Elections; 2024
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Originally posted by second:Quote:This is no fable.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You keep telling yourselves fables.
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Yes. It is.
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Favoribility of US Leaders (December 17th, 2024):
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Politician / Favorable / Unfavorable / Spread
Joe Biden / 40.8 / 54.3 / -13.5
Donald Trump / 49.0 / 47.6 / +1.4
Kamala Harris / 45.5 / 49.5 / -4.0
Mike Johnson / 28.0 / 37.0 / -9.0
Hakeem Jeffries / 30.0 / 31.0 / -1.0
Chuck Schumer / 29.7 / 43.0 / -13.3
Mitch McConnell / 21.7 / 59.3 / -37.6
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Quote:Trump deserves his popularity. Here is an example:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Favoribility of US Leaders (December 17th, 2024):
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Politician / Favorable / Unfavorable / Spread
Joe Biden / 40.8 / 54.3 / -13.5
Donald Trump / 49.0 / 47.6 / +1.4
Kamala Harris / 45.5 / 49.5 / -4.0
Mike Johnson / 28.0 / 37.0 / -9.0
Hakeem Jeffries / 30.0 / 31.0 / -1.0
Chuck Schumer / 29.7 / 43.0 / -13.3
Mitch McConnell / 21.7 / 59.3 / -37.6
I had previously read the Trump tweet below and thought that this is why Trump is so popular. That says a lot about me and my reading comprehension at high speed. I misunderstood Trump. I should have read that tweet a lot slower and considered the implications of what Trump wrote. But at first glance Trump is brilliant:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy. They can go find another "sucker!" There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America.
There’s a lot that’s foolish about that rant, starting with the idea that foreign governments can simply replace the dollar by decree (although others, like Vladimir Putin, share the same misconception.) I’ll write a future post about why that’s not at all how it works.
There are also delusions of grandeur: Trump clearly imagines that America holds all the cards when it comes to a possible trade war, and I fear that he and the rest of us will soon get an object lesson in the limits of U.S. trade leverage.
But what’s really bizarre about Trump’s rant is that given his views about trade, he should want to see the dollar lose its special role.
Much More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/from-exorbitant-privilege-to-invinc
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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'Disaster': Trump allies said to be mulling 'one of the dumbest ideas anyone could have'
December 18, 2024 7:11AM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fdic-2670487557/
“This has as much logic as asking if Trump can abolish Wednesday, and split it between Tuesday and Thursday,” said Aaron Klein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Treasury Department official who helped craft the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010.
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:Trump deserves his popularity. Here is an example:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Favoribility of US Leaders (December 17th, 2024):
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Politician / Favorable / Unfavorable / Spread
Joe Biden / 40.8 / 54.3 / -13.5
Donald Trump / 49.0 / 47.6 / +1.4
Kamala Harris / 45.5 / 49.5 / -4.0
Mike Johnson / 28.0 / 37.0 / -9.0
Hakeem Jeffries / 30.0 / 31.0 / -1.0
Chuck Schumer / 29.7 / 43.0 / -13.3
Mitch McConnell / 21.7 / 59.3 / -37.6
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But what’s really bizarre about Trump’s rant is that given his views about trade, he should want to see the dollar lose its special role.
Fuck that little gremlin Krugman.
You're still listening to him after how often he's mislead you?
Don't worry. He's going to die of old age soon too and he won't be able to poison your mind with his bullshit anymore.
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Originally posted by second:
'Disaster': Trump allies said to be mulling 'one of the dumbest ideas anyone could have'
December 18, 2024 7:11AM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fdic-2670487557/
“This has as much logic as asking if Trump can abolish Wednesday, and split it between Tuesday and Thursday,” said Aaron Klein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Treasury Department official who helped craft the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You guys are the ones in the cult, so the rest of that article can be thrown directly into the trash bin.
Would you like to try another article on this topic written by people who aren't cultists?
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Quote:The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee cryptocurrency players the right to a checking account, stopping the “debanking” they claim has hit many of their friends.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You guys are the ones in the cult, so the rest of that article can be thrown directly into the trash bin.
Would you like to try another article on this topic written by people who aren't cultists?
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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur
The real reason banks don’t want to be financially connected to crypto is that they believe, with good reason, that to the extent that cryptocurrencies are used for anything besides speculation, much of that activity is criminal — and they don’t want to be accused of acting as accessories.
British authorities recently broke up a big money-laundering scheme involving cocaine kingpins and cryptocurrency. Howard Lutnick, Trump’s choice for Commerce secretary, has close ties to Tether, the company that is at the heart of the scheme the UK just uncovered and is rumored to play a large role in money laundering in general.
