Our media suppressed the truth and pushed propaganda
So it now appears all but certain that Covid-19 was not a natural cross-species virus, but rather a man-made virus that escaped from a lab in Wuhan. The cross-species explanation was never a very good one and had little evidence to support it. At the same time, the more plausible theory of a lab leak was denied and even banished.
Meanwhile, we have seen another half dozen studies released over the past couple of months showing both empirical and statistical evidence that mask wearing did very little (if anything) to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus. For every study showing an actual relation between mask wearing and a drop in cases, there were three or four showing no correlation.
Yet, our media demanded that the Wuhan lab leak was some sort of disinformation and our social media giants banned any mention or discussion of this. Our media and pretty much every aspect of our American culture embraced an almost cult-like mask wearing agenda, while treating dissent as if it came from toothless uneducated hillbillies who hated science.
The question isn't whether or not these false assumptions were justified or not justified, the question is when did our country become a country where the truth can actually be systematically suppressed and anyone even suggesting the truth would be banished and punished. Obviously there can be no suggestion by anyone at this point that the tramping down on dissent was about following any real "science". There was also science and scientists who differed from the mainstream propaganda. They were just silenced. Apparently silenced for being correct.
But maybe the bigger question is why?
Why was the very legitimate concept that Covid-19 was a possible lab-experiment gone wrong being attacked so harshly, mainly from the same people who have pushed false narratives such as the Trump Russia collusion or that January 6th was worse than September 11th? Why did the political class work so hard to crush any dissent on mask wearing, in spite of limited evidence that it was working?
But mainly, why was there a "need" to demand that all opinions be in lock-step with conventional wisdom. This is not only illogical and impractical, but it goes against the very fabric of what our country has stood for since it's inception. Sadly, that fabric is in tatters and being replaced with the fabric of crushing dissent and canceling anyone who disagrees with what has been decreed by the rich and powerful to be the truth.
Unfortunately I doubt very seriously that our new generation of Americans will be able to learn anything from this. The new liberalism (and I cringe to even say this) is about following the crowd and blindly listening to the propaganda of their political heroes and media lackeys. The only authority apparently worth questioning today is our first responders and law enforcement who are putting their lives on the line. That is only because their political and social leaders are telling them to do so. Sheep in lockstep.
This attitude is the very thing that the hippy generation and every other generation of liberalism fought against. It most certainly would have been the liberals of any other generation who would have been the ones taking the stand against Government mandates and "signs" everywhere telling them what to do. Interestingly it probably would have been the conservatives from any other generation who would have followed the orders.
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Fake Fauci said he would like for people to never shake hands, why?
Well written column yet again CHT.
I hope people actually read it.
and comprehend it.
but I have my doubts.
Msnbc reports.
"Don't tell Costco executives that inflation is low.
The big-box club chain said it's been seeing accelerating prices across a range of products, including shipping containers, aluminum foil and a 20% spike in meat prices over the past month.
As RRB correctly pointed out the poor and fixed income seniors are just the most.
May 29, 2021
Bills to penalize the teaching of the 1619 Project, named for the arrival of African captives in America, were introduced in Republican-controlled state legislatures this year.
Late last month, when Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s first major address to a joint session of Congress, the subtext could scarcely have been closer to the surface: the sole Black Republican in the Senate was speaking on behalf of a Party that, under the increasing influence of the far right, has embraced a brand of belligerent and overt racism that was naïvely thought to have been banished from American politics. In the midst of a fairly straightforward conservative critique of Biden’s policies and priorities, the senator detoured into a complaint about liberals whom he said had called him racial epithets—he graciously declined to call them “the real racists”—and claimed that progressives are intent on teaching people that, “if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor.” He defended the G.O.P. voter-suppression bills that have swept the nation in the wake of Donald Trump’s defeat, and stated his case plainly. “America,” he said, “is not a racist country.”
This was a stunning display of cynicism, even by the standards of the current G.O.P., yet this was not the first time that Scott’s race had been utilized so disingenuously. A month earlier, he said on Fox News that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy,” a kind of equivalence that could be dismissed as political pandering had Scott not been a friend of the late Reverend Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and pastor who was gunned down in the Emanuel A.M.E. Church, in 2015, by Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who dreamed of a race war. Scott was also the man whom the G.O.P. turned to when, in the wake of Trump’s comments about the Charlottesville crisis, they decided that the President needed to be tutored in matters of race. (Ahead of that meeting, Scott said, “Racism is real. It is alive.”) The absolution that Scott offered the nation in his rebuttal to Biden sparked an online discussion about how much racism it takes for a country to be considered racist, but, in some ways, that question was beside the point. The real significance in Scott’s words lay in their connection to a broader offensive that the Republican Party has been coördinating since Trump’s reëlection loss, in November.
In a poll in June, 2020, fifty-two per cent of Americans said that they considered Trump a racist. His candidacy famously emboldened white nationalists, as evidenced by the tiki-torch crusade in Charlottesville, the racist motifs of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and his astounding directive to the Proud Boys, delivered during the first Presidential debate last year, to “stand back and stand by.” Since the murder of George Floyd last May, the nation has grappled publicly with its racist legacy and, to a considerable degree, with the extent to which Trump and the G.O.P. had made matters worse in the preceding three years. Books such as Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” and Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” rocketed up the best-seller lists.
