What’s the current state of the U.S. economy? A quick summary might be “booming with bottlenecks.”
And some of those bottlenecks reflect the mess created by Donald Trump’s trade policy.
Where we are now: Employment is growing at a rate we haven’t seen since 1984. So, probably, is gross domestic product, although we don’t yet have an official estimate for the second quarter. We are, however, suffering from shortages of many items, which are crimping production in some areas and leading to sharp price increases in others.
Some of these shortages are getting resolved. For example, two months ago, lumber cost almost four times as much as it did before the Covid-19 pandemic; since then, its price has fallen more than 50 percent. Other bottlenecks, however, seem more persistent. World trade is being held back by an inadequate supply of standard-size shipping containers — the ubiquitous boxes that carry almost everything, because they can be lifted directly from the decks of ships onto railroad cars and truck beds — and experts expect the shortage to last at least until late this year.
And there’s another bottleneck that may be an even bigger deal than the container shortage: a global shortage of semiconductor chips.
You see, these days almost everything contains silicon chips. So an insufficient supply of chips is a problem not just for producers of computers and smartphones; there are chips in just about all durable goods, including household appliances and, crucially, cars.
As a result, the chip shortage has had large and perhaps unexpected ramifications. Lack of chips is limiting production of automobiles, leading some people to buy used cars instead. And soaring used-car prices are a surprisingly big contributor to inflation — in fact, they accounted for about a third of May’s total rise in consumer prices.
So why are we facing a semiconductor shortage? Part of the answer is that the pandemic created a weird business cycle. People couldn’t go out to eat, so they remodeled their kitchens, and they couldn’t go to the gym, so they bought Pelotons. So demand for services is still depressed, while demand for goods has soared. And as I said, practically every physical good now has a chip in it.
But as Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics documents in an important new article, the Trump administration’s trade policy made the situation much worse.
When Trump took us into a trade war with China, there was clearly a lot he and his advisers failed to understand about modern world trade. Among other things, they didn’t seem to grasp that modern trade consists not of simple exchanges of goods — they sell us cars, we sell them aircraft — but of complex supply chains, in which the production of a given item often involves activities spread across the globe.
Given this reality, the structure of the Trump tariffs was, well, stupid: They focused mainly on intermediate inputs like semiconductors and capital equipment, which American companies need to compete in the world market. As a result, multiple studies have found, the tariffs actually reduced U.S. manufacturing employment.
But Trump’s trade policy wasn’t just poorly conceived. It was also erratic. Nobody knew which products might face new tariffs or whether the tariffs he had imposed would remain in place. And in high technology, especially semiconductors, Trump began imposing export restrictions, again in an erratic fashion (and with an apparent lack of awareness that, in many cases, China could simply turn to other suppliers).You hate the author.
You really believe that the Democratic party wants to build a new Auschwitz camps for white Christians.
Get help Scott.
I don't think we're the ones who need the help, alky.
I seem to remember learning about a period in history where your favorite democrat locked Japanese-Americans in cages. I'm sure the resemblance to the Nazi concentration camps was purely a coinky-dink.
What were those called again?
Began with an "I"....
Fire up that photographic memory of yours and help a brother out...
Professor likens democratic socialism to ‘democratic Auschwitz’
July 11, 2020
A college professor who defected from Russia in 1989 mocked the idea of democratic socialism, telling GOP activists it’s comparable to a “democratic Auschwitz,” the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1 million people died.
Yuri Maltsev, an economics professor at Carthage College, was invited to speak at the state GOP convention to drive home the dangers of socialism after his firsthand experience in his native country.
His speech came as some in the Democratic Party have begun to refer to themselves as democratic socialists, including Bernie Sanders, who unsuccessfully sought the party’s nomination for president in 2016 and 2020.
Maltsev accused the Democratic Party of “concocting Russian threats” and told party activists Russia fell because Mikhail Gorbachev “took fear out of the system.” He said Gorbachev started talking about socialism with a human face. He said that was perplexing to him and his friends because socialists “must kill” to maintain their system of government by instilling fear in the citizens.
“There is no such thing as democratic socialist. It’s the same thing as democratic Auschwitz,” Maltsev said, prompting a murmur in the crowd of about 300.
Philip Shulman, a spokesman for the state Dem Party, said “hatred and vile has become the brand of the Republican Party,” pointing to President Trump’s comments about “very fine people” during the 2017 protests in Charlottesville, Va.
“It’s abhorrent that the Wisconsin Republican party supports and advertises this anti-Semitic sentiment, but under Trump it’s par for the course with them,” Shulman said.
Maltsev focused much of his speech decrying the ills of socialism, pointing to the experience of his native country. He warned Republicans they are the only obstacle stopping Marxism and socialism from overtaking freedom in the U.S.
While Maltsev decried what he described as an obsession with Russia by Dems
Yuri Maltsev, an economics professor at Carthage College, was invited to speak at the state GOP convention to drive home the dangers of socialism after his firsthand experience in his native country.
You can't swing a dead cat up here without hitting someone who has suffered the horrors of socialism, fascism, or some other leftist "ism" that oppresses, murders, and destroys.
I've talked to several elderly folks who look at where we're heading and tell us that the atrocities of Mao, Stalin, Che`, Pol Pot, Hitler, et. al. are at are fucking doorstep.
History doesn't repeat itself but it certainly fucking rhymes.
But since it serves your politics you approve, alky. Stupidly thinking that once we arrive at your liberal utopia you'll be one of the ones put in charge, or at least spared.
FROM 12:19: “There is no such thing as democratic socialist. It’s the same thing as democratic Auschwitz,” Maltsev said.
Ever hear of Sweden, Denmark, Finnland, Norway, Germany, New Zealand, and Canada among others? ___________
Successful Socialist Countries Some argue that there has been no completely socialist country that has been successful, only countries that have seen success in adopting socialist policies.
Bolivia is an example of a prosperous socialist country. Bolivia has drastically cut extreme poverty and has the highest GDP growth rate in South America.
Other countries that have adopted and enacted socialist ideas and policies, and have seen success in improving their societies by doing so, are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. ________
JAMES SAYS: No one is arguing that the United States should suddenly plunge into total socialism. But the above list includes countries with some of the best standards of living in the world and some of the happiest, most secure feeling populaces.
JAMES SAYS: No one is arguing that the United States should suddenly plunge into total socialism. But the above list includes countries with some of the best standards of living in the world and some of the happiest, most secure feeling populaces.
And yet nobody is immigrating to these countries. Can you explain that?
LOOKS LIKE WE CoULD USE SOME GOOD OLD CRT (CRITICAL RACE THEORY) HERE---
Why did the U.S. Intern the Japanese During WW II? by Jonathan Dresner
Jonathan Dresner is, as of 2012, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas.
It is many years since the biggest case of racial profiling in U.S. history. February 19, 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, usually referred to as the"Japanese Internment Order." The order actually called only for the creation of security zones over which the military had control of access and residence. That Japanese residents and Japanese-American citizens were the intended target was no secret: Roosevelt had been suspicious of this population since at least 1936.
In this case he was reacting to specific reports of evidence of Japanese espionage activity, false reports by a particularly anti-Japanese general. A month later the actual exclusion order was released, giving"all persons of Japanese ancestry" barely a week to collect a few necessities, put affairs in order and report to" control centers," where over a hundred thousand citizens and long-term resident aliens were cataloged and put on trains to ten internment camps. The camps were isolated, with primitive barracks and facilities. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, then a child, was interned at Heart Mountain camp.
