Oh, so you and Elvis just now noticed Gridlock, huh? LOL
[QUOTE]Tiny12 - [QUOTE]Elvis2008 -
I am happy with the results. Gridlock has been achieved.[/QUOTE]Me too, assuming Republicans control the House.
[QUOTE]Elvis2008 -
2022 showed Republicans how to win in 2024, and that way is not with Trump. The path to victory in 2024 was muddied but today it could not be more clear.[/QUOTE]Agreed.[/QUOTE]No president in modern history faced more potential Gridlock in his first two years in office than Sleepy Joe Brandon.
Sure, Moscow Mitch got a vow from his Senate Repubs and the ones in the House to obstruct, slow walk or thwart every effort by incoming Barack Obama and his Dems to pull us out of another horrific Great Repub Crash and Recession and accomplish a Great Dem Recovery and more. Which Obama overcame in historic fashion. But in case you hadn't noticed neither Moscow Mitch nor his counterparts in the House have rescinded and abandoned that near unanimous unified Repub mission. With the added feature of Biden being handed an actual, bloody, violent, cop-killing insurrection against the whole damn country, not just the Dems, led by the still current leader of the Repub Party!
Biden had a mere 5 Dem seat advantage in the House. The rest were America-hating, Dem-hating QAnon Repub loons. He had 47 Dems and 1 Independent on his side in the Senate. The rest were Sinema, Manchin and 50 America-hating, Dem-hating QAnon Repub loons.
Yet he still managed to accomplish more positive legislation, many bipartisan, and positive results for America in these first two years than ANY POTUS of the past 80 years minimum including this current historic first midterm election result.
Biden is a razor sharp, calm, reasoned and seasoned professional who knows WTF he is doing and how to do it. Not a deeply in debt, failed former reality game show host.
So if it turns out to be House Speaker McCarthy, House Speaker Gohmert, House Speaker Marjorie Taylor Greene or whatever other Do Nothing, Know Nothing, QAnon Repub Loon they decide should be the face and voice of a Repub House Majority, it is doubtful they will get any more done than Gingrich did when he took that job. Which was virtually NOTHING other than trying (but failing) to prevent Clinton from enacting the Welfare Reform Plan he ran on in 1992 and trying (but failing) to destroy the USA economy that was already recovering from the previous Repub Recession months and months before Gingrich took over in January 1995.
Instead, the only thing Gingrich accomplished before getting his ass handed to him on the way out so the screen door wouldn't smack it, was sniff around Clinton's dick and balls to find out where they've been. So I guess that is where Hunter Biden's dick and balls will come in handy for a potential new Repub House Majority. They do love younger and juicer dicks and balls to sniff around for years and might not be so interested in Biden's. But you never know with those wide-stance, foot tapping in the Mens Room stalls Repubs.
And I hate to break it to you, but Trump didn't invent the current Repub Party. The classic Repub Party of the past 100 years or more invented Trump. Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and both Bushes ALL would have voted for and made the exact same disastrous decisions Trump did if they had been faced with them. MittWitt Romney and, yes, even Liz Cheney would vote for the exact same disastrous economic policies as Trump did and as Herschel Walker would!
The point of that being the half century Repub mission to overturn Roe v Wade and outlaw Sex For Pleasure was not a one-off. Oh no. We will see two years of House Speaker Louie Gohmert rapping his gavel, probably on his own empty noggin, trying to overturn Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, The Affordable Care Act, The Chips Act, The Infrastructure Act, etc, etc, etc. Along the way they will try to "Covid Closure" the entire USA government if they don't get their way.
They don't need Trump for that.
And if you think Repubs behaving that way for the next two years will tee-up a wonderful advantage for Trump or Trump Without the Flash DeSantis to sweep the same states who rejected Repubs so historically this time around, good luck with that.
Yeah, I know Gingrich's Party candidate did squeak out a Repub Supreme Court award to become a so-called potus despite losing the American Electorate Vote by more than a half million in a subsequent Presidential Election. But we're not dealing with the greatest political scandal of the day being some guy getting a rather crappy blowjob from a consenting adult and trying to keep the lady's privacy intact by not blabbing about it in a public deposition for which that was an utterly immaterial and irrelevant issue anyway. Now we're talking about massive top to bottom traitorous, anti-American, anti-democracy criminality combined with a constant effort to repeal the 20th Century and what has been accomplished so far in the 21st Century.
