh
« on: March 24, 2024, 11:15:54 AM »
Rush Limbaugh spoke the truth better than perhaps anyone in the history of western civilization media .
Doesn't everyone have "talent on loan from God? Yet that is their first hit on him.
I've had very little interest in radio since he died. The signal to noise ratio is way too low, and most of the hosts don't know more than we do.
Doesn't everyone have "talent on loan from God? Yet that is their first hit on him.
I've had very little interest in radio since he died. The signal to noise ratio is way too low, and most of the hosts don't know more than we do.
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Pathological Science, 'carbon free' wind energy
« on: March 24, 2024, 10:55:39 AM »
Why wouldn't we just harness the wind more widely and have zero carbon emissions?
Of course we know it takes all these trucks full of diesel (and ships) to transport each part of the turbine to it's destination.
What is never mentioned is the concrete required.
Manufacturing a cubic yard of traditional concrete emits about 400 pounds of carbon dioxide,
https://www.machinerypartner.com/blog/concrete-is-one-of-the-biggest-contributors-to-carbon-emissions-new-technologies-could-change-that
The footings are 9 feet thick and 60 feet in diameter and require 30 to 40 truckloads of concrete – about 300 cubic yards. Each footing weighs about 2 million pounds and is not removed from the soil when a turbine tower is decommissioned.
https://www.windsystemsmag.com/cutting-the-concrete/#:~:text=The%20footings%20are%209%20feet,concrete%20%E2%80%93%20about%20300%20cubic%20yards.
40 truckload, 2 million pounds of concrete per turbine delivered to rural areas, all transported by EVs is still a massive amount of CO2, times 80,000 wind turbines s far, https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-turbines-are-contained-us-wind-turbine-database?items_per_page=6#:~:text=As%20of%20January%202022%2C%20the,plus%20Puerto%20Rico%20and%20Guam).
All this to supply less than 4% of our total energy usage.
And for every mW of wind capacity, one mW of gas or coal generating capacity is required for those times (70% of the time?) when the wind doesn't blow.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-638/the-economics-of-wind-power/#:~:text=A%20typical%20wind%20farm%20would,times%20when%20electricity%20is%20needed.
The more we build solar and wind versus other 'carbon free' sources such as nuclear, the more we are committed permanently (?) to oil, coal and gas. Who knew? Follow the money.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/oil-companies-renewable-energy/
Of course we know it takes all these trucks full of diesel (and ships) to transport each part of the turbine to it's destination.
What is never mentioned is the concrete required.
Manufacturing a cubic yard of traditional concrete emits about 400 pounds of carbon dioxide,
https://www.machinerypartner.com/blog/concrete-is-one-of-the-biggest-contributors-to-carbon-emissions-new-technologies-could-change-that
The footings are 9 feet thick and 60 feet in diameter and require 30 to 40 truckloads of concrete – about 300 cubic yards. Each footing weighs about 2 million pounds and is not removed from the soil when a turbine tower is decommissioned.
https://www.windsystemsmag.com/cutting-the-concrete/#:~:text=The%20footings%20are%209%20feet,concrete%20%E2%80%93%20about%20300%20cubic%20yards.
40 truckload, 2 million pounds of concrete per turbine delivered to rural areas, all transported by EVs is still a massive amount of CO2, times 80,000 wind turbines s far, https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-turbines-are-contained-us-wind-turbine-database?items_per_page=6#:~:text=As%20of%20January%202022%2C%20the,plus%20Puerto%20Rico%20and%20Guam).
All this to supply less than 4% of our total energy usage.
And for every mW of wind capacity, one mW of gas or coal generating capacity is required for those times (70% of the time?) when the wind doesn't blow.
https://www.ans.org/news/article-638/the-economics-of-wind-power/#:~:text=A%20typical%20wind%20farm%20would,times%20when%20electricity%20is%20needed.
The more we build solar and wind versus other 'carbon free' sources such as nuclear, the more we are committed permanently (?) to oil, coal and gas. Who knew? Follow the money.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/oil-companies-renewable-energy/
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Politics & Religion / Re: state tax incentives for Hollywood
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:55:32 AM »https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/03/24/hollywood-studios-reap-25-billion-from-states-film-tax-credits-taxpayers-see-massive-losses/
claims local economies lose money and negative ROI
governments lose 100% get back ~ 20%.
what a joke
It also happens to be the exact opposite of equal protection under the law.
And tax cuts fot the wealthy that they rail against all the rest of the time.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Heatlh Risks with Marijuana
« on: March 23, 2024, 02:03:34 PM »
"I wonder if data would be different with edibles."
