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I think it's more the optics of administration toadies shouting MORE JOBS CREATED BY THAN ANYONE ELSE BUT GOD and WAGES RISING RISING RISING and NOTHING TO SEE HERE; KEEP IT MOVING and selectively citing rosy stats that rubs people the wrong way after they're paying double for gas and 50 percent more for groceries than they were a few years ago. and that's leaving aside the insane increases in housing & some material goods other than energy & food.
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Lib and let die posted:Cardi B was famously a supporter of Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary. You would do well to consider what the motivations of high profile Bernie people convincing you Biden is presiding over an economic recession might be. source ur quotes
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I don't think anyone is even saying the economy is "good" right now. Biden himself has been saying there are "problems" and "people are hurting" for the last month or two. My theory on this is that during the past 50ish years, and especially the 15 since the great recession, we have hollowed out the ability of a big fraction of the population to weather bad times and increased the reliance of the country on debt. So bad times show up sooner and last longer. Especially since the austerity hawks won the debate in 2008 based on a faulty excel spread sheet. If your past 15 years of existence have been somewhere between poverty and grinding precarity, a relatively small turn-down is going to feel a lot worse than a bigger turn-down when you are doing great. It is a very similar argument that others here are making across the income distribution, but instead across time.
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Jun 6, 2022 15:04
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Cardi B also agreed with Nikki Minaj - who thought that the Covid vaccine would give your balls gigantism - and thinks that rich people pay too much in taxes in America, so she might not be a great source for scientific, medical, or economic information.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Cardi B also agreed with Nikki Minaj - who thought that the Covid vaccine would give your balls gigantism - and thinks that rich people pay too much in taxes in America, so she might not be a great source for scientific, medical, or economic information.
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Jun 6, 2022 15:13
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Cardi B also agreed with Nikki Minaj - who thought that the Covid vaccine would give your balls gigantism - and thinks that rich people pay too much in taxes in America, so she might not be a great source for scientific, medical, or economic information. So she is the perfect example of an average American. Cardi B tweeting about a recession is just an example of the "narrative" going mainstream.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Cardi B also agreed with Nikki Minaj - who thought that the Covid vaccine would give your balls gigantism - and thinks that rich people pay too much in taxes in America, so she might not be a great source for scientific, medical, or economic information.
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SCOTUS continues to suck rear end and will continue to suck rear end https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1533814206339891200 Hey, let's take people's lawsuit money to repay medicare. If only this were going to be the worst decision dropped today. edit, turns out it was the worst of the day 
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Jun 6, 2022 15:19
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This decision seems to be good? https://twitter.com/scotusblog/status/1533816390209130496?s=21&t=ry72R0Al6DJu6T7Ow3hiTQ
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FlamingLiberal posted:This decision seems to be good? it is actually good. color me surprised. they also aren't releasing anything else today after this one. There are still 30 decisions to release.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:SCOTUS continues to suck rear end and will continue to suck rear end To be fair, the bankruptcy case is pretty clearly laid out in the law. The Supreme Court is just reaffirming the law because nobody had sued over it before. It just says that administrative bankruptcy is treated the same way as standard bankruptcy. It actually benefits people who have arbitration clauses in their contracts. The second one is Medicaid and not Medicare. This case is somewhat ambiguous, because the statute does have a prohibition on collecting from certain sources of income, but it doesn't specify beyond certain third-party sources. This specific provision of the law is poorly written and not clearly defined. So, you can easily read either side and it seems like they basically lined up in the "if it doesn't explicitly say it, then it doesn't count" vs "the intent was clearly X, even if it doesn't explicitly say it" camps. Sotomayor continues to be the best Justice and has gotten increasingly hostile towards the rest of the court in her dissents during the past year. This is the second time she has openly accused the other justices of dishonesty or being intentionally obtuse to twist the law in a dissent.
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Oh boy. Fetterman has another new detail about his heart that he left out before. Probably should have just dumped all of this at once instead of dripping it out over several weeks. He is going to be hospitalized even longer than expected and still has not completely recovered his ability to speak quickly or engage in full conversations. quote:Fetterman, currently Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, responded Friday with a more expansive written statement, making clear that he “almost died” from the stroke, was still not fully recovered and had seen the error of not taking prescribed medication to treat his heart condition starting in 2017. quote:His ability to have conversations rapidly has not fully recovered, though he is improving and doctors still predict a full recovery. This is obviously true, but is a pretty weak excuse for dripping it all out: quote:“We have no doctors on our campaign team,” said Rebecca Kirszner Katz, a senior adviser for the Fetterman campaign. “We have been learning about these conditions and explaining them in real time.” https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1533798657929125890
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:still has not completely recovered his ability to speak quickly or engage in full conversations. At least we have ample evidence that this is not a disqualification for being a Senator, he's just getting there ahead of schedule
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Oh boy. Fetterman has another new detail about his heart that he left out before.
