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They are not even trying to spin it anymore
LOL. Oh yes. Zuckerberg knows exactly what drives Trump and his MAGAs away like vampires from sunlight, holy water and crucifixes. Therefore, he knows what they need to be reeled back in:
[B]Meta scraps fact-checking, brings back political content in latest Trump-friendly move.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/meta-eliminates-third-party-fact-checking-moves-to-community-notes.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Meta announced it will eliminate its third-party fact-checking program and implement a Community Notes model, similar to the one that exists on Elon Musks X.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is also bringing back political content on its platforms and removing restrictions on subjects like immigration and gender.
Meta announced the changes on Fox News.[/QUOTE]No facts, please, along with plenty of fact-free blather about MAGAs' favorite topics like trannies and caravans of murderous immigrants coming to get you, just like on X. And where better to make the announcement than Fux News!
He has touched all the necessary Trump / MAGA bases, by golly.
LOL. Honestly, I thought this was an SNL comedy bit when I first heard about it. You don't even need to parody and lampoon Trump / MAGA World to make them look like pathetic clowns. Just report the truth.
You are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts
[URL]https://www.topspeed.com/the-most-reliable-american-cars-according-to-consumer-reports/[/URL]
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2973760][b]For a Western European, most american cars are lower quality than Europeans. And I also worry about Boeing safety, compare to Airbus[/b]. I would buy only a charger V8 for the legend, but not to drive 80000 kms per year between Paris and Germany.[/QUOTE]Indviduals such as yourself need to worry less about the quality of aircraft produced in the United States of America along with the quality of cars and tell their politicians to spend more money on defense or teach Russian in their schools.
[URL]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-summit-defence/eu-to-deepen-military-readiness-raise-spending-leaders-say-idUSKBN1JP0ZF/[/URL]
[B]Most aircraft incidents are the result of human error[/B] Read the report I have provided here and tell me [B]Sirioja[/B] what was the cause of this tragic accident with the Airbus-A350?
[URL]https://simpleflying.com/japan-airlines-airbus-a350-crash-haneda-human-error/[/URL]
Man you really need to get your facts straight before making comments that sound like you are talking out the side of your neck. I am having trouble finding the country of [U]Western European[/U] in google maps.
I would say nice try but it wasn't, it was pretty lame
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2974086]Oh, I see both you and your Winger link ommitted this part:
From the actual Gallup report:
Captain Obvious, indeed.
BTW, don't you think that is a weird polling question? I do.
The Gallup topic question was:
[B]Americans Think History Will Rate Biden Presidency Negatively[/B]
I mean, why not ask what Americans think of the Biden presidency? Why ask what they think some historians will think about it in the future?
Oh, also BTW, your Winger link DID misrepresent what the exact Gallup poll question was, didn't they?
Your Winger link headline was:
[B]Gallup: Americans to Remember Joe Biden as Second-Worst President in History [/B]
But that is not what that Gallup poll asked or showed.
Let me guess, you got a lead on this Winger link misrepresentation on newly fact-free Meta. Lolol.[/QUOTE]More Democrats expect history to look kindly rather than critically on the Biden presidency -- 44% think it will be judged outstanding or above average, while 16% say below average or poor. But nearly as many Democrats believe Biden will be remembered as an average president (38%) as a good one.
THEY HOPE LMAO.
With Afghanistan alone he is the bottom rung, not to mention letting 10 million psychopathic savages flood our streets.
Scumbag Joe belongs in prison with his whole Scumbag family and you know it as well as everyone else!!
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Wow. You do go deep into the weeds to find lame excuses for GOP Disasters.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2974184]As promised, I'm getting back to you.
I never wrote anything about 2018 Tooms. I wrote, "In 2019 there was a huge jump in real median household income and 50 year lows in unemployment. [B]Was all this because of the TCJA? Certainly not. Trump's deregulation helped too, and perhaps even more so factors totally unrelated to politics.[/B].
Yes, it takes time for businesses to invest and hire people. The USA Economy is benefiting more now from the 2018 tax corporate tax cuts than it did in 2019. Lucky Biden.