To add insult to injury, the internees were forced to answer a questionnaire regarding their loyalty to the United States. Over one-fifth of draft-age Japanese-American males surveyed answered"no" to questions about their willingness to serve in the military and about their"unqualified allegiance to the United States." This group, known as the"'no, no' boys" was singled out for persecution during the years of internment, as were internees who initially answered yes but resisted being drafted. Japanese-American men, like Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, who did serve in the military, did so with great distinction: the Hawaii-based 100th Battalion was known as the"Purple Heart Battalion" ; the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which included interned citizens, was instrumental in liberating Jews from Nazi concentration camps.
What is perhaps more remarkable than the gross injustice of the dislocation and internment camps is the fact that the United States, which rarely apologizes for anything, in 1988 apologized and offered payment to surviving internees. This act of Congress (Democratic) and the President (Republican) was the result of a long process of activism and oral history, primarily by Japanese-American activists, with the support of Japanese-American politicians including Norman Mineta and Daniel Inouye. Though there was little discussion of the internment in the years following WWII, the next generation of Japanese-Americans, in the process of investigating their heritage, uncovered this atrocity and began to collect stories and make public objections. In the wake of the genocidal racism of the Nazis, and the civil rights struggle in the U.S., it became clear to almost everyone who heard this history that what the U.S. did was racist, short-sighted, unfair and very damaging.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it. We can admit mistakes, and learn from them. Apology doesn't make things right, but it can make things better. Our success in destroying evil in WWII is tarnished more by denying or ignoring the full range of history than it is by admitting errors and making amends. But that success is only fully realized when we make a commitment not to make the same, or similar, mistakes again.
SOURCE: Much of this account is based on Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Penguin, 1989).
JAMES SAYS: Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
The lying, plagiarizing POS "pastor" copy/changed this:
Successful Socialist Countries Some argue that there has been no completely socialist country that has been successful, only countries that have seen success in adopting socialist policies.
Bolivia is an example of a prosperous socialist country. Bolivia has drastically cut extreme poverty and has the highest GDP growth rate in South America.
Other countries that have adopted and enacted socialist ideas and policies, and have seen success in improving their societies by doing so, are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.
Pressure has built for months on congressional Democrats to counteract a concerted state-level Republican push to enact new voting restrictions, inspired by President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election. But there is a new sense of urgency among many in the party’s activist base following the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, which upheld two restrictive Arizona laws and will limit the ability to challenge voting restrictions in court.
“We cannot wait until October or November,” said Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus.
--- The President will speak out against voter suppression legislation next Wednesday in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and I have read the a very large number of people will march in Washington DC and remind us of what Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. said.
The Democratic party and their supporters are following the peaceful protests that ignited the civil rights movement and the voting rights movement.
A better life for all through some democratically induced and controlled socialistic elements can be made to work here. Social Security is working. The Affordable Health Care Act is working.
JAMES SAYS: Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
Critical Race Theory is all about categorizing people like what happen to Japanese Americans.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it.
Much of modern Orange County California was stolen from the Japanese farmers who didn't pay the taxes, white people paid for the taxes and got the land for much less than it was worth.
Commonsense said... JAMES SAYS: Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
Critical Race Theory is all about categorizing people like what happen to Japanese Americans.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it.
This is exactly what Critical Race Theory does.
yep, just another way to try and destroy America from within.
JAMES: Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
COMMONSENSE: Critical Race Theory is all about categorizing people like what happen to Japanese Americans.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it.
This is exactly what Critical Race Theory does.
JAMES: No, Critical Race Theory points out what we have done wrong too often in our past and how we need to take real steps to stop doing it.
I guess CommonUNsense is not aware that NUMEROUS people have immigrated and are immigrating to the Scandanavian and other democratically socialist countries. Ask the southern Europeans where they want to go, next to the USA.
DANA WHITE TRUMP'S SITTING ON FLOOR FOR UFC 264 ... 'Won't Hide in a Box!!!'
Dana White says former President Donald Trump won't be able to hide from the spotlight at UFC 264, because he'll be right next to the Octagon ... where fans can loudly cheer and jeer him.
The UFC honcho joined us Friday on "TMZ Live" to pump up Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier's third fight ... and, in the process, he settled a debate about where Trump will sit Saturday night in Vegas.
It's the first major sporting event Trump's attending since leaving the White House -- and with all that's happened since he lost the election, it's a good bet (even in Vegas) the ex-prez will hear plenty of boos.
Dana, a longtime Trump supporter, says his pal isn't one to shy away from any heckling.
As Dana tells us ... Trump "don't care, he's not that guy, he's not hiding in a box somewhere, that's not his style." Instead, he says Trump will sit right behind him.
No doubt he'll be flanked on all sides by Secret Service, and Dana says agents have been sweeping T-Mobile Arena for a few days now to ensure Trump's safety. https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/09/dana-white-donald-trump-sitting-ringside-ufc-264-conor-mcgregor-dustin-poirier/
A real president able to handle the spotlight in person
I have a feeling their will be lots more cheers than jeers, which Biden has gotten on his few public appearances.
I guess CommonUNsense is not aware that NUMEROUS people have immigrated and are immigrating to the Scandanavian and other democratically socialist countries.
Again James have nothing to back this up. His use of non specific words like NUMEROUS (as well as his childish play on his opponent's name) gives the game away.
Blogger Roger Amick said... Much of modern Orange County California was stolen from the Japanese farmers who didn't pay the taxes, white people paid for the taxes and got the land for much less than it was worth.
So it’s theft if the gubment puts a tax lien on property? You’re a fucking idiot and BTW I think you’re completely full of shit
By categorizing people based on the color of their skin.
You can't deny it, CRT is at it's core.
NO, trying to prevent us from teaching that some VERY bad things have happened to some people because of the color of their skin -- THAT is what is racist at its core.
Roger's of a "resolved" issue Math eludes Roger again.
"Some of these shortages are getting resolved. For example, two months ago, lumber cost almost four times as much as it did before the Covid-19 pandemic; since then, its price has fallen more than 50 percent"
Like in 'Postapocalyptic Movies': Heat Wave Killed marine wildlife en masse... Catrin Einhorn Sat, July 10, 2021, 10:08 AM Dead mussels near Suicide Bend Park in West Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Dead mussels and clams coated rocks in the Pacific Northwest, their shells gaping open as if they had been boiled. Sea stars were baked to death. Sockeye salmon swam sluggishly in an overheated Washington river, prompting wildlife officials to truck them to cooler areas.
The combination of extraordinary heat and drought that hit the Western United States and Canada over the past two weeks has killed hundreds of millions of marine animals and continues to threaten untold species in freshwater, according to a preliminary estimate and interviews with scientists.
“It just feels like one of those postapocalyptic movies,” said Christopher Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia who studies the effects of climate change on coastal marine ecosystems.
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To calculate the death toll, Harley first looked at how many blue mussels live on a particular shoreline, how much of the area is good habitat for mussels and what fraction of the mussels he observed died. He estimated losses for the mussels alone in the hundreds of millions. Factoring in the other creatures that live in the mussel beds and on the shore — barnacles, hermit crabs and other crustaceans, various worms, tiny sea cucumbers — puts the deaths at easily over 1 billion, he said.
