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[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2884841]"I love that Repub Numbskull Trump is such a numbskull that he hasn't figured out what his 'winning' a Federal Appeals Court or SCOTUS ruling that, indeed, the President of the United States of America enjoys complete prosecutorial immunity for anything he / she wishes to do as POTUS would probably mean for him.
LOLOL.
Apparently he is so delusional, demented and cognitively impaired that he has forgotten Joe Biden IS the POTUS right now! LOL.
I guess Sleepy Joe will enjoy Carte Blanche and a 100% free pass under Trump's Historic Presidential Immunity Ruling when he not only orders Trump and his entire Crime Family incarcerated for a few days before their public execution along with an assurance that the exact same fate will befall any members of Congress who so much as hints at Impeaching him for it.
Lolol.
As usual, Repub Numbskull Trump has not exactly thought this through as much as, say, a normal human being might. ".
[URL]https://www.businessinsider.com/romney-biden-2024-election-january-6-democracy-pitch-bust-2024-1[/URL]
LMFAO.[/QUOTE]Oh yes. And if only we had elected MittWitt back in 2012 his sterling Repub economic policies and stewardship might just about now be seeing his Party's 2008 skyrocketing unemployment rate declining to below 6%!
Impressive.
Uh. He is so dumb he doesn't even know one of the reasons his Party and its beloved benefactors in Mainstream Media has forced Biden to shift to campaigning (for now) on Trump and his and MittWitt's Party's existential threat to democracy at home and around the world is because they can not deal with and refute him campaigning on Biden's Historic Great Dem Economic Recovery, Expansion and Jobs Creation after being handed another Great Repub Crash and Massive Jobs Destruction and "Once in 100 Years Disaster. ".
BTW, unless Biden mentions it wherever possible won't the American Electorate wonder, gee, why are so many states feeling obligated to follow the Constitution and avoid breaking the law by not putting your boy on the ballot?
I mean, what with everyone supposedly having forgotten all about the only 3-4 "accomplishments" of Trump's entire so-called presidency; adding Trillions to the deficit with nothing to show for it, producing at least two huge spikes in crime and border crossings (the latter really being his Repub Congress' responsibility), the creation of Trump's Pandemic and the resulting deaths and worldwide economic, supply-chain collapse and Inflation and, oh yes, his attempted overthrow of American democracy culminating in the day his efforts incited a violent, cop-killing mob of Repub Insurrectionists to storm and attack the Capitol while he sat on his butt for more than 3 hours doing absolutely nothing to stop it, enjoying it, cheering them on, all more violations of his Oath of Office and why and how he disqualified himself from holding elected office again.
Until his Repub Justices on the Supreme Court twist themselves into the usual Repub Twisty McPretzels on their penchant for carving out one time only exceptions for their (your) Party's clearly unfit for office candidates, that is.
Florida GOP Chair, Christian Ziegler gets the boot and is forcibly ousted from office against his will, amid sexual and rape allegations, and now entangled with video voyeurism laws.
[b]Florida GOP Ousts Christian Ziegler as Chair Amid Sexual Assault...[/b]
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/christian-ziegler-florida-republican.html[/URL]
Now really Repubs, what was that so difficult?
Now just think how much better off the country would have been, had Repubs [b](grown some cojones and)[/b] done the same with Trump, the dude, who's actually been found liable of sexual abuse, months ago...sheesh!
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2884936]"Hey, I have gone on record only crediting 90%-95% of the deaths, worldwide economic collapse, massive jobs destruction and resulting Inflation from Trump's Pandemic on Trump himself. Not 100%. "Make sure I win" Xi picks up the remaining 5%-10%.
What should happen to Trump and Repubs? Again. I have been quite specific about that; Trump should be convicted for every crime he has gleefully admitted he committed, which should find him in leg-irons sitting in a prison cell for a long, long time.
We can add never being allowed to hold political office again re the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as well.
Otherwise, the best America and the world can ever expect to get out of the Repub Party is for it to never occupy the White House again, never hold more than 20-25 seats in the Senate and more than about 60 seats in the House. Ever. Any more presence of Repubs than that in the Federal Government adds immeasurable amounts of danger and risk of historic economic and national security disaster. Obviously.
