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    Update: 11th Circuit Appeals Court "sacks" MAL Special Master

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    41 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

    It's definitely a "win" for him in that it's a delaying tactic. It's what he wanted... it drags this out and then after the mid-terms he can announce he's running for President which muddys the waters even more.

    I just looked up the composition of the 11th circuit and it’s not great!

    15 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

     

    Don’t forget the tweet immediately preceding 

     

    Biden to warn of threat to democracy from ‘MAGA Republicans,’ election deniers in prime-time address

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    45 minutes ago, stepee said:

    What’s funny is you can see a tone shift where the guy thought he was really getting serious and dropping some knowledge. True believers like him don’t even realize that what they are saying is nonsense to everyone outside of the fox cinematic universe, as it doesn’t match reality.

     

    As far as the other monkey taking the time to answer, it was good but I would use don’s own son as the counter to the hunter stuff. THAT cokehead actually committed an act of trying to work with a foreign government to influence our election and ADMITTED it. Like it’s an actual thing that happened! Nobody cared about that.

     

    Nobody besides the absolute highest ranking members of the brain worm committee cares about hunter. It’s not just a complete break from reality to think so, but a general misread of human priorities.

    Yes but have you considered the LAPTOP FROM HELL

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    Biden to warn of threat to democracy from ‘MAGA Republicans,’ election deniers in prime-time address

    in The Political Re-Education Camp

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    1 hour ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

     

    As anyone can tell you, I'm no Biden superfan, and think he's on the hook for several mistakes, but most of this critique isn't well thought-out and does not really stand up to rigorous scrutiny.  I know you're not going to read this, but I don't have much to do this morning, so I'm going to refute it anyway.

     

    Let's start with these: 

     

    This sort of inflation has taken place essentially across the whole of the West, across a broad range of policy regimes, including very conservative, and very Trumpist ones. (the same kind of inflation is going on in Orban's Hungary)  If it is 'avoidable', why didn't any of these policy regimes avoid it?  Why wasn't it just confined to Biden's policy regime, and those like it?

     

    A more honest assessment would point to the fact that most of the consumer price inflation is coming from the supply-side, due to the pandemic's scrambling of supply chains.  Although fortunately the recent decling in producer prices suggests this is starting to abate.

     

    On the oil price side, people are quick to say "We could have avoided high gas prices if Biden had helped us pump more oil!", but many of the countries with the most highly subsidized oil industries in the world are experiencing high gas prices.  Just look at the spike in energy prices in Hungary:

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    • Hungary: monthly electricity prices 2022 | Statista

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    In March 2022, the average wholesale electricity price in Hungary surpassed 285 euros per megawatt-hour, an increase of more than five-fold in comparison to the same month of the previous year.

     

    Again, if this was so easily avoidable, why did countries that followed policies essentially opposite those of Biden not avoid them?  The answer is because the rise is largely to unavoidable exogenous shocks--i.e., the war in Ukraine--that Biden has no control over.

     

    This is simply false.  If the economy is 'cratering', why hasn't the NBER declared us as being in recession yet?

     

    Half a million jobs were created in July.  That doesn't happening in 'cratering' economies.  The unemployment is the lowest its been in over a generation; that also doesn't happen in 'cratering' economies.

     

    What we have is a mixed bag: low unemployment, high inflation, middling production.  No one, not even the experts and world-class investors, is sure of what exactly caused this mix, although it's clear that the pandemic's effects on supply chains had something to do with it. So far the big beneficiaries are workers, though--is that such a bad thing?

     

     

    Under what scenario were we going to withdraw our troops entirely and not have the outcome we saw, without committing additional resources to the effort?  No critic of the withdrawal can answer this, and until they do, there is little credence to the idea that what happened was anything but inevitable.

     

     

    The rise in crime rates began during the pandemic, well before Biden was president.  It was also highly regional--it is not going on everywhere.  So there's very little reason to believe Biden could do anything to address it effectively via national legislation.

     

    But, if you believe Biden is responsible for it, then you must also accept that he is responsible for the subsequent decline in violent crime after the abatement of the pandemic in major cities:

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    So this is a point on which you owe Biden praise. (I do not, because I'm not so gullible to believe that Biden has control over regional fluctuations crime rates)

     

     

     

    If you disagree with the aid to Ukraine--which is entirely reasonable--then you must, at the very least, acknowledge that it is a global blunder, not a Biden blunder, since the most of the West is currently extending aide to Ukraine.

     

     

    You can definitely argue that Biden raised Hunter wrong, but the 'Hunter laptop' thing now pales in comparison to so many things Trump has done that, as scandals go, it's a little weaksauce.  It doesn't really compare to inciting a mob to riot at the Capitol, does it?

     

     

    If you're mindlessly following investment advice from people on message boards, you deserve to be broke.  FWIW, several posters here have been very successful in their investments--including SFLU, as far as I'm aware.

     

     

    And this is the biggest whiff of all, because it fails to see the true problem, which is that social media and the incentives it creates have made everybody--liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat--more 'engulfed in their little bubble'.  No one can agree on a consensus reality anymore; even when presented with 'hard numbers', people can just scurry off to some message board somewhere that will tell you "all the numbers are made up". (whenever they don't support your biases)

     

    This is a technology-driven phenomenon, not a political one, and so long as people are myopic enough to believe it's confined to one part of the political spectrum (see: your post), it will go unaddressed--indeed, attributing it to [insert political group] will only reinforce it, until there's a riot at the freaking Capitol every week.

     

    Speaking of which...was the riot at the Capitol avoidable?  You didn't mention that.  ;)

    You didn’t need to do this but it is well done

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