Reaganomics won’t be on it’s last legs until we publicly admit all of the domestic harm his domestic economic policies did and start reversing them and everything that piled onto the spirit of them in later decades.
Reaganomics is alive, well, and fully in control.
I don’t think he can actually put that much together to appeal it.
Especially not since Habba kept saying “no objection” to all of the evidence the prosecution put in.
She just kept saying “Yup! That’s totally acceptable and we’ll agree it should be considered!”
Again, no court would uphold that Texas is being invaded.
Which is good because if we classify border-crossing migrants as “invaders” then not only does that mean really bad things for them, it means Abbott was funneling invaders further inside our borders by paying to bus them to denver or fly them to chicago or whatever else.
It’s pretty clear he didn’t think the treasonous implications of this particular initiative through very well.
…when the bishops blessed the blueshirts down in galway…
Household economics are both micro AND macro.
The handwaving that typically occurs when people try to throw a layer of obfuscation into economic conversations is both disingenuous and counterproductive to actual fruitful discussion about the current state of things.
You might as well just say “money is wealth” or “what’s good for the goose”.
The reality is we’ve been chasing a short run fallacy for a really, really long time now and there’s more and more in the way of misrepresented statistics in order to keep everyone from examining all of the indirect consequences.
Okay, can someone explain THIS giant load of seeming bullshit to me?
In 2023, the U.S. economy vastly outperformed expectations. A widely predicted recession never happened. Many economists (though not me) argued that getting inflation down would require years of high unemployment; instead, we’ve experienced immaculate disinflation, rapidly falling inflation at no visible cost.
By every marker that matters to the POPULACE (costs of food, shelter, energy for shelter, cars, gas for cars, and medical insurance (required)) inflation has gone WAY THE HELL UP, shows no signs of abating, and jobs (in the tech sector at least) are taking a dive. Wages are not keeping pace with costs of living, and people I knew who were on the low end of “rich” are now starting to be as scared as the upper middle class.
Everyone keeps saying the economy is fricking awesome, but rent is astronomical, groceries are bonkers, gas prices are still at “I DID THIS” sticker stupidity levels, few people can get a home, used cars are going for 5 to 10 times what they’re worth, and everyone I know around the country is running a much tighter ship than they were during COVID LOCKDOWN.
All of these “new jobs” we keep hearing about are just a small percentage of positions vacated by layoffs. Companies let tons of people go in one fell swoop and hire new people for 1/10th to 1/5th of the positions at lower wages with worse “total compensation” packages.
The recruiters have COMPLETELY stopped hitting up myself and my employed friends. Not a single fricking “you look like a great blahblahblah” for almost a month when it was previously multiple hits a day.
As far as I can tell, we’re IN a recession, we’re just calling it a recovery for some reason.
The way I heard it, it wasn’t so much that the site itself was one wing or the other, it’s just the site that people were getting recruited FROM to eventually BECOME right wing… operatives?
I’m not completely certain which domestic or foreign group is responsible for hiring all of them, but it’s clearly deliberate positioning of less-than-successful actors/models into noisemaking/visibility roles.
They must be paying well because at least one of those people used to ostensibly be a liberal.
Outside of eliminating all PAC-type “contribution” organizations, all shell company sorts of situations AND forcing all pundits to disclose their financing like a publicly traded corporation has to, we’re not going to stop bad money from funding horrible behaviour.
It sure would be interesting to get a few of the worst of these folks hauled into court for the handful of harmful statements they’re making that constitute actual crimes and get their funding exposed, though.
So… Her last good movie was Silence of the Lambs, right? Oh, that was her first one, too.
If you haven’t seen “Contact”, I highly recommend it.
Looking at IMDB I’ve seen a grand total of six movies she’s in and while the ones I saw were all enjoyable at the time, some even worth re-watching, Contact definitely stands out for me.
I’m far less worried about churches paying sales, property, and income taxes than people making tens of billions of dollars a year.
We’ll get WAY MORE social benefit out of properly taxing the ultra-ultra rich than we will out of the hundreds of thousands of mini-churches who have volunteer receptionists twice a week or even the few hundred mega churches with jet-setting pastors.
Turn your ire on the bigotry and hypocrisy of a church that attempts to profess love and hate at the same time and out of the same mouth to your heart’s content, but when it comes to money, we need to deal with the robber barons. They’re the ones causing the economic problem.
Few seem to care…including those who will one day be there themselves.
What are those of us who care supposed to be doing?
Amidst deciding which bills get paid each paycheck, trying to find nutritional variety out of food banks (canned fish intake should ideally be less than 10 cans a month per person, for example, and even rinsing canned vegetables/beans isn’t doing wonders for sodium intake compared to fresh), trying to decide which medical and dental issues we can afford to address and which just get to be endured, and watching debt go to collections because food, insurance, automobile fuel, home energy, rent, and everything related to cars has gone up, what are we supposed to be doing?
In what way can we unite as a people and fix this?
Where does one get something like this in the U.S.?
no min balance, no fees, interest on checking?
I was under the impression that didn’t exist.
Is it really, though?
Unfortunately, historically speaking, in the U.S. it both is and has been.
It is virtually impossible to get into any discussion involving menthol cigarettes in america without also getting into a discussion about the black community they were specifically marketed towards.
