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Since SECIND does nothing except troll on fff.net it's a sure thing you get more done in a day than he does in a year.
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Quote:The Russians and Signym constantly complain about this, but they never get around to doing anything effective about it. They are just too lazy, too philosophical, and definitely too unfocused. But what else would you expect from people who write "What are America's interests?" and then proceed to blather on and on for years and years, with occasional forays attacking Ukraine or supporting Russia. http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=60986&p=1
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Since SECIND does nothing except troll on fff.net it's a sure thing you get more done in a day than he does in a year.
The climate crisis offers a new angle from which to evaluate US dollar hegemony, since carbon emissions are tied to economic activity.
Daniel Driscoll, January 14, 2023
Amidst the turbulence of the Second World War, hundreds of delegates from the Allied Nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to construct a post-war economic system. While it might strike one as odd that post-war choreography began in 1944, a year before the war ended, the truth is that states were planning peacetime from the moment the war began. The West feared replicating the blunders of the Treaty of Versailles and wanted to establish the next post-war order with prudence.1 One principal task for Bretton Woods attendees was to implement an international monetary system. Several proposals existed, including Keynes’ Bancor, which would have established an International Clearing Union to issue a supranational currency, oversee currency exchanges, and correct global imbalances. The war had weakened Europe, however, and strengthened the US. US negotiators exploited their influence. While the adoption of the dollar as the global reserve asset would hand the US a significant upper hand, Europeans were assured that the arrangement was only temporary and eventually relented because they could convert dollars to gold.
Twenty-seven years later, a new crisis fractured the postwar economic peace enjoyed by the West. Rising inflation drove many countries, particularly European ones, to convert their US dollar reserves into gold. President Richard Nixon faced a choice between devaluing the dollar or pumping it up through perilous austerity measures. Global markets predicted that Nixon’s political savvy would drive him toward the former, but he shocked the world by taking a surprise third route, severing the dollar from the gold standard. There is a great deal of disagreement as to his decision’s long-term ramifications, but little debate about the global economic turmoil that immediately followed. Through it all, the dollar’s global hegemony endured, and it remains to this day.
More at https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-dollar-and-climate/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:In Texas I am constantly hearing bragging from angry poor white trash about how well their lives are going without the need for strenuous work. Jobs are for chumps. So is paying taxes. (If you hire one of these guys, they slack off when nobody is looking. Worst. Employees. Ever.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not unemployed. I'm semi retired with very little worry or obligations to anyone or anything.
Do you know what else they have in common with 6ix and Signym? Strong feelings about Trump and deep bitterness that Democrats exist in their country. "Did you know that Democrats are horrible?" When I hear that I agree with them because it is pointless to explain anything to a know-it-all (never have I known a Trumptard that wasn't both arrogant and unaware of how big a failure they are. See Trump for that psychology in action in its most pathological form. ) I certainly don't tell them that I'm a Democrat.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In Texas I am constantly hearing bragging from angry poor white trash about how well their lives are going without the need for strenuous work. Jobs are for chumps. So is paying taxes. (If you hire one of these guys, they slack off when nobody is looking. Worst. Employees. Ever.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not unemployed. I'm semi retired with very little worry or obligations to anyone or anything.
I'm worth 2 of any employee at the non-physical jobs. 5 to 10 employees at physically demanding jobs.
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Do you know what else they have in common with 6ix and Signym? Strong feelings about Trump and deep bitterness that Democrats exist in their country. "Did you know that Democrats are horrible?" When I hear that I agree with them because it is pointless to explain anything to a know-it-all (never have I known a Trumptard that wasn't both arrogant and unaware of how big a failure they are. See Trump for that psychology in action in its most pathological form. ) I certainly don't tell them that I'm a Democrat.
Tell me how that's any different for you deep feelings about Trump and your bitterness that Republicans exist in your country.
Get fucked, idiot.
And I also don't have political conversations with Democrats IRL either. At best I know they're too stupid to keep up any real conversation, at worst they might get a well-deserved pop in the jaw.
I actually turned my back on some stranger and laughed at him while in line at the hardware store when an innocent conversation that started about the "change shortage" of 2020 because of a sign posted on the register devolved into him shit talking Trump.
Conversation over, dummy. Don't talk politics with strangers.
I hope you enjoyed the smell of that fart you had to sit through too.
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Opinion | Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
by Ezra Klein
For decades, the cliché in politics was that “Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line.” The Democratic Party was thought to be a loosely connected cluster of fractious interest groups often at war with itself. “I don’t belong to an organized political party,” Will Rogers famously said. “I’m a Democrat.” Republicans were considered the more cohesive political force.
If that was ever true, it’s not now. These days, Democrats fall in line and Republicans fall apart.
It’s not just the 14 votes Kevin McCarthy lost before promising away enough of his power and prestige to finally be named speaker. It’s his predecessors, Paul Ryan and John Boehner, who both quit the job McCarthy now holds. It’s the Tea Party repeatedly knocking off Republican incumbents. It’s Ted Cruz and the Freedom Caucus forcing government shutdowns their colleagues never wanted. It’s Donald Trump humiliating virtually the entire Republican Party establishment and becoming the erratic axis around which all Republican Party politics revolves. It’s House Republicans ousting and isolating Liz Cheney because she insisted on investigating an armed assault on the chamber they inhabit. Today, a gaggle of Republicans isn’t a party. It’s closer to a riot.