Harley continues to study the damage and plans to publish a series of papers.
Deep down inside, though he would never admit it, Ch wishes the GOP would return to more moderate social stances, so he (Ch) wouldn't have to lie all the time.
The Republicans are defunding the Capitol Police Department.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police employees are at risk of being furloughed if Congress doesn't provide the agency more money before the end of September.
The bill is stalled in the Senate by the Republicans.
NO, trying to prevent us from teaching that some VERY bad things have happened to some people because of the color of their skin -- THAT is what is racist at its core.
James just admitted that CRT categorized people by the color of their skin. My work is done here.
THE ATLANTIC: There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it. By Ibram X. Kendi contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of several books, including the National Book Award–winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist. ______
The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism. The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices. The American people aren’t divided. The American people are being divided.
Republican operatives have buried the actual definition of critical race theory: “a way of looking at law’s role platforming, facilitating, producing, and even insulating racial inequality in our country,” as the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who helped coin the term, recently defined it. Instead, the attacks on critical race theory are based on made-up definitions and descriptors. “Critical race theory says every white person is a racist,” Senator Ted Cruz has said. “It basically teaches that certain children are inherently bad people because of the color of their skin,” said the Alabama state legislator Chris Pringle.
There are differing points of view about race and racism. But what we are seeing and hearing on news shows, in school-district meetings, in op-ed pages, in legislative halls, and in social-media feeds aren’t multiple sides with differing points of view. There’s only one side in our so-called culture war right now.
The Republican operatives, who dismiss the expositions of critical race theorists and anti-racists in order to define critical race theory and anti-racism, and then attack those definitions, are effectively debating themselves. They have conjured an imagined monster to scare the American people and project themselves as the nation’s defenders from that fictional monster.
Emerald Robinson https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1413844853029474304 You can’t seriously believe that America has any public corruption laws when the President’s own son is allowed to run multiple money laundering schemes by pretending to be an oil/gas advisor, a memoirist & a painter simultaneously.
the 51 year old "boy"
smartest guy Joe knows
funny how no one can figure out who the "big guy" is
COMMONSENSE: James just admitted that CRT categorized people by the color of their skin. My work is done here.
JAMES: You better work at trying to put some of those screws back into your head. If pointing out that police dogs were used against people with black skins to keep them from voting is "categorizing people by the color of their skin," I say, YEP. Those police and their dogs sure WERE doing that.
If pointing out that police dogs were used against people with black skins to keep them from voting is "categorizing people by the color of their skin," I say, YEP. Those police and their dogs sure WERE doing that.
We call that history you call it living in the past. And yes it is taught in schools without racial animosity.
The goat fucker trying to impress homesteaders who have no visible means of support or any real job......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! James kicked cramps ass into next week!!!! Cramps calling Ibrahm a fraud was most amusing and a sign of desperation!!!!!
Bidenomics Sucks North Dakota has lost $100,000 in lost State Revenue.
"Increasing crude oil imports will drive the growth in net petroleum imports in 2021 and 2022, offsetting changes in refined product net trade. Net imports of crude oil will increase from its 2020 average of 2.7 million barrels per day (b/d) to 3.7 million b/d in 2021 and 4.4 million b/d in 2022, EIA reported"
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I believe you to be a fucking moronic asshole!!!!!! Gee goat fucker... you not long ago claimed the US was oil independent.....now you worry about 100k loss in ND??????? God you need more help than anyone can give you!!!!!
Limit cracking to reduce the amount of CH4 released into the atmosphere....a major GW gas..... Sorry sport, you again prove yourself to be the dumb fuck of CH......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
When I post a link to The New York Times article, you can read it completely, even though you don't subscribe to The New York Times report. You must be half drunk.
Charley Goldman, who crafted Rocky Marciano, the undefeated heavyweight champ of the nineteen-fifties, once made a wise statement: “Never play a guy at his own game; nobody makes up a game in order to get beat at it.” He meant that there was no point getting into a slugging match with a slugger or a bob-and-weave match with a bob-and-weaver. Instead, do what you do well. Damon Runyon, another New York character of that same wise vintage, said something similar about a different activity: if someone wants to bet you that, if you open a sealed deck of cards, the jack of spades will come out and squirt cider in your ear, don’t take the bet, however tempting the odds. The deck, you can be sure, is gaffed on the other gambler’s behalf. Never play the other guy’s game: it’s the simple wisdom of the corner gym and the gambling den. The other guy’s game is designed for the other guy to win.
An instinctive understanding of this principle was part of the brilliance of Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign—and that we do not think of it as brilliant, despite his decisive victory against an incumbent, is part of its brilliance. Donald Trump invented a game: of bullying, lying, sociopathic selfishness, treachery, and outright gangsterism, doing and saying things that no democratic politician had ever done or even thought of doing, and he did it all in broad daylight. (A notorious line attributed to Nixon—“We can do that, but it would be wrong”—was about paying hush money. Even Nixon wouldn’t pardon his henchmen. Trump did.) It was a game designed for Trump alone to win, but all too many got drawn into it. It was a game that some credit to a Russian model of disinformation but actually seems rooted in old-fashioned American Barnumism, weaponized with John Gotti-style ethics. It was designed, in plain English, to throw out so much crap that no one could ever deal with it all. Trying to bat the crap away, you just got more of it all over you, and meanwhile you were implicitly endorsing its relevance.
Biden, by contrast, insisted that the way to win was not to play. In the face of the new politics of spectacle, he kept true to old-school coalition politics. He understood that the Black Church mattered more in Democratic primaries than any amount of Twitter snark, and, by keeping a low profile on social media, showed that social-media politics was a mirage. Throughout the dark, dystopian post-election months of Trump’s tantrum—which led to the insurrection on January 6th—many Democrats deplored Biden’s seeming passivity, his reluctance to call a coup a coup and a would-be dictator a would-be dictator. Instead, he and his team were remarkably (to many, it seemed, exasperatingly) focussed on counting the votes, trusting the process, and staffing the government.
It looked at the time dangerously passive; it turned out to be patiently wise, for Biden and his team, widely attacked as pusillanimous centrists with no particular convictions, are in fact ideologues. Their ideology is largely invisible but no less ideological for refusing to present itself out in the open. It is the belief, animating Biden’s whole career, that there is a surprisingly large area of agreement in American life and that, by appealing to that area of agreement, electoral victory and progress can be found.
(As a recent Populace survey stated, Biden and Trump voters hold “collective illusions” about each other, and “what is often mistaken for breadth of political disagreement is actually narrow — if extremely intense — disagreement on a limited number of partisan issues.”) Biden’s ideology is, in fact, the old ideology of pragmatic progressive pluralism—the ideology of F.D.R. and L.B.J. Beneath the strut and show and hysteria of politics, there is often a remarkably resilient consensus in the country. Outside the white Deep South, there was a broad consensus against segregation in 1964; outside the most paranoid registers of Wall Street, there was a similar consensus for social guarantees in 1934. Right now, post-pandemic, polls show a robust consensus for a public option to the Affordable Care Act, modernized infrastructure, even for tax hikes on the very rich and big corporations. The more you devote yourself to theatrical gestures and public spectacle, the less likely you are to succeed at making these improvements—and turning Trumpism around. Successful pluralist politicians reach out to the other side, not in a meek show of bipartisanship, but in order to steal their voters.
