Joe Ferguson forever

Sounds like mobster stuff to me

https://www.investopedia.com/us-debt-by-president-dollar-and-percentage-7371225

The SCOTUS decision is federal and thus a national ruling. Blue states will likely abide. Not so much for red states.

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/06/oil-prices-saudi-production-elections

What? Almost everyone loves Taylor! You're an outlier...but I guess that video could more accurately be described as satire...good, no? re employment data, even with overestimates and revisions, Biden's job creation has been impressive: https://www.wispolitics.com/2023/wisdems-on-13-5-million-jobs-created-under-president-biden/

He never has anything. Waste of space.

I don't agree with it anywhere. But with Alabama thumbing its nose at SCOTUS, their ruling is not having the desired effect. At least for now. As Frank said, this could easily be ruled contempt. Once again, "law and order" red states ignoring the law...

The SCOTUS case isn't about the act of voting (although that's another worthy topic - a national holiday on election day is a fine idea imo.). It's about gerrymandering so that there are no districts with a black majority. This is done by cutting and pasting the geography to meet their goals. Look at the district maps for Alabama and you'll see.

wrong again...gonna try for levity again. keep counting

See I can actually learn some cool stuff on the board a·bey·ance /əˈbāəns/ noun a state of temporary disuse or suspension very nice word! Is that used in banking frequently?

What no nazi trail reference or anti Zionist racist comment? Debate is not your thing.

yes, unlike R pols, we don't play down for the audience.

Is there a mercy rule in debate? It's like dunking the pretzel logic in a cold stella...

I understand and acknowledge...

ya know. I've tried to be funny at least a dozen times. The exaggeration remark was meant to be funny but went unappreciated. I'll try and do better... who tells us what? you mean like professors at liberal universities. Yes, "we" sit at the political science hero's feet in coffee shops and pubs absorbing every word without question or analysis...

Nice. Fold that really bad hand you tried to play. Better put, played so badly. It was embarrassing even for me. But Sherpa did himself proud.

"he Fed has its mandates, which are different, and some times at odds, for the billionth time." This was from my first linked CNBC article: "But the central bank’s leaders did not vote unanimously for the cut: Three Fed regional presidents voted against the move, two of whom have said they preferred to keep the funds rate unchanged.". And the first post was about a rate decrease, for the trillionth time for goodness sake. trump didn't't think they decreased it enough. wanted the rate at zero "or below..." And I'm still wondering how you and cali dude3 messed up a post about a rate decrease rather than a rate increase. Kinda makes one question YOUR expertise here. Oh and there's this from the Brookings institution: "The statute says nothing, however, about whether the President can “fire” the Board chair, effectively demoting him to being just one of the other governors. Other presidents have concluded that they lacked that authority, and there is good reason to think they were right. But we just don’t know: it’s legally uncertain." But you're quite certain of it. hmmm, who do I think knows more about the subject. Let me think.... https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-happens-if-trump-tries-to-fire-fed-chair-jerome-powell/ Here's the author of the piece. Care to compare your credentials to his? https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/petercb/ But you do0n't want to discuss it. So let's leave it right here.

not going anywhere. trump threatened to fire powell and publicly pressured him. Both were unprecedented in US history. There was serious debate whether he had the power to fire him. Given his disregard for laws, it's entirely possible that he would try to fire him. not surprised you don't wanna talk about it. And I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate... Oh, and Cali dude doesn't know decrease from increase. You failed to criticize that error but I'm happy to.

were you concerned about trump?

Do you think it's appropriate for the president to even attempt to pressure the fed chair?? Why try if it can have no effect. Ho3 do you know Powell wasn't feeling threatened? As I recall, trump threatened to replace him. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/22/trump-reportedly-wants-to-fire-fed-chair-powell.html The report said the Trump’s advisers have warned him against such a move, which has never been done by a president and it’s not even clear whether he has the legal authority to do so. White House and Fed spokespeople declined to comment to Bloomberg. But Trump has already broken with precedent through his repeated criticism in the second half of this year of the Fed and the chairman to the press and via Twitter, including this week before the central bank hiked rates. Other presidents privately tried to influence the Fed, but none did so in such a public and forceful matter. on the Issue of covid info timing that cali guy brought up, this timeline is interesting https://doggett.house.gov/media/blog-post/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-responses

what is Joe accused of? What evidence is there?

not nobody, no how! lot's of insiders knew about it including Sen Burr and others who profited from the pandemic after a closed meeting in Jan 2020. The CNBC article about the interest rate decreased (not raised, dummy) by the fed was Sept 2019. Is it possible trump knew the covid intelligence ahead of Burr? Bur said at the time that a framework was in place to address the pandemic. How long doe you think it took to develop that (terrible framework)?rDo you think trump may have been briefed substantially earlier than Burr? The fact that you got wrong the direction of the rate change trump pressured the fed for nullifies everything you just typed On January 24, 2020, the Senate Committees on Health and Foreign Relations held a closed meeting with only Senators present to brief them about the COVID-19 outbreak and how it would affect the United States.[2][3] Following the meeting Senator Kelly Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, made twenty-seven transactions to sell stock worth between $1,275,000 and $3,100,000 and two transactions to buy stock in Citrix Systems which saw an increase following the correction.[2] Senator David Perdue made a series of 112 transactions with stocks sold for around $825,000 and bought stocks worth $1.8 million. Perdue started buying around $185,000 in stock in DuPont, a company that makes personal protective equipment, on the same day as the Senate briefing up to March 2.[4][5] Additionally, John Hoeven of North Dakota purchased $250,000 in health science companies in January, five days after attending a briefing about the pandemic.[6] On January 31 and February 18, Dianne Feinstein sold stock in Allogene Therapeutics, with the estimated value to be between $1.5 million and $6 million.[7] According to Feinstein, the investment decisions are made by her husband, and are reported by her per Senate rules. She states that “this company is unrelated to any work on the coronavirus and the sale was unrelated to the situation.”[8] Feinstein also reportedly provided documents to the FBI related to her husband's transactions, in order to show that she had no connection to the decision.[9] On February 7, Senator Burr, the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stated in an open-editorial on how the government could respond to coronavirus that "Luckily, we have a framework in place that has put us in a better position than any other country to respond to a public health threat, like the coronavirus," However, on February 13, he and his wife sold between $628,000 and $1.7 million worth of stock through thirty-three transactions and on February 27, Burr stated that "There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," at a Capitol Hill Club luncheon and his statement was later leaked in a secret recording.[10][11

I don't know how many times we liberals need to tell you, prosecute the hell out of him. we r all for it. but what if the payment from kushner to the Saudi's was US secrets?

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/

nope. what did the Saudi's get in return? why did kushner get a top security clearance and use it to frequently access documents? the link was posted here earlier by billsy, I believe.