POLITICAL THREAD

[Mike-McD]

It was 8.9 percent inflation in 1981 and never dropped below 3.8 percent inflation two years into Reagan's term. It was at 3.9 percent 4 years into his term.
That ain't Carter's economy 4 years in fool.
The current inflation rate is 2.4 percent as a reference. Good luck going much lower than that without a recession.
We will see what Trump does with the thriving economy he inherited.

U.S. Inflation Rate by Year: 1929 to 2024

By looking at the inflation rate each year, you can gain insight into how prices changed and how events around the globe impacted the average U.S. consumer.

www.investopedia.com

Soooooo...what you're saying is that inflation dropped FIVE POINTS in one year under Reagan. But you argued, at the time, that Reagan was President in 1980. So you're an idiot.

Oh, and the "current inflation rate" is being calculated by EXCLUDING things like groceries. So it's not a real number.

 

[Girthang]

Kimmel wasn't even funny on The Man Show. Adam Corolla had to carry his dead ass the entire time.

I only watched a few episodes that I thought had some funny moments. Kimmel was like watching sportscenter. Sportscenter would always show a UK highlight or mention UK and then not have a single bit of UK content on the show. Every time. Watching Kimmel or the Man Show was just like that. You got to the end and thought, I just wasted all that time. Gave it another shot 2x, once at a friend's place.

Never again

 

[Mike-McD]

Check out what he named his third kid with Grimes. You probably won’t get the reference at first, but do some googling.

Speak English, dummy.

And your counter argument is weeeeeeeak.

 

[Girthang]

Exactly. They better have people on the ground there that are documenting the cheat this time

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[Girthang]

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He's lying because he's paid to do so, just like all the rest of his associates and colleagues. Stop assuming they are stupid, have mommy issues, or are just asholes. Arrest the people they work for that are supporting/ ordering them to lie. They may very well have mommy issues like Kristol, but that's not their driving motivation

 

[sammysdad05]

wait... You think someone smeared shit on the walls? Was that just for added effect or are you admitting you just bought into all the BS? A 70 year old woman got 6 months for entering the capital over 1 hour after all the nonsense stopped. You assholes wanted scalps and just started pointing at people.

Yes they smeared poop on the wall. Google is your friend. Agree in some instances like the 70 year old woman that some sentences were heavy handed.

 

[Mdnerd]

3.9 inflation 4 years into Reagan's term ain't Carter's fault.
We currently have 2.4 percent inflation.
Good luck going lower than that without a recession. But Trump very well might find a way. Everything he touches turns to sh**.
Hopefully we don't end up with 14 percent unemployment like last time he was in office.

U.S. Inflation Rate by Year: 1929 to 2024

By looking at the inflation rate each year, you can gain insight into how prices changed and how events around the globe impacted the average U.S. consumer.

www.investopedia.com

Any point you try to make dies when you reference the 14%. You’re disingenuously pretending Covid didn’t happen and the economy wasn’t thriving at levels never seen before up to that point.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[Girthang]

Or maybe Bruce can go skiing with Bono (Sonny).

It would be even better if they went on that gameshow Fishin Wit Fredo

 

[HeismaNole]

There are some good nuggets in here.

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I don’t even know where the arrogance comes from. How could you possibly have such arrogance on how other people feel?

This isn’t sports. You have no idea how your neighbor feels but leftists never know anyone but their echo chamber.

 

[Girthang]

Mitch has never been a man of the people, unless we're talking about the people's republic. He's always about Mitch and money/power.

 

[Girthang]

Yep. Someone better have backed up the data and imaging and stored it already.

 

[cat_chaser]

Arizona is a swing state and it's not like she got her ass kicked either time, both losses were like 1%. Maybe a more popular candidate could've won, maybe not. Trump is 2 for 3 there, but that's Trump. Not everyone else necessarily can ride his momentum.

Exactly. Many of the same people telling us the GOP should’ve ran someone other than Lake were the same ones hyperventilating over Trump running again this go round.

I do wonder what those people think now. I remember several republican posters telling us we should be running someone else and if we were this race “wouldn’t be close”.

I’m curious if they still think that. And who they think could’ve ran the swing state table, won the popular vote, and delivered the house and senate? Anyone?

Ah, never mind. Time to put my frustration with those folks behind me. It’s a new dawn.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

I"ve watched that Homan/AOC video like 15 times. LOL

He has no use for her or her inane questions.

I am now a HUGE Tom Homan fan.

Those illegals are f***ed.

