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  • in reply to: Who Could You Want Other Than Me? #10169
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    Interesting to read differing accounts about who knew what and when regarding Biden.  Jake Tapper’s indignation is laughable.

    So here is one more point- 14 months ago, Biden gets a clean bill of health.  Today, he has stage 4 Prostate cancer.  Nothing to see here, move along.

     

    in reply to: Fetterman vs. AOC #10146
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    So….when Fetterman was running for Senate it was off limits to discuss his health and ability to serve.  Today, dems are alarmed he might not be in full control of his faculties?

    Seems the only thing missing is a poor performance in a debate and you have the “Get rid of Biden playbook part II”.  His health was fine until he became a liability….

     

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    in reply to: GDP by American states and their country equivalent #10144
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    California does not look quite as impressive when you take Chevron, Meta, Tesla and Google out of the picture.  Chevron is already out the door, the left is hell bent on destroying Tesla, Meta and Google could leave tomorrow if they choose to do so.

    Since 2019: Over 200 companies have relocated their headquarters out of California, including major firms like Chevron and Hewlett-Packard.

    In 2023, corporate tax revenue was approximately 50% below forecast, partly due to businesses reducing their presence in the state

    Movie production is abandoning LA, finding states other than California much less expensive. Ben Affleck recently blasted Newsome about his lack of support for the movie industry.  Rob Lowe noted it was cheaper to fly a hundred people to Ireland than walk across the parking lot to film at Fox.

    Ranked per capita, Cali comes in fourth, well behind New York, Massachusetts and Washington, but just ahead of Connecticut, North Dakota and Alaska.  California’s GDP as a percentage of US GP suddenly does not look as impressive when figuring in it’s percentage of the population.

     

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by AvatarBeeg_Dawg.
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    OK, I read this 3 times.  Twice to make sure it wasn’t from the Onion or Babylon Bee.

    For the record, Todd has been blasting Demo Party elites, commenting the rise of Trump has been 10 years in the making as the party failed to address key concerns for most Americans. I assume this is code for DEI, Immigration and reproductive rights.

    Blaming party elites and water carrying pundits for covering up Biden’s cognitive decline makes me wonder what type of “journalist” Todd really is.

    in reply to: 24 years later, Hal has nearly arrived… #10128
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    If it is truly benign, will anyone care or notice?

     

    in reply to: We are now “Disappearing” people like Pinochet #10121
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    Mick, seems like a lot clerical errors are happening.  Letter to Harvard and another DoD messaging melodrama as recent examples.

    A different take on the Harvard dispute.  It is fascinating to me that so many businesses and universities just rolled over and spread their collective legs when Biden (aka someone in the WH) issued Executive Order 13985.  While the EO did not explicitly state there would be a loss of funding, there was an implicit threat of less favorable treatment in competitive grant programs with a potential loss of funding.

    Just my opinion, Trump would have been better off to quietly end EO 13985 and let the DoJ loose, asking universities such as Harvard to explain how their DEI programs, which offer special rights and protections to a small group of individuals, is not a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights act.

    in reply to: Trump To Punish States For Not Ceding Election Authority #10091
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    There are some who think denial is a river in Egypt.  Had she campaigned longer she might have lost a couple of marginally blue states.  Did she fail to notice her popularity started to slide as soon as voters realized what an empty vessel she is?

    in reply to: Bueller #10089
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    “The US used to have a major soy bean market. We lost that because China retaliated to U.S. tariffs and imposed a 25% tariff on American soybeans. By the end of 2018, U.S. soybean sales to China had plummeted by 94% . We ended up spending a fortune subsidizing farmers. The soybean business in the USA has never fully recovered and China still gets most of its soybeans from Brazil now.”

    Please share where you got 94%.  Soybean exports to have been 29 MMT +/- 4MMT per year since 2010. Exports fell to a low of 8 MMT in 2018, rebounding to 32 MMT in 2021.  It is true China has increased soybean exports from Brazil each year since 2010, in large part due to favorable currency exchange rates, Chinese investment in Brazil and China’s policy of diversifying key import sources.

    Soybean exports to China have never been more than 1.5% of total US Soybean exports since 2010.

    My export numbers are estimates based on USDA, Chinese customs, and trade data.

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    I wouldn’t call Trump’s politics pro Russian, more like pragmatically cautious with a guy who despises the west and has his finger resting on a GO button to the second largest nuclear arsenal on the planet.

    I am interested in how you would contain Putin.  Care to share?

    in reply to: CBS News’s On this day. #10032
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    Speaking of news, how did you like the in depth coverage of Space recovery of the two astronauts?  From liftoff to splash down, 24/7 coverage of the recovery.  I really loved the details about Elon Musk working with NASA to put the US Space Program back on track.
    I’ll take Things you will never see in the MSM for $500.

     

    in reply to: How do you feel about higher education? #9964
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    [quote quote=9963]https://genuinerealist.substack.com/p/welcome-to-universal-university One of my excursions in thinking outside the box.[/quote]

    I don’t think it is that far fetched.  With a growing number of online courses and degrees, this could be a reasonable alternative to traditional college education.

    in reply to: Looming government shutdown #9901
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    “I don’t understand how anyone can support a bill that would give Donald Trump the opportunity to fire another 25,000 veterans and take away nursing home spots from tens of thousands of seniors, all so that the Republicans can give $4.7 trillion in giveaways to billionaires and billionaire corporations,” Warren said before the meeting.

    Bless her heart, that Liz Warren can sure check all the boxes.

    in reply to: Will Kamala Harris run for California Governor? #9881
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    Harris grilling Brett Kavanaugh during Senate Confirmation hearings was almost embarrassing.  Watching her and Mazie Hirono was like watching a couple of Chihuahuas taking on a grizzly bear.

    in reply to: Newsom tacks to the right… #9860
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    He had no room to tack left.

     

    in reply to: Dems win the day. #9859
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    I didn’t think my opinion of libs could fall any lower.  I was wrong.

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