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Love those little surprises.
I can recall a diatribe written by a professor that fraternities were racist organizations. He went on at some length. The African American president of one of the school’s fraternities helpfully pointed out the fact that the demographics of the members of all fraternities on campus were considerably more diverse than the demographics of the University, and the fratprez offered to debate the professor on the topic in an open forum.
He’s still waiting. The prof declined to respond to the student’s response.
I would imagine that by more than doubling the minimum national wage (currently $7.25 per hour at the Federal level, though states tend to have their own levels. 21 states are either at the Federal minimum, or don’t mandate a minimum. Only DC has a $15 minimum. Another 21 states are between $10 and $13.50. CA is $13 and only Washington is higher at $13.50 minimum. The remainder are between $8 and $9.65.
The Economic 101 outcome is that both inflation and unemployment will rise. The Atlantic, naturally, disagrees:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/economism-and-the-minimum-wage/513155/
It’s hard to take this board seriously. Two Trump appointees are criticized for not simply being loyal subjects when their job is to rule on matters of law. And this is somehow evidence that our country is too woke and descending into liberal madness. or something like that. It’s hard to follow the logic here, so forgive me if I’m mischaracterizing.
You are mischaracterizing the comment in an almost unfathomable way.
(a) They are not being criticized for not being loyal subjects. They are criticized for not ruling on the law — and the separate comment was made indicating that judges appointed by Democrats tend to vote in lockstep, which is more characteristic of your character-assassinating comment.
(b) It wasn’t presented as evidence, it was presented as examples. You might want to return to your high school logic class for the difference between “evidence” and “example.” I realize that numbers are hard.
(c) A summer’s worth of rioting is claimed to be “mostly peaceful protest” by our lefty media, people lose their jobs because a small scattering of nitwits are offended, the new President wants to erase the old President with double the number of executive orders that Bad Man Orange issued — but he calls for “Unity.” Plus, the progressives don’t think Old Man Biden goes far enough. He ain’t their president.
So yeah, we’re descending into liberal madness.
[quote quote=4396]Our downward spiral is essentially accelerating with every compromise like this.[/quote]
Truer words. I don’t recognize America any more. Things are going to get interesting in ways that Progressives don’t understand.
A culture that will exploit a whack job 16 year old, as long as she’s anti-Trump. Bonus points for public shouting matches with Mommy who worked for Trump.
Gotta love American culture.
If you listen closely to the video (The Mandarin translation has been verified) the speaker is not shy at all about the horrible racial slur he makes about the powerful and wealthy China friendly Jewish woman who took care of things for his group in a Washington visit. She is likely close to Feinstein. Speaks fluent Mandarin, has been a resident of China for over 35 years. The speaker is not confessing anything but rather bragging about how easy it is to buy American influence. It’s a terrifying message of the control the CCP has over our politicians and Wall St.
Not remotely surprised in either instance. Over the past three decades, I’ve cultivated a fairly broad range of Chinese friends, acquaintances and business contacts. Both of my sons speak Mandarin. And the two prior paragraphs are completely correct, and what’s more, the Chinese I know are very up front about both: (a) The Chinese are virulently racist, at least compared with present-day Americans. or, in other words, they’re about the same as any other homogenous culture across time and geographies and (b) the Chinese — like all other cultures — try to accumulate influence at all levels for the betterment of their society, culture and companies. And they are flat out amazed that we’re not like that, because the rest of the world doesn’t give a damn about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
“Political correctness is America’s newest form of intolerance. It presents itself as fairness but has strict codes and rigid rules. Political Correctness is Fascism masquerading as manners.”
— George Carlin
I’ve been hearing that people who would otherwise not qualify for an immediate vaccine are signing up for vaccines in counties with high percentages of anti-vaxxers. Those counties are receiving a lockstep amount of the vaccine, and since there are so many anti-vaxxers in their counties, they tend to have extra vaccine.
Just FYI…
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/index.html
49 executive orders in the first fifteen days of Biden’s administration (per CNN). At the depths of the Great Depression, FDR did 30…in his entire first month. Of course, FDR won the popular vote in 1932 by almost 20%.
King Joe is making quite an impression with his government by fiat. And that’s with Democratic majorities in the Senate and the House. Good thing he doesn’t need Congress. He’s sure getting a lot done in the absence of any legislative discussions without having to talk to all those icky Republicans or paying any attention at all to 74 million Deplorable opinions.
Rocky, I hope you and your wife have a full and speedy recovery. I look forward to your posts, soon.
GR, glad you are asymptomatic and that your wife’s case is mild, what a relief!
President Roosevelt held the record for the most executive orders signed in the first month of his presidency. Biden broke that record…in two weeks.
The number of executive orders signed by each president in their first month in office, except for Biden which covers his first two weeks:
Roosevelt (30)
Biden (28)
Obama (16)
Truman(13)
Trump (12)
GW Bush, Carter, Kennedy, Johnson (7)
Eisenhower, Clinton (6)
Reagan, Ford, Nixon (5)
GHWBush (2)
[quote quote=4249]It’s really about pandering to the base….keeping a campaign promise no matter how flawed the logic. My question- would Joe kill the pipeline if St. Obama approved it? Killing the pipeline does nothing but strengthen our enemies, drive up domestic energy costs and consumer prices. Oh- jobs. That’s a damn fine policy move to eliminate jobs in the middle of a job killing pandemic.[/quote]
And ruin our relationship with Canada. Wasn’t it Crazy Joe Biden who wanted to “rebuild America’s relationship with our allies?” Guess Canada isn’t an ally.
The biggest catastrophe from the 2020 election cycle is the end of accountability for elected officials. The damage will be profound. Cancel the Keystone with the attendant loss of jobs, return to energy dependency on our “friends” in the Middle East & Russia, open the borders to depress middle class wages, destroy market based controls on energy pricing to render our manufacturing sector obsolete and move those supply chains to our political and economic competitors. All as Amazon/Washington Post/Bezos insist that employees must show up in person to participate in an election to decide whether or not the work force should organize. Of course a failure to insist on voter ID in the election would result in an outcome that couldn’t be fair. What a hoot!
Agreed on all counts.
Cancelling the Keystone pipeline was interesting. About 2,500 Canadian jobs, about 10,000 American jobs depended on it. Nice way to treat our neighbors to the north and, oh yeah, increase unemployment in the States.
Exactly who is running the country right now? With all of the things you mentioned above, who is in charge? Why wouldn’t Biden make a couple of phone calls by now to the west coast governors to put a stop to the riots and looting? Who’s telling him not to?
- Biden
- Obama
- Bernie Sanders
- The K Street big money PACs
- Mike Bloomberg
- Pelosi/Schumer
- Wall St
- Silicon Valley
And in an odd twist of events I believe Tulsi Gabbard will gain enormous clout over everyone should no Republican Senators defect.
Agreed re: Gabbard. Would have loved to see her as the mandatory female-of-color VP candidate. She had 273,377 votes (finishing 7th), whereas Kamala Harris had 844 total votes (finishing 16th as she pulled out).
If I was Gabbard, I would be furious. She’s basically been patted on the head by Demo leadership, and she doesn’t really have a voice. The Progressives hate her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
