[rjnwmill]

A Herbert Hoover inflection point for democrats?  Left holding the bag for twenty years of mismanagement?

That’s a scary thought.

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Neo, I saw this and thought of you. It offers a plausible thesis for Buffet’s OXY investment.

I’d appreciate your thoughts.

https://haymaker.substack.com/p/making-hay-monday-july-18th-2022

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[rjnwmill]

😂

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[quote quote=6263]Nothing can stop the Duke of Earl as he walks through his Dukedom with the Duchess of Earl.[/quote]

“The Dutchess of Earl”?  I thought Hunter clarified this title thing for us…Her highness, “the selfish stupid entitled cunt”?

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You worry too much Mick. Biden has issued assurances!

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/06/28/biden-iran-nuclear-weapon-496801

This will be as perfect as his Afghanistan withdrawal.

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Michael (The Big Short) Burrey is of the opinion that inflation is yesterday’s news?

Legend Michael Burry Warns of ‘Disinflation’ and Soaring Growth Stocks

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Mick, do you think it was random chance that Justice Sotomayor elected to provide a character reference for Justice Thomas after the draft was leaked and before the final opinion was released?  I don’t.

As a consequence, I think the opinions of the Washington Post are narrative aimed to further division with the attendant civil disobedience. The Bangles covered it well…”Walk like a Supreme Court Justice”.

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“Conventional wisdom” or the conventional narrative?  Personally, I think the “transition” is a much longer slog than suggested by global greens. There is no near/medium term upside. Supply shortages are bringing coal fired plants back on line in Germany. (China & India are going towards clean Russian natural gas with Europe going coal?). And energy prices generally are advancing. No reason that will stop in a supply constrained world.   If we see blackouts in this country over the summer…if we see continuing failure resulting from the Biden agenda generally…there will be a significant policy realignment in 2024. Energy policy will be refocused on fossil fuels and there will be no market for the failed green deal agenda. The old saying, “fool me once”…

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I’m told the Thomas concurrence focuses on three additional decisions for similar review.

He is one extreme re “states rights”.  I am to some degree similarly inclined. We need to force legislative bodies to do their job. Enough of this kicking the can for division and political advantage. We see this playing out now with the gun control debate in the senate. Force these guys to take a position, put a stake in the ground and then face the voters. (See Cruz & Cornyn)

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I too have an occasional memory lapse GR. It’s age. We can’t fight it.

But just for the record, let’s make note of the fact that Trump offered Pelosi & Bowser 20,000 national guard troops to enhance Capital and city security days in advance of January 6th. His offer was declined. Let’s not forget that, okay?

If you were in his position, if your efforts at risk mitigation had been dismissed, what would you do for three hours as the shit hit the fan?  After the fact is a little late, no?

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I learned today that background checks for firearms purchases specifically exclude juvenile criminal/psychiatric records. Requiring specific disclosure and review sure makes sense to me on the margin. Those under 25 should be vetted thoroughly.

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Hmmmm…who to believe…GR or former AG Bill Barr…

Sorry GR, but I’m inclined to believe that Barr perhaps has a better understanding of the statutes you quote, the record re January 6th that has been produced to date and the standards for a prosecution of a former President under said statutes. But hey, I could be wrong.

But you of course can hang out in your corner spouting pronouncements like this.  You do seem comfy there.  Good for you.

“Trump should have been indicted and tried on treason and sedition charges a year ago. As I wrote in another post, the only reason it hasn’t happened is that Biden needs him.”

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6307626327112#sp=show-clips

😂

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GR:

“He wasn’t close to a great President – he undercut everything he did by the chaos and needless controversy that he created.”

You’ve got yourself painted in the corner yet again and now there’s no way for you to claim intellectual honesty or analytical integrity.

