Weaver stresses that he is not advocating for such a primary campaign. But the chatter about a left-wing challenge to Biden, which was virtually nonexistent weeks ago, has suddenly burst into public view in the wake of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) killing the president’s climate and social spending bill.
“He’s deeply unpopular. He’s old as shit. He’s largely been ineffective, unless we’re counting judges or whatever the hell inside-baseball scorecard we’re using. And I think he’ll probably get demolished in the midterms,” said Corbin Trent, co-founder of the progressive No Excuses PAC and former communications director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). “People will smell opportunity, and D.C. is filled with people who want to be president.”
Incumbent Presidents who are primaried in any serious manner generally lose their reelection campaigns. This might be an equal amount cause and effect here. The unpopularity of a President leads to a primary challenge, the primary challenge exposes things and requires the incumbent to defend from within.
I personally believe that Biden's chances of being the nominee in 2024 is probably about one in three. The most probable case (I believe) is that he steps down voluntarily citing medical concerns or the everpopular desire to spend more time with his family. He cannot make such a declaration this early in his Presidency because he effectively would become a lame duck. But the reality might already be set in stone.
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Hillary is back for this. This is how deep the dem bench is.
If the BBB bill passes, it won't happen...
Manchin Returns to Negotiations on Biden Agenda
January 2, 2022 at 5:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) “is open to reengaging on the climate and child care provisions in President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda if the White House removes the enhanced child tax credit from the $1.75 trillion package — or dramatically lowers the income caps for eligible families,” Axios reports.
“The holdback senator’s engagement on specifics indicates negotiations between him and the White House could get back on track.”
More from Axios: “All eyes are on Monday night’s Senate leadership meeting, which Manchin will attend, and Tuesday’s weekly caucus lunch.”
“The lunch will be the first time all Senate Democrats are together in one room since Manchin made his opposition to the bill public last month.”
You previously said that he went to far left wing.
But your conspiracy theory addiction is getting worse
Roger begins every sentence with IF. Yawn.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is open to reengaging on the climate and child care provisions in President Biden's Build Back Better (BBB) agenda if the White House removes the enhanced child tax credit from the $1.75 trillion package — or dramatically lowers the income caps for eligible families," Axios reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Manchin announced his opposition during a Fox News appearance on Dec. 19.
"One possible solution to the stalemate would be to remove the CTC from the Build Back Better legislation, which the Senate plans to pass with only Democratic votes,"
IT will pass ballsless
It would decrease the deficit
No, it won't.
I REPEAT WHAT ROGER SAID AT 4:38 AND 5:55 ABOVE.
MORE FROM THIS AFTERNOON:
Flight Cancellations Continue to Pile Up
January 2, 2022 at 4:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments
“With travelers trying to head home at the end of the holiday season, airlines had canceled more than 2,400 flights in the United States by Sunday afternoon,” the Washington Post reports.
Meanwhile, Politico reports AT&T and Verizon rejected Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s plea to delay a new round of 5G service “amid warnings of aviation chaos.”
Schiff Says Russia Invasion of Ukraine ‘Very Likely’
January 2, 2022 at 4:38 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Russia is “very likely” to invade Ukraine and might only be deterred by “enormous sanctions,” The Guardian reports.
Said Schiff: “I also think that a powerful deterrent is the understanding that if they do invade, it is going to bring Nato closer to Russia, not push it farther away.”
BIDEN AND NATO HOLDING TOUGH.
MORE FROM THIS AFTERNOON
Kim Jong-Un Pledges to End Food Shortages
January 2, 2022 at 4:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 39 Comments
“Kim Jong-Un has begun his second decade as North Korea’s leader with a vow to alleviate the country’s chronic food shortages, state media reported on Saturday — a problem that he inherited from his late father 10 years ago and has yet to fix,” the New York Times reports.
KIEARAN CONWAY SOLICITORS IRELAND *JOE Bidens folly ON STATE PROTECTED WITNESSES
There is somewhat a political question mark hanging above Irish Solicitor Kieran Conway and like a hangmans noose is just waiting to be 'pulled" .His own indecisive actions towards named antisemitic Albert Smith Irish Independent in not reporting this person as being dipolmatically protected from prosecution to organizations such as Sinn Fein after Smith admitted in court to committing offences infornt of a judge without being charged with his own barristar freeman as witness and also the ability to not readily act upon internet evidence which is plain to see that the NUJ is protecting and refusing to remove Smith from the NUJ for appearing in fascist David Irvings digital Book Gorings Biography describing in it the book as being quote a "Good Offering" when he himself has in the past accused others of being quote" fascists" in his own writings is to put it bluntly beyond indefensible and more than a mere inference could be drawn.
KIERAN CONWAY SOLICITORS IRELAND NUJ COVER UP
In short Albert Smith Irish Independent Newspaper has never publically apologized for his printed quotes found in the digital version of fascist David Irvings Book Gorings Biography that of the book being "a good offering" hes had his chance,he is a Diplomatically protected firearms user that the NUJ itself is aware of and he is at the least Antisemitic.Smiths publishing company is easily found on US "BING" search engine and is known as Parpoint whilst Irvings publishing venture is known as Parforce?? No question about it.
As for Solicitor Kieran Conway Ireland hes never given evidence against Smith or about the Irish Police or the Judge he could have notified the press and TV channells.Ireland itself will be held responcible as the entire Irish Government is aware of Albert Smith yet nobody dares to mention this episode in Irish History in any media outlet of a Journalist smashing up a writers laptop and not being charged for the offence.
Perhaps we’re on the verge of a more humane economic era, when workers of all stripes band together to push back against both the indignities of the last thirty years of top down economics and increasing wages eventually restore bottom up economics. The middle class will have a higher percentage of the GDP than before Reagan era top down economics, where a handful of people hold a very high percentage of the GDP.
They will pay taxes and social security taxes and Medicare and Medicare taxes.
Trump had wages for hourly workers rising. 5.5% just in 2019, most of any labor group. And with low inflation.
What you're imagining was actually happening.
How many Republicans does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. Trump just says it’s fixed and the rest of them sit in the dark and applaud
The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred.
Sedition.
Donald Trump has shown the way for the Republican Party to end its “capture” by corporate elitists and Washington insiders. His America First policies are as threatening to their power as Reaganism was to the party poobahs in 1980, if not more so. The Republican Party’s majority for the next few decades could be built on a base of blue-collar voters and Hispanic and Black voters, if the Anti-Trump faction of the party were to be pushed to the sidelines.
Putting it differently, Trumpism could be larger than Donald Trump if he would let it. Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida, Congressman Jim Jordan in Ohio and others are ready to lead the party into the Promised Land of winning elections as frequently as a golden age from 1868 to 1916 when Grover Cleveland was the only Democrat to win the presidency.
If the analogy to Moses is not sufficient to persuade Donald Trump to throw his support behind candidates to carry on his legacy, he might find appealing a comparison to General George S. Patton. Early in the movie Patton an aide pricked the great general’s elation from a victory over the German Afrika Korps when he told him that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was temporarily in Germany and not in North Africa. The aide softened the blow to Patton’s ego when he pointed out that Patton had defeated Rommel’s war plan and thus demonstrated that he was the superior strategist.
The inverse of this could be true in 2024, if Donald Trump would lead the way for “Trumpism” to prevail over his foes both within the Republican Party and among the socialist leftists in control of the Democrat Party. His brand of patriotic populism could be the decisive difference in bringing America back from the destructive anti-freedom and even anti-American policies of the Democrats.
