Adios Dirtbag Joe and crackhead junkie Hunter
"I also left out the Woodrow Wilson Worldwide Pandemic of 1918. Wilson should have had secret CDC agents imbedded throughout Spain to prevent spread of the flu to other countries. ".
[URL]https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4192936-democrats-wake-up-to-red-flags-over-bidens-latest-poll-numbers/[/URL]
[URL]https://thehill.com/homenews/4193392-comer-i-do-believe-we-have-the-votes-for-impeachment-inquiry/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/eric-adams-migrants-new-york-city-00114437[/URL]
All praise and glory goees to Our Lord and Savior DJT
"I also left out the Woodrow Wilson Worldwide Pandemic of 1918. Wilson should have had secret CDC agents imbedded throughout Spain to prevent spread of the flu to other countries. ".
The American Renaissance Is Already at Hand.
Sept. 7, 2023.
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Two megatrends have shaped American life since the 1980's: The rise of China and the hollowing out of American industry.
China's economic boom prompted a thousand predictions — that it will soon surpass us as an economic power, that the 21st century is going to be a Chinese century, that America is an aging, decadent nation destined for second place.
The hollowing out of American industry fed the sense that capitalism is betraying the middle class. America has a parasitic financial sector, but we don't make things anymore. Manufacturing jobs got outsourced to China and Mexico, and wages stagnated.
These two trends contributed to the sense that America is in decline — to the angry, gloomy pall that has settled over political life.
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But it's beginning to look as if those two megatrends are reversing.
China does not look like a growing dynamic power, but a troubled, stagnating one. Growth rates are falling. The unemployment rate for those ages 16 to 24 in urban areas is at a demoralizing 21 percent. Private investment is sluggish. A forecast from Bloomberg Economics now projects that the size of the Chinese economy will not successfully surpass the size of the American economy — despite its vastly greater population.
The causes of China's stagnation are myriad and deep: An overinvestment in real estate, the decline in foreign investment as the state become more menacing, the decline of exports, the demographic doom spiral. Since 2016, the actual number of births in China has fallen by nearly 50 percent.
But the core problems are endemic to the regime: Centralized authoritarian control is incompatible with a wide-open, innovative, free-flowing modern economy. Industrial policy may look good for a short time, but it ossifies. China now has a plethora of zombie corporations, which suck up subsidies without successfully competing in the marketplace. Open information flow is crucial to any nation; when the state suppresses information unflattering to the regime, then everything is bound to sink into mediocrity.
As the Chinese economy deflates, American industry is looking less hollow. America has a net gain of 530,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2017. The manufacturing boom has been torrid of late. Since late 2021, investment in the construction of manufacturing facilities has more than doubled.
Much of that boom is happening in the mountain West, the Upper Midwest and parts of the Southeast. Chips, electric vehicles, renewable energy sources and batteries are being manufactured in places like Michigan, Kentucky, Minnesota and Arizona.
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Over the last few years, for example, scads of tech firms have decided to invest in manufacturing plants in formerly rust belt Ohio: Intel ($20 billion), Amazon ($7. 8 billion), Google ($3. 7 billion). According to a Hoover Institution study, Ohio in 2020 attracted almost 14 times more new capital projects per capita than California.
In short, capital, construction and manufacturing are flowing back into many places that have taken their hits. Since 2011, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, wage growth has "accelerated more for high school graduates than for college graduates. ".
What lessons are we to draw from these two ongoing turnarounds? The first is that there's a lot of resilience and dynamism in America's brand of broadly free market capitalism. As I've noted before, in 1990 the European and American gross domestic products per capita were nearly neck and neck. Since then, America has surged ahead. American labor productivity increased by 67 percent between 1990 and 2022, compared to 55 percent in Europe and 51 percent in Japan.
In 2012 I heard a commencement speech by Dr. Atul Gawande that introduced me to the phrase "failure to rescue. " he reported on a study that found the best hospitals don't necessarily prevent bad things from happening, but they're really good at rescuing people when they have a complication to prevent failures from becoming catastrophes.
The American economy, especially in the Midwest, is kind of like that. Many of those places have experienced economic decline, but governments and people have shifted and adapted, and they are bouncing back.
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The second lesson I draw is that Bidenomics is working — big time. President Biden promised to help America outcompete authoritarian China and to heal some of the economic divides at home. Both those goals are being achieved.
According to the Treasury Department, over 80 percent of the investment made through the Inflation Reduction Act is going to counties with college graduation rates lower than the national average. Nearly 90 percent of investments are being made in counties with below-average weekly wages.
I know many of you think Biden is too old, but I'the vote for a 100-year-old who could keep delivering results like that.