This is an ideology whose invisibility is guaranteed to disappoint all of us loudly articulate ideologues. It was frustrating to many that Biden did not, in his joint address to Congress, in April, say more than a few carefully wrought words to the effect that the election he won was as free and fair as any in our history, and that the Big Lie denying it was not merely the obnoxious tic of a sore loser but a direct and violent threat to American democracy—a form of secessionism or sedition, and, like them, not to be tolerated.
He didn’t say as much as he might have or as many might have wanted. But this was surely due to his conviction, and the conviction of his circle, that an atmosphere of aggravation can only work to the advantage of the permanently aggrieved. With so many Americans in the grip of a totalized ideology of Trumpism—one that surmounts their obvious self-interest or normal calculations of economic utility—the way to get them out of it is to stop thinking in totalized terms. You get people out of a cult not by offering them a better cult but by helping them see why they don’t need a cult. This is a difficult wisdom—and one that, perhaps not accidentally, was offered often during the campaign by the man who is now Biden’s Transportation Secretary. Pete Buttigieg said at the time that you can’t defeat a cartoon villain by being a cartoon hero. You defeat a cartoon villain by helping people remember that life is not a cartoon. He put it simply to the press: “Trump appeals to people’s smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward. We need to be careful that our necessary rebukes of the President don’t corner people into the kind of defensiveness that makes them even more vulnerable to those kinds of appeals. What we really need to do in some ways is talk past Trump and his sins.”
Talking past Trump turned out to be a good tactic. There is, nonetheless, an overwhelming feeling, as the inventory of Trumpism continues in its horrors, that confronting Trump’s sins is equally urgent. And not just among predictable progressives: Jennifer Rubin, the former conservative commentator now turned, by anti-Trumpism, toward, well, liberalism, argues that Attorney General Merrick Garland ought to be cajoled—or shamed—into doing the necessary work of finding out how Trump politicized the Justice Department and weeding out the people who let him do it. “Investigating wrongdoing, rooting out unethical behavior and getting to the bottom of the politicization of the department are central to restoring the Justice Department’s reputation,” she wrote. “In allowing miscreants to escape accountability . . . Garland has effectively told his department that there are no consequences for unethical or even illegal conduct.”
On front after front, it seems as if even the most blatant wrongdoing will once again go unpunished, because of an undue “institutionalism,” an inexplicable passivity, or a sheer unwillingness to look evil in the eye and call it by its name. Trump out of office may be the same character he always was—a grifter trying to become a gangster, oafish and comical in his grifting, sinister and dangerous in his gangsterism—but the damage that Trump did to the country remains. By ripping apart the premises of democratic government, Trump stripped the country of its basic civic immunity. And, like a virus that infects the country, long Trump is an ailment that won’t go away.
The urge to fight it, hard, before it can return, seems irresistible. Yet Biden and his circle resist this fight, and it would be foolish to think that they resist it only out of blindness and opacity. They are betting on Charley Goldman’s wisdom: you can’t win playing the other guy’s game. This wisdom has taken them further than the more aggressive conventional kind might have imagined. On the other hand, there was a national leader—an emperor rather than a President, as it happens—who once thought that he had found glory in invisibility when all that was waiting for him was public humiliation. Is Biden protected by the invisible armor of his ideology or merely naked to his enemies? Which of the two it turns out to be will determine much of our future.
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You really believe that the Democratic party wants to build a new Auschwitz camps for white Christians.
Get help Scott.
From a friend who has known you for 20 years.
Erratic behavior.
What’s the current state of the U.S. economy? A quick summary might be “booming with bottlenecks.”
And some of those bottlenecks reflect the mess created by Donald Trump’s trade policy.
Where we are now: Employment is growing at a rate we haven’t seen since 1984. So, probably, is gross domestic product, although we don’t yet have an official estimate for the second quarter. We are, however, suffering from shortages of many items, which are crimping production in some areas and leading to sharp price increases in others.
Some of these shortages are getting resolved. For example, two months ago, lumber cost almost four times as much as it did before the Covid-19 pandemic; since then, its price has fallen more than 50 percent. Other bottlenecks, however, seem more persistent. World trade is being held back by an inadequate supply of standard-size shipping containers — the ubiquitous boxes that carry almost everything, because they can be lifted directly from the decks of ships onto railroad cars and truck beds — and experts expect the shortage to last at least until late this year.
And there’s another bottleneck that may be an even bigger deal than the container shortage: a global shortage of semiconductor chips.
You see, these days almost everything contains silicon chips. So an insufficient supply of chips is a problem not just for producers of computers and smartphones; there are chips in just about all durable goods, including household appliances and, crucially, cars.
As a result, the chip shortage has had large and perhaps unexpected ramifications. Lack of chips is limiting production of automobiles, leading some people to buy used cars instead. And soaring used-car prices are a surprisingly big contributor to inflation — in fact, they accounted for about a third of May’s total rise in consumer prices.
So why are we facing a semiconductor shortage? Part of the answer is that the pandemic created a weird business cycle. People couldn’t go out to eat, so they remodeled their kitchens, and they couldn’t go to the gym, so they bought Pelotons. So demand for services is still depressed, while demand for goods has soared. And as I said, practically every physical good now has a chip in it.
But as Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics documents in an important new article, the Trump administration’s trade policy made the situation much worse.
When Trump took us into a trade war with China, there was clearly a lot he and his advisers failed to understand about modern world trade. Among other things, they didn’t seem to grasp that modern trade consists not of simple exchanges of goods — they sell us cars, we sell them aircraft — but of complex supply chains, in which the production of a given item often involves activities spread across the globe.
Given this reality, the structure of the Trump tariffs was, well, stupid: They focused mainly on intermediate inputs like semiconductors and capital equipment, which American companies need to compete in the world market. As a result, multiple studies have found, the tariffs actually reduced U.S. manufacturing employment.
But Trump’s trade policy wasn’t just poorly conceived. It was also erratic. Nobody knew which products might face new tariffs or whether the tariffs he had imposed would remain in place. And in high technology, especially semiconductors, Trump began imposing export restrictions, again in an erratic fashion (and with an apparent lack of awareness that, in many cases, China could simply turn to other suppliers).You hate the author.
Trump's globalist philosophy is isolationist.
The Trumpian Roots of the Chip Crisis https://nyti.ms/3k26ijg
We have a "chip crisis" - LOL!!!
10 July 1913 | A German Jewish woman, Dora Buchband, was born in Frankfurt am Main. She emigrated to France.
In February 1943 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You really believe that the Democratic party wants to build a new Auschwitz camps for white Christians.
Get help Scott.
I don't think we're the ones who need the help, alky.
I seem to remember learning about a period in history where your favorite democrat locked Japanese-Americans in cages. I'm sure the resemblance to the Nazi concentration camps was purely a coinky-dink.
What were those called again?
Began with an "I"....
Fire up that photographic memory of yours and help a brother out...
Your source
GOP Convention
Professor likens democratic socialism to ‘democratic Auschwitz’
July 11, 2020
A college professor who defected from Russia in 1989 mocked the idea of democratic socialism, telling GOP activists it’s comparable to a “democratic Auschwitz,” the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1 million people died.
