The Democrat cartel

[sherpa]

2 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

I guess we must be in the minority here.

We faced a very dangerous new public health menace in America and the world in 2020. It looked for a time as if people would be staged in trailers outside hospitals (note: THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED in NYC), probably to die without ventilators to keep them alive. The economy faced collapse. The NBA and NHL held "bubble" tournaments. MLB was almost completely canceled. NFL games in empty stadiums. Schools went online.

Overkill? Who knows for sure. Restrictions were too tight in some areas, and surely went on too long. But this was kind of a new thing.

A couple years later, it was essentially over. The economy hadn't collapsed. Huge market interventions probably saved us from that. Amazing rapid development of vaccines and therapeutics. The response certainly wasn't perfect.

But even so ... we made it out the other side just fine! Surely there's something to celebrate here instead of miserably groaning like angry old men (umm, maybe that's what the are) about how the world has gone to hell in a hand basket.

Lighten up! Get a little perspective. The world survived, indeed, in many ways thrived. There are challenges. We will meet them.

 

And all that is the direct result of an agile, creative, responsive private sector that has been responsible for more human advancement than any in history.

It is not the result of our political system, which did cooperate.

Almost always better when politics stays out of it, and simply gets out of the way. 

[The Frankish Reich]

The constant harangue of social media is the only explanation I have for this:

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/18/americans-economy-bad-personal-finances-good

By the numbers: In the telephone survey of 1,818 adults Aug. 10-14, 71% of Americans described the economy as either not so good or poor. And 51% said it's getting worse.

But 60% said their financial situation is good or excellent.

 

Typically if you ask someone how his/her personal financial situation is and how the country's economy is doing, the answers will be the same.

This is a new phenomenon, and it's one I see echoed on this board all the time: I'm doing fine. I am going to London to watch the Bills game. I have a sparkling new EV that's the best thing since sliced bread. I am sailing from Florida to Maine. I am retiring in some kind of idyllic community where the weather is warm and the beer is cold. I am living the dream. Even if I'm working I'm working at home most of the time. Or if I'm not working at home I'm charging exorbitant rates to fix your water heater on a weekend!

Oh, but this country as a whole is going to hell! The economy is the worst ever. 

[wnyguy]

6 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

The constant harangue of social media is the only explanation I have for this:

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/18/americans-economy-bad-personal-finances-good

By the numbers: In the telephone survey of 1,818 adults Aug. 10-14, 71% of Americans described the economy as either not so good or poor. And 51% said it's getting worse.

But 60% said their financial situation is good or excellent.

 

Typically if you ask someone how his/her personal financial situation is and how the country's economy is doing, the answers will be the same.

This is a new phenomenon, and it's one I see echoed on this board all the time: I'm doing fine. I am going to London to watch the Bills game. I have a sparkling new EV that's the best thing since sliced bread. I am sailing from Florida to Maine. I am retiring in some kind of idyllic community where the weather is warm and the beer is cold. I am living the dream. Even if I'm working I'm working at home most of the time. Or if I'm not working at home I'm charging exorbitant rates to fix your water heater on a weekend!

Oh, but this country as a whole is going to hell! The economy is the worst ever. 

Come on Frankish, you're an intelligent guy, gas prices way up, food prices way up, cost of living is way up. And you are going to tell me that things are great? I live in this world and I can not agree.

[AlBUNDY4TDS]

1 hour ago, SUNY_amherst said:

 

yeah but broccoli costs 20 cents more, lets get angry and go to a klan rally

Maybe u should keep huffing glue.....seems to be a good fit.

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

1 hour ago, wnyguy said:

Oh thanks, yeah that pandemic ran it's course and the economy is booming. Booming, I say. (unless you want to go to a grocery store or put gas in your vehicle)

Right! Isn’t that the reason for all these union strikes-  Their money is going too far? 

[The Frankish Reich]

1 hour ago, wnyguy said:

Come on Frankish, you're an intelligent guy, gas prices way up, food prices way up, cost of living is way up. And you are going to tell me that things are great? I live in this world and I can not agree.