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Lol they don't give a poo poo they just want to punch left. This is all we'll hear about this until the election.
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cat botherer posted:The Senate is filled with old/senile lich lords, but the media is razor-focused on Fetterman. His age alone gives him a much better prognosis on all of his health issues. Yeah, if anything he's even more qualified now to join the senate and its cohort of melting brains propped up by staffers and drugs.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Lol they don't give a poo poo they just want to punch left. This is all we'll hear about this until the election. The entire race is probably going to end up about his health now and not actual policy positions
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The only thing Sorkinite liberals love more than tut tutting good policy is watching a candidate they perceive as leftist lose to a fascist so they can smugly talk about how much they told you so. If they can actively help said candidate lose, even better. Lamb supporters are genuinely excited about Fetterman's health issues and they'll never shut up about it. There will be "we're thankful for senator fetterman but wouldn't a healthier senator lamb be better for America?" opeds if Fett wins.
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This also seems like good news, but I am not sure what impact it ultimately will have https://twitter.com/alizaidi46/status/1533809985540456448 Get yourself a heat pump if you don't have one. they're great.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:This also seems like good news, but I am not sure what impact it ultimately will have That is very good news for people looking to buy/install solar. But, ironically, the American solar manufacturing companies hate this because the reason the import controls were established was because China was suspected of violating trade rules to subsidize their solar panel manufacturers to drive U.S. companies out of business. This is basically giving China/anybody who wants to buy from them a 2-year waiver to do so while the compliant still goes through the process.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:This also seems like good news, but I am not sure what impact it ultimately will have I am ignorant of the DPA other than what I've read/heard about it since Trump's EO on ventilators etc. since and what I've just read on Wiki, but it seems like it's been invoked a lot over the last couple years--much more frequently than it has in the past. Considering nearly anything involving the economy could be construed as a "national security interest," are we likely to continue to see invocations of the DPA as a way of "correcting" the market?
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TipTow posted:... are we likely to continue to see invocations of the DPA as a way of "correcting" the market? Short answer: yes. Long answer: fuuuuuuck yes you are. and by "correcting" I hope you mean grifting.
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Use of the DPA will continue until we've recovered from every supply chain exploding in early 2020
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Mass shootings are happening so often in the U.S. that they are having to condense a dozen different mass shootings into a single news story about them to get the article out before the next shooting happens. https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1533818550418296834
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Short answer: yes. No, by "correcting" I meant "'the market' is loving dumb and does not, in fact, allocate resources efficiently or effectively'" but the grifting inference definitely works too, sure
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FlamingLiberal posted:Bingo His health is pretty important lol. This isn’t him having a heart attack and getting a stent placed, leaving cognitive abilities intact… they admit to lasting significant cognitive deficits, and that’s with favorable spin. I think the guy is okay and would still probably vote for him but having a stroke like this at 53, with a history of poor treatment compliance, doesn’t bode well for his future
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:His health is pretty important lol. This isn’t him having a heart attack and getting a stent placed, leaving cognitive abilities intact… they admit to lasting significant cognitive deficits, and that’s with favorable spin. So? We just elected the two oldest Presidents in US history consecutively. Our Speaker of the House is loving 82 years old. The last President obviously faked his own health checkups by hiring the real life equivalent of Dr. Nick from the Simpsons. No one gives a poo poo about a politician's health and anyone saying they care about Fetterman's health as it pertains to the question of "should he run for Office?" is immediately suspect.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:His health is pretty important lol. This isn’t him having a heart attack and getting a stent placed, leaving cognitive abilities intact… they admit to lasting significant cognitive deficits, and that’s with favorable spin. Yes, but normally when candidates fall ill during a race the party does their best to get the corpse across the finish line and then figure out the details since it's still winning the race and helps them out. News articles about how Democrat leadership are worried about his health are the exact thing you don't want as a party if your goal is to win a race. Now's the time for leadership to shut up and support the party candidate.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:That is very good news for people looking to buy/install solar. As an aside solar sales people are some of the most aggressive I've ever encountered. Probably #1 reason I've held off on getting a setup done because I want to gouge my eyes out every time I try to do research.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:So? We just elected the two oldest Presidents in US history consecutively. Our Speaker of the House is loving 82 years old. The last President obviously faked his own health checkups by hiring the real life equivalent of Dr. Nick from the Simpsons. No one gives a poo poo about a politician's health and anyone saying they care about Fetterman's health as it pertains to the question of "should he run for Office?" is immediately suspect. You're absolutely right that anyone who claims to give a poo poo is suspect, but this is still "other people did worse." It'd be a sincere concern in a country even a little less evil and dumb.
