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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There isn't an easy/direct way to fix inflation jumping up and down in different sectors or staying high in core sectors (like food), Sure there is. Institute government price controls on food.
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KillHour posted:Sure there is. Institute government price controls on food. Eh, I think Alan Garcia would disagree with you on this...
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haveblue posted:And with good reason, didn't Sessions immediately reverse this policy on his own authority? The reason many banks don't want to handle it is not just because of scheduling or a possible reversal. Even descheduled, a lot of cannabis products are flaunting other regulations (like basically all of them) and it's hard to tell where the money is coming and going because there are so many, ah, I think the current euphemism is "international legacy enterprises" involved. A national market for a product with existing illegal channels and billions of dollars in new investor entrants (many of whom are themselves not interested in compliance or due diligence) means it's been great for laundering.
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Angry_Ed posted:Larry Summers continuing his unbeaten streak of always being wrong. Already forgetting the GOAT, Bill Kristol.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden has approved an overhaul of the military's justice and judicial system. This is an excellent change in my opinion. Commanding officers are too close to the situation. They’ll never want to give it up to a third party, but they should. It’s not going to solve the problem. But this is better.
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Yeah. One of the reasons sexual assault is so pervasive in the military is because commanders have so much discretion to just cover things up.
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Discendo Vox posted:The reason many banks don't want to handle it is not just because of scheduling or a possible reversal. Even descheduled, a lot of cannabis products are flaunting other regulations (like basically all of them) and it's hard to tell where the money is coming and going because there are so many, ah, I think the current euphemism is "international legacy enterprises" involved. A national market for a product with existing illegal channels and billions of dollars in new investor entrants (many of whom are themselves not interested in compliance or due diligence) means it's been great for laundering. Wait are “international legacy enterprises” the CIA here?
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Sort of. He can't proclaim that its legal, he doesn't have direct authority to do so. It's under the control of the bureaucracy so he only has the control over it in terms of appointees to top level positions. Sounds like a good issue for Biden to take up during an election year.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Biden has approved an overhaul of the military's justice and judicial system. Unironic lets go Dark Brandon! These are fantastic changes, every one of them great.
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Incoming "WOKE MILITARY!!! How dare you Joe loving BIDEN!! How can men expect unit cohesion with these rules STRANGLING THEM!! Rape is the historical reward for a soldier!!!!" ...oh....oh no I just realized someone, some unhinged freak out there, will say this unironically.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Incoming "WOKE MILITARY!!! How dare you Joe loving BIDEN!! How can men expect unit cohesion with these rules STRANGLING THEM!! Rape is the historical reward for a soldier!!!!" Will? The rule of this era is if you can imagine some phrase that is horribly unhinged, bigoted and fully mask-off, it has already been uttered in earnest. Let's call it Rule SS; it's like Rule 34, except instead of obscure nerd porn it's fascist discourse.
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biden has acknowledged that he has a seventh grandchild, ending one bit of pointless gossip rag drama and setting the stage for the next phase of her life where rightwing talk show hosts call her ugly
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Incoming "WOKE MILITARY!!! How dare you Joe loving BIDEN!! How can men expect unit cohesion with these rules STRANGLING THEM!! Rape is the historical reward for a soldier!!!!" I'm not even sure it needs to be said ironically as preemptive satire.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:biden has acknowledged that he has a seventh grandchild, ending one bit of pointless gossip rag drama and setting the stage for the next phase of her life where rightwing talk show hosts call her ugly Can't wait for the hearings over how she hasn't paid a dime in taxes
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Gyges posted:Can't wait for the hearings over how she hasn't paid a dime in taxes did she file her individual tax return on 1st birthday
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Eric Swalwell to Kevin McCarthy, on the floor of the House, after the latter leads a successful vote to censure Adam Schiff for investigating Trump while in charge of the House Intelligence Committee:quote:This is pathetic. You’re weak. You're a weak man. Kevin McCarthy to Eric Swalwell, the next day, in a chance encounter outside the House bathroom: quote:If you ever say something like that to me again, I’m gonna kick the poo poo out of you. Swalwell: quote:Are we really gonna do this? McCarthy: quote:Call me a pussy again, and I’ll kick your rear end. Swalwell: quote:You. Are. A. Pussy. No asskicking has been reported. This has been your daily reminder that while half of Congress is mouldering corpses, the other half are literal children
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Kevin McCarthy was a man born to be stuffed into a locker.
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McCarthy kind of played himself there by issuing an ultimatum he couldn't even remotely follow up on. What was he going to do, start swinging right there and then?
