American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

Thanks, Joe, Nancy, Chuck and the Dems.

Number of involuntary part-time workers falls by 707,000, lowest level in 21 years

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/invo...ndroidappshare

Repubs hate that result I highlighted in the report. That's what they mean when they say these Great Dem Economic Expansions and Recoveries from Great Repub Economic Disasters like the current one we are experiencing thanks to Biden and the Dems are "Flaming Dumpster Fires" and ignorant crap like that. LOL.

For Repubs, any labor market and economy that favors the workers instead of the CEOs at the great expense of the workers is terrible and must be turned around ASAP!

George W. Bush apparently hated that outcome in the economy he inherited from Clinton 21 years ago the need to "turn it around" might have been another reason he blew off and utterly ignored the alarming Presidential Daily Briefng regarding Osama Bin Laden's plans for the USA he got that month and did absolutely nothing in response to it. That would have been a typical Repub move.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...sses-midterms/

[PVMonger]

No, that is wrong. It requires more energy to exhale than inhale. Ventilators are used more commonly to assist with getting rid of CO2 than giving oxygen, and you have no clue how ventilators works and what their side effects are.

Oh, it is even worse than that. The first time I saw someone with Covid and hypoxia, I instantly deduced that the projected need for ventilators was way, way overblown. In fact, a lot of the reason that people died was that they were put on ventilators prematurely. The reason I was not militant about not pointing it out was a correction was already under way.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/04/venti...ead-of-better/

But this says a lot about you. You are flogging me, approving of the massive amount of money wasted on ventilator production, and aligning yourself with experts but are clueless to the fact the experts have changed their minds. Your not keeping up is the reason you do not recognize the Fauci follies. In your mind, the thousands of unused ventilators littering warehouses around the country was money well spent as those spending such money had their hearts in the right place.

To me, that is wasted money by pols looking to score points and bash Trump, and all that money spent on useless ventilators could have been used to actually help people. Once more, when I objected to destroying the economy for Covid, that is not to say I want more money in my pocket (though I am not against that) but more money for people who are really sick.

For some boneheaded reason when it comes to Covid and Ukraine, the Democrat response is the first thing that we need to do is to financially slit our wrists to show we care.

It was amazing that a liberal like Taibbi and a conservative like Ben Shapiro completely saw eye to eye on this and in essence were saying the Covid experts were full of shit. Bill Maher did as well but not you PVM. To you, it is we Dems listen to the experts no matter what even after the experts have changed their minds. In your mind, buying all those unused ventilators was sound policy.

The are far more incorrect thoughts in you post than correct one.

Let's first start with "It requires more energy to exhale than inhale." Hogwash. Inhalation is an "active" process whereas "exhalation" is passive. Of course "some" exhalation requires work, like using a spirometer. Here are two articles that don't have too many bigly words in them. Where are your sources, by the way? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_o...k_of_breathing and https://www.nursingtimes.net/clinica...ed-08-01-2018/.

Then let's move on to the fact that you never, not one time, posted any comment on ISG about hypoxia and COVID. I suspect that you cut-and-pasted your comment from somewhere and are tying to rewrite history.

Your final comment is the most puzzling because you seem to be talking out of both sides of your mouth at the same time. You seem to believe that it is OK for experts to change their minds except when it comes to Dr. Fauci. So, which is it? Is it good to be able to change one's mind in the face of new evidence? Or is it bad to change one's mind in the fact of new evidence. If changing one's mind is a good thing, then you unnecessarily bashed Dr. Fauci and all of the experts who changed their minds too. Notwithstanding the fact that people who have a hand in determining public health policy for 360 million Americans have to be far more careful than a doc in an emergency room in East Podunk, Iowa. Or maybe you think that an expert changing their mind is a bad thing. Of course, if that was the case, you'd believe that the earth is the center of the universe and that the moon is made out of green cheese. But someone who believes that Italian satellites changed votes will literally believe anything.

Sheesh.

[EihTooms]

This guy is hilarious. He comes out and says with a seemingly straight face things like "Biden is more lucid and cognitively capable than any Republican president", and "Jimmy Carter was a hugely successful president". I don't know whether it's intentional or not, but either way it makes for some wonderful comedy. Keep it up sir.

The irrefutable data shows Jimmy Carter's average annual jobs creation record was better than any Repub since the 1920's and he, not Reagan, shouldered all the heavy lifting and weathered all the political risk to tame hyper-inflation.

You might hope such a POTUS had to be "hugely successful" in order to kick the shit out of every Repub on those counts since the 1920's. But not really. It turns out all Carter needed to do was simply be a competent POTUS. Yeah, Repub results are that shitty.

Meanwhile, Trump managed to get his butt duly, well and surely Impeached the first time around for trying to blackmail a foreign leader and ally into fabricating dirt on the Dem candidate he feared most and was 100% correct would beat the snot out of him in every debate, even the one he was too much of a coward to attend, and ultimately in the 2020 election.

Do you think Trump did that to his own butt because he and his team had any evidence whatsoever that Biden was too "senile, ill-informed, unprepared and unfit" to compete with him and win?

