The fall of New York City has been the most heart breaking. That city was built by immigrants coming here trying to do better for themselves. It went through some rough times in the 1970s but its transformation in the 90s is an incredible story thanks to the once greatest police force the world had seen, the NYPD. Statistics are inconvenient now, and despite their efforts being crystal clear as the main factor of the city’s turn around, it’s current leadership can only see what it wants to see.
Bills to change the rules of the senate only need a simple majority, meaning 51 votes. They can use that to change the rules that certain things need 60 votes to pass. At 50/50 Kamala would break the tie. This is why Joe Manchin is the most powerful politician right now in the US
They can use what is reconciliation to not need 60 votes, but it can only be used once a year. Republicans used it in 2017 to pass the tax reform bill.
I am pretty sure nothing in the Paris Agreement is binding, which was a big point Trump made when pointing out China and Russia were making out like bandits. A lot of countries seemed to have promised a status quo. What Obama submitted were promises of ends which he then attempted to proceeded to pursue within the bounds of US law. What he did commit were within the president's power to do so.
TLDR: Paris Agreement isn't a treaty.
It falls under presidential jurisdiction to join such things. Congress can, however, control the spending to programs that could be made from such agreements. And if they require change to US law, those too have to go through congress. You got the alphabet regulatory entities though, but that’s a whole huge can of worms I could go on about. The short of it is they’re used to back door legislate around congress. Things like EPA and FCC. The only say voters get are chairs that are senate approved, but it’s a president appointment and once approved they can’t be removed by anyone else.
Personally I was proud of our country because now every Alzheimer's patient can dream and know it’s possible they too could be president. When they remember they want to be one.
Right now political pressure has more use to the GOP. That will probably come in a few more weeks.
Im not sure about the national average but prices in the 513 have topped out at about where they were max prior to the pandemic. The most I paid for premium fuel the past 5 years was 3.60 a gallon. Last few times wasn’t even over 3.40. There’s quite a few things to complain about Biden but gas prices just isn’t clicking with me. There’s a plethora of factors as to why it’s going up. Cancelling 1 pipeline that wasn’t running, while infuriating for other reasons, had no effect.
When I see the democrat party embrace wokeism all I see is oligarchs nodding and smiling with a contingent of people and using those movements as tools to collect support where they can. It’s the same in the corporate world, and what is interesting, you can see the reactionary response in places like this so clearly. Like when a tweet from Oreo’s PR department said something as non starter as “trans people exist”. Oreo isn’t a person with an opinion. It’s a corporation of a lot of people trying to sell cookies for profit. People on the left are charmed and following the pied piper and people on the right are outraged and in that mess there’s no real political discourse. Elected officials and candidates do the same thing on both sides. Staying grounded in the core of what you believe and why can help see through the smoke screens and misdirection.
My piece of wisdom to offer if you even care to hear is always be willing to change perspective and understand that with time positions that once were once held might stop making sense. Being engaged with what is going on in the world is important, but locking yourself in on one set of standards can be a issue. I’ve been voting since 2004 and not a week has gone by I haven’t tuned into the local AM or caught national commentary on something. Every issue is an opportunity for me to grow, whether to shore up my feelings on a position or to wear the shoe on the other foot and gain better insight. Times wouldn’t be so turbulent if more people approached it this way.
When I was 6 my dad sat me down with his revolver and showed me how it worked from top to bottom. Every time no one was home and I wanted to sneak it out to play with it, I always checked the cylinder to make sure it was empty, and even to this day, even if it’s made clear the gun is empty before I’m handed it, I’ll still check. A lot of gun accidents are preventable by taking the mysticism out of them. Education and familiarity wins the day.
The ships name is ever given.
If you turn onto old 74 off 32 by the speed way you’ll see a home with a big Trump flag under old glory just after the Shayler. There’s a small ranch on 132 before 125 if you’re headed south toward Hamlet with a big Trump train flag. There’s also one near the light on 222 south across from the East Fork entrance. I’ve been keeping track lol
Ohio historically has been a state can go either way. How red Trump made it in 2020 took me by surprise. I live in Batavia about 30 minutes out from Cincinnati and Trump flags and signs are a regular sight.
Walk softly and carry a big stick feels more relevant than ever. One thing either side by the most part seems oblivious to is riling up your opponents can be counter productive. The most current example I can think of is the new round of anti gun rhetoric. Writing bills and threatening executive orders won’t win them 2022 or 2024. Gun control never won any seats to my knowledge.
It’s a catch 22. If you get 100% immunity in your own boarders but everyone around you is still shit and shut down economies halted, commerce isn’t going to be going anywhere fast. Australia has been exporting some of theirs to neighbors for that and a few reasons more. I think it’s a good move in the long run.
Gasoline is already taxed for public roads. EVs don’t buy gas and still use public roads. How about those get taxed first. Stuck up liberals who drive them shouldn’t mind. They bought them for the environment anyway right?
That’s how I feel. It speaks for itself and undercuts any virtue signaling. My heart goes out to victims, but I know to my core to sacrifice the freedom of an entire people for the idea that it might prevent future evil is a far worse price than when these nuts do this sick stuff. I’ll always side with more liberty and freedom than the opposite with the empty promise of safety.
Switch Christian for black Switch Muslim for white
Oh look now it’s a meme about liberals. This is the state of political discourse now. I want out of this hell.
Political grand standing. 2 votes won’t make a lick of difference come voting time but it earns them brownie points with constituents.
Black people who lefties told us hate Trump were incited by his statements about the China virus to attack Asians.
...Righto.
The problem with artificially low rates however is the “cost of money” is nil and when facing a possible inflation monster you want people to sit on their wealth to stabilize the dollar or syphon it out of the system through loan interest. Paul Volcker saved the USA by cutting the money supply and forcing interest rates high to deflate the bubble and strengthen the dollar. It was major pain in the late 70s and early 80s but necessary pain.
It’s too early to start raising rates right now I think. I saw an article that suggested the outlook is for 2023.
As for Tax they can only adjust it with reconciliation unless they get GOP support. It’ll be another necessary step sometime soon because servicing the interest on our debt is going to get tough.
When you print a ton of money the piper will come eventually for payment. I’d rather tax hikes and rising interest rates than having the value of my savings blown out. And dimes to dollars the bulk of the hike won’t mess much with us working stiffs. My only concern is the corporate rate going to an absurd amount once again.
The people getting checks isn’t as damaging as the massive chunk of spending elsewhere. But the money is coming later in tax and interest rate hikes. Inflation is coming. Prepare your finances.
I’m glad he’s running for governor again. One thing I hope Trump does is motivate a ground up retuning of the GOP. If anything I think we have learned in the last month or so it is how important state level governments can be for holding the line as well as having a more direct impact on our personal lives. We need more state officials to be vocal and getting themselves in the news cycle so we can know who we got and what they’re doing.
On my front in Ohio I am watching closely for anyone stepping up to primary DeWine out of office because I’m not thrilled at how he handled the pandemic.