Nate Silver: It's time for the White House to put up or shut up
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UPDATED: Thursday, February 22, 2024 04:18
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Struggling and failing?
That's as funny as you accusing SIX of using meth!
SECOND:Every Texas Trumptard I know brags about "doing great".
Then you must be a Texas Trumptard because you're always bragging about how great you're doing. And you live in Texas.
Back on topic...
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Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy (Chain-Type Price Index)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1hcAL
The inflationary surge we typically associate with 1980 actually started in the late '60s and didn't fully recede until the early '90s. Call it 25 years.
Our current surge began in early 2021 and receded by late 2023. That's about 2½ years.
The Highest And Lowest Inflation Rates In US History, Visualized
The highest annual inflation level America has ever seen was in 1917, when the rate reached 17.84 percent.
Last year's eight percent annual inflation rate was the highest level of inflation the US has seen since the 1980s. It has since dropped down to 3.1 percent, as of November 2023, but that figure is still significantly above the Federal Reserve's two percent target.
While 2022 set a record for US inflation in recent decades, rates of inflation have reached far more drastic heights at other points in the country's history. Madison Trust used data from Rate Inflation to visualize the highest and lowest inflation rates the US has ever seen. https://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/usa-inflation-rate/
The Five Highest Annual Inflation Rates in US History
1. 1917: 17.84 percent
2. 1918: 17.28 percent
3. 1920: 15.63 percent
4. 1919: 15.24 percent
5. 1947: 14.39 percent
The Five Lowest Annual Inflation Rates in US History
1. 1921: -10.94 percent
2. 1932: -10.30 percent
3. 1931: -8.93 percent
4. 1922: -6.16 percent
5. 1933: -5.19 percent
The Charts and Graphs are at https://digg.com/data-viz/link/highest-lowest-inflation-rates-US-histo
ry?utm_source=digg
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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What's your point?
The prices never come back down. Joe Biden* and his administration fucked everyone.
And there's a whole lot of people who think this is far from over. You just don't read those articles because they're not coming from CNN, MSNBC or the NYT.
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Quote:Biden does not control prices. The prices you pay for rent, real estate purchases, food, etc. are controlled by people who are not elected. You could learn their names and punch them in the face for over-charging you, but you will not because you think Biden controls the prices. You cannot lower prices by taking the absolute risk-free action of voting in November. Voting is NOT how Capitalism sets the prices you pay, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What's your point?
The prices never come back down. Joe Biden* and his administration fucked everyone.
And there's a whole lot of people who think this is far from over. You just don't read those articles because they're not coming from CNN, MSNBC or the NYT.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Biden does not control prices. The prices you pay for rent, real estate purchases, food, etc. are controlled by people who are not elected. You could learn their names and punch them in the face for over-charging you, but you will not because you think Biden controls the prices. You cannot lower prices by taking the absolute risk-free action of voting in November. Voting is NOT how Capitalism sets the prices you pay, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What's your point?
The prices never come back down. Joe Biden* and his administration fucked everyone.
And there's a whole lot of people who think this is far from over. You just don't read those articles because they're not coming from CNN, MSNBC or the NYT.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You are an idiot.
The prices have gone up because of Democrat policy and the insane amount of spending that has happened over the last 3 years.
Every time that printing press gets fired up, they're splitting the stock of the US dollar and your dollar is worth that much less... but you're not getting any of the split.
Too much money chasing too few goods.
But by all means... let's give another $100 Billion to Ukraine.
And keep handing out those $10,000 cash cards to illegal alien invaders in the big Democrat run cities.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/inside-mayor-adams-migrant-debit
-card-boondoggle-no-bid-bank-gets-50-million-border-crossers-up-to-10000-each/
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Quote:Anti-Ukraine rhetoric has saturated right-wing media. Now it is helping to deliver actual war victories to Putin.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
But by all means... let's give another $100 Billion to Ukraine.
10:09 AM EST, Wed February 21, 2024
While the Republican Party was once vehemently hawkish toward Russia, viewing the post-Soviet country as its chief adversary on the international stage, it has softened considerably in recent years and much of the party actively opposes sending additional dollars to Ukraine to continue fighting Russia.