In response, many on the American right decided to change the subject. If they could not market themselves as racists, they could certainly make a profitable brand as anti-anti-racists. (They have oddly chosen to lump all things racial and contemptible under the banner of critical race theory, a school of legal thought concerned primarily with inequality and the failures of civil-rights litigation to ameliorate it.) The objective here is not only to launder the G.O.P.’s reputation—though that is part of it—but also to facilitate the more overtly racist portions of the Party’s agenda. The left, in this light, is not simply advocating equality of people regardless of their backgrounds; it’s a cabal seeking to marginalize and browbeat white people for having created a bigoted society that does not actually exist.
Before Trump lost reëlection, he issued an executive order banning federal diversity initiatives that involve anti-racism training. Corollaries to that directive began taking root earlier this year, as bills to ban anti-racism training and to penalize public schools for teaching the 1619 Project were introduced in Republican-controlled state legislatures. (In April, the Iowa senate passed legislation sharply restricting what can be taught in diversity trainings at state and local entities.) Last summer, Senator Tom Cotton, of Arkansas, launched both a Twitter crusade against the 1619 Project and an ultimately failed effort to pass federal legislation that would ban it from being taught in schools nationwide. In an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, he said that the Founders saw slavery as a “necessary evil,” a point which elicited a response, on Twitter, from the 1619 Project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, who wrote, “its hard to imagine what cannot be justified” given that Cotton had essentially justified rape, torture, and the selling of human beings.
It is worth noting that the 1619 Project, which first appeared in the Times Magazine almost two years ago, on the four-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first African captives in the British colonies in North America, stirred currents that were not entirely unfamiliar. Twenty-six years ago, on the fiftieth anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, similar discord greeted renewed arguments that the release of two atomic bombs which immolated some hundred thousand people, most of them civilians, was a stain on this nation’s history. Three years before that, the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the Western Hemisphere again stirred contentious debate about his role as a herald of colonialism, slavery, and genocide of the indigenous populations of the West Indies.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-republican-party-racial-hypocrisy-and-the-1619-project/amp
Two fundamental flaws.
1. The Chinese government concealed the first about the covid-19 virus and its original origin.
2: The Deep State Conspiracy theory has infiltrated many minds but your irrational behavior suggests you need help.
So it now appears all but certain that Covid-19 was not a natural cross-species virus, but rather a man-made virus that escaped from a lab in Wuhan. The cross-species explanation was never a very good one and had little evidence to support it. At the same time, the more plausible theory of a lab leak was denied and even banished.
1. The Chinese government concealed the first about the covid-19 virus and its original origin.
The MSM didn't censor the.
Information takes time. Sometimes centuries.
Your anti masking bullshit cost thousands of lives. Mostly older black and Hispanic men and women. The fear of masking is fucking wrong again and again and again and again.
You actually believe that the CDC is a Democratic hoax, despite to destroy Donald Trump!
Bonkers is not going away.
Narcissistic behavior is untreatable.
You are beyond help.
"The Know Nothing Party" is back.
Even fish are smart enough to adjust their behaviors when threatened by a warming of climate, and inflections It’s reminiscent of another time in our history when the Know-Nothing Party sprang into action to fight Irish immigration. Know-Nothing works well for the new Republican Party that apparently “knows nothing” about science or worse yet, refuses to believe in the basic science that applies to pandemics and climate change.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article250173080.html
under the increasing influence of the far right, has embraced a brand of belligerent and overt racism
Orwellian crap if there ever was. Standing up for equality is now racism? Bullshit.
The real racism today is expounded by 1619 project and critical. And we haven't seen racism this virulent in well over 70 years.
Robby Starbuck
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1398048878566461443
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May 27
Social media companies banned people for discussing Hunter Biden’s laptop and about COVID coming from a lab. Biden stories were true and lab is the leading theory for where COVID came from. Big Tech needs censorship power stripped from them. Platform access is a right.
Will they unban all those people now? No. The truth is these companies always knew the stories were legit. It was never about truth. It was always about boosting their political side. It’s time to do what should’ve been done long ago: Make them public utilities + ban censorship.
Facebook ends ban on posts claiming COVID-19 is man-made. Facebook had previously insisted the claim had been 'debunked'.
Guess roger didn't get the message
Breitbart News
https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1398481292459716611
President Joe Biden praised Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) on Friday, despite condemning him as losing “all moral authority” two years ago and demanding his resignation.
Whoever is writing what Biden is reading obviously wasn't aware of Biden's previous statement.
Someone suggested that to avoid all the Biden gaffs he just turn his teleprompter around and let us read what it says.
Would eliminate the middle-man
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
An angry mob attacked our Capitol, our lawmakers, and our election.
They killed a policeman.
And Republican leaders would rather we all not know more about what happened.
Andrew Follett
@AndrewCFollett
This is, quite literally, a flat-out lie.
This is not my opinion. It is that of Washington DC's chief medical examiner.
One protester, Ashli Babbitt, was killed by a Capitol police officer.
https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1398328660621410310
The foundation of the left is built on lies
These kind of statements actually do incite violence.
How Democracies Die.
“Turns out, things are much worse than we expected,” Daniel Ziblatt, one of the “How Democracies Die” authors, told me this week. He said he had never envisioned a scenario like the one that has played itself out among Republicans on Capitol Hill during the past few months. How could he have? It’s hard to imagine anyone in America, even when “How Democracies Die” was published, a year into Trump’s term, seriously contemplating an American President who would unleash an insurrection in order to steal an election that he clearly lost—and then still commanding the support of his party after doing so.