For me, the DOJ and the criminal code, what Biden did is not a crime because there is zero evidence of him KNOWINGLY packing and / or storing top secret documents in an unsafe place OR RETAINING them despite the proper authorities requesting they be returned.
Period.
By stark contrast, once Trump was requested to return the top secret documents packed and being stored in his toilet, he lost that UNKNOWINGLY status and his delaying the return of them for MONTHS as well as ignoring the subpoena to return them locked him inarguably into the illegal RETAINING of them status.
Both of which are crimes.[/QUOTE][B] Report shows the extent of Republican efforts to sabotage democracy.
Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process.
Dec. 24, 2021[/B]
[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/23/voter-suppression-election-interference-republicans[/URL]
[QUOTE]The Republican assault on free and fair elections instigated by Donald Trump is gathering pace, with efforts to sabotage the normal workings of American democracy sweeping state legislatures across the US.
A year that began with the violent insurrection at the US Capitol is ending with an unprecedented push to politicize, criminalize or in other ways subvert the nonpartisan administration of elections. A year-end report from pro-democracy groups identifies no fewer than 262 bills introduced in 41 states that hijack the election process.[/QUOTE]Yet, the American Electorate managed to surmount those unprecedented efforts by Trump and his Republican Party to rig elections and increased the number of Democratic Party seats in the Senate and limit the usual "shalacking" the WH Party takes in that first Midterm to a humiliating Repub Getting Smaller and Smaller All The Time Pink Tinkle.
Which does not bode well for Repubs this year considering the Dems have now learned what all those anti-democratic Repub tricks and cheats were in 2022 and how to surmount them even more successfully this time.
"Oh yes. And if only we had elected MittWitt back in 2012 his sterling Repub economic policies and stewardship might just about now be seeing his Party's 2008 skyrocketing unemployment rate declining to below 6%!
Impressive.
Uh. He is so dumb he doesn't even know one of the reasons his Party and its beloved benefactors in Mainstream Media has forced Biden to shift to campaigning (for now) on Trump and his and MittWitt's Party's existential threat to democracy at home and around the world is because they can not deal with and refute him campaigning on Biden's Historic Great Dem Economic Recovery, Expansion and Jobs Creation after being handed another Great Repub Crash and Massive Jobs Destruction and "Once in 100 Years Disaster. ".
BTW, unless Biden mentions it wherever possible won't the American Electorate wonder, gee, why are so many states feeling obligated to follow the Constitution and avoid breaking the law by not putting your boy on the ballot?
I mean, what with everyone supposedly having forgotten all about the only 3-4 "accomplishments" of Trump's entire so-called presidency; adding Trillions to the deficit with nothing to show for it, producing at least two huge spikes in crime and border crossings (the latter really being his Repub Congress' responsibility), the creation of Trump's Pandemic and the resulting deaths and worldwide economic, supply-chain collapse and Inflation and, oh yes, his attempted overthrow of American democracy culminating in the day his efforts incited a violent, cop-killing mob of Repub Insurrectionists to storm and attack the Capitol while he sat on his butt for more than 3 hours doing absolutely nothing to stop it, enjoying it, cheering them on, all more violations of his Oath of Office and why and how he disqualified himself from holding elected office again.
Until his Repub Justices on the Supreme Court twist themselves into the usual Repub Twisty McPretzels on their penchant for carving out one time only exceptions for their (your) Party's clearly unfit for office candidates, that is."
[URL]https://www.livemint.com/news/world/con-artist-says-barack-obama-took-drugs-had-sex-with-him-in-2008-video-11693990543882.html[/URL]
Drug addicts shouldn't even be allowed to clean the toilets in the White House.
[URL]https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/701583.html[/URL]
Unfit for office how about that draft dodging anti American piece of shit Bubba?
Or #43.
[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/09/exclusive-donald-trump-recounts-how-ted-kennedy-once-told-him-joe-biden-dumbest-senator/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-great-replacement-theory-musk-exposes-immense-growing-size-illegal-immigration[/URL]
In keeping with the classic Republican move since forever, Repub Trump's 2 big campaign promises are things Dem Biden has already shouldered all the heavy lifting and assumed all the political risk to accomplish.