You are going to like this one too, he doesn't give a sh-t

"I'm a taxpayer. You work for me"

 

[cat_chaser]

It's unfathomable to me, the bitterness that some Republicans have for Donald Trump. The GOP would be cooling their heels in the morgue if it weren't for him.

Guess it all just comes down to him getting in the way of their money-making con games and/or, they're terrified of having an outsider poking around in their backyards because he might find one of the bodies.

I'll tell you though, I've never been as disgusted with a Kentucky politician as I am right now with Mitch McConnell.

I worked hard on his campaign in 1984, and I appreciate his efforts, getting a ton of Trump judges through, AND cock-blocking Garland/deciding to wait until after a new POTUS was elected (shew, he took a ton of flack for that) but other than that, he seems to be primarily concerned with kissing the Dems asses and padding his offshore account.

Same, my guy. My dad loved Mitch. He said he was the only politician who raised a finger to help my tiny little county get a new water treatment plant (largest financial project in its history) and a bypass (this was during my dads 8 years as CJ-E).

He HATED Bevin for that. Because you’d think the super conservative governor would wanna help out a super conservative county. Yet, dad had to rely on a US senator - which isn’t exactly in his job description to do so.

Also, Mitch went to the senate floor after my dads death and spoke of my father in a senate speech. He sent me and my brother the transcript of said speech for us to frame.

And now I can’t stand him 😞

 

[cole854]

Isn't the $1,000,000 fee Kamala paid Oprah a bribe or some sort of violation?

 

[Bill Cosby]

Cannot imagine how many billions of dollars are floating around behind the scenes to keep R senators on board with the establishment and blocking MAGA.

Reprehensible pieces of shit. Every one of them.

Voters sweep with the MAGA agenda, only to have it stopped on the goal line by wolves wearing Rs.

**** their secret vote.

 

[Mike-McD]

Isn't the $1,000,000 fee Kamala paid Oprah a bribe or some sort of violation?

Kamala spent a billion dollars. Assuming she spent $500M on TV ads, that would mean the buyer's fee was $75 Million. Somebody check if Emhoff was the buyer. If so, Kamala just made herself rich, and she can pay off her own campaign debt.

 

[BlueRunner11]

Mental disorder pandemic. Please wear the blue bracelets so I know who to avoid in public.

 

[Mike-McD]

Cannot imagine how many billions of dollars are floating around behind the scenes to keep R senators on board with the establishment and blocking MAGA.

Reprehensible pieces of shit. Every one of them.

Voters sweep with the MAGA agenda, only to have it stopped on the goal line by wolves wearing Rs.

**** their secret vote.

Trump just needs to go public with this. Declare war on the whole system. Burn it to the ground. He only has four years. Last time around, Mitch allowed the Democrats to slow walk ALL of his appointments. It took three years to fill all the spots and then his term was over.

 

[vhcat70]

It was 8.9 percent inflation in 1981 and never dropped below 3.8 percent inflation two years into Reagan's term. It was at 3.9 percent 4 years into his term.
That ain't Carter's economy 4 years in fool.
The current inflation rate is 2.4 percent as a reference. Good luck going much lower than that without a recession.
We will see what Trump does with the thriving economy he inherited.

U.S. Inflation Rate by Year: 1929 to 2024

By looking at the inflation rate each year, you can gain insight into how prices changed and how events around the globe impacted the average U.S. consumer.

www.investopedia.com

Reagan was coming off 9 years if inflation between 5 & 13% with the last four years being 9 to 13%. Net, way more baked in than when Biden came in. Getting it down to 4% was pretty remarkable.

 

[vhcat70]

Yep. Someone better have backed up the data and imaging and stored it already.

They're still trying to get PA.

 

[paulcalhoun]

Again, what would have happened had Pence just said yes and done it? We have no idea as it’s unprecedented. People would’ve picked sides depending on their position. Both sides would’ve been willing to fight to defend democracy and our country. Who uses force to dislodge who? What happens with the military? Everything is in play at that point.

You just demonstrated that you still have no understanding of what the situation actually was.

 

[cole854]

Mitch has never been a man of the people, unless we're talking about the people's republic. He's always about Mitch and money/power.

That isn't even remotely accurate.

 

[BlueRunner11]

Yes they smeared poop on the wall. Google is your friend. Agree in some instances like the 70 year old woman that some sentences were heavy handed.

Sounds like a total antifa move to me. Did they use their slingshots ?

 

[cat_chaser]

My top reasons for voting Trump:

Russian hoax - because no one was held to account.

Stolen 2020 election

Lawfare.

They simply couldn’t leave him well enough alone. America LOVES a great comeback story.

