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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.: “One hundred percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration.” He’s handed the Biden administration all the excuses they need to sidestep the Republicans in negotiations over future priorities. Why bother wasting time negotiating with Republicans when there’s tape of McConnell saying all of his focus is on blocking everything Biden brings to the table?
McConnell tried to tone down his comment some, telling a reporter, "My view at the moment is we need to turn this administration into a moderate administration." But it's too late. McConnell gave a perfect soundbite that confirmed what everyone had already assumed: Republicans in the Senate under McConnell’s leadership have already decided, much as they did under President Barack Obama, to stonewall anything the president wants to pass.
McConnell: “I think the best way to look at what this new administration is: The president may have won the nomination, but Bernie Sanders won the argument.” It’s been a common refrain from him and other GOP senators that after campaigning as a moderate, President Joe Biden is basically doing the bidding of his party’s left flank.
video at https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/mcconnell-dodged-liz-cheney-drama-helped
-biden-n1266583
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McConnell is a piece of shit for sure, but he's not wrong on this issue.
Democrats can't sidestep the Republicans. The filibuster won't be broken. The intelligent members of Congress know better than to appease your need for instant gratification when the costs are as high as they are.
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Quote:You are not comparing how the Federal government operated during the years when America was doing exceptionally well. When things were going well, things were being done completely opposite to what McConnell and the Republicans want today. On both taxes and level of public investment, Biden is returning to levels reflected in past periods of progress:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
McConnell is a piece of shit for sure, but he's not wrong on this issue.
Democrats can't sidestep the Republicans. The filibuster won't be broken. The intelligent members of Congress know better than to appease your need for instant gratification when the costs are as high as they are.
"Biden has the opportunity to be a restorational president," said Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University (Houston Texas) presidential historian. At 78, he "is trying to restore the America that was his America until the Reagan Revolution became dominant."
Government's role in economic life has grown with the nation throughout American history. Canals, railroads and land-grant colleges in the 19th century gave way to electrification, interstate highways and social insurance in the 20th. A progressive era constitutional amendment paved the way for federal income taxes on individuals as well as corporations.
As Washington financed President Dwight Eisenhower's highway system, John F. Kennedy's moon mission, and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, federal investment in infrastructure, research and development and education peaked at 6.4% of the size of America's economy in the 1960s. It declined thereafter, to 2.6% by 2019.
Had it remained at 6.4% that year, federal investment would have been $800 billion higher every year. That's twice the $400 billion annual cost of Biden's agenda, which is spread over 10 years.
Biden's tax proposals appear modest in the context of recent history. The 1981 tax cut Ronald Reagan signed cut the top personal income rate from 70% to 50%. Biden proposes an uptick from 37% to 39.6% -- where the top rate stood before President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts.
The corporate tax rate topped 30% for decades before Trump slashed it to 21%. Once the source of more than one-third of federal revenue, the corporate tax provided just 6.6% by 2019.
More at https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/09/politics/biden-economic-agenda-transfor
mational/index.html
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Ridin's with the Bidens?
Biden to Promote $4 Trillion Plans in Visit to Virginia School
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-05-03/biden-to-prom
ote-4-trillion-plans-in-visit-to-virginia-school
‘From the desk of Donald J. Trump’: New strategy after Facebook, Twitter keep up Trump social media bans
https://www.stardem.com/news/national/from-the-desk-of-donald-j-trump-
new-strategy-after-facebook-twitter-keep-up-trump/article_42cfeb7f-133a-530f-8fca-2e909c2e0dba.html
VP Harris says she was last person in the room with President Biden when he made the decision to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/25/harris-was-last-voice-in-the-room-for-af
ghanistan-withdrawal/
Rudy Giuliani claims FBI turned down Hunter Biden’s hard-drives THREE TIMES in raid despite taking all other electronics
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14810656/rudy-giuliani-hunter-biden-hard
-drives-fbi-raid/
Biden bans ICE and Customs and Border Protection from using term 'illegal aliens'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9488395/Biden-bans-ICE-Custom
s-Border-Protection-using-illegal-aliens-migrants.html
Hunter Biden to be guest speaker for Tulane course on 'media polarization'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hunter-biden-to-be-guest-speak
er-for-tulane-course-on-media-polarization
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A Supreme Court Ruling Protecting Payday Lenders Could Also Save Facebook and Martin Shkreli
The court planted more roadblocks on the path to proving that deceptive conduct merits a financial penalty.
Last month, the Supreme Court unanimously decided a underexamined case that is going to do significant damage to the Federal Trade Commission, rolling back the commission’s power to compensate victims of fraudsters through court-imposed penalties and siding with a payday loan kingpin in a tussle over the repatriation of about $1.3 billion to borrowers.
The court’s decision effectively put an end to a practice that the FTC— tasked with enforcing a wide array of consumer protection matters— has engaged in for decades and imperils the agency’s ability to act swiftly and nimbly to protect vulnerable Americans’ finances.
The FTC successfully sued Scott Tucker— a Kansas City tycoon who controlled several payday loan companies— alongside his businesses in 2012. The $1.3 billion court-issued penalty against Tucker and his companies was the largest of its kind in the FTC’s enforcement history. Tucker lost his appeal in the Ninth Circuit. He then petitioned the Supreme Court, claiming that the commission lacked the authority to redress businesses’ deceptive practices by going directly to court to seek monetary relief. The Supreme Court agreed.
