American Politics

[Tiny 12]

I was clearly talking about Musk, are you obsessed with race like the far left too? Or are you really Spidy also?

Apologies if they're due. Perhaps you didn't view the video you appeared to be replying to. It was about Ramaswamy.

But then you may have problems with South Africans as well.

Yes, I am obsessed with race. I have a strong preference for Latinas and east Asians with store bought breasts.

[MarquisdeSade1]

I thought you lived in a crime-ridden, homeless enclave hellscape city run by Dems?

Is your penthouse high enough to be beyond shooting range?

Sounds like you love it.

Although I do ask myself why I am I adopting the role of Snake Plissken when I venture into certain parts of the city?

[MarquisdeSade1]

First of all, if as in Carter's hand off to Reagan, had a Repub president ever in the history of the Repub Party finished his term handing an incoming Dem president No Great Depression, No Great Recession, No Recession, not even a mini one, One of the 2-3 Best Average Annual Jobs Creation records in 100 years, a months and months-long Declining Inflation Rate, a months and months-long Declining Unemployment Rate that had only spiked up to 7. 8% for a single month before making its months and months' long Decline, having established a rule providing American Workers with one of the easiest no-brainer means to save and invest tax-deferred to a more secure retirement, No Quagmire and Counterproductive Wars, a perfectly reasonable and manageable National Debt and Deficit and a Peaceful Transfer of Power, even the Democratic Party would be joining the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media in demanding that his likeness be chiseled into Mount Rushmore as The Greatest Republican President of All Time.

Of course, him being a Dem, MSM looks at that Carter record and says, "Meh. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Well, at least he spent the next 40 years building affordable housing for low income Americans. But, damn, he didn't even create one They're Eating the Cats, They're Eating the Dogs headline for us to sell"!

And second, considering how consistantly polar opposite wrong prognostications for incoming Dem economic policy and stewardship "doom" vs incoming Repub economic policy and stewardship "greatness" have been for at least 100 years, there is no way in hell I would have bet an incoming Dem would have taken the economic conditions Reagan inherited from Carter and in 7 months plunged America into the Worst economic downturn since The Great Repub Depression and 14 months after that plunged America into a whopping ten consecutive months of greater than 10% Unemployment Rates.

That isn't what Dems do. If one wants that kind of dramatic turn around to economic disaster one must not vote for Dems. One must vote for Repubs directly, vote for a nothing Third Party candidate or choose not to vote, all of which are generally predictably destined to help put a Repub in the White House to accomplish that dramatic turnaround and decline anyway.

There would be a way for a Dem to avert that disastrous outcome, probably more than one, that Dem is going to choose the best one and do it.

The Repub will be too busy riding ponies, going fishing, clearing brush down at the ranch, sleeping or golfing, golfing and more golfing to even know or care if there is a way to avert it but given the chance he will definitely choose the absolute worst option. As is apparently contractually required of all Repub potuses.

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/lo...1-16943a04a658

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...nyc-subway-car#google_vignette.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-new...gets-10m-bond/

https://www.wxyz.com/us-news/crime/v...nt-laken-riley

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...gal-immigrant/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/person-in...230600625.html

I can link hundreds maybe even thousands of more murders.

Thanks to Scumbag Joe and voters like you!!

[EihTooms]

The Fed Funds rate when Reagan took office in January, 1981 was 19.1%. YoY CPI inflation was 11.8% (not 12.5%, sorry). In other words, short term interest rates were around 7. 3% higher than the inflation rate! The Fed was running a very tight ship, to stamp out high inflation.

With that kind of monetary policy, it wouldn't have mattered if Carter had been re-elected. The USA still would had a recession in 1981, and a soaring unemployment rate. Fed policy was what was driving employment and GDP growth, or rather lack thereof, not the Political Party the President belonged to.