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The CRT and LGBT school panic issue has cascaded into new grounds. Now, schools are rejecting money for mental health services for students and dismantling existing student mental health services out of fear that they erode "parental rights" and might advise their kids to become gay or cause anxiety over their race. It's a long and detailed article, but pretty bonkers. The woman whose own daughter is clinically depressed and trying to find treatment that will take her insurance is still against it because she would rather not have her daughter get treatment than "erode parental rights" in school. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1533841281088102400 quote:A Mental Health Clinic in School? No, Thanks, Says the School Board
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Gumball Gumption posted:Yes, but normally when candidates fall ill during a race the party does their best to get the corpse across the finish line and then figure out the details since it's still winning the race and helps them out. News articles about how Democrat leadership are worried about his health are the exact thing you don't want as a party if your goal is to win a race. Now's the time for leadership to shut up and support the party candidate. Everyone in leadership in the article said they support him and aren't concerned. The only people who expressed concern were two consultants and a state legislator who said they were worried that Fetterman keeping this a secret for weeks and dripping the details out over time would erode his "transparent and straight talking image" with voters. The doctor from Harvard they quoted is the only one concerned for his life because he hasn't followed doctors' orders historically and it is life-threatening if he doesn't make lifestyle changes and take medication. But, he should be fine if he does that. I think even people who hate the doctor and love twinkies will recognize that they need to listen at this point. Especially since it is public now.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The CRT and LGBT school panic issue has cascaded into new grounds. White fragility is going to destroy everything.
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Jaxyon posted:As an aside solar sales people are some of the most aggressive I've ever encountered. Probably #1 reason I've held off on getting a setup done because I want to gouge my eyes out every time I try to do research. A solar company out of Utah hires almost exclusively Mormons because they’re used to going door to door and getting it slammed in their faces
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Jaxyon posted:White fragility is going to destroy everything. The weirdest thing is: what do these people imagine goes on during mental health treatment? "Oh, you're suffering from anxiety? Well, just throwing it out there, but: have you considered being gay? Or, if that's not for you, how 'bout a sex change? Either way, you should feel horrible about being white, that's really step one."
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PT6A posted:The weirdest thing is: what do these people imagine goes on during mental health treatment? What they are trying to destroy is the hint of a right-to-privacy for children and an institution that doesn't defer to parental authority in all cases. The ideology explains the actions.
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Beastie posted:A solar company out of Utah hires almost exclusively Mormons because they’re used to going door to door and getting it slammed in their faces You really think that's the reason?
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PT6A posted:The weirdest thing is: what do these people imagine goes on during mental health treatment? Whelp, sertraline and escitalopram both did nothing. What are your plans for pride?
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Jaxyon posted:White fragility is going to destroy everything. The dipshit that basically invented CRT as a fascist boogeyman openly admitted on twitter that CRT is a meaningless umbrella term for all their fascist grievances, and it was so by design. As always, fascists demonstrate that they don't have beliefs, only prejudices and anything they ever do or say is purely a tactic to hurt people they hate.
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The actual reason that solar power salespeople go door to door and are so aggressive is that, starting with the 2009 stimulus bill, the government would cover the upfront cost of panels with either a total grant or a 0% interest loan. Part of the agreement that the companies made was that the customer would give some of the electricity generated to the solar company for X years. So, every single sale was something that cost the company basically nothing and could generate a decent amount of revenue over 5, 10, or 15 years. They put together huge sales teams and paid them via commission, so the salespeople needed to close deals as fast as possible and they would get a good chunk of money for each sale. Since there was usually no or little upfront cost to the customer, they figured that investing in door to door sales would be worth it because the average person isn't going to call a solar installation company on a whim and there were no retail stores for them to walk in to. But, if you tell them there is no upfront cost, then they are likely to be open to direct sales.
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