Yuri Maltsev, an economics professor at Carthage College, was invited to speak at the state GOP convention to drive home the dangers of socialism after his firsthand experience in his native country.
His speech came as some in the Democratic Party have begun to refer to themselves as democratic socialists, including Bernie Sanders, who unsuccessfully sought the party’s nomination for president in 2016 and 2020.
Maltsev accused the Democratic Party of “concocting Russian threats” and told party activists Russia fell because Mikhail Gorbachev “took fear out of the system.” He said Gorbachev started talking about socialism with a human face. He said that was perplexing to him and his friends because socialists “must kill” to maintain their system of government by instilling fear in the citizens.
“There is no such thing as democratic socialist. It’s the same thing as democratic Auschwitz,” Maltsev said, prompting a murmur in the crowd of about 300.
Philip Shulman, a spokesman for the state Dem Party, said “hatred and vile has become the brand of the Republican Party,” pointing to President Trump’s comments about “very fine people” during the 2017 protests in Charlottesville, Va.
“It’s abhorrent that the Wisconsin Republican party supports and advertises this anti-Semitic sentiment, but under Trump it’s par for the course with them,” Shulman said.
Maltsev focused much of his speech decrying the ills of socialism, pointing to the experience of his native country. He warned Republicans they are the only obstacle stopping Marxism and socialism from overtaking freedom in the U.S.
While Maltsev decried what he described as an obsession with Russia by Dems
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/15/auschwitz-america-holocaust-warning/
It has your picture.
For Funnies
FDR was wrong about it because he actually was a racist too..
Most people were then.
Roger- why do you continue to lie.
That article is only "your" source nobody else.
Lies, lies, lies from a liar, liar, liar!
Yuri Maltsev, an economics professor at Carthage College, was invited to speak at the state GOP convention to drive home the dangers of socialism after his firsthand experience in his native country.
You can't swing a dead cat up here without hitting someone who has suffered the horrors of socialism, fascism, or some other leftist "ism" that oppresses, murders, and destroys.
I've talked to several elderly folks who look at where we're heading and tell us that the atrocities of Mao, Stalin, Che`, Pol Pot, Hitler, et. al. are at are fucking doorstep.
History doesn't repeat itself but it certainly fucking rhymes.
But since it serves your politics you approve, alky. Stupidly thinking that once we arrive at your liberal utopia you'll be one of the ones put in charge, or at least spared.
That's funny.
Now face wall.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
FDR was wrong about it because he actually was a racist too..
Most people were then.
It seems like all of your hero's were or are racist alky -
FDR, Margaret Sanger, LBJ, Robert Byrd, Joe Biden...
I'm sensing a pattern...
You left off big Mike
FROM 12:19:
“There is no such thing as democratic socialist. It’s the same thing as democratic Auschwitz,” Maltsev said.
Ever hear of Sweden, Denmark, Finnland, Norway, Germany, New Zealand, and Canada among others?
___________
Successful Socialist Countries
Some argue that there has been no completely socialist country that has been successful, only countries that have seen success in adopting socialist policies.
Bolivia is an example of a prosperous socialist country. Bolivia has drastically cut extreme poverty and has the highest GDP growth rate in South America.
Other countries that have adopted and enacted socialist ideas and policies, and have seen success in improving their societies by doing so, are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.
________
JAMES SAYS:
No one is arguing that the United States should suddenly plunge into total socialism. But the above list includes countries with some of the best standards of living in the world and some of the happiest, most secure feeling populaces.
The people who are the REAL liars are constantly being exposed here. Ch is near the front of the line.
JAMES SAYS:
No one is arguing that the United States should suddenly plunge into total socialism. But the above list includes countries with some of the best standards of living in the world and some of the happiest, most secure feeling populaces.
And yet nobody is immigrating to these countries. Can you explain that?
The people who are the REAL liars are constantly being exposed here. Ch is near the front of the line.
For James a lie is the truth he doesn't want to hear.
LOOKS LIKE WE CoULD USE SOME GOOD OLD CRT (CRITICAL RACE THEORY) HERE---
Why did the U.S. Intern the Japanese During WW II?
by Jonathan Dresner
Jonathan Dresner is, as of 2012, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas.
It is many years since the biggest case of racial profiling in U.S. history. February 19, 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, usually referred to as the"Japanese Internment Order." The order actually called only for the creation of security zones over which the military had control of access and residence. That Japanese residents and Japanese-American citizens were the intended target was no secret: Roosevelt had been suspicious of this population since at least 1936.
In this case he was reacting to specific reports of evidence of Japanese espionage activity, false reports by a particularly anti-Japanese general. A month later the actual exclusion order was released, giving"all persons of Japanese ancestry" barely a week to collect a few necessities, put affairs in order and report to" control centers," where over a hundred thousand citizens and long-term resident aliens were cataloged and put on trains to ten internment camps. The camps were isolated, with primitive barracks and facilities. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, then a child, was interned at Heart Mountain camp.
To add insult to injury, the internees were forced to answer a questionnaire regarding their loyalty to the United States. Over one-fifth of draft-age Japanese-American males surveyed answered"no" to questions about their willingness to serve in the military and about their"unqualified allegiance to the United States." This group, known as the"'no, no' boys" was singled out for persecution during the years of internment, as were internees who initially answered yes but resisted being drafted. Japanese-American men, like Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, who did serve in the military, did so with great distinction: the Hawaii-based 100th Battalion was known as the"Purple Heart Battalion" ; the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which included interned citizens, was instrumental in liberating Jews from Nazi concentration camps.
What is perhaps more remarkable than the gross injustice of the dislocation and internment camps is the fact that the United States, which rarely apologizes for anything, in 1988 apologized and offered payment to surviving internees. This act of Congress (Democratic) and the President (Republican) was the result of a long process of activism and oral history, primarily by Japanese-American activists, with the support of Japanese-American politicians including Norman Mineta and Daniel Inouye. Though there was little discussion of the internment in the years following WWII, the next generation of Japanese-Americans, in the process of investigating their heritage, uncovered this atrocity and began to collect stories and make public objections. In the wake of the genocidal racism of the Nazis, and the civil rights struggle in the U.S., it became clear to almost everyone who heard this history that what the U.S. did was racist, short-sighted, unfair and very damaging.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it. We can admit mistakes, and learn from them. Apology doesn't make things right, but it can make things better. Our success in destroying evil in WWII is tarnished more by denying or ignoring the full range of history than it is by admitting errors and making amends. But that success is only fully realized when we make a commitment not to make the same, or similar, mistakes again.
SOURCE: Much of this account is based on Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Penguin, 1989).
JAMES SAYS:
Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
Ever hear of Sweden, Denmark, Finnland, Norway, Germany, New Zealand, and Canada among others?
Good pedo a list of largely homogeneous countries, with less than half our population and besides Canada are tiny.
You are fucking stupid beyond belief
Blogger Roger Amick said...
FDR was wrong about it because he actually was a racist too..
Most people were then.
And yet if there was systemic racism, society would not have changed. It would be just as racist as when FDR was fighting WWII.
Commonsense just heard some truth he didn't want to hear.
After he lied at 1:22.
Common thinks Jim Crow was not systemic racism. Or the Tucson massacre. Or segregated schools. Or the assassination of MLK. Or... or... or...