You can’t defend this statement after the results from the partisan Mueller investigation, years of political drip, drip, drip of knowingly false narratives about Russian collusion, the Sussman trial record. (Acquitted because the foreman thought there was more important stuff going on in DC?)  As a trial attorney I know you’re no stranger to jury nullification. Focus on the evidence that was introduced at trial please?  Then we have the prior plea about falsifying a record for subsequent submission to the FISA court in support of a subpoena.  What about Schiff’s committee “investigation” of a knowingly false political narrative?  Nadler’s committee?  You can’t suggest that Trump created the “chaos”?  Your statement above is personally disqualifying?  Do you believe Trump ”created” the chaos…or that instead he was obligated to push through the septic tank that is our politics today if he wanted to discharge the duties of his office.

And please don’t put words in my mouth/posting. I’m in no way suggesting that the Trump style was the only way to deal with bull shit political opponents or a compromised media. I’m sure someone else could succeed with a different personal style. What I am positing to you is that the record here is abundantly clear. Trump’s approach worked, much to the benefit of the country. Trump’s atmospherics facilitated results far superior to the pathological political crook he ran against in 2016 or, and I still can’t believe this, the senile incompetent who beat him from his basement in 2020. And this last statement, to me, is game set and match relative to the power of the forces aligned against Trump in today’s politics. Pray tell, how would you overcome such foes…a smile and a pat on the ass?  Would you capitulate and allow them to control the agenda?  We’ve seen the failure of that approach far to often, no?

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[quote quote=6172]Trump’s the RINO. It’s an idiot personality cult, and its center figure has literally committed treason. Move on.

Then line up the canons against Biden.[/quote]

I love internet hyperbole.  God forbid we start from the position that Trump was one of the best presidents ever.  Suppose we prioritize performance vs atmospherics?  Economic performance supports that notion.  Labor market participation at all time highs.  Minority unemployment at historic lows.  Wage growth rapidest in the middle class.  {Achieved without a wealth tax no less.}. Energy independence with the attendant impact on growth and our balance of payments.  Tariffs on China to improve the security of our supply chains.  Our southern border was relatively secure.  ISIS was largely eliminated.  Troops returned from Iraq.  No American died in Afghanistan over the last 18 months of his presidency.  {That was an active war zone, no?}  The Kurds were safe in Iraq.  The Abraham Accords.  No Russian incursions into Ukraine after their success in Crimea during the prior administration.  Demands that European NATO countries pay their fair share.  Warnings re energy dependence/Russian gas pipelines.  A suspension of missile & weapons testing in North Korea.  An effective CCP virus vaccine in under 10 months.  Production of ventilators, PPE and propping up emergency hospital operations.  And accomplished this as the entire town tried to frustrate his initiatives with political bull shit…for the entirety of his term in office.  Two impeachments?  Mueller?  Comey?  Clinton?  Pelosi?  Schiff?  Vindman?  There was nothing there.

Who has a better performance record during your lifetime?  Obama?  Bush?  Clinton?  Bush?  Reagan?  Carter?  Ford?  Nixon?  LBJ?  Kennedy?  Eisenhower?

You’re entitled to place priority on demeanor, likeabilty and political skills.  You can be offended by boorish behavior, confrontational style and narcissism, although I don’t think that is in anyway unique to Trump when I look back at the list of his predecessors.

But maybe Trump is/was no different than the other denizens of DC?  Pelosi tearing up the State of the Union address was priceless.  Maybe he fit the moment, his moment, and that facilitated his outsized policy success?

But your comment about turning the canons on Biden seems a gratuitous effort to camouflage your priorities for a president.  Policy success and progress for the nation appear immaterial to you, which is of course your right.  But to be so very one dimensional in your summary of Trump’s record in office positions you badly in my opinion.

 

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[rjnwmill]

“And while we watch in amazement as the government takes quick action to forgive student loans they dawdle and distract with Jan 6 prime time TV.”

The timing couldn’t be worse could it?  It plays right into the Republican narrative about political distraction as a means to paper over managerial/policy incompetence.

And to make matters worse for the democrats, this two page letter to Thompson and an all star cc list. A records retention request. I should think this will cramp the committee’s style. But it also shows the Republican focus for their soon to be majority will be both political and rearward facing. Just what we need.  🤦🏼‍♂️

The Honorable Bennie Thompson

June 9, 2022
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