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Just the other day, my 14 year old daughter and I were laughing at a $227k Lamborghini SUV. Just the idea of one is ridiculous at best, and at that price tag, ludicrous at worst.
Wonder how she’d feel about a $12 million+ Rolls Royce Sweptail:
https://www.motor1.com/news/146815/rolls-royce-sweptail-expensive-ever/
“The fact remains that, had it not been for the coronavirus, in all likelihood, Trump would still be President.” You think the Chinese were smart enough to design and execute a plan to influence the election?
I think the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Panamanians and Pomeranians (and all other countries and dog species) all designed and executed plans to affect the 2020 American Presidential election. Everyone wanted a piece and they have for many years. In fact, I was in a London hotel room during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, and the BBC interviewed a (future) Karen in the City of London who opined on the 2008 American Presidential Election that “the problem with the American Presidential Election is that it is too consequential to be left solely up to Americans.” Looooooove that quote, almost as much as I love the fact that tons and tons of worldly American Elites feel basically the same way.
But that’s what’s behind the desire of countries to influence leadership votes in other countries, and Lord knows, we have had an outsized impact on the elections in other countries.
The question, to me, is not whether other countries designed and executed plans to affect the outcome of ourPresidential election. It’s whether they’re successful. Our naivete is striking in that we take such (hypocritical) offense at their efforts, though their interest in who becomes our President should be abundantly clear.
Don’t forget the fact that he had a scripted list of friendly reporters on which to call. Fox reporter didn’t get called on.
[quote quote=4503]Under Trump: Racist cages for kids Under Biden: Happy slumber parties (behind plastic walls) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/photos-crowded-migrant-holding-center-texas-democratic-congressman Jesus politics sucks. The Dems are painfully cynical on this topic.[/quote]
I don’t have the link, but the NYT has an article this morning on why news is all negative, even when there’s good news. They specifically pointed out a year’s worth of focus on bad news COVID-19 coverage.
Dear NYT: The real reason you focused on a year of bad news was because you were doing your level best to torpedo a sitting President. Amazingly, it took the combined efforts of the media elite, the political elite, the business elite and a once-in-a-century pandemic to torch what had been a very successful President (who is a genuinely bad guy, Orange Man Bad, I get all that.
I wonder if Stanford grad Rachel Maddow is ever even slightly embarrassed over her falsehoods?
She has no problem calling out Trump on his falsehoods, of which there are many. But I don’t recall any pre-2020 election retractions by any of the media or Mr. Brennan over their own falsehoods about Trump. And the fact that a journalist with both the background and leaning of Glenn Greenwald publishes this story is borderline unbelievable.
The fact remains that, had it not been for the coronavirus, in all likelihood, Trump would still be President.
Love those little surprises.
I can recall a diatribe written by a professor that fraternities were racist organizations. He went on at some length. The African American president of one of the school’s fraternities helpfully pointed out the fact that the demographics of the members of all fraternities on campus were considerably more diverse than the demographics of the University, and the fratprez offered to debate the professor on the topic in an open forum.
He’s still waiting. The prof declined to respond to the student’s response.
I would imagine that by more than doubling the minimum national wage (currently $7.25 per hour at the Federal level, though states tend to have their own levels. 21 states are either at the Federal minimum, or don’t mandate a minimum. Only DC has a $15 minimum. Another 21 states are between $10 and $13.50. CA is $13 and only Washington is higher at $13.50 minimum. The remainder are between $8 and $9.65.
The Economic 101 outcome is that both inflation and unemployment will rise. The Atlantic, naturally, disagrees:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/economism-and-the-minimum-wage/513155/
It’s hard to take this board seriously. Two Trump appointees are criticized for not simply being loyal subjects when their job is to rule on matters of law. And this is somehow evidence that our country is too woke and descending into liberal madness. or something like that. It’s hard to follow the logic here, so forgive me if I’m mischaracterizing.
You are mischaracterizing the comment in an almost unfathomable way.
(a) They are not being criticized for not being loyal subjects. They are criticized for not ruling on the law — and the separate comment was made indicating that judges appointed by Democrats tend to vote in lockstep, which is more characteristic of your character-assassinating comment.
(b) It wasn’t presented as evidence, it was presented as examples. You might want to return to your high school logic class for the difference between “evidence” and “example.” I realize that numbers are hard.
(c) A summer’s worth of rioting is claimed to be “mostly peaceful protest” by our lefty media, people lose their jobs because a small scattering of nitwits are offended, the new President wants to erase the old President with double the number of executive orders that Bad Man Orange issued — but he calls for “Unity.” Plus, the progressives don’t think Old Man Biden goes far enough. He ain’t their president.
So yeah, we’re descending into liberal madness.
[quote quote=4396]Our downward spiral is essentially accelerating with every compromise like this.[/quote]
Truer words. I don’t recognize America any more. Things are going to get interesting in ways that Progressives don’t understand.
A culture that will exploit a whack job 16 year old, as long as she’s anti-Trump. Bonus points for public shouting matches with Mommy who worked for Trump.
Gotta love American culture.
If you listen closely to the video (The Mandarin translation has been verified) the speaker is not shy at all about the horrible racial slur he makes about the powerful and wealthy China friendly Jewish woman who took care of things for his group in a Washington visit. She is likely close to Feinstein. Speaks fluent Mandarin, has been a resident of China for over 35 years. The speaker is not confessing anything but rather bragging about how easy it is to buy American influence. It’s a terrifying message of the control the CCP has over our politicians and Wall St.
Not remotely surprised in either instance. Over the past three decades, I’ve cultivated a fairly broad range of Chinese friends, acquaintances and business contacts. Both of my sons speak Mandarin. And the two prior paragraphs are completely correct, and what’s more, the Chinese I know are very up front about both: (a) The Chinese are virulently racist, at least compared with present-day Americans. or, in other words, they’re about the same as any other homogenous culture across time and geographies and (b) the Chinese — like all other cultures — try to accumulate influence at all levels for the betterment of their society, culture and companies. And they are flat out amazed that we’re not like that, because the rest of the world doesn’t give a damn about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
“Political correctness is America’s newest form of intolerance. It presents itself as fairness but has strict codes and rigid rules. Political Correctness is Fascism masquerading as manners.”
— George Carlin
I’ve been hearing that people who would otherwise not qualify for an immediate vaccine are signing up for vaccines in counties with high percentages of anti-vaxxers. Those counties are receiving a lockstep amount of the vaccine, and since there are so many anti-vaxxers in their counties, they tend to have extra vaccine.
Just FYI…
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/index.html
49 executive orders in the first fifteen days of Biden’s administration (per CNN). At the depths of the Great Depression, FDR did 30…in his entire first month. Of course, FDR won the popular vote in 1932 by almost 20%.
King Joe is making quite an impression with his government by fiat. And that’s with Democratic majorities in the Senate and the House. Good thing he doesn’t need Congress. He’s sure getting a lot done in the absence of any legislative discussions without having to talk to all those icky Republicans or paying any attention at all to 74 million Deplorable opinions.
