How are those Straw Man Arguments working for you, gents? Feel better?
LOL. If you're going to build a Straw Man to argue with, at least build one big enough to appear as though he might win. I mean, put a little effort in it, gents.
"Tooms says recessions don't happen under Dems. ".
"Tooms swearing that all these deaths are on Trump, and China is blameless. It is disgusting".
"Tooms' solution, that we won't have pandemics if we just elect Democratic presidents".
Uh. Nope. That isn't what Tooms has been saying.
The term is "Great Recessions", gentlemen, "Great Recessions". You know, the kind where the Unemployment Rate skyrockets into double digits. Or millions of jobs are wiped out. Maybe throw in a Mega Bear Market Crash that logs in considerably more of a decline than a handful of percentage points more than a health-restoring Correction level.
We have had several of those over the past 100 years. NONE of them started under Dem economic stewardship. ALL of them started under Repub economic stewardship.
I'm not talking about some relatively minor economic dip that sees the Unemployment Rate tick up to around 7% for a month or two. Nor am I talking about a relatively minor recession that was artificially induced into the economy because the Dem economy was too hot, creating too many jobs for applicants to take them. Yep, that has happened and begun under Dems, including the one the Fed is trying mightily to artificially induce into Biden's roaring job creating economy right now.
On Trump's Pandemic, it is irrefutable that Trump's decisions in 2018 and 5 months before the first coronavirus cases emerged in China to defund and remove the very officials whose job it was to monitor and sound the alarm about such things laid the foundation for allowing Trump's Pandemic to happen in the first place.
Then his lies about it for those critical first months really sealed the deal and made sure it happened. But I have always pointed out that Trump lied "in sync" with China about it. By all rational understanding, that means that China's lies combined with Trump's lies to kill all those people and crash all those economies. It wasn't "only" Trump.
Just because Trump removed all possibility of right-minded officials sounding the alarm early enough for the world to react, respond and prevent Trump's Pandemic from occurring doesn't mean China gets a pass for exploiting the vacuum Trump handed them and lying about it, with or without Trump's incomparable help in their doing so.
How did you guys miss that qualifier? I repeated it quite often.
Oh, and while we're on that topic, I think the officials Trump removed against all expert warnings not to do something so stupid and dangerous would have been aware of the earliest cases and sounded the alarm whether or not those cases emerged in the labs, in Bruce Wayne's Bat Cave, were intentionally created, accidentally created, leaked or farted out of Xi's ass. Those are uttterly irrelevant side issues. T.
The officials were placed there precisely on the premise that China would NOT be forthcoming, would NOT be open and transparent, would NOT perhaps even know how or why such early cases would emerge. That is what those officials were looking for at all times. Until Trump removed them.
Now, will there be a Pandemic created because a Dem pulled out all the monitors meant to sound the earliest effective alarm for such things and, having done so, lies to the world about the risks and dangers of it for months until the serious, worldwide damage from it is unavoidable?
Highly doubtful.
But if loony QAnon Repubs are at the helm?
Virtually 100% certain.
Gay-Life on the Right? Sure Enough...
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2782503]You're so right Brother Spidy. I had a dream last night. Saint Milton (Friedman) came to me. And he told me that I must convert more Democrats. If I don't then I'm going to have to spend 30 years in purgatory with Roger Stone. Time to get cracking! And praying![/QUOTE] Who knew the ministry was your calling...kkkk! Yeah, good luck with that!
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2782503]What's wrong with holding political office if you're gay or a former drag queen? You're better than this.[/QUOTE] ....kkkk! Thanks for the laughs.
But how does one even begin to unpack the lying and denying sack of fraud, that is George Santos? Feel free to try! Then explain to me why Mr. Santos is so ashamed of his drag queen past as he claims to uphold Repub standards?
BTW, show me where I've said, there's anything wrong with gay-life in or out of political office. Perhaps, check back a few posts, were YOU and your comrade in arms, were embattled with the "bad" parenting of liberals and those on the left, with their weird, bizarre and queer parenting practices. As if to say, [b]"nothing like this, never ever happens on the right"[/b].
Tiny 12, I do just fine, thank you! But perhaps you could do better?
But by all means, pray on, Pastor Brother Tiny, pray on!
Repub Drag Queen Storybook hour?
With the Repub caucus acting like spoiled children, it's only a matter of time before the pariah and drag queen congressman in denial, George Santos, offers up a "Storybook Hour" of his own to calm the petulant feral Repub kids in the House.
[b]Saturday Night Live Spoofs George Santos Fabulist Claims And His Fabulous Drag Performer Past[/b]
[URL]https://news.yahoo.com/saturday-night-live-spoofs-george-045901910.html[/URL]
Or perhaps Mr. Santos, will simply regale the Repub caucus with his feats of skill and African American quarterbacking and dunk a football, as his nonsensical claims of heroism knows no bounds and unseen since the likes of ....hmmmm....Herschel Walker?
[b]George Santos gets two committee assignments [/b]
[URL]https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3816976-george-santos-gets-two-committee-assignments[/URL]
It's reported (R) Kevin McCarthy, had to give up his [b]"sole"[/b], to win the gavel, I wonder what part of his persons, he had to promise, for the two (2) committee seats he gave to Drag Queen George Santos? (...kkkk!)
Of course, Senator Warren is right
Xpartan, excellent job on the colossal economic waste and abuse built into the Trump / Repubs' Tax Cut and Jobs Act.
I would add that the reason Biden and the Dems extended the rates instead of raising them when they could was because, as is the 100 year long pattern for incoming Dems with outgoing Repubs, we were in the midst of a Great Repub Economic Downturn. This time worldwide economies were crashing down around our ears due in large part to disastrous Repub Trump economic decisions over the previous 2 years.
In terms of market and supply-chain psychology if nothing else, it was not a time to apply energy to "raising" taxes on anyone, not even on the ones who would barely notice it and where the trickle-down into the broader economy from the tax cuts was minimal at best.
But the extensions adding to the deficit into the eventual $2. 5+ Trillion range was practically a given since economic disaster at the end of a Repub term and into a handoff to Dems is as predictable as night following day.
More:
[B]Elizabeth Warren Slams GOP Con Game on Debt Ceiling[/B]
[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warren-slams-gop-con-000102877.html[/URL]
[QUOTE]"Heres the ultimate irony of todays Republican scam: Without years of Republican handouts to the wealthy, there would be no debt ceiling hostage to take", she wrote. "If Republicans hadnt spent nearly $2 trillion on the Trump tax cuts and abetted wealthy tax cheats by starving the IRS for a decade, the United States wouldnt need to raise the debt ceiling this year. In fact, the current debt ceiling would have sustained federal spending well past President Biden's first term."[/QUOTE]