Perhaps the rise of small-donor money and social media and nationalized politics corroded party cohesion. But Democrats have been buffeted by all that, too, and responded very differently. Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination in 2008, but rather than exiling the Clintons to the political wilderness, he named Hillary secretary of state and then supported her as his successor. In 2020, the party establishment coalesced behind Joe Biden. When Harry Reid retired from the Senate, he was replaced as leader by his deputy, Chuck Schumer. When Bernie Sanders lost in 2016, he became part of Schumer’s Senate leadership team, and when he lost in 2020, he blessed a unity task force with Biden. Nancy Pelosi led House Democrats from 2003 to 2022, and the handoff to Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark was drama free.
So why has the Republican Party repeatedly turned on itself in a way the Democratic Party hasn’t? There’s no one explanation, so here are three.
1. Republicans are caught between money and media
For decades, the Republican Party has been an awkward alliance between a donor class that wants deregulation and corporate tax breaks and entitlement cuts and guest workers and an ethnonationalist grass roots that resents the way the country is diversifying, urbanizing, liberalizing and secularizing. The Republican Party, as an organization, mediates between these two wings, choosing candidates and policies and messages that keep the coalition from blowing apart.
At least, it did. “One way I’ve been thinking about the Republican Party is that it’s outsourced most of its traditional party functions,” Nicole Hemmer, author of “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s,” told me. “It outsourced funding to PACS. It outsourced media to the right-wing media.”
Let’s take funding first. Theda Skocpol and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez have documented the way money has flowed out of the Republican Party’s official organizations and into an “extra-party consortia of conservative donors” centered around the Koch network (which, importantly, is and long has been far bigger than the Kochs themselves). Between 2002 and 2014, for example, the share of resources controlled by the Republican Party campaign committees went from 53 percent of the money Skocpol and her colleagues could track to 30 percent.
What rose in their place were groups like Americans for Prosperity and the Heritage Action network and the American Legislative Exchange Council — sophisticated, well-financed organizations that began to act as a shadow Republican Party and dragged the G.O.P.’s agenda further toward the wishes of its corporate class.
What were the
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Opinion | Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
by Ezra Klein
Once you read the name Ezra Klein, there's no reason to read any further.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:Ezra Klein once wrote that only one President was elected to a nonconsecutive term in office but four were assassinated, which would suggest that Trump is four times more likely to be assassinated than reelected. But you didn't read that because you saw the name Ezra Klein, therefore you didn't report Ezra Klein to the Secret Service as threatening the President. The Secret Service is waiting for your phone call, 6ix, because they love to talk to ignoramus Trumptards and make fun of you retards. https://www.secretservice.gov/contact/field-offices
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Opinion | Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
by Ezra Klein
Once you read the name Ezra Klein, there's no reason to read any further.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Ezra Klein once wrote that only one President was elected to a nonconsecutive term in office but four were assassinated, which would suggest that Trump is four times more likely to be assassinated than reelected. But you didn't read that because you saw the name Ezra Klein, therefore you didn't report Ezra Klein to the Secret Service as threatening the President. The Secret Service is waiting for your phone call, 6ix, because they love to talk to ignoramus Trumptards and make fun of you retards. https://www.secretservice.gov/contact/field-offices
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Opinion | Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
by Ezra Klein
Once you read the name Ezra Klein, there's no reason to read any further.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Ezra Kline is a joke of a dumb cunt.
There's zero surprise here that you take anything he has to say seriously.
But thanks for pointing out that even your death threats against Trump aren't original and you stole them too.
My god, you are a waste of carbon.
And when I report anybody, it will be you. The only reason I haven't posted your mailing address for you to see is because I am not a hypocrite and I will not doxx anyone. But if something does happen to Trump I will be sending it to the Secret Service for you.
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Operation Warp Speed was a huge success. So why is the US turning away from it?
Immunologist Moncef Slaoui, who headed Warp Speed under the Trump administration, spent years before the pandemic advocating for a simple, cheap measure that would have made it possible to develop vaccines even faster: maintaining idle capacity so the country can respond to emergencies.
As he told Science in a 2021 interview:
“The whole concept—after we went through the flu pandemic, the Ebola outbreak, the Zika outbreak—was to say, “Listen, the problem is always the same, which is there are no manufacturing facilities sitting there idle, waiting to be used. Even if we had one, we would have trouble because we would have to stop manufacturing other vaccines, which are essential for saving people’s life. So we thought, “Why don’t we take a dedicated facility and have them work on discovering vaccines against known potential outbreak agents, one after the other?” They would become incredibly skilled and trained at going fast, discovering vaccines. The company was prepared to make available the facility and ask just for the cost of running it. Unfortunately, it didn’t fly.”
But, flush from Operation Warp Speed’s success, he was optimistic that Covid would change the US government’s disinterest in maintaining capacity for rapid vaccine development. “This pandemic is costing $23 billion a day to the U.S. economy, every single day,” he said. “Investing $300 million to $500 million a year into such a facility is peanuts and would save countless lives.”
With another two years of hindsight and Kessler’s eventual departure from the White House, Slaoui’s optimism is almost painful. That investment? Didn’t happen. Before the pandemic, some of this country’s smartest experts spent years telling us that a pandemic was coming and would be catastrophic, but that we could prepare and substantially mitigate the harms. We didn’t.
During the pandemic, we developed significant expertise in vaccine development and distribution, which we easily could have leveraged into maintaining capacity for rapid vaccine development to prevent the next pandemic. We didn’t. Given Warp Speed’s unpopularity and the increasing political divisiveness of vaccination, I’m not even sure that, if another pandemic struck, we’d attempt something like Warp Speed again.
The politics around the pandemic, and especially around vaccines, has only gotten more toxic.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/1/18/23560407/operation-warp-s
peed-pandemics-vaccines-covid-white-house-biden-trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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