he won most of his states fair and square except for 2 or 3. we'll probably never know which ones; but that's all it took, and democrat governors teed him up pretty nicely crashing their economies with a handful of survivors
hold the governors accountable. the 40-50% of people who were in the middle don't care either way. they voted for "meh this guy is ok" or "idk the other guy might do better"
just about no one is as politically active or informed as the trump base here/kamala fans. everybody else is either getting normie news or going in blind, and the people going in blind are almost certainly better-informed than others who watch/listen to legacy media
nope. biden is your president for the next 4 short years. well- if he survives that long, anyway. after that, turn out and vote. in the meantime, make sure you do your part to ensure that it can't be stolen again. local and state politics are the name of the game if you want to see that change
the moral of this story is actually just not to occupy capitols with bitch-ass pols and their staff who'll whine for years about their harrowing unsolicited encounter with gasp their constituents
leave that shit to antifa
anywhere else is fine
boycotts tend to work on the left, because it is in their nature to destroy
buycotts tend to be more successful on the right, because it is in our nature to build and to manage incentives better
agreed, but it's not the same as voting to convict
i'm from missouri. we went to war with mormons for a reason. js
all they voted for was to go through the motions of the "trial" so that they could cover their asses if they vote not to convict
wow- so feinstein would be a better pro tempore, then? are you nuts? leahy is like the left's mcconnell
poor choice of target with those words
how about- dude is massively old, and we don't live forever
i wish him good health and a speedy recovery. not gonna play the game the left does; it's disgusting, and it's beneath us
hey- i hate to be an asshole, but they're about to twist the rules and just vote on this shit later
it's all so tiresome
here's the basic idea. i'm just trying to imagine a scenario under which the senate actually lets him off the hook without the free publicity of their bloviations/airing of grievances and feigned indignation during the "trial"
i would be very surprised if they actually drop it before the trial. look for crocodile tears and outrage from the usual suspects in the House, and then you'll have soft confirmation that trump won't have to deal with this kangaroo court bullshit
they should go the way of the whigs. can't argue with that, and it would be absolutely fucking hilarious watching the democrats actually defend republicans under those hypothetical circumstances
i want the patriot party. if trump can't/won't do it, who will? this is a serious question, and i'm not trying to be an asshole
please describe the kind of person who could even theoretically pull it off
term limits solves for multiple issues you're describing, and some of them individually at multiple layers of complexity/variable scope
it's imperfect, and you'd get more of the poison before you get the cure, but the government- as has been demonstrated nearly perfectly over the past 11 months- has way more power than the founders ever in their wildest dreams could have imagined—or certainly intended, at any rate. this is one of those things where monopoly is preferable to oligopoly, because with 1 person at least there's a chance they can be sated/bored/hypocritical and do significantly less harm than a sincere fanatic. under oligarchy, there's a less than 0 chance that the established order will ever be satisfied relinquishing control over the affairs of an ordinary person
this is why despair is a sin
once we leave the oppositional 2-party paradigm, eventually, we'll be no better than western democracies—complete with coalition building, a party with 10-15% of the vote running the show, and a direct popular vote for president
good. fucking. luck with that
there are no solutions—only trade-offs
you're both basically correct, but he did objectively and measurably make it a bit worse. he invited outsiders who effectively had the same incentives as their predecessors—albeit a little less skilled at doing us dirty while mostly successfully getting people to lower their pitchforks. so- while they were perhaps marginally less rapacious and corrupt than most who'd been doing it for decades when [their team] had the football, they were still abusing their positions to enrich themselves—not always with money per se, but it was for their personal benefit nonetheless
anyway- introducing a freshman staff of swamp creatures is only a very modest improvement over what we had prior to 2016. he signed that EO limiting their ability to become executive lobbyists later on iirc, but that was 1 small step in the right direction—a step which was suddenly and kinda surprisingly taken back just before he left office (maybe hoping for biden to flip it back idk)
not quite as treacherous or disappointing on a fair comparative basis as reagan's second term, but certainly disappointing nonetheless; and to say that the stakes are much higher this time might be an understatement, especially of the problems he quite meagerly addressed during his first term
i voted for him. i'll happily vote for him again, but he needs to brave those waters a bit more strategically if reelected. it wouldn't take much. legacy media has lost nearly all credibility. Congress is way less popular than trump at his lowest approval during his presidency. people know alphabet soup agencies are up to no good now. they've seen and gotten a good whiff of the corruption on the left. they're starting to get it. do not despair. have faith in God; and do the best you can for yourself, your family, your coworkers, and your community. that's all any of us can do
brave the "dark winter" and prepare for the spring
"oh no- we slit our wrists a little too deep trying to hurt trump! help us"
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if you wait a while, it'll just kind of happen naturally
and by "a while," i mean like 5 years--8 tops
holy jumpin shitballs he looked goofy af when he was younger
you can't exactly "buy and pay for" mr. magoo. now- his inner circle and family? hell yeah, and they did that a long time ago. biden ain't callin the shots. "come on, maaan"
testing biden, tsai, and the rest of the civilized world with a show of force in order to see how we respond, presumably
they stay in my backyard as fertilizer(?)
i wish it was only 35%. literally over 70% 67% of all dollars that have ever been printed/entered circulation were created between Feb2020 and EOY2020
can't wait for that 300% inflation to hit; it has to eventually
it's all so tiresome
audit the fucking Fed
to answer your question directly, though- that plays a part and is de facto built into the price of all goods--whether they're meant for producers or consumers; so the short answer is "yes"
s: i should clarify, and i sort of did with an edit to the first point above. you probably read this somewhere recently. that doesn't exactly tell the whole story. see- with fractional reserve banking, and with loosened liquidity/cash-on-hand requirements for banks in order to remain protected under the FDIC, they can lend out somewhere between 9 and 10x whatever they have in on-the-books deposits. let's walk through a very simple example
most of what mnuchin liked to refer to as a "liquidity injection" went to banks. we'll low ball it and say that only about 7T went to banks, ok? 7/9 * 22% would be 17.1% of all dollars ever printed/created directly by the Fed, but the dirty little secret is- as i mentioned above- fractional reserve banking. and so you have 17.1% of all dollars ever created going to banks with the other 82.9% out there somewhere like domestic accounts, moving around the economy, sitting in crypto, and in off-shore accounts--whatever. that 17.1% is at least nontupled, giving you ~171%. you can see here that the nontupling has caused the original "injection" to automatically be contorted into a value more than double the other 82.9% which was the prior remainder; and so- that total comes out to 253.9(%), where we'll use that % as a unit. 171/253.9 gives you 67.35%, in real terms, and i was off by a little bit but will leave my original claim in strikethrough, of all dollars ever created in the last year alone
pretty fucked up, if you ask me
not so quick there, cowboy
i see that it was super overvalued around the middle of this month, and it seems to be experiencing a correction
if you zoom out to the 3yr chart, i'd say- with nominal CPI inflation- $5 seems about right for between 55 and 70lbs of corn (depends on how processed it is, it looks like)
and if you zoom out to "Max," it went absolutely bonkers in mid-2008 and mid-2012
careful with that. its efficacy would depend largely on who decides what is/n't "stupid"
never liked him
i honestly don't see the appeal