[B]Trump talks dictatorship, abortion at Fox town hall[/B]
[URL]https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-talks-dictatorship-abortion-at-fox-town-hall/[/URL]
[QUOTE]"Im gonna be a dictator for one day. Were gonna do two things: the border, were gonna make it so tight, youre not gonna come in [b]unless you come in legally[/b], and the second is energy, were gonna [b]drill baby drill[/b]. And then Im not gonna be a dictator anymore, the hotel mogul and onetime reality TV star said. [/QUOTE]Uh.
1. Illegal border crossings are already way down under Biden. Despite confusion about it in numbskull minds like that of Elon Musk, the high migrant crossings occurring now are not "illegal" until and unless their claim of refugee status is investigated and denied. Which, thanks to Trump gutting that process on his way out previously, takes a lot more time and requires a lot more staff and facilities than before. Otherwise, Biden would be violating International Human Rights Law and Treaty as it is required he obey by the USA Constitution.
That is the system repeatedly affirmed by Repub Congresses and why any reformation of it must begin in the Repub Getting Smaller and Smaller All The Time Pink Tinkle House.
[B]Axios Explains: The myth of a U.S.-Mexico "open border"[/B]
[URL]https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/us-mexico-border-open-borders-myth[/URL]
2. [B]The United States is producing more oil than any country in history.
Dec. 19, 2023[/B].
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html[/URL]#text=Last%20 month%2 see%20 weekly%20 US%20 oil, sent%20 output%20 and%20 prices%20 crashing.
[QUOTE]Last month, weekly US oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Thats just above the Donald Trump-era record of 13.1 million set in early 2020 just before the Covid-19 crisis sent output and prices crashing.[/QUOTE]BTW, please don't tell anyone in typically pro Repub Mainstream Media, but the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline today is within 9 to 14 cents of where it was in 2018 and 2019, Trump's supposedly "Greatest Economy Ever" years prior to his economic and national security policies and stewardship produced Trump's Pandemic.
And, imagine that, without anyone in America becoming a dictator for so much as 1 minute, much less one day or the broad USA Stock Market Crashing into a 20%+ Bear Market as it did in December 2018.
[URL]https://gasprices.aaa.com/[/URL]
Latest = $3. 078.
[URL]https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&f=m[/URL]
May, 2018 = $2.987.
May, 2019 = $2.946.
For Florida Repubs and Ron DeSantis, all is not well as of late. So could a DeSantis/Repub Florida meltdown be coming?
What with DeSantis' 2024 presidential campaign run being a huge flop, having been in a downward trajectory since its inception having been on equal footing with Trump, financial backing drying up and now finds itself last, in some polls running behind Nikki Haley (who according to Vivek Ramaswamy, is "Dick Cheney in 3-Inch Heels"). Is his political career is on the ropes?
But hey, I'm not one to believe in polling numbers so he may very well "a punchers chance". But with Haley nipping at his heels and being down 50+ points to the original "OG grifter" front runner, is this really just the least of DeSantis's problems?
With his lack of attention to the state, weak governorship and mounting problems everyday Floridians are facing at home, while he tries to prop up a brutally failing campaign, it has not gone unnoticed by Floridians.
Followed by recent Florida RNC Chairman, Zielger's sexual assault, rape allegations and LGBTQ 3-threesomes with wife Bridget Ziegler, has only inflamed and underscored the hypocrisy of their [i][b]"Christian family values"[/b], "war on woke", [b]"war on Don't Say Gay"[/b][/i] bills and anti-LGBTQ legislation.
Now it should be said, that while Ron DeSantis had hand picked Christian and Bridget Ziegler (two buffoons for public positions they have no business holding) and it is relevant that Bridget is (or was) "bestees" with Casy DeSantis. Again calling into question his due diligence when "hiring" , the "qualifications" of his appointments and thus his governorship.
Although it's refreshing to see the MSM haven't yet maligned, disparaged and accused the DeSantis', of also engaging in LGBTQ 3-threesome, by just being the Zielger's "friends and bestees adjacent", unlike what the MAGA Repubs are doing with Hunter Biden and his father.
[b]DeSantis Lobs Most Forceful Attacks Yet Against Trump, Days Before Iowa Caucuses[/b]
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/us/politics/desantis-haley-cnn-town-hall.html[/URL]
But the die is cast and the spectre of Zielger's LGBTQ hypocrisy and political fallout for Desantis will loom like a dark cloud over his campaign, despite any last minute feeble heroics, to "lash out" at Trump", during the bogus Fox News Channel town hall.