During 1973 to 1981, energy prices were largely what drove inflation. And with respect to energy, Carter didn't exactly do a bang up job. Admittedly, he didn't do any worse than Nixon. But his excise tax on oil (the poorly named Windfall Profits Tax) and bizarre regulatory regime for natural gas were NOT what the doctor ordered. If he'd gone at it like Trump from the start of his term ("Drill Baby Drill") things would have been somewhat different.

As to your photos about the handoff from Biden to Trump and vice versa, yes, Trump has been set up for a fall. If he does the right thing, like Carter and Reagan did when they entrusted monetary policy to Volcker, the USA may indeed suffer through a recession. The federal debt and the deficit spending are out of control. Credit card defaults are at the highest level since 2010. Inflation's still higher than the Fed's target, and monetary policy is tight. Except for the credit card defaults, this argues for fiscal restraint. We should be reducing deficits. If instead Trump and the Republicans put the pedal to the metal, like the Democrats did in 2021 and 2022, and spend, spend, spend, then the good times will continue to roll.

At some point however the hangover will come. And better sooner than later. We don't want to end up like Greece, or worse.

First of all, if as in Carter's hand off to Reagan, had a Repub president ever in the history of the Repub Party finished his term handing an incoming Dem president No Great Depression, No Great Recession, No Recession, not even a mini one, One of the 2-3 Best Average Annual Jobs Creation records in 100 years, a months and months-long Declining Inflation Rate, a months and months-long Declining Unemployment Rate that had only spiked up to 7. 8% for a single month before making its months and months' long Decline, having established a rule providing American Workers with one of the easiest no-brainer means to save and invest tax-deferred to a more secure retirement, No Quagmire and Counterproductive Wars, a perfectly reasonable and manageable National Debt and Deficit and a Peaceful Transfer of Power, even the Democratic Party would be joining the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media in demanding that his likeness be chiseled into Mount Rushmore as The Greatest Republican President of All Time.

Of course, him being a Dem, MSM looks at that Carter record and says, "Meh. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. Well, at least he spent the next 40 years building affordable housing for low income Americans. But, damn, he didn't even create one They're Eating the Cats, They're Eating the Dogs headline for us to sell"!

And second, considering how consistantly polar opposite wrong prognostications for incoming Dem economic policy and stewardship "doom" vs incoming Repub economic policy and stewardship "greatness" have been for at least 100 years, there is no way in hell I would have bet an incoming Dem would have taken the economic conditions Reagan inherited from Carter and in 7 months plunged America into the Worst economic downturn since The Great Repub Depression and 14 months after that plunged America into a whopping ten consecutive months of greater than 10% Unemployment Rates.

That isn't what Dems do. If one wants that kind of dramatic turn around to economic disaster one must not vote for Dems. One must vote for Repubs directly, vote for a nothing Third Party candidate or choose not to vote, all of which are generally predictably destined to help put a Repub in the White House to accomplish that dramatic turnaround and decline anyway.

There would be a way for a Dem to avert that disastrous outcome, probably more than one, that Dem is going to choose the best one and do it.

The Repub will be too busy riding ponies, going fishing, clearing brush down at the ranch, sleeping or golfing, golfing and more golfing to even know or care if there is a way to avert it but given the chance he will definitely choose the absolute worst option. As is apparently contractually required of all Repub potuses.

[MarquisdeSade1]

The Trump organization probably has hired a ton more immigrants with H-1 B or H-2 visas than Ramaswamy's companies. And certainly Ramaswamy's biotech company paid much higher wages on average than Trump did. Trump was always looking to save a buck, and if that involved using illegal workers on 12 hour shifts with unsafe working conditions, so be it:

https://time.com/4465744/donald-trum...ented-workers/

And as to "low to no income taxes,' Trump's the master of the art. He and his accountants even figured out a way to convert $900 million of losses suffered by investors in his Atlantic City casinos to tax deductions he could use! Trump carried forward the deductions for many years and so completely avoided paying federal income tax for a long time.

So Marquesa, why do you go after Ramaswamy instead of Trump? Does it have something to do with his ethnicity?

