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He doesn’t have his marbles. There will be a “correction” from his staff at some point soon.
This was another subtle nod to the Trump admin, for anybody watching.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)She’s already a pariah. If she where a white male she wouldn’t have the job in the first place, so there’s that.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m sure those politicians are sympathetic to their own ‘jackers’ plights. No bail for them. No prosecution.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The Biden administration has done far less with far more information than the Trump administration did. While I don’t know if there is a blame game to be played with the testing topic (I’ve heard that it’s a manufacturing issue, and in this economy that is a valid argument), but I can say that if we aren’t fully stockpiled on key emergency response items including tests, then our “authorities” aren’t paying attention.
Why our elected leaders can spend more time talking about the child tax credit, abortion, and bail reform than they can the threat of COVID locking up our economy again is beyond me. The number one priority today should be addressing major COVID disease (not mild or asymptomatic cases), and addressing the supply chain challenges that COVID “policies” cause constantly. If we haven’t overshot on government support on those two things, we haven’t done enough yet.
When it comes to other authoritarian measures, the difference today will be that the shoe is on the other foot when compared to last year. Last year, lockdowns had very attractive byproducts of civil unrest and economic ruin while the Republicans were in charge. My hunch is this year there will be no lockdowns because, well, they hurt and Democrats don’t like to hurt people unless it’s for political advantage or due to unintended consequences.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Trump was never a role model or politician. He was an executive hired to do a job and he got about half of it done (Good on the border, economy, and foreign policy, not bad on domestic policy in general including taxes and reinvestment…he was really not good on infrastructure and overall spending, and then snakebit by Covid).
Kamala is nothing if she’s not a role model or politician. She has no executive history (not to mention success) to speak of, and can’t afford to be bad at politics.
And, anyone who looks at the way she rose to “power” and says “I hope my little girl does the same” is basically wishing their daughter in a life of prostitution.
“Here’s your one chance, Fancy, don’t let me down.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)How cool would it be if Tesla paid back 50% of the subsidy money it received from the federal government? I mean, the taxpayers got the rest (mostly rich, white, executive class Tesla drivers, but who’s keeping score). At the current valuation, they could do a secondary offering and just give the money back to the government. That would shut Warren up, wouldn’t it?
I mean, the subsidies–at this point–are a small fraction of Tesla’s valuation. Even if Tesla reserved stock options for the government, it would be the ultimate “back atcha.”
That’s not to mention that Musk will pay more in taxes this year than the dollar value of all the subsidies received by tesla to date (I think that number is south of $10 billion and he will pay $11 billion or so based on a quick google).
In a way, the government is getting a HUGE ROI on Tesla’s share price when you factor in all capital gains taxes (musks plus yours and mine), and likely an even better one on the technology portfolio and “push” that Tesla has made in the automotive industry.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This won’t get as much play as it should. Biden literally told a bold-faced lie, and the White House had to walk it back.
Instead, it’s just “joe being joe.” Which, while true, would be far less a problem if the lie hadn’t been about his old friend Joe Manchin…the one guy with the current keys to the Biden agenda.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m not overly sympathetic at this point. If health systems haven’t learned to deal with peak capacity in two years, they aren’t going to change their stripes. Shame on the people who run them for not having covid surge contingencies that approximate last winter’s peak.
The media can scream all they want, but where are the health “leaders” to answer for such shortages at this point? Do we need to spend another trillion to ensure we have a ready plan for field hospitals and other contingencies? Hardly.
To your point, Omicron is “supposed” to be milder (and, as some are actually saying, might provide a means to much broader immunity in the near term). I don’t trust all of those who say what any variant is “supposed” to be, however. If someone’s disease is bad enough to go to the ER, then they should go. If they are only in the ER because they are scared, then we have a media and messaging problem.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)This has been happening for years. There are plenty of people who track “real inflation” based on prior measures. Orwell literally described this behavior (chocolate rations going up by 25 percent or something like that).
I think what is not being discussed is how lazy the fed is right now. Inflation has been likely for a long time, but the fed’s inaction is truly striking. The fed are still buying mortgage backed securities and we are in a full on housing crisis due to the pricing bubble.
some sane person has to take the punch bowl away. Please?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Kamala Harris is a great example of failing up. She has underperformed for years both externally (votes) and internally (her own staff). Everybody knows this, yet she kept getting opportunities.
It’s a great example of how profile overtakes personality and results in some circles.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The customer is always wrong.
it must be really hard to find staff if you are protecting your staff in the face of armed police who are patrons.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Rubbish. The Dems are far more protected by the traditional media providers (think NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN).
ALL new media providers are slanted criminally (MSNBC, FOX, not even mentioning OAN). That’s where the money is.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)They have said this from the start, to no effect on the hysteria.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have moved our little operation away from contractors with the exception of a couple of trusted senior people. I relied heavily on contractors and independent consultants for years but found that quality goes down as opportunity set goes up for them.
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