George Santos is expelled from the House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote because of alleged falsification of records. pic.twitter.com/hwTuYcwMuj
How deceptive and disgusting. When you have to be deceptive you should realize you are in the wrong. Hopefully, whoever did it will come to realize the truth one day.
This has at least a couple good reasons to not support the death penalty, even if as a Christian you believe it to be sanctioned by the Bible. Many years ago, Marvin Olasky had an editorial in World in which he made some of the same points. The main issue raised is that the death penalty is not equally applied. Black people and the poor are much more likely to receive the death penalty than white people and the more well-off who can afford a good attorney.
One of the points that struck me was that black murderers are not only much more likely to be condemned to death than white murderers, but that they are most likely to be condemned to death when their victim was white.
(Note: This does not mean that juries are inherently racist, but that there is a subconscious bias, even if mild, that most of us are not aware of. It is not only white people who have this subconscious bias, but all races have it against another race. It’s part of the sin nature.)
A new book is coming out, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory” by Tim Alberta
~ What (Alberta) finds … is that under the veneer of Christian modesty simmers an explosive rage … No wonder the popular image of evangelicalism, according to one disillusioned preacher, has devolved into “Mister Rogers with a blowtorch.”
… Alberta begins with his very personal connection to his subject. He is “a believer in Jesus Christ,” he writes, “the son of an evangelical minister, raised in a conservative church in a conservative community,” a suburb of Detroit. …
… In the summer of 2019 … his father died suddenly of a heart attack. At Cornerstone, his father’s church, some of the congregants approached the grieving Alberta not to console him but to complain about his journalism, demanding to know if he was on “the right side.” One church elder wrote a letter to Alberta complaining about the “deep state” and accusing him of treason.
The experience was so surreal that Alberta decided to find out what had happened to his religious community. During Trump’s presidency, his father had moved farther to the right, but despite their differences their love for each other was undiminished. Alberta interviewed his father’s handpicked successor, Chris Winans, who is “not a conservative Republican” and spoke candidly about how “God’s people” have always had to contend with worldly temptations that could lead them astray: “I want to be in power, I want to have influence, I want to be prosperous, I want to have security.”
Many of Winans’s congregants left for a church down the road that preached the kind of “blood-and-soil Christian nationalism” they wanted to hear. “The church is supposed to challenge us,” Winans says. “But a lot of these folks don’t want to be challenged.”
… Political mudslinging offers a “dopamine rush.” Exaggerating threats and calling the other side evil means that whatever you do, no matter how outrageous or cruel or contrary to Scripture, can be defended as righteous. … ~
… “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” charts a transformation in evangelicalism, from a midcentury moment when white American Christians were such a dominant force in the country that many could “afford to forget politics” to a time when many more feel, as one prominent pastor puts it, “under siege.”
Alberta suggests that this panic has less to do with any existential threat to American Christianity than a rattled presumption of privilege. “Humility doesn’t come easy to the American evangelical,” he writes. “We are an immodest and excessively indulged people.” ~
PS – The above material originally was from a piece/review in the NYT — dnyuz tends to ‘borrow’ liberally, apparently, from other journalistic sources, so my apologies for that specific link to them. -dj
Yet another reason why The Atlantic sucks, and real conservatives don’t bother with the trash they peddle. I expect idiocy from CNN, and The Atlantic, and they rarely disappoint.
2 years ago today, the media told us inflation was actually a good thing.
Everyone is giving the Atlantic a hard time for blaming consumers for inflation but the truth of the matter is that I was the one who printed $7 trillion dollars over the last few years, so inflation actually was my fault.
This is a reflection of the ruling zeitgeist prior to the French Revolution. If you were ever confused by “let them eat cake” then read this article. These ppl live in a wholly constructed false reality in which they are responsible for nothing bad. https://t.co/v2QmL8xyir
“If you would just stop eating, driving your car and heating your home, we might not have to work so hard to convince people Joe Biden is a good president”
– $15 million flowed to the Biden family from countries like Russia and China – 22 times President Biden talked to his son’s business associates – 16 times President Biden lied about it to the American people – And we have checks made out to… pic.twitter.com/WcUs4a7Ji7
– $15 million flowed to the Biden family from countries like Russia and China
– 22 times President Biden talked to his son’s business associates
– 16 times President Biden lied about it to the American people
– And we have checks made out to President Biden directly
We are following the facts.”