Was that what you were planning to gloat about after your grandly announced absence for a long, long uh. For uh. For uh. Oh. Nevermind about that.
No, I didn't say that. Ever.
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And you just said your head is in the sand with regards to your investment, and I agree with that. You would have to have your head in the sand to ignore all the corporate projections that directly contradict your rosy belief. So yeah, you ignore corporate earnings calls and the bond market.
[/QUOTE]No, I didn't say my head is in the sand with regards to my investments. I said I haven't bothered to check the performance of my stock market portfolio in months to explain why I would not be turning Cartwheels (your assumption) over the gains in the S&P 500 Index lately. That would be because I don't need that money, am not worried about it, have no reason to check it monthly, weekly, daily or hourly the way some other poor souls do.
What would that have to do with "knowing" what is in my portfolio anyway? Do you think if we don't check our portfolios for a while some gremlins will get in there and change our stock market choices without us knowing about it? LOL.
Price Gouging Corporations
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2761157] ... Corporate profits from the 2Q 2021 to the 2Q 2022 were up $219 billion, or 7.8%. That was less than the 9.1% YoY CPI inflation at June 30,2022. And the $219 billion only accounted for 0.94% (less than 1% for the mathematically challenged) of GDP. Corporate greed and excess profits thus did not account for a significant part of the inflation we've seen over the last year. [/QUOTE]Katie Porter, clearly debunks your that myth and outlines exactly why it's corporate greed, that is the problem.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2761157] YoY CPI inflation increased from 1. 7% in February, 2021, before the the government started sending out stimulus checks as required by the Democrats' $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP), to 5.4% in June, 2021. Now what do you think the reaction of the Democratic Party politicians would have been if the Fed had aggressively used monetary policy to counteract the excessive fiscal stimulus from the ARP? Maybe by raising interest rates in lockstep with inflation, to 5. 5%? There would be hell to pay. None of the governors would have been reappointed when their terms were up, if a Democrat were in the White House. [/QUOTE]As far as I understand it, the stimulus package help to bolster the economy, where most of the stimulus was expeditiously spent in earnest to keep the money-flowing in the economy and did not contribute significantly to inflation. Where as greedy corporations rising prices, above and beyond reasonable price increases, does put a drain on the economy and has significantly more to with increases in inflation.
BTW, Repubs were only to happy to spend millions in media exposure, billboard ads, TV / radio ads, and [b]shamelessly take credit [/b] for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, [b]they ALL[/b] voted against.
FWIW, polling shows a majority of Republican voters have said they somewhat or completely support it.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2761157]As to Katie Porter, please note that she's highlighting an increase in corporate profits, from the 2Q 2020, the depths of the pandemic induced recession. Yes, of course corporate profits went up a lot. As a result, the stock market went up a lot too. Democratic politicians, you and some other board members are only too happy to give Biden and the Democrats 100% of the credit for higher stock prices, increased employment, and a higher GDP, that resulted from the rebound from the recession.
Biden's following in Porter's footsteps, by blaming the evil oil companies for the run up in gasoline prices, and putting an albatross around their neck so they'd pump less oil and gas, and then taking credit for the decline in gasoline prices, which had nothing to do with his policies.[/QUOTE]As I always point out to you and other BMs, that no one is saying you can't make a profit, but price gouging / price fixing, is on another level of greed and [b]borderline predatory[/b]. Which BTW, is the same message Biden and Katie Porter are making.
Is it a "Red Tsunami" in 2024...now?
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2760935]The censorship troll blocked my last post. Thanks for listing your source of that bird brained notion that corporate profits are going up. When Dems want to say 200 is greater than 250 or Republicans made up the word inflation, [b]2024 is more of a Republcan lock..[/b][/QUOTE] That must look something like that so called the Repubs 2022 Mid-term "Red Wave" (....kkkk!)
No, no, wait, ....I stand corrected, [b] "Red Tsunami" [/b] (...kkkk)
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2760935]OMG. Spidy. Turn off the MSNBC and move to to CNBC. Learn something. Half of what they talk about is what the Fed is doing and why. Then let me know when the subject of the Fed screwing Biden over comes up because it has not come up. Not once.[/QUOTE] Dude, just as soon as you stop watching FOXY News, which only serves to "dumb-down" America. Not too mention the number of lunatics, that have gone on to [b] kill their family members[/b] and fellow Americans after watching and being radicalized by FOXY News. So Elvis, it not too late.