I don't deny that it is difficult for some people, particularly on the lower end of the economic spectrum. Those without savings but with credit card debt, etc. And they would be the people who would answer the survey questions consistently: "My personal economic situation is bad; the country's economy is bad."

I'm talking about the people who say I'm doing just fine (or even really, really well) but the economy as a whole stinks. I could understand a more nuanced answer like "but unfortunately there's a bunch of people who aren't sharing in the wealth who are struggling," but that's different than saying the economy overall is trash.

I still believe it is is constant drumbeat of negativity from social media and the new commentariat that causes people to say this without taking some time to reflect on what a bad economic picture overall really is.

[B-Man]

 

 

HERE WE GO: Clinton Global Initiative to Launch Network to Provide ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to War-Torn Ukraine

by Christina Laila

 

Here we go. The Clinton Global Initiative will launch a new network to provide ‘humanitarian aid’ to war-torn Ukraine.

 

Recall, that Bill Clinton last year announced the Clinton Global Initiative will be hosting a leadership summit in New York in September after a 5-year hiatus.

 

“This year’s meeting will focus on what it takes to keep going — to maintain and advance progress, in spite of the difficulties that arise, and increase our capacity to cross the divides and make common cause with one another wherever possible to build a stronger future for all,” the Clintons said in a letter to the CGI community.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/here-we-go-clinton-global-initiative-launch-network/

[B-Man]

 

 

 

                                   

 

 

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[Doc]

23 hours ago, B-Man said:

HERE WE GO: Clinton Global Initiative to Launch Network to Provide ‘Humanitarian Aid’ to War-Torn Ukraine

by Christina Laila

 

Here we go. The Clinton Global Initiative will launch a new network to provide ‘humanitarian aid’ to war-torn Ukraine.

 

Recall, that Bill Clinton last year announced the Clinton Global Initiative will be hosting a leadership summit in New York in September after a 5-year hiatus.

 

“This year’s meeting will focus on what it takes to keep going — to maintain and advance progress, in spite of the difficulties that arise, and increase our capacity to cross the divides and make common cause with one another wherever possible to build a stronger future for all,” the Clintons said in a letter to the CGI community.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/here-we-go-clinton-global-initiative-launch-network/

 

Man, took awhile to get that illegal server back up and running...

[B-Man]

 

 

Democrats Discover A New ‘Threat To Democracy’ — The U.S Constitution

Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board

 

We’ve been cataloging how the left has taken to labeling every candidate it doesn’t like and every policy it opposes a “threat to democracy.” But even we were surprised to see the U.S. Constitution itself added to the list of these threats. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said over the weekend that: “The Constitution has some profoundly anti-democratic, which is to say anti-democracy components, like the Electoral College and the two senators per state, for example.” Mind you, this aired on Sept. 15, just two days before Constitution Day, which this year marked the 236th anniversary of its signing.

 

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/09/21/democrats-discover-a-new-threat-to-democracy-the-u-s-constitution/

[B-Man]

 

 

Protect their own.

 

 

 

Ex-Intel Officials Who Signed The Infamous Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Keep Landing Gigs With The Biden Admin

by Jason Cohen

 

Several of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter casting doubt on the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 presidential election have ended up serving in roles with President Joe Biden’s administration.

 

In less than three years, the Biden administration has brought on six out of the 51 former intelligence official signatories of the October 2020 letter arguing that the leak of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Earlier this week, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) selected three signatories of the letter to join a federal “intelligence experts” national security group, according to an announcement on Tuesday. 

 

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe will be members of the new group, which will advise DHS on intelligence and national security matters including “terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology,” according to the DHS announcement. All of them signed onto the October 2020 letter casting doubt on the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop before the presidential election.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/24/hunter-biden-letter-intel-biden-admin/

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

Rather than clutter up the Obituaries thread with a bunch of politics I will put some of my thoughts on Senator Feinstein's passing here.

 

(sadly I have no expectations that the usual suspects will)

 

 

She should have retired years ago, when the democrat leaders brought her back from her latest hospitalization, just to get her vote,

it was a clear case of Elder Abuse.

 

The situation now will be very muddled.  Gavin will be pressured to fill the seat practically immediately, and the line of contenders who will claim their 'right' to it is already there.