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Funny though, they weren’t this meticulous about Santos. Didn’t even bother with a trial before voting to remove. Only some pigs get due process from the #USELESS GOP.
Yet, you expel a Republican while allowing this admin, to run amuck, commit crimes, keep our borders open while endangering Americans and lie at every turn. Republican Party is useless. https://t.co/usxLT7Eu6C
In a functioning judicial system this should be enough to free every J6 protestor who has been prosecuted and is in jail right now. The committee needs to be investigated now as it is becoming more and more apparent that this was a conspiracy. Do Republicans have the stones to do…
“In a functioning judicial system this should be enough to free every J6 protestor who has been prosecuted and is in jail right now. The committee needs to be investigated now as it is becoming more and more apparent that this was a conspiracy. Do Republicans have the stones to do it?”
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Nope. And no one will be held accountable either.
Our government has zero integrity. Everyone on this committee should be expelled and prosecuted for malfeasance, dereliction of duty, and destruction of public property. https://t.co/0ChRoYXmsF
When this is the voice of reason, we have a huge problem.
Fetterman: "We have a colleague in the Senate that's actually done much more sinister kinds of things. He needs to go. If you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow Menendez to remain in the Senate? Menendez is really a Senator for Egypt, not New Jersey." pic.twitter.com/OdWTznfnmL
Ron DeSantis gave Gavin Newsom 'credit' for some of the 'freedoms' Californians enjoy, and it was both hilarious and epic. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/cOwQbcLeUc
They announce this week that Ben Carson is Trump’s front runner for VP, he’s the next attacked by the Biden DoJ.
But no mean tweets, right?
BREAKING REPORT: Biden’s Department Of Justice just fined a Christian Tennessee trucking company $700,000 for asking workers to identify their legal status..
JOE'S AMERICA..
Covenant Transport Inc. and Transport Management Services LLC have agreed to a FINE of $700,000 in civil… pic.twitter.com/GytMR5egGd
“BREAKING REPORT: Biden’s Department Of Justice just fined a Christian Tennessee trucking company $700,000 for asking workers to identify their legal status..
JOE’S AMERICA..
Covenant Transport Inc. and Transport Management Services LLC have agreed to a FINE of $700,000 in civil penalties following a U.S. Justice Department finding that they engaged in discriminatory practices against workers who are not U.S. citizens, as announced by the agency on Monday.
From January 2020 to August 2022, these Chattanooga, Tennessee-based companies were found to have routinely asked lawful permanent residents to provide their green cards, while also demanding that non-U.S. citizens present various immigration-related documents, according to the DOJ.
This behavior is in violation of Biden’s anti-discrimination clause of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
This provision forbids employers from requesting specific or additional documents based on an employee’s citizenship, immigration status, or national origin.”
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But wait….
Woah I just found another interesting angle to this story. You know who’s on the board of directors for Covenant trucking? Dr. Ben Carson. Yes, that Ben Carson. He’s been seriously considered by Trump as a possible VP contender. Did Biden’s DOJ do this to attack @RealBenCarson? https://t.co/7MWWNtGDet
These undercover HSI/FBI agents couldn't open the doors to let J6 protesters inside the Capitol. They looked up to cameras in the hall and motioned for the doors to be opened. This was a setup. Wake up. https://t.co/ReN2RkwqY2
“All records, data, video transcripts, depositions, and Biden WH communications that were collected by the sham J6 Committee were destroyed.
$18 million of our tax dollars were spent on their investigation – And they destroyed ALL EVIDENCE!
Per Rep Dean Loudermilk, (GA) who attempted to oversee the investigation into the J6 Committee by requesting docs, testimony, and White House transcripts, states “Nothing was indexed. There was no table of contents index. Usually when you conduct this level of investigation, you use a database system and everything is digitized, indexed. We got nothing like that. We just got raw data,” he said. “So it took us a long time going through it and one thing I started realizing is we don’t have anything much at all from the Blue Team. It’s all missing.”
You cannot hire an illegal! It's against federal law! If you fail to pay payroll tax, you're sent to prison! I KNOW!!!!
Now it's okay to hire illegals? This is pure insanity, and the Democrats intentionally and willfully are allowing this to happen https://t.co/haYTH847ge
“Mister Rogers with a blow torch” – “dopamine rush”; thanks dj for giving me a new descriptive vocabulary. A few months ago, I came across something similar – an article which interviewed evangelical pastors who are afraid to preach on the beatitudes, the good Samaritan, etc.