Lolol.

[Chris P]

Except the Great replacement would only replace us until you are no longer dirt cheap.

Sooner rather than later the invaders would be replaced also.

Why do you think most mexicans in the united states want a big beautiful damn wall, they're not as dum as you.

They don't want any part of the Hunger Games you advocate for.

Yeah that's a really interesting development. Biden / Democrat popularity among Hispanics (or "Latinx" as no Latino has ever called themselves) is cratering. His approval rating among them is 26%. And we've seen a congressional district on the Texas border that had been democrat for over 100 years just turn red.

Most Latinos don't want their towns overrun with useless illegals (mostly young, fighting age men) any more than the rest of us. They're also not big in the woke tranny Globohomo stuff or the economically-destructive climate hysteria (10 years till the end of the world, right AOC? Al Gore already told us Manhattan would be underwater by now).

Even black men are starting to turn away from the democrats and they particularly hate Heels Up Harris (who doesn't?) This is because they know she is a fraud: not even black (she was raised as a Hindu in an Indian family in Canada) she fucked her way up using then discarding black men like Willie Brown (he hates her too) while throwing huge numbers of black men in prison for drug offences while she was using drugs herself.

The way things are going, the only democrat voters left will be angry black women from the ghetto like that BLM leader who just scammed millions of dollars for herself, her family and her babydaddy; and crazed wine-and-SSRI-guzzling childless middle class white catladies.

[Chris P]

If that is true, then I guess they are the same as all the other rats in the USA. They rejoice in benefitting from the opportunity at life in the New World then slam the door shut on any others. Selfish as Hell.

Do you let homeless bums come and live in your house? No? Selfish as Hell.

[Chris P]

Not at all. USA does not have open borders. So to blame it for all the illegal immigrants is plain stupid. USA has tightly closed borders. Tahts why you have illegal immigrants.

Haha! The USA has tightly closed borders! Good one! Oh my aching ribs. Are you Eihtooms in disguise?

You mean the victims of imperialism and capitalism? Of course. Those are the systems that the USA imposes on weaker nations. Therefore it must deal with the consequences. You can't go crying to mama after your actions didn't have the consequences that your shortsighted reasoning lead you to.

In every country, in every system in history, even in the supposed communist utopias beloved of you and your hero Marxist Jew college professor, there are winners and losers. The winners are by and large people with intelligence and industry, who work hard and smart to make something of themselves. These kinds of people don't risk their lives trekking across the Mexican desert.

The losers are by and large stupid and / or lazy, people who drift through life without settling down to any career or long term plan, barely knowing where their next meal is coming from. These are the people with nothing to lose at home but much to gain from Uncle Sam's welfare teat. They're not sending their best.

The USA has the least generous welfare system of any developed nation on Earth. That's (partly) why many people refer to the USA as a failed state.

Then why do they keep pouring in, genius? Welfare which even if less than other developed countries is a lot more than they get back home; anchor babies; and the chance to work off the books tax-free, undercutting and taking jobs away from Americans and revenue away from the IRS (thus further increasing the $30 trillion debt).

[MarquisdeSade1]

A "Marxist Jew". Not sure if he is a Jew, but he is certainly a socialist. Was that supposed to be a reason not to respect his opinion?

I see a problem in our communication. You refer to neo-liberals as "leftists". I call them right wingers. So we have that confusion to overcome.

You seem to confuse causation with correlation. Just bcos events happened concurrently, doesn't mean that one caused the other. There are various reasons why the USA went thru a period of properity prior to the 1970's. From 1820-1970 real wages in the USA rose without much pause due to economic prosperity caused by geographical, geological and political good fortune. It had very little do with sound economic policies. From 1970 to date, real wages have fallen without break.

What caused this change in the 1970's? Various factors worked to reduce real wages:

Prior to WW2, the USA was the New World in its golden age a place of untold and readily available resources, huge expanses of undeveloped land a country that was perfectly positioned to develop and deliver goods to a largely choked and overexploited Europe. Rapid economic expansion and the genocide of the indigenous people meant that there was always high demand for labour, meaning rising wages.

The advent of computers in everyday life meant more automation fewer jobs available.

Aftereffects of WW2 USA didn't enter the war until late and so was largely unaffected. All other super powers were destroyed. This meant USA had a free reign to dominate the world economy, which it did. This was a golden opportunity for the USA, but it was temporary and it changed in the 1960's-70's. Slowly Japan, Germany, later Korea, and now China, rose up to compete against and overcome US industry initially motor vehicles, computers, entertainment systems, now pretty much everything bar war equipment. The US response was to move production overseas and buy imports fewer jobs available.

1970's saw a cultural shift in the role of women. Encouraged to make a career, compete against men, be independent greater demand for jobs.

Due to global competition, foreign policy and imperialist exploitation of poorer nations, cheap labour flooded in to USA greater demand for jobs. It reaps what it sows.