It was little more than a decade ago when Mitt Romney, then the party’s standard-bearer, famously declared Russia to be “our number one geopolitical foe.” In the years since, the party has dramatically changed its tune on Russia. A CNN poll conducted last summer found that a staggering 71% of Republicans do not support additional aid to thwart Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Much of the GOP’s softening toward Russia is owed to a near-total reversal in rhetoric from right-wing media personalities and outlets, prompted in large part by Donald Trump’s ascension to power in GOP politics. While the biggest players in right-wing media once fervently championed the foreign policy doctrines of the neo-conservatives, they now follow in the footsteps of Trump.
This transition is perhaps best exemplified by Tucker Carlson. The former Fox News host was once sharply critical of Putin, characterizing him in no uncertain terms as a cruel “dictator.” But in recent years, Carlson has reversed his stance, flooding the right-wing information space — which he once reigned as king over — with pro-Putin rhetoric that effectively amounts to Russian propaganda. Carlson’s stance was put on display in stark fashion recently when he traveled to Moscow to conduct a widely denounced softball chat with Putin and then proceeded to record a series of propaganda videos touting Russia’s supposed greatness.
While figures like Carlson have promoted Russia and Putin, they have simultaneously trashed Ukraine and its leader Volodymyr Zelensky, promoting conspiracy theories that the country interfered in the 2016 election and was hiding biological weapons labs. Carlson, for example, has likened Zelensky to vermin and vigorously spoken out against U.S. support for Ukraine. Right-wing commentators like Carlson have questioned why taxpayer dollars are being spent to help Ukraine defend its borders when the U.S. struggles to secure its own southern border (though a recent bipartisan bill intended to tackle both issues was rejected by hardline Republicans.)
The rhetoric has had a considerable impact on the views of the party, which is now being reflected by its elected leaders. A straight line can effectively be drawn between the commentary and the failure of the House GOP to pass funding providing Kyiv with critical funding and weaponry to counter Putin’s aggression.
“The GOP’s shift away from support for Ukraine shows how in the Republican Party, everything flows downstream from the obsessions and priorities of right-wing propagandists,” Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at the progressive watchdog Media Matters, told me Tuesday. “Tucker Carlson and his ilk wanted to back Putin’s invasion, their relentless lies won over the party’s base, and ultimately its elected officials have adopted their position.”
“We’ve seen this same pattern time and again: Fox News and the like take basic concepts like ‘it’s a good idea to get vaccinated against the coronavirus’ and ‘the January 6 insurrection was bad’ and turn them on their heads — and Republican elites inevitably follow,” Gertz added. “Governing based on what gets ratings for B.S. artists is no way to run a country.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/media/anti-ukraine-right-wing-media-put
in/index.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Struggling and failing?
That's as funny as you accusing SIX of using meth!
SECOND:Every Texas Trumptard I know brags about "doing great".
Then you must be a Texas Trumptard because you're always bragging about how great you're doing. And you live in Texas.
Back on topic...
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Anti-Ukraine rhetoric has saturated right-wing media. Now it is helping to deliver actual war victories to Putin.
Imagine, if Ukraine hadn't been molded and then aimed by "us" against Russia, this war would have never started. Ukraine would have had economic relations with both the EU and the EAEU nations, Nazis would not have flourished, Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers would have been both allowed to live in peace.
Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaparozhzhia, and Kherson would still be a part of Ukraine. Ukraine would be a neutral buffer state, enjoying trade between blocs.
Ukraine would still be a democracy and be billing Russia for gas flows, and making $$$. True, it would still be a corrupt oligarchy, but maybe Ukrainians would be able to solve that in time.
Russia and China would not be rammed together as allies and partners against a common enemy. Russian gas would continue to flow through Europe, Germany would be making bank on its auto industry in Russia, the "global south" wouldn't be sidling up to Russia, everyone would have been a lot happier.
The idea of using Ukraine and sanctions to destabilize Russia has been an unmitigated disaster for the EU and UK, and most of all for Ukraine.
Time to recognize the clusterfuck for what it is, and go into reverse gear instead of doubling down (again and again) on failure.
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Fuck Ukraine.
Fuck Democrats. Fuck Joe Biden*.
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