The lying, plagiarizing POS "pastor" copy/changed this:
Successful Socialist Countries
Some argue that there has been no completely socialist country that has been successful, only countries that have seen success in adopting socialist policies.
Bolivia is an example of a prosperous socialist country. Bolivia has drastically cut extreme poverty and has the highest GDP growth rate in South America.
Other countries that have adopted and enacted socialist ideas and policies, and have seen success in improving their societies by doing so, are Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democratic-socialist-countries
so after plagiarizing he substituted in Germany
his fatherland
JamesNewLeaf said...
The people who are the REAL liars are constantly being exposed here.
yep, and it's you.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Ap
Pressure has built for months on congressional Democrats to counteract a concerted state-level Republican push to enact new voting restrictions, inspired by President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election. But there is a new sense of urgency among many in the party’s activist base following the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, which upheld two restrictive Arizona laws and will limit the ability to challenge voting restrictions in court.
“We cannot wait until October or November,” said Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus.
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The President will speak out against voter suppression legislation next Wednesday in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and I have read the a very large number of people will march in Washington DC and remind us of what Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. said.
The Democratic party and their supporters are following the peaceful protests that ignited the civil rights movement and the voting rights movement.
A better life for all through some democratically induced and controlled socialistic elements can be made to work here.
Social Security is working. The Affordable Health Care Act is working.
Much to your chagrin.
Still defending how ethical Hunter and the White House are over his "painting" "pastor"?
that says a lot about you and your "morals"
and "truths"
He stepped to the front of the line, when his hero was nominated.
Copied:
Today, Germany is a capitalist, free-market country that has many elements of socialism to help provide people with a safety net.
Hey "hardhat" roger, did you build skyscrapers like you said a little while back or are you now being truthful and saying you didn't.
Perhaps you just had a Lego moment ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democratic-socialist-countries
The map contains many countries I did not list.
JAMES SAYS:
Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
Critical Race Theory is all about categorizing people like what happen to Japanese Americans.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it.
This is exactly what Critical Race Theory does.
JamesNewLeaf said...
Copied
copying without noting (linking) is plagiarizing.
That's a Biden move
which you and roger regularly get caught doing too.
Not very ethical, but then again you are that type of "pastor"
Today, Germany is a capitalist, free-market country that has many elements of socialism to help provide people with a safety net.
And can’t defend itself without Uncle Sugar
Much of modern Orange County California was stolen from the Japanese farmers who didn't pay the taxes, white people paid for the taxes and got the land for much less than it was worth.
Commonsense said...
JAMES SAYS:
Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
Critical Race Theory is all about categorizing people like what happen to Japanese Americans.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it.
This is exactly what Critical Race Theory does.
yep, just another way to try and destroy America from within.
Probably aided by China and other enemies
Commonsense just heard some truth he didn't want to hear.
You inability to support your truth with facts is amusing.
After he lied at 1:22.
I didn't lie since all I did was posed a question you refuse to answer. A question you are doing your best to dodge.
JAMES:
Critical Race Theory includes admitting mistakes and taking steps to correct them.
COMMONSENSE: Critical Race Theory is all about categorizing people like what happen to Japanese Americans.
What is the lesson of this history? Jumping to conclusions about individuals or groups based on limited information is dumb. If we violate our own principles, we will regret it.
This is exactly what Critical Race Theory does.
JAMES:
No, Critical Race Theory points out what we have done wrong too often in our past and how we need to take real steps to stop doing it.
Trump was not one of those steps.
I guess CommonUNsense is not aware that NUMEROUS people have immigrated and are immigrating to the Scandanavian and other democratically socialist countries. Ask the southern Europeans where they want to go, next to the USA.
No, Critical Race Theory points out what we have done wrong too often in our past and how we need to take real steps to stop doing it.
By categorizing people based on the color of their skin.
You can't deny it, CRT is at it's core, racist.
since someone brought up Trump...
DANA WHITE
TRUMP'S SITTING ON FLOOR FOR UFC 264
... 'Won't Hide in a Box!!!'
Dana White says former President Donald Trump won't be able to hide from the spotlight at UFC 264, because he'll be right next to the Octagon ... where fans can loudly cheer and jeer him.
The UFC honcho joined us Friday on "TMZ Live" to pump up Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier's third fight ... and, in the process, he settled a debate about where Trump will sit Saturday night in Vegas.
It's the first major sporting event Trump's attending since leaving the White House -- and with all that's happened since he lost the election, it's a good bet (even in Vegas) the ex-prez will hear plenty of boos.
Dana, a longtime Trump supporter, says his pal isn't one to shy away from any heckling.
As Dana tells us ... Trump "don't care, he's not that guy, he's not hiding in a box somewhere, that's not his style." Instead, he says Trump will sit right behind him.
No doubt he'll be flanked on all sides by Secret Service, and Dana says agents have been sweeping T-Mobile Arena for a few days now to ensure Trump's safety.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/09/dana-white-donald-trump-sitting-ringside-ufc-264-conor-mcgregor-dustin-poirier/
A real president able to handle the spotlight in person
I have a feeling their will be lots more cheers than jeers, which Biden has gotten on his few public appearances.
Mythinformed MKE
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1413920760939286530
Marc Lamont Hill states ALL white people are inherently racist and ALL men are sexist. Wow!
@Liz_Wheeler exposed the Marxist roots of Critical Race Theory and the anti-white racism of CRT advocates all in one interview. Bravo!
Well james may know he's racist and sexist and that is correct but I'm not and won't be cowed into that.
I guess CommonUNsense is not aware that NUMEROUS people have immigrated and are immigrating to the Scandanavian and other democratically socialist countries.
Again James have nothing to back this up. His use of non specific words like NUMEROUS (as well as his childish play on his opponent's name) gives the game away.
James is great on Emotional outburst and worthless on facts.
Sullivan County school board approves teacher termination charges, supporters outraged
https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/sullivan-county-teacher-facing-termination-at-school-board-meeting-tuesday-supporters-to-gather/
School boards are listening.
People are fed up.
In a few weeks democrats will be saying how they always were against teaching CRT or they just may destroy their entire party.
If defunding the police didn't do it.
Or vote integrity
4F-Alky, I already taught you this lesson, but, from your post you clearly DIDN'T retain it.
The re-employment numbers are workers returning to their old jobs.
Barstool Sports
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1413876591910957056
What in the redneck is this? @oldrowofficial (Via ig:karlyburson)
America is going to come back
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Much of modern Orange County California was stolen from the Japanese farmers who didn't pay the taxes, white people paid for the taxes and got the land for much less than it was worth.
So it’s theft if the gubment puts a tax lien on property? You’re a fucking idiot and BTW I think you’re completely full of shit
County’s Japanese Americans Owe Much to Ancestors Who Parlayed Plots Into Fortunes
And I have thought you many things about GW......you still call it a hoax and remain unemployed!!!!!!!
By categorizing people based on the color of their skin.
You can't deny it, CRT is at it's core.
NO, trying to prevent us from teaching that some VERY bad things have happened to some people because of the color of their skin -- THAT is what is racist at its core.
Roger's of a "resolved" issue
Math eludes Roger again.
"Some of these shortages are getting resolved. For example, two months ago, lumber cost almost four times as much as it did before the Covid-19 pandemic; since then, its price has fallen more than 50 percent"
Roger it went up 4x, and is down 50%.