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Kavros posted:McCarthy kind of played himself there by issuing an ultimatum he couldn't even remotely follow up on. What was he going to do, start swinging right there and then? McCarthy strikes me as a guy who doesn't really think things through.
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Kavros posted:McCarthy kind of played himself there by issuing an ultimatum he couldn't even remotely follow up on. What was he going to do, start swinging right there and then? If he had, almost all his legitimacy and power issues would be out the door. Punching an "arch liberal" like Swalwell would have made him a right wing hero. Sadly for him, Kevin McCarthy is as cowardly as he is dumb.
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Kavros posted:McCarthy kind of played himself there by issuing an ultimatum he couldn't even remotely follow up on. What was he going to do, start swinging right there and then? He's gonna wait til recess and then get him out by the monkey bars.
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It's been a minute since we've checked in on Matt Stoller to see how he's doing. You may remember a smattering of his past escapades:
You may wonder what business Stoller has telling people which bigots they must ally with in service of constraining corporate power, but as the Harvard-legacy son of Prudential Services' First VP of Sales during its $8b fraud he knows a thing or two about abusive corporate power (like how it funds an awesome childhood, or makes his dad's previous work as a tax attorney for Exxon look positively benign in comparison). And now, he's back with a new fascist fave and an oped in the private equity owned Politco (perhaps the quo of the positively fawning https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1684942302404345856 It's another log on his bonfire that labor, the left, and populists ought to ally with bigots. Fortunately, he plays all the hits inventing common cause between bigots and labor posted:Corporate power, in other words, can keep a nation divided. A nonsensical sinophobic aside that he must have fought with an editor to keep posted:In addition, it is now a global empire and has to protect its significant investments in China by offering obsequious gestures to the Chinese government. one of these things is not like the other posted:The rise of imperial Disney and its vast bargaining leverage has led to considerable fallout. One consequence is simply that Disney, like all giant streaming firms, has reduced its payout to writers, producers, directors, actors, movie theaters and suppliers. The strike consuming Hollywood is a reaction to this dynamic. Another is that the company has raised ticket prices at its theme parks for consumers and eliminated perks that longstanding Disney fans appreciated. A third is that the firm’s creative energy is dissipating, with an endless surfeit of Marvel movies. And fourth, it wields its cultural power in clumsy ways that angered and annoyed large swaths of the public, first by holding its fire on Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law and then by firmly opposing it. Well, actually posted:In other words, the fury directed at the House of Mouse isn’t about Disney, per se; it’s about the end of antitrust enforcement and regulations designed to keep markets open, a shift that’s happened across industries. an ...interesting... take on American political, racial, and social history posted:In the 1880s, populists — a multi-racial movement of farmers in the Midwest and South — wanted to tackle the creeping corporate power that was arising all around them. They saw as a distraction the elevation of 19th century culture war issues, mostly anchored in the post-Civil War political campaign tactics of “waving the bloody shirt” to get voters to remain loyal to either Democrats (the Confederacy) or Republicans (the Union). Guinnessian understatement posted:The right and left disagree on much, but both think Disney is too powerful. A call to alliance that can no longer be described as reluctant posted:Despite the strike from the left and political assault from the right, Disney’s leadership remains relatively unfazed, because neither attack is enough to win on its own. Despite their mutual suspicions, the right and left will need to work together if they have any hope of securing real change.
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Paracaidas posted:Matt Stoller Why cant I be a nationalist and a socialist *beat* Ohhhhhhh right. "How dare they demand I treat others with basic decency regardless of race, its so unreasonable" Not to mention modern populism is just another word for Nazi. "I don't want to do terrible things myself but the people in my rally audiences demand it".
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Barrel Cactaur posted:Why cant I be a nationalist and a socialist *beat* Ohhhhhhh right. modern populism in practice stole the best definition yet of conservatism. the mob is that which must be protected but not bound by the law, and the Evil Woke Forces they stand against must be bound but not protected
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Gyges posted:Sadly for him, Kevin McCarthy is as cowardly as he is dumb. He's . . . he's a pussy?
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OctaMurk posted:He's . . . he's a pussy? McCarthy would like to issue a correction: he didn't have to hand it to swalwell, but he did (along with his lunch money)
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quote:Former Attorney General Bill Barr, who once served as one of Donald Trump's closest allies, said he would "jump off a bridge" if the former President became the 2024 Republican nominee against Joe Biden https://radaronline.com/p/bill-barr-jump-off-a-bridge-donald-trump-2024-republican-nominee/ 
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Harold Fjord posted:My personal opinion, having had a decade of experience in administering SNAP policy over the course of which I was personally paid approximately 400k, is to streamline requirements and reduce administrative overhead by just giving everyone $250 a month. My job shouldn't have had to exist. Old thread but I just wanted to share my own experience: I had to do a phone interview once to renew SNAP and one of the questions was something like "Do you trade food for rent?" Because I am a pretty honest person I was like "Uhhh...", at which point they repeated the question with an obvious overtone of "Just say no, you idiot." 