Trump in 2016-20 had the abrasiveness one would expect from a man from working-class Queens who pushed past the snobs of Manhattan to become a brand name in real estate development in New York City. A successful Republican candidate in 2024 would be someone carrying the Trump banner without the annoying tweets.
Donald Trump’s greatest legacy would be to transform the substance of Republican Party politics so successfully that it became a permanent and productive majority for several decades. All he has to do is sacrifice some of his ego to a greater cause, while claiming the credit for showing the way into a new promised land of an America restored to its place as the “shining city on the hill” to borrow from Ronald Reagan. He could be the most transformational one-term president in American history. It’s his choice.
Seig Heil
American conservatism exploits the decay of national confidence to prosecute a “holy war” in the service of a “Trumpian authoritarianism” revolving around “hatred of the Other.” Peter Berkowitz shows this claim to be nonsense. He writes:
Yes, Trump is vain and thin-skinned. Yet rather than adopt an authoritarian agenda, the 45th U.S. president cut taxes, curtailed regulations, restored the rule of law to America’s southern border, appointed judges committed to interpreting rather than rewriting the law, and gave states room to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yes, some thugs and kooks rallied around Trump. Meanwhile, other thugs and kooks gravitated to the Democratic Party. The swing voters who were decisive in Trump’s 2016 victory, moreover, supported him not out of “hatred of the Other” but in self-defense against the scorn that progressive elites directed at them, their communities, and their faith.
And yes, many conservatives feel embattled. But not, as Brooks ridiculously alleges, because “they need to continually invent existential foes — critical race theory, nongendered bathrooms, out-of-control immigration.”
Conservatives and Trump voters feel embattled because, even as a New York Times columnist writing in The Atlantic dismisses their political concerns as a matter of benighted and feverish imaginations, they can see with their own eyes that schools indoctrinate students in critical race theory; that progressive elites make transgenderism a signature cause not to protect the basic rights of a tiny minority but as a lever to overturn traditional moral limits and teachings; and that since Joe Biden entered the White House, soaring numbers of migrants have illegally crossed the nation’s southern border.
Brooks’ desire to overturn existing arrangements for the purpose of helping Blacks and improving souls shows that he’s not a conservative in the classic sense. He’s a man of the center-left and has been for years.
This doesn’t mean that Brooks’ critique of conservatism is wrong (though it should be clear from what I’ve written here that I think it is). But we shouldn’t be surprised that a center-leftist is strongly put off by Trumpism.
"MyballsJanuary 2, 2022 at 8:40 PM
Trump had wages for hourly workers rising. 5.5% just in 2019, most of any labor group. And with low inflation.
What you're imagining was actually happening."
Yes, it was.
Today we have wage shrinkage and high inflation.
Alky's Socialist Dystopia.
Bottom up Economics in Action.
"ECONOMY
Inflation has taken away all the wage gains for workers and then some
PUBLISHED WED, NOV 10 2021" CNBC
The good news is that, if you have been immunized and get symptoms, you should stay home for five days, and if you feel normal again, go back to work, just like having a cold.
The new CDC guidelines will say that and life is better than before.
The President will be giving what may be the most important in history.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gotten the same troubling questions from worried world leaders, ones that he never thought he would hear.
“Is America going to be all right?” they ask. “What about democracy in America?”
While Biden has tried to offer America’s allies assurances, he has only occasionally emphasized the gravity of the threat to democracy from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the repeated lie from the man he defeated, Donald Trump, that the 2020 election was stolen.
Now, as the anniversary of that deadly day nears, the president is being urged to reorder priorities and use the powers of his office to push voting rights legislation that its adherents say could be the only effective way to counter the rapidly emerging threats to the democratic process.
The tension in Biden’s approach reflects his balancing of the urgent needs of Americans to make progress on the highly visible issues of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy and the less visible, but equally vital, issue of preserving trust in elections and government.
Biden’s words on voting rights meet call to action after 1/6!
He should use the bully pulpit, and use the powers of his office to push voting rights legislation that could be the only effective way to counter the rapidly emerging threats to the democratic process, imperiled by the big lie.
It is the the most important moment in history. The right of the people who have the authority to choose our leaders, faces the biggest threat in history.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-voting-donald-trump-voting-rights-election-2020-b0e831f72f2da099bfbc37c6987a7989
Schumer will begin talking about the path forward on voting rights and the filibuster today. Schumer will push the Freedom to Vote Act, which is backed by all 50 Senate Democrats, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). Republicans will block Senate action on the bill, which will then trigger the debate over filibuster. Machin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have opposed eliminating the 60-vote threshold for cloture, meaning Schumer is short the votes he needs to gut the filibuster. However, Senate Democrats have been lobbying the pair privately for months on a potential “carve-out” for voting rights bills. Other proposals include making it tougher to conduct filibusters, or bringing back the “talking filibuster,” which would require opponents of a bill to be on the floor actively debating it.
New message alert: We also expect Senate Democrats to use the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attacks as a reason for passing voting rights legislation. Democrats will note that the insurrection was spurred by former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the elections. And those false claims are part of the reason Republicans in red states are imposing new restrictions on voting. This, they will say, is why Democrats insist new federal voting rights legislation must be enacted.
Yep another nut job certifiable R martyr who should have stayed home instead of trying to take over DC!!!!!! This idiot women got killed due to her own stupidity and fealty to trump.......sad what a waste of a life.....just like most of you trump slurpers who think trump won!!!!!
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Associated Press
Ashli Babbitt a martyr? Her past tells a more complex story
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Capitol Riot Ashli Babbit
This driver's license photo from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), provided to AP by the Calvert County Sheriff's Office, shows Ashli Babbitt. (Maryland MVA/Courtesy of the Calvert County Sheriff's Office via AP)
BY MICHAEL BIESECKER
Mon, January 3, 2022, 12:13 AM·11 min read
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashli Babbitt, the future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with an SUV and was pounding on the window, challenging her to a fight.
Norris says the bad blood between them began in 2015, when Babbitt engaged in a monthslong extramarital affair with Norris’ longtime live-in boyfriend. When she learned of the relationship, Norris called Babbitt’s husband and told him she was cheating.
“She pulls up yelling and screaming,” Norris said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, recounting the July 29, 2016, road-rage incident in Prince Frederick, Maryland. “It took me a good 30 seconds to figure out who she was. … Just all sorts of expletives, telling me to get out of the car, that she was going to beat my ass.”
Terrified and confused, Norris dialed 911 and waited for law enforcement. Babbitt was later charged with numerous misdemeanors.
The attack on Norris is an example of erratic and sometimes threatening behavior by Babbitt, who was shot by a police officer while at the vanguard of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray her as a righteous martyr who was unjustly killed.
Trump has called her “an incredible person” and he even taped a posthumous birthday greeting to her in October. Trump has also demanded the Justice Department reinvestigate Babbitt’s death, though the officer who shot her was cleared of any wrongdoing by two prior federal investigations.
But the life of the Air Force veteran from California, who died while wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders like a cape, is far more complicated than the heroic portrait presented by Trump and his allies.
In the months before her death, Babbitt had become consumed by pro-Trump conspiracy theories and posted angry screeds on social media. She also had a history of making violent threats.
Babbitt, 35, was fatally shot while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol, where police officers were evacuating members of Congress from the mob supporting Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. She was one of five people who died during or immediately after the riot, including a Capitol Police officer.
Can't wait.
