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“Trump should have been indicted and tried on treason and sedition charges a year ago. As I wrote in another post, the only reason it hasn’t happened is that Biden needs him.”
So after 2 failed impeachments and The Mueller Investigation, now you are saying that with a very strong case for treason and sedition, Democrats are going to let that slide because Biden needs Trump for 2024?
Bidens’ own party doesn’t want Biden to run. How do you square that? Kamala who?
Democrats won’t indict Trump because they don’t have a case. What they do have is a made for TV Jan 6 presentation of information that has been edited or omitted . The average Democrat is not feeling too hot right now so the Jan 6 show might help a little. I’d rather see him go to trial and have the matter settled. But, they will kick that can down the road to the AG.
I do expect to see the Republicans impeach Biden next year.
Yes. Likely to go on for years. The great inflation of the 70s began in 1972 and by 1980 it was 14%. Interest rates went to 20%.
I saw Volcker speak at the 1983 Dartmouth commencement. His words.
“The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul A. Volcker, today defended the Federal Reserve’s ”pragmatic” approach to economic problems, and urged Dartmouth College’s class of 1983 to ”retain a health skepticism about single dramatic answers.”
”Some indulge in the hope or the conviction that monetary policy, if only conducted just right, alone could somehow make it all come out appropriately,” Mr. Volcker said.
”In the end, the creation of more money, or less, isn’t going to solve the budgetary problem,” he added. ”That requires hard action to reduce expenditures or increase revenues in real terms.”
Milton Friedman said that “inflation is always a monetary problem”.
By that time Reagan was well into his first term and Congress passed the first of two huge tax reform packages. The first 1983 and second in 1885. By 1985 the economy was flying.
Thanks Mick. Do you think the uptick we are seeing in markets right now is the real deal or just a dead Brandon bounce?
And you have to wonder about Powell raising rates. One troubling number is that for every 1% increase in mortgages, you can figure about a 8% drop in property value. (I stand to be corrected on that). The political class wants high valuations so homeowners can get equity loans and juice the economy. And of course, get reelected in Nov. My 2 cents.
Jonathan Turley….On our national addiction to rage
“All three branches, having to be protected from enraged citizens on the left or the right.”
From Court Packing to Leaking to Doxing: White House Yields to a National Rage Addiction
Yes. Would seem to be fairly easy given the tight restrictions that USSC clerks are under regarding any material they are allowed to review because they are so closely monitored. They can’t leave the building with any print. Everything is destroyed daily.
Suppose it were a clerk of a conservative Justice. Would they have to recuse themselves? But if it were a liberal Justice would they do the same? So what are the odds that this is resolved quickly?
I also find it remarkable at how fast these protests were put together. Many within hours. Are they professional on-call protesters?
Nothing passes the smell test.
[quote quote=6058]But according to Jenn Psaki, this is a technical correction caused by businesses increasing inventory. Huh? I’m having trouble keeping up with the narrative. We have inflation because demand is outpacing supply of goods, but businesses are increasing inventory and depressing GDP? I thought I knew something about the economy, but I fail to see how this can happen.[/quote]
Little Redlyinghood when to Greenwich High School and got a degree in Sociology from Bill and Mary. She’s not paid for her informed opinion. She’s paid to sound like it. Listening to her clutters the mind.
[quote quote=6002]‘Insurrection’ is the usual hyperbole, in the same way that the opposition to Trump immediately after the election called itself ‘The Resistance’, shamelessly adopting the name of a group of individuals who took real risks and exhibited real courage. Which does not change the fact that Donald Trump committed palpable treason on January 6th, and should be made to pay for it. The numbers may not be all that large, but if that mob had managed to take a hostage – Nancy Pelosi, or someone – and this was a near thing – we would have been witness to a real banana republic disgrace. The sooner Trump is identified as the Aaron Burr successor he actually is, a traitor in the most basic definition of the word, the better off the GOP will be. (The hell with all this RINO nonsense – Trump is the poseur). As noted above, Trump is the Democrat’s best chance for 2024. Precisely the reason, in my cynical opinion, why the Biden Administration has not gone forward with a conventional prosecution.[/quote]
Let’s assume that Trump were tried for treason as you say.. How would you rule as to punishment? Death penalty? Hanging. Drawing, quartering? Would you follow with a similar indictment of Russian collusion participants?
As to hostage taking I’m sure Nancy Pelosi was running around looking for someone to tie her up but couldn’t find a willing insurrectionist. They must have forgotten to bring rope and firearms.
Speaking of banana republic insurrections. I’ve seen one up close. It’s not what you think. Dictator goes to Washington. While he’s away, political opposition takes over seat of government,. US decides to back dictator. He comes back and lands on airstrip with US troops already there standing at attention as he steps off chopper. We escort him back. A few oppo guys get arrested. A couple of years later same dictator killed in highly unusual plane crash. No one blinks.
Mick have you noticed that people once liberal now talk and behave like war mongering neo cons? And that conservatives now seem like liberals? It has happened almost overnight. Tucker Carlson has moved way left in many ways. The NYT is a mouthpiece for the military industrial establishment. Glen Greenwald talks like conservatives used to. Musk is what? A conservative free speech zealot and a global warming hawk?
Polls are not taking this weird shift into account. I know many people who have radically changed in their views. I don’t recognize them.
It is coming from social media by design I believe. And I don’t think you can poll it because it’s not issues. The polls are simply saying what everyone can see. Joe Biden is horrible.
Putin and Senator Rick Scott I might add. And Black Rock.
As your links point out large investors like Black Rock are buying 25% of the homes for rental purposes I suspect. I wonder what Black Rock would offer me for my property. I’m open to a big number. Cash or Bitcoin.
What do think the odds are that mortgage rates get to 10% given the velocity of the CPI? And if the FED does not raise them, then what happens?
Volker was really cold blooded about it. I still think he went too far.
Usually the housing market heats up when the rates start to rise but nothing yet.
A terrible precedent.[/quote]
I’d like see Chris Rock file charges and go after Smith in a monster civil suit. It will make these jerks and their wives think twice. You don’t have a civil society when you can sucker punch or slap anyone, anytime you feel like it. You will get anarchy.
Mean tweets, lol. Sounds quaint.
News flash. Ukraine is banning all wheat and grain exports vital to the global food supply. A two for one.
So right now who is under the most pressure?
- Ukraine President
- Putin
- Biden
- Israel for the new Iran friendly Nuclear deal.
- China. They just lost a lot of grain to feed their people.
This year is setting up as one for the record books. The longer it goes the more it goes sideways. Someone is going to miscalculate and my pick is door #3.