Explain this as a win?
More fake news on the GW hoax.......
Like in 'Postapocalyptic Movies': Heat Wave Killed marine wildlife en masse...
Catrin Einhorn
Sat, July 10, 2021, 10:08 AM
Dead mussels near Suicide Bend Park in West Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Dead mussels and clams coated rocks in the Pacific Northwest, their shells gaping open as if they had been boiled. Sea stars were baked to death. Sockeye salmon swam sluggishly in an overheated Washington river, prompting wildlife officials to truck them to cooler areas.
The combination of extraordinary heat and drought that hit the Western United States and Canada over the past two weeks has killed hundreds of millions of marine animals and continues to threaten untold species in freshwater, according to a preliminary estimate and interviews with scientists.
“It just feels like one of those postapocalyptic movies,” said Christopher Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia who studies the effects of climate change on coastal marine ecosystems.
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To calculate the death toll, Harley first looked at how many blue mussels live on a particular shoreline, how much of the area is good habitat for mussels and what fraction of the mussels he observed died. He estimated losses for the mussels alone in the hundreds of millions. Factoring in the other creatures that live in the mussel beds and on the shore — barnacles, hermit crabs and other crustaceans, various worms, tiny sea cucumbers — puts the deaths at easily over 1 billion, he said.
Harley continues to study the damage and plans to publish a series of papers.
Roger and James are still defending "CRT".
🤡
Systemic racism is real. Global warming is real. Spikes in cases of Covid among unvaccinated are real.
Coldheartedtruth.com is full of lies.
Deep down inside, though he would never admit it, Ch wishes the GOP would return to more moderate social stances, so he (Ch) wouldn't have to lie all the time.
The Republicans are defunding the Capitol Police Department.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police employees are at risk of being furloughed if Congress doesn't provide the agency more money before the end of September.
The bill is stalled in the Senate by the Republicans.
#Coldheartedtruth.comisfulloflies.
Some R's are actually coming out of their trump induced coma as noted here...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-welcome-republicans-real-warming-100017520.html
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1413947317573459969?s=19
His Twitter feed gets about zero likes since he lost his mind.
KansasDemocrat July 10, 2021 at 11:28 AM
Dennis you are the board expert on climate whatever.
Which kills more people each year, the heat or cold?
(*pure data)
ReplyDelete
anonymousJuly 10, 2021 at 2:13 PM
Idiots like you are the most dangerous"
So on the subject you said you knew, you can't answer.
Noted.
NO, trying to prevent us from teaching that some VERY bad things have happened to some people because of the color of their skin -- THAT is what is racist at its core.
James just admitted that CRT categorized people by the color of their skin. My work is done here.
THE ATLANTIC:
There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory
Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it.
By Ibram X. Kendi
contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of several books, including the National Book Award–winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist.
______
The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism. The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices. The American people aren’t divided. The American people are being divided.
Republican operatives have buried the actual definition of critical race theory: “a way of looking at law’s role platforming, facilitating, producing, and even insulating racial inequality in our country,” as the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who helped coin the term, recently defined it. Instead, the attacks on critical race theory are based on made-up definitions and descriptors. “Critical race theory says every white person is a racist,” Senator Ted Cruz has said. “It basically teaches that certain children are inherently bad people because of the color of their skin,” said the Alabama state legislator Chris Pringle.
There are differing points of view about race and racism. But what we are seeing and hearing on news shows, in school-district meetings, in op-ed pages, in legislative halls, and in social-media feeds aren’t multiple sides with differing points of view. There’s only one side in our so-called culture war right now.
The Republican operatives, who dismiss the expositions of critical race theorists and anti-racists in order to define critical race theory and anti-racism, and then attack those definitions, are effectively debating themselves. They have conjured an imagined monster to scare the American people and project themselves as the nation’s defenders from that fictional monster.
this excellent article continues
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/opponents-critical-race-theory-are-arguing-themselves/619391/
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1413844853029474304
You can’t seriously believe that America has any public corruption laws when the President’s own son is allowed to run multiple money laundering schemes by pretending to be an oil/gas advisor, a memoirist & a painter simultaneously.
the 51 year old "boy"
smartest guy Joe knows
funny how no one can figure out who the "big guy" is
FBI completely baffled...
Ibram X Kendi is a fraud.
Roger Amick said...
His Twitter feed gets about zero likes since he lost his mind.
Hey alky, maybe you can start up a feed on building skyscrapers
or not
I forget which story you are pushing today.
COMMONSENSE:
James just admitted that CRT categorized people by the color of their skin. My work is done here.
JAMES:
You better work at trying to put some of those screws back into your head. If pointing out that police dogs were used against people with black skins to keep them from voting is "categorizing people by the color of their skin," I say, YEP. Those police and their dogs sure WERE doing that.
Ibram X Kendi is a fraud.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Just like Donald J Trump!!!!!!!!!!
If pointing out that police dogs were used against people with black skins to keep them from voting is "categorizing people by the color of their skin," I say, YEP. Those police and their dogs sure WERE doing that.
We call that history you call it living in the past. And yes it is taught in schools without racial animosity.
CS , Continues to club baby seal James.
Been pickling sweet pickles on the hot, humid, thunderstorm day.
Kitchen smells great and the pickles will be great during the winter.
Next up picking black Berries for Jellies and Preserves and freezing.
Oh and of course as topping on Caucasian Vannilla Bean Ice Cream.
The goat fucker trying to impress homesteaders who have no visible means of support or any real job......BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! James kicked cramps ass into next week!!!! Cramps calling Ibrahm a fraud was most amusing and a sign of desperation!!!!!
Bidenomics Sucks
North Dakota has lost $100,000 in lost State Revenue.
"Increasing crude oil imports will drive the growth in net petroleum imports in 2021 and 2022, offsetting changes in refined product net trade. Net imports of crude oil will increase from its 2020 average of 2.7 million barrels per day (b/d) to 3.7 million b/d in 2021 and 4.4 million b/d in 2022, EIA reported"
Their are "homesteaders" in Coldheartedtruth?
I believe everyone lives in a town/city.
But me.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I believe you to be a fucking moronic asshole!!!!!! Gee goat fucker... you not long ago claimed the US was oil independent.....now you worry about 100k loss in ND??????? God you need more help than anyone can give you!!!!!
CBS San Francisco :
"California Oil Regulators Deny New Fracking Permits
July 10, 2021 at 1:25 pm
Filed Under:Environment, Fracking, Fracking Ban, Oil Wells"
I am so very happy they did this .
A state that does have the water they need nor the energy , now denies bringing clean natural gas to market.
Denying employment and prosperity.
That is my bad
"Bidenomics Sucks
"North Dakota has lost $100,000,000 in lost State Revenue."
Limit cracking to reduce the amount of CH4 released into the atmosphere....a major GW gas..... Sorry sport, you again prove yourself to be the dumb fuck of CH......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/california-ban-fracking.html
For the ignorant goat flogger.....the whole story which he would never read or post!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!
The whole story has the same exact ending .
The New York Times allows people who are not subscribed can read linked articles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/us/california-ban-fracking.html
The New York Times allows people who are not subscribed can read linked articles
Can you repeat that in English?
🍷 alky .
Dennis and Roger.
The point I made on Fracking and about California remains.