I don't know the answer to this and I haven't seen that it has been studied well. But THC elevates blood pressure and heart rate, so edibles definitely have some effect without inhaling smoke. Also very easy to ingest more than the intended amount with edibles.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461323/#:~:text=THC%20causes%20an%20acute%2C%20dose,and%20heart%20rate%20(HR).&text=Due%20to%20a%20quickly%20developing,usage%20frequency%20are%20commonly%20observed.
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"Even 1 Joint per Week Enough to Boost Heart Disease Risk"
What a strange metric, even one joint a week. According to the internet, one joint can equal 35 or more hits, where two or three small puffs ought to be enough for a casual user get the effect. At least that's what I hear the other kids say.
https://leafnation.com/cannabis/how-much-thc-is-in-a-joint/#How_Many_Hits_Do_You_Get_In_a_Joint
A casual user would not sit down once a week and have 20 times the needed dosage, IMHO, at least not intentionally.
I don't know the answer to this and I haven't seen that it has been studied well. But THC elevates blood pressure and heart rate, so edibles definitely have some effect without inhaling smoke. Also very easy to ingest more than the intended amount with edibles.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461323/#:~:text=THC%20causes%20an%20acute%2C%20dose,and%20heart%20rate%20(HR).&text=Due%20to%20a%20quickly%20developing,usage%20frequency%20are%20commonly%20observed.
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"Even 1 Joint per Week Enough to Boost Heart Disease Risk"
What a strange metric, even one joint a week. According to the internet, one joint can equal 35 or more hits, where two or three small puffs ought to be enough for a casual user get the effect. At least that's what I hear the other kids say.
https://leafnation.com/cannabis/how-much-thc-is-in-a-joint/#How_Many_Hits_Do_You_Get_In_a_Joint
A casual user would not sit down once a week and have 20 times the needed dosage, IMHO, at least not intentionally.
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Politics & Religion / Re: The Queering of Public Schools
« on: March 21, 2024, 08:26:20 PM »
"However, I doubt the 10%+ figure banded"
I believe a 2% estimate stood the test of time pretty well before the more recent efforts to promote it.
I believe a 2% estimate stood the test of time pretty well before the more recent efforts to promote it.
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / First Amendment, Murthy continued
« on: March 21, 2024, 07:54:19 AM »
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed concern that the First Amendment is “hamstringing the government in significant ways, in the most important time periods.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/censorship_is_a_deadend_road.html
"Reserving free expression and vigorous public debate for times of civil peace and relative social unity is like protecting a person’s Second Amendment right to own a gun only when his life is not threatened. "
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/censorship_is_a_deadend_road.html
"Reserving free expression and vigorous public debate for times of civil peace and relative social unity is like protecting a person’s Second Amendment right to own a gun only when his life is not threatened. "
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Politics & Religion / Re: The US Congress; Congressional races
« on: March 21, 2024, 04:55:27 AM »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/larry-hogan-leads-democratic-senate-hopefuls-by-double-digits-in-maryland/ar-BB1kePfg
This will be as helpful to Republicans as Joe Manchin was to the Democrats.
This will be as helpful to Republicans as Joe Manchin was to the Democrats.
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Politics & Religion / 71% of Palestinians support the massacre
« on: March 20, 2024, 09:40:02 PM »
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387091
71% of Palestinians support the massacre
93% do not believe terror organization committed war crimes.
I won't write on the internet where I think these people should be resettled.
71% of Palestinians support the massacre
93% do not believe terror organization committed war crimes.
I won't write on the internet where I think these people should be resettled.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Peter Schweizer on Newt Gingrich podcast
« on: March 20, 2024, 07:25:42 AM »discussing his book 'Blood Money'
very interesting and important
China's ongoing war with the US including their cognitive warfare:
~ 35 minutes long.
https://www.gingrich360.com/2024/03/17/newts-world-episode-674-peter-schweizer-on-blood-money/
Thanks for posting this. Excellent research and analysis. Frightening content and conclusions.
Time permitting, would like to discuss this point by point. So many important points made! Hope to come back to it soon.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Questions for Ya
« on: March 17, 2024, 09:52:07 AM »
"since China cannot fight a two front war with both Taiwan and India, India is likely to make its move for POK while China is distracted."
- This is an important deterrent keeping or slowing China from taking Taiwan.
Maybe in a Trump second term the US will appreciate the value of having India as an ally.
- This is an important deterrent keeping or slowing China from taking Taiwan.
Maybe in a Trump second term the US will appreciate the value of having India as an ally.
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Politics & Religion / Re: RFK Jr. to pick money, ex-wife of Google founder
« on: March 17, 2024, 09:15:32 AM »
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-nicole-shanahan-vp-pick/
She paid for his Super Bowl ad.
She is known for herexpertise in economics, foreign policy money.
We'll see. He floats a new name quite often.
She paid for his Super Bowl ad.
She is known for her
We'll see. He floats a new name quite often.