Though it flew under the radar, the Supreme Court’s ruling should have bred a blizzard of denunciations. The payday loan industry, which funnels short-term, high-cost loans to cash-strapped Americans, is a $30 billion quicksand machine that exists to siphon money from the poor and bury consumers in debt.
The court left a gaping hole in the FTC’s enforcement toolbox, ensuring that many fewer Americans will be compensated by companies who swindle them. The commission brings dozens of cases each year seeking the return of ill-gotten funds; many of those cases are now at risk of collapsing. In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee, FTC Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter emphasized that the FTC was badly bruised by the decision and called on Congress to restore the agency’s powers. Slaughter also noted that the court’s decision could ensnare 24 active FTC court cases amounting to $2 billion in requested penalties. That slate of FTC cases includes a lawsuit against the infamous former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli and his associates who stand accused of improperly inflating medicinal drug prices.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/supreme-court-payday-faceb
ook-martin-shkreli.html
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How bad are Payday loans these days?
They've got to be terrible terms even compared to how bad they were in the days of the GWB administration.
Even with a great credit score, my credit card APR's are pathetic. I know I could haggle on that if I wanted to, but I've never bothered since I never carry any debt.
My point though is that even with a score in the mid 820's compared to my score in the 740's 15 years ago, my lowest APR is 5% higher than my highest APR was back then, even though the FED rate is 0.05%. And I never haggled on interest back then either. They just gave me 4.99 to 9.99% back then. I've got two cards now with a 29.99%.
The nerve.
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Quote:Other nervy swindlers :
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The nerve.
Multilevel-marketing companies are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis
“I was urged to stop paying my bills to invest in more inventory. I was urged to get rid of television. I was urged to pawn my vehicle. I just had to get on anxiety meds over all of it because I’ve started having panic attacks.”
As economic opportunity has become more concentrated in urban areas in the US, rural communities have fallen behind. Residents of towns like Casper (Wyoming), Spring Creek (Nevada), and DeRidder (Louisiana) all missed out on economic recovery following the 2007 global financial crisis. Bootstrapping, hard-working families in these regions are urgently searching for a way to regain their economic liberty, along with their dignity.
Fed the fantasy of achieving the all-elusive American dream, many of them are being wooed by multilevel-marketing companies. Known as MLMs (or “direct-sales”), the previous US administration was stocked with their cheerleaders: Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, is married to a cofounder of Amway; Ben Carson is a spokesperson for a vitamin MLM called Mannatech; and president Donald Trump used to have an MLM, Trump Network, and was a spokesperson for another.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20170806213250/https://qz.com/1039331/mlms
-like-avon-and-lularoe-are-sending-people-into-debt-and-psychological-crisis/
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The Republican Party Leadership Is Terrified of Trump’s Revenge
Why has the Republican Party's leadership caved in to Donald Trump’s insistence that the 2020 election was stolen from him? They've caved in thanks to ordinary extortion. They believe that if they oppose Trump he will destroy the Republican Party in a spasm of sheer bloody-minded vengeance.
Trump, after all, plainly has no special loyalty to the Republican Party. And retribution against his enemies is his single strongest drive in life. If the GOP leadership rejected him, he would reject them in return ten times over, probably by forming his own political party and taking with him half of all Republicans in existence.
https://jabberwocking.com/the-republican-party-is-terrified-of-trumps-
revenge/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Other nervy swindlers :
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The nerve.
Multilevel-marketing companies are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis
“I was urged to stop paying my bills to invest in more inventory. I was urged to get rid of television. I was urged to pawn my vehicle. I just had to get on anxiety meds over all of it because I’ve started having panic attacks.”
As economic opportunity has become more concentrated in urban areas in the US, rural communities have fallen behind. Residents of towns like Casper (Wyoming), Spring Creek (Nevada), and DeRidder (Louisiana) all missed out on economic recovery following the 2007 global financial crisis. Bootstrapping, hard-working families in these regions are urgently searching for a way to regain their economic liberty, along with their dignity.
Fed the fantasy of achieving the all-elusive American dream, many of them are being wooed by multilevel-marketing companies. Known as MLMs (or “direct-sales”), the previous US administration was stocked with their cheerleaders: Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, is married to a cofounder of Amway; Ben Carson is a spokesperson for a vitamin MLM called Mannatech; and president Donald Trump used to have an MLM, Trump Network, and was a spokesperson for another.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20170806213250/https://qz.com/1039331/mlms
-like-avon-and-lularoe-are-sending-people-into-debt-and-psychological-crisis/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Trump, after all, plainly has no special loyalty to the Republican Party.
Trump was a lifelong Democrat.
Not the type of shitbag Democrats that are in the Democratic Party today.
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And retribution against his enemies is his single strongest drive in life. If the GOP leadership rejected him, he would reject them in return ten times over, probably by forming his own political party and taking with him half of all Republicans in existence.
He's not taking anything or anyone. Fuck those NeoCon dirtbags. They're the ones who should just leave.
They can join the Democrats and along with Pelosi force out all of the fringe "progressive" Leftists, and form the Fuck the People Party.
Because that's what they are. And I'm getting just a tad tired of them having a majority stake in both political parties.
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