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Wow that’s impressive.
They forgot number 20:
20. Democrats have gone from people who would get huffy in a political discussion they disagreed with to people who will self righteously key your car for even having a Trump bumper sticker on it. People notice that the Dems have become the party that harbors anti social assholes, and they look like everyday women.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)While I will be the first to admit I don’t know what’s real anymore, it sure does look like Kamala is imploding before our eyes, and Trump is hitting a lot of really effective populist notes.
Kamala may be the worst candidate for national office in the history of the country.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Can’t believe I’m watching it but can’t turn away.
She is a walking estate tax. She will return her parents’ capital to the free market inside of a decade.
“I want to go viral for something” is a self fulfilling prophecy.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Noonan is a never Trumper who is trying her best to help Kamala without sacrificing whatever journalistic integrity she has.
Kamala has a record problem. A smart GOP would only run on that. She’s a marquee player in an admin that quickly became one of the most inept in history, and she has deeper history as a vapid supporter of some of the most liberal buffoonery out there. It’s so bad that when Trump mentions a true story (she supports publicly funding sex changes for illegal alien prisoners), it’s immediately dismissed as his ridiculousness instead of hers. She is on record as supporting some truly unbelievable stuff, because she has no understanding of economics and has grown up in a state where politics don’t really matter…the machine does.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This thing is growing. It is going to get worse before better. A week out we start to lose major things like medicines and oxygen and basic food. Lots of people have pantries that can provide for a few days. The good news out of thr mountains is that the people seem to be doing it without the government, which of course is the whole point of wanting small government.
we haven’t come close to counting the casualties.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)NYT morning note came out on how Trump might use the doj to punish his enemies. As if it’s a hypothetical that a president would allow the doj to go after political opponents (like Biden has done for 3.5 years).
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Can you imagine Walz as president? I cannot.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Conflating wealth tax and income tax doesn’t help.
Piketty wrote that the fundamental problem of capitalist wealth is that k, the rate of return on capital, is almost always greater than g, the growth rate of the economy. It only reverses during major dislocations like wars. Thus he became a poster child for anti socialists everywhere by proposing that a wealth tax level the playing field.
The older I get, the more I believe that there has to be a peaceful way of putting the brakes on massive capital accumulation without disincentivizing entrepreneurship. I like a tax on generational wealth, so that it becomes expensive to hold shares your father held. If anything I would argue that first generation entrepreneurs should be tax exempt, and their heirs should get double taxed. We want more entrepreneurs and fewer socialites and “philanthropists.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Conflating wealth tax and income tax doesn’t help.
Piketty wrote that the fundamental problem of capitalist wealth is that k, the rate of return on capital, is almost always greater than g, the growth rate of the economy. It only reverses during major dislocations like wars. Thus he became a poster child for anti socialists everywhere by proposing that a wealth tax level the playing field.
The older I get, the more I believe that there has to be a peaceful way of putting the brakes on massive capital accumulation without disincentivizing entrepreneurship. I like a tax on generational wealth, so that it becomes expensive to hold shares your father held. If anything I would argue that first generation entrepreneurs should be tax exempt, and their heirs should get double taxed. We want more entrepreneurs and fewer socialites and “philanthropists.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t really know what organizations are active. National guard is supposedly working to clear brush and the bucket trucks are everywhere near me as of today.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I live about 45 mins from Asheville NC. We got hit really hard.
it’s hard to see how bad this is going to be, because the mountains are completely cut off in a lot of cases. Asheville is not a tiny city, it sits at the intersection of multiple interstate highways, and it’s basically inaccessible.
I don’t know the story on reservoirs, but I can tell you that rain events are heavily amplified in the blue ridge as I suspect they are in many mountain areas, and this storm was not only heavy rain but the winds generated a ton of debris.
you may be referring to the Lake Lure dam, which was near failure but I think has survived. It’s about 30 miles from our home. I don’t know how much water they could have released from lake lure ahead of time. It’s not a huge lake.
We just had power come back on last night but there are many without power and gas lines everywhere. It’s a disaster and we are still 10 miles from the foothills of the blue ridge.
the good news is no looting that I know of.
Edit: this could easily be an October surprise in favor of Trump… proof that Biden and Harris don’t give two shits about hillbilly white people. I don’t think the GOP is strong enough to do it, and Trump will make a mess of it by making it us vs them racially.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This doesn’t surprise me at all. In general terms, republicans view Dems as dumb, Dems view republicans as evil, scary, horrifying, etc.
it carries over to kids.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I am not moved by polls, but it’s amazing to me that the Democrats haven’t been skewered more for the Biden subterfuge. His decline is profound and absent the early debate they would still have the charade carrying on.
Harris herself has looked better in debate and interviews than I expected. Even the “word salad” moments she has had haven’t been as bad for non partisans. Right wing memers jumped on her closing statement with Oprah but it wasn’t as bad as they wanted it to be. Empty? Yes. Incoherent? Not really.
but what do I know? I grew up in a middle class family.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Spent many a summer day waiting for a new toy or something to come off layaway at k mart.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Anyone who uses the covid crisis as evidence of what Trump will do loses the argument. It’s awful misdirection. Trump made mistakes as a president down the stretch, but your post makes little sense. He pressured the fed to lower rates to the tune of 7 rate raises prior to COVID. He spent ridiculously on COVID while the entire Capitol agreed. These are the half truths.
Trump’s biggest mistake as a leader, in my opinion, was buffooning his way to influencing the Georgia senate election in December 2020. Trump gave the senate to the incoming administration while throwing his tantrum. Jan 6 was a silly protest in comparison, because the senate numbers allowed passage of massive Biden spending on boondoggles.
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