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Politics & Religion / the Corvette Papers, Slow Joe Rambles on about documents
« on: March 17, 2024, 09:06:06 AM »
Andy McCarthy: Everybody (who votes) should read the Hur-Biden Interview.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/03/every-american-should-read-bidens-interview-by-special-counsel-hur/
Unbelievable.
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“Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked”:
On page 55 of the transcript, Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked.
The president began by recounting that “I was the guy who wrote the Violence Against Women Act”; that agriculture is “a $4 billion industry in Delaware and the Delmarva peninsula”; that in a law-school torts class he was applauded for speaking ten minutes about a case he had not read; that “to make a long story short” he got a job out of law school at a firm in Delaware; and that “to make a long story not quite so long” he participated in a case while he was waiting for his bar results involving “this poor kid [who was] down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside” but “was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he —a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.” The senior partner told Biden to write a memo supporting a motion to dismiss the case, “and son of a bitch, it prevailed,” whereupon Biden thought “son of a bitch I’m in the wrong business, I’m not made for this.”
Thereupon, the senior partner invited him to go to the Wilmington Club, where “no blacks, Catholics are allowed — have been allowed to be members. The DuPont family name.” (Biden elsewhere in the seven pages repeatedly refers to the DuPont family, whom he describes as “Rockefeller Republicans” highly influential in Delaware.) Biden recalled being so taken aback by the Wilmington Club invitation that, in “the only time I ever lied that I can remember looking somebody in the eye,” he made up a story that his father was coming to visit that day. Then he immediately walked through “the basement on a public building and walked in with a guy named Frank and I said I want a job as a public defender.” This began “what got me — I had been involved in the civil-rights movement. That got me deeply involved in trying to reform the Democratic Party, which was a southern Democratic Party. We were a slave state by law.”
“And the whole point of telling you all this,” he continued, “is that I had a lot of material that I kept notes on” about the Democratic Party. And at that point, when he was 26 or 27 years old, Biden elaborated, “I went to work part time for a criminal-defense firm mainly, a real estate — there were five people. And so I was no longer a public defender. . . .” Then “one thing led to another” and Biden joined a group seeking to reform the Democratic Party. Even though he was young, they wanted him to run for the state senate. But he wanted to start his own law firm instead. “So to make a long story short,” he ended up running for county council, but “wanted to be sure that I was going to lose,” so he ran in a district that no Democrat had ever won. “And I won it. And next thing you know, I’m in a tough position. My generic point was that there was a lot of material that I had amassed that I wanted to save. I probably still have it somewhere. And so that stuff would travel wherever the hell I was.”
McCarthy concludes with these observations:
Events in his telling are conflated and collapse into nonsense; he lapses into incoherence and often cannot recall and relate basic information.
Biden is asking Americans to elect him president for another four-year term, at the end of which he will be 86 and four years older than the senescent man who answered special counsel Hur’s questions in October.
So please, read the transcript, but not for what it says about Biden’s carelessness regarding the nation’s secrets. Instead, read it and ask yourself whether he should be president right now, let alone for the next five years.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/biden-unplugged.php
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/03/every-american-should-read-bidens-interview-by-special-counsel-hur/
Unbelievable.
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“Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked”:
On page 55 of the transcript, Hur asks Biden in what workspaces he kept documents at the vice president’s residence (the Naval Observatory); Biden’s response runs seven pages — although it was not a sensible response to the very simple question asked.
The president began by recounting that “I was the guy who wrote the Violence Against Women Act”; that agriculture is “a $4 billion industry in Delaware and the Delmarva peninsula”; that in a law-school torts class he was applauded for speaking ten minutes about a case he had not read; that “to make a long story short” he got a job out of law school at a firm in Delaware; and that “to make a long story not quite so long” he participated in a case while he was waiting for his bar results involving “this poor kid [who was] down a hundred-foot vessel, chimney, scraping the hydrogen bubbles off of the inside” but “was wearing the wrong pants, wrong jeans, and he —a spark caught fire and got caught in the containment vessel and he lost part of his penis and one of his testicles and he was 23 years old.” The senior partner told Biden to write a memo supporting a motion to dismiss the case, “and son of a bitch, it prevailed,” whereupon Biden thought “son of a bitch I’m in the wrong business, I’m not made for this.”
Thereupon, the senior partner invited him to go to the Wilmington Club, where “no blacks, Catholics are allowed — have been allowed to be members. The DuPont family name.” (Biden elsewhere in the seven pages repeatedly refers to the DuPont family, whom he describes as “Rockefeller Republicans” highly influential in Delaware.) Biden recalled being so taken aback by the Wilmington Club invitation that, in “the only time I ever lied that I can remember looking somebody in the eye,” he made up a story that his father was coming to visit that day. Then he immediately walked through “the basement on a public building and walked in with a guy named Frank and I said I want a job as a public defender.” This began “what got me — I had been involved in the civil-rights movement. That got me deeply involved in trying to reform the Democratic Party, which was a southern Democratic Party. We were a slave state by law.”
