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Trump focusses on the fringe, the border or outer edges of a group and many of you follow suite. Stay focused, and remember the fringes of a group are small. The larger part of the group often disagrees with its fringe. It often holds different beliefs entirely.
Don’t go where Trump points.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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I hang out with poor white trash in Texas.
No you don't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Careful, if you hang out with garbage, you start smelling like trash. Jack knows this firsthand, right Jack?
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Quote:The Covid recession that began in February may have been the simplest, most comprehensible business downturn in history. Much of the U.S. economy was put on hold to contain a pandemic. Job losses were concentrated in services that were either inessential or could be postponed, and were highly likely to spread the coronavirus: restaurants, air travel, dentists’ visits.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I hang out with poor white trash in Texas.
No you don't.
The main goal of economic policy was to make this temporary lockdown tolerable, sustaining the incomes of those unable to work.
Republicans, however, have shown no sign of understanding any of this. The policy proposals being floated by White House aides and advisers are almost surreal in their disconnect from reality. Cutting payroll taxes on workers who can’t work? Letting businesspeople deduct the full cost of three-martini lunches they can’t eat?
They don’t even seem to understand the mechanics of how unemployment checks are paid out. They proposed continuing benefits for a brief period while negotiations continue — but this literally can’t be done, because the state offices that disburse unemployment aid couldn’t handle the necessary reprogramming.
Above all, Republicans seem obsessed with the idea that unemployment benefits are making workers lazy and unwilling to accept jobs.
This would be a bizarre claim even if unemployment benefits really were reducing the incentive to seek work. After all, there are more than 30 million workers receiving benefits, but only five million job openings. No matter how harshly you treat the unemployed, they can’t take jobs that don’t exist.
It’s almost a secondary concern to note that there’s almost no evidence that unemployment benefits are, in fact, discouraging workers from taking jobs. Multiple studies find no significant incentive effect.
And unemployment benefits didn’t prevent the U.S. from adding seven million jobs, most of them for low-wage workers — that is, precisely the workers often receiving more in unemployment than from their normal jobs — during the abortive spring recovery.
By the way, a great majority of economists believe that unemployment benefits have helped sustain the economy as a whole, by supporting consumer spending.
So the attack on unemployment aid is rooted in deep ignorance. But there’s also a strong element of malice.
Republicans have a long history of suggesting that the jobless are moral failures — that they’d rather sit home watching TV than work. And the Trump years have been marked by a relentless assault on programs that help the less fortunate, from Obamacare to food stamps.
One indicator of G.O.P. disingenuousness is the sudden re-emergence of “deficit hawks” claiming that helping the unemployed will add too much to the national debt. I use the scare quotes because as far as I can tell not one of the politicians claiming that we can’t afford to help the unemployed raised any objections to Donald Trump’s $2 trillion tax cut for corporations and the wealthy.
More at www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/republicans-unemployed-coronavirus.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Fascism Comes In Many Forms- In America, It Is Normalized, Bipartisan, and Good For the Stock Market.
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Unpaid medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States. In fact, three out of every five bankruptcies in our country are due to medical bills.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Kids don't like being told what to do.
Grow up and people won't treat you like a child.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You morons just made Conservatives the counter culture and didn't even realize it.
You got that mixed up - try:
Conservatives just made morons the counter culture.
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Yep, good to see you back G.
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Oh good. Your little circle jerk buddy is back.
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Protest leader Bush ousts 20-year US Rep. Clay in Missouri
Michael Brown’s death in 2014 in Ferguson vaulted her into (the) role: (BLM) activist. She became a leader of some of the many protests that followed the fatal police shooting of the Black, unarmed 18-year-old. She was back on the streets in 2017 after a white St. Louis officer was acquitted in the shooting death of a Black suspect.
Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer's fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in Missouri's Democratic primary, ending a political dynasty that has spanned more than a half-century.
“They’re ready to turn the page on decades of failed leadership,” Korth (Bush’s campaign spokeswoman) said.
DNC ...
... I can see which way this is going. By failing to moderate yourself and move away from back-room big-money politics, you've alienated a chunk of the democratic voters. And the extremists are rushing in to fill the vacuum as the populist-leaning voters make the only populist choice available to them.I'm not sure even very successful election prediction models will work in this situation. The Democrats have a severe enthusiasm gap.
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