Roger and James will bring up economic issues and run from them and fail to understand their implications.
And the goat fucker will continue his incessant stupidity with posting gibberish moronic ideology !!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Michael Cohen Taunts Bill Barr After Serving Papers
January 3, 2022 at 7:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
Michael Cohen poked fun at Bill Barr after the former attorney general was served papers last week regarding Cohen’s lawsuit against him.
Barr was at his home in McLean, Virginia and described as “wearing shorts and did not appear happy.”
Said Cohen: “Happy New Year asshole!”
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Go to this at politicalwire.com, click on it there, and then scroll down and read the tweets. Amusing!
Myballs said...
Trump had wages for hourly workers rising. 5.5% just in 2019, most of any labor group. And with low inflation.
What you're imagining was actually happening.
FANTASTIC MORNING !!!
America needs to kick people like the asshole "pastor" to the curb and elect people who actually help our country.
History will not be kind to them and hopefully justice will be served.
Not Joe Biden's Banana Republic justice
REAL HOPE AND CHANGE
2022 !!!
people are getting optimistic.
There will be an end to the fascists
Hunter better get his paintings sold and move to a country without an extradition treaty
U.S. stock futures rose sharply in premarket trading Monday, with investors showing hope about the economy’s ability to overcome the surge in Covid cases and focusing on progress from the nation’s automakers.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 128 points, or about 0.3%. Both S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced about 0.4%.
Stocks have a tendency to gain in the start of a new year as investors look to put new money to work, Bank of America noted on Monday. The S&P 500 was up in the first week of the calendar year in 11 of the last 13 years, with an average gain of about 1.6%, the firm found.
Tesla helped the market generate some early momentum Monday, rising 6.8% in premarket trading after the electric vehicle company reported 308,600 deliveries in the fourth quarter, beating expectations.
Along with Tesla, big automakers also saw their shares climb premarket, with Ford Motor and General Motors each climbing 1.6%.
Reopening stocks also pushed higher in early action. Airlines edged higher as investors shrugged off concerns about holiday flight cancelations that have extended into Monday. United Airlines gained 1% and Alaska Air rose 2.3%.
Meanwhile, casino stocks including Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts gained about 1% apiece premarket.
The move in futures comes after markets closed out a strong 2021 last week. The S&P 500 rose nearly 27% for the year, with the Nasdaq Composite and Dow also posting large returns. Stocks fell slightly on Friday, but the S&P 500 and Dow were positive for the final week of the year.
The new year starts with continued uncertainty around the Covid-19 pandemic. The rise of the omicron variant helped lead to the thousands of flight cancellations during the holiday season and has led some businesses and schools to consider temporary closures. Also, several major Wall Street banks have asked employees to work from home for the first few weeks of January.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that U.S. health officials may soon update guidelines to include a testing recommendation to signal when a person who previously tested positive for Covid can leave isolation.
Inflation and monetary policy are also expected to be key themes for 2022, as investors expect the Federal Reserve to hike rates multiple times in the coming year to help cool the rise in prices for consumers
Inflation and monetary policy are also expected to be key themes for 2022, as investors expect the Federal Reserve to hike rates multiple times in the coming year to help cool the rise in prices for consumers.
Americans Don’t Agree with CH on What to Call January 6 Attack
January 3, 2022 at 7:41 am EST By Taegan Goddard 62 Comments
A new PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist poll finds that 49% of U.S. adults say an insurrection took place that threatened democracy, and about as many say Donald Trump is to blame for those events.
However, 25% say it was a political act of free speech and 19% say it was an unfortunate event, but it’s in the past.
Trump Endorses Hungary’s Viktor Orbán
January 3, 2022 at 9:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 22 Comments
Former President Donald Trump gave Hungary’s Viktor Orbán his “Complete support and Endorsement.”
Meanwhile, from the New York Times:
“After long indulging him, leaders in the European Union now widely consider one of their own, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, an existential threat to a bloc that holds itself up as a model of human rights and the rule of law.”
IS TRUMP TRYING TO OUT-HITLER HITLER?
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THAT MAKES THIS EVEN CLEARER:
The Media Must Help Save American Democracy
January 3, 2022 at 9:13 am EST By Taegan Goddard 26 Comments
Margaret Sullivan:
“In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right.
They’ve published major investigations,
pointed out politicians’ lies and,
in many cases, finally learned how to clearly communicate the facts of what happened leading up to that horrendous riot at the U.S. Capitol
— and what is happening now as pro-Trump Republicans steadily chip away at the very checks and balances that saved American democracy last year.
“Much of this work has been impressive.
And yet, something crucial is missing.
For the most part, news organizations are not making democracy-under-siege a central focus of the work they present to the public.”
BETTER START EMPHASIZING THAT.
The high biden inflation will force the fed to raise rates. Probably 2 or 3 times in 2022. That in turn will cause the market to drop from people pulling out 5heir cash. I am in bonds.
On topic -
Of course Slow Joe get's primaried. The left can only pull off their "Weekend at Bernie's" shtick for one term. Two terms is not possible. The idiot is far too frail to make it that far. And his running mate is a failure of epic proportions no matter how much the DNC/MSM carries water for her.
And you can tell by how the left is going 'all-in' on the Jan. 6 hilarity that they have nothing as in FUCKING NOTHING to run on in 2022/2024. They're fucked, they know it, and that's that. Therefore look for them to jam through filibuster reform for H.R.1, as theft is their last remaining option to retain power. Look no farther than the comments of Marc Elias and Ron Klain.
The left is basically a collection of Constitutional suicide bombers at this point. Permanent power is their 72 virgins, and a Federal takeover of our elections is their suicide vest.
Pro-Trump Internet Descends Into Infighting
AND HOW!
January 3, 2022 at 7:28 am EST By Taegan Goddard 61 Comments
“The far-right firebrands and conspiracy theorists of the pro-Trump Internet have a new enemy: each other,” the Washington Post reports.
“After months of failing to disprove the reality of Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss, some of the Internet’s most popular right-wing provocateurs are grappling with the pressures of restless audiences, saturated markets, ongoing investigations and millions of dollars in legal bills.
“The result is a chaotic melodrama, playing out via secretly recorded phone calls, personal attacks in podcasts, and a seemingly endless stream of posts on Twitter, Gab and Telegram calling their rivals Satanists, communists, pedophiles or ‘pay-triots’ — money-grubbing grifters exploiting the cause.”
The Bulwark:
What it means to be a Republican in 2022.
THAT LAST ARTICLE IN THE BULWARK IS ESPECIALLY ENLIGHTENING.
GO TO THE LINK on politicalwire.com,
click on it and read it.
AMAZING!!!
The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots for children as young as 12.
Boosters already are recommended for everyone 16 and older, and federal regulators on Monday decided they’re also warranted for 12- to 15-year-olds once enough time has passed since their last dose.
But the move, coming as classes restart after the holidays, isn’t the final step. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must decide whether to recommend boosters for the younger teens. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, is expected to rule later this week.
The FDA also said everyone 12 and older eligible for a booster can get one as early as five months after their last dose rather than six months.
Vaccines still offer strong protection against serious illness from any type of COVID-19. But health authorities are urging everyone who’s eligible to get a booster dose for their best chance at avoiding milder breakthrough infections from the highly contagious omicron mutant.
In describing President Biden, another progressive strategist said that he’s “deeply unpopular” and “old as sh–.”