Before the TCJA, the USA Corporate tax rate, federal + state, was around 40%, far higher than any developed country. If a multinational, including American companies, wanted to set up a business, why do it in California and pay 44% tax when it can pay 12.5% in Ireland? Ireland has gone from a poor country to one that has among the highest GDP / capita's in the world, higher than the USA, on the back of a low corporate income tax. The Republicans' tax cut, combined with also making it where an American company has to pay US tax on unrepatriated foreign income, are bringing some of that business back to the USA. And along with it comes more jobs and higher salaries.
As to ITEP, it's joined at the hip to Citizens for Tax Justice, and yes, it's left leaning. Your link says so.
No, no, no! Fortunately most Republicans and many Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, recognize that going back to a 35% federal corporate tax rate would be bonkers.
You've got it backwards. The dividend payout ratio for the S&P 500 was around 46% in 2017 and 50% in 2016. Now it's around 37%, which is to say corporations are investing MORE in their own businesses after the tax cut. And you do not want the tax code encouraging companies to retain earnings and invest them inefficiently, as you suggest. This happens when the tax on dividends is high. Companies hang onto most of their profits instead of distributing them out to shareholders. If you had a 100% tax on dividends for example, the buggy whip manufacturers never would have paid their shareholders dividends, who thus would never have reinvested said dividends in companies like Ford Motor Company. Your ideas if implemented in the 20th century would have Made America Great in Buggy Whip Manufacturing.
And Trump et al ALREADY cut the corporate rate to 21%. Biden and Harris wanted to take it back up to about 27% or 28%, not the 35% it was at before the TCJA.
Yes, Biden did indeed implement the policies and plans he ran on, proposed, and mostly got passed. And yes, according to Democrat Economists Larry Summers and Jason Furman his progressive handlers were indeed weak on math, logic, observable reality, and historical data and facts. Even Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, now admits the deficit spending got out of control. Cumulative inflation during Biden's term is up over 20%. We're running deficits close to 6% of GDP, in peacetime! When the economy's doing great! That's crazy. Even John Maynard Keynes would be rolling over in his grave.
Kudos to Biden for getting the USA out of Afghanistan at last, although the exit was very poorly planned.
OK, you owe me one because I unjustly accused you of benefiting from Bidenomics by receiving higher rental income on your California properties. So I'll let this slight pass, about my selfishness because you believe I'm in the top 5%. But get personal again and I shall respond in kind, as I have done with the Marquesa and shall do with Paulie in the Kyiv thread in due course.
As to the link, I don't believe the SALT cap should be removed. I don't believe overtime pay and tips should be exempted from income. And I certainly don't believe a 20% to 60% import tariff should be imposed. If you just went with my likes and dislikes of Trump's ideas, set out in the ITEP piece, the tax code would become more progressive than it is now. I do however favor a flatter tax structure and elimination of loopholes. Democratic politicians have continually promoted the fiction that just by making the rich pay their fair share, we can have universal health care and childcare and a new Cadillac in every garage. Which is bull shit. You're going to have to tax everyone to have the money to do that, like France does:
[URL]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/12/01/business/01economist--mulligan-dec/01economist--mulligan-dec-blog480.jpg[/URL]
There is no free lunch.[/QUOTE]Trump had a shit jobs creation record vs Biden, Carter, Clinton, Obama, LBJ, etc. Even before Trump's Pandemic.
Had Biden done nothing for the next 4 years and his jobs creation record skyrocketed, I might see some merit in the $Trillion in deficit crap TCJA.
But that isn't the case.
Had dozens of primarily Blue Cities and Blue States done nothing to raise the minimum wage in 2018 and 2019, and had CEOs of the main beneficiaries of the TCJA not laughed at the notion that they would ever use that tax cut windfall to expand their businesses, hire more employees, raise wages, etc, there might be a possibility that the TCJA had anything whatever to do with incomes and household wealth increasing in those years.
But that isn't the case.