Three years ago, it was still conceivable, if not likely, that Trump and Trumpism could be expunged by an overwhelming result at the ballot box or a clear-cut impeachment and expulsion from public life. But Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky, his co-author, never thought that would happen. Instead, they highlighted a more realistic possibility: that Trump’s electoral defeat would not stop the continued polarization, flouting of political norms, and increased “institutional warfare” in America—leaving the country a battered “democracy without solid guardrails” that would be “hovering constantly on the brink of crisis.” The crisis, however, turned out to be even more existential than they had predicted; the present is “much more worrisome,” Ziblatt told me. In contemporary Germany, he pointed out, an incitement to violence of the kind deployed by Trump and some of his backers might be enough to get a political party banned. But, in America’s two-party system, you can’t just ban one of the two parties, even if it takes a terrifying detour into anti-democratic extremism.
This is the worrisome essence of the matter. In one alarming survey released this week, nearly thirty per cent of Republicans endorsed the idea that the country is so far “off track” that “American patriots may have to resort to violence” against their political opponents. You don’t need two Harvard professors to tell you that sort of reasoning is just what could lead to the death of a democracy. The implications? Consider the blunt words of Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in a ruling on a case involving one of the January 6th rioters at the Capitol, issued even as it became clear that Republican senators would move to block the January 6th commission from investigating what had caused the riot:
The steady drumbeat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away; six months later, the canard that the election was stolen is being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near daily fulminations of the former President.
The New Yorker article is so chalk full of li lies that one hard knows where to begin. Starting with old lie that Trump embrace white supremacist at Charlottesville. This has been long since debunk by the actual transcript.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/american-democracy-isnt-dead-yet-but-its-getting-there
Good people on both sides.
Words matter
Matt Braynard
FIERY IMAGE:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MattBraynard/status/1350553519116455936
Four years ago....
200+ individuals charged with felony rioting at Trump's inauguration.
All charges dropped.
How many were chased across the country, brought back to DC and then put in solitary confinement for months ?
thebradfordfile
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1398467349414662147
If Joe Biden wasn't a total failure as president, they wouldn't be asking him about ice cream.
Failed president,
Failed press
Alk y acts as IF Trump never told the world it is the "China Virus ".
Biden and Dems mocked Trump.
Trump, again was right.
Tom Elliott
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1398287004484476937
WaPo’s @CarolLeonnig: The Capitol riot was another “9/11 moment” for America
Mollie
@MZHemingway
There was a bad riot at the Capitol. There were 500+ riots last summer at federal courthouses, White House, police precincts, churches, and cities across America. Absurd exaggeration of what happened at Capitol, & downplaying of what happened elsewhere is disgusting and must stop
Washington Post is FAKE NEWS and propaganda
soft serve ice cream for Slow Joe
Roger, you support Keynesian theory, tell us what you know about it.
Colorado is getting rid of racism. Scott Johnson won't agree because they are traitors Democrats.
State-supported colleges in Colorado are no longer allowed to consider an applicant's legacy status in college admissions decisions, according to a new state bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis (D) this week.
The legislation, which Polis officially approved during a signing ceremony on Tuesday, states that considering whether a student has familial relationships with alumni of a state higher education institution "is discriminatory in nature and hurts students who are undocumented, first-generation, immigrants, or underrepresented minorities and who do not have the same relationships to Colorado higher education institutions."
The bill also notes the "significant racial and socioeconomic disparities among students who enroll in higher education institutions" in Colorado. Sixty-three percent of the state university population consists of white students and 67 percent middle-to-high income young people, compared to 42 percent Latino students and 47 percent from low-income families.
One of the bill's sponsors, state Rep. Kyle Mullica (D), said in remarks at the ceremony Colorado is the first state to enact a policy of this kind.
Polis Tuesday said the law "makes sure that just because your parent or grandparent went to one of our colleges in Colorado, that doesn't mean that you automatically get in," arguing that this "could take the spot from somebody who is more worthy of that spot."
"In a Colorado for all, this bill will help move us in a direction where our higher education institutions are moving towards being meritocracies, meaning that you have to earn admission because of who you are, what you can do and what your potential is, not who your parents or grandparents were," the governor said.
Mullica, a first-generation college student himself, said Tuesday that Colorado has made itself a "leader in the country" on removing familial relationships from college admissions decisions, adding that he hopes private institutions in the state will follow suit.
Run, Roger Gump, run.
You admitted you can't debate me on the other thread.
Fauci was wrong.
Fatally so on almost every thing.
Jamie and Roger defended Fauci.
Roger...
Has nothing but lies... old lies for that matter.
Go put on your double mask, Roger. Do as your leaders tell you!!!!
Fall in lockstep like a good little 2021 liberal!
Defend the critical race theory you said was "bonkers" when you first read it. Follow your leaders!!! Stop thinking. It gets you in trouble when you "think" and realize that CRT is nonsense, then are forced to retract because your leaders tell you and control you!
Now go read your TPM.
Cut and paste from whoever is thinking for you today!
Simply put
Keynesian economics is a theory that says the government should increase demand to boost growth.
Creating millions of union jobs will increase demand for housing and automobiles. Under President Eisenhower, he initiated the intestate highway system.
It didn't trigger inflation.
Even though it was too cautious, the Obama recovery plan worked, it lead to the longest consisfrnf recovery in history.
He also saved GM. "Government Motors " like the racist rodent bastard said.
We may have a bump of inflation, but when the economy created by Sleepy Joe Biden, will grow 10% by the end of December.