 

IF he was smart he would assign himself. Getting him out of California, and setting up a 2028 run.

 

 

 

 

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Edited September 29, 2023 by B-Man

[B-Man]

 

 

No time to mourn.

 

Pressure is on Newsom to quickly appoint Feinstein’s temporary replacement

Politico, by Jeremy B White

 

The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein places Gov. Gavin Newsom under intense pressure to quickly name a replacement as a bitterly divided Congress votes on a spending plan in the coming hours to avert a government shutdown. Newsom had hoped to avoid the politically charged decision of selecting a second senator. But he will need to move swiftly as a budget standoff has the government on the verge of shutting down, and Senate Democrats could need every vote. The timing of Feinstein’s death — four months before a primary but more than a year before the end of her term

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/gavin-newsom-feinstein-replacement-00119043

 

 

 

[The Frankish Reich]

36 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

No time to mourn.

 

Pressure is on Newsom to quickly appoint Feinstein’s temporary replacement

Politico, by Jeremy B White

 

The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein places Gov. Gavin Newsom under intense pressure to quickly name a replacement as a bitterly divided Congress votes on a spending plan in the coming hours to avert a government shutdown. Newsom had hoped to avoid the politically charged decision of selecting a second senator. But he will need to move swiftly as a budget standoff has the government on the verge of shutting down, and Senate Democrats could need every vote. The timing of Feinstein’s death — four months before a primary but more than a year before the end of her term

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/gavin-newsom-feinstein-replacement-00119043

 

 

 

Gavin is now in an identity politics pickle!

Ordinarily you'd just appoint some boring career politician (often a white guy) to serve out the term and not get in the way of the primary contest. But no matter what he does, today's Democratic party will find fault with it for not ticking the right diversity box(es)

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

38 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

No time to mourn.

 

Pressure is on Newsom to quickly appoint Feinstein’s temporary replacement

Politico, by Jeremy B White

 

The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein places Gov. Gavin Newsom under intense pressure to quickly name a replacement as a bitterly divided Congress votes on a spending plan in the coming hours to avert a government shutdown. Newsom had hoped to avoid the politically charged decision of selecting a second senator. But he will need to move swiftly as a budget standoff has the government on the verge of shutting down, and Senate Democrats could need every vote. The timing of Feinstein’s death — four months before a primary but more than a year before the end of her term

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/gavin-newsom-feinstein-replacement-00119043

 

 

 

He’s already formulated the basic candidate  requirements…. ‘must be black woman’.  So he’s already working on the backfill. 

[B-Man]

 

 

WILL GAVIN NEWSOM APPOINT HIMSELF? 

 

Dianne Feinstein dead at 90: Five-term senator and oldest member of Congress dies. 

 

I mean, at one point he promised to appoint a black woman, but he could always just identify as one.

 

 

Or he could name Kamala to get her out of the way for a Biden replacement.

 

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/dianne-feinstein-dead-90-five-term-senator-oldest-member-congress-dies

 

 

 

 

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Edited September 29, 2023 by B-Man

[Tiberius]

On 3/10/2021 at 8:01 AM, Unforgiven said:

 

Was this the consolation prize for being beaten to the 2 billion $$$ from the Saudis by Kushner? 

[B-Man]

12 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

 

 

 

Leave it to Tibs to respond with a (squirrel) question on a post from March 2021. . . . . . . 😆

 

 

Meanwhile,

 

Whom will Newsom appoint to fill Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat? What we know

 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-29/who-newsom-appoint-to-fill-dianne-feinsteins-senate-term-what-we-know

[B-Man]

 

 

Gov. Gavin Newsom chooses Laphonza Butler to fill Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat

Butler is the head of the group EMILY's List, which works to elect Democratic women. She will be the third Black woman in history to serve in the Senate.
 

</snip>
 

In California, the governor has the power to appoint a senator to serve until the next regularly scheduled statewide general election. That means Butler will serve until the next senator, whom voters will choose in the November 2024 election, is sworn in.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/gavin-newsom-laphonza-butler-fill-dianne-feinstein-senate-seat-rcna118052

 

 

[B-Man]

 

Geez, it was supposed to be a joke, but he almost fulfilled it.