Repubs in Arizona could learn a thing or two from Brazil
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2760943]I am happy with the results. Gridlock has been achieved. Hunter Biden is finally going to be investigated. [/QUOTE] It's not surprising you love gridlock, after all, it's what Repubs do best. (....kkkk). I mean, "gridlock" is right out of the "right-wing playbook". Let's just waste taxpayers money while in office and do nothing meaningful, except blame the Dems, repeal meaningful law/bills put in place by Dems, taking America backwards to the 1800's , and lower taxes for the corporate welfare and the rich cronies. Sound about right.
Which is all a ruse or an attempt to make it look like a meaningful administrative tenure. So again, not surprising you love gridlock.
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2760943] ... The nation of [b]Brazil takes in hundreds of millions of votes [/b] and results are spit out in 3 hours, yet Arizona takes weeks for a fraction of that many. Gee, I wonder why. ... [/QUOTE] No need to wonder, why....listen up and I'll tell ya. The same stupid Repub right-wing playbook at work in Arizona, wanting to count the ballots by hand, after the dumb-ass recommendations by the Repub/Trump approved [b]"Pillow Guy (Mike Lindel) "Cyber Ninjas "forensic audit"[/b], was a tell-tail sign the Republican-controlled Arizona state Senate had gone "cockoo for cocoa-puffs".
The Brazilians, on the other hand, weren't buying into the right-wing playbook of, [i][b]"...it's election fraud, if we don't win[/b][/i], horse-pucky. Thereby categorically, refuting any such claims Pres. Bozo (Bolsonaro), had cooked up, from the "Trump playbook", about hacked/compromised election machines.
Sorry. Still No Participation Trophy For You.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2761436]Classic whataboutism and completely irrelevant. Both parties approved ridiculous and unnecessary money printing during Covid. If you are a dumb Dem, you do not see the effect of $11 trillion printed out of thin air and inflation. If you are a dumb Dem, you do not see the inflation because inflation is a word Republicans made up. If you print up $11 trillion, somehow if you are a dumb Dem, you think corporate profits are not going to go up. If you are a dumb Dem, you think corporate profits should go down as the stock market goes up because you all have no fucking clue what causes the market to rise.
The economy is down because the Fed is raising rates to combat government induced inflation. But if you are a Dem, raising rates is Trump's fault and the fault of Republicans, and anyone who thinks otherwise is watching Fox News. LOL.
You guys cannot even define gridlock. Dems control both the Senate and House and Biden cannot get all that it wants and no president in history had more gridlock than Biden? Since when it is that gridlock? All you guys do is make stuff up. Even words do not have objective definitions.
And when I say I want gridlock, I want it with spending money. The entire Biden agenda has been throwing money at people: Ukraine, people with student debt, Build Back Better. Biden is tone deaf when it comes to saving money or making government more efficient.[/QUOTE]The first sentence in my previous post re Gridlock:
[QUOTE]No president in modern history faced more potential Gridlock in his first two years in office than Sleepy Joe Brandon.[/QUOTE]Name the previous presidents who had fewer seats from their Party in the Senate and the House in their first two years in office AND with the opposition Party openly admitting their number one priority is to thwart and obstruct almost if not everything he tries to do along with their subsequent behavior proving it.
Coolidge? Nope.
Hoover? Nope.
FDR? Nope.
Truman? Nope.
Eisenhower? Nope.
JFK? Nope.
Reagan? Nope.
LBJ? Nope.
Bush 1? Nope.
Clinton? Nope.
Bush 2? Nope.
Obama? Nope.
Trump? Nope.
Now, you ever hear of a RINO or a DINO?
How about an opposition Party whose leader and then so-called potus led a violent, cop-killing Insurrection on the premise that the incoming POTUS was not even elected and whose slavishly devoted members in his Party spent every waking hour of his first two years repeating that lie to cheers from their voting constituents?
Any of the above listed Presidents have to go up against that in their first two years in office?
Do tell us which of them spent their first two years trying to get things done in the face of ALL of those factors, not just some of them, all of them, aside from Joe Biden.
I'm sure you and Tiny can put your minds together and come up with the names of which ones and include it in the same post with that citation of a meaningful and now revered legislation proposed, fought for and passed when Repubs held the White House, the Majority in the Senate and the Majority in the House.
You make a mockery of the concept of Gridlock by suggesting any POTUS in modern times came into office and was faced with less potential of it in his first two years than Biden.