Re: The Atlantic article about inflation. Wondering if whoever wrote those tweets bothered to read the article. People are not merely spending money on necessities, but on “luxuries” as well, even more than in the past, while also complaining about prices. (I am guilty of that, too.)
“You would think, with prices as high as they are, that Americans would have tempered their enthusiasm for shopping of late; that they would have pulled back spending on luxury items; that they would have sought out budget and basic options, bought smaller packages, fewer things.
This is not what has happened. Consumer spending rose 0.2 percent, after accounting for higher prices, in October, the most recent month for which the government has data. Online shopping jumped 7.8 percent over the Thanksgiving long weekend, more than analysts had anticipated. The sales of new cars, dishwashers, cruise vacations, jewelry—all things people tend to give up when they are watching their budget—remain strong. Consultants keep anticipating a recession precipitated by the “death of the consumer.” Thus far, the consumer is staying alive.
. . .
Real hourly earnings for workers in the tenth percentile of wage distribution went up more than 8 percent in the past three and a half years, the economists David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew found. And average wages have grown faster than average prices.
Sticker shock is real. And in surveys, people say that they are trading down because of cost pressures. But in fact they are spending more than they ever have, even after accounting for higher prices. They’re spending not just on the necessities, but on fun stuff—amusement parks, UberEats.”
We all learned back in school, I think, that if business is good, businesses are unlikely to lower prices. Prices will stay at what the market can handle.
Musk as the guardian of free speech is amusing. Want to be banned from Twitter; criticise Musk. Twitter was purchased for 44$ billion; its now worth 19$billion. One has to wonder about a societal in which a person can blow away so much money and yet still be extremely wealthy.
The Republicans claim about the Biden crime family has yet to be backed by evidence. If Johnson has proof he should produce it. Hunter Biden agreed to testify publicly but the Republicans want to keep it secret – why? The Republicans talk a good game but lack proof so do nothing. And meanwhile they are bankrupt for ideas on how to run the country.
What is a faith based trucking company? They broke rules, they got fined.
Carson, a VP candidate? Wow. If Republicans want to win, they just need to nominate Haley. With Haley, they’ll keep the House, win the Senate and the Presidency. With Trump they’ll lose the House and the rest is a coin toss.
What’s wrong with the country having a population 15% foreign born? Canada has 23% foreign born. My parents and my ex-wife are foreign born residents of Canada. My brother and his four daughters are foreign born residents of the US.
The inflation of the last two years was caused by a broken supply chain and then, later, by corporate profit taking. The inflation rate is now lower than it has been in 2 years and some economists are now debating interest rate cuts. They feel there’s room to increase the money supply which will in turn improve the economy and increase employment. Even better, wage increases are now beating inflation – the working class is trying to catch up. As the supply chains reestablish themselves and corporations are shamed into lower prices, the consumer economy keeps going.
The Atlantic features for the most part opinion articles so its no surprise that they contradict each other. And for the most part they print opinions that favor the classical liberal consensus of both parties (the Bush-Clinton nexus). Hence, an article that sees consumerism as the culprit of inflation. The obvious answer of supply chains and greed doesn’t fit the capitalist narrative.
Another take on what’s being called “doom” spending:
From Business Insider:
Shoppers are worried about the economy so they’re ‘doom spending’ to make themselves feel better
~ Americans are stressed out about their finances, and some are coping by spending more money.
More than a quarter of Americans are “doom spending” in order to manage their worries about the macroeconomy and foreign affairs, according to a report by Intuit Credit Karma, which surveyed more than 1,000 adults in November.
Some of the top concerns among respondents included inflation — the Consumer Price Index increased 3.2% year over year in October — cost-of-living increases, unaffordable housing, and not having enough money for small luxuries, or even basic necessities.
“Much like doom scrolling, we’re seeing people mindlessly shop to soothe concerns about the economy and foreign affairs, which could take a toll on their financial well being,” Courtney Alev, consumer financial advocate at Credit Karma, said in the report. The rise of mobile shopping has also made doom spending almost as easy as doomscrolling. Almost $5.3 billion in sales revenue this Black Friday came from mobile purchases.
The phenomenon is most prevalent among younger generations, with 35% of Gen Zers, and 43% of millennials admitting to doom spending. Younger generations are particularly concerned about how tough economic conditions may impact their future wages, job security, and ability to land a lucrative job, per the report.