“He’s deeply unpopular. He’s old as sh–. He’s largely been ineffective, unless we’re counting judges or whatever the hell inside-baseball scorecard we’re using. And I think he’ll probably get demolished in the midterms,” Corbin Trent, former communications director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and co-founder of No Excuses PAC said.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/deeply-unpopular-old-sh-progressive-strategist-joe-biden-bidens-approval-numbers-tank/
Is AOC still partying in Florida, maskless at a drag bar ?
At least we can thank her for making things perfectly clear
* well some patrons were masked.
They didn't want to be identified
ROFLMFAO !!!
* but they left their mouths uncovered...
What It Means to Be a Republican in 2022
Inside the GOP, it’s a war of all against all.
by AMANDA CARPENTER JANUARY 3, 2022 5:30 AM
What does it mean to be a Republican in the year 2022? Being hated. Yes, by the left—but more importantly, also by members of your own party.
Here in the bad, red place, hardly anyone gets along. Especially after January 6th. Why? Consider this a simple question: Whom does Donald Trump actually like?
In the old days, all a Republican had to do to make Trump happy was kiss his ass with some cheap flattery. Say he’s the biggest, strongest, handsomest, smartest, richest dude in history and that would be enough. But today, being on Trump’s good side requires accepting his 2020 election lie and endorsing his various schemes to overturn the results.
And if you’re not gonna do that? Then GTFO. Trump doesn’t want you around. As long as Trump is in charge, your future in the GOP is dead.
Just ask Mike Pence.
Pence spent four years as vice president gazing adoringly into Trump’s profile and swooning over his broad shoulders only to be cast out when he refused to block Joe Biden’s certification as president. Trump told Pence, “I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this.” When Pence didn’t, he was promptly sentenced to death, political and otherwise, by Trump’s troops who chanted “Hang Mike Pence” as they marauded the halls of Congress. Trump told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that his supporters wanted to hang Mike Pence “because it’s common sense, Jon.” Trump recently described Pence as “mortally wounded.”
Likewise, after Attorney General William Barr told a reporter there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, Trump fumed at him: “You must really hate Trump.” Similarly, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger lost any goodwill they might have felt from the former president when they informed him they could not “find” enough votes for him to win that state. Ditto Arizona Governor Doug Ducey.
Heck, the number of Trump’s own cabinet officials whom the former president can’t stand—and who can’t stand him in return—is remarkable.
Because here’s the rub: To the former president, being “Trump’s friend” means never saying no to him. Even when it comes to acting on lies that caused an insurrection.
It’s the friendship of the mob boss: Do what he tells you and there won’t be any trouble. Which explains a lot of the behind-the-scenes grumbling in Republican politics. The guys paying protection money never actually like the mob boss.
James Bond!
While Trump’s failure to corrupt the federal government was half-baked, at least he tried. Not so when it came to state governments, which he largely ignored. As a result, even states with Republican-dominated legislatures and party officials, such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, weren’t wholly owned Trump subsidiaries. They were Trumpy, but not Trumpy enough—they whined and fussed, but at the end of the day they allowed the election results in their states to be certified.
And yet, despite Trump’s failure to thoroughly corrupt the federal and state governments, he came frighteningly close to overturning the election or, at the least, throwing the nation into the mother of all constitutional crises.
How close?
Trump fell five Rudys short.
Substitute Rudy Giuliani—or Sidney Powell or Jim Jordan or any other Trump cultist—for just five people who held state or federal office at the time of the 2020 election and think about what might have happened.
Put a Rudy in the place of Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia who stood his ground in the face of hellish pressure from the president of the United States and certified Joe Biden’s win in the state.
Replace Michigan Board of State Canvassers member Aaron Van Langevelde, who bucked GOP pressure to provide the swing vote to certify Biden’s win in Michigan, with a Rudy.
Make a Rudy the secretary of state of Pennsylvania instead of Kathy Boockvar, who certified Biden’s win in that state.
That puts 42 electoral votes in play in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania alone. Forget about Arizona and Wisconsin—Trump wouldn’t need them. He only lost by 38.
Or take a different route. Replace Attorney General Bill Barr with a Rudy and have him declare that the Justice Department had determined that massive fraud tainted the results in all of the swing states that went for Biden. Team Trump had an actual plan to do just that, replacing Barr with a brainwashed nobody named Jeffrey Clark, but Trump never pulled the trigger.
Or blow the whole thing out of the water in one shot. What if, rather than Mike Pence, a Rudy had been vice president—someone who would refuse to even open the certified electoral ballots, much less count them.
There is, of course, no way of knowing exactly how things would have played out if those five Rudys had been in place. The counterfactual is always ridden with uncertainty. What if Nazi Germany had won World War II? What if the Supreme Court had handed the 2000 presidential election to Al Gore instead of George W. Bush? What if James Comey hadn’t sabotaged Hillary Clinton in the final moments of the 2016 presidential election?
We can’t know exactly how history would have played out.
But we can know that it would have played out differently. If the five Rudys had been in place in 2020, at a minimum, three states with more than enough electoral votes to overturn the vote of the people would have been in play, quite possibly with their final vote certifications being decided by highly partisan Republican legislatures. And we know that if Trump had had Rudys in the offices of the attorney general and vice president, they might have created enough chaos to throw the election into the hands of the U.S. House of Representatives where, because the vote would be state-by-state rather than by individual representatives, a strict party-line vote would have installed Trump, not Biden, as president.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filmed maskless at packed Florida bar
AOC has faced criticism for vacationing in Florida while New York faces a record surge in COVID-19
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-filmed-maskless-at-packed-florida-bar
Maybe she thought it was spring break ?
Anyone got a link to Biden's "free" Covid tests he was going to distribute come January ?
or is he partying with some record on his gramophone still ?
clock is a ticking...
Donald Trump is an exponential threat to the United States of America and for which it stands.
As a political science professor at the Royal Roads University in Colwood, British Columbia, Thomas Homer-Dixon is only about 35 miles from the U.S. border — and in an op-ed published by the Globe and Mail on New Year’s Eve, he grapples with the frightening possibility that Canada’s neighbor to the south could be under a fascist dictatorship only eight years from now.
“By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence,” writes Homer-Dixon, author of the book “Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril” and founder of Royal Roads’ Cascade Institute. “By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship. We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine.”
Homer-Dixon, in his op-ed, warns that if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House in January 2025 — possibly by stealing the 2024 election with the help of the Republican Party — there will be major implications for Canada.
“Returning to office, he’ll be the wrecking ball that demolishes democracy, but the process will produce a political and social shambles,” Homer-Dixon writes. “Still, through targeted harassment and dismissal, he’ll be able to thin the ranks of his movement’s opponents within the state — the bureaucrats, officials and technocrats who oversee the non-partisan functioning of core institutions and abide by the rule of law. Then, the stage will be set for a more managerially competent ruler, after Mr. Trump, to bring order to the chaos he’s created.”
The Canadian government, he warns, is facing an “unfolding crisis” to the south and needs to think long and hard about how it will respond if United States goes full-fledged authoritarian.
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It's not conservative vs. Liberalism.
Anyone got a link to Biden's "free" Covid tests he was going to distribute come January ?
Yeah, they're available for PURCHASE at CVS.
Hey roger,
you said these rapid Covid tests would be available to us in January and then we would need to send them in for results.
Is your test in the mail yet ?
Has your research uncovered anything else ?