2020 and 2021
"‘Simply unacceptable.’ Gavin Newsom says California rolling blackouts can’t happen again
BY HANNAH WILEY AND
DALE KASLER
AUGUST 17, 2020"
Not a thing has changed, you can't wish for more electricity.
When I post a link to The New York Times article, you can read it completely, even though you don't subscribe to The New York Times report. You must be half drunk.
Charley Goldman, who crafted Rocky Marciano, the undefeated heavyweight champ of the nineteen-fifties, once made a wise statement: “Never play a guy at his own game; nobody makes up a game in order to get beat at it.” He meant that there was no point getting into a slugging match with a slugger or a bob-and-weave match with a bob-and-weaver. Instead, do what you do well. Damon Runyon, another New York character of that same wise vintage, said something similar about a different activity: if someone wants to bet you that, if you open a sealed deck of cards, the jack of spades will come out and squirt cider in your ear, don’t take the bet, however tempting the odds. The deck, you can be sure, is gaffed on the other gambler’s behalf. Never play the other guy’s game: it’s the simple wisdom of the corner gym and the gambling den. The other guy’s game is designed for the other guy to win.
An instinctive understanding of this principle was part of the brilliance of Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign—and that we do not think of it as brilliant, despite his decisive victory against an incumbent, is part of its brilliance. Donald Trump invented a game: of bullying, lying, sociopathic selfishness, treachery, and outright gangsterism, doing and saying things that no democratic politician had ever done or even thought of doing, and he did it all in broad daylight. (A notorious line attributed to Nixon—“We can do that, but it would be wrong”—was about paying hush money. Even Nixon wouldn’t pardon his henchmen. Trump did.) It was a game designed for Trump alone to win, but all too many got drawn into it. It was a game that some credit to a Russian model of disinformation but actually seems rooted in old-fashioned American Barnumism, weaponized with John Gotti-style ethics. It was designed, in plain English, to throw out so much crap that no one could ever deal with it all. Trying to bat the crap away, you just got more of it all over you, and meanwhile you were implicitly endorsing its relevance.
Biden, by contrast, insisted that the way to win was not to play. In the face of the new politics of spectacle, he kept true to old-school coalition politics. He understood that the Black Church mattered more in Democratic primaries than any amount of Twitter snark, and, by keeping a low profile on social media, showed that social-media politics was a mirage. Throughout the dark, dystopian post-election months of Trump’s tantrum—which led to the insurrection on January 6th—many Democrats deplored Biden’s seeming passivity, his reluctance to call a coup a coup and a would-be dictator a would-be dictator. Instead, he and his team were remarkably (to many, it seemed, exasperatingly) focussed on counting the votes, trusting the process, and staffing the government.
It looked at the time dangerously passive; it turned out to be patiently wise, for Biden and his team, widely attacked as pusillanimous centrists with no particular convictions, are in fact ideologues. Their ideology is largely invisible but no less ideological for refusing to present itself out in the open. It is the belief, animating Biden’s whole career, that there is a surprisingly large area of agreement in American life and that, by appealing to that area of agreement, electoral victory and progress can be found.
(As a recent Populace survey stated, Biden and Trump voters hold “collective illusions” about each other, and “what is often mistaken for breadth of political disagreement is actually narrow — if extremely intense — disagreement on a limited number of partisan issues.”) Biden’s ideology is, in fact, the old ideology of pragmatic progressive pluralism—the ideology of F.D.R. and L.B.J. Beneath the strut and show and hysteria of politics, there is often a remarkably resilient consensus in the country. Outside the white Deep South, there was a broad consensus against segregation in 1964; outside the most paranoid registers of Wall Street, there was a similar consensus for social guarantees in 1934. Right now, post-pandemic, polls show a robust consensus for a public option to the Affordable Care Act, modernized infrastructure, even for tax hikes on the very rich and big corporations. The more you devote yourself to theatrical gestures and public spectacle, the less likely you are to succeed at making these improvements—and turning Trumpism around. Successful pluralist politicians reach out to the other side, not in a meek show of bipartisanship, but in order to steal their voters.
This is an ideology whose invisibility is guaranteed to disappoint all of us loudly articulate ideologues. It was frustrating to many that Biden did not, in his joint address to Congress, in April, say more than a few carefully wrought words to the effect that the election he won was as free and fair as any in our history, and that the Big Lie denying it was not merely the obnoxious tic of a sore loser but a direct and violent threat to American democracy—a form of secessionism or sedition, and, like them, not to be tolerated.
He didn’t say as much as he might have or as many might have wanted. But this was surely due to his conviction, and the conviction of his circle, that an atmosphere of aggravation can only work to the advantage of the permanently aggrieved. With so many Americans in the grip of a totalized ideology of Trumpism—one that surmounts their obvious self-interest or normal calculations of economic utility—the way to get them out of it is to stop thinking in totalized terms. You get people out of a cult not by offering them a better cult but by helping them see why they don’t need a cult. This is a difficult wisdom—and one that, perhaps not accidentally, was offered often during the campaign by the man who is now Biden’s Transportation Secretary. Pete Buttigieg said at the time that you can’t defeat a cartoon villain by being a cartoon hero. You defeat a cartoon villain by helping people remember that life is not a cartoon. He put it simply to the press: “Trump appeals to people’s smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward. We need to be careful that our necessary rebukes of the President don’t corner people into the kind of defensiveness that makes them even more vulnerable to those kinds of appeals. What we really need to do in some ways is talk past Trump and his sins.”
Talking past Trump turned out to be a good tactic. There is, nonetheless, an overwhelming feeling, as the inventory of Trumpism continues in its horrors, that confronting Trump’s sins is equally urgent. And not just among predictable progressives: Jennifer Rubin, the former conservative commentator now turned, by anti-Trumpism, toward, well, liberalism, argues that Attorney General Merrick Garland ought to be cajoled—or shamed—into doing the necessary work of finding out how Trump politicized the Justice Department and weeding out the people who let him do it. “Investigating wrongdoing, rooting out unethical behavior and getting to the bottom of the politicization of the department are central to restoring the Justice Department’s reputation,” she wrote. “In allowing miscreants to escape accountability . . . Garland has effectively told his department that there are no consequences for unethical or even illegal conduct.”
On front after front, it seems as if even the most blatant wrongdoing will once again go unpunished, because of an undue “institutionalism,” an inexplicable passivity, or a sheer unwillingness to look evil in the eye and call it by its name. Trump out of office may be the same character he always was—a grifter trying to become a gangster, oafish and comical in his grifting, sinister and dangerous in his gangsterism—but the damage that Trump did to the country remains. By ripping apart the premises of democratic government, Trump stripped the country of its basic civic immunity. And, like a virus that infects the country, long Trump is an ailment that won’t go away.
The urge to fight it, hard, before it can return, seems irresistible. Yet Biden and his circle resist this fight, and it would be foolish to think that they resist it only out of blindness and opacity. They are betting on Charley Goldman’s wisdom: you can’t win playing the other guy’s game. This wisdom has taken them further than the more aggressive conventional kind might have imagined. On the other hand, there was a national leader—an emperor rather than a President, as it happens—who once thought that he had found glory in invisibility when all that was waiting for him was public humiliation. Is Biden protected by the invisible armor of his ideology or merely naked to his enemies? Which of the two it turns out to be will determine much of our future.
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