Domestic and international politics are dominated by rich and powerful individuals and corporations the oligarchs. These policies are designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of the weak; it's a systematic exploitation of its own people and those of other nations. This is why we see a neglect of healthcare, of education, of housing, of infrastructure, and a lack of respect to the rights of people from weaker countries that hold natural resources. And it's why there is blanket control of mainstream media that represents the views of the oligarchs as if they are second nature. No other options exist, and other opinions are ridiculed as the views of extremists, dangerous madmen, or terrorists. I see that in your comment about Richard Wolff.

Slowly Japan, Germany, later Korea, and now China, rose up to compete against and overcome US industry initially motor vehicles, computers, entertainment systems, now pretty much everything bar war equipment.

You're way off, the US built Germany into what it was after ww2 Japan also and SK after the war, lastly I seriously China would be what it is today without Bubba putting them in the WTO for Wall street.

They didn't overcome US industry in most cases US industry and technology was just moved there or stolen ie Samsung phones cars TVs etc etc etc etc.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt...was-incredible

[MarquisdeSade1]

ROFL. CNN's ratings the lowest since 1993. MSNBC no better. Wonderful to see the fake news media collapsing under its own lies.

https://www.mediaite.com/daily-ratin...nn-prime-time/

Whatever happened to that POS Russia hoaxer are Maddow? LMAO.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Yeah it's pretty rich to see Blinken the failed rockstar whining about foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine not being given Geneva Convention PoW protections when it clearly states these are not extended to mercs. Also the US didn't give PoW status to prisoners in the so-called war on terror.

I hope the war ends quickly but after all the tricks the Washington swamp has pulled in the last 20 years the US doesn't have a leg to stand on with all that "rules-based order" bullshit.

Touche' wise one.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Not at all. USA does not have open borders. So to blame it for all the illegal immigrants is plain stupid. USA has tightly closed borders. Tahts why you have illegal immigrants. Geddit now?

You mean the victims of imperialism and capitalism? Of course. Those are the systems that the USA imposes on weaker nations. Therefore it must deal with the consequences. You can't go crying to mama after your actions didn't have the consequences that your shortsighted reasoning lead you to.

The USA has the least generous welfare system of any developed nation on Earth. That's (partly) why many people refer to the USA as a failed state.

The USA has the least generous welfare system of any developed nation on Earth.

Something tells me that's why you hate it so.

If this wasnt the case you would be living here LOL.

So tell us what stoopid ass white western european country gives you a "economic refugee" welfare check so you can live in Medellin and monger 24/7?

I'm guessing your check is from London.

[MarquisdeSade1]

If that is true, then I guess they are the same as all the other rats in the USA. They rejoice in benefitting from the opportunity at life in the New World then slam the door shut on any others. Selfish as Hell.

You're one of those dirtbags that figure if you can't have it then no one should.

Destroy so no one can have it, if the shit hole country you come from can't have the same standard of living as western europe or the united states.

Then fuck it then lets destroy it so no one can ala london, stockholm, brussels, paris et al.

JK aka Lou see Fer.

(if you're so worthy of a better standard of living why don't you just create it for you and the "country" where you come from?

[MarquisdeSade1]

If that is true, then I guess they are the same as all the other rats in the USA. They rejoice in benefitting from the opportunity at life in the New World then slam the door shut on any others. Selfish as Hell.

That would be the ones invading someone elses fucking country to destroy the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people.

Tell me that's not selfish as hell.

[Xpartan]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrain...-hones-donetsk

"Ukraine on Monday announced a $750 billion plan to rebuild the war-torn nation and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the international community to join "the greatest contribution to the maintenance of global peace. " ".

As we all know, if the government says it'll cost 750, it'll actually cost at least three times that amount. And as we also know, just like with NATO and the Ukraine gibsmedats thus far, the US taxpayer will end up with most of the bill (tacked onto the $30 trillion debt we already have). Add in the vast swamp kickbacks in both Ukraine and the US, and who knows how high the "reconstruction" (LOL) amount will be.

Ah, Ukraine did, huh? That's good.

At least you've admitted, well, in your own way, that your "Biden's handlers have just signed up to Zelensky's latest demand for $750 billion" fantasy never happened.

[JustTK]

Why do you think most mexicans in the united states want a big beautiful damn wall, they're not as dum as you.

If that is true, then I guess they are the same as all the other rats in the USA. They rejoice in benefitting from the opportunity at life in the New World then slam the door shut on any others. Selfish as Hell.

[JustTK]

You listed the reasons why real wages in America have been stagnant since the 1970's, which is clearly a bad thing. Now you're saying you're in favor of it? That is what we call "cognitive dissonance".

Not at all. USA does not have open borders. So to blame it for all the illegal immigrants is plain stupid. USA has tightly closed borders. Tahts why you have illegal immigrants. Geddit now?

That is why the only people who do it are the losers and dregs of the third world.
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You mean the victims of imperialism and capitalism? Of course. Those are the systems that the USA imposes on weaker nations. Therefore it must deal with the consequences. You can't go crying to mama after your actions didn't have the consequences that your shortsighted reasoning lead you to.

This is so that they can latch onto the generous welfare teat of Uncle Sam.

The USA has the least generous welfare system of any developed nation on Earth. That's (partly) why many people refer to the USA as a failed state.