Literally:
Tobacco companies offered grants to HBCUs, sponsored hip-hop and jazz music festivals, and supported civil rights institutions including the NAACP. In the 1980s, industry-sponsored vans distributed free cigarette samples in the streets of Houston’s Black neighborhoods. The program would later expand to 50 cities.
“A total of 1.9M samples will be distributed to targeted smokers in 1983,” industry officials wrote in a Kool Market Development Program document. “Sample distribution will be targeted to: housing projects, clubs, community organizations and events where Kool’s Black young adult target congregate.”
An R.J. Reynolds executive actually said: “We don’t smoke that s—t. We just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the Black and stupid.”
The reason a targeted menthol/flavored ban is problematic is that since something like 85% of black smokers choose menthols…
…that means this ban gives police ANOTHER free ticket to harass just about any black man, woman, or child/teen they see smoking. They’d likely get away with calling it “probable cause” which is twelve kinds of fucked up.
If they cared about public health they would do one of two things:
1: Ban all cigarettes
2: Use awareness campaigns (THESE ARE PROVEN TO WORK, LOOK AT THE DECLINE OF THE YOUTH SMOKING RATE)
Given the other viable options it is really, really hard to see this as anything other than a racially targeted decision.
Like every time this comes up, this is straight up racism.
If they actually cared about protecting children, they’d put quality control restrictions on the fluids used in vape pens to prevent popcorn lung and the like BECAUSE KIDS DON’T REALLY SMOKE CIGARETTES ANYMORE.
You know who disproportionately smokes menthols and flavored cigarellos?
Black people.
If they actually had something against smoking, they’d ban ALL CIGARETTES.
If they were actually trying to protect kids, they’d go after what kids are using.
They’re going after the smoke of choice for large portions of the black community.
What does that tell you?
you’re framing it as if I am against all the things you are calling for
No, and if it came off that way, I apologize. I’m just saying I can see why some people would think this isn’t going to be particularly effective in the short term. It’s hard to show enthusiasm for a move like this when setting it up in the first place saw things getting repealed and left us where we are now.
Good is absolutely a step in the right direction and we should be taking it in the hopes of getting closer to perfect.
I’m not sure why you’re upset about restoring net neutrality but go off I guess
Because there’s a non-zero chance that the service providers will pull the same kinds of stunts that some police departments did in the wake of all of the post-George-Floyd ideas we had about “reform”.
The providers will most likely throw a tantrum at the increased regulation and we will get everything from “weaponized incompetence” to “malicious compliance” along with a petulant toddler level of foot-dragging. They will then probably claim that everything that’s going wrong with their services is now due to these new choking, stifling, innovation-killing regulations that are none of those things in actuality and then they’ll do their level best to lobby things back to their current state at the very least and more likely an even worse state for the consumer.
I’m not saying we SHOULDN’T restore net neutrality to the state it was in, I’m just saying that the providers are probably going to be big babies about it and pass the pain on to the customer.
AT&T, Comcast, Charter, Cox, Verizon, CenturyLink, and T-Mobile have basically invisibly colluded themselves into one big ma bell lookalike by one or more of them setting “market pricing” and waiting for the others to follow suit because “profits”.
Why be competitive when you too can rake in record profits by silently agreeing to the rip-off?
The least we can do is limit their ability to pull stunts like marginalizing content they don’t get make extra money off of prioritizing.
I can get why someone might not be excited about this because it’s going to suck for consumers in the short run and it’s really not going to solve the problem at hand, it’s just going to do a tiny bit to keep it from progressing even farther into “enshittification” territory as the providers keep moving the pot towards boiling.
Until we remove the ability for corporations to buy legislation, though, the problem will continue.
Are you saying that in countries where employers can’t just make up reasons to divest themselves of employees without repercussion or paying unemployment that the employees themselves are somehow bound to their employer and can’t just walk out?
Unless you’re under some contract, I don’t see how that would be enforced other than having laws on the books in individual countries about a minimum required notice.
Even if a country DOES have laws on the books stating all employees in all full time jobs must provide x weeks of notice before quitting, if the same country has a bunch more clauses to protect employees from employers than the U.S. currently does I have to imagine there are protections in place for the employees in cases of hostile work environments or whatever.
I can’t see a situation where a country that protects employees from the sort of hostile, predatory, dehumanizing behavior we see carried out consistently by U.S. companies wouldn’t have continued to take said employees into account while also protecting their country’s employers from things like large scale business-wide walkouts or whatnot.
It could be like the wild west. There’s one real cop
Mikey Doran was a racist crook, not a real cop.
Wait, wrong section of Minnesota.
Nevermind.
Ian Tracey.
He was doing mostly bit parts from what I’d seen (X-files, Highlander, Poltergeist: The Legacy, etc, etc) until I caught Intelligence (2005-2007) on early Netflix and from there on I was sold.
I then went back and caught the DaVinci’s stuff and enjoyed that.
Then he popped up in Sanctuary, Continuum, and Bates Motel. At this point I know anything I see him in, I’m going to enjoy without fail.
I really should get around to listing the actors whose names I see in the credits and automatically relax and start enjoying myself because I know it’ll be good. Matthew MacFayden and Keeley Hawes are two more.
To say nothing of how much cabling is covered by plastic.
Audio
Video
Vehicular
Aviation
Appliances…
…Telecommunications…
…Power…