“And the whole point of telling you all this,” he continued, “is that I had a lot of material that I kept notes on” about the Democratic Party. And at that point, when he was 26 or 27 years old, Biden elaborated, “I went to work part time for a criminal-defense firm mainly, a real estate — there were five people. And so I was no longer a public defender. . . .” Then “one thing led to another” and Biden joined a group seeking to reform the Democratic Party. Even though he was young, they wanted him to run for the state senate. But he wanted to start his own law firm instead. “So to make a long story short,” he ended up running for county council, but “wanted to be sure that I was going to lose,” so he ran in a district that no Democrat had ever won. “And I won it. And next thing you know, I’m in a tough position. My generic point was that there was a lot of material that I had amassed that I wanted to save. I probably still have it somewhere. And so that stuff would travel wherever the hell I was.”
McCarthy concludes with these observations:
Events in his telling are conflated and collapse into nonsense; he lapses into incoherence and often cannot recall and relate basic information.
Biden is asking Americans to elect him president for another four-year term, at the end of which he will be 86 and four years older than the senescent man who answered special counsel Hur’s questions in October.
So please, read the transcript, but not for what it says about Biden’s carelessness regarding the nation’s secrets. Instead, read it and ask yourself whether he should be president right now, let alone for the next five years.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/biden-unplugged.php
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Politics & Religion / Re: India/Indian Ocean (and India-afpakia and India-China)
« on: March 17, 2024, 08:13:09 AM »
I love the India region updates from ya. It is SO underreported in American media.
Weird (to us) in the era or Biden, Schumer, Pelosi et al to see a leader want to build up the strength of his own country, economy and military readiness.
Meanwhile we apologize for and dismantle our own.
Weird (to us) in the era or Biden, Schumer, Pelosi et al to see a leader want to build up the strength of his own country, economy and military readiness.
Meanwhile we apologize for and dismantle our own.
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Politics & Religion / 2024, No State of the Union bump for Biden
« on: March 17, 2024, 08:04:28 AM »
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4528659-biden-sees-no-polling-bump-after-state-of-the-union/
They want to tell us his only problem is he's old, but he is measurably on the wrong side of polling on almost every major issue.
We expected a lethargic, slurring Biden at the SOTU and we got an 'amped up' President, slurring with high energy and anger. Doesn't that solve the age issue? Guess not. No bump.
Why not? High energy Joe doesn't make inflation go away or world peace come back. It doesn't close the border or remove the crime from the streets. His problem never was that he is old; his problem is that he is wrong.
Plus he is unlistenable, negating the whole advantage of a 'bully pulpit'. If anything, he IS the bully, siccing lawfare on his opponents and labeling everyone who disagrees with him an extremist. Using agencies and surrogates to destroy them while he hides behind the curtain.
Funny it was Democrats who sell youthfulness and vigor as important qualities for leading the country when they think it favors them, cf. Kennedy, Clinton. An old guy was promised to be a one term bridge to the next leadership, until he wasn't.
Joe's angry tone is more suited for a challenger (as he was last time) than an incumbent. But old dog can't learn new trick. Why is he mad at us? He's the one f*cking everything up.
Out of this, he handed Trump his best line yet: (paraphrase?)
'An angry Joe Biden shouldn't be shouting at America. An angry America should be shouting at Joe Biden'.
As Joe tries to 'amp up' his campaign more and more, the line becomes more lasting and persuasive.
They want to tell us his only problem is he's old, but he is measurably on the wrong side of polling on almost every major issue.
We expected a lethargic, slurring Biden at the SOTU and we got an 'amped up' President, slurring with high energy and anger. Doesn't that solve the age issue? Guess not. No bump.
Why not? High energy Joe doesn't make inflation go away or world peace come back. It doesn't close the border or remove the crime from the streets. His problem never was that he is old; his problem is that he is wrong.
Plus he is unlistenable, negating the whole advantage of a 'bully pulpit'. If anything, he IS the bully, siccing lawfare on his opponents and labeling everyone who disagrees with him an extremist. Using agencies and surrogates to destroy them while he hides behind the curtain.
Funny it was Democrats who sell youthfulness and vigor as important qualities for leading the country when they think it favors them, cf. Kennedy, Clinton. An old guy was promised to be a one term bridge to the next leadership, until he wasn't.
Joe's angry tone is more suited for a challenger (as he was last time) than an incumbent. But old dog can't learn new trick. Why is he mad at us? He's the one f*cking everything up.
Out of this, he handed Trump his best line yet: (paraphrase?)
'An angry Joe Biden shouldn't be shouting at America. An angry America should be shouting at Joe Biden'.