I was clearly talking about Musk, are you obsessed with race like the far left too? Or are you really Spidy also?

[MarquisdeSade1]

The Trump organization probably has hired a ton more immigrants with H-1 B or H-2 visas than Ramaswamy's companies. And certainly Ramaswamy's biotech company paid much higher wages on average than Trump did. Trump was always looking to save a buck, and if that involved using illegal workers on 12 hour shifts with unsafe working conditions, so be it:

https://time.com/4465744/donald-trum...ented-workers/

And as to "low to no income taxes,' Trump's the master of the art. He and his accountants even figured out a way to convert $900 million of losses suffered by investors in his Atlantic City casinos to tax deductions he could use! Trump carried forward the deductions for many years and so completely avoided paying federal income tax for a long time.

So Marquesa, why do you go after Ramaswamy instead of Trump? Does it have something to do with his ethnicity?

I wasn't referencing Vivek I was referring to Elon.

Your idiotic anecdotes about Our Lord and Savior, may or may not be true, Time mag is a rag for the Oligarchy I wouldn't wipe my ass with.

Do you think they are above lying about him? Ala The Russian hoax etc etc etc etc etc.

But Our Lord and Savior has been Saved by the New Religion of the United States its called MAGA.

He wouldn't do those things again if he even ever did?

His Raison Detre isn't like Chas Kochs which is total slavery for all and Zero taxes for him, Hunger Games for everyone including Morbidly Obese Tina!! LMAO.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/...fiery-defense/

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/er...29/id/1193241/

https://www.breitbart.com/border/202...-forced-labor/

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainm...ansgender-kid/

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...utm_term=first

https://www.breitbart.com/immigratio...depress-wages/

https://www.breitbart.com/border/202...-forced-labor/

[Tiny 12]

An 8:56 minute video well worth the time:

https://youtu.be/QQttuiH8gfY?si=hV50vLhOtItPb6mC

He's probably one of this worthless pro low slave wages and extremely low to no taxes Libertarians.

I don't have anything against Indians, I might visit India this spring?

But I've never heard anyone say anything good about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIFs72HGmM

"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. " This is a typical example, a quote none other than from Winston Churchill.

The Trump organization probably has hired a ton more immigrants with H-1 B or H-2 visas than Ramaswamy's companies. And certainly Ramaswamy's biotech company paid much higher wages on average than Trump did. Trump was always looking to save a buck, and if that involved using illegal workers on 12 hour shifts with unsafe working conditions, so be it:

https://time.com/4465744/donald-trum...ented-workers/

And as to "low to no income taxes,' Trump's the master of the art. He and his accountants even figured out a way to convert $900 million of losses suffered by investors in his Atlantic City casinos to tax deductions he could use! Trump carried forward the deductions for many years and so completely avoided paying federal income tax for a long time.

So Marquesa, why do you go after Ramaswamy instead of Trump? Does it have something to do with his ethnicity?

[Tiny 12]

The inflation and unemployment rates, the latter of which spiked up to 7. 8% for only one month under Carter in mid 1980 due to the Fed's purposely induced mini recession, had been steadily declining since mid 1980 and continued to decline well into Reagan's first year in office.

I sure wouldn't want anyone to be inadvertantly deceived into thinking Carter handed Reagan a rising inflation or unemployment rate based on the missing words in your post.

But he did hand Reagan one of the best jobs creation conditions in 100 years, certainly better than any Repub immediately before or after him in that same economically challenging period, no quagmire, counterproductive wars and a perfectly reasonable and manageable National Debt and deficit.

If only an incoming Dem could be so lucky following an outgoing Repub just once every 100 years or so.

The Fed Funds rate when Reagan took office in January, 1981 was 19.1%. YoY CPI inflation was 11.8% (not 12.5%, sorry). In other words, short term interest rates were around 7. 3% higher than the inflation rate! The Fed was running a very tight ship, to stamp out high inflation.