Speaking of political career meltdowns, here is a funny excerpt from Rick Wilson (Lincoln Project).
[LIST]He first tell us that, [i][b]"Kevin McCarthy made an announcement on social media somewhere and says he gonna join/work with Silicon Valley and help craft A.I. Regulation/Legislation"[/b][/i]
He then laughingly goes on to say, [i][b]"Oh God!...Skynet and the T1[/b] [and Judgment Day T2's] [b]Terminators may as well just show up NOW, and kill us all." [/b][/i] (...kkkk!)[/LIST]
Yeah, just what the world needs, "a Kevin McCarthy", taking their Republican "Frankenstein politics" to the world of AI...'[b]"God help us indeed!!!"[/b]
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2885249]In keeping with the classic Republican move since forever, Repub Trump's 2 big campaign promises are things Dem Biden has already shouldered all the heavy lifting and assumed all the political risk to accomplish.
1. Illegal border crossings are already way down under Biden. Despite confusion about it in numbskull minds like that of Elon Musk, the high migrant crossings occurring now are not "illegal" until and unless their claim of refugee status is investigated and denied.[/QUOTE]The Toomsian pretzel brain is now becoming much clearer. Laws are for Republicans and they can break them and go to jail. Democrats or in this case illegal aliens expected to vote Democrat cannot break any law. It is perfectly legal for anyone from any country to cross over the border from Mexico, even people from Africa and Asia.
If you have a Democratic douche brain, you can be against racism and racist against white people. You can be a soy boy like Spidy and be against sexism while being sexist versus men.
And anyone including Elon Musk, whose brain you could not hold a candle to Tooms, who criticizes Democrats when they exhibit this illogical pattern is an idiot.
Rule #1 is the Democratic party is always right. Rule #2 is if the Democratic party is wrong, see rule #1.
This is right out of Orwell and Animal Farm.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2885249]The United States is producing more oil than any country in history.[/QUOTE]LOL. And the leaders of oil companies were hypercritical of Biden for their not producing more early in the administration. At this point, the oil producers just tuned Biden out and said fuck it and went ahead and started drilling. And lo and behold, look at this wonderful result.
If Biden were so damn pro drilling, why the fuck was he draining the SPR early in his presidency? The guy was so desperate to get oil he was schmoozing up to Iran, Venezuela, and then tried the Saudis who blew him off. The guy has been the biggest anti fossil fuel and global warming cuck the oval office has ever seen.
Joe Rogan had a guest on his program from Alaska, and he was like if we did not spend so much money on Ukraine, we could have used said money to secure the border and had both a gas and water pipeline from Alaska to California with change to spare.
All the gains the USA has made on carbon emissions have been due to the change from coal to natural gas for electricity.
Having been to Alaska, I saw the whole state was practically drenched in fresh water. All this talk about Lake Mead and the Colorado river drying up, and it could be solved with a water pipeline from Alaska? LOL. No, the Democratic douche logic is we want to use the Ukraine war to oust Putin since he cost us the 2016 election.
If you are a Democratic douche, you care more about getting Putin than water and safe, cheap, and clean electricity. SMH. Only good part about all this might be seeing those Democratic douche Californians dying of thirst.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2885394]The Toomsian pretzel brain is now becoming much clearer. Laws are for Republicans and they can break them and go to jail. Democrats or in this case illegal aliens expected to vote Democrat cannot break any law. It is perfectly legal for anyone from any country to cross over the border from Mexico, even people from Africa and Asia.
If you have a Democratic douche brain, you can be against racism and racist against white people. You can be a soy boy like Spidy and be against sexism while being sexist versus men.
And anyone including Elon Musk, whose brain you could not hold a candle to Tooms, who criticizes Democrats when they exhibit this illogical pattern is an idiot.
Rule #1 is the Democratic party is always right. Rule #2 is if the Democratic party is wrong, see rule #1.
This is right out of Orwell and Animal Farm.
LOL. And the leaders of oil companies were hypercritical of Biden for their not producing more early in the administration. At this point, the oil producers just tuned Biden out and said fuck it and went ahead and started drilling. And lo and behold, look at this wonderful result.
