kibiz0r

Dems are just a bunch of empty chairs.

Sucks, but it's also an opportunity. Plenty of space for progressives to move in and take over.

Punishing women for being insufficiently feminine has always been a parallel goal of the anti-trans movement.

“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.”

Chat, are we cooked?

“National debt” obscures the practical consequence. National debt is just money that has been added into the economy but not taxed back out.

It’s not necessarily bad to ramp up spending, if that new money has somewhere healthy to go. (Mega projects like Medicare For All or the Green New Deal would be prime candidates.)

So where did it go?

Well, take a look at Reagan’s reign from 81-89…

There’s the problem.

I’m not entirely sure that Biden-or-Trump inflation question shows what they think it shows.

I do blame Biden quite a bit for inflation.

Stimulus was the right move during Covid. But it was inevitably going to result in inflation if the added money wasn’t cleaned up via taxes.

Trump could’ve started the ball rolling on a tax plan before exiting. But even if he was the kind of guy who would commit political suicide during an election year for the good of the country, time was pretty tight and there were legitimately bigger fish to fry.

So it fell on Biden. Biden had four years to do it. He didn’t. The money accumulated in the hands of the ultra-wealthy.

I get that it was an unfavorable legislative environment, but you gotta make it obvious to the voters that you see the problem and are trying to fix it. Instead, we got interest rate voodoo and several months of gaslighting that the economy has never been better.

This judge helped draft the PATRIOT Act and the DMCA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Howell

Oh word? So they’re the one behind all those “no one:” memes?

I should probably have mentioned:

The main point of the post is that despite the connotations of the word “debt”, retiring the debt would be a disastrous mistake.

Even running multi-year neutral (or surplus) budgets would probably cause a recession.

And that’s not a weakness of the US economy, it’s just how fiat currency works.

We don't tax billionaires to fight the national debt. We tax billionaires to fight BILLIONAIRES.

(But whatever gets us there I guess.)

Violent

I didn’t know cars felt pain.

Obligatory Philosophy Tube

And if you put it in writing, it’ll be on the wrong letterhead.

Or you didn’t sign it.

Or you signed it with autopen.