The rise in doom spending also comes as more Americans dig into their pandemic-era savings. …
Many “real conservatives” do indeed read The Atlantic. They have a combination of articles/essays that range from quite liberal to quite conservative. Many of their pieces are very thought-provoking, even if one disagrees with a piece’s premise.
I don’t subscribe to the Atlantic but have read a number free pieces online and have been impressed with the quality. And as Kizzie says, even when you don’t agree with a piece, it’s always good to hear “the best of” the “other side” just to get out of the bubbles we’re all in nowadays. -dj
Again, about that Atlantic article, it is referring to people choosing to spend their money on luxury items, more than usual, which keeps prices high. In regard to that “Let them eat cake” quip, that is exactly what we are doing – we are choosing to eat cake and then complain about how much it costs. Then we buy more cake. There are economic consequences to how we spend or don’t spend our money.
Wandering Views 
But the skeevy, criminal bribe taking predator gets to stay…
And the treasonous lying corruptocrat who used taxpayer money to pay off a sexual abuse claim….
And the brother marrying fraud….
Weird, right?
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/28/google-maps-removed-dc-pregnancy-center-offered-planned-parenthood-instead/
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How deceptive and disgusting. When you have to be deceptive you should realize you are in the wrong. Hopefully, whoever did it will come to realize the truth one day.
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This has at least a couple good reasons to not support the death penalty, even if as a Christian you believe it to be sanctioned by the Bible. Many years ago, Marvin Olasky had an editorial in World in which he made some of the same points. The main issue raised is that the death penalty is not equally applied. Black people and the poor are much more likely to receive the death penalty than white people and the more well-off who can afford a good attorney.
One of the points that struck me was that black murderers are not only much more likely to be condemned to death than white murderers, but that they are most likely to be condemned to death when their victim was white.
(Note: This does not mean that juries are inherently racist, but that there is a subconscious bias, even if mild, that most of us are not aware of. It is not only white people who have this subconscious bias, but all races have it against another race. It’s part of the sin nature.)
https://www.crossway.org/articles/why-i-no-longer-support-the-death-penalty/
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A new book is coming out, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory” by Tim Alberta
~ What (Alberta) finds … is that under the veneer of Christian modesty simmers an explosive rage … No wonder the popular image of evangelicalism, according to one disillusioned preacher, has devolved into “Mister Rogers with a blowtorch.”
… Alberta begins with his very personal connection to his subject. He is “a believer in Jesus Christ,” he writes, “the son of an evangelical minister, raised in a conservative church in a conservative community,” a suburb of Detroit. …
… In the summer of 2019 … his father died suddenly of a heart attack. At Cornerstone, his father’s church, some of the congregants approached the grieving Alberta not to console him but to complain about his journalism, demanding to know if he was on “the right side.” One church elder wrote a letter to Alberta complaining about the “deep state” and accusing him of treason.
The experience was so surreal that Alberta decided to find out what had happened to his religious community. During Trump’s presidency, his father had moved farther to the right, but despite their differences their love for each other was undiminished. Alberta interviewed his father’s handpicked successor, Chris Winans, who is “not a conservative Republican” and spoke candidly about how “God’s people” have always had to contend with worldly temptations that could lead them astray: “I want to be in power, I want to have influence, I want to be prosperous, I want to have security.”
Many of Winans’s congregants left for a church down the road that preached the kind of “blood-and-soil Christian nationalism” they wanted to hear. “The church is supposed to challenge us,” Winans says. “But a lot of these folks don’t want to be challenged.”
… Political mudslinging offers a “dopamine rush.” Exaggerating threats and calling the other side evil means that whatever you do, no matter how outrageous or cruel or contrary to Scripture, can be defended as righteous. … ~
… “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” charts a transformation in evangelicalism, from a midcentury moment when white American Christians were such a dominant force in the country that many could “afford to forget politics” to a time when many more feel, as one prominent pastor puts it, “under siege.”
Alberta suggests that this panic has less to do with any existential threat to American Christianity than a rattled presumption of privilege. “Humility doesn’t come easy to the American evangelical,” he writes. “We are an immodest and excessively indulged people.” ~
https://dnyuz.com/2023/12/02/how-american-evangelicalism-became-mister-rogers-with-a-blowtorch/
-dj
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PS – The above material originally was from a piece/review in the NYT — dnyuz tends to ‘borrow’ liberally, apparently, from other journalistic sources, so my apologies for that specific link to them. -dj
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Truth.