If Biden were so damn pro drilling, why the fuck was he draining the SPR early in his presidency? The guy was so desperate to get oil he was schmoozing up to Iran, Venezuela, and then tried the Saudis who blew him off. The guy has been the biggest anti fossil fuel and global warming cuck the oval office has ever seen.
Joe Rogan had a guest on his program from Alaska, and he was like if we did not spend so much money on Ukraine, we could have used said money to secure the border and had both a gas and water pipeline from Alaska to California with change to spare.
All the gains the USA has made on carbon emissions have been due to the change from coal to natural gas for electricity.
Having been to Alaska, I saw the whole state was practically drenched in fresh water. All this talk about Lake Mead and the Colorado river drying up, and it could be solved with a water pipeline from Alaska? LOL. No, the Democratic douche logic is we want to use the Ukraine war to oust Putin since he cost us the 2016 election.
If you are a Democratic douche, you care more about getting Putin than water and safe, cheap, and clean electricity. SMH. Only good part about all this might be seeing those Democratic douche Californians dying of thirst.[/QUOTE]1. Repub Douche Trump could not prevent migrants claiming refugee status from crossing the border and providing their Constitutionally-mandated due process to have it investigated and then approved or denied without violating the USA Constitution and, BTW, a recent Repub Douche Supreme Court ruling, any more than Biden has.
Those hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the border lately are not crossing "illegally. " Which means Trump just confirmed he would do nothing different about them than Biden is doing.
Please explain that to Elon Musk. I have time to shoot off these posts every now and then. And it's fun. But there is not enough time in one life to explain these simple concepts to numbskulls like Elon Musk. Have at it.
2. The USA is producing more oil under Biden than was produced under Trump.
Oh, and I see the average price of a gallon of regular gas dropped even lower since my post yesterday.
And all without Joe Biden becoming a dictator for even 1 minute much less a day.
And without Dem Biden producing the usual Great Repub Crash or Great Repub Depression or Great Repub Recession or Great Repub Massive Jobs Destruction that is the usual way Repub Douches lower the price of gas, the value of your home, the value of your investments, lower wages, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs and, so impressive, lower Inflation.
As I easily predicted here when the Repub Douche Getting Smaller and Smaller All The Time Pink Tinkle took control of the House thanks to their unprecedented efforts to cheat and rig elections in their favor in at least 41 states, their nearly sole focus for their term will be to gaze upon, drool over and share among their Repub base nude photos of Hunter Biden while setting about Impeaching President Hunter Biden.
It would not be about reducing Inflation and Crime in America. Joe Biden has already accomplished that.
And it would not be about controlling the border and reforming Immigration Policy, which is by far more the responsibility of Congress than the POTUS.
Nope. This is what it will be all about this Repub Pink Tinkle Congressional Term. Lolol:
[B]MTG (Repub Marjorie Taylor Greene) Shows Hunter Bidens Nudes on Capitol Hill
Again[/B]
[URL]https://news.yahoo.com/mtg-shows-hunter-biden-nudes-221404743.html[/URL]
Yes, what happened to "I alone can fix it"?
[B]Trump Dreams of Economic Disaster.
Jan. 11, 2024[/B]
[URL]https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/11/trump-dreams-of-economic-disaster/[/URL]
[QUOTE]Did Donald Trump just say that he's hoping for an economic crash? Not exactly. But what he did say was arguably even worse, especially once you put it in context.
And Trump's evident panic over recent good economic news deepens what is, for me, the biggest conundrum of American politics: Why have so many people joined and stayed in a personality cult built around a man who poses an existential threat to our nation's democracy and is also personally a complete blowhard?
So what did Trump actually say on Monday? Strictly speaking, he didn't call for a crash, he predicted one, positing that the economy is running on "fumes" and that he hopes the inevitable crash will happen this year, "because I don't want to be Herbert Hoover. ".
[B]If you think about it, this isn't at all what a man who believes himself to be a brilliant economic manager and supposedly cares about the nation's welfare should say. What he should have said instead is something like this: My opponent's policies have set us on the path to disaster, but I hope the disaster doesn't come until I'm in office because I don't want the American people to suffer unnecessarily, and, because I'm a very stable genius, I alone can fix it.