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Trump is beating DeSantis in the polling 54-17. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/2024-poll-nyt-siena-trump-republicans.html Difficult to see how DeSantis wins the nomination at this point, even with timely help from the wheels of justice.
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His campaign was hosed as soon as ol' Donny Trump didn't die or fade away. It's just that DeSantis has been making a possible 2028 run harder and harder every day. It's just not clear if he's too stupid to realize, or if he'd gone so far in on running this year that he painted himself into a corner. I mean a whole lot of his Florida poo poo is doomed to complete failure or blowing up by 2027.
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I keep getting paranoid that Desantis is going to have some John McCain like return from the dead and comeback to win the nomination. McCain in 08 was literally running his campaign on fumes, everyone thought he was out of it, and then he stormed back. Then again, I think 08 was more every other candidate dramatically loving up, and McCain slowly building momentum. Desantis has been loving up for a solid 6 months now.
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Yeah I don't think it's possible for Trump to gently caress it up for himself at this stage, no matter what dumb poo poo he does it will always be incorporated into the abstraction of UltraMAGA. He's the Kwisatz Haderach of racism, he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to
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Gyges posted:His campaign was hosed as soon as ol' Donny Trump didn't die or fade away. It's just that DeSantis has been making a possible 2028 run harder and harder every day. It's just not clear if he's too stupid to realize, or if he'd gone so far in on running this year that he painted himself into a corner. I mean a whole lot of his Florida poo poo is doomed to complete failure or blowing up by 2027. Trump dropping dead of obseity/long covid over the next 16 months is not implausible. If that happens he's in as good a position as any.
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Gyges posted:His campaign was hosed as soon as ol' Donny Trump didn't die or fade away. It's just that DeSantis has been making a possible 2028 run harder and harder every day. It's just not clear if he's too stupid to realize, or if he'd gone so far in on running this year that he painted himself into a corner. I mean a whole lot of his Florida poo poo is doomed to complete failure or blowing up by 2027. I think he's just striking while the grift iron is hot. He knows he's getting cheap pops with his wannabe culture war poo poo, but he's got to know that it isn't going to give him any sort of staying power as far as political relevance goes. He's probably just trying to grease the wheels for his future speaking tour/fox news contributorship.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I keep getting paranoid that Desantis is going to have some John McCain like return from the dead and comeback to win the nomination. McCain in 08 was literally running his campaign on fumes, everyone thought he was out of it, and then he stormed back. Then again, I think 08 was more every other candidate dramatically loving up, and McCain slowly building momentum. Desantis has been loving up for a solid 6 months now. What's Sarah Palin up to these days?
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Charlz Guybon posted:Trump dropping dead of obseity/long covid over the next 16 months is not implausible. If that happens he's in as good a position as any. As long as Big Orange hangs on long enough to actually get on the ballots, we almost certainly see a dead man win the primary. MAGA has fully merged with QAnon, and none of them will believe he's actually dead. If we go to the RNC with a corpse candidate, then we're going to get one hell of a night of long knives, and Pudding Ron's chances are probably even worse than they are now in that scenario. The only actual hope for the Republicans to elect someone else was for the field to be Trump and some mythic, credible not-Trump. In anything more than, at best, 3 candidates Trump has enough of a base to win in a FPTP system. Instead we have a clown car that is packed full of negative hopes, a no hope, and an infinitesimal hope.
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The best possible thing for DeSantis's chances in 2028 — and he'd already have a hell of a hill to climb anyway — would be getting the gently caress out of the race for 2024 as quickly as possible, but he can't because he's still in position to get the nomination if Trump ends up dead or in jail. Dude's locked in and the next, like, ten months are going to be one enormous kick in the dick after another. Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
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Gyges posted:As long as Big Orange hangs on long enough to actually get on the ballots, we almost certainly see a dead man win the primary. MAGA has fully merged with QAnon, and none of them will believe he's actually dead. If we go to the RNC with a corpse candidate, then we're going to get one hell of a night of long knives, and Pudding Ron's chances are probably even worse than they are now in that scenario. Even if it were too late to change the ballots, the RNC would have to announce who their electors are going to go to.
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