With that kind of monetary policy, it wouldn't have mattered if Carter had been re-elected. The USA still would had a recession in 1981, and a soaring unemployment rate. Fed policy was what was driving employment and GDP growth, or rather lack thereof, not the Political Party the President belonged to.

During 1973 to 1981, energy prices were largely what drove inflation. And with respect to energy, Carter didn't exactly do a bang up job. Admittedly, he didn't do any worse than Nixon. But his excise tax on oil (the poorly named Windfall Profits Tax) and bizarre regulatory regime for natural gas were NOT what the doctor ordered. If he'd gone at it like Trump from the start of his term ("Drill Baby Drill") things would have been somewhat different.

As to your photos about the handoff from Biden to Trump and vice versa, yes, Trump has been set up for a fall. If he does the right thing, like Carter and Reagan did when they entrusted monetary policy to Volcker, the USA may indeed suffer through a recession. The federal debt and the deficit spending are out of control. Credit card defaults are at the highest level since 2010. Inflation's still higher than the Fed's target, and monetary policy is tight. Except for the credit card defaults, this argues for fiscal restraint. We should be reducing deficits. If instead Trump and the Republicans put the pedal to the metal, like the Democrats did in 2021 and 2022, and spend, spend, spend, then the good times will continue to roll.

At some point however the hangover will come. And better sooner than later. We don't want to end up like Greece, or worse.

[Spidy]

Mainstream Media will probably justifiably praise Carter's foreign policy accomplishments.

But I suspect they will continue to be so lazy as to simply parrot the false Repub spin that his economic policies failed.

Aside from his demand that the Congressional Budget require companies and corporations to offer the same terrific 401 K deferred tax retirement investment deal to their rank and file employees as to their Executive class, a truly life-altering positive advance for the American Working Men and Women, his Fed Chairman Appointee's reversal of the inflation he inherited into a steady decline and so on, Carter's average annual job gains results blows away that of every president since 1925 except FDR, LBJ and, waiting until the final results are in, probably Biden.

Damn good results considering he also inherited Nixon / Ford's Arab Oil Embargo energy crisis.

Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs...idential_terms

Agreed on the job creation numbers for Dems, which have always been the strongest in history.

What I'd love to know is, for a debater who loves to use ChatGPT, why hasn't he used ChatGPT to dispute the "...50 million jobs created under Dems Presidents to a poultry 1 million created by Repubs, since 1989. Or go back the last 100 for that matter...", as nonsense or a myth?

[Spidy]

Hey, if it worked for Matt Gaetz. It could work for you too!
https://www.aol.com/customer-appreci...222852053.html

Yeah, you only need to see, that the impaired moral judgment, of one Matt Gaetz, is totally beyond repair.

As clearly when he found out she was 17, keep in contact and continued sex relations with her, 3-months later when she turned 18. Clearly this wasn't a representative of congress or someone with any moral compunction, to be turned off or turned away by the idea of paying for sex with minors.

In fact quite the opposite, as the ethics report shows Gaetz, repeatedly engaged in such behavior and calls some of it, statutory rape!

Queue the Gaetz sympathizers, INCEL, "He-Man" Woman Haters and misogynists, applauding this disgusting, deplorable behavior.

4 key findings from the House Ethics report on Matt Gaetz misconduct allegations
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politic...ct-allegations

"The House Ethics committee released its report on allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz and found substantial evidence of paying women for sex, having sex with a minor, as well as using and possessing illegal drugs."

"The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress, the report said." The report posted on AP: https://apnews.com/politics/matt-gae...d3f4dd46e30000

The dumpster fire, that is the gross miscarriage of justice, as to why Gaetz wasn't charged and criminally indicted, judging from the House Ethics committee report, is akin to the strange case of pedo Jeffery Epstein's slap on the wrist and no jail time, for running a criminal enterprise, sex trafficking and pay for sex with minors, unlike Joel Greenberg.

No doubt, there is obviously, a good deal of nefarious politicking was going on, as to why those in the DOJ and LE have decided to look the other way and turned a blind eye, to Gaetz's blatant and alleged criminal activities.