Your roommate must be very impressed with you and your knowledge.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Quote of the Day
January 3, 2022 at 10:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“I serve with colleagues who I can’t even stand to be on the elevator with — their unapologetic embrace of the lies that led to violent extremism makes me sick.”
— Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), writing in the Boston Globe.
President Biden
@POTUS
United States government official
Commander enjoyed his first trip to the beach.
IMAGE:
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1477698950950010891
Has Joe explained the "science" behind why he has to wear masks outside and alone on the beach with Jill in Delaware while AOC is partying maskless in a crowded Florida drag bar ?
Any "reporters" asking ?
Can his "popularity" go any lower ?
Then there is the handful of Republicans who decided to openly buck Trump.
Ten Republicans in the House and seven Republicans in the Senate voted to impeach Trump for inciting the January 6th insurrection. Mitt Romney was among them. Generally known as a mild-mannered Mormon, he reportedly yelled, “You have caused this!” at the Electoral College-objecting Josh Hawley as Trump’s mob breached the Capitol.
Another objector, Jim Jordan, attempted to escort Liz Cheney away from danger during that time. She slapped his hand away, telling him, “Get away from me. You fucking did this.”
Today it’s the Romneys and the Cheneys who are getting yelled at.
They’re harangued by the hard-core Trumpists and lukewarm anti-anti Trumpists who want to pretend that January 6th never happened. The two wings align to make the lives of pro-impeachment Republicans as miserable as possible through ridicule, seizure of positions, censure, and primaries.
And it’s working. Cheney and Adam Kinzinger now stand pretty much alone when it comes to taking concrete action to hold anyone from Trump World accountable for the attack.
Republican leadership—who are functionally MAGA sheeple with taxpayer-funded Washington office suites—have stood aside, unwilling or incapable of holding Trump accountable. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy initially stated that Trump had responsibility for the mob attack, but then declined to make him face any consequences.
Both still support him as party leader and both have said that they will back him as the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, and in the midterms, will support his endorsed candidates.
If McConnell and McCarthy hate anyone more than Trump, it might be themselves for licking the boots of the man they know was responsible for an attack on their own house.
Even in Super-Duper Trump World, things are tense. In the media, people like Alex Jones are on permanent offense to push Newsmax, which pushes OANN, which pushes radio hosts and assorted conservative media websites, which push Fox News further and further out onto the fringe.
Because of the gravitational pull of these internet loons, Republicans in Congress have to answer to trolls-turned-member of Congress such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, who relishes her role as Trump’s elected enforcer.
Although Greene regularly harasses people of all political stripes, her Twitter beef with fellow Republican Nancy Mace stands out. Greene went after Mace because Mace criticized another troll-turned-member, Lauren Boebert, for her bigoted remarks about a colleague.
Former Navy SEAL Dan Crenshaw, a self-styled live-action dynamo of the Trump era, attempted to push back against the Greene gang. Upset over being unfairly targeted with a vote to fund vaccine systems, he issued a warning that Trump-aligned “grifters” were lying to voters about the existence of a vaccine database to track and punish the unvaccinated. Crenshaw said people needed to see the difference between “performance artists” and “legislators” and mentioned that Kinzinger, considered a traitor for his work on the January 6th committee, had voted with Trump 99 percent of the time.
For this, Crenshaw was put on blast by right-wing radio talkers who declared him a “false prophet” and said they were “embarrassed” to have helped him win his seat.
These fights were, on the surface, about vaccine politics and speech, but the reason someone like Greene gets away with it, and someone like Cheney gets booted by leadership, goes back to January 6th: Greene insists Trump is the one true president and that the rioters are “political prisoners.” Cheney doesn’t. Mace and Crenshaw waver. They stepped out of line.
And that’s what this is really all about.
I didn't have to wait long.
Higher Federal reserve rates cause inflation, Roger , doesn't understand how.
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Roger AmickJanuary 3, 2022 at 8:31 AM
Inflation and monetary policy are also expected to be key themes for 2022, as investors expect the Federal Reserve to hike rates multiple times in the coming year to help cool the rise in prices for consumers"
Why does inflation need to go down, after all it was to go away on its own and inflation is not a problem said Biden.
Now it is?
An unruly crowd entered the US Capitol on Jan. 6, while then-President Donald Trump addressed a rally several blocks away. One member of that crowd, Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman and a veteran, was shot by the Capitol Police. The next day, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died in the hospital.
On Jan. 8, The New York Times reported that Officer Sicknick had died after being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by violent Trump supporters. This story was quickly repeated by numerous other media outlets. Millions believed it.
The story was false.
Sicknick died of two strokes, which occurred many hours after the invasion of the Capitol. The blue-check-media fallback was that bear spray used by the Capitol invaders had caused the officer’s strokes.
That also turned out to be false. After a curiously long delay, the DC medical examiner’s office released its report this week, and it concludes that Sicknick suffered no injuries, internal or external. He didn’t have a reaction to bear spray, the chief medical examiner reported.
So the single most important “fact” about the events of Jan. 6 was false. That leaves some questions.
First, who were the Gray Lady’s sources? The Times story quoted two anonymous “law-enforcement officials,” but anyone associated with the Capitol Police, or any investigation, should have known that Sicknick wasn’t struck in the head with a fire extinguisher. Having been misled by its sources, will the Times tell us who they were?
Will the Times apologize for its error? It could have independently confirmed its claims by checking with Sicknick’s family or with the hospital. Or the paper could simply have waited until it had definitive confirmation of the facts and refrained from reporting a falsehood in the meanwhile.
As leftist journalist Glenn Greenwald notes, the Times didn’t check the facts because the paper needed the story to be true.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
Jan. 6, like 'Russia, Russia, Russia,' will turn out to be a massive hoax, owned, operated and directed by our very own Federal Bureau of Incompetence; the DNC's STASI.
It goes like this:
Trump’s election deniers hate anyone who doesn’t go along completely with the lie.
Meanwhile, the people who believe that Trump is responsible for January 6th and hate what he did—as well as the people who can’t bring themselves to take a firm position—both hate the situation they’re in.
For now, the election deniers are in charge because it’s impossible to be a Republican in good standing (with Trump) unless you attest to the lie and approve of its subsequent actions:
sham audits,
smears against election workers
and voting machine companies,
and new laws designed to make overturning the 2024 election possible.
The Trump wing isn’t interested in building a big-tent party;
it wants to maintain and expand the political army that showed up for him on January 6th.
And not just the randos in camo and sweatpants, but the famous people in Congress and the media, too. Those are the kind of Republicans Trump wants to elevate.
Think yes to “Patriot Purge” with Tucker Carlson.
No to Sunday soup with Chris Wallace.
Think about the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial field where, in a recent debate, not a single candidate would say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Think about the Senate candidates endorsed by Trump with a record of violence and a willingness to do Trump’s bidding.
What a telling combination.
As always, that’s the message of the mob boss.
Do what he wants and you’ll be left alone.
But say no?
That’s when you get violence. Happy now?
Amanda Carpenter
Bulwark political columnist
RRB thinks all that video on Jan 6 will prove to be a hoax?
No, he doesn't really think that.
He's just toadying for Trump like all the rest.
Biden’s Year of Hoping Dangerously
January 3, 2022 at 10:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments
Susan Glasser:
“But the national mood is sour, and understandably so.
Sanity, competence, and civility
have not exactly returned to Washington;
normalcy is not just around the corner.
"Biden, it is now clear,
promised what he couldn’t deliver
in a nation divided against itself.
He trafficked in hope
that was arguably as misleading in its own way as Trump’s lies.