 

[Phil_The_Music]

Exactly. Many of the same people telling us the GOP should’ve ran someone other than Lake were the same ones hyperventilating over Trump running again this go round.

I do wonder what those people think now. I remember several republican posters telling us we should be running someone else and if we were this race “wouldn’t be close”.

I’m curious if they still think that. And who they think could’ve ran the swing state table, won the popular vote, and delivered the house and senate? Anyone?

Ah, never mind. Time to put my frustration with those folks behind me. It’s a new dawn.

I'll own it. I didn't think Trump could win big enough to overcome the cheating. Vivek was my pick. I'm glad I was wrong!

 

[cat_chaser]

I'll own it. I didn't think Trump could win big enough to overcome the cheating. Vivek was my pick. I'm glad I was wrong!

Oh, I didn’t think he could overcome the cheat either. But always backed him because he *deserved* a second chance at it.

I never thought they’d let him walk back into the White House……unless it was too big to rig.

I hounded all my friends in this state to vote for him. Didn’t care Kentucky was always a foregone conclusion, overwhelm the polls.

 

[Mike-McD]

That isn't even remotely accurate.

Yes, good. Defend the guy who cut a deal with Obama so Obamacare would pass the senate in 2010.

 

[Cold Stout Beer]

Sen. John Kennedy, the king of one-liners on Schumer not letting McCormick go to orientation.

"He's being petty and needs go file a hurt-feelings report."

 

[Bill Cosby]

Should be abundantly clear to anyone at this point you don’t survive as long as McConnell did in Washington, and rise to the top of the party, if you’re working for the people. A few crumbs to KY over the years doesn’t wash away his sins.

 

[cole854]

Yes, good. Defend the guy who cut a deal with Obama so Obamacare would pass the senate in 2010.

Obamacare hasn't been the devil we originally thought and has helped many. Were it not for Mitch, this country would not have the many conservative justices we do in all branches of the court system, inc. SCOTUS, and Garland would be wearing a robe. He has also helped this state financially quite often over the years. Defend him, yes, I will.

 

[Girthang]

This gets sillier by the day.....

'Skip Forward' Past Trump's Presidency With 4-Year, $250K Cruise -

Wow. Did you read the destinations? Great history tour for liberal socialists.

"Watch Democrat history unfold before your very eyes with stops at/in...

- the greatest surviving slave plantations in the Old South. 3 night stay in shackles and/or servant's quarters. Light meals and daily flogging.
- sail to Africa aboard an authentic replica slave ship from the 1600s, and be stolen from one Portuguese cargo hold and put into a British one! How exciting, right?! This is a leisurely cruise of approximately 80 days, where you'll almost never have to get up for any reason. Everything you need will be brought to you.
- from Africa we will travel through many Middle Eastern ports where you can take part in live slave auction reenactments. Don't worry about bringing money, though. You won't need it!
- from here we will disembark for 30-60 days and travel to mass grave sites throughout Stalin's Russia and Ukraine. See where millions were gunned down and buried in the name of socialism and communism. Reenactments you say? Of course there will be reenactments!
- You'll be shot with rubber bullets by Stalinist officials and buried alive for 2-5 minutes. Don't worry folks! We've got the bulldozer and backhoes working better now (no more mishaps)!
- after surviving your "harrowing" ordeal you'll be "starved" (symbolically of course) for 30 days, and harassed by the Azov Brigade in Ukraine, just as the Ukrainians were last century.
- from there you'll be given a cold, 3rd Reich welcome in Nazi Germany! Spend 3 extravagant days in Nazi death camps filled with socialist propaganda and actual political dissidents. Dress up like nazi guards and abuse dissenters and those of Christian AND Jewish religious faith! There's even a fake, gas chamber tour.
- from German waters we will set sail for the plush refinement of our new Banana Republic leg of our trip! Visit socialist utopias in Central and South America! Tours include the cocaine fields of Columbia and the oil fields and slums of Venezuela. Don't worry California and NY residents, we have something NEW for you, too! You can run drugs and rape mules with the cartels!
- our last leg of the tour will include various stops at the pillar of socialist/communist life, China and SE Asia! You'll work 12-14 hour days sorting plastics and making $300 shoes for $3 a day or a week, depending, and get bagged and dragged from your home for posting about Hong Kong on social media. How thrilling! There's even a "fake," tank crushing reenactment in the real Tianenman Square each day for a week, or until we run out of volunteers!
- optional Batan Death March weather permitting.
- optional Siberian gulag tour, also, weather permitting.
- pandemic hysteria reenactment (pending).
- Kremlin tours canceled until further notice, as NEastern Russia is just too capitalist at the moment.
- we return back to the US with a 3 week, all expenses paid, toiletry free stay on the streets of San Francisco, California. You'll enjoy roughing it with the locals as they bask in the glow of the newest socialist nation on the planet. See the future. LIVE the future, as you wander and tweak, scrounging for scraps in the garbage of some of the finest restaurants on the left coast! You'll even be rounded up in vans and moved to a new location, because of an official VIP, by Gavin Newsome or even Nancy Pelosi herself!
- from there you'll be whisked to Waco, TX to be faux burned alive after a 3 day "standoff"
- the eastern folks will move on to DC, while the west coast folks will enjoy a new "Trail of Tears" walk back to Cali, where they can help stage an insurrection! Dress your soy boy self up in MAGA gear that anyone can buy online, shout Trump slogans, and then "break into" the Capitol Building with an escort of security guards to make sure you're not mistaken as an ACTUAL insurrection, then choose between being shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, and/or being hit with flashbangs and arrested on one side of the building, OR tearing off your MAGA gear on the lawn on the other side and becoming part of the undercover team beating the crap out of and arresting people that are peaceful protestors! This tour finale is one you'll never forget!