The third lesson I draw is that the right-wing populists are hopelessly outdated. Take, for example, the writer Sohrab Ahmari, who argues that "the state must also take a far more active role in coordinating economic activity for the good of the whole community. " But China's industrial policy illustrates the classic downsides of excessive state interference. Even the vaunted German model, one of the great success stories of the 20th century, is showing its age. German manufacturing output and gross domestic product have been stagnant since 2018.
American politics is dysfunctional, our social fabric is in tatters, but somehow our economy is among the strongest in the world. Our economic competitors stumble and fall; we stumble, and somehow bounce back.
Your bank loan fees and insurance rates were raised to pay for Trump's scam
Deadbeats like Trump and his Crime Family cost Americans billions per year picking up the tab for their scams.
LOL. "Dems are legalizing shop-lifting"! Lolol. Oh my goodness gracious me. So now stealing a stick of gum is a misdemeanor instead of a felony in California. BFD. LOL.
[B]Trump overstated net worth by up to $3.6 billion per year, NY AG alleges in new filing.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/08/trump-overstated-net-worth-by-up-to-3point6-billion-per-year-ny-ag-alleges-in-new-filing.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Former President Donald Trumps net worth was inflated by billions of dollars more than what the New York attorney generals office initially found to be the case, Attorney General Letitia James said in a new court filing Friday.
Citing an extensive analysis by valuation and accounting experts, James office found that Trumps net worth in any given year between 2011 and 2021 was overstated by $1.9 billion to $3.6 billion.
This new, larger number is still a conservative estimate, James wrote in the Friday filing, because those experts accepted at face value many of the elements of Trumps financial statements that would otherwise be rejected in a full-blown appraisal review.
The new claims were part of a motion in opposition to Trumps request for a summary judgment in his favor in the attorney generals sweeping civil fraud lawsuit.
Filed in September 2022, the suit alleges that the former president, his adult sons and his businesses defrauded banks and insurance companies for years in an effort to obtain better loan terms and manipulate taxes for the Trump Organization. The prosecutor is seeking $250 million in damages.
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[/QUOTE]Good lord. As if Trump's creation of Trump's Pandemic, Trump's demands to shut down businesses and schools across America, Trump's crashing worldwide economies and destroying global supply-chains that caused hyper-inflation everywhere, Trump wiping out millions upon millions of jobs, Trump flushing Trillions down the shitter with nothing for America to show for it, Trump wiping out Trillions more in USA household wealth, etc, etc wasn't bad enough.
Its a shame organizations like the ACLU don't exist anymore
Elvis, Marquis and Tooms, I'm running short on time today, but shall return to address your excellent points.
In the meantime, this is something we should all agree on. James Larkin, one of the founders of Backpage, took his life recently after years of persecution by the federal government. He was bankrupted and persecuted for exercising First Amendment rights. The government seized his assets without due process. All this even though Backpage did its best to combat trafficking and underage prostitution. Apparently in the United States of America, shutting down sex work takes precedence over free speech.
[URL]https://reason.com/2023/08/02/backpage-publisher-alt-weekly-entrepreneur-and-free-speech-warrior-james-larkin-has-died/[/URL]
And this, gentlemen, is why I support Libertarians. Yes, the party is too extreme on some issues. But Democratic and Republican politicians will mostly dance on Larkin's grave.
This is from a 2012 memo prepared by the Justice Department:
"Backpage genuinely wanted to get child prostitution off of its site. Witnesses have consistently testified that Backpage was making substantial efforts to prevent criminal conduct on its site, that it was coordinating efforts with law enforcement agencies and NCMEC (the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children), and that it was conducting its businesses in accordance with legal advice. ".
[URL]https://dailystormer.in/that-70s-show-actor-sentenced-to-30-to-life-for-rape-that-allegedly-occurred-20-years-ago/[/URL]
Harvey got railroaded as did Bill Cosby and are Kelly.
The message is loud and clear if even they arent safe.
None of us are.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520&t=4s[/URL]
Joe and the junkie suck HIV dripping cock
[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/08/breitbart-business-digest-bidenomics-is-pushing-down-wages-by-flooding-the-country-with-migrants/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2023/09/08/chinese-state-media-praise-esg-looks-lot-like-our-social-credit-system/[/URL]
Trumps crime family? LOL project much LOL
"Deadbeats like Trump and his Crime Family cost Americans billions per year picking up the tab for their scams.
LOL. "Dems are legalizing shop-lifting"! Lolol. Oh my goodness gracious me. So now stealing a stick of gum is a misdemeanor instead of a felony in California. BFD. LOL.
Trump overstated net worth by up to $3. 6 billion per year, NY AG alleges in new filing.
