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Re: Grabby Joe Biden's Achilles Hand | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:58:02 -0000

On the other hand, if he thinks that half a loaf is better than none, and incremental change is better than nothing, then he will support Biden.

ROTFLMO...

The Sanders voter will be lucky if he gets a slice of bread from the Biden administration.

Re: Grabby Joe Biden's Achilles Hand | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:46:44 -0000

And the results of that performance are coming in: Courtesy of 538

U.S. Senate S.C.
MAR 3-11, 2020 brilliant corners Research & Strategies* 804 LV Harrison 43% 47% Graham Graham +4

If this poll is correct Graham a Republican Senator is ahead of an African American Democrat by a mere 4 points. That's a lot of damage, for an elected official who won his last election by 16.5 points.

Now it's only one poll, but it's not good...

Re: Grabby Joe Biden's Achilles Hand | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:48:42 -0000

I have a genuine question for you and others on the left. Why do you think a second Trump term is literally an existential threat to the Republic, such that secession or civil war might not be out of the question if he wins in November?

1. He and the Republican Party wrote a tax bill to deliberately hurt Blue States.
2. He is treating States differently in this crisis based upon how they voted in 2016 & 2018.
3. He is forcing the States to compete against each other to get Medical supplies which they should be getting from the Federal stockpile.
4. His policies or lack thereof are forcing States to create regional blocks to collaborate on Covid-19 issues without federal involvement.
5. McConnell is about to attempt to force States to declare bankruptcy.
6. I just saw the Governor of New York discuss how much Kentucky & Florida get from the Federal government more than they pitch. In my over 40 years of following politics, I have never seen an elected official even acknowledge that some states are givers and other are takers.

You are either the President of the United States of America, and all the States are treated the same, or you are the President of Red America, and then you get to deal with the consequences.

Re: 'Calexit' May Be A Long Way Off, But Balkanization Won't Be | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:54:20 -0000

PS whats wrong with Balkanization. Balkan states wanted their independence. Croats wanted Croatia, Serbs Serbia, Slovenians Slovenia, and so on

And every damn one of them is in the process of joining the EU or applying to join the EU.

Irony rules...

Re: Globalism: Lysol-Huffing For Elites | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:56:29 -0000

Germany went all in on biological Leninism during the 2015 refugee
crisis in order to explicitly signal its anti-populist commitments and,
by implication, it's dedication to the post-democratic expertocratic
governance.

Interesting way of describing humanitarian refugees created by US idiocy and Saudi policies...

Re: Globalism: Lysol-Huffing For Elites | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:49:41 -0000

Unless and until we can start telling the truth in this country, we will
continue to be blindsided by realities that our demented mendacities
hide from view.

The important thing to remember is that the American public has spent the last forty years voting for the politicians and policies that have led us where we are today. The problem is that the truth is so ugly that the majority of Americans doesn't want to hear it, nor do they want to face it.

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:12:45 -0000

And they would be wrong.

It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

Re: This is the Beginning of the End of U.S. Energy Independence

Don Quijote — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:04:41 -0000

Let me know when you expect Oil & Gas to be self sustaining without government subsidies?

Re: This is the Beginning of the End of U.S. Energy Independence

Don Quijote — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:05:26 -0000

Ever heard of Tesla...

Runs without OIL, lower cost of ownership over 5 years...

Over 40% of Kansas's electricity is produced by Wind farms, Iowa produced over 30% of it's electricity using Wind farms.

Wind & Solar are cheaper than oil or gas at this point, and we can produce all we need in the lower 48.

Renewable Energy Prices Hit Record Lows: How Can Utilities Benefit From Unstoppable Solar And Wind?

Wind power prices now lower than the cost of natural gas

You want energy independent, electrify & get rid of coal, oil & gas.

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:50:17 -0000

Apparently Germany is doing a decent job dealing with the virus as of today 150,000 cases and 5,000 deaths.

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:45:23 -0000

Mid-sized towns seem like a much better bet with their diversification and communal support.

I'd go even further and say a State College town is your best bet for survival, lots of young educated people with a wide range of skills, access to a quality library, usually a decent infrastructure and far enough from the major megalopolises.

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:30:07 -0000

The Democratic Party as it currently exist would be a center right party anywhere else in the world, the Republican Party is just batsh*t insane, they would rather burn the country down than let someone else govern it and when they do govern it, they do it incompetently and with malice.

The Democratic party has all the problems of a center right party, it's far too friendly to business and believes that there are free market solutions to all problems. It's unwilling to break up monopolies and oligopolies and looks the other way when large companies merge to create oligopolies.

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:20:21 -0000

No, it's not. We live in a two party system, no matter what happens (Assuming no major rewrite of the constitution) there will two parties in the future. The only question is how far to the right will the Republican Party go & how far to the left will the Democratic Party go?

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 07:14:12 -0000

Fox News, AON & Right Wing Radio

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 06:59:40 -0000

Although a lot of people work in these kind of jobs, I don't know how fundamental these industries are to the economy. We can survive without those services, but if the Wheaties and eggs stop being delivered, then there might be a problem

Those people buy a lot of eggs and Wheaties...If they stop buying the demand drops and the producers go out of business.

Re: Big Shorts & Failed States | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:09:06 -0000

He went on, “In the financial crisis, we won the war but lost the peace.” Instead of investing in infrastructure, education, and job retraining, we emphasized, via a central-bank policy of quantitative easing (what some people call printing money), the value of risk assets, like stocks. “We collectively fell in love with finance,” he said. Apparently, we’re still in love.