Lumber prices rose, after the economic showdown ended demand caused prices to rise. But since the lumber industry is creating more lumber and drywall etc. and again the prices will get lower because the supply is sufficient.
The only time I wear a mask is outside in stores,etc.
You sound like the sheep in my grandfather's ranch near Colome South Dakota.
Biden consistently urged caution in determining whether the virus did or did not escape from the Wuhan lab.
Don't believe me? Read the link provided here:
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Behind the Media’s ‘Lab Leak’ Fiasco
May 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Matthew Yglesias: “A huge fuckup, with perhaps not-so-huge policy stakes.”
click on the blue print
Unlike yyou,I checked out information about CRT.
I read some of the right wing websites and saw things that bothered me, but I didn't stop thinking about it and then I read the real coldheartedtruth, and changed my mind, because I can be objective when I read other things.
It's called education.
Get your head out of right wing nutcase websites.
Biden is presently demanding that the Chinese be more forthcoming.
Demanding. One of Ch/Scottie's favorite words.
James Bond..lolololololololololol.
Joe Biden takes time to make decisions, instead of Twitter tirades because he refused to listen to other people's opinions based upon their experiences and education.
Biden Gets Big Bounce with Hispanics
May 29, 2021 at 10:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Harry Enten:
“Take a look at Gallup polling during the Biden presidency. Aggregating all the polls it has conducted so far (in order to get a large sample size), Biden’s approval rating with Hispanics stands at 72% compared to a 55% overall approval rating.
“That 72% is a clear improvement from how Biden did in the election with Hispanics. Biden won 65% of Hispanics, according to the network exit polls. An estimate from the Democratic firm Catalist (which lines up well with what we saw in pre-election polls) had Biden taking 61% of Hispanics. So this Gallup data suggests Biden’s support may be up anywhere from 7 to 11 points from the election.”
ANYBODY WONDER WHY?
Biden consistently urged caution in determining whether the virus did or did not escape from the Wuhan lab.
Biden put an end to the investigation into the start of Covid because it was created by the previous administration and it was willing to examine the theory that it was lab created.
Now he has to start all over from scratch because he childishly has to "oppose" everything Trump did. Even if it was 100% correct.
Unlike you, Reverend... I watch what politicians do, rather than just listen to what they say.
If Trump had won he would have had a Helsinki with Chi and he would have believed what the dictator said in a private meeting.
Unlike yyou,I checked out information about CRT.
Actually you did. You looked at independent objective descriptions of CRT and demanded
1) That it was bonkers
2) That it was not part of the Democratic agenda
Only after realizing that "2" was incorrect and CRT is the backbone of the Democratic Party (in spite of about a 2-1 popular opinion against the concept in general) - did you then go to you liberal sites and got your talking points memo propaganda!
Now you are doing exactly what I said you would.
Backing a theory you demanded was "bonkers" because you do not have enough independence and self worth to buck your leaders.
Continue your lock step you liberal sheep!
baaaaaaa!!!!
I was right.... again!!!!
Academics at Baltimore City Public Schools
79% can’t read and 84% can’t do math but they still got 10 times Alky’s 97 on his SAT
By March, Biden was in office and his team was arguing that China was not being sufficiently forthcoming about the origin of the virus. In May, a distinguished group of scientists called for a more rigorous inquiry.
Because there is obviously a big media fuckup angle to this story, the two biggest deal accounts for a lot of media-skeptics are Donald McNeil making the case for a lab leak and Nicholas Wade making the case for a lab leak because those are both veteran science reporters who got “cancelled.” But I do think it’s important to try to understand exactly who got what wrong here. My best assessment is to agree with Josh Rogin that this is a case of a smallish group of reporters and fact-checkers proclaiming a scientific consensus where none ever really existed.
Scott asshole lies is exposed by Matt Eglacias
By March, Biden was in office and his team was arguing that China was not being sufficiently forthcoming about the origin of the virus. In May, a distinguished group of scientists called for a more rigorous inquiry.
Because there is obviously a big media fuckup angle to this story, the two biggest deal accounts for a lot of media-skeptics are Donald McNeil making the case for a lab leak and Nicholas Wade making the case for a lab leak because those are both veteran science reporters who got “cancelled.” But I do think it’s important to try to understand exactly who got what wrong here. My best assessment is to agree with Josh Rogin that this is a case of a smallish group of reporters and fact-checkers proclaiming a scientific consensus where none ever really existed.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco
For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the Catholic church taught the earth was the center of the universe. Some of them taught the earth was flat.
In that era you would have said I was a sheep for believing scientists.
Indy and I agree that you have lost your mind. Beep beeps and beeps and beeps and beeps and beeps and
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco
I generally do my research using Google instead of reading crazy mothrf***r websites.
I carefully write my questions.
Scott I rarely read TPM.
He started his blog about the same time you started this horror movie.
He's still on cable TV and other places but you are not on RCP or anywhere else, since you quit letting others to post.
Biden put an end to the investigation into the start of Covid S. Scott Johnson.
By March, Biden was in office and his team was arguing that China was not being sufficiently forthcoming about the origin of the virus. In May, a distinguished group of scientists called for a more rigorous inquiry.
Your sources are not credible enough for rational people unlike you.
Roger is too stupid , his post are wrong.
The above is yet another example of a spectacular fail.
" Simply put
Keynesian economics is a theory that says the government should increase demand to boost growth."
Wrongly put.