As Joe tries to 'amp up' his campaign more and more, the line becomes more lasting and persuasive.
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Re: I Must Have Missed the Memo, (climate 'science')
« on: March 17, 2024, 07:34:00 AM »
Great points made. Pointing out facts on the other side of an argument is not some great conspiracy, it's due diligence they should have done before ramming solutions down our throats with government mandates and coercion.
Why do we compare the amount warmed with a little Ice Age, an abnormal time? Why not compare with a time when they named Greenland 'Greenland'?
Doesn't fit the narrative. But it isn't science when you pick data that only advance your agenda. What about Inconvenient Truths?
Even if it was a great solution, how do you build, transport, install wind turbines without using fossil fuels? Did anyone on the Left ever think about that?
I live in a cold climate, left leaning state. The idea of taking away natural gas from our pipelines right now has not been fully thought through. When I have a tenant's furnace or boiler go out, it is a life-threatening, end of the world situation (to them) even if I bring them electric heaters to use until the problem is fixed. Same people vote for representatives who want to take away natural gas furnaces. Good grief.
The switch from coal to natural gas accounts for nearly all of the progress we've made on CO2 emissions. Do we celebrate that as progress? No. We celebrate the things that are not making a measurable difference and will never solve the problem.
Why do we compare the amount warmed with a little Ice Age, an abnormal time? Why not compare with a time when they named Greenland 'Greenland'?
Doesn't fit the narrative. But it isn't science when you pick data that only advance your agenda. What about Inconvenient Truths?
Even if it was a great solution, how do you build, transport, install wind turbines without using fossil fuels? Did anyone on the Left ever think about that?
I live in a cold climate, left leaning state. The idea of taking away natural gas from our pipelines right now has not been fully thought through. When I have a tenant's furnace or boiler go out, it is a life-threatening, end of the world situation (to them) even if I bring them electric heaters to use until the problem is fixed. Same people vote for representatives who want to take away natural gas furnaces. Good grief.
The switch from coal to natural gas accounts for nearly all of the progress we've made on CO2 emissions. Do we celebrate that as progress? No. We celebrate the things that are not making a measurable difference and will never solve the problem.
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Politics & Religion / Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« on: March 17, 2024, 07:06:20 AM »Our American Creed is in grave danger.
I'm in the middle of listening to something
and would like to take a moment to jot down something that was said for deeper rumination:
a) Lies spread faster than Truth
b) Democracy cannot survive based upon Misinformation and Lies
Seems to me there are some deep implications here.
c) The theoretical super power of democracy is that we can listen to all sides and sort it out while authoritarian societies cannot.
Good points. I would add from where I sit,
1) There seems to be a demand for lies, misinformation, deception, "spin" (on the Left) to promote or back up views that fail without that.
Example, they wanted, needed a distinction between Trump and Biden on classified documents. Trump tried to cover it up, Biden didn't so it's not two systems of justice. But so did Hillary. Bleach Bit. No prosecution.
2) I would add projection as an important tactic in deception. We cover up our deception by accusing you of it.
3) Also 'missing information' is a big part of misinformation. So many examples. Not one Democrat reading the NYT everyday would know that revenues grew when marginal tax rates were cut. Do they know social spending perpetuates poverty? 60 years to study it and still no clue? Not one story. Do they know we spend 40% more than we take in, while they propose to worsen that? Do they know the earth has only warmed by one degree in 100 years? In the scientific scale of degrees Kelvin, that is a 1/287 (0.0035) movement. Hunter's laptop? The checks Joe received? Do they really not know about rape and human trafficking at the cartel controlled border? Two million rapes not mentioned in the SOTU, and then mocked in the response. And on and on.
“Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”
― David Burge
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Politics & Religion / Re: 2024 electoral map
« on: March 16, 2024, 04:35:44 PM »
Polls of course at this point don't matter but Trump is leading in enough States to win the election without the toss-ups of Pennsylvania , Arizona and Wisconsin . This assumes he holds on to his lead in Nevada Michigan and Georgia .
https://archive.is/pbGs4
Per CNN electoral map.
https://archive.is/pbGs4
Per CNN electoral map.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Are the facts alleged here correct?
« on: March 16, 2024, 05:51:28 AM »For some reason I have Paul Craig Roberts mentally filed under the heading of crackpot scumbag, but are his facts here accurate?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/03/14/us-navy-medic-shut-down-for-releasing-unclassified-dod-data-showing-a-937-increase-in-heart-failure-among-vaccinated-us-military-personnel/
Likewise, I was thinking he was someone once great who later renounced supply side economics, but that wasn't it. That was Reagan's budget director. Hard to write off a fact based science. From Wikipedia it was foreign policy where he ventured off but no details there. Was accused of antisemitism by ADL, which might or might not have meaning. I think he wrote something appearing to side with Saddam when I wrote him off but I really can't remember.