By the time you get back, you won't recognize your country, but at least you'll know there are true shthole socialist utopias you can visit if you need a breath of fresh, burning flesh and charred capitalism!"

 

[Bill Cosby]

Obamacare hasn't been the devil we originally thought and has helped many. Were it not for Mitch, this country would not have the many conservative justices we do in all branches of the court system, inc. SCOTUS, and Garland would be wearing a robe. He has also helped this state financially quite often over the years. Defend him, yes, I will.

Which Justices (or judges) did McConnell have a hand in getting on the bench that have impressed you with their well thought out reasoning and conservative viewpoints?

 

[cole854]

Which Justices (or judges) did McConnell have a hand in getting on the bench that have impressed you with their well thought out reasoning and conservative viewpoints?

Hindsight is always better than the original, right? You can nit pick now all you want, but if you don't believe he has been the most influential person in helping shape the courts, then whatever. You also would not see this state have a RED leadership to keep Andy in check.

 

[HeismaNole]

Mental disorder pandemic. Please wear the blue bracelets so I know who to avoid in public.

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These people, man. This specific demographic of unstable late Gen X/boomer white female Democrats are luantics. They're the ones in all white suburbs (who goes to dog parks so you know this person has no clue about third world migrants or encounters any other demographic) who ran to report COVID mandate violations. These people would gladly celebrate your death.

We've said this many times over the years but watching the current Democrat voter base has helped me understand history so much better. We wondered how people could be deceived or go along with insanity and yet, we see it every day because (just like we saw with the Soviets) when you own the education system and the media, you can form the worldview of the mentally weak. Tell me this doesn't explain the left perfectly.

In the context of Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution, “useful idiots” referred to Western intellectuals, socialists, and sympathizers who, despite their supposed opposition to autocratic, capitalist systems, were actually unwittingly aiding the Soviet cause and bolstering the Bolshevik regime. These were people who expressed solidarity with the Russian Revolution and the idea of a workers' paradise, without fully understanding the totalitarian nature of the Soviet regime or the consequences of supporting a dictatorship.

The “useful idiot” label was used to describe people who might have believed in lofty ideals of social justice, equality, or anti-imperialism, but who failed to see that they were being manipulated by a brutal, authoritarian system

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

That is one stupid quote. Especially for an ‘engineer’. I’m assuming it’s real?

Not really. It means you have a vision. If you're pessimistic and right you've hit your limit. If you're optimistic and wrong, you then find a solution

 

[sambowieshin]

Reagan was coming off 9 years if inflation between 5 & 13% with the last four years being 9 to 13%. Net, way more baked in than when Biden came in. Getting it down to 4% was pretty remarkable.

Look. Nobody left their house in the world for almost 2 years.
Then Trump sent out 2 checks and Biden sent 1 to the American people.
Once COVID slowed the entire world celebrated by spending like drunken sailors. Couple the spending with the supply chain issues as businesses came back online....Huge demand/low supply.
That is Econ 101 and why inflation went thru the roof.
The US recovered faster than any country in the world and has brought down inflation without sending us into a recession.
Trump doesn't deserve any more crap over the COVID economy than Biden does for the inflation resulting from the economic rebound.
Took Reagan 4 years to get inflation down to 3.9 percent.
Took Biden 4 years to get inflation down to 2.4 percent.

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

If you want to know why legacy media is dead...this is the most spot on take and absolutely hilarious. His RFK Jr impression is hilarious