From Trump, Tuberville, Christofacist Mike Johnson, Sen. Lindsey Graham, to the all the Gaetz numskull sympathizers and INCELS, this is the guy y'all wanted as AG? (....kkkk!)

[EihTooms]

Carter was a good man. If there's a heaven, he's there.

When he left office, inflation was 12.5%. The unemployment rate was 7. 5%. A recession started 6 months after he left, due largely to tight monetary policy engineered by Paul Volcker. Unemployment peaked at 10.8% during said recession.

Carter deserves lots of credit for replacing his first appointee as Fed Chairman, William Miller, with Volcker. Miller's policies were largely responsible for a huge decline in the value of the dollar and out of control inflation. Carter may have realized that replacing Miller with an inflation hawk (Volcker) was the death knell for his re-election chances. But he did it anyway. Kudos to Carter. And kudos to Reagan for keeping Volcker at the helm. Their decisions to support Vocker were exactly the opposite of what a president should do to meet the Tooms stamp of approval (encourage high GDP and employment growth at all costs). But they were what was right for the United States of America. Yes, we went through a couple of recessions, or one long one in the view of some. But the Fed brought inflation under control, and we didn't go the way of Argentina or Brazil.

When he left office, inflation was 12.5%. The unemployment rate was 7. 5%. A recession started 6 months after he left, due largely to tight monetary policy engineered by Paul Volcker. Unemployment peaked at 10.8% during said recession.

The inflation and unemployment rates, the latter of which spiked up to 7. 8% for only one month under Carter in mid 1980 due to the Fed's purposely induced mini recession, had been steadily declining since mid 1980 and continued to decline well into Reagan's first year in office.

I sure wouldn't want anyone to be inadvertantly deceived into thinking Carter handed Reagan a rising inflation or unemployment rate based on the missing words in your post.

But he did hand Reagan one of the best jobs creation conditions in 100 years, certainly better than any Repub immediately before or after him in that same economically challenging period, no quagmire, counterproductive wars and a perfectly reasonable and manageable National Debt and deficit.

If only an incoming Dem could be so lucky following an outgoing Repub just once every 100 years or so.

[Sirioja]

Not even in White House, but crazy Trump already play Putin with Canada, Groenland and Panama. Do like Ukraine, resist to this crazy dangerous. For me, same like I don t buy shit chinese products, I won t buy USA products under Trump, when I trust more European quality than Boeing or Tesla. Better to isolate crazy like Trump, Netanyahou and Putin.

Does senile Trump have his balls in Putin hand, after Moscow party? After Georgia. Good, Ukraine resist like a lion.

[MarquisdeSade1]

What's that phrase Bernie Bros are so fond of? Cognitive dissonance? Maybe it doesn't apply here though as you probably don't feel any discomfort about bashing people you don't have anything against.

As a regular viewer of Death Row Stories, all I can say is incredible. You're woefully ignorant on this subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...th_row_inmates

https://www.breitbart.com/news/chine...-into-a-crowd/

You're such a complete and unapologetic / obsequious RIMMER of Mr Xi.

Is this guy innocent too? LMFAO.

Line up all the SAVAGES Ill volunteer!! I hate fucking criminals!!

[Tiny 12]

After I dried my eyes from weeping over the poor House Repubs being either too stupid to support or not block the Dems' repeated attempts to ban partisan gerrymandering and thereby allow their utterly irrelevant minor edge in total national House votes provide them with their "fair share" of House Seats or too addicted to the extreme gerrymandering and election-rigging they employ and risk losing the House Majority far into the future, I decided to do a little research to see just how unfairly poor put-upon Repub Senators and their constituents are treated by the current misapportionment rigged in Repubs' favor:

The 20232024 U.S. Senate Is Exceedingly Unrepresentative in Multiple Ways

https://mettlinger.medium.com/the-20...e-72d39f83847a

Democratic senators represent 43 million more people than their Republican counterparts.

https://www.vox.com/2021/12/20/22846...ans-43-million

Well.

