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hcr tonight
>> When he left office just a month ago, Biden said he was leaving the Trump administration with a “strong hand to play” in foreign policy, ... “an America with more friends and stronger alliances, whose adversaries are weaker and…
Insane. Ya could say the buffoons running this administration have taken leave of their senses, but it's highly doubtful they ever had any sense in the first place.
Great last lines:
And at least so far, discussion of reducing or eliminating FDIC insurance has been kept to a low rumble. Let’s hope it doesn’t get any louder. To paraphrase Dorothy Parker (possibly), it’s an idea that is not to be thrown aside li…
@Crash: "Also, the newfangled yardstick that he and his team designed gives a much better, more accurate look at the Big Picture."
I agree that the measures he takes aim at can for sure be critiqued (like I said about U-3), and that he's right that…
Good piece, @Mark and @Old_Joe, with plenty to think about.
The figure I zeroed in on first is the unemployment rate, and I agree 100% that U-3 isn't representative of what's going on. But U-6 has several similarities with what that group did, and…
Not sure about the rest of Huntsville, but U. of A. Huntsville is probably the leading public university hotbed of GHG climate warming denial. John Christy and Roy Spencer are the wackiest faculty of that ilk. Christy used to be the go-to skeptic an…
@david: Simple point I didn't manage to make late last night: the reinvestments add to your cost basis, therefore the capital gain showing will drop/capital loss increase. Like Yogi says, all that sets up a good tax loss opportunity if you need/want…
@howaya: No thanks. I can experience that entrenched mindset anytime I want to by heading over to a certain household of the extended family, where I'd be treated to Fox blaring every second they're awake and a litany of the latest conspiracy theori…
Of course I've made mistakes and continue to make them. I'm glad you admitted it; what I'm pointing out is that the ones you made, with so much gusto, were incredibly easy to have avoided. Just check reliable sources, fer christsake.
Everything depends on what Roberts and Barrett do when these cases start reaching the SC. They voted not to stop/delay Trump's sentencing in the NY case, so they may not be hopelessly MAGAtized. But I have a hard time imagining they won't cave to th…
So there you are. I was wrong. It wasn't a lie, it was an error. I thought I was right when I wrote it. So have fun with it. Ha-ha.
I just hope you learned something. IMHO, reckless disregard for the truth is equivalent to lying, and that's what …
There goes VI-2, with the right wing's (and the media's) FALSE EQUIVALENCE disease. Fox and OAN made up stories about the Floyd murder protests right and left. Minneapolis and Portland were almost entirely peaceful protests with some deadbeat looter…
It's hilarious seeing a superdunce like hondo call Biden and Harris dunces. Their administration produced the best economic recovery from the pandemic in the entire world. And calling Dump and Musk "honest" is a howler. How ignorant and out of touch…
Those incidents, if they really occurred, were stupid and inappropriate. However, MAGAts are much worse, committing actual violence like the assaults on Capitol police on January 6, 2021; the attempted kidnapping and possibly murder of the governor …
Hondo needs to see a psychiatrist, stat. That and throw out the John Birch Society tracts. Seem to be several loose screws that need attention. Plus, you'd think he'd try to be a little more cautious after being caught out for lying about the electi…
I'm not at all sure that there's anything that I can take to make the US look normal right now.
If you come up with anything that works, let me know. So far even kitten videos and Linda Ronstadt concert numbers haven't helped much.
I see Elon quoted as saying how outrageous it is that recipients get to spend 60% of a grant on IDCs. Somebody needs to tell him how those grants work.
If say a university has an agreement for a 60% IDC rate (all of those agreements are negotiated…
Good for you, Lynn. Volunteerism makes the nonprofit world go round, and it's sorely needed because, even with mostly sane government, public goods are seriously underfunded. Current madness will make that even more indispensable.
I volunteer 3-4 d…
NPR's Here and Now did an interview with a WaPo reporter based in Mexico City today. Seems Mexico already has 15,000 troops stationed along the U.S. border.
The systematic destruction of a democratic government is something we all need to watch out for as in the case of today’s Hungary.
Just fyi, my point was that the Orban takeover of Hungary has been a model for what the lunatic right is doing right…
I think they did this replacement because Politico is well respected and and HuffPost is like the right-wing opinion equivalent to left-wing opinion of FOX.
That makes sense, @Mona.
We better pray that there is not another round of pandemic take place soon. This administration is even more incompetent than his previous one. He nearly died from COVID-19 if it was not for the anti-viral drugs he was given, not bleach.
Agreed, …
This should be anti-music to Magat ears, from a Huffpo article: MX tariffs may increase immigration pressure.
Another possible side effect of tariffs, the authors wrote, would be closure of factories built on the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico borde…
HuffPo replacing Politico? Do they have a clue what HuffPo is about? Apparently not, unless Huff has agreed to a right turn for the access. Time will tell, I guess.
In a few weeks, when the crash is well out of the news, the Maga-Maggots will cite a new report that the crew consisted of three Haitian transgender transvestites distracted by thoughts of a feast of poodle steak and fried kitten that evening. (They…
"He (Trump) carried every state." That is a lie, but then that's the MAGAt playbook for ya.
Hey Andy, your pants are on fire.
Your lie is one of the most easily disprovable lies in the history of lies. How do you think Harris got 226 EC votes if sh…
"He (Trump) carried every state." That is a lie, but then that's the MAGAt playbook for ya.
"The American people saved the US from being turned into a communist nation...". Um, did they? Let's circle back to that in the next few years.
Remin…
Is there an effort underway to eliminate many agencies and privatize them? Turn over large parts of the government to business interests? I'm getting that feeling. Make them fail so they can say let private industry runs these functions. I'll g…
Good thinking on the term premium and duration. The reasoning is sound for sticking to shorter duration, as several posters here, including this one, are doing.