Now to yet again, correct and educate H.s. Diploma alky.
" Keynes advocated for increased government expenditures and lower taxes to stimulate demand"
Where are Joe's "tax cuts".?
Roger, please �� you are wrong, spectacularly wrong.
"Lumber prices rose, after the economic showdown ended demand caused prices to rise. But since the lumber industry is creating more lumber and drywall etc. and again the prices will get lower because the supply is sufficient."
How does low demand cause prices to rise?
Your words .
Because the companies can raise their prices, because they will still make the sales because of demand.
Capitalism.
Excellent thread commentary
Roger Amick said...
Scott asshole lies is exposed by Matt Eglacias
great grammar there ace, let me correct your copy/paste "statement" for CHT, though I'm not sure the first part is really true:
By March, Biden was in office and his team was arguing that China was not being sufficiently forthcoming about the origin of the virus. In May, Joe Biden put an end to the inquiry.
After an outcry he called for a more rigorous inquiry days later.
notice any difference ???
He also said the new inquiry would be fully released to the public "unless it contains anything he doesn't already know"
strange.
You would think there would be a follow-up
Not ice cream.
Maybe CHT will take a swing but he might think swinging at you is just abuse.
Alone in your room
with a tv
on Memorial Day weekend.
Don't fire up a grill in there
And if you are in California stay locked down.
Like Biden said you may be able to celebrate by July 4th
Maybe then enjoy some ice cream.
and cake
Inflation also remains an issue as the deficit keeps climbing. A continuing debt-load that’s not met with corresponding growth will likely show up as a higher rate of inflation, according to a blog post by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.
There’s no way to tell how large of a debt load can increase inflation to where it becomes “worrisome”–but the Federal Reserve has multiple monetary policies it can utilize to keep the inflation from getting out of control. Biden’s proposal predicts consumer prices never rising faster than 2.3% per year.
Overall, the budget shows that Biden is aiming to give the government a more prominent role in the economy for the next decade, even if it means spending big to get there.
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If the economy increases by the projected percentage of 12% the rate of inflation will decline slowly but steadily, because Federal Reserve will also cut interest rates.
It's a balancing act. But historically speaking, the last three Democratic Presidents inherited terrible economic crisis.
Bill Clinton created 21 million jobs and again the deficit was almost zero, until George W Bush cut taxes without reducing government spending on the Iraq war.
He left office in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
The Obama administration rescued the economy.
When Sleepy Joe Biden was sworn in, the economy was falling apart in every direction.
His recovery act has become a solid deal, but, the Republican base wants the economy to collapse so they can win in 2022, just like McConnell did in 2010! Block everything.
They don't care about anything except power. The Constitution is irrelevant to the current law party.
The January 6th Insurrection is treason, not the freedom of speech.
https://wacotrib.com/your-questions-about-biden-s-6-trillion-budget-proposal-answered/article_bf4d9a53-97ea-51e3-9902-d39580e2ff7a.html
Big crock o shit
Big crock of s***
is not exactly a focused, point by point refutation.
Democrats Plot Medicaid Expansion Backdoor In Red States
May 29, 2021 at 10:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Politico:
“Expanding coverage to the estimated 2.2 million people lacking affordable health insurance options in the Medicaid expansion holdout states would fulfill a Biden campaign pledge while his other key health care promises, like government drug price negotiations and a public option, face tough odds in Congress. Democrats also believe it would deliver a major win for their party heading into tightly contested midterm elections next year, given that Medicaid expansion has polled well — including in states where Republican leaders have blocked it for years.”
GO FOR IT, JOE!
This is how the other side sees this post.
The Media's COVID FailureIn dismissing the possibility that the virus leaked from a lab, journalists betrayed their mission to seek the truth.
Zaid Jilani
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Security personnel outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the new coronavirus, Feb. 2, 2021. (Photo: Hector Retamal/AFP, via Getty Images)
By Zaid Jilani
In February 2020, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, asked a provocative question: Was there some relationship between COVID-19 emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan and the fact that there’s a biochemical lab in the city that specializes in studying coronaviruses? Was it possible that this lab was studying an animal that carried the virus and failed to properly secure it?
“We don’t have evidence that this disease originated there,” Cotton said of the lab, “but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says, and China right now is not giving evidence on that question at all.”
Cotton’s comments were nuanced: He wasn’t certain that the virus that causes COVID-19 had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but he considered it to be a possibility, and he was troubled that the Chinese government was failing to offer the transparency necessary to prove it one way or another.
But the response to Cotton’s theory and nuanced line of questioning was brutal. The New York Times dismissed him as repeating a “Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins,” as the headline put it. The Washington Post insisted that Cotton “keeps repeating a conspiracy theory that was already debunked.” And the rest of the mainstream media wasn’t much kinder.
But how could the theory possibly have been debunked? There is no official consensus on where the new coronavirus first emerged and, as Cotton pointed out, China’s government made it basically impossible for outside observers to investigate the origins of the virus.
Yet for most of the past year, the mainstream media’s consensus was that the lab-leak hypothesis was just a fringe theory promoted by hawkish parts of the right. Facebook, which has increasingly appointed itself the arbiter of global speech, had a policy of taking down posts claiming that the virus was man-made or manufactured.
In recent weeks, that has slowly started to change. Top scientists are calling for a more serious probe into the origins of the virus, including the lab-leak theory. President Biden is ordering our intelligence agencies to do a 90-day investigation into the question of where the virus came from. And Facebook recently lifted its ban on posts that claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 was manufactured.