Needless to say but I suspect I better say it anyway just to clear up any confusion; I will not be weeping for mythical poor put-upon and unfairly underseated Senate Repubs and even more mythical underrepresented Repub State constituents any more that I or anyone else should have ever shed a single tear for poor put-upon mythical underseated House Repubs and their even more mythical underrepresented Repub constituents.

And don't anybody even think about expecting me to shed a tear for the poor put-upon Repub MAGA 6 Majority in the Supreme Court, virtually all of whom were placed there by Repub so-called potuses who didn't win more votes than their Dem opponent or who were shoe-horned into it via outrageous Repub Senate lying, cheating, stealing and rigging.

NEXT UP:

Now that I have regained my composure after all the weeping and tears shed over poor put-upon House, Senate and SCOTUS Members not getting their "fair share" of seats and voice in this overwhelmingly rigged-in-favor-of-Repubs representative democracy, perhaps I will do a little research and keep an eye out for when and which Party boldly and fairly promotes and supports vs which Party opposes abolishing the demonstrably undemocratic Electoral College system even when the supporting Party lost the popular vote to its opposition by a pussy hair in order to make sure every vote counts the same as every other vote regardless where you live.

Oh look! Here it is already:

Senate Democrats push plan to abolish Electoral College.
12/16/2024

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...toral-college/

The founders saw fit to allocate Senate seats by state. If you and other Democrats don't like it you can try to pass a constitutional amendment.

Any advantage Republicans have in the electoral college is small and transient. Statisticians say that if the popular vote margin is 1% or less, the candidate that loses the popular vote has a 40% probability of winning the electoral vote. That's what happened in 2000. And contrary to your assertions, Bush didn't cheat his way to victory. Using the Florida Counties' vote-counting methodology, he would have won without the Supreme Court decision according to the definitive post mortem conducted by media organizations. As to 2016, it was a combination of a fluke, a black swan event, and Trump busting his ass during the last part of the campaign in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Good luck with the plan to abolish the electoral college, haha.

On the other hand, there are no structural reasons why Democrats get more seats in the House than they deserve. They're just better at cheating.

[Tiny 12]

Mainstream Media will probably justifiably praise Carter's foreign policy accomplishments.

But I suspect they will continue to be so lazy as to simply parrot the false Repub spin that his economic policies failed.

Aside from his demand that the Congressional Budget require companies and corporations to offer the same terrific 401 K deferred tax retirement investment deal to their rank and file employees as to their Executive class, a truly life-altering positive advance for the American Working Men and Women, his Fed Chairman Appointee's reversal of the inflation he inherited into a steady decline and so on, Carter's average annual job gains results blows away that of every president since 1925 except FDR, LBJ and, waiting until the final results are in, probably Biden.

Damn good results considering he also inherited Nixon / Ford's Arab Oil Embargo energy crisis.

Jobs created during U.S. presidential terms

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs...idential_terms

Carter was a good man. If there's a heaven, he's there.

When he left office, inflation was 12.5%. The unemployment rate was 7. 5%. A recession started 6 months after he left, due largely to tight monetary policy engineered by Paul Volcker. Unemployment peaked at 10.8% during said recession.

Carter deserves lots of credit for replacing his first appointee as Fed Chairman, William Miller, with Volcker. Miller's policies were largely responsible for a huge decline in the value of the dollar and out of control inflation. Carter may have realized that replacing Miller with an inflation hawk (Volcker) was the death knell for his re-election chances. But he did it anyway. Kudos to Carter. And kudos to Reagan for keeping Volcker at the helm. Their decisions to support Vocker were exactly the opposite of what a president should do to meet the Tooms stamp of approval (encourage high GDP and employment growth at all costs). But they were what was right for the United States of America. Yes, we went through a couple of recessions, or one long one in the view of some. But the Fed brought inflation under control, and we didn't go the way of Argentina or Brazil.