No, we did not...

but the Republican Party decided that any outcome was better than having a successful Obama administration. Once all legislation went into a total freeze, the only tool available to the US Government was monetary: low interest rates & cheap money.

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, quoted in National Journal, November 4, 2010

The Cost To Our Economy From Republican Obstruction And Sabotage

How many bills have been filibustered by Senate Republicans since
President Obama took office? Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein, in "All Filibusters, All the Time," writes, "The correct count of how many bills have been filibustered during Obama’s presidency is: approximately all of them."

Re: Why We Are Polarized | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:31:36 -0000

ural people don't go to the cities and try to tell them how to run things.

Really???
States Are Trying to Stop Cities From Raising Minimum Wage

Earlier this month, the New Orleans City Council took a big first step: It unanimously approved a resolution aimed at raising the city’s minimum wage. However, the resolution will be entirely symbolic unless Louisiana’s Republican state legislature gets out of the way. Instead of raising wages, the resolution urges legislators in Baton Rouge to change state law, which has prevented local governments from setting their own minimum wage since 1997.

The battle to block state preemption of local minimum wage laws

North Carolina is among the states with an hourly minimum wage of $7.25, a standard that hasn't been raised in 10 years. Though hiking the minimum wage would benefit over 1.6 million workers in the state, the Republican-controlled legislature has repeatedly refused to do so. At the same time, North Carolina is among 25 states that have passed laws preempting local governments from raising the minimum wage in their jurisdictions. The only states in the South without such minimum-wage preemption laws are Virginia and West Virginia.

Preemption conflicts between state and local governments

From the looks of it Rural people have no problems using State government to impose their laws upon the Cities...

Re: Why We Are Polarized | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:06:22 -0000

I don't disagree... and yet, he's gotten *far more done* than any recent politician, in terms of the things his supporters actually want. Pretty crazy, really.

Please make a list of these things that he has gotten done, and when you're done with that list, make a list of the things of what he has done that will not be reversed by the next Democratic president within 6 month of said president assuming office.

Re: We Live In Dangerous Times | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:59:05 -0000

In the past virtually all Americans went through a phase of either living at college, military service or both.

I seriously doubt that, prior to WWII no more than 10% went to college.

Educational Attainment by Race and Hispanic Origin, 1940-2014

As for the military:

Like any President, FDR’s foremost responsibility was to maintain the security of the United States against possible attack. Given the threats posed by fascist Germany and Japan, the relative size of our armed forces in comparison with other states and the reluctance of an “isolationist” Congress to authorize military expenditures in peacetime, this proved to be no easy task. Indeed, in June of 1939 the roughly 180,000-man US Army ranked 19th in the world-smaller than Portugal’s! To bolster America’s security, FDR not only called for an increase in the size of the nation’s military budget, and the repeal of the arms embargo provisions within the 1930s neutrality legislation, he also quietly sought to strengthen America’s ties with Great Britain-the one nation whose combined military, political and economic strength might serve as a bulwark against a possible Axis aggression in the Western Hemisphere.

You'll have to define "in the past", because prior to WWII very few people went to college, and only a slightly larger number joined the military...

Re: We Live In Dangerous Times | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:36:31 -0000

Second Amendment uber alles...

After you see that, you wonder why there isn't more demand for gun control...

On the bright side, if we're lucky the virus will spread thru that community and make them all sick.

Re: Pandemic Diaries 26 | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:21:03 -0000

True, I don’t expect much from the Tories.

The thing to remember is that they didn't get where they are by magic, their policies are probably very good for the top 20 to 30% of the population, their other voters didn't vote for them for good old fashion greed...

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr.
Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the
people he needs to be hurting.”

Not an unusual attitude among right wingers.

Re: Pandemic Diaries 26 | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:29:59 -0000

One thing that will, I think, emerge from all of this is that Tory hostility to the public sector and to the social (“ there’s no such thing as society”) will hopefully be reversed. All ten of the doctors who have died have been BAME doctors. So, hopefully some of the nastier attitudes to non- whites that were emerging post- 2016 will also bechecked.

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you...

The only consistent and popular position all right wing parties have is animosity towards minorities & immigrants.

Re: A Wise Ruling In Texas Abortion Case | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:56:26 -0000

If you can't tell the difference between a 12 week fetus and a six month old baby, I can't help you.

But the cost of a child born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) will send you and most people to the poor house.
MINNESOTA TODDLER WITH RARE GENETIC DISORDER WHO RECEIVED WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE DRUG IS NOW WALKING

The gene therapy—which was developed by Novartis and recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—is known as Zolgensma. It has proven controversial due to the eye-watering price tag of $2.1 million per patient, which makes it the world's most expensive drug.

Re: A Wise Ruling In Texas Abortion Case | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:31:46 -0000

And the state of Texas will pay for the food, clothing, housing and other misceleanous cost involved in raising children?

Re: An Omen? | The American Conservative

Don Quijote — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:19:35 -0000

Unless they are in Florida...

‘It's a sh-- sandwich': Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump

Privately, Republicans admit that the $77.9 million system that is now failing Florida workers is doing exactly what Scott designed it to do — lower the state’s reported number of jobless claims after the great recession.

“It’s a sh-- sandwich, and it was designed that way by Scott,” said one DeSantis advisor. “It wasn’t about saving money. It was about making it harder for people to get benefits or keep benefits so that the unemployment numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about.”

ROTFLMAO

Another case of people getting exactly what they voted for, they just didn't think it would ever apply to them, only to those people...