But no, Trump says he wants the disaster to happen on someone else's watch, specifically and openly so that he won't have to bear the responsibility.[/b]
Speaking of which, when did Trump start predicting economic disaster under President Biden? The answer is before the 2020 election. In October 2020, for example, he asserted that a Biden win would "unleash an economic disaster of epic proportions. ".
Now, everyone who makes economic predictions gets some of them wrong. I personally predicted a recession if Trump won in 2016, partly because markets seemed to believe that a Trump victory would be bad for the economy. But I retracted that call just three days after the election, acknowledging that I had briefly succumbed to motivated reasoning.
Trump, by contrast, has been predicting disaster under Biden for more than three years, without ever admitting that his predictions haven't come true. What we've gotten from Trump instead is a series of desperate false claims about the state of the economy. No, the price of bacon isn't "up five times" under Biden.
Some of these false claims fall into the category of: Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? Last month, for example, Trump declared that gas costs "$5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon," when there are big signs all around the country advertising gas prices a bit over $3.
Maybe he doesn't get out much.
What Trump surely does do, though, is watch a lot of TV, which means that he's aware that the stock market has gone up a lot lately. This clearly troubles him. Indeed, he's apparently so rattled by stock gains under Biden that in a recent speech he managed both to dismiss those gains as irrelevant just "making rich people richer" and to claim credit for them: "The stock market is good because a lot of people think we're going to win the election. ".
If this sounds ridiculous, that's because it is. Here we have a guy who spent much of his time in office bragging about a rising stock market suddenly declaring that stock gains are bad when someone else is in power, while insisting that he deserves credit for good things (or are they bad things?) that happen when he isn't even running the country.
Does this matter? Trump may want an economic crash, but he doesn't have any tools I'm aware of that could produce one. But as I wrote the other day, there's a risk that pressure from Trump and his allies will lead the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates too high for too long.
Practical concerns aside, however, Trump's flailing on the economy and the stock market deepens the mystery of his political appeal.
I hate saying this, but I do understand why millions of people are drawn to Trump's dictatorial ambitions, his encouragement of violence, his declarations that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country. " The sad truth is that there have always been many Americans who fundamentally don't believe in America's democratic ideals.
But I find it puzzling that Trump doesn't pay more of a political price for his boasting, whining and transparently self-serving lies.
MAGA types tend to idealize the 1950's, largely based on a delusional image of what life was really like at the time. It was especially terrible if you weren't a white male, but things could be pretty bad even if you were. One thing the '50's did have, however, was an image of how men were supposed to behave, one that emphasized stoicism, honesty and a willingness to take responsibility for one's actions what my parents would have called being a mensch.
Trump is as far from being a mensch as is humanly possible. Yet his supporters either don't see that or don't care, which seems to me to be a bigger departure from traditional values than all the wokeness in the world.[/QUOTE]
[b]WARNING:[/b] Content posted below may cause [b]Incels' brains[/b] and [b]heads to explode[/b] and/or Incels may also experience, [b]shriveled up dicks or erectile dysfunction,[/b] should they read on further... Don't say I didn't warn you Incels...you know, who you are! (...kkkk!)
[U]1. Taylor Swift vs. The Incel/"He-Man" Haters Club[/U]
[b] --- Taylor Swift named Time magazines person of the year --- [/b]
[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/12/06/taylor-swift-time-person-of-the-year/[/URL]
Bloomberg reports, Taylor Swift, is busting all kinds of touring records. Her Eras tour will become the greatest grossing tour of all-time (surpassing the Rolling Stones and Madonna). Her Eras tour (and Beyonce's Renaissance tour) have generated $6-8 billions of dollars to the US economy. And lets not forget about the "Beyonc 'Economic' Bump", that infuses billions in to the local economies of the cities she tours.