On this, he is repeating something out there. Impossible to verify as DOD hides the data.
Mostly a fiction writer now it appears on his website.
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Politics & Religion / The three Senate seats most likely to flip
« on: March 15, 2024, 09:52:46 AM »
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/12/the_10_senate_seats_most_likely_to_flip_150638.html
Nobody knows but Sean Trende is very good at reading past and current polls. Looks like he is only predicting these three to flip. If we only win two of the three, that makes a 51 to 49 senate.
I hate to go further because in his top five is Ted Cruz losing Texas.
Trump has a chance to win. Republicans have a chance to take the senate, barely. That leaves the House which for some reason people think Democrats are about to take over. Republicans need to win all three or this will only be a pause on the road to destruction.
7 months out is too early to give up!
Nobody knows but Sean Trende is very good at reading past and current polls. Looks like he is only predicting these three to flip. If we only win two of the three, that makes a 51 to 49 senate.
I hate to go further because in his top five is Ted Cruz losing Texas.
Trump has a chance to win. Republicans have a chance to take the senate, barely. That leaves the House which for some reason people think Democrats are about to take over. Republicans need to win all three or this will only be a pause on the road to destruction.
7 months out is too early to give up!
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Politics & Religion / 80% of girls women crossing Mexico to US raped, 2014 data
« on: March 15, 2024, 08:58:30 AM »
I am trying to address the SNL skit point that Sen Britt bringing up a brutal rape out of the blue at her kitchen table is funny. Who would ever do that?
Dems say that point is moot because those rapes happened years ago (not under Biden).
But years ago the flow of illegals was small compared to now.
I want to do some math with this but the real question is true or false:
Is systematic rape and human trafficking, sex trafficking a significant part of this southern border flood?
Of course it is.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972
This study says 80% raped. Other studies say 60% raped. Repeatedly raped seems to be a better description from those interviewed.
If 10 million come in under Biden and half are female and half of those are getting raped say an average of twice, isn't that 5 million rapes? Change the assumptions any way you want and it is still MILLIONS OF RAPES.
Now back to Senator Britt. The symbolic point of kitchen table setting combined with national political speech is to bring up the national issues of the day. Border is number one for many, and otherwise certainly top 3 nationally. The human trafficking component of that is numbe one or at least top 3 reasons to address the flow across the border. Millions of rapes is an uncomfortable fact that liberals would be up in arms about if it was happennig in Sudan or Zimbabwe. But here it runs up against political forces, the issue could hurt our guy, and therefore must be kept silent.
Sen Britt put it back in their face. We know this is happening right now, millions of rapes under Bien's failed policies empowering cartels and luring the massive flow.
Hey liberals and Leftists, we on the right want to know why this is political, or humorous. Why are you not outraged? Why don't you want it stopped?
If we cannot come together on this we will defeat you over it because no amount of evasion, diversion or political spin makes what's happening acceptable.
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Secondly, fentanyl is killing millions. "nearly 100,000 Americans who die from fentanyl imported across open borders"
Thirdly, illegals are filling the low end jobs, removing the bottom rung of the economic ladder for the underclass we already have, making them permanent underclass.
If we can't come together on this, we share no common values at all.
Dems say that point is moot because those rapes happened years ago (not under Biden).
But years ago the flow of illegals was small compared to now.
I want to do some math with this but the real question is true or false:
Is systematic rape and human trafficking, sex trafficking a significant part of this southern border flood?
Of course it is.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972
This study says 80% raped. Other studies say 60% raped. Repeatedly raped seems to be a better description from those interviewed.
If 10 million come in under Biden and half are female and half of those are getting raped say an average of twice, isn't that 5 million rapes? Change the assumptions any way you want and it is still MILLIONS OF RAPES.
Now back to Senator Britt. The symbolic point of kitchen table setting combined with national political speech is to bring up the national issues of the day. Border is number one for many, and otherwise certainly top 3 nationally. The human trafficking component of that is numbe one or at least top 3 reasons to address the flow across the border. Millions of rapes is an uncomfortable fact that liberals would be up in arms about if it was happennig in Sudan or Zimbabwe. But here it runs up against political forces, the issue could hurt our guy, and therefore must be kept silent.
Sen Britt put it back in their face. We know this is happening right now, millions of rapes under Bien's failed policies empowering cartels and luring the massive flow.
Hey liberals and Leftists, we on the right want to know why this is political, or humorous. Why are you not outraged? Why don't you want it stopped?
If we cannot come together on this we will defeat you over it because no amount of evasion, diversion or political spin makes what's happening acceptable.
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Secondly, fentanyl is killing millions. "nearly 100,000 Americans who die from fentanyl imported across open borders"
Thirdly, illegals are filling the low end jobs, removing the bottom rung of the economic ladder for the underclass we already have, making them permanent underclass.
