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grandjean87

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  1. You couldn't give 10 licks of a chocolate chip cone if it was sprinkled with catnip.
  2. RIP Charlie. I knew what it was by the subject title.
  3. So, it appears. Political shapeshifting is a fine art. I'm not enamored, but it's clear Haley has some solid political chops. I think it, in the very least, gets interesting. I'm just counting on Jack Smith for an assist or two or three.
  4. Absolutely. Trump fawning is concerning, but if she were somehow to win, TFG is going to be in exile one way or the other.
  5. Big home welcome. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/27/nikki-haley-south-carolina-homecoming-00128753 I do think Trump's poll numbers are overstated at this point. She just has to beat expectations early and well enough to make it a contest.
  6. Then again, from @JoJoFromJerz who I see on X, but never have looked into who/what she is: "Since we’re talking about Nikki Haley, a few reminders: She is a spineless, flip-flopping former guy fawning weathercock who will align herself again with Donald Trump in a millisecond if she has to. We don’t have to guess. She’s shown us over and over again. She went from stating that Donald Trump was everything we tell our kindergartners not to do, to joining his administration. In the wake of Jan 6th she said: “We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” Only a few months later to say: “We need him in the Republican Party. I don’t want us to go back to the days before Trump.” At the August debate she said: “And we have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America. We can't win a general election that way." Only to raise her hand mere moments later to indicate that she would support him as their party's nominee for the 2024 race even if he was convicted of a felony. The truth is that she is as craven & pusillanimous as they come — a self-serving sycophantic suck-up in a knee-length skirt. And so long as it benefits her politically, she will do anything and say anything to get ahead. And if she’s willing to do that when it comes to Donald Trump, then she’s willing to do that with everyone on everything. That is spinelessness. It’s weakness. It’s cowardice And it sure as shit is not Presidential."
  7. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nikki-haley-momentum-real-republican-voters-named-trump/story?id=104950976
  8. Like I said before, when he's dead I'll cut him some slack. Far, far, far worse than the only guy to resign from the office does, however, put you in contention.
  9. Polling numbers in a hyper-bipolar and post-truth era have less meaning than the limited historical import they have generally had. Ask Harry Truman. I'm not going to do a long list of under the radar policies and actions because that's a waste of effort and time. If I did, I start w/A for Africa, but... History will judge the 1st Biden term in fair terms and it won't be "shitty".
  10. Biden is far, far from a shitty president. First, wtf does that even mean? That is like saying that football player has no cartilage in his knee. Views on the policies and actions of the Biden Administration are viewed heavily through partisan lenses. If you look for independent analysis on foreign affairs, you get more + than -. Domestically, it's hard to get past ideological biases. Independent analysis is probably more fraught with challenges, but it's not all shitty. There's some cartilage in the knee.
  11. So, you think this just for fun votr thing is about the individual morality of past presidents? That's fine. I'll go w/historical effects in office w/o presentism. If not, pickings are slim until the 13th-15th Amendments and then some.
  12. This is a pretty good article that is an easy read. The "Immaculate Disinflation". We have it w/o the pain of recession and much higher unemployment. Lots of folks have been wrong including this guy one poster here has tabbed before for wisdom. "...former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is now a professor at Harvard and said last year that it would likely take an unemployment rate of six per cent to “significantly restrain inflation,..." But, the problem is that price levels remain significantly higher than roughly 3 years back. People don't feel the monthly PCE metrics. They feel the cumulative effects of higher price levels over time. That is political weight around the turkey neck of #46. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/economists-struggle-to-come-to-terms-with-immaculate-disinflation
  13. Something that happens this Christmas can't be the cause of something that happened last week on Thanksgiving Day. The reality of time. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)took effect, and is gradually still going for some time forward, at the beginning of 2023. 11 months later, the year-long trend of disinflation continues. If causal -- which it is not -- the IRA would be a cause of the lower inflation metrics (PCE, CPI) as this year progressed. The name of the bill was a political choice. Not real economics. While there are components to it making some things cheaper for some consumers and firms, its effects are blips in the macro. The same for any upward pressure on demand-pull price levels. I am definitely in agreement on the cost to service the publicly-held federal debt. Both parties need to make mitigations on that a priority. Not holding my breath.
  14. Pablum. Not worth the time to explain any of the macro or sector economics. The macro economy still has a simplistic political post hoc fallacy to it. Some analysis says that has diminished in effect in recent elections, but I don't think that is a clear trend. Bidenonomics is a political term. They put it out there. They'll deal with whatever effects there are, and right now there are plenty to worry about.
  15. Last evening, I saw Ken Langone had jumped on the old rich guys bandwagon for Nikki joining others. Now, it's bigger guns -- the network of the not dead Koch Bros.. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/28/billionaire-backed-koch-network-endorses-nikki-haley-for-president.html?__source=iosappshare|com.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail Convert climax alert.
  16. Rate as president in action and influence. Toss all presentism away. Also, get the difference in power of the presidency in very different eras.
  17. I should listen to more Blues. This is a Boise guy. He won best traditional blues album for '23 Blue Music Awards plus a nod as top harp player. Link to the winners article and lists: https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2023-blues-music-awards-winners-list-tommy-castro-1235327334/ Opening title track to the album:
  18. I know. Roy was always a guitar god by reputation. Rock gods pointed him back in the early years. Multi-instrument virtuoso. Had some very wise quotes. Also, funny and charismatic.
  19. Did anyone know Jim Brown could pound the rock? Roy could play anything with strings including two strung across Buck Owens' ass. Check out his Dueling Banjos or Orange Blossom Special on fiddle. Guitar hero all-time.
  20. I'd say it's a toss up. Trump may be unhealthy by weight and mobility, but modern Rx are wonders.
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