We’ll see what happens. But what Musk and Andreesen are demanding could be seen as a call for the U.S. government to intervene to make life easier for criminals. And if you think such a thing would be inconceivable under the second Trump administration, you haven’t been paying attention.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee cryptocurrency players the right to a checking account, stopping the “debanking” they claim has hit many of their friends.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You guys are the ones in the cult, so the rest of that article can be thrown directly into the trash bin.
Would you like to try another article on this topic written by people who aren't cultists?
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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur
Personally, I'm hoping he pulls the rug on them and Bitcoin crashes.
That would be a huge fuck you to the bad guys after taking their money and would only make Trump even more popular than he already is right now. These people got rich screwing over everyone else, so it would be poetic even.
Oh! They demand, huh? It sounds like they don't have any power or leverage in this situation. It's honestly pathetic watching them pretend that their begging has fangs attached.
What exactly could they do if he reneged on every promise he made them for their crypto money? They have very little support in the public, and probably even less support in the government.
Maybe if Trump was apprehensive of some sort of physical retaliation from these criminals directed upon himself or his family he should just have them all thrown in prison for all the times they got richer pulling the rug out from other people.
This would make him even more popular. Especially among the Independent and sway voters that the Democrat party already isn't likely to get back any time soon.
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You see what I did there, Second?
Trump is not even President yet and I'm already calling out bad guys that he has associated himself with.
4 years of Joe Biden* being President and you couldn't bring yourself to do that once, no matter how bad they got. And they got bad...
The only time I've ever heard you shit-talk anybody with a (D) attached to their name is when you threw a temper tantrum and accused Joe Biden* of being drunk at the debate. Yanno... because you still can't bring yourself to admit you were lied to every single day by the media about Joe Biden*'s mental faculties. Not even after they knew it was so bad they replaced her with somebody arguably stupider when they forced Joe* out and gave you Harris.
Even Ted somehow managed to momentarily break free of the programming and speak up against CRT being taught in schools.
Even fucking BLM spoke out when Joe Biden* was thrown in the trash and Harris was forced on Democrat voters without any primary.
I find it quite funny when you label other people in a cult everyday, yet it is you that consistently exhibits cult-like behavior, such as this, everyday.
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Quote:I should insult you by pointing out that this is another "I'm rubber. You're glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you" scenario, but what good would that do? I will get to the real point about Trumptards:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I find it quite funny when you label other people in a cult everyday, yet it is you that consistently exhibits cult-like behavior, such as this, everyday.
The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the Zoo
The peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-chaos-monkeys-have-already-take
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The news of the moment is the looming prospect that the federal government will shut down over the weekend. (All credit for the shutdown will go to Trumptards such as Elon Musk, if the shutdown happens.)
We’ll have to see how much damage this does, but it’s already clear that assuming the worst happens — and it’s hard to see how it won’t — this will be the dumbest shutdown ever. I’d say that the incoming Musk administration (so far Musk, not Trump, appears to be calling the shots) is trying to hold itself up for ransom, but it doesn’t even rise to that level. This isn’t like 1995, when Newt Gingrich shut down the government in an attempt to extract cuts in Medicare and Medicaid — a move that seemed (and was) a foolish act of petulance, but at least had a ghost of motivation.
No, Musk is demanding — apparently successfully — that Republicans in Congress renege on a deal they had already agreed to, a continuing resolution that would keep the federal government going for the next few months. Why? Because, Musk says, of the outrageous provisions in that CR.
Except none of the items Musk is complaining about are actually in the bill. No, Congress isn’t giving itself a 40 percent raise. No, the bill doesn’t fund a $3 billion stadium in Washington. No, it doesn’t block future investigations into the Jan. 6 committee. No, it doesn’t fund bioweapons labs.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/elon-musk-false-claims-cr-001
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In a barrage of posts on X Musk pushed misinformation about a more or less routine, place-holding bill that was basically a way to keep the ship of state afloat until Trump takes charge. Maybe this was in part a power play, an attempt to make Republicans in Congress show fealty to a man who clearly imagines that he’s the real president — and Trump, by meekly endorsing Musk’s position, did in fact convey the impression that Musk is leading the guy who is supposed to be in charge by the nose. But this political theater will have real consequences, for America, for Trump, and for Musk himself.
Musk has asserted that shutting the government down for a month would do no harm. And it’s true that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid funding — which is where the bulk of the money goes — will continue. But many services people rely on will be disrupted, especially if the shutdown goes on for more than a month, which seems all too likely given Republicans’ razor-thin House majority and the dominance of misinformation in many members’ thinking.
Maybe Musk himself doesn’t expect to experience any hardship, but put it this way: I’m glad that I won’t need to renew my passport any time soon, that I don’t expect to be trying to get through airport security for a while, and especially glad that I don’t rely either on food stamps or on small business loans. For all of these things have been disrupted in past government shutdowns.
Do Musk and Trump know any of this? Almost surely not.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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