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It’s fascinating how quickly governance can go down the drain.
We are in trouble because the “adults” aren’t able to govern, and they have nobody to blame but themselves (and Trump).
Foreign policy is a disaster. Afghanistan, France, Israel, China, all in tatters or teetering.
immigration is a disaster. Nothing more to say.
Fiscal policy is a disaster-debt limit, new borrowing, no discussion whatsoever of what the nation can bear in terms of new spending. We are about to increase taxes on the productive in order to subsidize the lazy and unable.
monetary policy is a disaster – inflation is running amok. Savers are getting crushed. Assets are in a historic bubble. The little man is being eaten away by invisible taxes.
Social policy is a disaster – it’s arguable that vaccines would have never even been made under this regime had election been in 2019. Rents are about to skyrocket due to national eviction moratoriums.
Funny that nobody is running with photos of Biden with the stack of executive orders reversing trump policies anymore. Remember those?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)What were Don Trump’s really negative policies? He talked tough on the border but the current situation is far far worse. He slapped tariffs on China but those haven’t been removed. His COVID response was no more criticizable than those proposed by others.
The people who were most upset about Trump were those who were most aligned with the statist / academic mafia. I don’t know anybody who is in the for-profit world who really disagrees with the policy agenda of the Trump administration. I know plenty who hated the persona and voted against him.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want him to be president again and believe that his work undermining the electoral process is despicable, but Biden proves we can do worse.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)While I don’t trust Newsweek at all, I’m not at all surprised by this “news.”
We had an executive who rankled everybody but got (good) things done (if you don’t think renegotiating NAFTA, lowering the corporate tax rate, and putting China on notice weren’t good things, take another look). Now we have a doddering fool who can’t get things done, and who happens to rankle people despite being a “decent guy.”
I’ve typed this to you guys before: Trump, while hated and despicable, was for America despite being accused of weakening America. Biden, despite being touted as a statesman and “true American,” has generally taken actions that have weakened America and its alliances.
It’s truly astounding to see the contrast and to live the cognitive dissonance.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Gr, here’s the question: who is the audience for this kind of “contrarian” writing?
The people of color who understand the stats don’t need an article on it.
The folks who choose not to believe that the US is a land of opportunity for all and that the stats show it won’t be convinced with facts.
somebody needs to tell all those Haitians that they are entering nazi Germany because they certainly have other choices. But, of course they know that such nonsense is just that…nonsense. And, I believe they know it has nothing to do with government entitlements. It’s truly possible to work hard as do well in the US regardless of color or status. It’s an amazing country in that respect. May we never lose it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Ha ha ha.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I do not, but then again I can see the rationale to some degree.
If we are talking direct payments, the best approach to reparations would be to require direct payments from white, Latino, Asian, etc. people to specific African American families. It should be done in a way that there is visibility of who is paying and who is receiving. That way, when a poor Latino in tx has to contribute real $$$ to a black family living in a suburban community in DC on a civil servants salary and pension, we can see the lunacy of the policy.
There should be none of this government borrowing silliness, it should be today’s people paying today’s people, directly. Can’t pay? Have the government back the loan for the immediate payment and the Latina grandma stuck with the bill can pass that on to her kids.
The argument that somehow today’s people owe for the sins of yesterday’s people is an awfully regressive principle. It also presumes guilt, which is anti American.
If we are not talking direct payments, then I would include all aid programs disproportionately targeted to or accessed by slave descendants into account in the determination of future reparations.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yes that kinda gives us a measure of ourselves.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)You know? The envoy isn’t right. If it’s inhumane to return a person to their country of origin because the security situation of that entire country, then where does that leave us? Are all Haitians technically refugees? Even those who have not lived in Haiti for the past year? Do we just declare Haiti an American protectorate?
It’s silly. We are not obligated to open our borders for people who will not demand better government in their own country. Importing a humanitarian crisis is not a part of the deal.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Good game. I’m really liking our qb. I really dislike it when we take him out of the game to run wildcat.
Arrow up on wins for the year.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=5298]Maybe not since the 60’s. I’d say we were unified in WWII, the Depression, the 1950s, WWI, and earlier.[/quote]
That’s likely just airbrushed memory. Lots of political division existed in each of those times. Even during WWII there were significant forces resisting the war effort. We just don’t hear about them much because success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Not sure what qualifies as treason these days, but it’s certainly conduct unbecoming if he was contacting foreign militaries with assurances outside the chain of command, I would think. I mean, play this down…If an admiral in the south china sea decided to call his counterpart and let them know that “there is no attack coming,” what could possibly be the motivation for it?
How is this different? I’m not outraged at all, but I’m genuinely curious what the utility is of Milley calling his PLA counterpart outside the chain of command?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A true American hero. He was clearly Preventing the nuclear Holocaust that Trump was set on creating. I mean, everybody knows Trump was a warmonger.
And it’s worth a chuckle that he had to call general li.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Good point on the pilot demographics. There are plenty of issues of demographics in the Covid era. Maybe we will have cooler heads prevail and get people vaccinated while also expecting them to live healthier lives.
In a lot of ways, Covid is a judgment disease. It comes after people who have poor self care habits HARD.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m w/ GR. We’ve been a hot mess since our founding, we just don’t want to admit it.
For every person who pines for the 50’s there’s someone who reminds us of the Red Scare and Brown v. BOE Topeka.
You want the 60’s? I give you vietnam. Wait, no that was the Democrats.
How about the 70’s? More Vietnam (the Republican flavor), stagflation and the rise of Japan.
80’s were great? I offer you conflicting views of the arms race, Iran, Beirut, etc.
What about the 90’s? Criminal justice reform, welfare reform, the contract with America, and the first politician in America I ever personally heard called a fascist (Gingrich).
I don’t need to go beyond that. We’ve always been a mix of points of view. Some of them are toxic, some of them rational and reasonable. None of them ever were owned by one side of the political spectrum.
Unity doesn’t mean believing the same things, it means believing we can work as a country despite our differences. On that I’m less sure today than 10 years ago, and it’s only because of one thing: The balkanization of information sources. We have gone from espousing generally American values to cowering in our little corners of hate. That hurts us and our politicians relish it because it makes us tractable. See Covid as a prime example.
I keep this board going because I believe that occasionally we get people to come at issues from all sides. GR’s now infrequent drive bys are an example of that, and healthy for us.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Seems a bit political.
There are plenty of mandated vaccinations in the military, some of which are far riskier than the COVID vaccine (anthrax comes to mind). And for anyone watching, military members don’t have “constitutional rights” per se. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the government can or should do anything it wants, but it isn’t like joe schmo on the street.
The note about the vaccine killing “thousands” is disingenuous. The avoided loss of life from the vaccine is far, far beyond the losses of life even peripherally related to the vaccine itself. Reminds me of my old neighbor who wouldn’t wear a seatbelt because somebody got hung by one once in a rollover accident.
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