If we can't come together on this, we share no common values at all.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Politics by Lawfare, and the Law of War
« on: March 15, 2024, 08:11:40 AM »
"like article said. he has election coming up in Fulton County"
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A friend on the other side said to me regarding Trump's legal battles, "I trust the system. "
I don't. The location and jurisdiction of the prosecutor and jury pool have benn the determinants of outcomes more so than the facts of the cases.
We should have 99+% confidence in our justice system, not 50.
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A friend on the other side said to me regarding Trump's legal battles, "I trust the system. "
I don't. The location and jurisdiction of the prosecutor and jury pool have benn the determinants of outcomes more so than the facts of the cases.
We should have 99+% confidence in our justice system, not 50.
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Politics & Religion / Pres Obama 2009, Can't have half a million (illegals) pouring in
« on: March 14, 2024, 08:53:34 PM »
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-2009-half-a-million-border/
During a speech in 2009, then-U.S. President Barack Obama said, "We can't have half a million people pouring over the border [...].”
Snopes Rating: Correct
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But we can have 20 times that many pour in under Biden.
What changed?
During a speech in 2009, then-U.S. President Barack Obama said, "We can't have half a million people pouring over the border [...].”
Snopes Rating: Correct
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But we can have 20 times that many pour in under Biden.
What changed?
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Politics & Religion / Re: Steve Munchin leading group to buy TikTok
« on: March 14, 2024, 08:08:51 AM »https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/former-treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok/ar-BB1jSR5o?ocid=msedgntphdr&cvid=6e57871ca42d40f9d114cfec89919d12&ei=19
seems like the best solution
if TikTok would sell......
keep millions of TikTok fans happy.
A Trump official buying tiktok. Liberal excrement would hit the fan.
I love the idea. We had no ownership of anything and then twitter goes to Musk and TikTok to Mnuchin. Maybe that would bring Google and Facebook Instagram political influence down a notch. Then they can't all "cover the big stories of the day, with a pillow, until they stop breathing".
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Politics & Religion / Re: Biden’s Budgetary Smoke & Mirrors
« on: March 14, 2024, 08:00:39 AM »
At the heart of their lying is for someone with one year left on a 4 year term to tell us how things will be in 5 years and 10 years. How about fix what you can now and we'll have someone else lead us in 5 or 10 years.
The budget is completely our of control and NOTHING is being cut. If he did cut anything it would be our ability to defend ourselves.
Crafty has been pointing out for years that "baseline" budgeting is the biggest of big government scams. Zero based budgeting is how common sense works. To every agency, show us your positive results. And show us the damage you are doing so we can compare. Show us the difference in positive results for every additional dollar you receive above zero, or zero it is.
Of course it's a political trap. Biden didn't cut the deficit by a trillion. He didn't cut the new budget by anything. Anyone see that in the top line number 7.3T in spending when we are taking in 4.8T in taxes at maxed out rates. But if Trump comes forward with real cuts, watch what happens. Starving the poor and taking Grannie off her meds one more time.
Biden is failing and losing so he goes back to the old play book one more time. These plays got a lot of Democrats elected for a lot of years. Not one new idea in it, just more money for every key interest group and more talk of soaking the rich. How can we oppose that?
We oppose it by pointing out failure after failure.
The budget is completely our of control and NOTHING is being cut. If he did cut anything it would be our ability to defend ourselves.
Crafty has been pointing out for years that "baseline" budgeting is the biggest of big government scams. Zero based budgeting is how common sense works. To every agency, show us your positive results. And show us the damage you are doing so we can compare. Show us the difference in positive results for every additional dollar you receive above zero, or zero it is.
Of course it's a political trap. Biden didn't cut the deficit by a trillion. He didn't cut the new budget by anything. Anyone see that in the top line number 7.3T in spending when we are taking in 4.8T in taxes at maxed out rates. But if Trump comes forward with real cuts, watch what happens. Starving the poor and taking Grannie off her meds one more time.
Biden is failing and losing so he goes back to the old play book one more time. These plays got a lot of Democrats elected for a lot of years. Not one new idea in it, just more money for every key interest group and more talk of soaking the rich. How can we oppose that?
We oppose it by pointing out failure after failure.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Biden admin removes 10 billion sanctions of Iran
« on: March 14, 2024, 07:29:00 AM »https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/03/14/biden-rewards-irans-murder-of-3-us-troops-with-a-cool-10-billion-n4927293
Unless I am missing something (a good reason to do this not reported in the story) the idiocy of this speaks for itself.
The idiocy of this speaks for itself.
For some reason (most) voters of the Left don't see the problem. Being tough on Iran should be a 90-10 issue or 100-0.