What should we make of all this?
What should we make of all this?
It appears that for the past year, our media seemed to lock arms in shielding the Chinese government from the scrutiny it deserved for failing to control the virus. Whether or not the lab-leak hypothesis bears out, it is clear that our nation’s journalists did not approach this question with an open mind.
In a tweet that she later deleted, Apoorva Mandavilli, a New York Times science reporter who has been on the coronavirus beat, offered a window into the mindset of much of the media: “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.”
Is it really supposed to be “racist” to consider the possibility that the Chinese government failed to prevent the virus that causes COVID-19 from escaping from a government lab? The other leading origin theory—that the virus emerged from China's lightly regulated wet markets—would place more of the blame on local culture than the lab-leak hypothesis, which directly implicates the government (and only the government).
Perhaps Mandavilli’s revealing tweet is emblematic of a wider mindset among American journalists, many of whom saw their mission as simply opposing any stance taken by the Trump administration—former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has long suspected that the virus leaked from the lab in Wuhan—while also burnishing their anti-racist and anti-imperialist credentials by refusing to blame a foreign government for the pandemic.
But the goal of journalism shouldn’t be to craft the most culturally sensitive or partisan narrative. The goal of journalism is to seek the truth. The consequences of telling the truth should be secondary to getting the truth out there in the first place, even if it makes the Trump administration or Republican Senators look good or the Chinese government look bad.
To make the Orange Monster look terrible and the Chinese virus coverup was destroy the Republican party now!
The right wing is a cultist party of yes The Former President Trump.
The link will follow
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-medias-covid-failure
Answer to 1:09PM [actually, I think the word in Roger's quote was originally slowdown, not showdown, but anyway--]
Fact check: COVID-19 to blame for spike in lumber prices, not Biden
Adrienne Dunn
USA TODAY
The claim: Biden to blame for spike in lumber prices
Lumber prices have soared across the United States in recent months, a trend some on social media are blaming on the new Democratic occupant of the White House.
An April 8 Facebook post, which includes a photo of a Home Depot price tag, is captioned, "America held hostage, day 79 of living in leftist-imposed hell!"
The post also includes a list of rising prices for 3/4-inch plywood since March 2020, claiming that there has been a "252% price increase on one of the most used pieces of common lumber for construction."
But the post itself – like others making similar claims – unintentionally points out the absurdity of this line of thinking. Going back to March 2020 creates a time span mostly falling under the Donald Trump presidency.
The lumber price spike is all about the COVID-19 pandemic, not Democratic President Joe Biden.
Lumber prices have indeed spiked, but it's not related to the Biden administration.
Prices rose by more than 250% in the last year, according to Business Insider. The National Association of Homebuilders said the increases added more than $24,000 to the price of the average single-family home.
Of course, most of that increase came while Trump was still in office.
Like other products, lumber prices surged amid the pandemic as mills were forced to close or slow production. Pandemic home improvement projects, mill production cuts and this year's building season have caused an increased demand for lumber while supply remains low, leading some experts to predict prices will stay high.
The association attributes the escalating lumber prices to "insufficient domestic production."
It's similar to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, though on a smaller scale. Then lumber prices went up by 30% from August 2017 through January 2018, the association said.
According to its website, the NAHB "reached out extensively to the Trump Administration, members of Congress and to lumber mills calling for prompt action to address supply shortages that were harming small businesses, home builders and ultimately, the overall economy," and will continue to do so under the Biden administration.
The Nasdaq composite shows a relatively consistent rise in the pricing of lumber over the last six months, with spikes in December of last year, and February and April of this year.
Christina Cornell, a spokesperson for Home Depot, said the company cannot confirm the authenticity of the image in the Facebook posts but said the company has seen prices increase for all lumber products based on various factors.
Our ruling: False
We rate the claim that Biden is to blame for rising lumber prices FALSE because it is not supported by our research. It's true the price of lumber has increased by more than 252%, but that's connected to the pandemic, not Biden. Lumber prices also steadily rose throughout 2020 as mills were forced to close or scale down operations, when Trump was still in office.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
The facts are starting to change regarding Covid-19
Our media suppressed the truth and pushed propaganda
So it now appears all but certain that Covid-19 was not a natural cross-species virus, but rather a man-made virus that escaped from a lab in Wuhan.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Once again Lil Schity peddling conspiracy theories Funny trump had over a year to demand his intelligence to review ALL the data and he again prematurely ejaculates thinking that it might be true!!!!!!! Sad nothing has changed even the 3 Wuhan tech's who fell ill was circulated by the fat fuck Pompeo well before trump said it would disappear....Again, I'll wait for the science instead of making up shit lil Dr Lil Schitty!!!!!
Gee James, it seems our goat fucking asshole also got the BS that biden was responsible for gas price increases!!!! It is amazing how quickly the crap sets hold in the weak minds of the GOP slurpers so quickly without any basis in fact just extremist rhetoric hoping something will stick!!!!!!
https://news.yahoo.com/ap-fact-check-house-gop-221122393.html
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and HOPE YEN
Tue, May 25, 2021, 6:11 PM·5 min read
Joe Biden
Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into the Memorial Day travel weekend, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of his party are falsely blaming President Joe Biden for higher gasoline and lumber costs.
Gas prices have risen in recent weeks because a key pipeline was forced to close after a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. And lumber shortages — which existed during former President Donald Trump's administration — were worsened by an unexpected housing boom.
