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Wednesday, August 17. 2022

Wednesday morning links

On Rich Friends and Poor Friends


 UVA student paper demands removal of all things Thomas Jefferson


 Boston Children's Hospital supports castrating kids and I have evidence


 Rents for One-Bedroom Apartments in Manhattan Hit a Record High of $5,100 in July. Here’s Why


 Supreme Court sets date for UNC, Harvard affirmative action cases


 Mick Mulvaney, Laura Ingraham reach the same conclusion - Trump policies are good but drama is bad


TDS persists 


 How can people be so insane when it comes to Donald Trump?


People were just as insane about Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 


 Most illegal immigrants do not qualify for US asylum


 Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive


 Sri Lanka faces looming food crisis with stunted rice crop

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Most Presidents seem to have generated some insanity in their opposition. Those rumors about FDR letting the Pearl Harbor attack happen didn't start from nowhere. I doubt that 'stray voltage' is really that new a concept. It seems an outgrowth of the story about LBJ just wanting the sunuvabitch who opposed him to have to deny some false rumor. Carter seems to have been the last President who didn't appear to have some elements of insanity in opposition in the public record. I don't think it's an accident that he's also the last Democrat who had serious opposition from members of his own party.
#1 Christopher B on 2022-08-17 08:54 (Reply)
Clinton, while president, had pretty broad bipartisan support.
It wasn't until after the Lewinsky affair, and especially after he left office and his sordid past became known, that he became the boogeyman he is today.

Personally, I pity him more than anything, as a lot of his problems stem from his sociopath wife (though he's of course far from squeaky clean, I doubt he's a nice person) rather than the politics he ran with when in office.
#1.1 JTW on 2022-08-17 09:17 (Reply)
"People were just as insane about Nixon, Reagan, and Bush"

And I see a lot on the right now who've gone insane about them as well, claiming Bush and even Reagan were really far left liberals rather than conservatives (they are silent about Nixon, guess they ousted him long ago, fully on board with the Watergate hoax of planted evidence by the Clintons).

Seems a lot of the right has knee jerked to the far right even as the left has been running to the far left, leaving the center almost completely barren.
#2 JTW on 2022-08-17 09:14 (Reply)
I liked Reagan's policies other than his free trade rather than Trumps fair trade policy. Japan decimated the machine tool industry in America due to failure to protect US manufacturers machine designs from Japanese copies.

Bush #2 got my vote once. After that it was evident he did not fall far from the Bush #1 tree. Thousand points of light and NWO do not impress anyone but progressive authoritarians. The patriot act topped off the authoritarianism and we have been stuck with that legal trash ever since.
#2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-08-17 13:11 (Reply)
Why does "On Rich Friends and Poor Friends" open a link to Notepad?
#3 Jerryskids on 2022-08-17 09:17 (Reply)
I think he meant to link here:

https://www.commonsense.news/p/on-rich-friends-and-poor-friends

But made a typo.
#4 Erasmus on 2022-08-17 10:24 (Reply)
"Mick Mulvaney, Laura Ingraham reach the same conclusion"

Stupid! Yeah everyone would prefer a corrupt government of tyrannical politicians than someone who actually wants to make America great again but responds to his critics with mean tweets.
They never liked Trump, they were always opposed to him and cant even bring themselves to acknowledge both the good things Trump did and the terrible threat that the Democrat party reflects. We don't need these people, never turn your back on them
#5 OneGuy on 2022-08-17 10:32 (Reply)
The Mulvaney / Ingraham link isn't working either.

Coverage of politics by the media has always been polarized and extreme, and was a lot more scandalous in the past - at least with what was printed. It wasn't uncommon to publish the most flagrant lies about personal character, before libel laws were put in place.

What is more dangerous about today's themes is the insidious nature of the untruths. Today's stories and publishers are crafted to deceive readers with an artful false objectivity, and much more sophisticated about ignoring very salient facts that conflict with the tale that is being spun. The real stories lie in what is omitted. The easiest default to protect one's sanity is to simply ignore stories about people and ignore what these people say (or the reports of what they said), and instead watch what they do.

The phony Trump 'supporters' are coming out into the light now; like Mulvaney and Ingraham they're wagging their heads sorrowfully that Trump's policies were pretty good, yes, and the country was doing very well, yes, but he was just so destructive, so outrageous, we can't have him back. It's getting easier to know who his enemies are.

Which was more destructive: Trump's actions, or the Swamp's reaction to Trump, the obstructive campaign during his entire tenure, especially from inside the Administration? Who was more dangerous and intolerant, the slobs in red hats, or the mobs chasing them out of restaurants?

Almost 2 years on, the Beltway Swamp is still choking on him, trying cough him up like a hairball and get him out of their system. But the scorched earth around them didn't originate from Trump. The destruction is theirs to own, and it's still ongoing.
#6 Aggie on 2022-08-17 10:41 (Reply)
Even reporting on rather simple topics seems to stretch their ability to settle for all the truth.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/16/cbs-caught-scripting-fake-news-narrative-engineer-norah-odonnell/#more-236642
#6.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-08-17 13:29 (Reply)
In addition to more robberies, rapes and murders NYC now has a resurgence of polio brought to you by the immigration lobby.

