I would argue that this strengthens his campaign.

Imagining you saying this while wearing a big “Pokemon Go To The Polls” T-shirt

Clown governor getting the standard Trump pimp slap.

This man is never going to be president if Donald Trump can bully him so easily

How did that guy ruin the economy…

He executed an enormous wealth transfer from the general public to a handful of political insiders. Those insiders them rigged the election in his favor.

Some people will tell you this “ruined” the Argentinian economy, the folks in the know recognize that the Free Market is operating exactly how it should.

Crazy to see people clap like seals when Maduro got got, while they seem utterly blase over this corrupt clown clinging to power.

I’m a Millenial and use lol and lmao

My Greatest Generation grandmother also used them, particularly in her waning years

The real work of the legislature has been outsourced to the private sector

29-Year-Old Protest Leader Found Dead in Burning Car in St. Louis

On November 22, 2014, Tamir E. Rice, a twelve year old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white patrolman with the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP).

Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop.

Vanishingly few people are allowed to remember this. I wonder if Renee Good will also fall down the mental rabbit hole.

lmao

This seems to be the bottom of every “America Good, China Bad” argument.

Just 😂🤣🇺🇸😹. It’s Obvious, Idiot. Just Think Logically.

Its not that Chinese tech is any more secure fundamentally

Is it? Is this worth interrogating, even slightly? Is there any actual difference between industrial models or design philosophies?

No. Lolz. Roflcopter.

An anti-colonial Europe.

I never thought the Leopard would eat my face!

I gotta ask who the Abe Lincoln and the Jefferson Davis are supposed to be in this American Civil War. Because from where I’m sitting, its just forty flavors of Nathan Bedford Forrest.

What would be nice is an impeachment of Mike Johnson.

Mike Johnson holds the job precisely because he sucks at it. He’s a threat to nobody. He does what he’s told. He isn’t even good at taking bribes - estimated to be the poorest House Speaker in the last century. Republicans aren’t going to impeach him precisely because he’d be such a bitch to replace.

What’s more disturbing is a future House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, a man who is far more in touch with the K-Street lobbyists and J-Street warmongers. Just like in 2019, we’re going to see conservative Democrats rubber stamp the Trump neoconservative agenda. And that’s going to set the stage for a frightening 2028 election, when fascists start coming out of the woodwork in both major parties.

Miller could be gone tomorrow and I guarantee there’s a line out the door of like-minded fascists eager to take his place. The entire Trump admin is crawling with these guys. State governments in places like Texas and Missouri and Florida and Utah are crawling with these guys. City governments are crawling with them.

Miller isn’t some kind of Svengali who has tricked the American bureaucracy into behaving this way. He’s as much a product of our fascist socio-economic system as Liz Cheney and Jim Justice and Rudy Giuliani.

But a string of impeachments would prove Congress has some powers left.

I think its fair to say that so long as Republicans control the majority, they’ll be subservient to the Trump admin. But Dems throwing wrenches in the gears by holding up business with impeachment votes would have a two-fold effect of gumming up the horrible business of Congress and spotlighting particularly vile members of the Trump Admin.

It’s a throw back to 2014 and the BLM protests.

Easy to forget the time two journalists working for the WaPo were covering a protest in Ferguson, shooting footage from the inside of a McDonalds. The police saw the cameras and sent in officers in full riot gear to tackle the reporters and arrest them. No reason for it save that these were liberal reports filming a gestapo raid on civil rights marchers.

This was under Obama in a city with a Democratic Mayor that was fully in the thrall of a police-instigated terror campaign. The events surrounding Ferguson opened up a whole pocket of inquiry into why this branch off of the Greater St. Louis area with an enormous minority population was operating as some kind of colonized satrap of St. Louis proper - no control of their own police, no control of their own budget, an absurd rate of citations and arrests per capita, abysmal voter turnout in large part thanks to felony disenfranchisement, bad education, poor civil maintenance, and endemic inter-generational poverty.

If you want to talk about the state of American Democracy, you have to start talking about Ferguson, MO and how it is increasingly the benchmark for how civil society operates in this country.

You also have to start talking about The Network State and the Silicon Valley vision for American anarcho-capitalism.

Americans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”.

I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips.

I guess time is a flat circle

you get into a hyperinflation situation, right?

You need a sharp drop in available commodities, services, and investments to achieve hyperinflation. It’s a phenomenon mostly confined to countries trapped under sanctions or trading in very low volume circulation currency.

The US petrodollar balances supply of money against supply of oil (and other major benchmarks - US real estate, US financial debts, etc). This guarantees a strong global demand for dollars, even (perhaps especially, with respect to debt) during downturns.

And Trump and co have been doing a lot to destroy the underlying productivity of the us economy over the last year.

He’s been undermining the global trade economy. But it’s a big rock and even the President only has a small hammer.

What has historically triggered big contractions in the US economy has been large scale debt defaults - '20 COVID induced oil price shock, '14 government shutdown, '08 Lehman/AIG massive fraud, '01 Enron/Worldcomm fraud, '87 S&L fraud + oil price shock, etc - all resulted in industry wide credit failures on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars.

What rapidly ended these rescissions was direct intervention by the federal reserve, flooding the financial sector with money and devaluing all that bad debt.

Trump’s a dummy, but he knows this One Neat Trick.

I love how Trump has exactly one note to play and he just wails on it at every opportunity

Quite a few. But, just for starters, you’d need the Federal Reserve to turn off the unlimited money spigot.

American storm troopers are going to be marching through Copanhagen and all in going to see on my social media will be “Small hands Cheeto sucks Putin dick”

Mr. Carney, welcome to the Global South