More than four hundred thousand Americans have died of covid since Trump left office—many of them because they refused to get a free, lifesaving vaccine.”
“More than two-thirds of Republicans to this day refuse to accept that Biden is the legitimately elected President,
preferring Trump’s Big Lie to the uncomfortable truth of his defeat.
"There is no restoration possible in such a country.”
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NO. I DISAGREE. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT.
Restoration will come as millions of decent Americans continue to reject the big lie and return our nation to truthfuless and normalcy and progress.
Pjmedia is the first crazy mothrf***r websites, and nobody else believes it.
Wow, such an angry James.
Anyone got a link to Biden's "free" Covid tests he was going to distribute come January ?
Anyone gotta a link to where fucked up lost his brain????????? Next to the goat fucker, this guy is nothing but a loser!!!!!
"Decent, honest teller of truth" seems more hopefful than angry to me.
Like trump.....all these assholes are inspired by money!!!!!!! Sad the country has devolved to this type of groups who can only think of wealth!!!!! Come to think of it....that is the MO of the GOP white Boyz. !!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Drew Harwell
Mon, January 3, 2022, 8:04 AM
The far-right firebrands and conspiracy theorists of the pro-Trump internet have a new enemy: each other.
QAnon devotees are livid at their former hero Michael Flynn for accurately calling their jumbled credo "total nonsense." Donald Trump superfans have voiced a sense of betrayal because the former president, booed for getting a coronavirus immunization booster, has become a "vaccine salesman." And attorney Lin Wood seems mad at pretty much everyone, including former allies on the scattered "elite strike-force team" investigating nonexistent mass voter fraud.
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After months of failing to disprove the reality of Trump's 2020 presidential election loss, some of the internet's most popular right-wing provocateurs are grappling with the pressures of restless audiences, saturated markets, ongoing investigations and millions of dollars in legal bills.
The result is a chaotic melodrama, playing out via secretly recorded phone calls, personal attacks in podcasts, and a seemingly endless stream of posts on Twitter, Gab and Telegram calling their rivals Satanists, communists, pedophiles or "pay-triots" - money-grubbing grifters exploiting the cause
The infighting reflects the diminishing financial rewards for the merchants of right-wing disinformation, whose battles center not on policy or doctrine but on the treasures of online fame: viewer donations and subscriptions; paid appearances at rallies and conferences; and crowds of followers to buy their books and merchandise.
But it also reflects a broader confusion in the year since QAnon's faceless nonsense-peddler, Q, went mysteriously silent
Omicron Wave Could Derail Votes In Congress
January 3, 2022 at 11:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
Politico: “We have to wonder with the Omicron variant of Covid surging — and such tight margins in both chambers — whether Capitol Hill’s operations can continue uninterrupted during this latest wave.”
MORE IMPORTANT:
Schumer Calls for Vote on Changing Senate Rules
January 3, 2022 at 11:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) told colleagues Monday that the chamber would vote no later than the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on changing Senate rules if Republicans continue to block voting-rights legislation,” the Washington Post reports.
“The announcement of the planned action by Jan. 17 represented Schumer’s strongest endorsement yet of trying to muscle through legislation that has been stymied because of Senate rules requiring a 60-vote threshold.”
"normalcy"
Define it in your own words.
Janes, when exactly did you become a coward ?
"Markit manufacturing PMI Dec. ⬇️57.7"
Down , again.
US Construction spending failed to meet expectations, again.
Maybe if HD sourced US products instead of China......that number may change!!!!!
The latest claim is that Trump had criminally “obstructed an official proceeding of Congress” by encouraging his supporters to “Stop the Steal.” This is an absurd claim on several fronts.
There is no evidence he had advance knowledge of the riot or planned it in any way. As noted, the particular proceeding of Congress in question was the only hope Trump had of remaining in office beyond Jan. 20, 2021.
Moreover, the argument that Trump “allowed” the riot to take place because he did not send National Guard troops to intervene is wrong on both the facts and the logic of the case. As I showed in my last column, Trump did in fact request 10,000 National Guard troops to be deployed, but his request was ignored by the Pentagon, the speaker of the House, the Capitol Police and the mayor of Washington, D.C. Even more importantly, if Trump had used the power of the presidency to order a military presence at the Capitol, then the Democrats would have gotten exactly what they wanted — the appearance of a coup ordered by a reckless, out-of-control authoritarian who was trying to bend Congress to his will. In other words, Trump could not win that day no matter what he did. The violence made victory impossible.
But to argue, as Liz Cheney and Nancy Pelosi do, that Trump didn’t have a right to contest the election is to replace the rule of law with the rule of intimidation. The Democrats and their partners in the media have used all their assembled might to coerce Trump and his allies into silence. His only crime is that he won’t shut up about the election being stolen. Nor for that matter is he the only one who thinks that the election was fraudulent. Millions of us independently reached the same conclusion. If any of those supporters had turned to violence at the Capitol, they should be appropriately tried, convicted and punished for their misdeeds, but that’s not on Trump any more than it is on the rest of us who encouraged our fellow citizens to work to prevent the installation of Joe Biden as president as long as doubts persisted about his legitimacy.
But the Jan. 6 committee and its supporters don’t care about logic or facts. They trotted out text messages from Trump supporters condemning the violence and said that meant Trump himself must have supported the violence. They showed messages that indicated Trump had a strategy to try to prove to Congress and then to the Supreme Court that his rights had been violated, and they said that proved “the Big Coup.”
Goodness, they really didn’t need to wait this long if that’s all it takes to prove a coup! They could have just read Trump’s speech from the morning of Jan. 6. He never hid the fact that he thought he had been cheated out of victory, nor did he ever pretend he would go gentle into that good night the way Democrats hoped he would. But they already knew all that. In fact, they impeached him over the same speech and failed to convict him. If they tried to convict him on the same charges again, under any guise, they would have violated the intent of the Constitution’s protection against double jeopardy. Not that they care.
One last point: In general, the liberal elites appear to be incapable of recognizing that every argument has two sides. They honestly believe that whatever the Democratic leadership says is true, and whatever Donald Trump or his supporters say is false. Although this condition existed prior to the 2020 election, it was exaggerated afterwards to the point where we no longer have the expectation of honest debate. And that, contrary to the claims of politicians like Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney, is the real danger to democracy.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/03/the_big_lie_and_the_elastic_truth_how_to_invent_a_coup_146973.html
By Na Zhao on December 1, 2021 • (0) NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data shows that total private residential construction spending stood at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $774.9 billion, down 0.5% from the upwardly revised September estimates. Total private residential construction spending was 16.7% higher than a year ago.
Gee goat fucker......spending up massively year over year and you emphasize the bad like the fucking trump slurping asshole you are!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
The latest claim is that Trump had criminally “obstructed an official proceeding of Congress” by encouraging his supporters to “Stop the Steal.” This is an absurd claim on several fronts
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! ANOTHER FUCKING STUPID OPINION EMBRACE BY THE DUMB FUCK RAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
You won't read it because they are not traitors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/trumpworld-jan-6-526291
A real economist says that kputz is a fucking idiot
Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022 | 2 a.m.
This is probably a minority position, but I feel confident in saying that 2022 will be a very good year for the economy. We are looking at a situation where we have low unemployment, falling inflation and rising real wages. It is likely to be the best economy we have seen in many decades.
In recent weeks, inflation has been front and center in people’s minds as the media have given us endless stories about higher prices for gasoline, milk and other items. Many have been convinced that inflation will only get higher, outstripping wages and leaving most workers worse off. This is not going to be the case.