Had Biden not inherited the Worst Jobs Creation Record Since Herbert Hoover from Trump along with massive deficits, heading into a million Americans mass murdered, global supply-chains collapsing, a quagmire Repub-initiated War in Afghanistan, a raging Insurrection movement led by Trump, etc and instead inherited from Trump anything close to the economic conditions inherited by any incoming Repub taking over from any outgoing Dem in the past 100 years, I might consider him "lucky" to have somehow magically recovered every job Trump lost and added more in his four years than all 3 previous Repub potuses combined as well as pulling us out of Afghanistan in the most competent and effective, least deadly withdrawal from an occupied country by the losing side in the history of warfare.
But that isn't the case.
You're telling a little fib of ommision about Yellen, aren't you?
[B]Janet Yellen: Covid stimulus may have contributed a little bit' to inflation[/B]
[URL]https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/janet-yellen-covid-stimulus-may-have-contributed-a-little-bit-to-inflation/6099037/?os=firetvno_journeystruelr4geqf6&ref=app[/URL]
[QUOTE]Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that Biden-era stimulus spending may have contributed "a little bit" to the country's subsequent inflation woes.
But the widespread rise in prices was mostly "a supply-side phenomenon" caused by the Covid-19 pandemic itself, Yellen told CNBC in an exit interview.
There were "simply huge supply chain problems," she said, adding that shortages of critical goods "started pushing up prices a great deal."
Yellen said she believed the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill and other spending was necessary, and she did not answer directly when asked if she has any regrets about it.
Instead, she urged Americans to recall that the pandemic was "raging out of control" when Biden took office, with thousands of people dying from the virus each month and a high unemployment rate threatening livelihoods.[/QUOTE]Ah, see that sounds much more like the intelligent, well-informed, utterly credible person whose assessment I am sure you meant to condone.
And you're telling a little fib of ommission about ITEP too, aren't you?
Yes, my link characterized it as "left-center", but only for the words they use, not ON THE FACTS. I would say, for instance, the fact that their analysis even mentioned how much Trump's plans would cost everyone in America not in the top 1-5% percentile a whole month before the election justified that "left-center" Rating while it is highly unlikely a "right-center" policy research site would ever mention such a thing until that 95% of the country found themselves paying a shit-load more under Assistant President Trump and not really knowing why.
And now I see I needed to highlight the most important part of the Media Bias assessment of ITEP as far as any analysis of economic policy goes. So I will do that now:
[URL]https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-on-taxation-and-economic-policy-itep/[/URL]
[QUOTE]Overall, we rate the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy Left-Center biased based on economic policy and [b]High for factual reporting.[/b]
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER (-3.2)
[B]Factual Reporting: HIGH [/b](1.1)
Country: USA
MBFCs Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
[B]MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY[/b][/QUOTE]There. Isn't that better?
Now that you brought it up, while other rent increases in my rental property area were averaging 25-30% or more and for multiple years, I raised mine 5%. Those were hard times for everyone during Trump's Pandemic. And even though Trump's Pandemic caused costs for me to soar far more than 5%, just like everyone else, I could afford to be lenient with my tenants.
That was in 2022. Now that Biden has recovered the Trump / Repub Disastrous Economy and everyone is back on their feet and doing quite well, I just raised the rent 10%.
Oh, and remember way back when I had not gotten one of those Trump's Pandemic Emergency Relief Checks because it got lost in the mail? And my followup request for it with the IRS triggered a two year long audit of everything for the previous 4 years while the Repub Congress had refused and thwarted every effort by Biden and the Dems to hire more IRS agents in order to get these things done in a more timely manner? Well, after all the years of IRS auditing and scrutinizing of my tax returns, I did finally get that check and a bit more of a refund for a recent year that my tax preparer apparently missed but the IRS caught! Plus interest! Isn't that nice of them?
Just thought you'd like to know.
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Trump's usual Repub Challenge
Having for the second time inherited a terrific economy from the outgoing Dem Administration's historic recovery, economic expansion, jobs creation and wage growth after cleaning up the colossal mess of everything handed to them by the outgoing Repub administration, Lucky Donald Trump faces the usual incoming Repub challenge:
How to "turn around" that terrific economy and reverse those terrific economic trajectories he inherited and produce the apparent Repub contractually-required shitstorm of economic failure and disaster. Again.