Incel dick shriveling 'Fun Fact':[LIST]Taylor Swift, money generating prowess, is so great, [b]World leaders around the globe[/b], [u]are begging Taylor Swift[/u], for a tour stop.[/LIST]
Bloomberg, NPR dubs 2023, the [b]"Economic Year of the women".[/b]
[URL]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-12-27/the-economic-power-of-women-in-2023-video[/URL]
[b]From Swiftie beads and Barbie to Beyonc, girls ran the world economy in 2023[/b]
[URL]https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221483930/girl-economy-taylor-swift-beyonce-barbie-2023[/URL]
[u]2. 2023 The Economic Year of the Woman[/u]
[b]Taylor Swift, Janet Yellen and Barbie: The Year of the (Economic) Woman[/b]
[URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/26/taylor-swift-janet-yellen-barbie-year-economic-woman/[/URL]
From Swift, Beyonce, Barbie to Janet Yellen - The year of women as economic powerhouses, sees women spending tons of disposable income, as become a tour de force. According to a recent April 2023 consumer study, 78% of women identify as the primary shopper of their household.
Well hardly the [i]"economy running on fumes"[/i], the Repub front runner for the Repub leadership, is crowing about, or the [i]"recession in the next 12 month"[/i], he want to see either. I just love the irony of it all, where women, after women, after women, just seem to be the nail in his proverbial coffin. R.I.P.!!
WARNING: Incels, take out your tinfoil hats and protect yourselves!
[U]3. Taylor Swift vs. Far-right QAnon/MAGA Repubs[/U]
How Taylor Swift, has sent the QAnon/MAGA far-right Repubs in a mind dizzying frenzy, to the point where, the far-right QAnon\MAGA conspiracists, have crawled from under their rocks, to accuse, the [b]newest billionaire[/b] popstar artist, of election interference, unsavory alliances with the Soros family and god knows what other nutjob conspiracies they can think up.
How rich that is, coming from the violent, coup plotting, election denying insurrectionists, themselves? (...kkkk!)
[b]A Taylor Swift Instagram post helped drive a surge in voter registration[/b]
[URL]https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1201183160/taylor-swift-instagram-voter-registration[/URL]
It's just like the Repubs, not wanting Americas to get out and exercise their right to vote. Because we all know, when Americans get out and vote, especially in large numbers....[b][u]Repubs LOSE!!![/u] BIG TIME!!![/b]
[U]4. Taylor Swift Person of the Year vs. Far-right Losers of the Year[/U]
[b]Taylor Swift is Time's person of the year and the far right is big mad about it[/b]
[URL]https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/6/2210056/-Taylor-Swift-is-Time-s-person-of-the-year-and-the-far-right-is-big-mad-about-it[/URL]
[QUOTE=Dailykos] Taylor Swift is Time Magazines person of the year, a choice that makes perfect sense. Swifts Eras Tour is on track to break global records for tour earnings. A concert film also smashed records for that genre and provided the AMC movie theater chain with its highest single-day ticket sales ever. ...
Prominent far-right influencers are very unhappy ... Has @taylorswift13 made a deal with George Soros and Alex Soros to get the rights to her music back in exchange for getting Zoomers registered to vote Democrat against President Trump ahead of the 2024 Presidential election?
. . .
[b]Pizzagate conspiracy theorist[/b] Jack Posobiec also weighed in. The Taylor Swift girlboss psyop has been fully activated. ... [/QUOTE]
[b]How Taylor Swift sent the far right into a tailspin [/b]
[URL]https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/how-taylor-swift-sent-the-far-right-into-a-tailspin-199902277638[/URL]
[URL]https://news.yahoo.com/taylor-swift-sent-far-tailspin-032229990.html[/URL]
To conclude, I think Rolling Stone said it best, [i]"Taylor Swifts Time Cover Is Breaking Far-Right Brains"[/i]. The megastar's success is once again [u]throwing right wingers into a conspiracy theory frenzy"[/u]
[URL]https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-time-cover-far-right-conspiracy-theories-1234918882/[/URL]
Hard to imagine Incels, will ever be the same after reading this! (...kkkk!)
"Yes, what happened to "I alone can fix it"?
Trump Dreams of Economic Disaster.
Jan. 11,2024.
[URL]https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/11/trump-dreams-of-economic-disaster/[/URL]".
Here's something to choke on beeches.
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/15/opinion/trump-voters-economy.html[/URL]
OPINION.
GUEST ESSAY.
What Trump Voters Understand About the Economy.
Jan. 15,2024, 5:01 am ET.
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By Roger Lowenstein.
Mr. Lowenstein is a journalist and the author of "Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War. ".
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Why is Donald Trump continuing to poll so strongly with voters?