We now see inflation driven by supply chain problems associated with reopening. This is demonstrated by the fact that we see big jumps in inflation almost everywhere. The United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and many other countries have all seen a rise in prices similar to what we see in the United States.
The reason this matters is because we will get through these supply chain problems. When we do, inflation will slow, and in many cases, be reversed.
We are already seeing this in some cases. The price of gasoline has risen by almost 50% over the past year. This was the result of a surge in oil prices following a pandemic plunge. Oil producers who had shut down in the pandemic were surprised by the economy’s rapid growth. They are now catching up, and the world price of oil has fallen by 20% from its November peaks. Gas prices will soon follow oil prices down.
There is a similar story with cars. New- and used-car prices have soared primarily because a worldwide shortage of semiconductors forced auto manufacturers to cut back production. Several manufacturers are back up to capacity now, and the others are likely to be soon. This means the price hikes of 2021 will be largely reversed in 2022.
With inflation coming down rapidly, workers’ pay will go further. And, many workers should be in a position in 2022 to secure pay increases well in excess of inflation. The 4.2% unemployment rate reported for November is already low by historical standards, but it will get still lower in 2022. We are likely to see an unemployment rate close to 3.5% by the middle of the year, putting us at a 50-year low.
Low unemployment primarily benefits the most disadvantaged workers. Black and Hispanic workers, workers with less education, and people with criminal records get opportunities in a tight labor market that they would not typically see.
We are also likely to see mortgage interest rates remain low. This is good news for both home buyers and those who have not yet refinanced a mortgage.
Low mortgage interest rates should also help fuel the sort of relocation process that started during the pandemic with increased opportunities for people to work from home. With many employers now making work-from-home options permanent, people are moving from high-priced cities like New York and San Francisco to lower-priced towns and cities. This process will continue and pick up speed in 2022.
A huge wild card in any forecast for the economy for 2022 is the path of the pandemic. This is obviously uncertain, but there are some grounds for optimism, even as we see cases and deaths skyrocket in this holiday season. Vaccination rates continue to rise, and the evidence shows that fully vaccinated people are largely protected from serious illness or death.
The other factor that could potentially be very good news is the spread of the omicron variant. We know that omicron is far more transmissible than delta or other COVID-19 variants. But, the evidence to date indicates that it is considerably less severe. Even though cases have skyrocketed in South Africa, the first country where omicron was identified, there has been no corresponding increase in hospitalizations and deaths. It’s still early, and more data may give us a different picture. However, from what we see to date, if omicron becomes the dominant variant, we may have much less to fear from the pandemic.
That’s my story for 2022. It’s mostly good, but some very big uncertainties are coming from the pandemic.
Dean Baker is an economist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/01/the-good-news-in-2022-will-be-the-economy/
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/01/the-good-news-in-2022-will-be-the-economy/
Normalcy
residential construction?
Odd, you can't read or write.
My factual numbers are on "Construction " , your failures are noted.
Bye stupid troll.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You won't read it because they are not traitors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/trumpworld-jan-6-526291
Cute op/ed alky.
Not one of those profiled addresses the legality of the situation.
It's all hyperbole by a cast of characters all seemingly afflicted by 'fainting couch swooning' at about the same time.
Be still my heart. LOL.
I'm sure you were wowed by it, and it might have even driven you to breathlessly call your "girlfriend" on her 1-900 number and talk about it for hours at $0.99/minute, or until you hit your credit card limit and had to call Char-Lee the Tran-nee for $$$.
It's readily apparent that you have no interest in an objective search for the legal facts on this matter because when viewed in only those stark terms, this Jan.6 clownshow has all the veracity of the Russia hoax.
In other words... NONE.
Democrats have reached STASI-level intimidation tactics on this issue, which speaks directly to just how weak their "case" actually is.
I read your link, Alky.
It is an Opinion piece, not your opinion of course .
Not a hard call, inflation will be less then , 2021's 6.8%.
No shit.
Employment will increase, yep, as government payouts stop and couch potatoes 're populate their old vacant jobs.
You mean opinion pieces posted by others are not valid.....like rat and his guano????????BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Not one of those profiled addresses the legality of the situation.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Our Ag school drop out asshole blowing smoke out his ass again!!!!!!!
Roger , care to debate the economy?
Trump has endorsed him for the same reasons he wants to do if he is elected as the First Dictator in America history.
And if he wins, he will not be the last Dictator of the United States of America.
Trump supporters are rewriting election laws to favor the Republican's party, changing school textbooks, curbing press freedoms, overhauling the country’s Constitution and changing the composition of the judiciary.
Former President Donald J. Trump endorsed Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, on Monday, formally pledging his “complete support” to a far-right foreign leader who has touted turning Hungary into an “illiberal democracy.”
Mr. Orban and his party have steadily consolidated power in Hungary by weakening the country’s independent and democratic institutions —rewriting election laws to favor his Fidesz party, changing school textbooks, curbing press freedoms, overhauling the country’s Constitution and changing the composition of the judiciary.
Alma materSwarthmore College (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
University of Michigan (PhD)
Compared to a goat fucking idiot
New York Attorney General Subpoenas Ivanka and Don Jr.
January 3, 2022 at 11:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard 110 Comments
New York Attorney General Leticia James subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr for testimony as part of civil investigation into Trump Organization’s finances, CNN reports.
ABC News reports the Trump children are planning to “file motions to quash the subpoenas.”
WHY? SOMETHING TO HIDE?
The Pandemic Is Reducing Faith In Political Insititutions
January 3, 2022 at 12:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments
Don Moynihan:
“The longer the pandemic goes on, the more trust will decline in institutions that have to make visible, salient decisions amidst changing circumstances, information and trade-offs while serving a population with wildly varying preferences.”
“This somewhat depressing insight may or may not seem obvious to you, but it wasn’t apparent to me until recently. The emergence of Omicron, which will propel us into a third year of the pandemic, and growing liberal dissatisfaction with the Biden administration helped crystalize this realization. My thinking on this is based on fitting what we know about certain biases (motivated reasoning, negativity bias, hindsight bias) on the dynamics and longevity of the pandemic.”
Larry Hogan Stumps for Trump’s Enemy List
January 3, 2022 at 12:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments
“When Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler — a Trump impeachment backer whom the former president is aggressively targeting for defeat in 2022 — threw a fundraiser last month, she was accompanied by a fellow Republican who’d trekked from the other side of the country: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan,” Politico reports.
“The foray was part of a broader effort Hogan is launching to bolster the ever-growing list of Republicans former President Donald Trump is trying to oust in this year’s midterm elections. Hogan has hosted fundraisers for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and he is looking at helping others, including Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, another impeachment supporter facing a Trump-endorsed Republican challenger.”
The Smoking Gun In Trump’s Attempted Coup
January 3, 2022 at 12:50 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
Will Bunch:
“While America was preoccupied last week with getting home from the holidays or lining up around the block for COVID-19 testing, there was a bombshell development in the investigation to learn just how far Donald Trump was prepared to go in turning the Capitol Hill chaos of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection into a coup to end U.S. democracy.
“Thanks to a somewhat surprising source — the disgraced former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, a Team Trump insider — we now know the name of a document with the potential to become a ‘smoking gun.’ Just its title suggests Trump was planning an unprecedented abuse of presidential power — to use the Big Lie of nonexistent 2020 election fraud to undo the results of a free and fair vote.”