Hard to generalize with voter groups but my moderate Dem Jewish friends seem fed up with Biden, though (it appears) they will never come to Trump or to being Republican. And then he is losing Muslim support as well for not going far enough in that direction.
I've been puzzled for years how Jewish Americans and Muslim Americans find a home in the same party. It seems the massacre of Oct 7 has brought this to a head. (Also strange that gay Americans and Muslim Americans find home in the same political party. Am I missing something - or are they?)
No one seems to dispute Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror, even when Obama was sending them planeloads of cash. More money means more sponsoring of terror, and we send them more money. Even if it is 'their' money, assets were frozen for a reason.
Now we know they are sponsors of Oct 7 massacre and sponsors of the war Yemen is launching against commerce. And we send them more money?
It is pure, self destructive idiocy. I'm shocked our leaders come up with these policies. I'm even more shocked and offended that their followers will follow them, apparently anywhere no matter how idiotic or destructive.
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Politics & Religion / Re: Money/inflation, the Fed, Banking, Monetary Policy, Dollar, BTC, crypto, Gold
« on: March 14, 2024, 06:45:44 AM »
BTC 72k is amazing (But nobody says sell).
I was most impressed when it fell from 60 to 20 and then held, went down no more. When it failed to fall further is when neutral skeptics knew it was here to stay and would rise again to higher highs.
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=BITSTAMP%3ABTCUSD
Another indicator that ya and others were right was that gold did not skyrocket with inflation this time.
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-charts/5-year-gold-price-history-in-us-dollars-per-ounce
That tells me something has changed.
If gold is not the hedge, and real estate is loaded with land mines, taxes, regulation, squatting, lawfare, etc., then what is the hedge against governments mismanaging their countries and currencies? I don't know like the volatility of bitcoin but what else is there?
With great upside potential confirmed, the most helpful predictions going forward will be what are the future lows again for buying.
I was most impressed when it fell from 60 to 20 and then held, went down no more. When it failed to fall further is when neutral skeptics knew it was here to stay and would rise again to higher highs.
https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=BITSTAMP%3ABTCUSD
Another indicator that ya and others were right was that gold did not skyrocket with inflation this time.
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-charts/5-year-gold-price-history-in-us-dollars-per-ounce
That tells me something has changed.
If gold is not the hedge, and real estate is loaded with land mines, taxes, regulation, squatting, lawfare, etc., then what is the hedge against governments mismanaging their countries and currencies? I don't know like the volatility of bitcoin but what else is there?
With great upside potential confirmed, the most helpful predictions going forward will be what are the future lows again for buying.
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Politics & Religion / 63% of federal personal income tax revenues went to pay interest only
« on: March 14, 2024, 06:18:28 AM »
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1767626651213426979
This is an amazing number to watch in the next few years. Individual income taxes are about 1/2 of the govt revenue.
For February, the US govt collected $120 billion from individual income taxes. They had to spend $76 billion in February to pay interest on the nation debt.
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
@RealEJAntoni
It took 63% of all personal income taxes in Feb to pay the interest on the debt - no roads, no military, no schools, no social security - JUST INTEREST
This is an amazing number to watch in the next few years. Individual income taxes are about 1/2 of the govt revenue.
For February, the US govt collected $120 billion from individual income taxes. They had to spend $76 billion in February to pay interest on the nation debt.
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
@RealEJAntoni
It took 63% of all personal income taxes in Feb to pay the interest on the debt - no roads, no military, no schools, no social security - JUST INTEREST
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Science, Culture, & Humanities / Re: 21,000 Ft. Motorcycle Altitude Record Set
« on: March 13, 2024, 06:54:58 AM »Those of us that have done a lot of riding can imagine how hairy this could be: 21K ft enduro ride on a single jug Yamaha:
https://gearjunkie.com/motors/adv-motorcycle-altitude-world-record
My house in the mountains of Colorado (built in 1880) is at 10200 ft (highest city in North America) a cold climate so I put in a high efficiency furnace to help get a handle on the heating costs. I had a working furnace fully installed with all the duct work and air supply piping done, and I needed to get back home, but I thought I better just test it once before leaving. Didn't work. Couldn't breathe. Only a heating guy working in that altitude would know you need more than twice the volume of air coming in for the combustion to work at that altitude.
As my daughter deduced in her childhood, if the trees can't breathe above tree line, doesn't that tell us something (about where humans shouldn't ski)?
I can't imagine a motorcycle engine running properly at 21000 ft.
Also, if the driver loses his breath, that's a long way to fall.
The peaks around Leadville are 14k. Highest I've ever been is 13k, a slight hike up from the highest lift is exhausting and skiing down above everything is exhilarating! I can't imagine 21k and I don't plan to try it!
https://www.summitconcierge.com/breckenridge-ski-resort/imperial-express-superchair-breckenridge-colorado-ski-resort_id-203.html