Like a lot of the media, the panel is to cowardly to agree with truth, lest their media employer punish them for wrong think.
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Blaming the victim.
Yet another reason why The Atlantic sucks, and real conservatives don’t bother with the trash they peddle. I expect idiocy from CNN, and The Atlantic, and they rarely disappoint.
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They wanted Biden, they got him. Own it clowns.
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But no mean tweets, right?
That’s what’s important…..
“Here are the straightforward facts:
– $15 million flowed to the Biden family from countries like Russia and China
– 22 times President Biden talked to his son’s business associates
– 16 times President Biden lied about it to the American people
– And we have checks made out to President Biden directly
We are following the facts.”
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Funny though, they weren’t this meticulous about Santos. Didn’t even bother with a trial before voting to remove. Only some pigs get due process from the #USELESS GOP.
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Sadly, yep.
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Well that’s odd…..
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“In a functioning judicial system this should be enough to free every J6 protestor who has been prosecuted and is in jail right now. The committee needs to be investigated now as it is becoming more and more apparent that this was a conspiracy. Do Republicans have the stones to do it?”
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Nope. And no one will be held accountable either.
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When this is the voice of reason, we have a huge problem.
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Point.
Counter point.
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Biden’s America.
Once again targeting his political opponents.
They announce this week that Ben Carson is Trump’s front runner for VP, he’s the next attacked by the Biden DoJ.
But no mean tweets, right?
“BREAKING REPORT: Biden’s Department Of Justice just fined a Christian Tennessee trucking company $700,000 for asking workers to identify their legal status..
JOE’S AMERICA..
Covenant Transport Inc. and Transport Management Services LLC have agreed to a FINE of $700,000 in civil penalties following a U.S. Justice Department finding that they engaged in discriminatory practices against workers who are not U.S. citizens, as announced by the agency on Monday.
From January 2020 to August 2022, these Chattanooga, Tennessee-based companies were found to have routinely asked lawful permanent residents to provide their green cards, while also demanding that non-U.S. citizens present various immigration-related documents, according to the DOJ.
This behavior is in violation of Biden’s anti-discrimination clause of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
This provision forbids employers from requesting specific or additional documents based on an employee’s citizenship, immigration status, or national origin.”
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But wait….
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, right?
Staying home and not voting because Trump said some mean stuff has actual world consequences once again. Go figure.
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Fed op.
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This is fine, right?
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Well that’s odd….
“All records, data, video transcripts, depositions, and Biden WH communications that were collected by the sham J6 Committee were destroyed.
$18 million of our tax dollars were spent on their investigation – And they destroyed ALL EVIDENCE!
Per Rep Dean Loudermilk, (GA) who attempted to oversee the investigation into the J6 Committee by requesting docs, testimony, and White House transcripts, states “Nothing was indexed. There was no table of contents index. Usually when you conduct this level of investigation, you use a database system and everything is digitized, indexed. We got nothing like that. We just got raw data,” he said. “So it took us a long time going through it and one thing I started realizing is we don’t have anything much at all from the Blue Team. It’s all missing.”
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Laws…..?
Pffttt…
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Doh!
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“Mister Rogers with a blow torch” – “dopamine rush”; thanks dj for giving me a new descriptive vocabulary. A few months ago, I came across something similar – an article which interviewed evangelical pastors who are afraid to preach on the beatitudes, the good Samaritan, etc.
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Re: The Atlantic article about inflation. Wondering if whoever wrote those tweets bothered to read the article. People are not merely spending money on necessities, but on “luxuries” as well, even more than in the past, while also complaining about prices. (I am guilty of that, too.)
“You would think, with prices as high as they are, that Americans would have tempered their enthusiasm for shopping of late; that they would have pulled back spending on luxury items; that they would have sought out budget and basic options, bought smaller packages, fewer things.
This is not what has happened. Consumer spending rose 0.2 percent, after accounting for higher prices, in October, the most recent month for which the government has data. Online shopping jumped 7.8 percent over the Thanksgiving long weekend, more than analysts had anticipated. The sales of new cars, dishwashers, cruise vacations, jewelry—all things people tend to give up when they are watching their budget—remain strong. Consultants keep anticipating a recession precipitated by the “death of the consumer.” Thus far, the consumer is staying alive.
. . .
Real hourly earnings for workers in the tenth percentile of wage distribution went up more than 8 percent in the past three and a half years, the economists David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew found. And average wages have grown faster than average prices.