A GAME CHANGER?
How Fox News Distorts the Reality of January 6
January 3, 2022 at 12:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
A new Washington Post/University of Maryland poll finds that Republicans who watch Fox News are 15 points more likely to say the January 6 rioters at the U.S. Capitol were “mostly peaceful,” while Republicans who don’t watch Fox News were 16 points more likely to say the rioters were “mostly violent.”
Congress Warned of Explosive Omicron Spread
January 3, 2022 at 1:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
“The Capitol’s attending physician on Monday urged congressional offices to shift towards remote work due to a skyrocketing coronavirus positivity rate among staff,” Axios reports.
WOW.
Most Americans Think U.S. Democracy at Risk
January 3, 2022 at 1:33 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds 64% of Americans say they think American democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.”
________
WHEN A VAST PERCENTAGE BELIEVE A LIE NO MATTER WHAT THE TRUTH IS, DEMOCRACY CAN FAIL. IT DID WITH HITLER.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Alma materSwarthmore College (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
University of Michigan (PhD)
You have an awfully high opinion of the credentials of others alky.
Obviously to compensate for the fact that you don't possess the intellect to have a conversation regarding the economy.
And Dean Baker is the same Keynesian you've been parroting for years.
https://www.cepr.net/
Anyone touting "economic fairness" or economic justice" is merely someone so fucking arrogant they think they possess the knowledge to pick winners and losers in our economy. I don't care how many degrees one has; no one has the knowledge required to pull that off, the obvious morality of it notwithstanding.
This is probably a minority position, but I feel very confident in saying that 2022 will be a very good year for the economy. We are looking at a situation where we have low unemployment, falling inflation, and rising real wages. It is likely to be the best economy we have seen in many decades.
Let's pick apart this very first paragraph:
low unemployment
This tends to happen when you put tens of millions out of work, and you PAY THEM to STAY OUT. Permanently driving the employment participation rate DOWN is how you can achieve this metric, as false and as unrealistic as it might be.
falling inflation
Flatly FALSE. BY every objective measure inflation is RISING. Even the Federal Reserve has admitted as much and is poised for MULTIPLE interest rate hikes in 2022.
rising real wages
Also flatly FALSE. While rising wages are a result of obvious wage INFLATION, no one but a fool or a liar suggests that rising wages are anywhere close to keeping up with inflation.
Baker goes straight to the supply chain to explain away inflation, completely ignoring the real elephant in the room - Trillion$ of excess $$$$$$$$$$ swirling around the economy, with an imbecile in the White House convinced that ADDING to those TRILLION$ is a smart move. A freshman Econ 101 student knows this to be false, while Baker has a PhD. So going back to my earlier comment about a fool or a liar, I'll tag Baker as a LIAR since I believe he's wrong due to malice, not ignorance.
So anyway, why DON'T you take your best shot at debating modern day economics in your own words, since the words you steal are so easily provable as FALSE.
You have zero knowledge about economics. All you have are right wing nutcase websites and you don't understand Keynesian economics
Please explain, in your own words what you *think* " Keynesian economics" is?
Tick tock
Run Roger you are in a corner of your own doing.
Rat...
As I stated before... I took multiple economic classes in college, as part of my Business minor. I have also closely followed economics as far as I can remember back.
What I do not recall, ever, was anyone suggesting that you can control inflation by opening up ports more hours...
which suddenly ever economist left of center believes is the key.
Democrats Press Manchin and Sinema on Filibuster
January 3, 2022 at 2:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 90 Comments
Politico:
“A small group of Senate Democrats have met quietly with Manchin to gauge his openness to changing Senate rules. While an outright elimination is off the table, Democrats are trying to see whether Manchin and Sinema are open to other proposals, like bringing back the talking filibuster.
“Prior to leaving for a two-week recess in December, Democrats held several caucus discussions on the matter.”
THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO DEAL WITH MANCHIN AND SINEMA CORRECTLY.
I have a Masters in economics from KU.
Roger has high school debate on a stage.
James help your brother Roger out of his corner.
Please explain, in your own words what you *think* " Keynesian economics" is?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You have zero knowledge about economics. All you have are right wing nutcase websites and you don't understand Keynesian economics
Well alky, I just took apart Dean Baker's op/ed in MY OWN WORDS.
Show us IN YOUR OWN WORDS were I am wrong.
Go for it sport.
And I will defer to Scott and Kansas Dem to critique my analysis of Baker's musings, as they do have me beat in the area of formal economics education.
Blogger C.H. Truth said...
Rat...
As I stated before... I took multiple economic classes in college, as part of my Business minor. I have also closely followed economics as far as I can remember back.
What I do not recall, ever, was anyone suggesting that you can control inflation by opening up ports more hours...
which suddenly ever economist left of center believes is the key.
You've got me beat. All I did was grow up in a family business, running it for the last five years of it's existence and ultimately successfully liquidating it to give my folks a very comfortable nest egg for their golden years. And then I've spent 35 years (and counting) working for Fortune 500 Corps in the tech sector in various sales, marketing, and product development roles.
So what the fuck do I know over a geriatric nail bender locked down in a nursing home with the imaginary 5th Beatle and jerking off to old centerfolds?
RRB January 3, 2022 at 12:53 PM.
Your post in your own words is spot on and economically correct.
The thought expressed by Roger that we will see lower taxes in 2022 is nonsense.
Where have the Biden Team or His Congress proposed middle income Tax Cuts?
In case anyone missed the Fantasy update by Roger.
He is dating two hot woman.
He is marrying one in July, 2022.
Moving to Bonney Lake, Washington .
What I do not recall, ever, was anyone suggesting that you can control inflation by opening up ports more hours...
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! And I don't recall ever having the specific inflationary pressures on the economy as this particular time!!!!!!! Your brilliant background of a few economic courses in college make you about as able as rat to counter others who have more ability than you!!!!! Sorry sport, your economic sense is about as shitty as your law opinions;;;!!!!!!!!
by: MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Posted: Dec 1, 2021 / 12:56 PM MST / Updated: Dec 1, 2021 / 03:23 PM MST
FILE – A container ship is docked at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach in Calif., Oct. 1, 2021. Many parts of the country were hit by supply chain disruptions and labor shortages in November, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. In a survey of business conditions around the country, the Fed’s 12 regional banks found that the economy continued to grow at a modest-to-moderate pace, and the outlook for future growth remains positive. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)
WASHINGTON — Many parts of the country were hit by supply chain disruptions and labor shortages in November, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday.
In a survey of business conditions around the country, the Fed’s 12 regional banks found that the economy continued to grow at a modest-to-moderate pace, and the outlook for future growth remains positive.
But some of the Fed’s some business contacts expressed uncertainty about when the problems presented by supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages might begin to ease.
Dennis your piece supported CHT , statement.
What I do not recall, ever, was anyone suggesting that you can control inflation by opening up ports more hours...
Why are you the dumbest fuck in Kansas?????
Dennis your piece supported CHT , statement.
The article is saying port bottle necks are driving inflation.....get them flowing and open again and you can control inflation.....You keep claiming you have an education and stupidity like the above proves you do not!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
If anyone missed the goat fuckers pathetic life.....he claims to be the smartest economist since Keynes!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! He can't even find a fucking job, can't afford to heat his shack and he dictates how all should live!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Don't whose stupid. Whose pathetic. But a wealthy rich man can't be any of that or he wouldn't be able to keep is his money.
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