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/08/trump-overstated-net-worth-by-up-to-3point6-billion-per-year-ny-ag-alleges-in-new-filing.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
Good lord. As if Trump's creation of Trump's Pandemic, Trump's demands to shut down businesses and schools across America, Trump's crashing worldwide economies and destroying global supply-chains that caused hyper-inflation everywhere, Trump wiping out millions upon millions of jobs, Trump flushing Trillions down the shitter with nothing for America to show for it, Trump wiping out Trillions more in USA household wealth, etc, etc wasn't bad enough. ".
Just step aside Dirty Joe (for health reasons and to spean more time with your family LOL Joe and Hunter in the same cell in Florence Co) before you're impeached and indicted.
Why Is Joe Biden So Unpopular?
Sept. 9, 2023,7:00 am ET.
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Joe Biden is an unpopular president, and without some recovery, he could easily lose to Donald Trump in 2024.
By itself, this is no great wonder: His two predecessors were also unpopular at this stage of their presidencies, also endangered in their re-election bids.
But with Trump and Barack Obama, there were reasonably simple explanations. For Obama, it was the unemployment rate, 9. 1 percent in September 2011, and the bruising battles over Obamacare. For Trump, it was the fact that he had never been popular, making bad approval ratings his presidency's natural default.
For Biden, though, there was a normal honeymoon, months of reasonably high approval ratings that ended only with the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. And since then, it's been hard to distill a singular explanation for what's kept his numbers lousy.
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The economy is better than in Obama's first term, inflation is ebbing, and the feared recession hasn't materialized. The woke wars and Covid battles that disadvantaged Democrats are no longer central, and the post-Roe culture wars seem like friendlier terrain. Biden's foreign policy team has defended Ukraine without (so far) a dangerous escalation with the Russians, and Biden has even delivered legislative bipartisanship, co-opting Trumpian promises about industrial policy along the way.
This has created mystification among Democratic partisans as to why all this isn't enough to give the president a decent polling lead. I don't share that mystification. But I do think there's real uncertainty about which of the forces dragging on Biden's approval ratings matter most.
Start with the theory that Biden's troubles are mostly still about inflation — that people just hate rising prices and he isn't credited with avoiding a recession because wage increases have been eaten up by inflation until recently.
If this is the master issue, then the White House doesn't have many options beyond patience. The administration's original inflationary sin, the overspending in the American Rescue Plan Act, isn't going to be repeated, and apart from the possibility of an armistice in Ukraine relieving some pressure on gas prices, there aren't a lot of policy levers to pull. The hope has to be that inflation continues to drift down, real wages rise consistently and in November 2024, Biden gets the economic credit he isn't getting now.
But maybe it's not just the economy. Across multiple polls, Biden seems to be losing support from minority voters, continuing a Trump-era trend. This raises the possibility that there's a social-issues undertow for Democrats, in which even when wokeness isn't front and center, the fact that the party's activist core is so far left gradually pushes culturally conservative African Americans and Hispanics toward the G. O. P. — much as culturally conservative white Democrats drifted slowly into the Republican coalition between the 1960's and the 2000's.
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Bill Clinton temporarily arrested that rightward drift by deliberately picking public fights with factions to his left. But this has not been Biden's strategy. He's moved somewhat rightward on issues like immigration, in which progressivism's policy vision hit the rocks. But he doesn't make a big deal about his differences with his progressive flank. I don't expect that to change — but it might be costing him in ways somewhat invisible to liberals at the moment.
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Or maybe the big problem is just simmering anxiety about Biden's age. Maybe his poll numbers dipped first in the Afghanistan crisis because it showcased the public absenteeism that often characterizes his presidency. Maybe some voters now just assume that a vote for Biden is a vote for the hapless Kamala Harris. Maybe there's just a vigor premium in presidential campaigns that gives Trump an advantage.
In which case a different leader with the same policies might be more popular. Lacking any way to elevate such a leader, however, all Democrats can do is ask Biden to show more public vigor, with all the risks that may entail.
But this is at least a strategy, of sorts. The hardest problem for the incumbent to address may be the pall of private depression and general pessimism hanging over Americans, especially younger Americans, which has been worsened by Covid but seems rooted in deeper social trends.
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I don't see any obvious way for Biden to address this issue through normal presidential positioning. I would not recommend updating Jimmy Carter's malaise speech with the therapy-speak of contemporary progressivism. I also don't think the president is suited to be a crusader against digital derangement or a herald of religious revival.
Biden got elected, in part, by casting himself as a transitional figure, a bridge to a more youthful and optimistic future. Now he needs some general belief in that brighter future to help carry him to re-election.
But wherever Americans might find such optimism, we are probably well past the point that a decrepit-seeming president can hope to generate it himself.
Another guy worth reading at NYT.
Douhat Edsall Brooks and Bret Stevens.