Shortages have bedeviled the economy this spring, but most economists attribute the bulk of them to the difficulties of restarting the U.S. and global economies.
A look at the claims and reality:
MCCARTHY: “Gas prices are the highest since 2014 — just as summer starts. The recent hack of the Colonial Pipeline exposed the flaws of Biden’s approach to our country’s energy policies. On day one he signed an executive order cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline.” — blog post Monday.
REP. LIZ CHENEY, R-Wyoming: “From cancelling the Keystone Pipeline to banning new oil & gas leasing on federal lands, Biden’s energy policies are having devastating consequences. We’ve already seen a glimpse of this devastation with prices skyrocketing & gas shortages hitting communities across the country.” — tweet Friday.
THE FACTS: Biden’s action on the Keystone XL pipeline has nothing to do with the recent spike in gasoline prices. The pipeline handles crude oil, running from Canada to Texas through the Midwest, not gasoline, which had shortages on the East Coast after the Colonial Pipeline hack.
THE FACTS: Biden’s action on the Keystone XL pipeline has nothing to do with the recent spike in gasoline prices. The pipeline handles crude oil, running from Canada to Texas through the Midwest, not gasoline, which had shortages on the East Coast after the Colonial Pipeline hack
Same stupid assed excuse as not drilling on the north slope that bunghole killed.
It’s to prepare for the future you freaking sot.
The only donk to ever get this was jimmuh
Holy crap, Roger IS back assward.
You actually know nothing of value.
"How does low demand cause prices to rise?
Your words .
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Roger AmickMay 29, 2021 at 1:19 PM
Because the companies can raise their prices, because they will still make the sales because of demand.
Just no.
Alky heading to see the LA Giltini’s take on Rugby ATL, look for me
A much younger version of Harrison Ford
If you owned a lumber shop and when the demand increased astronomicaly, you would raise the price because they will pay the higher price because they need it to build homes and businesses buildings.
I worked in the construction business for 43 years.
On both sides, building homes and industrial buildings and sewer facilities and coal fired power plants and coal mining infrastructure.
And then the managment system. You are lying about your college degree, and you won't let us verify anything you say.
What a fucking lie
Scott is angry at U.S. District Judge Amy becase Berman Jackson wrote Wednesday in a decision denying the release of a man accused of threatening to kill U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
“The steady drumbeat that inspired defendant to take up arms has not faded away,” Berman wrote in her ruling ordering Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. to remain in custody. “Six months later, the canard that the election was stolen is being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near-daily fulminations of the former president.”
The defendants represent only a fraction of the more than 400 people charged in the failed attempt to disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory. But their arguments highlight the important role that the falsehoods played in inspiring the riot, especially as many top Republicans try to minimize the violence of Jan. 6 and millions of others still wrongly believe the election was stolen.
They may do that again and again until Trump is the President for life, like Vladimir Putin is.
ed excuse as not drilling on the north slope that bunghole killed. Gee
God you certainly wasted tax payers money on your education shorty....You really should learn how to read instead of making shit up!!!! The north slope was exploration was approved for Shell Oil which began 2015
Scientific American
Here's Why Obama Is Approving Arctic Drilling Again
For a leader who has made fighting climate change a priority, President Barack Obama's decision to approve Royal Dutch Shell's return to oil and gas exploration off Alaska was seen by many environmentalists as a contradiction.
April 1, 2015
By Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For a leader who has made fighting climate change a priority, President Barack Obama's decision to approve Royal Dutch Shell's return to oil and gas exploration off Alaska was seen by many environmentalists as a contradiction.
On Tuesday, his administration upheld a 2008 Arctic lease sale, clearing an important hurdle for Shell. The Interior Department will now consider the company's drilling plan, which could take 30 days. But Shell, which has already spent about $6 billion exploring the Arctic, expects to return to polar waters this summer and is already moving oil rigs to Alaska.
"If the economy increases by the projected percentage of 12% the rate of inflation will decline slowly but steadily, because Federal Reserve will also cut interest rates."
Really Alk y, rates are current zero to .25%.
Where can they lower it, Roger?
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
"If the economy increases by the projected percentage of 12% the rate of inflation will decline slowly but steadily, because Federal Reserve will also cut interest rates."
Really Alk y, rates are current zero to .25%.
Where can they lower it, Roger?
The alky has two problems here:
1) He can't even begin to understand the economic shit that he plagiarizes. He steals shit from sources that are dubious at best and outright fraudulent at worst. And his go-to clowns: Krugman and Reich are famously and hilariously wrong almost all the time.
2) The economic projections that Slow Joe is reliant upon to peddle his $6 TRILLION spending bonanza are the stuff fairy tales are made of. We've seen this movie before and we know exactly how it ends. And it ends very, very badly.
We are in for a world of fucking hurt over the next four years, with the poor and the elderly on fixed incomes getting fucking crushed. This is Cloward-Piven in action folks. Load the entitlements to the fucking breaking point and then swoop in to "fix it."
While El Stupido alky is sitting there in his tiny nursing home room cheering it on as it all turns to shit.
From a friend to his cousin's husband who is as fucking stupid as Scott has become.
I wrote a message to my cousin’s husband after seeing yet another political post diminishing the seriousness of the past year. I felt I needed to share it to let others, who like to politicize this pandemic, know how insensitive their posts about the pandemic can be. It has been a year that no one could have dreamed of and everyone is doing their best to cope and make the right decisions. It is so much easier to be kind than to be hurtful. Over the past year I have seen sooo many people whining about wearing a mask etc and that this virus has a 99 point blah blah blah percent survival rate. That may be true, but to those of us who have lost someone, statements like that just dump salt on the wound.....