I remember when the movie "escape from NY City" was fiction and not prediction.

Oh yeah! How's that sanctuary city thingy working out for you???
#7 IdahoBob on 2022-08-17 11:06 (Reply)
Sneak into this country illegally and our crooked politicians welcome you as part of the great replacement and give you free stuff, free housing, food, health care, and more. If you are a poor "real" American living on SS you get a meager retirement that is a mere fraction of what the illegals get. If you are a veteran or a disabled veteran you have to wait for months to get health care and if you are getting a disability check it is also a fraction of what is given to illegals.

When you see those heart warming stories on TV where the T to T charity provides a disabled veteran, someone who lost their legs and or arms in our endless wars, a home that accommodates their disability, remember this, the government didn't give them a home to live in!! But the government provides housing for illegals.

Why are we, our leaders, so stupid? When will we smarten up.
#8 JustMe on 2022-08-17 11:29 (Reply)
QUOTE:
How can people be so insane when it comes to Donald Trump?

Let's start with this:

QUOTE:
the economy was booming

Actually, the economy was in free-fall at the end of Trump's term. Furthermore, real GDP growth was the worst during his term than for any previous president since Hoover, with an average over four years of about 1%. And that was after throwing $2 trillion in tax cuts at it. Obama, on the other hand, inherited an economy in free-fall, but still managed an average of 1.6% growth. Meanwhile, deficits increased during Trump's term, while they decreased during Obama's.

QUOTE:
I got the impression that the statistics and mathematical models used had dramatically overrated the danger of the virus,"

More than a million Americans died during the pandemic.
#9 Zachriel on 2022-08-17 15:32 (Reply)
Trump's yearly average was 2.5% until the economy was shut down by the pandemic, a nearly unprecedented event.

But of course you know that, you're just picking your data to support your ideological position.

But you just keep doing that--it ensures no one will take seriously anything else you say.
#9.1 SK on 2022-08-17 16:02 (Reply)
SK: Trump's yearly average was 2.5% until the economy was shut down by the pandemic, a nearly unprecedented event.

But that wasn't the claim, was it? Here it is: "The economy was booming." Now, you can argue that some of the problem was out of Trump's control (though mangling the response certainly didn't help). But that wasn't the claim.

SK: But of course you know that, you're just picking your data to support your ideological position.

It's just the facts of the matter. He even threw $2 trillion into the economic heap.
#9.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-08-17 16:52 (Reply)
"He even threw $2 trillion into the economic heap."
Actually he didn't. Congress is the only part of government that can decide to spend money. Now who was in charge of congress??? Hmmmm!!!
#9.1.1.1 OneGuy on 2022-08-17 18:17 (Reply)
(((Quibble-DickZ))) still have a problem with how the government actually works. Not surprising since they hold child-like views of reality.

"That wasn't the claim". WAH!!! SEE WE GOTCHA!!!
#9.1.1.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-08-17 20:04 (Reply)
OneGuy: Actually he didn't. Congress is the only part of government that can decide to spend money. Now who was in charge of congress???

Republicans controlled both chambers of the Congress. The bill passed on party line votes, and only became law because Trump signed it into law.

In any case, the $2 trillion was very ineffective as a stimulus, and resulted in ballooning deficits.
#9.1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2022-08-17 22:08 (Reply)
Every budget since the Obama administration has been a "continuing resolution" all of which have contained the same "stimulus" budget that was in the original Obama budget. Every year it is the same waste of money to try to buy favors and grease palms. It will stay that way until the repubs side can obtain enough votes to put an end to the uniparty BS.
#9.1.1.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-08-17 22:17 (Reply)
indyjonesouthere: Every budget since the Obama administration has been a "continuing resolution" all of which have contained the same "stimulus" budget that was in the original Obama budget.

Actually, continuing resolutions have been a staple of the federal government since at least the Bush administration, which saw no fewer than twenty continuing resolutions. In any case, that doesn't address the false claim that "the economy was booming" during the Trump presidency.
#9.1.1.1.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2022-08-18 06:50 (Reply)
Trump the Revelator threatened to upset the corruption uber alles apple cart and derail the Long March that started under esteemed CPUSA party member comrade commissar FDR.
Now that inflation is cancelled by Brandon we will have high speed rail and infrastructure upgrade for all comrades of the glorious unity collective and we is going to the moon to build a space station. Yes we can!
#10 Trotsky's Pick Axe on 2022-08-17 15:53 (Reply)
Humanity somehow had to crawl and scratch its way out of barbarism. People like Jefferson helped it happen. The Woke declare that only historical figures as enlightened as they think they are can be recognized. There are no such figures.
#11 cc on 2022-08-17 20:27 (Reply)

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