As unpalatable as a second Trump term would be, many pundits who tackle this question have ignored a striking fact: The typical household's living standard improved during the three Trump years before the pandemic. Under President Biden, Americans have (at best) struggled to keep even with inflation.
Mr. Trump's huge personal negatives — his meanspirited personality, his toadying to dictators and shunning of American allies, and his unpardonable effort to steal an election — should more than offset his economic record. The old saw that Mussolini got the trains to run on time should not be understood as an endorsement.
But it is one thing to loathe Mr. Trump and hope for his defeat. It is another to wish away his successes or, as has become common, to ascribe his popularity to voter prejudices or weaknesses of character. The leitmotif in such arguments is that blue voters are rational political actors voting on merit while Trump is appealing primarily, if not exclusively, to irrational semi-citizens devoid of even self-interested calculation.
That might be. But it can't be ignored that they might also have experienced the pointed rise, after adjusting for inflation, in median household incomes — how the typical family lives — during the Trump years prior to the pandemic: 10.5 percent from 2016 to 2019. And inequality contracted noticeably. Thus, the 2020 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances on (roughly) the Trump era: "In grouping families by wealth, families at the top of the distribution experienced a sharp decline in average income (following particularly outsized gains over the 2010-16 period), whereas families in the lower and middle portions of the wealth distribution all saw modest gains. ".
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This is not to say that Mr. Trump's policies caused inequality to fall (a complicated question) or were responsible for most of the economy's improvement. While his tax cuts were a stimulant, his tariffs on imported steel, a signature policy, probably cost the country more jobs in manufacturing than it gained in steel, and at great expense to American consumers.
And modern economies are not puppets dancing to a president's string; they are susceptible to many influences beyond the control of one official, even those of an Oval Office bully. Moreover, Mr. Trump inherited a strong tailwind; real median household income rose by almost 12 percent during the second term of his predecessor, Barack Obama. Mr. Trump was fortunate.
But voters aren't economists. They often judge presidents on the basis of coincident economic performance. Jimmy Carter had to deal with serious inflation and George H. W. Bush endured a recession; each was voted out. Mr. Bush's successor, Bill Clinton, reaped the recovery; he got four more years.
Mr. Biden inherited a tough hand: an economy upset by Covid and supply chain disruptions. Yet he presided over a return to growth and dodged a much-predicted recession (touch wood). Jobs came roaring back. Early last year, unemployment dipped below the prepandemic low of 3. 5 percent under Mr. Trump, and it remains a still-impressive 3. 7 percent.
Wage inequality is also contracting under Mr. Biden. I would argue that voters care less about inequality than pundits do. What they care most about is whether they are doing better.
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And this is where Mr. Biden has fallen short. Inflation has snatched away the gains from even a very strong labor market. Over Mr. Biden's first two years, as price hikes outran wages, real median household income fell 2. 7 percent. The census has yet to report median income for 2023, but given that real wages were up about 1 percent through November, the cumulative change in household median income, adjusted for inflation, over Mr. Biden's first three years is likely to be in the range of mildly negative to very mildly positive. In other words, in the all-important category of improving living standards, the country did not make progress.
This shows that jobs and output, while very important, are not the only economic indicators that matter. Inflation matters, too — because high inflation taxes away prosperity. This is one area in which I think the president — along with the Federal Reserve — does bear some responsibility. He was warned by voices within his own party — notably, Larry Summers — that his first budget package, enacted nearly a year after the Covid recession had ended, was too big relative to the need. He went ahead and inflation in 2022 soared to 8 percent, a 40-year high.
While Mr. Biden is still a big deficit spender, the Fed has brought inflation down by more than half. Economic growth in the remainder of Mr. Biden's term may well contribute to rising living standards. I hope voters judge him on this improving picture. And I hope they take noneconomic factors into account, including Mr. Trump's continued refusal to acknowledge his defeat in 2020, which has poisoned the public square and eroded the civic fabric supporting the country's democracy. In a phrase, Mr. Trump is unfit for office.
That does not mean we should shrink from honestly assessing performance, including economic performance, under Mr. Trump as well as under Mr. Biden. Mr. Trump is so off-putting, many find it hard to evaluate him rationally, as we would anyone else. But it is right to do so, and we learn from having our eyes wide, not shut. And — something Democrats should have learned by now — condescending to Trump voters will not win many of them over.