Sticker shock is real. And in surveys, people say that they are trading down because of cost pressures. But in fact they are spending more than they ever have, even after accounting for higher prices. They’re spending not just on the necessities, but on fun stuff—amusement parks, UberEats.”
We all learned back in school, I think, that if business is good, businesses are unlikely to lower prices. Prices will stay at what the market can handle.
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Musk as the guardian of free speech is amusing. Want to be banned from Twitter; criticise Musk. Twitter was purchased for 44$ billion; its now worth 19$billion. One has to wonder about a societal in which a person can blow away so much money and yet still be extremely wealthy.
The Republicans claim about the Biden crime family has yet to be backed by evidence. If Johnson has proof he should produce it. Hunter Biden agreed to testify publicly but the Republicans want to keep it secret – why? The Republicans talk a good game but lack proof so do nothing. And meanwhile they are bankrupt for ideas on how to run the country.
What is a faith based trucking company? They broke rules, they got fined.
Carson, a VP candidate? Wow. If Republicans want to win, they just need to nominate Haley. With Haley, they’ll keep the House, win the Senate and the Presidency. With Trump they’ll lose the House and the rest is a coin toss.
What’s wrong with the country having a population 15% foreign born? Canada has 23% foreign born. My parents and my ex-wife are foreign born residents of Canada. My brother and his four daughters are foreign born residents of the US.
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The inflation of the last two years was caused by a broken supply chain and then, later, by corporate profit taking. The inflation rate is now lower than it has been in 2 years and some economists are now debating interest rate cuts. They feel there’s room to increase the money supply which will in turn improve the economy and increase employment. Even better, wage increases are now beating inflation – the working class is trying to catch up. As the supply chains reestablish themselves and corporations are shamed into lower prices, the consumer economy keeps going.
The Atlantic features for the most part opinion articles so its no surprise that they contradict each other. And for the most part they print opinions that favor the classical liberal consensus of both parties (the Bush-Clinton nexus). Hence, an article that sees consumerism as the culprit of inflation. The obvious answer of supply chains and greed doesn’t fit the capitalist narrative.
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Another take on what’s being called “doom” spending:
From Business Insider:
Shoppers are worried about the economy so they’re ‘doom spending’ to make themselves feel better
~ Americans are stressed out about their finances, and some are coping by spending more money.
More than a quarter of Americans are “doom spending” in order to manage their worries about the macroeconomy and foreign affairs, according to a report by Intuit Credit Karma, which surveyed more than 1,000 adults in November.
Some of the top concerns among respondents included inflation — the Consumer Price Index increased 3.2% year over year in October — cost-of-living increases, unaffordable housing, and not having enough money for small luxuries, or even basic necessities.
“Much like doom scrolling, we’re seeing people mindlessly shop to soothe concerns about the economy and foreign affairs, which could take a toll on their financial well being,” Courtney Alev, consumer financial advocate at Credit Karma, said in the report. The rise of mobile shopping has also made doom spending almost as easy as doomscrolling. Almost $5.3 billion in sales revenue this Black Friday came from mobile purchases.
The phenomenon is most prevalent among younger generations, with 35% of Gen Zers, and 43% of millennials admitting to doom spending. Younger generations are particularly concerned about how tough economic conditions may impact their future wages, job security, and ability to land a lucrative job, per the report.
The rise in doom spending also comes as more Americans dig into their pandemic-era savings. …
https://www.businessinsider.com/shoppers-are-doom-spending-to-cope-with-financial-stress-2023-11
-dj
(HRW, yeah, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at some of that language describing what’s happening with evangelicals and politics these days)
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Many “real conservatives” do indeed read The Atlantic. They have a combination of articles/essays that range from quite liberal to quite conservative. Many of their pieces are very thought-provoking, even if one disagrees with a piece’s premise.
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I don’t subscribe to the Atlantic but have read a number free pieces online and have been impressed with the quality. And as Kizzie says, even when you don’t agree with a piece, it’s always good to hear “the best of” the “other side” just to get out of the bubbles we’re all in nowadays. -dj
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Again, about that Atlantic article, it is referring to people choosing to spend their money on luxury items, more than usual, which keeps prices high. In regard to that “Let them eat cake” quip, that is exactly what we are doing – we are choosing to eat cake and then complain about how much it costs. Then we buy more cake. There are economic consequences to how we spend or don’t spend our money.
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The Atlantic is Never Trump trash, so not surprised. You read what feeds your appetite. We all do.
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