“Don, I miss your positive posts about family, faith, guitar playing.... I can’t remember the last time you mentioned your family or things that bring you joy. Your posts of late are all about negativity and cynicism with no constructive solutions to the tough times we are facing.
My Father passed away barely 6 months ago, because of this deadly virus that you diminish at every opportunity. Not once have I seen you show compassion for those who have passed. Do you even fathom how insensitive many of your posts, regarding the pandemic, are towards people who have lost someone to covid??? Obviously not. You are more concerned with getting in those political jabs. You keep throwing out the catch phrase of 99 point blah blah blah percent survivability. Do you even understand how much that hurts?I’m not sure if I have ever witnessed such a lack of kindness from a Christian. Definitely not how I was raised. I sincerely hope you don’t lose a parent to this virus because of your careless attitude and actions. “
My brother Ron passed away barely 6 weeks ago, because of this deadly virus that you diminish at every opportunity.
People like you killed hundreds of thousands of good people.
May you rot in hell.
And Krugman got his prize for a theory on international trade, geography and their effect on economies of scale. Essentially globalization. He doesn't know a damn thing about domestic or micro economics.
When the supply chain was closed by the pandemic. The amount of building materials was almost zero.
When demand increased the prices skyrocketed because of demand asshole kputz.
He has a Nobel prize and a PhD in economics ballsless
Yes I know. I just told you what his nobel was for dumb fuck.
And Nobel prizes aren't given to conservatives.
Paul Robin Krugman (/ˈkrʊɡmən/ (listen) KRUUG-mən; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.
Quick Facts Born, Spouse(s) ...
Krugman was previously a professor of economics at MIT, and later at Princeton University. He retired from Princeton in June 2015, and holds the title of professor emeritus there. He also holds the title of Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Krugman was President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2010, and is among the most influential economists in the world. He is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory and international finance), economic geography, liquidity traps, and currency crises.
Krugman is the author or editor of 27 books, including scholarly works, textbooks, and books for a more general audience, and has published over 200 scholarly articles in professional journals and edited volumes. He has also written several hundred columns on economic and political issues for The New York Times, Fortune and Slate. A 2011 survey of economics professors named him their favorite living economist under the age of 60. As a commentator, Krugman has written on a wide range of economic issues including income distribution, taxation, macroeconomics, and international economics. Krugman considers himself a modern liberal, referring to his books, his blog on The New York Times, and his 2007 book The Conscience of a Liberal. His popular commentary has attracted widespread attention and comments, both positive and negative. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Krugman is the second most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses.
MIT is a Democratic hoax school???
Because they are always wrong about economic recovery and again deficit reduction
What conservative Republicans has awarded the Nobel to those sought to reward "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind". ??????????
???????.??..??????????????
I'm waiting
Roger Amick said...
What conservative Republicans has awarded the Nobel to those sought to reward "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind". ??????????
I hope alky is drinking again or if not there is no real answer to this gibberish other than dementia.
sad
What??
PHOTO:
https://twitter.com/breannamorello/status/1398750598363766785
Vice President Kamala Harris
@VP
United States government official
Enjoy the long weekend.
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Breanna Morello
It’s just a “long weekend.”
She posted a picture of herself.
No reference of those that lost their lives fighting for our freedoms.
These people are SICK.
Anti-Americans.
that's an Obama move, he would have posted a smiling selfie with Arlington Cemetery graves in the background
If the economy increases by the projected percentage of 12% the rate of inflation will decline slowly but steadily, because Federal Reserve will also cut interest rates."
Really Alk y, rates are current zero to .25%.
Where can they lower it, Roger?
<crickets)
Roger , you mean Bidenomics move the GDP to 12%?
Really.
By when?
Earlier you had GDP @ 10 % by the end of this year.
Roger, you believe in this economic theory.
"A negative interest rate policy (NIRP) occurs when a central bank sets its target nominal interest rate at less than zero percent. This extraordinary monetary policy tool is used to strongly encourage borrowing, spending, and investment rather than hoarding cash, which will lose value to negative deposit rates"
Because you posted "Federal Reserve will also cut interest rates."
Which I pointed out are currently @ 0.00 to .25%.
Sicknick died of two strokes on January 7, after he was captured on video physically fighting with Capitol rioters. A medical examiner attributed Sicknick's death to natural causes, but the officer's family believe that he would still be alive if he wasn't involved in defending the Capitol from insurrectionists.
The stress of The assault and poison control spray probably caused the strokes
He was a healthy hero but Scott asshole doesn't give a shit.
Nobel said that when he started to award people who helped others lives.
Republicans don't care about anything but power
You fuckin imbecile. That doesn't cause a stroke. Go back to bed.
Roger I put the entire �� suit on you .
Roger, it was fun clowning you, again.
ROGER I bookmarked this thread.
Your on record say Bidenomics will produce 10 to 12 percent GDP.
If the economy increases by the projected percentage of 12% the rate of inflation will decline slowly but steadily, because Federal Reserve will also cut interest rates."
Really Alk y, rates are current zero to .25%.
Where can they lower it, Roger?
<crickets)
Roger , you mean Bidenomics moves the GDP to 12%?
Really.
By when?
Earlier you had GDP @ 10 % by the end of this year.
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