Trump is definitely working on it and way ahead of his Day One campaign promise schedule by already jacking up mortgage loan, shipping and retail costs with his constant blather about across-the-board trade war tariffs with our allies and adversaries alike.
But by all expert assessment and measures, Bidenomics, Biden's National Security, Foreign Policies and masterful stewardship have produce such solid, stable and steadily improving results it is going to take a lot more of Trump's Classic Repub horrific policies and stewardship results than usual to "turn it around" and get to that Repub contractually-required shitstorm of a mess of everything to hand off to the next Dem administration.
But what will it be this time? Only time will tell.
For sure, he'll have to be quite a bit more proactive to get there than relying on his Know Nothing, Do Nothing Repub Pink Tinkle Or Less Majorities in Congress to be so incapable of governing and getting anything done so he can use that as his lame excuse to just play golf, golf and more golf starting January 21 and wait for another Golden Trump's Pandemic Opportunity to come along. Although he is working on that too. He might actually have to do a little work every now and then this time.
[B]Economy poised for a solid year in 2025. But these Trump plans could slow growth.
Jan. 6, 2025[/B]
[URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/01/06/us-economy-job-market-2025-outlook/77380490007/[/URL]
[QUOTE]Yet by raising prices, tariffs will reduce consumers buying power and purchases, he said. And less immigration means losing the spending of migrants who have bolstered consumption.
All told, economists estimate consumer spending will increase a healthy 2.4% this year, down from an estimated 2.6% in 2024, according to those surveyed. Consumption would be about a half point higher if not for the tariffs and immigration curbs, Zandi said.[/QUOTE]
US, European and Japanese Legacy Auto Manufacturers are ALL in Trouble...
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2973032]I know what you mean. I felt the same way about GM cars back in the 90's and yet I persevered. I lost my mechanic's phone number after I switched to Japanese vehicles. I wonder how he's doing nowadays.[/QUOTE]
I for one, won't miss the gas stations, oil lube or mechanic shops. Good residence! I remember when Americans said similar things about the Japanese and then Korean vehicles. But I think, it won't be long, before we'll be saying the same thing about Chinese EVs.
[QUOTE=Sirioja;2973760] For a Western European, most american cars are lower quality than Europeans. And I also worry about Boeing safety, compare to Airbus. I would buy only a charger V8 for the legend, but not to drive 80000 kms per year between Paris and Germany. .[/QUOTE]
With the influx of China EVs, becoming the norm in Europe and European car manufacturing shredding jobs like crazy, it's not looking so good for the survival of the European car market manufacturers.
Even worse is the car suppliers, are now expected to receive a long sustained period of lower growth, with many who are now seeing a massive downward trend for auto parts, as consumers are buying more EVs (Chinese, Korean or European), where less manufacturing of car parts are need, the are set to set to cut staff by 50% over 2025 and onward.
[u]Legacy Automotive Fossil Fuel Fears in America Exist Too:[/u]
However, those same survival fears exist in the US too, as legacy automotive manufactures in the USA, struggle to keep pace with EVs and continue to cling to a archaic "drill baby drill", gas gosling, fossil fueled, solution, and look to deny, push back or repeal the advancements in EVs and clean energy solutions.
Just recently, the SCOTUS lead MAGA 6 (uncharacteristically), struck down and rejected the petition (submitted by Ohio and 16 other fascist Repub states), to have it rule on [b]California's state right[/b] to govern and have jurisdiction over it own air quality and implement it's own clean air rules. The current EPA has now granted California's Air Resource Board approval, to enforce the latest new clear air mandates, which essential sets it on a path to ban the state sale of most ICE powered vehicles, by 2035.
But naturally, true to form the hypocrite and narcissist, Trump, America's Hitler, said he'd overturn and reverse the EPA's decision. So much for the [b]Repub's hollow belief with regards to "state's rights",[/b] to set their own rules!
Trump and MAGA, would once again only serve to clownishly contradict themselves, like so many times, they've done before, applying a different set of rules for Repubs, when it suits them.
